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Author Archives: StevenTorresRamos
Stretchy Artificial Skin Lets Prosthetic Hand Sense Heat, Humidity, and Pressure | Popular Science
Prosthetic limbs that can be controlled by an amputee’s thoughts or muscle movements already exist. But what if they could also sense the environment and then send that information back to the amputee’s nervous system?In order to create prosthetics that … Continue reading
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The Soaring U.S. Outbreak of Vaccine-Preventable Disease, Visualized
Mealses, mumps, polio, rubella, whooping cough… All diseases that are eminently preventable by vaccination. But, as this data visualization shows, while their incidence has decreased by 57 percent around the world between 2008 and 2014, in the U.S. it’s soared … Continue reading
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How to Establish a Morning Routine for Kids That Actually Works
Getting an entire family up, dressed, fed, and out the door before the sun even comes up could easily be a recipe for disaster or at least a meltdown or two!. But it doesn’t have to be. If you set … Continue reading
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The perfect human is Puerto Rican | Bits of DNA
The nearest neighbor to the “perfect human” is HG00737, a female who is… Puerto Rican. One might imagine that such a person already existed, maybe Yuiza, the only female Taino Cacique chief in Puerto Rico’s history: via The perfect human is Puerto Rican … Continue reading
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Official NORAD Santa Tracker
For more than 50 years, NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa’s flight. The tradition began in 1955 after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. advertisement misprinted the telephone number for children to … Continue reading
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These Dollar Bill Concepts Are Better Than The Real Thing
While U.S. currency does change a little on occasional, the basic design of the notes has stayed fairly constant: green/black background, a portrait on one side, and a pretty picture on the other. These concepts take that classic design, and … Continue reading
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The most amazing and inspiring vision of the future I’ve ever seen
I have seen countless science fiction movies and documentaries about the future of humanity. None of them were as inspiring, beautiful, and realistic as this extraordinary short film by Erik Wernquist, narrated by Carl Sagan. Watch it and get ready … Continue reading
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Photographer Captures the True Beauty of Adoption
The love of a family is usually tough to capture on camera. This is an exception.Kate T. Parker, who works as a photographer, was able to capture the scenes that will define her newly expanded extended family. She chronicled all … Continue reading
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Family sings the Thanksgiving-inspired parody ‘All About That Baste’
Family sings the Thanksgiving-inspired parody ‘All About That Baste’.
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How a schoolteacher helped create the first black Peanuts character
In 1968, shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a Los Angeles schoolteacher named Harriet Glickman wrote to Charles Schulz regarding the lack of integration in Peanuts. At that time, Peanuts was already one of the most popular comic strips in … Continue reading
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