What are you looking at? Some trees, some leaves, a few branches and… a bird. You see, on top of that broken tree branch actually stands a completely still bird, the common potoo. It’s hiding in plain sight and will stay that way even if predators are deathly close to them.
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Can we negotiate our way to happiness?
(Credit: Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
I need to tell you about my dishwasher.
Sometimes it washes every dish, giving me a radiant feeling in several places. On other occasions, it spits, pouts, and leaves red plates brown.
There seems no reason why. It’s just like that.
If it was a person, my dishwasher would be on Part Time Love. This is a dating site with an alluring promise: “Meaningful romance without everyday commitment.”
In some circles, they call that a market gap. In others, they call it having your gateau and then having another gateau.
The site, though, insists it caters to “singles looking for regular partners with mutual attraction, genuine friendship, respect and a magical spark but whom have no expectations of moving in after three months and value their free time and independence.”
But just in case you think this base, sleazy, or easy, Part Time Love hisses: “We are not a no-strings website.”
It’s more of a hanging-by-a-string Web site.
The creator is author Helen Croydon, who sounds like she’s lived the life before launching the site. Her latest book is called “Screw The Fairytale,” a title with far more connotations than the average double-entendre.
I quote from her Web site blurb: “Helen found thousands of … [Read more]
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(Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Soon, you might not have to worry about cleaning up shards of broken glass. All you’d have to do is pick the glass up — in one complete piece.
Inspired by the natural stiffness and strength of seashells, a team of researchers at McGill University have found a way to toughen glass so it doesn’t break. Instead, it simply becomes slightly deformed when dropped.
The scientists explain how they managed this in a paper titled “Overcoming the brittleness of glass through bio-inspiration and micro-architecture” and just published in Nature Communications.
Mollusk shells have a brittle outer layer but an extremely strong and tough inner layer coated with nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Engineering Professor François Barthelat and his team examined nacre’s fragile internal boundaries, and then tried to replicate them by using lasers to engrave similar networks of wavy microcracks into the kind of glass slides that get put under microscopes.
This process absorbs the energy from impact made to the slides, and reportedly makes these glass slides 200 times s… [Read more]
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Google acquired AI startup Deepmind for around $500 million earlier this week. Cue a media frenzy about Google’s plans for its burgeoning robot army; about how machines of Chrome might put us out of work. Is there really a threat of unemployment, or could Google have something else in mind?
Yahoo certainly had some
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