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I’ve been following Engadget’s coverage of the Barnes and Noble Nook event in New York City this afternoon. Ross Miller kept up a running live blog detailing the announcement. Let’s get the basics out of the way: The new Nook has a color, backlit touchscreen, it runs apps built on Android and it’ll be available starting November 19th for $249.
World Record #151 – the tallest climbing wall in the world
by Marshall Brain | October 26, 2010
Normally when people talk about “climbing walls”, they are talking about fairly modest structures. This one from the Independence of the Seas cruise ship is 43 feet tall: Here is an indoor wall, and toward the end of the video there is a shot of the tower that goes 35 meters high: The previous wall [...]
Having a baby bring about a host of changes in new moms’ lives — and their brains. A recent neuroimaging study suggests that women experience gray matter growth in certain brain regions during the first few months of motherhood. The added gray matter volume was concentrated in the prefrontal cortex, parietal lobes and midbrain areas that are associated with maternal care. Mothers who openly doted on their babies the most showed the greatest amount of gray matter growth, indicating that the neurological adjustment is the body’s way of prepping women to be good mothers.
I am now on my first week of “consolidation phase” (Phase 3). I will admit that I expected to gain some weight back this week (especially since we went to an all-you-can-eat restaurant on Sunday), and it is fascinating to me that that didn’t happen. I actually lost 0.2 pounds, finishing the week at 175.2. I did eat more fruit this week, and I also ate a fair amount of popcorn, but those are the only two carbs that I added this week. Based on the results of this week, I would say that adding these two carbs has been harmless. Here is how the week unfolded…
It will make you smile this morning – really! Normally when someone even mentions the word ventriloquist, I am running in the opposite direction. But that really is well done. For more info see: How does ventriloquism work?. [[[Jump to previous Funny...]]]
In the United States, teenagers typically start driving legally at the age of 16. But is that too young? Some people think so. In this episode, Scott and Ben weigh the arguments for and against raising the licensing age.
All of us have experienced the feeling of jealousy at some point or another. But why do we get jealous? Are women really more jealous than men? Josh and Chuck get to the bottom of jealousy in this episode.
Chinese Chip Closes In on Intel, AMD – “At this year’s Hot Chips conference at Stanford University, Weiwu Hu, the lead architect of the “national processor” of China, revealed three new chip designs. One of them could enable China to build a homegrown supercomputer to rank in a prestigious list of the world’s fastest machines…” [...]
There’s a strange but unshakeable connection between pop culture and academia. I’ve already mentioned the University of Hertfordshire’s graduate program in Vampire Studies, but a group of young Harry Potter enthusiasts have taken their fandom to a stratospherically new level.
It really is a profound question – “would you sign on for a one-way flight to Mars?” It would be a chance to explore the unknown, but it is definitely a one-way ticket: Professors urge one-way Martian colonization missions Why is the one-way option being considered? Cost: In the article, “To Boldly Go: A One-Way [...]
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