When I was a kid, I went to school with a girl with dyslexia. She tried to explain it to me once, but I wasn’t really able to figure it out. After reading this article, it makes a lot more sense. It also makes sense of the condition from an evolutionary perspective, for me — …
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! The changes below are NOT RECOMMENDED! See part III for details! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! It’s been several weeks since I touched on this subject last, and I’m sorry to say that the solution I came up with in the earlier article just wasn’t good enough. It was forcing the system to swap, …
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A science-fiction film actually made in orbit. Talk about… wait for it… a match made in heaven. 😉
Good God… someone actually advocating an intelligent solution to movie piracy, in a mainstream business magazine?! Unbelievable! Listen up, Hollywood. As an independent software developer, I’ve been dealing with Internet piracy for longer than you — without a single lawyer, let alone an army of them, and often on a shoestring budget. The facts in …
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This sort of thing might have come directly from a science-fiction action story, where the hero is patched up in an unbelievably short time between epic space battles. Who says the future is always far away? 😉
I’ve often wondered if there might be a way to harness the placebo effect to actually help people get better. It seems that I’m not the only one, either.
“Designer ice cubes“? More proof that life imitates art, I guess. 😉
I can’t tell whether this is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard, or the most appalling. Or maybe both. 🙂
Now why hasn’t anyone thought of something like this before? Practically everyone uses earphones these days, and I for one always have to look at the blasted things to figure out which one is supposed to go in which ear. Maybe most people just don’t bother? Of course, from the consumer’s end this will probably …
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“US, UK research: Thick kids more likely to become bigots“. Ouch. I’ve often thought that today’s conservatives weren’t the brightest bulbs on the whole, and wondered whether there was some causal link there, but to have it bluntly spelled out like that is pretty damning. Maybe these studies should be publicized a lot more. Nobody …
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