ROACH RESPONDERS At a conference in August, researchers from North Carolina State University demonstrated their latest technological advance in aiding “first responders” to peacetime and wartime disasters: cockroaches. Outfitting Madagascar hissing cockroaches with electronic backpacks that include antennas, batteries, cameras and microphones, the scientists hacked the bugs’ … [Read more...] about Roach Responders And Judicial Reform And The Horror Of Proper Spelling
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Monkey Crime And Teacher Troubles And Movies Come To Life
EYE-OPENING SURGERY Fern Cooper, 65, and 13 other cataract-surgery patients arrived at Ontario’s Oakville Trafalgar Hospital on June 25 to learn that they would not receive the usual anesthesia because the hospital had decided to schedule an “experimental day” to evaluate how unsedated patients responded. (The Ontario Health Insurance Plan had recently cut anesthesiologists’ … [Read more...] about Monkey Crime And Teacher Troubles And Movies Come To Life
Illegal Siding and Psycho Real Estate Schemes
LAZINESS SAVES! Dr. Oliver Di Pietro of Bay Harbor Islands, Fla., is a leading prescriber of the “K-E diet” that offers desperate people drastic short-term weight loss by threading a feeding tube through the nose to the stomach and dripping in a protein-fat solution, as clients’ only “meals,” for 10 straight days. “Within a few hours,” Dr. Di Pietro told ABC’s Good Morning … [Read more...] about Illegal Siding and Psycho Real Estate Schemes
Crazy Stereos and Love Hotels and Earless Bunnies
GENTLEMEN, START YOUR STEREOS Sophisticated automobile technology makes high-performance engines purr in relative silence, but automakers fear that their most demanding drivers are emotionally attached to the engines’ roar. Consequently, as Car and Driver reported in April, the 2012 BMW M5, with 560 horsepower tempered with sound deadeners, has installed pre-recorded engine … [Read more...] about Crazy Stereos and Love Hotels and Earless Bunnies