Fill your car up with… pcs
Illstrated by Priya Khatri
Every time I have to fuel my car I am so embarassed! Not only because fuel is very expensive, not only because the men working at the gas stations are always very excited since they don’t expect to see a girl coming out from the car.
I just cannot believe that in spite of all the technology available today we have not found yet a solution to fuel cars without using polluting materials.
Scientists in Romania and Turkey are seeking ways to remove toxic materials from electronics so these scrap materials can be safely recycled and… junk computers could fuel cars! Read more
Filed Under Environment, Modern Life, Research, Technology
Robo Soup is worth £1m
And £1 million question is if it can stir or not. This is the monetory value of the grant awarded to British scientists to find out if a robot can safely stir soup in a kitchen.
Filed Under Art, Modern Life, Technology
Filed while you’re shopping
Thus far, buying cigarettes and alcohol isn’t a crime.
But a London supermarket chain secretly started recording faces of people who buy cigarettes and alcohol: your likeness and details are added to a nationwide database, recording your movements and purchasing habits. Read more
Filed Under Modern Life, Technology
Forget me not!
We have all been there. We all know how tough and trying being teenager can be.
But what we all don’t know, what only the very few of us know and can clearly understand, is how really tough and trying being a teenager with a chronic illness can be.
I have been there - well, until i was properly diagnosed (four years later!) - and I know how tempting it is to just skip therapy, or to intentionally forget swallowing your meds, just so you can make-believe that you are not unlike any other of your teenage friends. At least for three days, or even a week. Read more
Filed Under Modern Life, Technology
Make your own fuel at home
During the era of Prohibition in the Usa production of ethanol along with other forms of alcohol had been banned.
But now, in the biofuel era, ethanol could have a real revival. Especially since yesterday, when a California company presented the “world’s first home ethanol product”.
MicroFueler is a home-based ethanol production system that makes gas from sugar or stale beer for less than a buck a gallon. Read more
Filed Under Environment, Modern Life, Technology
Ssup, dude? Dis is da pope
Pope Benedict XVI, in an attempt to connect with people one-eighth his age, has decided to go mobile. He will be sending text messages to Catholic teenagers when he visits Australia for World Youth Day. The texts will be sent out for six days, and will have messages of hope and inspiration.
I would like to show my appreciation by helping him with the first one:
‘In da bginnin God cre8d da heavens & da earth’
Filed Under Technology
Scenic speedbreakers
When China inaugurated the world’s longest sea-bridge last week, the plan was to cut travel time between Shanghai and Nimbo by half.
While the bridge is an engineering marvel, things aren’t going according to plan. Read more
Filed Under Modern Life, Technology