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Impact Lab - Top 10 Bizarre Vehicle. In: Business , Culture , Great New Product , Health & Fitness , Hot Issues , Medical Breakthrough , People Making a Difference Adagio Teas began ten years ago with the desire to introduce customers to an array of gourmet hand picked, whole leaf teas and herbals sourced directly from growers around the world. When they started, many tea drinkers were accustomed to having low quality bags filled with tea dust as their only option. It is now Adagio’s mission to bring tea lovers in all corners of the United States and Canada fresh seasonal teas with abundant flavor and intoxicating aromas that will delight them daily. Whether you enjoy whimsical blended teas or serious single origin varietals, you will always have many choices at Adagio. At the Impact Lab, we invite you to peruse the selections below and learn more about the varieties and origins of tea, steeping suggestions, health benefits, and more.

The most convenient teapot you will find anywhere - we guarantee it. Impact Lab - Amazing 3D Sidewalk Art Photo. In: Business , Culture , Great New Product , Health & Fitness , Hot Issues , Medical Breakthrough , People Making a Difference Adagio Teas began ten years ago with the desire to introduce customers to an array of gourmet hand picked, whole leaf teas and herbals sourced directly from growers around the world. When they started, many tea drinkers were accustomed to having low quality bags filled with tea dust as their only option. It is now Adagio’s mission to bring tea lovers in all corners of the United States and Canada fresh seasonal teas with abundant flavor and intoxicating aromas that will delight them daily.

Whether you enjoy whimsical blended teas or serious single origin varietals, you will always have many choices at Adagio. Our simple, elegant, durable teaware perfectly compliments our whole leaf teas to assist you in making delicious tea anywhere. The most convenient teapot you will find anywhere - we guarantee it. Preparing tea for one need not be a hurried affair. Health &Medical News - The fear of haunted. Shivers down the spine and other weird feelings may not be due to the presence of ghosts in haunted houses but to very low frequency sound that is inaudible to humans, according to a controlled experiment by British scientists. Research, presented at this week's British Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Manchester, has shown that the extreme bass sound known as 'infrasound' produces a range of bizarre effects in people including anxiety, extreme sorrow and chills - supporting popular suggestions of a link between infrasound and strange sensations.

"Normally you can't hear it," said acoustic scientist, Dr Richard Lord at the National Physical Laboratory in England, who was involved in the project. Lord and colleages, who produced infrasound with a seven metre pipe and tested its impact on 750 people at a concert, said infrasound is also generated by natural phenomena. Related Stories. Galactic collision captured in stunning de.

High performance access to file storage Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have snapped the most detailed image ever of a pair of colliding galaxies, known as the Antenna galaxy. The galaxies are the nearest merging pair to Earth, and the youngest too: the collision began about 500m years ago. As the two galaxies smash into one another, they create ideal conditions for new stars to be born. And new stars are forming in their billions. So what are you looking at in that picture?

(For a larger image, click here.) Well, according to the NASA boffins: "Nearly half of the faint objects in the Antennae are young clusters containing tens of thousands of stars. The new images from Hubble are helping astronomers sort out which bright spots are what. The majority of the super clusters will eventually disperse, adding their residents to the general background of the galaxy. Digital camera blocking technology created. Citizen.com/screens/blogPage/viewBlog/sw_...

Birds have brilliant brains, say experts | By JULIE WHELDON, Science Correspondent Last updated at 22:25 06 November 2006 The insult of 'bird-brain' is generally applied to scatty people who cannot hold much in their heads. But it seems this may be doing an injustice to our feathered friends. Scientists have discovered that the common pigeon actually has an astonishingly good long-term memory. In tests they found a single bird can memorise 1,200 pictures.

The team said that, despite clear physical differences between birds and other animals, there are important similarities in the way their memories work. They therefore concluded that the processes that drive the way we store and retrieve memories appear to be largely the same throughout the animal world. Anyone who has seen squirrels dig up nuts will know they have some long-term memory. But to date no-one has actually challenged different species to see just how much they can learn. Baboons were given a similar test but had to push a button instead. Health | Mosquitoes sweet tooth. Mosquitoes' thirst for sugar could prove to be the answer for eliminating malaria and other mosquito-transmitted diseases, say scientists. A Hebrew University team was able to devastate a local mosquito population by spraying acacia trees with a sugar solution spiked with an insecticide. While female mosquitoes need blood to develop their eggs, they also feed on sweet plant nectar.

The study features in the International Journal for Parasitology. Malaria kills over a million people a year and is second only to tuberculosis in its impact on world health. It is spread by female mosquitoes which derive much of their persistent energy from nectar snacks, taken from flowers and nectaries on plant leaves and stems. Isolated oasis The Israeli team sprayed acacia trees in an oasis in the southern desert region of the country with a sugar solution containing the insecticide Spinosad. After spraying, almost the entire local population of mosquitoes was wiped out. ABC News: Cat Parasite Affects Everything. Kevin Lafferty is a smart, cautious, thoughtful scientist who doesn't hate cats, but he has put forth a provocative theory that suggests that a clever cat parasite may alter human cultures on a massive scale. His phone hasn't stopped ringing since he published one of the strangest research papers to come out of the mill in quite awhile.

The parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, has been transmitted indirectly from cats to roughly half the people on the planet, and it has been shown to affect human personalities in different ways. Research has shown that women who are infected with the parasite tend to be warm, outgoing and attentive to others, while infected men tend to be less intelligent and probably a bit boring. But both men and women who are infected are more prone to feeling guilty and insecure. Other researchers have linked the parasite to schizophrenia. In an adult, the symptoms are like a mild form of flu, but it can be much more serious in an infant or fetus. SHOJI: Symbiotic Hosting Online Jog In. On November 6, GS Yuasa and the University of Tokyo unveiled a system that ascertains the "mood" of a room by monitoring a variety of factors -- including the feelings and behavior of the people in the room -- and relays the mood data to remote terminals where it is expressed as colored LED light.

The system, called SHOJI (Symbiotic Hosting Online Jog Instrument), is similar in concept to KOTOHANA (developed by NEC and SGI), which are pairs of flower-shaped terminals that share data and change color according to emotion detected in voice patterns. Like KOTOHANA, the SHOJI system consists of a pair of terminals placed at separate locations. Each terminal is equipped with a full-color LED array, a microphone and five sensors (developed at the University of Tokyo) that detect light, temperature, humidity, infrared radiation and ultrasonic waves. [Source: Fuji Sankei] Bionic man can control robotic arm with hi. Rubiks Cube solved in 20.22 seconds - Goo. Extra.