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Is that Chuck Berry on my spine?
"In the USSR and Eastern Europe in the 1950s underground night spots would play music pirated from the west. The only media they had were recorders etched into discarded X-ray film."
Wow! How'd they do that??
"...enterprising young people with technical skills learned to duplicate records with a converted phonograph that would "press" a record using a very unusual material for the purpose; discarded x-ray plates. This material was both plentiful and cheap, and millions of duplications of Western and Soviet groups were made and distributed by an underground roentgenizdat, or x-ray press, which is akin to the samizdat that was the notorious tradition of self-publication among banned writers in the USSR."
If I may indulge my pun-ny self: how hip!! "In the USSR and Eastern Europe in the 1950s underground night spots would play music pirated from the west. The only media they ... more -
I can has catburger
X-ray of the python who swallowed a cat
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Coming soon: An X-ray vision gun
The superhero power to see through walls will soon be within the grasp of ordinary mortals, thanks to a new hand-held X-ray scanner.
Inventors hope the gadget could revolutionise police work and Customs searches by allowing officers to seek out contraband, weapons, bombs or hidden people.
The LEXID device sends out low-level X-rays which are collected in a lens based on the design of a lobster's eye.
Rick Shie, senior vice-president of its American inventors, Physical Optics Corporation, said that lobsters' eyes, which are able to see in deep, murky water, use thousands of tiny squares to focus by reflection rather than the bending or refraction of light like human eyes.
Mr Shie said: "The LEXID works by emitting a low-level X-ray and then the lobster eye interprets what is returned and the image is produced on a screen.
"We are still in the research stage but have conducted successful trials and the government is keen to test it. "It can detect bombs, contraband or people and will show up anything within a couple of metres."
America's Department of Homeland Security is already understood to be interested in the device for use in its war on terror. The superhero power to see through walls will soon be within the grasp of ordinary mortals, thanks to a new hand-held X-ray scanner. ... more -
Scans of Pregnant Women on the Rise
Pregnant women are exposed to twice the amount of radiation from medical scans as they were a decade ago, a new study has found.
Although the total amount of radiation exposure to pregnant women is still relatively low, the doubling effect in just a decade is the latest indicator that medical scans are exposing patients to record amounts of ionizing radiation, a type of radiation that can alter cells and lead to health risks, including cancer.
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We didn't even get an ultra-sound with our first child, just to be on the safe side. Pregnant women are exposed to twice the amount of radiation from medical scans as they were a decade ago, a new study has found. ... more
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