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Squeezing breasts 'can stop cancer'

A little squeeze may be all that it takes to prevent malignant breast cells triggering cancer, research has shown.
Laboratory experiments showed that applying physical pressure to the cells guided them back to a normal growth pattern.
Scientists do not envisage fighting breast cancer with a new range of compression bras, but they believe the research provides clues that could lead to new treatments...

http://news.uk.msn.com/health/squeezing-breasts-can-stop-cancer 

Autistic Boy Drumming on Washing Machine

Robot Copies Your Muscles and Bones

Give a guy a ring...

Government to snoop on computer use of jobless to check they are looking for work

• New website will monitor whether unemployed search for three jobs a week
• Benefits will be cut for those who do not do enough to look for work
• Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith says website will match vacancies to jobless 'while they sleep'
• Labour opposes 1% cap on rises in benefits
  
  A new website launched by ministers will remotely monitor whether benefits claimants are making enough effort to find employment.
  Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith warned that jobseekers could see their benefits slashed if they fail to look for three jobs a week on the ‘revolutionary’ new government website.
  
   
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2251574/Government-snoop-use-jobless-check-looking-work.html#ixzz2Fj97gldZ 
  

Capuchin monkeys reject unequal pay

Frans de Waal shows us a task he gave Capuchin monkeys to see if they responded to a sense of fairness. For the full video see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcJxRqTs5nk

Frans de Waal is a Dutch primatologist and ethologist. He is the Charles Howard Candler professor of Primate Behavior in the Emory University psychology department in Atlanta, Georgia, and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and author of numerous books including Chimpanzee Politics and Our Inner Ape. His research centers on primate social behavior, including conflict resolution, cooperation, inequity aversion, and food-sharing. He is a Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.

Spider That Builds Its Own Spider Decoys Discovered

A decoy spider hangs below its much smaller builder, suspected to be a new species in the genus  

A spider that builds elaborate, fake spiders and hangs them in its web has been discovered in the Peruvian Amazon.
Believed to be a new species in the genus Cyclosa, the arachnid crafts the larger spider from leaves, debris and dead insects. Though Cyclosa includes other sculpting arachnids, this is the first one observed to build a replica with multiple, spidery legs.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/12/spider-building-spider/

New Extreme Sport: Trampoline Wall. Christophe Hamel Demo 2012

Investigating the Haitian Zombie (Part 1/6)

Watch the other parts here:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=vice+zombie&oq=vice+zombie&gs_l=youtube.3..0l3j0i5.501.1532.0.1687.11.9.0.0.0.0.110.774.7j2.9.0...0.0...1ac.1.MR16yhQsmIc

Virtual Body Technology Uses 5 Senses

Verizon patents targeted advertising method that determines if viewers are laughing, cuddling, sleeping or singing

If the detection system determines that a couple is arguing, a service provider would be able to send an ad for marriage counseling to a TV or mobile device in the room. If the couple utters words that indicate they are cuddling, they would receive ads for "a romantic getaway vacation, a commercial for a contraceptive, a commercial for flowers," or commercials for romantic movies, Verizon states in the patent application.
For years, technology executives have discussed the possibility of using devices such as Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Xbox 360 Kinect cameras to target advertising and programming to viewers, taking advantage of the ability to determine whether an adult or child is viewing a program. But Verizon is looking at taking targeted advertising to a new level with its patent application, which is titled "Methods and Systems for Presenting an Advertisement Associated with an Ambient Action of a User."

 http://www.fiercecable.com/story/verizon-patents-targeted-advertising-method-determines-if-viewers-are-laugh/2012-11-30



The Verizon patent shows the detection zone near a TV. Cameras, microphones and other sensors would be linked to a detection system, and ads would be targeted to viewers based on data collected by the sensors.

The 'Highest' Spot on Earth?

It is Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador. Yes, Ecuador.
Mount Chimborazo, in the Andes, is a 20,000-plus-foot peak sitting on top of a bulge on the Earth. Mount Everest is a 29,000-plus-foot peak sitting lower down on that same bulge. Because Chimborazo is a bump on a bigger part of the bulge, it is higher.
According to Senne, Chimborazo is 1.5 miles higher than Everest! Or, if you will, 1.5 miles closer to outer space.
If you define "highest" as highest from sea level, Mount Everest is still champion.
But if you want to stand on the place on Earth that is closest to the moon, that would be Mount Chimborazo!

