If you've followed me on the forums at all, you know that the last 6 months have been a crazy time in Conductor's life. Sold my house quicker than I expected, moved in with my parents (with my Wife, 4 kids, 4 dogs, and a cat), bought a new ...
Tags: impact wrenches, air impact, Proto
Bob Baddeley and Brad Zdroik have invented and are marketing BlueTipz, a wireless transmitter that sends an alert to your smartphone when you have a fish on your ice fishing tip-up. A tip-up is a piece of equipment that's placed across an ...
Tags: Bob Baddeley, Brad Zdroik, BlueTipz, wireless transmitter, ice fishing
Exterior changes to the 2014 Hyundai Elantra range are as limited as the suspension modifications are extensive. A first facelift for the fifth-generation small sedan from South Korea, which is now three years old, the ‘Series ...
Improvements in knee pain following a common orthopedic procedure appear to be largely due to the placebo effect, a new Finnish study suggests. The research, which was published Dec. 26 in the New England Journal of Medicine, has weighty ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Knee Surgery
With the four-year anniversary of Haiti's devastating, 7.0 magnitude earthquake just two weeks away, Mission of Hope (MOH) a Christian nonprofit headquartered in Haiti, has developed a holistic model for long-term development and rebuilding ...
Tags: Mission of Hope, Haiti, holistic model, long-term development, rebuilding
Metal fabrication is a highly skilled profession, requiring properly licensed and qualified people to churn out products that meet very precise specifications. Not only is the job tough but it's competitive since there are many good ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Metal fabrication
Adam Gendell, project manager at GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition At first blush, it certainly sounds like a good word, a warm and fuzzy word. A word that surely belongs hand-in-hand with the many R words we use in ...
Fit in 50 years: participation in high school sports best predicts one's physical activity after age 70 Seventy year olds who don't frequently visit the doctor have something unexpected in common - most played high school sports. They ...
Tags: healthfulness of men over 70, participation in high school sports
Ocean warming and acidification are leading to an increase in the rate of sponge biomass and bioerosion. Combined German-Australian research, recently presented at the Ninth World Sponge Conference in Fremantle, used past, present and ...
Tags: ocean warming, ocean acidification, sponge biomass, bioerosion
Roughly 40 percent of all medications act on cells' G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). One of these receptors, beta 2 adrenergic receptor site (B2AR), naturally transforms between two base configurations; knowing the precise location of ...
Tags: G protein-coupled receptors, beta 2 adrenergic receptor site
Each year, more than $400 million in tax-free income is wasted when flexible spending account (FSA) holders don't spend FSA funds, or fail to submit expenses to be reimbursed by an FSA. While recent U.S. Treasury Department changes give ...
Politeness and consideration for fellow diners could play a role in holiday weight gain, a new study suggests. When people are picking snacks and other foods for themselves and someone else, their choices are different when the other ...
"Good to see you. I'm sorry. It sounds like you've had a tough, tough, week." Spoken by a doctor to a cancer patient, that statement is an example of compassionate behavior observed by a University of Rochester Medical Center team in a new ...
Tags: compassionate words and actions, doctor-patient conversations
New research shows that many Americans who are at risk for type 2 diabetes don't believe they are, and their doctors may not be giving them a clear message about their risk. American Diabetes Association researchers surveyed more than ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, type 2 diabetes, diabetes
Stroke deaths in the United States have been dropping for more than 100 years and have declined 30 percent in the past 11 years, a new report reveals. Sometimes called a brain attack, stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability. ...