Business owners in the Chinese municipality of Tianjin have found an attractive way to appeal to a distinct market demographic – women – hoping that preferred “pink” parking places convenient to store entrances & exits will keep their female customers satisfied… and, keep ’em coming back for more!
There’s a reoccurring foreboding in many
fairytales, that says: magic comes with a price. The Evil Queen that offered
Snow White the poisonous apple received her comeuppance in the end, and hopefully Orbitz
will be served a does of the same, when the traveling public learns
that Mac users are charged more than those using Windows. Yes, in this
case, you can think of Orbitz
as the Evil Queen! And the 30 percent higher rates they are offering to
Apple device owners, the fruits from their poisonous tree.
A so-called “home automaker” has turned a sow’s ear into a silk purse, in this case morphing a Toyota MR2 into a Lamborghini Murcielago LP64. The resulting Faux Lambo is said to boast 99% accurate exterior bodywork and a 70% authentic interior.
Childbirth is a painful process for a mom, even with epidural pain
killers that effectively reduce that pain. Fear of that pain, called tocophobia,
is why some women choose not to have children at all. But for women
who do become pregnant and carry their children to term, the fear of
childbirth may actually cause greater difficulty to the mother in the
delivery room, according to a new study from Norway.
In an alternate universe somewhere, the Father of Obamacare might have
actually had a shot at becoming the next president of the United States,
had he just stuck to his guns. Because on Planet Earth, the candidate
responsible for this
accomplishment is not Obama. Obama cannot take credit for inventing the
Affordable Care Act. It was ironically his opposition who laid the
groundwork in Massachusetts, and then decided to take the wrong fork
in the road to diminish its application for the nation.
We know that art has been inspired by nature at least as far back as the
Cave Man. Technology too has had a love affair with nature for
thousands of years, though we are just recently experiencing a
resurgence with a new ‘biomimicry’ movement.
But besides biomimetic art and technology, there are biomimetic
exercises, such as those we find in certain yoga positions… and now,
an NYU design student and insomniac, has employed the shapes and sounds
of nature to help the sleepless sleep.
The long-standing belief that dinosaurs were cold-blooded may have been premature, if new research into herbivorous mammals is anything to go by, potentially overturning dino theory. Dinosaurs had long been assumed cold-blooded because bone microstructures identified in fossilized remains showed portions of slowed development also seen in lizards and crocodiles today. However, Nature reports, a new study has discovered that same pattern in warm-blooded animals.
The so-called lines of arrested growth (LAGs) had previously only been spotted in cold-blooded reptiles, usually connected to periods when resources are in short supply. A team led by palaeontologist Meike Köhler at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Bellaterra, Spain, however, found the same LAGs in ruminants across the globe.
The study, published in Nature this week, suggests that slowing down body development is a method of energy conservation shared by warm- and cold-blooded animals, implemented when conditions become harsh.
“LAGs cannot be used as an argument that dinosaurs could not have been endothermic”, Köhler says of the study’s finding. In actual fact, dinosaurs are more likely to have grown rapidly and demonstrate high metabolic rates, the study concludes, with their bone tissue indistinguishable from that endothermic ruminants today.
Dinosaurs are hot say palaeontologists is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm has resigned from the company, a surprise shake-up at the top of the carrier that leaves the firm hunting for a replacement. No specific reasons for the chief executives departure have been given, with T-Mobile USA only saying that Humm will be leaving to take up a career outside of owner Deutsche Telekom, AllThingsD reports.
“Philipp Humm has given the company some important initiatives over the past years” Deutsche Telekom’s Rene Obermann said in a statement today. “Under his leadership the cost situation at T-Mobile USA has vastly improved and he led the company during a difficult phase regarding the planned merger with AT&T.”
That planned merger – and its failure to find FCC approval – proved pivotal for T-Mobile’s fortunes, and not in a good way. Deutsche Telekom had hoped to wash its hands of the troubled US carrier, but instead found itself footing the bill for a desperate 4G LTE roll-out.
Humm will be temporarily replaced by existing T-Mobile USA COO Jim Alling. The carrier has not revealed the identity of any possible candidates for new CEO.
T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm suddenly resigns is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Terry Grant is hoping NOT to turn over a new Leaf… a Nissan Leaf, that is. The professional stunt driver will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the “fastest time over a distance of one mile in reverse” this weekend at the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Pepsi Japan’s new workplace coffee alternative, Pepsi EX Extra, offers a hot coffee cup’s worth of caffeine in a cool can of carbonated cola. As Pepsi puts it, “Enjoy the shot of cola with strong caffeine, for long working hours.”
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