9 of the Most Fascinating Abandoned Mansions from Around the World. 25 essential expressions. The Secret Door - Step Through To The Unknown… The 'power fabric' that could charge your phone whenever you hold it (and even if you sit on it) Fabric could be used to power emergency torchesCan turn body heat into electricity By Daniel Bates Published: 16:41 GMT, 27 August 2012 | Updated: 16:41 GMT, 27 August 2012 Next time your phone runs out of battery, just grab it with your hand.
Researchers have developed a way to turn body heat into electricity meaning your mobile will never go dead again. Power Felt can keep your phone going for up to 20 per cent longer just through the power of touch. Wake Forest graduate school student Corey Hewitt holds of a sample of Power Felt. Mobile users can even sit on their phones to make the ‘connection’ - passing electricity through their own body to the device.
The technology has been created by Professor David Carroll of Wakeforest University’s Centre for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials in the US. The Top 10 Medical Advances of the Decade - in Infectious Disease, Public Health from MedPage Today. The first decade of the 21st Century brought a number of discoveries, mistakes, and medical advances that have influenced medicine from the patient's bedside to the medicine cabinet. In some cases these advances changed deep-seated beliefs in medicine; in others, they opened up possibilities beyond what doctors thought was possible years ago.
ABC News, in collaboration with MedPage Today reached out to more than 800 specialists as well as a distinguished panel of medical historians to put together a top 10 list of medical advances one decade into this century. 1. Human Genome Discoveries Reach the Bedside In 2000, scientists in with the International Human Genome Project released a rough draft of the human genome to the public. Both groups announced a rough draft at joint press conference on June 26, 2000. In 2003 a "final" draft was released by researchers, and in 2007 more updates to the genome were published by Craig Venter, PhD, chief scientist behind Celera Genomics.
Fresh Ink: Essays From Boston College's First-Year Writing Seminar. The Story Behind Harry Potters Magic By Jocelyn Lund-Wilde It was July 21, 2007.
I had been waiting for this day to come for two years, the day when it was acceptable for me to spend at least 12 hours doing nothing but reading. The seventh, and last, Harry Potter book had come out, and for me, it was the end of years of staying up late to read all about a world where wizards and witches, ghosts and giants, magic and reality, good and evil all coincided. I remember when my mom would spend evening upon evening reading aloud from the first Harry Potter to my brother and me.
Harry Potter is a story of an orphan boy who is left on the doorstep of his aunt Petunia and uncle Vernon Dursleys house. The Harry Potter books relate the adventures of Harry, Ron, and Hermione, but also include countless other well-developed characters that influence the story line. J.K. Even before Rowling was in school, she was writing stories and exploring her immense imagination. In the fall of 1976, J.K. In J.K. 32 Signs You’re Dating A Keeper. Vatican: the Holy See. I Like Your Flaws.
I like how you mispronounce words sometimes, how you fumble and stammer and stutter looking for the right ones to say and the right ways to say them.
I appreciate that you find language challenging, because it is, because everything manmade is challenging. Including man, including you. When you sleep on your side, I like to map the constellations between your beauty marks freckles pimples, the minuscule mountains that sprinkle your back. I like the tufts of hair you forgot to shave and the way you smell when you haven’t showered in a while; I like the sleep left in your eyes.
I like the way your skin dies in the middle of the night, how you die from embarrassment the next morning; how you writhe in the snake casing you’ve left behind. After a while you learn. Find quotes about anything and everything. Why Being A Romantic Isn’t Hopeless. Because the Ally Sheedy character in The Breakfast Club is wrong, and you don’t have to let your heart die as you get older.
I love my idealism, my naivete, my stubborn insistence that I’m going to end up happy, and I refuse to let anyone tell me that I need to or have to settle or to tell me that compromise and negotiation needs to make me quietly sad all the time. Because I want what my grandparents have, a life that fits perfectly into faded photo albums and gives comfort and quilts to those around me, who aspire to know a love as inspiring and effortlessly photogenic as mine.
12 Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking. By Michael Michalko 1.
You are creative. The artist is not a special person, each one of us is a special kind of artist. Every one of us is born a creative, spontaneous thinker.