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Did you know Trivia -TOKYO — Can lingerie really empower women?
That’s what one company apparently was thinking in its quest to design a solar-powered bra capable of generating enough electricity to charge a cell phone or iPod, Reuters reported.
Triumph International Japan showed off its "Solar Power Bra" on Wednesday in Tokyo, but it will not be in stores just yet.
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Monday 19 May, 2008 08:40 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Guinness World Record holder for the 'Most Pierced Woman', Elaine Davidson, poses for a photograph in the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland showing some of her five thousand nine hundred and twenty piercings
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Monday 19 May, 2008 08:37 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Steers like a car, tilts like a motorcycle – and gets 100 miles per gallon of gas.
California lawmakers are wrestling with whether to allow into carpool lanes a high speed, fully enclosed, three-wheel hybrid that is under development in Los Angeles.
The legislation is pushed by the hybrid's creator, Venture Vehicles, which acknowledges that sidestepping bumper-to-bumper commutes could make it easier to obtain financing and to sell the vehicle.
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Monday 19 May, 2008 04:34 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Lloyd Electric & Engineering’s (LEEL) acquisition of Prague-based Luvata Czech is likely to provide the former with easier access to the high-potential European markets as well as enable superior technology absorption.
Luvata Czech is a maker of customised coils for heat ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration. The acquisition for an undisclosed amount has been routed through LEEL’s special purpose vehicle Lloyd Coils Czech.
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Monday 19 May, 2008 12:30 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - The Ford Model T got better gas mileage in 1908 than the average American car does 100 years later in 2008.
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Sunday 18 May, 2008 06:24 PM |
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Did you know Trivia -The Iraqi Oil Ministry has concluded a contract with a U.S. company, Colorado Industrial Construction Services Co., to modernize the refinery in the southern city of Najaf. Under the $85 million contract, Colorado Industrial would help increase refinery capacity from 20,000 to 30,000 barrels of oil per day click this link to read more
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Friday 16 May, 2008 10:33 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Icarus crashed and burned when he flew too close to the sun but a modern-day Swiss adventurer has had a happier landing after testing his new jet-powered "wing".
Yves Rossy, the self-styled "Fusionman", leapt into the skies 2500 metres above the small town of Bex in western Switzerland clad in his new carbon wing. click this link to read more
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Thursday 15 May, 2008 04:16 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Rare whales in the northern Atlantic have been buoyed by some good news - they're going to stop being shredded by ships' propellers. Lindsey Nield weighs anchor and finds out how you can stop a 90,000 tonne tanker in its tracks by making a noise like a submerged Robin Reliant.
Imagine you’re a whale. You’re swimming along, minding your own business - catching some food, singing a little song - when out of nowhere this giant ship crashes into you. If you were a North Atlantic right whale that could be exactly the situation you would find yourself in.
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Tuesday 13 May, 2008 12:06 PM |
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Scientists from Oxford University have, for the first time, shown how chemical reactions could enable birds to navigate by the Earth’s magnetic field.
Birds, mammals, reptiles, insects and many other species are known to use the Earth’s magnetic field to find their way around. But, while various mechanisms have been suggested to explain this ability, until now no one has demonstrated how these could detect and use such a weak magnetic field.
‘Because the Earth’s magnetic field is so weak many people found it difficult to understand how it could affect bird or animal sense organs in a way which would help them to navigate,’ said Professor Peter Hore of Oxford University’s Department of Chemistry who, with Dr Christiane Timm
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Tuesday 13 May, 2008 06:04 AM |
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Did you know trivia -Never mind the radiation: British contingency planners worried there would be a dramatic shortage of tea in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, recently declassified documents showed Monday.
The shortfall of the staple British beverage would be "very serious" if the country were to come under attack with atomic and hydrogen bombs, said according to a memo drafted between 1954 and 1956.
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Tuesday 13 May, 2008 04:02 AM |
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Did you know trivia - (BEIJING)- A total of 593 batches of imported goods were tested to be not up to standards, including well-known brands like Pringles potato chips from the U.S., according to a list issued by the national quality regulator.
The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (GAQSIQ) has released a blacklist of unqualified products imported from overseas in January and February.
Two batches of Pringles potato chips imported by Zhuhai-based Kangrui trading Co. were found to contain excessive potassium bromate, a chemical substance that the International Agency for Research on Cancer believes would cause cancer.
