New Invention ~ Exercise while you Conserve Energy and have Fun ?

Called a Smooth Transition for Skating Enthusiast... Gliders is an innovative new sporting good product that provides an exceedingly more comfortable and anatomically safer skating experience... Allows for safer...

Why The Slow-Paced World Could Make It Difficult To Catch A Ball

This is a new research that reveals about the way humans perceive fast moving, incoming objects-such as tennis or cricket balls."The new research studies why the human brain has difficulty perceiving fast moving objects coming from straight ahead; something that should be a...

Gordon Brown Coup: David Miliband Ready to Grab Leadership

David Miliband, Foreign Secretary, will tomorrow dare Prime Minister Gordon Brown to sack him, as he makes a naked bid for Labour leadership.    " The Foreign Secretary fires the first salvo in a...

Archbishop of Canterbury to spell out new rules for Anglicans

"Archbishop of Canterbury to spell out new rules for Anglicans By George Pitcher and Martin Beckford The Archbishop of Canterbury will today spell out how he hopes a new set of rules can solve "one of the...

Queer tourism campaigns meet mixed results

I didn't realize this, but apparently gay tourism campaigns are becoming fairly common in major cities across North America. A city councillor here in Vancouver wants to earmark some city money for just such a...

Filipinos emerge as new force in BC politics

Even though I've been following the Vancouver election quite closely I was unaware of this dimension.  An interesting read from a local paper that gets too little credit for publishing important news."Behind the...

Dozens of ravers partially blinded at Moscow party after their retinas are bu...

"Up to 30 partygoers at an outdoor rave have been partially blinded by a laser light show.Health officials confirmed 12 cases of laser-blindness from the event, with reports suggesting up to 17 more.Some of those...

Ravers lose sight at Russian laser show

Wow, quite a story. Apparently these lasers were supposed to shoot into the sky, but because it was raining the set up tents and had the lasers reflect off them instead. The lasers were too powerful to be doing this,...

Retinal transplant boosts vision

There has been a big discovery for the causes of blindness in old age. Researchers at the University of Louisville have successfully used foetal retinal cells to boost the vision in the old age blind cases. "An experimental transplant of cells into the eyes of patients with...

Advert for new air traffic controller says 20/20 vision is essential... then ...

"An advertisement for an air traffic controller is being offered in Braille – although 20/20 vision is a requirement for the job. Bosses of St Mary's airport on the Isles of Scilly say they are simply adhering to...

Summit ends with climate 'vision'

World leaders have proclaimed a "shared vision" on climate change, but failed to bridge differences between rich and emerging nations on curbing emissions"Concluding a summit in northern Japan, leaders from the G8...

'Mind's Eye' Influences Visual Perception

This is a recent news gathered in ScienceDaily.com and showed just how important the relationship of imagination with our visual perception of things.  To wit -Letting your imagination run away with you may actually influence how you see the world. New research from...

McCain leads in FL, GA, Obama Leads CT, MA Polls

"Two new polls from Strategic Vision show John McCain with eight point leads in Georgia and Florida: Florida McCain 49 Obama 41 Undecided 9 McCain leads by 2.2% in the RCP Average for Florida. Georgia McCain 51 Obama 43 Barr 3 Undecided 3 McCain leads by 6.3% in the RCP...

Innocent dad beaten by Kung Fu police

The adrenalin rush that a car chase must give to police officers has raised a few issues around safety with some forces advising squad cars not to pursue if that would result in extra danger to the public. Here it...

Nokia buys social networking site Plazes

" HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia said on Monday it has agreed to buy social networking start-up Plazes as part of its major push into offering Internet services. Plazes (http://www.plazes.com/) provides location-aware services that people...

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