Do you get bored stiff waiting the two minutes it takes to pop your microwave popcorn? Well, what it you could watch YouTube classics like David After Dentist or Charlie Bit My Finger while waiting for your food?

That’s the thinking behind the CastOven, a microwave with a 10.4 inch screen where the window would normally be. Created by researchers at Keio University in Japan, the CastOven runs Adobe Air to pull videos from your Internet connection, and is smart enough to choose a video that fits into the cooking time you’ve programmed.

I just hope you can program it to ignore all Fred videos, otherwise I expect they’ll find a lot of people needing replacements for smashed doors.

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Max is an adorable crossbreed boy. You can watch him on video — a must for those of us that love a set of white paws! We don’t have any information on the type of home that will suit him yet, but you can contact the kennels for further details.

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TOBY IS OUR OLD DOG OF THE WEEK!
Can you offer this lovely old gent his perfect home? His name’s Toby and he’s a 10 year old German Shepherd who has been waiting in rescue for a long time. He’s very loving and has impeccable manners and will make a great companion for someone who is at home most of the time.

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Seb is an excellent all-rounder who has obviously had a loving home in the past. He must be so sad to find himself in rescue. He’s great with dogs and with children and just wants a nice family to call his own. Please watch this very short video of him.

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Tuna steak. Tuna tartare. Toro , as the Japanese call it, or the fatty underbelly of the bluefin tuna served as sushi –a delicacy that became more common with the advent of cheap refrigeration in the 1960s. These are just some of the ways that humans consume one of the few warm-blooded fish.  

Unfortunately that love for bluefin tuna has led to overfishing , despite the fish’s ability to swim as fast as 80 kilometers per hour. The Atlantic population of the giant fish that grows to an average of more than 360 kilograms has fallen by 90 percent. And the estimated global population is less than half what it was in 1970.  

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The 1.7-minute Webb movie trailer is available in many formats. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Mike McClare Picture yourself in a movie theater waiting for the main attraction to begin and the scent of popcorn wafts through the air. The screen lights up with coming attractions and you see a “movie trailer” that you think is really cool. That’s what the latest promotional video for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is like, but instead of a coming Hollywood blockbuster, it is about the future of space astronomy.

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“Three, two, one, release,” said the technician on the loudspeaker at the Landing and Impact Research Facility. With that countdown the helicopter smacked hard into the concrete. Its skid gear collapsed, its windscreen cracked open and its occupants lurched forward violently, suffering potentially spine-crushing injuries according to internal data recorders. The crash test was all in the name of research to try to make helicopters safer.

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K.R. Sridhar used to spend his time as a researcher at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., looking at the sky and dreaming of ways to sustain life on Mars. Now, CEO of Bloom Energy, Sridhar heads a company that just unveiled new technology that could make energy cleaner, cheaper, more reliable and accessible to everyone in the world.

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