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		<title>UK Company ReVend Revamps Fluorescent Light Bulb Recycling</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/05/uk-company-revend-revamps-fluorescent-light-bulb-recycling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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Lighting up new options for fluorescent recycling.
Lots of people know that they shouldn&#8217;t be throwing away batteries, fluorescent light bulbs, and other pieces of household hazardous waste (HHW). But what should you be doing instead? Today, many large businesses collect such waste for recycling; our pals over at Earth911 have a searchable list of American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America’s most miserable cities</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/05/america%e2%80%99s-most-miserable-cities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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Feeling miserable today? Maybe you live in Miami, Florida. The city &#8211; famous for mega-million mansions and South Beach clubs &#8211; has just gotten the unenviable title of America&#8217;s Most Miserable City.
Forbes Magazine took a look at 10 factors (including violent crimes, unemployment rates, and foreclosures) for the 200 largest metro areas in the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers develop &#8217;smart paint&#8217; that monitors structural damage</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/05/researchers-develop-smart-paint-that-monitors-structural-damage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Dr Mohamed Saafi and David McGahon have developed a smart paint that can detect microscopic faults in large structures.
Researchers have developed a &#8217;smart paint&#8217; able to detect tiny faults before damage can occur, and at a fraction of the cost of current methods.
The paint is made mostly of fly ash mixed with carefully aligned carbon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Cultivator compact garden</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/05/urban-cultivator-compact-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Fresh herbs taste better than their dried counterparts, and there is no denying that garden-fresh veggies are preferable to ones that have spent the past several days in a truck or on a supermarket shelf. People who are lucky enough to live in warmer climates can keep the fresh greens coming year-round, if they plant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing photos taken by kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Makayla Hayes, 14, won the international grand prize in the 2011 National Geographic Kids photo contest for this photo.
When you hand a kid a camera you can get a glimpse into their world.  They have an interesting perspective on just about everything.  This year&#8217;s winners in the Fifth Annual National Geographic Kids International Photo Contest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swarm of nano quadrotors fly in formation: Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Researchers at GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania have been working with nano quadrotors since at least 2010, managing to get them to fly aggressively, build a tower structure and now — fly in perfect formation.
The video posted by GRASP makes it clear the robots now know how to maintain distance from each other, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Photos of the Week</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/05/top-10-photos-of-the-week-215/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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As pigeons evolve, their wings will become useless, much like the human brain 
Quote of the Day: Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don&#8217;t mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don&#8217;t know whether it&#8217;s a new thing, but it&#8217;s certainly a current thing, in that it doesn&#8217;t seem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 techiest cities in America</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/04/top-10-techiest-cities-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Seattle tops the list of top techiest cities in the U.S.
As part of the annual America’s Favorite Cities survey, Trave l + Leisure readers ranked 35 major cities on qualities such as microbrews, live music and street food. Readers also judged how tech-savvy the locals seem, and the reliability of wireless coverage; we combined the two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ferrofluid Sculpture</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/04/ferrofluid-sculpture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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I just learned about Ferrofluid today. It can do some amazing things, like this video shows. After the jump is a second video explaining HOW ferrofluid works.
From the YouTube descriptioin:
A steel sculpture with changing magnetisation is coated with ferrofluid.
The fluid is pulled in the direction of increasing flux density and forms peaks, which become smaller [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unplayable piece used to test player pianos</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/04/unplayable-piece-used-to-test-player-pianos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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It’s called “Circus Galop” or “Death Waltz”, and it’s used to test the performance of player pianos. No single person has ever played it…so far. But if we can put a man on the moon, surely we can genetically engineer a superhuman species that can perform it&#8230;