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Tuesday 13 May, 2008 12:31 AM |
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Did you know trivia - (YICHANG, Hubei Province) -- Three Gorges Project, the world's biggest hydroelectric plant, has helped China reduce emitting 200 million tonnes of carbon dioxide as of Friday.
The power plant has generated 223 billion kwh of electricity since its first generating units began operation in 2003, also avoiding the emission of 2.29 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide, according to the China Three Gorges Project Corporation.
Chinese coal-fired power plants would have burned about 90 million tonnes of coal to produce the same amount of electricity, the developer and operator of the dam project said.
The company said improved navigation capacity along the dam area also contributed to reduction in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission.
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Monday 12 May, 2008 08:29 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - People were making ethanol at home long before there were cars. They called it moonshine. With gas prices going through the roof and everyone worried about global warming, a California company is betting people will jump at the chance to use the same technology to turn sugar into fuel for less than a buck a gallon.
E-Fuel Corporation has unveiled its EFuel 100 MicroFueler, a device about the size of a stacking washer-dryer that uses sugar, yeast and water to make 100 percent ethanol at the push of a button.
"You just open it like a washing machine and dump in your sugar, close the door and push one button," company founder Tom Quinn told us. "A few days later, you've got ethanol."
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Sunday 11 May, 2008 12:05 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - An eggshell has nearly 8,000 pores which allow oxygen to flow in and carbon dioxide to flow out, so that the chick inside can breathe
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Sunday 11 May, 2008 08:05 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - (BEIJING) - Much to their surprise, scientists trying to prove cat urine will make cowards of male mice, a new study found the more a male mouse smells like cat pee the more alluring he is to the ladies.
Past studies had found cat odor typically causes mice to panic or flee. Scientists had expected that stressing out normal mice would curtail their love lives. To see if a whiff of cat might serve as a mouse repellent to help keep rodent pests away, researchers exposed mice to cat pee for eight weeks.
Unexpectedly, two months of cat odor did not lead to cringing mice, as one might expect from constant threatening. Instead, researchers found it led to aggressive males. These were more than twice as likely fight with other mice than rodents exposed to rabbit urine for the same amount of time.
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Sunday 11 May, 2008 12:07 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - His video post on YouTube, one of many online artifacts that detail his progress so far, is titled “Why Neighbors Think I’m Crazy.” For the camera, Breed demonstrates the injector flow rate for his lunar lander, which he is building in his garage.
With the help of his 21-year-old son (also a Paul Breed), Breed has been laboring on the spacecraft for a little over a year. The undertaking may seem less insane when it is explained that the vehicle’s ultimate destination is not the moon, but the New Mexico desert, where like-minded rocket fanatics come to compete for the next million-dollar Xprize.
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Saturday 10 May, 2008 04:42 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Merck announced last week that it will eliminate 1,200 sales jobs in the U.S. by the end of July. The firm also confirmed a plan to halt in-house natural products research at its facility in Spain.
The job cuts follow the rejection by the Food & Drug Administration of an allergy drug combining its Singulair with Schering-Plough's Claritin, and, more recently, the rejection of its cholesterol drug Cordaptive. The cuts follow the elimination of 8,100 sales jobs in 2005.
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Saturday 10 May, 2008 12:02 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Bees have to collect nectar from four million flowers in order to make 1 kilogram of honey
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Saturday 10 May, 2008 08:07 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - NASA tasked Dynamic Concepts (DCI) with assessing the structural dynamics of the rollout process, whereby the space shuttle orbiter, external tank, and solid rocket booster assembly is moved via a crawler transporter from the Vertical Assembly Building to the launch pad. DCI used Femap finiteelement modeling software from Siemens PLM Software (Plano, TX) to create an integrated model of all the shuttle components, and used Siemens’ NX Nastran to analyze the simulated vibration environment. The analysis helped NASA resolve issues with support structures and determine target rollout speeds that minimized potentially damaging vibration
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Saturday 10 May, 2008 12:01 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - When the human body is dehydrated, it's thirst mechanism shuts off and you never get thirsty
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Friday 9 May, 2008 08:04 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Small businesses can be the source of innovative ideas that change the way America does business on a huge scale. Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $1.6 million in funding for seven small companies to commercialize green technologies that promise to deliver BIG results. For example, Media and Process Technology will develop a ceramic membrane system that recovers both water and energy from boiler flue gas. Industrial boilers account for 35 percent of U.S. industrial energy consumption, and if this recovery system is implemented nationally, it's estimated it would recover 70 billion gallons of water annually and save 500 trillion BTUs of energy.
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