Linking ideas with the world
Instead of sending suspected terrorists to Guantanamo Bay or secret CIA “black” sites for interrogation, the Obama administration is questioning terrorists for as long as it takes aboard U.S. naval vessels. http://m.military.com/daily-news/2013/10/08/under-obama-black-sites-swapped-for-ships.html?ESRC=topstories.RSS
Direct-to and Nearest buttons that utilize a worldwide airport database Altimeter with adjustable baro setting and compass Displays multiple time zones with Zulu/UTC reference Various timers and vibrating alerts for inflight task reminders Wirelessly receives flight plan from Garmin Pilot™ and controls VIRB™ https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/in-the-air/portable-gps/d2-pilot-watch/prod148289.html#gallery-dialog
Chinese scientists examined 57 drinks – from herbal teas to fizzy drinks. Found that some helped to speed up the process where the body breaks down alcohol, helping relieve a hangover quicker. But some slowed the process down, meaning symptoms remained Young people – and regular drinkers – produce more of the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme, Read more about SPRITE found to be best cure for hangover[…]
So you don’t need a USB dongle, just an SD card in your slot. This SD Card Is Hiding a Mifi Inside.
What is the world coming to when the largest patent trolls, namely Apple, MS, and Samsung as well as BlackBerry, Cisco, HP, Intel, Yahoo, Google are trying to reign in new EU laws that would make patent trolling easy? Could it be that even they recognise that the patent system is outmoded and harms innovation Read more about Biggest patent trolls worried about EU also becoming patent troll heaven[…]
University of Adelaide researchers have developed a process for turning waste plastic bags into a high-tech nanomaterial. […] The process is also catalyst and solvent free, which means the plastic waste can be used without generating poisonous compounds. via Turning plastic bags into high-tech materials.
In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times higher than conventional technology in a nanostructured glass chip smaller than a grain of rice. via SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory – Researchers Demonstrate 'Accelerator on a Chip'.
Providing employees with a bonus to spend on charities or co-workers may increase job satisfaction and team sales, according to results published September 18 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Lalin Anik from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and colleagues from other institutions.Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-09-shifting-employee-bonuses-satisfaction-productivity.html#jCp http://phys.org/news/2013-09-shifting-employee-bonuses-satisfaction-productivity.html
Two experiments primed college students with either sleep-related or neutral words and then assessed sleep during a 25 minute nap period. Both experiments showed that participants primed with sleep-related words reported having slept longer than did those primed with neutral words. Furthermore, both experiments showed that sleep-primed participants exhibited lower heart rate. Experiment 2 also Read more about The effect of subliminal priming on sleep duration[…]
Let’s say you need to sign up for a mailing list that interests you, but you’re afraid spammers might get your address. We’ll call the list “exoticflowers”. Sign up with the list using the address “johndoe+exoticflowers@gmail.com”. Email to that address will still come to your “johndoe@gmail.com” address even though the “To:” will include that “+exoticflowers” Read more about Instant disposable Gmail addresses[…]
This interactive chart gives links to the scientific evidence for a whole load of supplements, stating if they work or not and for what malady. Interactive: Snake Oil Supplements? The scientific evidence for health supplements | Information Is Beautiful.
This tool allows you to view how often case-sensitive comma-separated phrases appear in Google Books (until 2008 as far as I can see) from various languages. Interesting to see Love scores a lot lower than Sex and “yes we can” was popular in 1930 – 1935 as well as 1944 – 1950 and started on Read more about Google Ngram Viewer[…]
With instructional sales video http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/16/tampered_pos_market_surfaces/
Wickr is a free app that provides: ·military-grade encryption of text, picture, audio and video messages ·sender-based control over who can read messages, where and for how long ·best available privacy, anonymity and secure file shredding features ·security that is simple to use https://www.mywickr.com/en/index.php For both iphone and android
Ever send a bottle of wine back at a restaurant? If you weren’t just being a pretentious snob, then it was probably because the wine seemed “corked”—had a musty odor and didn’t taste quite right. Most likely, the wine was contaminated with a molecule called 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (TCA), the main cause of cork taint. But a Read more about Corked Wine Plugs Up Your Nose[…]
This study goes in depth about why people are quitting social networking sites and finds some interesting conclusions http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/cyber.2012.0323
These guys are fucking nuts. I’ve never seen anyone go quite as crazy as these guys. Well worth viewing! Hintli Yeteneksiz siniz böyle olur on Vimeo on Vimeo via Hintli Yeteneksiz siniz böyle olur on Vimeo.
http://www.feynmanlectures.info/docroot/I_toc.html
Run windows applications without installing them. Zero install also keeps the applications up to date. http://0install.de/?lang=en
Because they don’t have to germ a court order to make you decrypt and unlock your mobile any more http://webwereld.nl/beveiliging/79276-politie-blij-met-vingerafdrukfunctie-iphone-5s?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Webwereld+%28Webwereld%29
According to Gina Kolata in the New York Times, The Institute of Education Sciences in the Department of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, has supported 175 randomized controlled studies, like the studies used in medicine, to find out what works and doesn’t work, which are reported in the What Works Clearinghouse. Surprisingly, the choice of Read more about Scientific evidence of what works in education often ignored[…]
http://lifehacker.com/play-pc-games-on-your-android-phone-with-this-diy-nvidi-1226999998
This year’s report provides country-level happiness rankings and explains changes in national and regional happiness,” said Report editor John Helliwell. Professor Helliwell worked with other CIFAR researchers to analyze data from the Gallup World Poll. “The report reveals important trends and finds six key factors that explain much about national happiness http://phys.org/news/2013-09-happiest-countries.html
For only $20 it’s open source tricorder project
Osmocom (Open Source Mobile Communication) is a collection of Free Software / Open Source Software projects in the area of mobile communications.Our member projects implement a variety of public and private communications systems, ranging from GSM/GPRS mobile telephony to TETRA private mobile radio, DECT cordless telephony, GMR satellite telephony and many others.The goal of those implementations is to Read more about Osmocom[…]