If you’ve ever gotten the craving for a late night snack and had the misfortune of an empty pantry, you might understand the very real struggle to find food. StillOpen is a webapp that checks store hours so you can quickly find out which restaurants are—well—still open. Read more…
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StillOpen Checks If Your Favorite Store or Restaurant Is Still Open
Bloomberg crunched the numbers on “self-made” billionaires in the U.S. and found that about a quarter of them were college dropouts . Ten of America’s 43 self-made billionaires dropped out. One, Harold Hamm , never even attended college. Read more…
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One in four self-made American billionaires dropped out of college
multicsfan writes Researchers have found that an injection of protein FGF1 stops weight induced diabetes in mice, with no apparent side effects. However, the cure only lasts 2 days at a time. Future research and human trials are needed to better understand and create a working drug. From the story: “The team found that sustained treatment with the protein doesn’t merely keep blood sugar under control, but also reverses insulin insensitivity, the underlying physiological cause of diabetes. Equally exciting, the newly developed treatment doesn’t result in side effects common to most current diabetes treatments.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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New Treatment Stops Type II Diabetes
Restaurants know that feeding kids for free brings in parents. Many restaurants have a “kids eat free” night. This infographic tracks those days at many popular chains, along with other money-saving restaurant tips. Read more…
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This Infographic Tells You When Kids Eat Free at Chain Restaurants
Undersea energy pipelines constitute a vital physical link between deep water wells and onshore refineries, but it’s not like we can just lay these lines like oversized bendy straws. That task of constructing and sinking these tubes instead falls to vessels like Allseas’ newest addition to its pipelaying fleet, the Audacia. Read more…
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The Audacia Lays 100 Feet of Pipe On the Ocean Floor Every Minute
An upcoming study in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research says that some tank-style e-cigarettes emit cancer-causing formaldehyde in their vapor at levels similar to traditional tobacco cigarettes. The New York Times , which revealed the findings ahead of publication, says a second study confirms the results. Read more…
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Study: Some E-Cigs Put Out Tobacco-Like Levels of Carcinogens
For centuries, before refrigeration, an old Russian practice was to drop a frog into a bucket of milk to keep the milk from spoiling. In modern times, many believed that this was nothing more than an old wives’ tale . But researchers at Moscow State University, led by organic chemist Dr. Albert Lebedev, have shown that there could be some benefit to doing this, though of course in the end you’ll be drinking milk that a frog was in. Read more…
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How to Keep Milk from Spoiling Without Refrigeration
We’ve all been there: You call customer service, get bounced around, transferred, and dropped. Or worse, your issue never gets resolved even after you talk to someone. You probably know you can escalate to a manager, or even higher, to “executive” support. But at that level, there’s an art to getting what you want. Here’s what you need to know. Read more…
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How to Contact Executive Customer Service and Get Your Problem Solved
No, this portrait isn’t made up of thousands upon thousands of magnetic sculpture beads . The metallic wonder’s lifelike contours and shimmer comes from painstakingly hand-placing 13, 000 variably sized platinum beads. Read more…
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Watch Pure Platinum Turn Into a Pricey 3D Portrait
Created roughly 4, 000-5, 000 years ago in China, the earliest versions of something like chopsticks were used for cooking (they’re perfect for reaching into pots full of hot water or oil) and were most likely made from twigs. While it’s difficult to nail down a firm date, it would seem it wasn’t until around 500-400 AD that they began being used as table utensils. Read more…
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How Chopsticks Were Invented