Too me this seem kind of obvious, the adult meals are high in calories, why wouldn’t the same be true for kids meals?
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The report looked into the nutritional quality of kids’ meals at 13 major restaurant chains. The center found 93 percent of 1,474 possible choices at the 13 chains exceed 430 calories — an amount that is one-third of what the National Institute of Medicine recommends that children ages 4 through 8 should consume in a day…..
Tokyo Electric Power Co, TEPCO has developed a vehicle quick charging station that it says will take a vehicle 25 miles with just a 5 minute charge. This new charging technology is a breakthrough because it allows commuters to charge their vehicles on the road without having to plug them in overnight at home, and takes roughly the same amount of time it would take to fill up with gasoline.
http://www.nextenergynews.com/news08/next-energy-news8.11.08d.html
Rapidly growing databases enable a more complete picture of one’s ancestry.
Tracing your ancestry via DNA is becoming a popular pastime, thanks to a growing number of consumer tests available over the Internet. At least two-dozen companies sell tests ranging in price from $100 to $900, and public interest is thriving. Most of these tests, however, paint a very rough picture of an individual’s ancestral origins: they’re limited to the direct maternal or paternal line. But that is beginning to change.
New technologies are allowing scientists to search for markers across the genome that can more precisely predict ancestry. Much of that data is being poured into public databases, supplying much more accurate and detailed information to genetic-testing companies and new consumer tests.
Cool spool: Films of a specially designed polymer, just 0.4 to 2.0 micrometers thick, can get colder or hotter by 12 °C when an electric field is removed or applied across them.
Thin films of a new polymer developed at Penn State change temperature in response to changing electric fields. The Penn State researchers, who reported the new material in Science last week, say that it could lead to new technologies for cooling computer chips and to environmentally friendly refrigerators.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/21205/?a=f
Update: related story on NextEnergyNews.com
Refrigerators and other cooling devices may one day lose their compressors and coils of piping and become solid state, according to Penn State researchers who are investigating electrically induced heat effects of some ferroelectric polymers.
“This is the first step in the development of an electric field refrigeration unit,” says Qiming Zhang, distinguished professor of electrical engineering. “For the future, we can envision a flat panel refrigerator. No more coils, no more compressors, just solid polymer with appropriate heat exchangers.”
http://www.nextenergynews.com/news08/next-energy-news8.12.08c.html
Fireworks over the Olympics pyrotechnics erupted when it was learned that part of the elaborate display broadcast to the world in the opening ceremony was altered, done digitally in 3-D computer graphics.
While the dramatic fireworks display actually happened as portrayed on television, members of the Beijing Olympic Committee said it was necessary to replace live video with computer-generated imagery because the city’s hazy, smoggy skies made it too difficult to see, according to The Beijing Times, which first reported the story.
Next Generation Intel chips will labledl i7 (instead of a code name or the current Name of Core Dual thingy)
an FYI to the CPU geeks in the house: if you’ve been following Nehalem, you can officially start calling it Core i7 (which means that it’s not getting the code name we all thought it’d carry: Core 3 Trio Quad Duo Pro Extreme Edition 
. Everyone else can feel free to continue scratching their head.
