With all of the recent focus on scientific know-how and the promises to pick up "getting stuff
done" by the US government, Techdirt's Masnick suggests that they might just be the most
interesting tech startup to watch this year. "But, of course, talk ...
(more)The New Yorker has a long piece examining the growing trend of healthy people, not diagnosed
with any mental condition, taking drugs that enhance mental functioning, including Adderall and
Provigil. The profiles include a Harvard student, a adept poker ...
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This whole global mercantile crisis -- including today's new of AMD's gigantic review losses
-- and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn't want to
stand helplessly by, posting every new round of misery without ...
(more)Hugh Pickens writes "Most companies buy servers from the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM or
Sun Microsystems, but Google, which has hundreds of thousands of servers and considers running
them part of its core expertise, designs and builds its own. ...
(more)An unnamed reader writes "When the accepted media first announced Barack Obama's 'victory' in
keeping his BlackBerry, the focus was on the safeness
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When we focus only on crisis,We miss the opportunities which are forever there!Salute the
How To Supplement Election Coverage? (Sunday 02nd of November 2008 12:45:01 PM)
An unnamed reader asks "What lowdown* sources and social flying start sites will you be using
to supplement the by-election broadcasting on TV next Tuesday? I am ready with a big HDTV with
Comcast, a Mac mini, and and an Xbox 360. I also have ...
(more)The ECB Has Room to Raise Interest Rates?! (Monday 28th of July 2008 01:17:00 AM)
The Euro strengthened against the US dollar but the rally has been marginal.
Unsurprisingly, inflation last month was hot with import prices rising 1.5 percent in Germany.
Despite the recent deterioration in Eurozone economic data, European Central ...
(more)Wikipathways Created To Foster Research Collaboration, Enable Data Exchange Of Biological Pathways (Saturday 26th of July 2008 10:00:00 AM)
The rapid omnibus of circadian rhythm data today is a monumental charge for researchers. That
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(more)Ernie Barnes: Americans In Focus (Friday 11th of July 2008 06:04:12 AM)
Below is a video featuring the amazing artist Ernie Barnes. Ernie Barnes hails from my hometown
of Durham, NC and is best known for the print “Sugar Shack” which was featured on
the cover of Marvin Gaye’s classic, soulful opus, Earnie ...
(more)Ernie Barnes: Americans In Focus (Friday 11th of July 2008 06:02:19 AM)
Below is a video featuring the amazing artist Ernie Barnes. Ernie Barnes hails from my hometown
of Durham, NC and is best known for the print “Sugar Shack” which was featured on
the cover of Marvin Gaye’s classic, soulful opus, Earnie ...
(more)I have a 1.6 gpa with my associates, but I would like to go on and get my bachelor's and focus in school this (Tuesday 08th of July 2008 07:03:24 AM)
time. But no one will accept me, there are no local community colleges with 4 year programs,
where can I go?? I live in the Miami, FL area and Miami Dade college doesn't do 4 year
business programs.you might have to retake some ...
(more)Eric Lerner's Focus Fusion Device Gets Funded (Tuesday 27th of May 2008 10:30:04 AM)
Pln2bz writes "Eric Lerner, author of The Big Bang Never Happened, has orthodox $600k in
funding, and a promise of phased payments of $10 million if scientific hap can be demonstrated
to productize Lerner's focus fusion energy lengthening device. Unlike ...
(more)Pioneer introduces Elite BDP-05FD / BDP-51FD Blu-ray players (Wednesday 07th of May 2008 03:00:00 PM)
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
While most consumer computer chips companies choose to
unveil new commodities at CES, Pioneer prefers to buck the trend and pick a day that it can
keep all to itself. The other trend Pioneer isn't next with these ...
(more)Multitasking Makes You Stupid and Slow (Monday 28th of January 2008 07:30:11 AM)
Reverse Gear recommends a long and interesting article over at The north pacific ocean in which
Walter Kirn talks about the scientific results that support his claim and his own letters with
multitasking: that it destroys our ability to focus. "Multitasking ...
(more)New Years Resolutions - An Engineering Approach (Wednesday 02nd of January 2008 01:45:06 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Four out of five people who make New Year's resolutions will eventually
break them and a third won't even make it to the end of January says the NY Times. But experts
say the real problem is that people make the wrong ...
(more)A Talk With Opera CEO (Monday 20th of August 2007 10:39:51 AM)
With several new areas of expansion for Opera The Register took a few minutes to talk to Opera
CEO Jon von Tetzchner. The call addresses several of the most recent news items on the Opera
front including, the adoption to Nintendo's Wii console, several ...
(more)Nothing Focuses The Mind . . . Psalms 39:4-5 (Monday 22nd of February 2010 02:39:00 PM)
Nothing Focuses The Mind . . . Reference: Psalms 39:4-5 “Lord, remind me how brief my
time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered"how fleeting my life is. 5 You
have made my life no longer than the width of my ...
(more)Where To Focus Our Lives Haggai 1:3-6 (Sunday 20th of December 2009 03:03:00 PM)
Where To Focus Our LivesREFERENCE: Hag. 1:3-6 Then the Lord sent this message through the
prophet Haggai: 4 “Why are you living in luxurious houses while my house lies in ruins? 5
This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s ...
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