Ever since I gave GoddessJ a Wii for her birthday last month, I’ve been amused and amazed at all the different add-ons for the controllers: plastic implements that make them look like tennis rackets, swords, pistols, even faux cooking utensils. But in my opinion, this one takes the cake. (For the record, we don’t have [...]
Archive of entries posted on June 2009
“What Makes Us Happy”
There are so many nuggets of gold in this article that I don’t know where to start. For example: What allows people to work, and love, as they grow old? By the time the Grant Study men had entered retirement, Vaillant, who had then been following them for a quarter century, had identified seven major [...]
“Ad tech can recognize gender – age next?”
I can see this annoying, rather than helping, several of my acquaintances (such as a girl who prefers Lego sets rather than dolls). And I’m sure there are some people for whom it would always choose the wrong gender. On the plus side, it means guys might not be subjected to quite so many ads [...]
ThunderBayes: So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
I’ve talked about ThunderBayes (the Thunderbird front-end for the SpamBayes anti-spam engine) here before, several times. It’s great. Unfortunately it’s no longer supported, and I don’t have the time to properly learn Javascript so I can fix it myself. So when an SSL update broke my customized version of it a couple days ago, I [...]
“Gray Hair Caused by Stress (Cell Stress, That Is)”
Um… if, as this article suggests, hair goes gray because the body is “forcing the [damaged stem cells in hair follicles] to mature” in preference to killing them off, why would the same scientists suggest that “we may soon have anti-graying creams for aging populations”? Wouldn’t you want those cells to mature, rather than continue [...]
“Periodic table adding new element”
The periodic table was hard enough to memorize twenty years ago, but they keep adding more elements. It’s almost as bad as having to memorize the list of presidents. Our children will curse the names of these scientists for their entire seventh-grade science course. Maybe the scientists can redeem themselves by naming the thing after [...]
“US brain-plug interface gets live human trials”
It looks like science is further along on this than I thought.
“Boffins boil down witch-repelling brew”
From the description, I’d say this isn’t specific to witches — it would repel pretty much anyone.
“A.P. in Deal to Deliver Nonprofits’ Journalism”
An interesting potential solution to a problem I’ve mentioned here a couple times before, of funding investigative reporting in the Internet age.
“25 Traits Of The Not So Well To Do”
Sadly, I’ve known a few people like this. I even had a few of these traits myself at times, though thankfully I’ve grown out of most of them. (Via CreditBloggers)