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Prosthesis & Telescopy

In the future someone may be asking you “Is that a prosthetic telescope or are you just happy to see me?” thanks to VisionCare Incorporated. They are able to produce around 3x magnification with this little implantable treat. Waiting for evolution is clearly for suckers. Sharing:

Pollen Politic

Over at Pruned they’re writing about the politics of pollen and how pollen levels are ever increasing due in part to irresponsible landscape architects and consumer tides. Worth the click. Sharing:

Fleshtone Bandages – for vein robots.

If your skin is made of titanium, you are self conscious, and you have a small scratch (presumably from some laser related incident), or if alternately you are a vein he-man with a similar scratch but afraid to show any sign of weakness then 3M would like your attention for a moment. Synergy has run amok over at 3M HQ and now their offering up some duct tape bandages presumably for those heavy duty boo-boos....

Graffiti = Fatties

Those crazy cats over at the British Medical Journal have released a paper discussing how obesity in adults has been linked to graffiti in the local neighbourhood. We’re not entirely sure how this works but it just smacks of freakonomics (not to be confused with Reganomics). Relax though, nobody is claiming (yet) that people are fattening up because their depressed by your tag & burn lifestyle, their just...
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