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From Oprah's "O" Magazine --
Make Your Own Jeans, a company in Mumbai, India, with global presence, that specializes in making customized jeans has created a new fashion product line using fabrics dyed in medicinal herbs as a means of practicing Ayurvedic medicine to treat various illnesses. Ayurveda-treated fabrics expose these medicinal herbs to the body through the skin - the body's largest organ. Depending on which herbs are used in the dyes, Ayurveda-treated fabric may treat a broad range of medical conditions including diabetes, arthritis, digestive problems, high blood pressure and more. Each dye may contain up to 50 different herbs. The company has received an Organic Certificate for the natural hand process dyeing is performed in the forests of India. Even the building where the fabrics are dyed is comprised of organic bricks.

Robots Think/Make Scientific Discoveries

from BBC --
Scientists have created a robot that performs hundreds of repetitive experiments to achieve results. The robot, called Adam, is the first machine to have independently "discovered new scientific knowledge." It has already identified the role of several genes in yeast cells, and is able to plan further experiments to test its own hypotheses. The UK-based team that built Adam at Aberystwyth University describes the breakthrough in the journal Science. Ross King from the department of computer science at Aberystwyth University, said he sees a future when human scientists' time would be "freed up to do more advanced experiments." Robotic colleagues, he said, could carry out the more mundane and time-consuming tasks. "Adam is a prototype, but in 10-20 years, I think machines like this could be commonly used in laboratories," replacing scientists,” said Professor King.

And More Robots

From 2012 Pole Shift Watch --
Honda Motors announced on Tuesday it had developed a robot steered by human thought, thanks to a helmet-like device that measures a person's brain activity and sends signals to the machine. The latest version of ASIMO -- the celebrity robot of Honda Motor Co. that can already dance, run and guide guests through an office floor -- has now been fitted with a so-called "brain machine interface" (BMI), the company said. The state-of-the-art technology means the humanoid can perform four basic movements with its arms, legs and tongue based on the non-verbal instructions a person sends to it by concentrating on performing the action themselves.

Children Crave Stories

from Reuters –
Almost two-thirds of children want their parents to spend more time reading to them before bed, and most prefer Mom's storytelling to Dad's, researchers said on Friday. They conducted a study that showed younger children aged 3-4 were most hungry for more stories, with over three-quarters saying they wished their parents read to them more often.

More than half of all children aged 3-8 said story time was their favorite pastime with their parents. "The results of our research confirm the traditional activity of storytelling continues to be a powerful learning and emotional resource in children's lives," said child psychologist Richard Woolfson, who led the study commissioned by Disney/Pixar. Storytelling ranked higher than television or video games among pastimes for kids, and 82 percent said reading a story with their parents helped them sleep better, according the survey of 500 children aged 3-8 in Britain. "It can be very difficult for parents to find the time to read with their children, but these moments can help build strong bonds and play a vital part in their child's development," said Dr. Woolfson.

Still Eating Beef?

from CNN --
An Illinois meat producer, Valley Meats LLC of Coal Valley, Illinois, recalled over 96,000 pounds of potentially contaminated beef, the federal government announced Thursday. The Department of Agriculture designated the recall of the ground beef products meaning the health risk associated with eating the meat is high. The Ohio Department of Health first reported an outbreak of illness linked to the potentially deadly bacterium E. coli to federal authorities on May 13, and clusters of illnesses have also been reported in Pennsylvania and Illinois, the department said in a news release. The bacterium can cause bloody diarrhea, dehydration, and kidney failure. Those most vulnerable include the young, the aged and people with weak immune systems, according to USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service.

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