Techotic

Oh great, another reason for our youth to waste their lives at the TV and video game systems. According to some new study, thinking can make you fat. How can that happen you may ask?

The new issue of Journal of Medical Hypotheses has an article by Zarrintan, S “Ejaculation as a potential treatment of nasal congestion in mature males” where the author proposes that, with proper scheduling of a good wank a guy could keep his nose clear for the rest of his life!

Scientist used magnetic scanners to explore the brain activity of London’s Black Cab drivers as they navigated their way through London’s streets. The research was presented at this week’s BA Science Festival.

Their brains even “grow on the job” as they build up detailed information needed to find their way around London’s labyrinth of streets - information famously referred to as “The Knowledge”.

Prof. Yaroslavsky from Tel Aviv University believes that humans might be able to “see” colors and shape with their skin. He hopes that through his optic-less imaging model, new kinds of imaging technology might be developed that foregoer traditional optics. Yaroslavsky presents his theories on the subject in a new book titled “Advances in Information Optics and Photonics.”

The two are almost light years apart, but that did not stop one Michigan State University student from bringing both together and creating a YouTube sensation that has drawn over half a million views already (which is quite small compared to other videos on the net) but anyway’s.

Although it is years from coming to a human test patient near you, a bunch of extreme biologists have turned some cells in mice pancreas into specialized cells (the exact same ones that go missing in juvenile diabetes.

Oh my! I’d never thought anyone could out drink me, but the Malaysian pen-tailed tree shrew looks like it could drink me under the table. A new study by researchers at the University of Western Ontario found that the tiny animal subsists on a diet roughly equivalent to 100 percent beer, subsists entirely on fermented nectar from the pertam palm plant, which can be as high as 3.8 percent alcohol. Even though, these tree shrews drink like there’s no tomorrow, amazingly, they don’t seem to get drunk.

Do you remember the last total solar eclipse back in March 29, 2006? I remember it clearly, it was an amazing day for me, as it was the first time I’ve seen the total eclipse. There were several total eclipses before, but 2006 was the first time I really paid any attention to it. Today Friday August. 1, is the next one and NASA will broadcast and webcast live from China.