 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9428163

Fox Found “Frozen Alive” in Norway River

Not far from highway E18 in Kragerø, Norway, a red fox was found frozen standing upright in a river, as if the water had suddenly turned to ice as it was crossing through.
Foxes have a high tolerance for cold and are well adapted to withstanding low temperatures, so, in principle, this little guy should have been able to cross the river without any major problems.
Furthermore, even if it had been injured or on the verge of death while wading through the river, it would have lied down in its final moments instead of standing upright.
While no one is certain what caused the fox to freeze in such a position, locals suggest that it could have been passing through thin ice and gotten stuck, or even been shot and then intentionally placed there as a cruel prank.
What do you think? Is this staged or did something happen to the poor fox before he could make it safely to shore?

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/12/19/fox-found-frozen-alive-in-norway-river/ 

Philips Lumiblade 2012

Philips Lumiblade 2012 from Dezeen on Vimeo.

Police Officer Wraps $100 Bill In Traffic Ticket

Photographer reveals 'tornado' of schooling fish

Making David and Goliath from Octavio Aburto on Vimeo.

DARPA working on sci-fi-style stabilizing foam for wounds

http://redicecreations.com/article.php?id=23005

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Magic Flip Book

Stunning 18th century cabinet

James Cameron Descends 7 Miles Into Pacific Ocean's 'Desolate' Mariana Trench

Stone Builders, Mound Builders and the Giants of Ancient America | Jim Vieira - TED

DMX "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer"

US Debt - Visualized in physical $100 bills

A Brief History of Santa

Pope calls for world authority as 'moral force'

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The world authority envisioned by two popes as a way to ensure global peace and justice would not be a superpower, but primarily a moral force with limited jurisdiction, Pope Benedict XVI said.

The pope made his remarks Dec. 3 to a plenary session of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, which was scheduled to meet for three days to discuss the theme of "political authority and global governance."

In his address, Pope Benedict recalled that Blessed John XXIII had called for the "construction of a world community, with a corresponding authority," to serve the "common good of the human family."

The pope also cited his own 2009 encyclical "Caritas in Veritate," in which he called for a "true world political authority" to ensure international cooperation, peace and environmental protection. 

 http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1205060.htm

Sinister Sites: IRS Headquarters, Maryland

The entrance to the IRS headquarters is guarded by two black and white pillars made of the highest quality marble, topped with white hands. Between the two pillars is a dark pyramid with a metallic capstone on which is written “We the People”. What does all of this represent? Here’s an “official” description:

“The most striking elements are the huge, white marble hands atop each column. Each hand points skyward, one with the forefinger extended; the other is an open hand, the fingers ever so slightly cupped.
The 1997 work is called “Vox Populi,” which is Latin for “the voice of the people.” The hand with the raised index finger represents deliberation, argument, the gesticulation of a speaker giving his or her opinion. The hand with an open palm represents the act of voting or taking an oath.”
- The Washington Post, “The Big Hands of the Law”

http://vigilantcitizen.com/sinistersites/sinister-sites-irs-headquarters-maryland/

Serbian ambassador to NATO commits suicide at Brussels Airport

Brussels. Head of Mission of Serbia to NATO, H.E. Mr. Branislav Milinkovic, committed a suicide at the airport in Brussels, Serbian B92 Radio reported.
Milinkovic killed himself by jumping from the parking lot of the airport in the Belgian capital city, in front of the eyes of Zoran Vujic, Assistant Foreign Minister for Security Policy in Serbia.
The motives of the suicide remain unclear. 

 http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n294061

Danske Bank: "A new normal demands New Standards"

Check Your Vitals on Your Smartphone

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/devices/check-your-vitals-on-your-smartphone

Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer

The incident, possibly the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on the victims, began Saturday, March 22, when attackers used a script to post hundreds of messages embedded with flashing animated gifs.
The attackers turned to a more effective tactic on Sunday, injecting JavaScript into some posts that redirected users' browsers to a page with a more complex image designed to trigger seizures in both photosensitive and pattern-sensitive epileptics.
RyAnne Fultz, a 33-year-old woman who suffers from pattern-sensitive epilepsy, says she clicked on a forum post with a legitimate-sounding title on Sunday. Her browser window resized to fill her screen, which was then taken over by a pattern of squares rapidly flashing in different colors.
Fultz says she "locked up." 

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/03/epilepsy 

$9,000,000,000,000 MISSING From The Federal Reserve

Scary Ghost Elevator Prank in Brazil

13 Randon acts of kindness

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