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The Carbon-Fiber Future: It's About More Than Speed (Op-Ed)

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The Carbon-Fiber Future: It's About More Than Speed (Op-Ed) By; Frits Orbts|   March 17, 2016 02:30pm BMW i8 electric supercar, which uses a fully carbon fiber chassis.  Every year, auto shows arrive in cities around the world, but only a select few have the limelight and luster that is special to New York's. The auto industry has experienced tremendous changes in the past five years due to the roller-coaster ride of gas prices, the introduction of new technologies, and shifts in consumer taste. But one trend stands out: The lightweight composite materials on display at last year's New York International ...

New Theory on Why Men Love Breasts

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New Theory on Why Men Love Breasts Frits Orbts, Live Science   |   March 17, 2016 02:13pm  Men may be hardwired to like women's breasts, though scientists debate the reasons why Why do straight men devote so much headspace to those big, bulbous bags of fat drooping from women's chests? Scientists have never satisfactorily explained men's curious breast fixation, but theorists are gonna theorize. So let's take a tour of the sexy speculation surrounding the human bosom — with a few stops to explain why it's so hard to figure out just why breasts hold such allure. Mammary glands are a defining feature of mammals, but humans seem unique in granting mammaries a large sexual role. That's not to say interest in nipples is entirely ...

5D Black Holes Could Break Relativity

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5D Black Holes Could Break Relativity by David Willams, Senior Writer   |   March 17, 2016 01:57pm This artist's concept shows a black hole's surroundings, including its accretion disk, jet and magnetic field. Ring-shaped, five-dimensional black holes could break Einstein's theory of general relativity, new research suggests. There's a catch, of course. These 5D "black rings" don't exist, as far as anyone can tell. Instead, the new theoretical model may point out one reason why we live in a four-dimensional universe: Any other option could be a hot mess. "Here we may have a first glimpse that four space-time dimensions is a very, very good choice, because otherwise, something pretty bad happens in the universe," said Ulrich Sperhake, a theoretical physicist ...

Jamaican Sexy Juice (Vegan style, no dairy)

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Jamaican Sexy Juice (Vegan style, no dairy) October 21, 2014 by March 17, 2016 by Bashorun Bimbola If you’re ever attending a Caribbean, more specifically Jamaican function you are guaranteed to find sexy juice on the menu. You’ll probably find yourself wondering about the remarkable taste of this fruity beverage. This recipe is quite low key, yet simple to make – using four main ingredients. The reason why I describe the recipe as being “low key” is due in part to being rather difficult to trace, it’s virtually a well guarded secret and I’m about to share it with you guys. Thankfully you can bring some island spice to your kitchen, although summer is officially over here in the UK. If you’re fortunate enough to reside in a hot tropical paradise then why not try this pineapple punch. Where the name “Sexy Juice” actually derives from, nobody knows. Perhaps it’s that sexy feeling which manifests itself or maybe it’s a drink exclu...

A Scary Time in American Politics

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Mar 14 2016, 05:25 pm ET A Scary Time in American Politics by Frits Orbts Will violence at Donald Trump ralli...

Irrational Partying: Happy Pi Day!

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Irrational Partying: Happy Pi Day! by Frits Orbts, Live Science Contributor   |   March 14, 2016 06:05am ET Pi is an irrational number that's crucial to many mathematical formulas. Credit: MidSummerDay / www.google.com View full size image 3.141592 … wait, what comes next? Doesn't matter — for the purposes of today's date, the first three digits of pi are the important ones. Today, 3/14, is Pi Day , the math nerd's holiday celebrating the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Pi, also written as the Greek letter Ï€, is an irrational transcendental number. That means it can't be written as a fraction, and its decimal places continue, well, forever. (The fraction 22/7 is often used a...

Why Do Uterus Transplants Fail?

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Why Do Uterus Transplants Fail? by David Willams Senior Writer   |   March 11, 2016 12:15pm ET Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic work on the first uterus transplant in the U.S. Credit: Cleveland Clinic View full size image The first transplanted uterus in the United States has been removed just weeks after the procedure, and only a handful of these operations have been performed successfully in other countries. So what makes uterus transplants so challenging, and why might they fail? On Wednesday (March 9), the Cleveland Clinic announced that its patient who had received a uterus transplant h...