School test results do not matter

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3424327/Is-ultimate-molly-coddling-Primary-school-send-letter-home-test-results-telling-children-scores-don-t-matter-celebrate-you.html

Foiling pick-pockets

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3423066/The-five-European-cities-likely-pickpocketed-avoid-victim.html

Miniature microscope

 Will ID cancer cells in real-time

I found this interesting article via Newsfusion Science News app - I thought you might like it:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/305794.php

The U.S. needs a DC 'super-grid'

 To boost renewable s and reduce pollution

We need a way to efficiently shift clean power from one region to the other.

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Try the Oldest Known Recipe For Toothpaste

: From Ancient Egypt, Circa the 4th Century BC

Image of Ancient Egyptian Dentistry, via Wikimedia CommonsWhen we assume that modern improvements are far superior to the practices of the ancients, we might do well to actually learn how people in the distant past lived before indulging in “chronological snobbery.” Take, for example, the area of...

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Boat song from Kerala

email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai

Kuttanadan Punchayile Kochu Penne Kuyilale... the famous boat song sung in chorus by rowers in Kerala, led by cheerleaders aboard, just got a new twist, thanks to musicians Shankar Tucker and Vidya Iyer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nyFfZnsyNY

Small things go a long way!

 e mail from jks weerasekera

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