How to Tell If You Are Addicted to Technology - “These over-wired people are so focused on their gadgets, they neglect relationships with other people, O’Neill said. Communication aids such as texting and e-mail may actually hamper our abilities to have more important face-to-face conversations…”
U.S. Spy Satellite, Power Gone, May Hit Earth - “A disabled American spy satellite is rapidly descending and is likely to plunge to Earth by late February or early March, posing a potential danger from its debris, officials said Saturday…”
America’s 25 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies - “It has been a rough 12 months for the stock market, including technology stocks. The S&P 500 is off 2.1% over the past 12 months (dividends excluded) and the Nasdaq 100 Tech Index is off 8.7%. But you could have done well owning the really hot technology companies. A year ago we published our annual list of America’s 25 fastest-growing technology companies. Those stocks have gained 16% over the same time period…”
Achieve a Deep, Uninterrupted Sleep - “Since we’re all in agreement that a good night’s sleep is one of the best things you can do for your health and mood, pick three of these tips to follow each night until you get the night’s sleep you so desperately crave…”
DNA Molecules Display Telepathy-like Quality - “Double helixes of DNA can recognize matching molecules from a distance and then gather together, all seemingly without help from any other molecules, scientists find. Previously, under the classic understanding of DNA, scientists had no reason to suspect that double helixes of the molecule could sort themselves by type, let alone seek each other out…”
A new iPhone this summer? - “Given all this data pointing to high inventory, lowered shipments and “disappointing” sales, why did Apple’s Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer say Tuesday that Apple “felt confident” about reaching its goal of 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008?” See also: Where Are Apple’s Missing iPhones?
High School Student Builds 100% Wooden Bike - “16 year-old Marco Facciola built this completely wooden bike for a school project, managing to avoid using any metal at all…”
World’s Weirdest Creatures Just Got Weirder - “A gigantic, ancient relative of the newt, a drawing-pin sized frog, a limbless, tentacled amphibian and a blind see-through salamander have all made it onto a list of the world’s weirdest and most endangered creatures…”
Well Done - “Well Done designed by Bruketa & Zinić is an annual report from the food company Podravka. The book is empty or so it seems. In order to see the text and images the book has to be wrapped in foil and baked at 100°C for 25 minutes. The text and images are printed using a special, thermo-reactive ink…”
Comet Dust Seems More Asteroidy - “Remember the good old days when we understood our solar system? Then we found out Pluto wasn’t a planet. And now a new study puts comets in question. The data come from NASA’s Stardust mission—that’s the one that scooped up particles from comet Wild 2 and returned to earth two years ago. The conventional wisdom is that comets originated in the outer solar system, then the sun or a planet nudged them into weird orbits…”
Photo clues lead to camera’s owner - “At dusk on New Year’s Eve, Erika Gunderson got into a taxi in New York City and entered a digital-age mystery…”
Rare Middle-Class Tomb Found From Ancient Egypt - “Archaeologists have unsealed the intact burial chamber of an ancient Egyptian official, providing a rare glimpse into the burial customs of the Old Kingdom’s middle class…”
Mapping the Most Complex Structure in the Universe: Your Brain - “Harvard scientists have embarked upon an ambitious program to create a circuit diagram of the human brain, with the help of new machines that automatically turn brain tissue into high-resolution neural maps. By mapping every synapse in the brain, researchers hope to create a “connectome” — a diagram that would elucidate the brain’s activity at a level of detail far outstripping today’s most advanced brain-monitoring tools like fMRI…”
He’s Not as Smart as He Thinks - “Are men smarter than women? No. But they sure think they are…”
Women leave town and children in hands of men - “What would happen if all the women were to disappear from a town, leaving the men to not only work, but also take care of the family and the home?”
Foreigners Keep Out! High Tech Mapping Starts to Redefine International Borders - “For centuries, nations marked what they owned at sea by measuring out from their shoreline. But in 1994, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea took effect. It stated that countries can move their boundary lines to the edge of their continental shelf — this can give them more territory but is difficult to determine. Today, as sea ice thaws and undersea mapping technology improves, countries are rushing to assert their ownership over potentially lucrative chunks of extra turf…”
Anonymous steps up its war with Scientology - “A group of vigilantes–calling themselves Anonymous, or Anon–are escalating their attacks against the Church of Scientology in what they consider to be Internet censorship by issuing new video challenges…”
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