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Pretty amazing. Wouldn't have imagined this was possible. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

Here is his TED talk from '07, where he talks about this and other projects. http://www.youtube.com/watch... Amazing stuff. Edit: He discusses what happens if it walks into the surf. (It turns around and walks away.) - Jimminy IS Everybody

Congratulations! - Anne Bouey

I moved out today. :( - Colette

""Part of me resents them because they'll go to restaurants and say everything has to be gluten-free, then nibble on their friends' bread," says Blymire, whose condition means she needs to avoid using even a shared microwave oven. "I've gotten accidentally 'glutened' six or seven times, and it's excruciating." Nonetheless, consumer desires, and dollars, mean that the list of gluten-free foods, which include quinoa pasta, brown rice cereals and mung bean noodles, continues to grow. Evol makes burritos and other frozen entrees without gluten. Blue Diamond makes rice-and-almond crackers. Way Better Snacks produces chips with corn, flax and chia seeds." - SteVe C from Bookmarklet

Haha! - Starmama from FFHound(roid)!

If you don't like the question, reject the premise and say what you want to. #ThingsWestWingTaughtMe - Heather

excellent, thank you! - Marie

Yum yum yum yum. - Jennifer Dittrich

"Finals week was dangerous for Thomas Saenz. The Navy lieutenant needed armed guards and an armored car to get to an exam site, in Kabul, Afghanistan. A deadly bomb attack also caused him to his miss classes — transmitted live via the Internet — but he persevered and earned a master's degree in engineering from the University of Southern California while commanding a top security team. His class graduated on Friday, as he joins a growing number of service members earning college degrees while deployed in a war zone. "Not only was he out there living on the edge, but he had to get his homework done," USC professor Frank Alvidrez said. The Obama administration is pushing universities to find creative ways to help service members complete their degrees as it tracks the success of its post 9/11 GI Bill, which is designed to be the most comprehensive education benefit for veterans since World War II. Enrollments for the new GI Bill number more than 480,000, according to the Veteran's... more... - Anne Bouey from Bookmarklet

THAT is fortitude. - Micah

her: "PORK AWAY, PAL!" - Joe "Bad Guts" Silence

15 years this coming October. :) - Joe "Bad Guts" Silence

http://itcanwait.com/ - Andrew C (✓)

Happy kid! :) - LibrarianOnTheLoose

:) - LB: #TeamMonique from Android

"Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab. What he’s now discovering will startle you. Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia?" - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

"The so-called Howell torpedo was discovered by bottlenose dolphins being trained by the Navy to find undersea objects, including mines, that not even billion-dollar technology can detect." - SteVe C from Bookmarklet

Only 50 were made between 1870 and 1889 by a Rhode Island company before a rival copied and surpassed the Howell's capability. Until recently only one Howell torpedo was known to exist, on display at the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, Wash. Now a second has been discovered, not far from the Hotel del Coronado. Meant to be launched from above the water or submerged torpedo tubes, the... more... - SteVe C

I'm having a hard time believing this one. - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

It's using the same effect as this: http://www.youtube.com/watch... I'm guessing the show uses 5 gal. trash bags. And there is about a 50% increase in efficiency by taking advantage of the effect. I'd assume it would be even more pronounced when dealing with the restricted airflow and pressure requirement of a check valve. - Jimminy IS Everybody

But, but, but - SCIENCE!! - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

"sciencehabit writes "If you are one of the 20% of healthy adults who struggle with basic arithmetic, simple tasks like splitting the dinner bill can be excruciating. Now, a new study suggests that a gentle, painless electrical current applied to the brain can boost math performance for up to 6 months. Researchers don't fully understand how it works, however, and there could be side effects." We've covered various other potential benefits to having your brain shocked." - Me from Bookmarklet

"This seems a bit counter-intuitive, but a new study has shown that marijuana protects people from the emotional pain of being socially excluded. Previous studies have shown that over-the-counter medications like Tylenol (acetaminophen) reduce both physical and social pain. Because Tylenol affects cannabinoid 1 (CB1) receptors in the brain, a research team led by Timothy Deckman conducted a four-part study to find out if marijuana does the same." - Me from Bookmarklet

Cute. :-) - Stephan Planken

It doesn't really help that I intended on only buying one bottle of wine but ended up leaving with six. - Victor Ganata from iPhone

On the other hand, I did save $46 - Victor Ganata from iPhone

"Sandwich Monsters is a project by New York-based art director Kaisa Haupt of delicious photos of creatures, animals and well-known pop culture characters built out of sandwiches." - Anika from Bookmarklet

HAHAHAHA - Spidra Webster

When I told my high school counselor I wanted to take programming as an elective, he shoved me in secretarial typing. When I tried to argue about it, he told me that programming isn't for girls, secretarial typing is, and if I wanted to play with a keyboard, that's where I belonged. #80sGhettoHighSchool - April Russo

"Domino's is testing a DVD in Brazil that looks and smells like pizza. The idea goes something like this: When people finish watching a movie and remove the DVD disc from the player, Domino's is going to assault their senses with pizza in hopes it leads to sales. DVDs tend to get hot when they're being played. And so Domino's is stamping discs with heat-sensitive thermal ink and a pizza-scented varnish," - SteVe C from Bookmarklet

lmaooooo - Monique the crochet freak

"This is the 32-disc X-Box carousel made entirely out of LEGO by Youtuber zwenkka. It can remove a game disc from the console and replace it with any of 31 others (selected via Bluetooth) in an average of 42-seconds. Which, let's not kid ourselves, is still way quicker than it would take to convince yourself to get off the f***ing sofa and do it by hand. Hell, it could take ten minutes and it would still be worth it. Do you know how long I have to call myself a lazy waste of life before I'll actually get off the couch and do something? Try two and a half hours. I've literally been banned from every pizza delivery place in town." - ronin from Bookmarklet

Why would it not be stuck in your head? - Anne Graham

Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact. - holly #ravingfangirl

I know a handful of Millenials that have those traits, though. Ugh. - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart from Android

At least he or his editors largely keep him restricted to relatively trivial topics, so for that he's not as bad as, say, Friedman. - Andrew C (✓) from Android