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Sunday, 31 March 2013
Paul Krugman Falsifies American Economic History (Again) « LewRockwell.com Blog
Cell towers kill birds and bees?
102 mobile towers found to violate new radiation (EMR) norms - government | Real Time News, India
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Conservative knives out for George Osborne - Telegraph
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TED talks: The technology of touch
The technology of touch
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Katherine Kuchenbecker: The technology of touch
As we move through the world, we have an innate sense of how things feel -- the sensations they produce on our skin and how our bodies orient to them. Can technology leverage this? In this fun, fascinating TED-Ed lesson, learn about the field of haptics, and how it could change everything from the way we shop online to how dentists learn the telltale feel of a cavity.
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When two people are trying to make a deal, what's going on inside their brains? Behavioral economist Colin Camerer reveals how little we're able to predict what others are thinking. With unexpected data that shows chimpanzees might be better at it than humans. Watch »
In the Masai community where 13-year-old Richard Turere lives, cattle are all-important. But lion attacks were growing frequent. In this short, inspiring talk, the young inventor shares the solar-powered solution he designed to safely scare the lions away. Watch »
Mark Shaw demos Ultra-Ever Dry, a liquid-repellent coating that acts as an astonishingly powerful shield against water and water-based materials. At the nano level, the spray covers a surface with an umbrella of air so that water bounces right off. Watch for an exciting two-minute kicker. Watch »
Our bodies and homes are covered in microbes -- some good for us, some bad for us. As we learn more about the germs and microbes who share our living spaces, TED Fellow Jessica Green asks: Can we design buildings that encourage happy, healthy microbial environments? Watch »
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Jessica Green: We're covered in germs. Let's design for that.You have to love the simplicity of "open the window".
I completely agree with the hospital scenario, but I wonder if it's not a bit more complex and issue than air filtration, viz most operating theaters are still following the Victorian principles of putting it at the top of the building as then (see "Ether domes" etc as a good examples), as in those days, all operations were done under natural light. How does that effect the cross contamination of the patients, and the microbes that exist there? Similarly you'll find kitchens at ground or basement levels again harking back to Victorian building design, again an issue?
I think, if you look at any building design, be it a hospital or an office, you have to look at holistically, this talk is another step to our understanding of that.
Excellent talk."
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