![]() by Eliza Barclay Fluoride is a finicky friend to teeth. Too little of it, and you get cavities. Too much, and it starts to eat away and discolor the enamel of your pearly whites. The federal government said Friday morning that the fluoride seesaw in this country has tipped too far toward excess. These days kids are getting fluoride from many sources, including drinking water, toothpaste and mouth rinses. So the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services together with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are proposing to drop the recommended level of fluoride in drinking water to the lowest end of the current range. That would put it at 0.7 milligrams per liter of water (mg/L) quite a bit below the previous recommended maximum of 1.2 mg/L.
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![]() 'The Northern Wind, the Sun, and Me' Game By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Sega has announced that it’s testing consoles called “Toylets” in urinals around Tokyo. The novel hardware asks the user to strategically vary the strength and location of his urine stream to play a series of games. For now, Sega has installed Toylets in four Tokyo metro locations, including Akihabara, Soga and Ikebukuro. The location test will run through Jan. 31. Each urinal is installed with a pressure sensor. An LCD screen is mounted on the wall above, letting the gamer select from and play four different minigames. ![]() Mind control? Telekinesis? ESP? A leading science journal wants to believe -- and it's causing a heck of a stir. The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, a 45-year-old monthly magazine that's one of the psychology world's most respected journals, will soon publish a paper presenting strong evidence for extrasensory perception -- the ability to sense future events -- reports The New York Times. And it's causing outrage among peers in the scientific world. “It’s craziness, pure craziness. I can’t believe a major journal is allowing this work in,” said Ray Hyman, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and longtime critic of ESP research. “I think it’s just an embarrassment for the entire field.” The Mac App Store has launched, freshly stocked with over 1,000 OS X applications. The store comes as part of an OS X update, version 10.6.6, and is a standalone application rather than being yet another add-on to the already creaking and bloated iTunes.
The store works a lot like the iOS App Store we know already: You sign in with your Apple I.D and then you can shop. Buy a Mac app and the payment is charged to your registered credit card account, and the app downloads automatically and is placed in the applications folder, with a convenient shortcut placed in the dock (the icon actually leaps from the Store window and lands in the dock – neat). This is clearly aimed at novice users who may never have actually downloaded and installed third-party software before, and the interface will be instantly familiar to anyone who has used the App Store in iTunes or on an iPad. ![]() WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Friday that there were some references to UFOs in “yet-to-be-published” confidential files obtained from the U.S. government. In an online chat hosted by the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper, he also said that no one has been harmed by his organization’s release of troves of secret documents. “WikiLeaks has a four-year publishing history. During that time there has been no credible allegation, even by organizations like the Pentagon, that even a single person has come to harm as a result of our activities,” Assange said in response to a reader’s question. “This is despite much-attempted manipulation and spin trying to lead people to a counter-factual conclusion. We do not expect any change in this regard.” |
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