Capital as the source of all evil. Under the image a satirical poem by Demjan Bedny. The red text on the left states that damaging the poster or pasting another one over it is a counter-revolutionary crime.
This is just one of many very interesting collection of Soviet, Chinese, and Cuban propaganda posters maintained by the International Instutite of Social History.
Rutledge Ellis-Behnke from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and colleagues managed to partially restore vision in blinded hamsters using nanotechnology.
The researchers severed a nerve tract within the visual system of both young and adult hamsters, which resulted in blindness. For some of the animals, the synthetic substance, called SAPNS, was applied immediately after the incision. Other animals were given saline as a control.
Within 24 hours, all of the animals treated with SAPNS showed signs of healing; with time, the gaps in their brain tissues closed up completely.
In the adult group, vision was functionally restored within six weeks. In one animal, the severed nerve tract was restored to more than 80 percent that of a normal animal. In other studies, the researchers found that nerves needed to be only about 40 percent healed for animals to have functional vision.
Bruce Crower has developed something that may change the auto industry forever: a six-stroke engine.
“It’ll run for an hour and you can literally put your hand on it. It’s warm, yeah, but it’s not scorching hot. Any conventional engine running without a water jacket or fins, you couldn’t do that.”
Indeed, the test unit has no external cooling system—no water jacket, no water pump, no radiator; nothing. It does retain fins because it came with them, but Crower indicates the engine would be more efficient if he took the trouble to grind them off. He has discarded the original cooling fan.
Arcaheologists discovered 5000-year-old stylish clothings, jewelry, makeup and textiles in a dig in Burnt City, Iran.
Archaeologists there suspect that a state-of-the-art textile industry thrived in ancient Iran, allowing men and women to wear trend-setting, colorful, designed pieces, which may have influenced the clothing styles of other regions.
"An eye liner bowl, a comb, a makeup box, a marble device for applying eye liner, along with some jewelry, were dug out from the grave of an 18-year-old wealthy woman," said Mansour Sajjadi, who continues to lead the archaeological team at the site.
He added, "They also used to wear gem necklaces and bracelets, all considered chic masterpieces 5,000 years ago."
UCLA astronomer Mark Morris and colleagues found a new nebula that looks like the double helix of DNA.
Most nebulae are "formless, amorphous conglomerations of dust and gas," Morris said in a statement, adding that this one "indicates a high degree of order."
The strands of the nebula may be torqued by twisted magnetic fields at the Milky Way's center, Morris said by telephone.
These magnetic fields are indirectly spawned by the gaping black hole at the galactic heart, he said. Black holes are massive matter-sucking drains in space, pulling in everything around them so powerfully that not even light can escape.
Maria Greiner, the mayor of Steinach, a German village, stumbled upon the idea of selling snow to raise money for child cancer victims.
"It was completely by chance, like so much in life. But it was worth its weight in gold," Maria Greiner said.
She placed an advertisment on the eBay Germany site, that read: "Snow, impeccably white, soft, without any signs of use, fresh from the heavens and as much as you want."
Bidding was brisk, with a mail order clothes company in Frankfurt making the top bid of 1,420 euros (1,700 dollars) and smaller bidders securing smaller lots as hundreds of residents gathered in the village square to cheer on the auction.
When guests visit Jules’ Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, Florida, they discover that the name is no marketing gimmick. Just to enter the Lodge, one must actually scuba dive 21 feet beneath the surface of the sea. Jules’ really is underwater.
Maxell is coming out with a new data storage device that uses holographic technology!
With uncompressed storage capacities achieving 1.6 TeraBytes per disk and data rates as high as 120 MBPs, holographic technology is a true breakthrough in optical media.
First generation discs can hold 300 GB and has a 20 MBPs transfer rate.
http://www.maxell-usa.com/Content/Pages/Page.asp?Section=pressreleases&department=maxellusa_pr&Line=datapr&Open=datapr41 (Thanks David R!)
Michelle got the idea for FlapArt - The Alternative Book Cover - from her husband:
Awhile ago, my husband Brian said "wouldn't it be funny if you were sitting on the subway reading a book and on the front cover it said, How to Murder a Complete Stranger and Get Away with It? Imagine what people around you would think, especially when you finally finished the book".
So here we are, there are 23 covers to choose from. Some are a little racy like How to Make Your Mother A Porn Star and How to Overcome Nymphomania (put that one in your bathroom, with a bookmark and become a hero!). Some are for the Do-it Yourselfer in the family, we all have one. For that person try Do-it-Yourself Dentistry, At Home Laser Eye Surgery or Do-it-Youself Liposuction. The kids love Perfecting the Art of Fart Projection and How to get your Sister/Brother kicked out of the House.
http://www.flapart.ca/index.html (Thanks Scott Taylor!)
Checkout this new method of interacting with your computer: using 3D objects to represent on-screen items. This technology was a hit at the CeBIT 2005 2006 technology tradeshow.
Very cool! Don't miss the videos: http://www.kommerz.at/pages_en/20050722053921.php (via Glück auf!)
If you think Meercats are cute and cuddly mammals, think again - they are baby-killing cannibals.
In an eight-year study published in the journal Biology Letters by Dr Andrew Young and Prof Tim Clutton-Brock, the scientists report a gripping account of "infanticidal power struggle" in meerkat society on the edge of the Kalahari.
Resources are so scarce that the matriarch tries to monopolise sex and reproduction in the group. When she becomes pregnant she evicts subordinate females and kills their young to maintain control. However, when her pups are born, the subordinates will return and even help the dominant female with the babysitting.
But the Cambridge team found that in cases when subordinate females manage to become pregnant, despite the best effort of the dominants, they too resort to infanticide - killing both the pups of their subordinate sisters and the matriarchs - to boost the chances that their own litter will have enough food.
