Sometimes you need to toss your most basic assumptions in order to solve a problem…. 3

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Sometimes you need to toss your most basic assumptions in order to solve a problem.

The heart is simply a pump that circulates blood through the body to deliver oxygen and remove carbon dioxide. But if you think about it, who says you need to deliver the blood in pulses rather than continuously. All previous attempts at an artificial heart tried to replicate the beating of a human/animal heart.

Doctors Bud Frazier and Billy Cohn realized that blood could be distributed more efficiently by a pair of turbines that would probably be more reliable over the long term. Sure, the recipient of a turbine heart has no pulse, but he is very much alive regardless.

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Watching the new Top Gear right now and the boys have come up with another brilliant… 3

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Watching the new Top Gear right now and the boys have come up with another brilliant comparison test. They tested a trio of track day cars, the Caterham Seven R500, the KTM X-Bow and the Hamster brought a Morgan trike. They started off with a 0-100-0 mph test which Hammond insisted should begin with a tradition Le Mans start. I won't spoil the winner for you, but let's just say that the Morgan powered by an air-cooled V-twin never made it to 100 mph on the road course the boys were testing on.

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And there you have it for another week. Would you buy the gorgeous Merlin-engined Bentley for close to half a million? Or willingly drive a three-wheeled Morgan down the A3 in a cloudburst? And isn&#3…

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"there's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation."

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From a 1967 interview the late Pierre Elliot Trudeau gave to the Canadian Broadcasting Company in 1967 after introducing an omnibus bill in the Canadian parliament that among other things decriminilized homosexual acts between consenting adults.

Despite the passing of more than 45 years there are still those in the United States that proclaim the need to shrink government almost everywhere, except it seems the bedroom.

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It's long past time for the American police state that has accelerated in the… 5

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It's long past time for the American police state that has accelerated in the wake of 9/11 to be disbanded. You cannot protect freedom by burying it beneath the boot heels of the state.

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Meanwhile, in Syria…

Errr, Egypt…

I mean, Libya – no wait, Iraq…

This is our America: a police state, where civil protest is treason, to be put down with brutality and superior firepower.

Wake up and smell the anger, Sweet Land of Liberty. And hurry.

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As I speculated back in October 2010 when I wrote about the porsche 911 gt3 hybrid…

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As I speculated back in October 2010 when I wrote about the porsche 911 gt3 hybrid their corporate cousins at audi are adopting the flywheel hybrid system for the r18. In fact when I asked Dr Wolfgang Ulrich about it the team had already been working on the car for more than 9 months.

Today audi confirmed that two flywheel hybrid r18 e-trons would run at le mans alongside 2 conventional diesel r18 tdis

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/alternative-fuel/hybrids/porsche-911-gt3r-hybrid-flywheel

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Having spent many thousands of hours of classrooms in my lifetime, new more flexible…

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Having spent many thousands of hours of classrooms in my lifetime, new more flexible chair/desk design would be greatly welcomed. Unfortunately here in Michigan where Steelcase is based, most schools are so strapped for cash, that it's unlikely many of these will purchased anytime soon.

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Wow…

Who knew a redesigned desk for schools would excite me. But, this is pretty slick and smart design for offices and classrooms. I love that it moves, conforms and has space to hold your stuff and let you get the work done.

Thank you +Whitney Hoffman for putting this on my radar.

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Wow! It's always a great day when you wake up to an all-new Ferrari. 2

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The home of the prancing horse has just revealed it's new range-topper, the F12berlinetta to replace the 599GTB. This is the most powerful production car Ferrari has ever built with the 6.3-liter V12 generating 740 hp and 509 lb-ft of torque.

The F12berlinetta will be shown publicly next week at the Geneva Motor Show.

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