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Sunday, 20 January 2013
Emergency Room visits linked to energy drinks have doubled since 2007
http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/16/emergency-room-visits-linked-to-energy-drinks-have-doubled-since-2007/ / rising public health problem number patients suffering from irregular heartbeats anxiety heart attacks patients alcohol drugs Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration survey hospital admission admit /
There really are 50 Inuit words for "snow"
You've may have heard the urban myth that, "The Inuit have 50 words for snow." Or you may have heard the more recent urban myth, "No they haven't."
Most recent research seems to indicate that they really do have a very large number of words for snow:
http://m.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/there-really-are-50-eskimo-words-for-snow/2013/01/14/e0e3f4e0-59a0-11e2-beee-6e38f5215402_story.html / vocabulary journalist journalistic exaggeration scholarship anthropologist Franz Boas century-long argument traveling icy wastes Baffin Island northern Canada 1880s study the life of the local Inuit people joining their sleigh rides trading caribou skins learning their folklore seal meat language elaborate terms describe frozen landscape softly falling snow piegnartoq the snow that is good for driving sled Inuit Yupik family dialects polysynthesis speakers encode huge amount information one word plugging various suffixes base word languages language family /
Most recent research seems to indicate that they really do have a very large number of words for snow:
http://m.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/there-really-are-50-eskimo-words-for-snow/2013/01/14/e0e3f4e0-59a0-11e2-beee-6e38f5215402_story.html / vocabulary journalist journalistic exaggeration scholarship anthropologist Franz Boas century-long argument traveling icy wastes Baffin Island northern Canada 1880s study the life of the local Inuit people joining their sleigh rides trading caribou skins learning their folklore seal meat language elaborate terms describe frozen landscape softly falling snow piegnartoq the snow that is good for driving sled Inuit Yupik family dialects polysynthesis speakers encode huge amount information one word plugging various suffixes base word languages language family /
McDonald's trucks travel greener on recycled frier oil in UAE
Even countries up to their ears in petroleum are getting the message!
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1081785_mcdonalds-trucks-travel-greener-on-recycled-frier-oil / United Arab Emirates fossil fuel energy delivery truck vehicle recycled cooking oil diesel McDonalds restaurants 100% 100 percent biofuel biodiesel producer Neutral Fuels carbon fuel unblended /
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1081785_mcdonalds-trucks-travel-greener-on-recycled-frier-oil / United Arab Emirates fossil fuel energy delivery truck vehicle recycled cooking oil diesel McDonalds restaurants 100% 100 percent biofuel biodiesel producer Neutral Fuels carbon fuel unblended /
Tethercell lets you control any battery powered device wirelessly
Credit: Tethercell/ Digital Trends
http://dvice.com/archives/2013/01/tethercell-lets.php / AA AAA battery cell Bluetooth remote control energy capacity /
DeLorean-like hovercraft at Golden Gate Bridge (video)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57564777-93/delorean-like-hovercraft-tools-around-near-golden-gate-bridge/ / custom hovercraft Kickstarter project /
BlackBerry Z10 specs leak in internal training manual
http://bgr.com/2013/01/16/blackberry-z10-specs-leak-293212/?utm_source=featured-image-widget&utm_medium=home / RIM smartphone Research In Motion BlackBerry 10 full touch touchscreen /
How coffee drank soda's milkshake
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/graph-how-coffee-drank-sodas-milkshake/267318/ / caffeine sugar bitter carbon dioxide CO2 carbonated drink cordial Coke Coca cola fizz diet drink water energy drink bottled iced tea substitution Starbucks espresso latte rising cost /
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