An extra couple arms would help too.
-via Boing Boing
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		<title>8 amazing elevator rides you need to see to believe</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/04/8-amazing-elevator-rides-you-need-to-see-to-believe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/04/8-amazing-elevator-rides-you-need-to-see-to-believe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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The elevator at the AquaDom in Berlin travels up the middle of the 82-foot tall aquarium. 
To ride an elevator it usually just involves pushing a button and zoning out  until the ding for your floor. Pay attention on these elevators or  risk missing out on one of the most thrilling rides of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No sign of &#8216;Facebook fatigue&#8217; for longtime users</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/04/no-sign-of-facebook-fatigue-for-longtime-users/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Longtime users show no  sign that they have tired of posting on Facebook.
No &#8221; Facebook fatigue.&#8221;  A survey released shows that people who have used the social networking  site over a long period &#8211; since its founding in 2004, say &#8211; show no  sign that they have tired of posting pictures, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many single people looking for love, but marriage not a priority</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/03/many-single-people-looking-for-love-but-marriage-not-a-priority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Marriage has been declining steadily in the USA for more than 35 years.
Many  singles appear to be enjoying their unencumbered and unmarried  state that two-thirds aren&#8217;t even sure they want to marry, suggests a  broad national survey of the dating habits, sexual behaviors and  lifestyles of 5,541 single adults across the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Numbers as letters</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/03/numbers-as-letters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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Leet in action.
You are most likely familiar with numbers being used to implicate letters, phrases or even symbols. In SMS (txting) shortcuts, for instance, 2 can also be used for “to”, 4 can mean “for” and the 8 spells “eat” in gr8, meaning great. This is called SMSish or textese or simply SMS language.
When numbers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study finds some still dabble in hard drugs after 50</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/03/study-finds-some-still-dabble-in-hard-drugs-after-50/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Some perfectly  functional middle-agers still turn to the drugs of their youth.
A burned-out Baby Boomer using hard drugs way into  middle age may conjure images of addiction, destruction and death.
That  certainly can be true, but it’s not the complete picture, at least  according to a new study from researchers at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flesh-eating bug spreads by sneezing</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/03/flesh-eating-bug-spreads-by-sneezing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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It is now more important than ever to cover your mouth when sneezing.
A flesh-eating bug, which has been known about for years, has gotten so virulent it can now be spread by sneezing and coughing. Doctors suspect new victims caught the virus on buses or trains and enclosed spaces like elevators.
Although the flesh-eating bug has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress and the EU are fighting to change Google’s privacy policy</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/03/congress-and-the-eu-are-fighting-to-change-google%e2%80%99s-privacy-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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Are you ready for Google&#8217;s new privacy policy?
Google&#8217;s new privacy policy has already caused a stir among users. Now, Congress and EU regulators are sniffing around the changes and aren&#8217;t happy about them — but Google doesn&#8217;t seem to care in the slightest.
According to The Hill, house lawmakers questioned Google representatives for two hours yesterday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual reality contact lenses could be here by 2014</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/03/virtual-reality-contact-lenses-could-be-here-by-2014/</link>
		<comments>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/03/virtual-reality-contact-lenses-could-be-here-by-2014/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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The lenses sit directly on the eyeball, and have been engineered using  nanoscale techniques to work as a focusing device that pairs with a pair  of hi-tech glasses.
Innovega, a company in the U.S. says, contact lenses which focus 3D screens directly into people&#8217;s eyeballs could be on sale as early as 2014.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antioch College offers $106,000 education for free</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/03/antioch-college-offers-106000-education-for-free/</link>
		<comments>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/03/antioch-college-offers-106000-education-for-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Antioch College
It sounds crazy but you can actually go to a private liberal arts college that will give you a full-ride tuition scholarship for four years.  Seriously.
Antioch College in Yellow Spring, Ohio, is waiving the tuition for all its students, who enroll in the next three years.
How much are these freebies worth? The value of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 Billion Jobs to Disappear by 2030</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/03/2-billion-jobs-to-disappear-by-2030/</link>
		<comments>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/03/2-billion-jobs-to-disappear-by-2030/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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A picture of me speaking at yesterday’s TEDxReset in Istanbul.
Futurist Thomas Frey: Yesterday I was honored to be one of the featured speakers at the  TEDxReset Conference in Istanbul, Turkey where I predicted that over 2  billion jobs will disappear by 2030. Since my 18-minute talk was about  the rapidly shifting nature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iVictrola gramophone printed on a 3D printer magnifies your music</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/02/ivictrola-gramophone-printed-on-a-3d-printer-magnifies-your-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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Big sound using age old principles.
I know I&#8217;ve been all about the old-fashioned-looking iPhone speakers lately, most of which are electricity-free. And 3D printing. So I&#8217;m jazzed the two have come together with this 3D printed iVictrola Gramophone dreamed up by Schreer Design and manufactured by Shapeways.
Check. It. Out. (video after jump&#8230;)




