Happy Sacks
This is a new reusable bag for lunches, including sandwiches and snacks.
These bags are made of nylon, and can be machine washed and dried. They can also be simply washed down with a sponge.
Think about the average household. These bags have the potential to replace 1000’s of plastic bags for each one of these happy sacks lifetime. Imagine this over many households.
This is a great item to help save the environment one bit at a time. Check them out at:
http://www.happy-sacks.com/
Virtual Frog Dissection
Virtual dissection is the new way of teaching science at schools now days. Programs like those at frogouts.com offer schools a wide range of different animals to be dissected virtually. These can save schools thousands of dollars in their science budget.
If you want to give it a try, frogouts has a free trial of the virtual frog dissection, which can be accessed here.
This is a great free activity, and virtual surgery games like this can be quite realistic, and teach everyone a great deal about anatomy.
Depleted Uranium
Three Chinese men bought a lump of shiny metal for $2000, hoping to make a fortune of selling it. This ‘treasure’ weighed 274kg, and they took a small slice of it and took it to Beijing to get it analysed.
Geologists at Tsinghua University found that it was depleted uranium and called the authorities.
Luckily for the three men, the court decided not to punish them as they did not know what they were smuggling into the country. Also they had not suffered any physical harm as a result of coming into contact with the uranium.
Atom Smasher
The Atom smasher is a large hadron collider (or lhc for short).
Basically what that means is that it is a massive ring, about 27 km wide, that moves two beams of particles in opposite directions and then smashes them together. Read more
Plum Island
On Plum Island there is a current research facility that researches diseases spread between and animals. The government wants to upgrade this to a level-four lab, making it a major research facility for rare and deadly diseases passed between humans and animals.
There is a lot of controversy about this, with Plum Island being so close to New York, and having 20 million people living in very close proximity to the Island. Read more