Author: kevin

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Jan 24, 2011

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Dutch student Walinka van Tol inspects the worm protruding from a half-eaten chocolate praline she’s holding, steels herself with a shrug, then pops it into her mouth. “Tasty … kind of nutty!” the 20-year-old assures her companions clutching an array of creepy crawly pastries at a seminar, which...

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Jan 19, 2011

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Enjoy being in cars but hate the hassle of watching the road and holding the steering wheel? The road train autopilot system could bring us cavalcades of remotely driven cars. The system really is like a train - a specially designed truck is at the front of the convoy, and it's the only vehicle a person...

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Jan 19, 2011

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Researchers have come up with a simple recipe that turns a common disinfectant into a potent virus killer—and they’re putting the recipe out into the public domain. Adding silicone to titanium dioxide dramatically increases its ability to degrade aerosol- and water-borne viruses. Full details are reported in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. “If you’re using titanium...

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Jan 13, 2011

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Janet Meiners Thaeler (Small Business Trends) I wasn’t looking for the iPad or other well-known brands. Instead I wanted to find the often-overlooked businesses who have been innovative in their marketing, PR or products – so I asked HARO. I got hundreds of responses – most from companies I’d never heard of. Reading the submissions...