Interesting Reading…

Are 3D Movies Finally Ready for Their High-Tech Close-up? - “Journey to the Center of the Earth may be generating only lukewarm box office, but don’t count 3D out just yet. With James Cameron’s Avatar on the way, and theater owners scrambling to install the technology, 3D cinema could be on the verge of explosive growth…”

For teens, the future is mobile - “Marketers convened here this week to figure out how best to reach teens on the Internet. The answer: It’s all about the mobile phone…”

The sound that shouldn’t be - “Mari Kimura is a New York composer and virtuoso violinist whose music includes haunting low notes on the violin called “subharmonics.” …Problem is, these sounds aren’t supposed to be possible…”

Stoooopid …. why the Google generation isn’t as smart as it thinks - “Attention is the golden key to the mystery of human consciousness; it might one day tell us how we make the world in our heads. Attention comes naturally to us; attending to what matters is how we survive and define ourselves…”

Prehistoric Explosions Wiped Out Ocean Life– And Created Petroleum - “A massive undersea volcano (much like a larger version of this one captured in 2006, South of Japan) may have been the source of much of the world’s petroleum stores…”

Emergency Beijing Olympic pollution scheme begins - “Beijingers breathed easier on Sunday as traffic restrictions and factory closures came into effect in a last ditch attempt to turn the often smoggy Chinese capital into a pollution-free venue for next month’s Olympics…”

365 days of free games - “Every kind of gaming for every day of the year - and it won’t cost you a penny…”

Animals in Art - “Pablo Picasso created ‘Bull’ around the Christmas of 1945. ‘Bull’ is a suite of eleven lithographs that have become a master class in how to develop an artwork from the academic to the abstract. In this series of images, all pulled from a single stone, he visually dissects the image of a bull to discover its essential presence through a progressive analysis of its form. Each plate is a successive stage in an investigation to find the absolute ’spirit’ of the beast…”

Game Theory and The Dark Knight - “Anyway, there is a scene in the movie that got me thinking about game theory, and that is what I want to talk about…”

Portuguese team makes first paper based transistor - “Elvira Fortunato and colleagues from the Centro de Investigação de Materiais (Cenimat/I3N), at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, made the first Field Effect Transistor (FET) with a paper “interstrate” layer…”

Face off: Windows vs Linux real world RAM and disk tests - “Forget fear, uncertainty and doubt. How do Windows Vista and Linux really compare against each other? It’s one thing to talk about the familiar applications available to Windows users contrasted with the rich suite of free open source apps for Linux, but something totally different to actually compare the loads of the two operating systems as they perform functionally identical tasks…”

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