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Nobody wants to think about their loved ones dying, let alone being opened and examined on the autopsy table. For many of us, there’s something sacrilegious about a medical examiner (sorry Dr. G), no matter how respectful, plunking your aunt’s innards down on a scale and weighing them. But autopsies can yield a plethora of information, marking the pathology of a disease or tracing the deadly path of a weapon. And you don’t always have to slice open dead people to do it.
In a virtual autopsy, medical examiners scan the corpses and then use tools such as MRI and CT imaging to get the 3-D answers they seek about cause of death. A virtual autopsy could serve as a less-invasive, less subjective, longer-lasting, digitized record of death, as well as an option for people who traditionally object to autopsies for religious or other reasons.
1) 40 Useful and Creative Infographics 2) 22 Beautiful Example of Brochure Designs 3) Simple, Stylish & Modular: Wood & Glass Coffee Table 4) Transparent gadgets and creative designs/ 5) Scientific Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies and Website optimization through eyetracking: latest findings 6) “Design for a Dollar”: Pratt Students Get a [...]
The Dutch are famous for their water management. And considering 55 percent of their country is below sea level, they’d be a marshy remnant of history if they weren’t so good at it. Louisiana, faced with its own water woes, is looking to learn a few things.
This week, a delegation led by Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) is visiting the Netherlands to pick up some crucial information: water management in the face of climate change. According to ClimateWire, the party also includes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Administrator and members of the Army Corps of Engineers. It’s Landrieu’s second business visit to the Netherlands — the first came after Hurricane Katrina.
The delegation started its tour in Amsterdam, where officials expect rising sea levels, greater river discharges and heavier rains to test the existing system in the future.
The Chrysler bankruptcy is painful — and will continue to be painful — for a lot of people, there’s no doubt about that. The effects of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy by a company of Chrysler’s size are more far-reaching than you might guess. But one thing that Chrysler has going for it is a plan…
You Asked: How do cooling systems work in internal combustion engines? — Dhiru, Guwahati, India Marshall Answered: An internal combustion engine produces a lot of heat. In fact, when you burn gasoline in an engine to create motion, most of the gasoline (like 75%) produces heat rather than motion. The engine therefore needs a way [...]
In many of these photographs it is hard to believe how much of a difference some gym time can make: Then and Now – Changes After Gym If you are persistent and you want to look great, the only thing you should do is visit gym more often. Look what some of these people done [...]
You Asked: Is the production of solar panels harmful to the environment? — Paula, Anaheim, Calif. Marshall Answered: There are two ways to look at this. In one view of the universe, the mass manufacturing of anything is harmful to the environment in some way. You have to cut down trees and destroy animal habitat [...]
As I filled up my car’s gas tank this morning, I found myself getting a little antsy. Though we’re nowhere near the sky-high gas prices the country faced in the summer of 2008, the prices have been rising steadily enough in the past few weeks that I thought it’d be worthwhile to review some tips for improving gas mileage. These are the tips that we don’t tend to turn to until there’s a gas shortage or a spike in price, but it’s important to remember that we can always be working to save a little money at the pump.
I think we tend to forget these tips as soon a gas crisis abates because, to be honest, they’re not that much fun. While I am usually a law-abiding citizen, it could be argued that I have something of a lead foot.
Astronauts Spot Mysterious Ice Circles in World’s Deepest Lake – “Astronauts aboard the International Space Station noticed two mysterious dark circles in the ice of Lake Baikal in April. Though the cause is more likely aqueous than alien, some aspects of the odd blemishes defy explanation…” Recent Advances in Nanotechnology May Lead to a Massive [...]
More than two decades after the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe, scientists continue to study the effects of radioactive fallout on local plants and insects. Might these adaptations lead the way towards radiation-resistant space crops?
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