March 2010 Archives

Salty, sweet: study says fat is the sixth "taste"

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"Researchers at Deakin University, working with colleagues at the University of Adelaide among others, found that fat was the sixth taste people can identify in addition to the five others -- sweet, sour, salty, bitter and protein-rich."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100310/lf_nm_life/us_fat_taste_1

Animal Sculptures from Junk

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"Sayaka Kajita Ganz is an artist that creates amazing unique sculptures made from a different plastic pieces like spoons, forks, toys and similar. She creates sculptures of different animals from a thousands of plastic pieces."

http://sciencehax.com/2010/02/animal-sculptures-made-of-hundreds-of-plastic-pieces/

Jordan Verner, Blind Gamer, Beats Zelda (VIDEO)

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Roger Has a New Voice (Video)

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Cancer surgery has left Roger Ebert without the ability to speak or eat food. This video talks about how Rogers has dreams of talking and eating. Towards the end, the video discusses how researchers are reconstructing a computerized voice for Roger based on archived recordings of his actual voice.