Daily Archives: 06.03.2015

A Scent-Blasting Face Mask: Because Virtual Reality Isn’t Weird Enough

By Sean Hollister

When you’re hacking your way through a sweltering jungle in virtual reality, wouldn’t you like to feel as disgustingly hot and humid as your video game character? To smell that distinctive jungle scent? No? Then you’d sure as hell better not pay $250 for the Feelreal this summer.

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Apple lands prime spot in the Dow, as AT&T departs

By Don Reisinger As a tech and corporate leader, Apple proved itself a “clear choice” to join the key Wall Street metric starting later this month. Its stock split last year helped, too.

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‘Invisible hearing aid’ runs into controversy over its claims

By Chris Matyszczyk Technically Incorrect: Nanoplug took to Indiegogo to plug its tech for a tiny hearing aid, but now it’s touting a device that appears identical to a product already on the market. Contributors are furious.

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The Man Who Ate 25 Eggs a Day (Or, Why Cholesterol’s Not All Bad)

By Ricki Lewis, PhD – PLoS Blogs

Each morning at the retirement community, the healthy 88-year-old man received a delivery of 25 soft-boiled eggs, which he would consume during his day. This had been his way for many years. He’d had one experience of chest pain that might have been angina, but aside from that, he had a healthy cardiovascular system. He recognized that his only problem was psychological: “Eating these eggs ruins my life, but I can’t help it.

Shouldn’t we be limiting carbs, and not dietary cholesterol? It’s the that matter. So how did the vilification of dietary cholesterol arise?

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Mars once had an ocean bigger than the Arctic

By Michelle Starr NASA scientists have analysed the water signatures in Mars’ atmosphere to determine that the planet once had a primitive ocean bigger than the Arctic Ocean on Earth.

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