I love that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fifth Grader concocts a new explosive molecule accidentally</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/02/fifth-grader-accidentally-concocts-a-new-explosive-molecule/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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Chemistry Professor Robert Zoellner
Admittedly, I did spend my childhood playing with explosives. But I certainly never had as much success as 10-year-old Clara Lazen (not pictured), who accidentally created a new energy storing molecule, tetranitratoxycarbon, that could be used as an explosive&#8230;

Using one of those molecular modeling sets we all messed with in school, Clara [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Road Runoff Spurring Spotted Salamander Evolution</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/02/road-runoff-spurring-spotted-salamander-evolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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A female spotted salamander gravid with eggs in route to her breeding pool. There she will lay a cluster of approximately 100 eggs. Eight to ten weeks later, those eggs will hatch as larvae. In late summer, if the pool has not already dried, larvae will metamorphose into juveniles that migrate to the adjacent upland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women have far less accurate memories than men when it comes to unpleasant events</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/02/women-have-far-less-accurate-memories-than-men-when-it-comes-to-unpleasant-events/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Researchers monitored people&#8217;s brain waves with an EEG while they looked at pictures ranging from war  photos to pictures of kittens. 
Women remember unpleasant events far less accurately than men do, say researchers at the University of Montreal.
Women&#8217;s memories blur when it comes to any emotional events, and the effect is particularly pronounced with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado considers nation&#8217;s toughest trans-fat ban in schools</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/02/colorado-considers-nations-toughest-trans-fat-ban-in-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Several  states already limit trans-fat in school cafeterias.
Colorado is the nation&#8217;s leanest state and it is taking aim at junk food in school  cafeterias as it considers the nation&#8217;s toughest school trans-fat ban.
A Colorado House committee was scheduled to hear a  bill Thursday to forbid any trans-fat in school food — not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers say sugar should be regulated as a toxin</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/02/researchers-say-sugar-should-be-regulated-as-a-toxin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Sugar and other sweeteners are so toxic to the human body that  they should be regulated as strictly as alcohol by governments   worldwide, according to researchers.
A spoonful of sugar might make the medicine go down. But it also makes  blood pressure and cholesterol go up, along with your risk for liver [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Android users more likely to have sex on the first date: survey</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/02/android-users-more-likely-to-have-sex-on-the-first-date-survey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/02/android-users-more-likely-to-have-sex-on-the-first-date-survey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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You should start pursuing Android users if you are hoping to get some naughty action soon.  Android users are more likely to have sex on the first date than those who use iPhone or BlackBerry devices, according to a recent survey.
Venture Beat reports that a survey commissioned by dating site Match.com focused on the  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>According to the FDA, your stem cells are now drugs</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/02/according-to-the-fda-your-stem-cells-are-now-drugs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/02/according-to-the-fda-your-stem-cells-are-now-drugs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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This ruling makes it physically impossible NOT to be on drugs. 
In recent court filings, the Food and Drug Administration has asserted that stem cells—you know, the ones our bodies produce naturally—are in fact drugs and subject to its regulatory oversight. So does that make me (or you) a controlled substance?

The bizarre controversy revolves around the FDA&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wild parking garage design from Interface Studio Architects</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/02/wild-parking-garage-design-from-interface-studio-architects/</link>
		<comments>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/02/wild-parking-garage-design-from-interface-studio-architects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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Standing tall in with award winning architectural innovation.
Interface Studio Architects won TreeHugger&#8217;s Best of Green prize in 2010 for their gritty urban work. They demonstrated a paradigm-busting playfulness with their frenetic Granary project. They write: &#8220;We believe that creativity and innovation are triggered by limitations.&#8221;
But clearly, when there are no limitations, they go a bit wild and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaves made from human hair</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.net/2012/02/02/leaves-made-from-human-hair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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Reality is a delicate art.
Jenine Shereos’s delicate leaf sculptures look like the real thing from a distance, but they’re actually made of hair. She made them by stitching the hairs together on a backing, then dissolving that backing in water&#8230;

Link -via Colossal &#124; Photo: Robert Diamante
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