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LY D © oF VEN? BREAST IMPLANTS LAST ONLY 10 YEARS IMPLAN, which supposes, say, that local services such 4 as hotel rooms are going unused until the gas industry comes along to spend money on them. In fact, such spending may displace other consumers, creating no net benefit. Dr Kinnaman also found that none of the studies measures all the costs and benefits of extracting shale gas, so he could not determine if shale gas really offers a net gain. In late June, the New York Times published hundreds of gas industry emails, many of which claim that the amount of gas being produced is exaggerated. (Source: New Scientist, issue 2819, 30 June 2o1, http://tinyurl.com/6hzhhmx) Rosen earlier statements that breast implants are completely safe and never have to be replaced, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now says that many women who have implants must ave them removed or replaced within a decade. According to the agency, new research data from a ong-term study found that he implants should be examined every 10 years because they are at risk of rupturing, and that some are inked to a rare form of Studies into shale gas extraction are typically supported by industry bodies. Because their reports are not peer-reviewed, economist Dr Thomas Kinnaman of Bucknel University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, decided to review six of them himself. All suppor extracting shale gas, arguing that i creates new jobs and revenue. Dr Kinnaman found that all the reports contain flaws tha exaggerate the benefits of shale gas extraction to local economies. Mos rely on an economic model called cancer, The FDA first banned silicone gel-filled implants in 1992 after some women complained that they leaked and caused some chronic illnesses. (Source: NaturalNews.com, 1 July 201, http://tinyurl.com/3rvjga7) THOUGHT-CONTROLLED SMART HOUSES wo friends meet in a bar in the online environment Second Life o chat about their latest tweets and avourite TV shows. Nothing unusual in that—except that both o hem have Lou Gehrig's disease, otherwise known as amyotrophic ateral sclerosis (ALS), and it has lef hem so severely paralysed that they can only move their eyes. These Second Lifers are just two o more than 50 severely disabled people who have been trying out a sophisticated new brain-computer interface (BCI). Second Life has been controlled using BCIs before, bu only to a very rudimentary level. The new interface, developed by medica engineering company g.tec o Schiedlberg, Austria, lets users freely explore Second Life's virtual world and control their avatar within it. It can be used to give people control over their real-world environment, too: opening and closing doors, controlling the TV, lights, thermostat and intercom, ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF FRACKING ARE EXAGGERATED Des the money being poured into efforts to extract natural gas from shale, the economic benefits are not looking good. Oem RADIO? Somerville 6 * NEXUS AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2011 www.nexusmagazine.com