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[See more Community articles] Two years ago, Gina Hyams was helping organize the pie contest for Hancock Shaker Village’s annual Country Fair, and she was knocked out by the passion of the participants. “People were so excited to be judges,” she recalls, noting that the panel included The New Yorker’s Susan Orlean and RI‘s Marilyn Bethany. “And, of course, the bakers were very excited about being contestants, too.” She did not think this enthusiasm was particular to the Berkshires and Hudson Valley, which led to an epiphany: One night, she woke up at 4 a.m. and told her groggy husband that her next book project would be Pie Contest In A Box. Now, bookstores, gourmet shops and housewares emporiums across the United States are selling her Pie Contest in A Box ($14.99), which includes a history of pie (she interviewed 24 passionate bakers), recipes (she used Facebook to recruit testers), scorecards, flags to identify the pies, and ribbons for the winners. (0) Comments
Regeneration
Marine Corporal Isaias Hernandez lost 70 per cent of his right thigh muscles in the blast, an injury so severe that amputation is normally the only treatment. Corporal Hernandez was, however, offered a therapy in which his remaining muscles were impregnated with an experimental growth promoting substance extracted from pig bladders. It prompted the muscles to regenerate to a point that Corporal Hernandez has regained most of his strength. US soldier whose leg muscles were destroyed by a bomb in Afghanistan has been able to start walking again after using a radical therapy that enabled his body to regrow the lost tissue. The significance of the breakthrough is that skeletal muscle, the kind found in arms and legs, does not normally regenerate after an injury or accident. The US government poured $70 million into regenerative medicine research, and Corporal Hernandez is one of the first to benefit from that. Stephen F.
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LED Lights Make Augmented Vision a Reality | Elemental LEDucation
LED Lights Make Augmented Vision a Reality Okay, this is just freaky. We know LED lights are versatile enough to be used for practically anything, but LED contact lenses? Once miniature green LEDs are developed (and they’re in the works, as of now), full color displays will be possible. Lead researcher Babak Parvis comments “You won’t necessarily have to shift your focus to see the image generated by the contact lens,” it would just appear in front of you and your view of the real world will be completely unobstructed when the display is turned off. Ah, the real world. Thanks to Extreme Tech for the quote and Trendhunter for the images. By the way, these freaky LED contact lenses may still be a product of the future, but a lot of cool LED products are of the present!
11 Common Myths You Thought Were True#s375832&title=Can_anything_live
That depends. In many countries, oranges are green, even when ripe, and are sold that way in shops. Oranges are unknown in the wild. They are a cross between tangerines and and the pomelo or "Chinese grapefruit" (which is pale green or yellow), and were first grown in Southeast Asia. There were green there then, and today they still are. Vietnamese oranges and Thai tangerines are bright green on the outside and orange only on the inside. Yes.
New 'bionic' arms move in response to amputees' thoughts / Muscles, nerves rewired to give feedback to device
2006-09-15 04:00:00 PDT Washington -- The first time Claudia Mitchell peeled a banana one-handed, she cried. It was several months after she lost her left arm at the shoulder in a motorcycle accident. She used her feet to hold the banana and peeled it with her right hand. She felt like a monkey. "It was not a good day," Mitchell, 26, recalled this week. Now, Mitchell can peel a banana in a less-simian posture. Mitchell, who lives in Ellicott City, Md., is the fourth person -- and first woman -- to receive a "bionic" arm, which allows her to control parts of the device by her thoughts alone. Mitchell and the first person to get a bionic arm -- a power-line technician who lost both arms to a severe electric shock -- demonstrated their prostheses Thursday. Someday Mitchell hopes to upgrade to a prosthesis, still under development, that will allow her also to "feel" with an artificial hand. Future arms will also be able to perform more complicated motions.
Sloan Barnett: What's Your Body's Chemical Burden?
Would you believe me if I told you even your unborn child has toxins flowing through her blood? It's scary, but true. More than 200 toxic chemicals were identified in the umbilical cord blood of unborn babies in a groundbreaking study by the Environmental Working Group. Most Americans, including children, have dozens of pesticides and other toxic compounds in their bodies, many of them linked to health threats. Experts call the total amount of chemicals and pollutants that are present in your body at any given time our "body burden." A few years ago, I persuaded experts at The Harvard School of Public Health, for the first time ever, to supervise a customized "Body Burden" test. Did you know: • Of the 80,000 chemicals permitted in the U.S., the EPA required testing of only 500. • Every day, 42 billion pounds of chemicals are produced or imported -- we don't know the health risks of 75 percent of them. We are participating in a giant chemistry experiment, and we are the test subjects.
Quadrotor
Unlike most helicopters, quadcopters use 2 sets of identical fixed pitched propellers; 2 clockwise (CW) and 2 counter-clockwise (CCW). These use variation of RPM to control lift and torque. Control of vehicle motion is achieved by altering the rotation rate of one or more rotor discs, thereby changing its torque load and thrust/lift characteristics.[citation needed] Early in the history of flight, quadcopter (referred to as 'quadrotor') configurations were seen as possible solutions to some of the persistent problems in vertical flight; torque-induced control issues (as well as efficiency issues originating from the tail rotor, which generates no useful lift) can be eliminated by counter-rotation and the relatively short blades are much easier to construct. More recently quadcopter designs have become popular in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) research. There are several advantages to quadcopters over comparably-scaled helicopters. History[edit] Early attempts[edit] Oehmichen No.2 (1920)
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