MIT Scientists Demonstrate Advance in Wireless Electricity

Seeded on Fri Jun 8, 2007 3:37 PM EDT ()

The idea of wireless electricity has been around since the early days of the Tesla coil. But thanks to a group of MIT scientists, "WiTricity" (as these scientists call it) is now one step closer to practical reality.

technology, radiation, mit, nicola-tesla, magnetic-fields, wireless-electricity, witricity

Dutch try to grow enviro-friendly meat in lab

Seeded on Fri Jun 1, 2007 12:17 PM EDT (Reuters)

Dutch researchers are trying to grow pork meat in a laboratory with the goal of feeding millions without the need to raise and slaughter animals.

health, dutch, artificial-meat

Revolutionary laundry soap product grows on trees, replaces laundry detergent with eco-friendly solution

Seeded on Thu May 31, 2007 1:32 PM EDT (Independent news on natural health, nutrition and more)

I've discovered an amazing new product that replaces commercial laundry detergents with a natural soap that literally grows on trees! This is a very big deal because the laundry room is one of the most toxic rooms in the home of a typical consumer.

health, soap-nuts, laundry-detergent, natural-soap

$124k Hybrid

Seeded on Fri May 18, 2007 4:25 PM EDT (AP)

TOKYO (AP) - Toyota's commitment to hybrid automobiles was on full display Thursday when it unveiled its most expensive gasoline-electric vehicle yet—the $124,000 luxury sedan Lexus LS.

toyota, global-warming, hybrid

Treadmill Office Desk

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2007 5:21 PM EDT (New Zealand Herald)

The walking desk - or "vertical workstation" as the researchers prefer to call it - is fixed to a treadmill which enables the office worker to kill two birds with one stone - send emails, check invoices and write reports and burn calories at the same time.

office, health, exercise, treadmill

Black Savagely beats a 91 yold man in Detroit carjacking

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2007 2:54 PM EDT (YouTube)

Watch the video, enough said.

US forces to block YouTube, MySpace on DoD network

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2007 2:23 PM EDT (The Register)

In a widely-reported memo, General BB Bell (commander of US forces in Korea) announced the upcoming blocks. He suggested that the changes were as much to preserve bandwidth as to muzzle critical comment and news-media access.

technology, defense-department, censorship

DEA raids medical marijuana clinics, violating California law

Seeded on Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:33 PM EST (Independent news on natural health, nutrition and more)

In California, where marijuana has been legal for medical use since the Compassionate Use Act was passed into law in 1996, Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided 11 dispensaries of medical marijuana, seizing a large cache of marijuana and marijuana-based products, raising …

marijuana, us-news, dea

A Question of Ethics

Seeded on Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:58 AM EST (Independent news on natural health, nutrition and more)

A 9-year-old mentally disabled Seattle girl named Ashley has recently finished 2 1/2 years of hospital treatments, ostensibly performed to make her easier to care for throughout her life, but a health advocate is calling the act "medicine gone mad."

health, ethics