10 Daily Things

Video footage of the Hutchison Effect. It is an anti-gravity & jellification/melting effects machine, that can lift any type of material. Discovered by John Hutchison, a Canadian in 1979.

This guy found out. For a few minutes. These guys recorded the lottery drawing the day before on their TiVo, then bought a lottery ticket with the winning numbers from the recorded drawing and gave it to a friend. They video-recorded themselves watching previous day’s drawing (the guy thought it was for that day). Hilarity [...]

It elicits giggles and grimaces when it emanates from cows’ rear ends, but methane represents a serious threat — it’s a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
Taking the “dross into gold” dictum to a whole new level, Velocys of Plain City, Ohio, is capturing the environmental pollutant and turning it into liquid [...]

As startling numbers of Americans go without health insurance, more of them see their only hope in fleeing to far-flung nations like India for life-saving medial treatments.
The dearth of affordable health insurance has engendered a new breed of what the New England Journal of Medicine classifies as “medical refugees” — patients traveling abroad for heart [...]

A recent climate study using computer models indicates that if greenhouse gases continue to be released at their current rate, most of the Arctic basin will be ice free in September by 2040.
And winter ice, now about 12 feet thick, will be less than 3 feet thick.
The most recent study by scientists from The National [...]