Friday, May 7, 2010

HowTo: Diagnose Anemia With a Salad Spinner

HowTo: Diagnose Anemia With a Salad Spinner


HowTo: Diagnose Anemia With a Salad Spinner

Posted: 07 May 2010 05:00 AM PDT

HowTo: Diagnose Anemia With a Salad Spinner Another example of outstanding resourcefulness and ingenuity in the medical community (see earlier this week: Blood Sucking Plunger Could Heal Millions).

Rice undergraduate students Lila Kerr and Lauren Theis use a salad spinner, plastic lids, cut-up combs, yogurt containers, and a hot-glue gun to build a centrifuge, for the low cost of $30. The device is used to manually separate blood without t ...more

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Stephen Hawking: HowTo Build a Time Machine

Posted: 06 May 2010 06:00 PM PDT

Stephen Hawking: HowTo Build a Time Machine Stephen Hawking asks: "is time travel possible? Can we open a portal to the past or find a shortcut to the future? Can we ultimately use the laws of nature to become masters of time itself?"

The master of the universe writes into Daily Mail, and proposes a "HowTo" for time travel. According to Hawking all you'll need is:

1 wormhole
1 large Hadron Collider or a rocket that goes insanely fast

Wha ...more

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If I Had Known Prison Was this Nice, I May Have Considered a Career in Crime

Posted: 06 May 2010 12:30 PM PDT

If I Had Known Prison Was this Nice, I May Have Considered a Career in Crime Whoever said crime doesn't pay? Norway's luxury Halden prison may very well be nicer than your home.

The sleek, modern complex  took 10 years (plus 1.5 billion kroner- that's $252 million) to build. It holds 252 inmates, and each cell features a private bathroom, flat screen TV, personal refridgerator and no-bar windows. The amenities also include running trails, rock climbing, a recording studio ...more

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