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A Tiny Tribute: UK Queen Birthday Message Etched on Corgi Hair
It’s easy to change one’s look with a different hairstyle; in fact, in a woman’s lifetime, she can expect to have up to 104 different hairstyles. Yet when corgis are involved, a new approach to hair can actually serve as a sweet gesture to the Queen of England. In celebration of Her Royal Highness Queen…
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Telemedicine and Smartphones Offer New Possibilities in Health Care
The health care field in constantly trying to come up with ways to become more efficient, accessible, and cost-effective. One of the ways they’ve had success in this is through remote telehealth solutions. Telemedicine has become increasingly popular and prevalent in recent years, and innovations like the one recently examined by a professional engineer show…
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Restaurant Grease Traps Could Be Destroying City Sewer Lines
A team of researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa Engineering school has found that commonly used grease traps may actually do more harm than good.When homeowners, restaurants, or anyone else dumps common household grease (think bacon fat) down their sink, a waxy fatty deposit forms on the inside of sewer lines. Over time,…
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Obama Administration Moves to Help People With Disabilites Apply for Loan Forgiveness
On Monday, April 18, the Obama administration began the process of sending letters to almost 400,000 people with permanent disabilities to help them in the process of discharging their student loans. A new process for the identification of those eligible for an existing federal loan forgiveness program for those who are severely disabled and unable…
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14-Year-Old Nevada Boy Dies During Middle School Football Game
Issaiah Abrego, a 14-year-old Nevada football player, was pronounced dead Monday night after collapsing at halftime during his middle school football game. Issaiah, who had been sitting on the bench just prior to halftime, had shown no signs of being sick and was walking towards the end zone for snacks when he suddenly collapsed on…
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CDC Warns Zika Virus ‘Scarier Than We Initially Thought”
Top health officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have expressed a heightened concern about the threat the Zika virus poses to the United States.According to USA Today, Dr. Anne Schuchat, the principal deputy director of the CDC, told reporters during a White House press briefing, “Most of what we’ve learned is not reassuring,…
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Vonnegut’s Dystopia Becoming a Reality as Computers Take Human Jobs
Movies have been made about it, Kurt Vonnegut predicted it, and now Matt Munson and Will Iverson are making it happen: machines are replacing people. Munson and Iverson are founders of a Seattle-based company called Dev9, which specializes in creating software that writes software by a process they call “Continuous Delivery.” Dev9 is literally creating…
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Study: These Cars Headlights Aren’t Bright Enough
A new study from The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) determined that a majority of American drivers have cars with insufficient headlights, putting them at much greater risks of accident at nighttime and during inclement weather. The IIHS concluded that most headlights in the United States aren’t even bright enough to stop a preventable…
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Woman Arrested for Injecting People with Fake Botox
Federal law enforcement officers arrested a woman with the street name “Pretty Sister” last week for allegedly importing fake Botox and administering it to customers in a hotel room at Honolulu’s Pagoda Hotel. Operating an illegal clinic and practicing medicine unlicensed is a crime in itself, but what authorities were most concerned about was that…
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California Legislators Propose Law Giving Parents Paid Vacation Time to Attend Children’s School Functions
For parents living on the poverty line, it can be difficult to attend their children’s school activities. Now, however, California lawmakers have proposed a bill that would provide paid time off for such functions.According to local news affiliate KTLA, California Assemblyman Mike Gatto recently proposed a new legislature that would give all state workers three…