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- Reading of the Day 14 March 2010
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- Readings of the Day 12 March 2010
- Economic Inequality Matters
- Photo of the Day: Hillary Clinton During the 2008 St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Technology Archive
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First Peek at Windows 7's User Interface
Posted on October 29, 2008 | No CommentsLooking at the first screenshots and description of Windows 7 reaffirms my commitment to the Mac platform. On the bright side, the latest version of Windows is starting to look... -
Officials: Damage to collider forces 2-month halt (AP)
Posted on September 21, 2008 | No CommentsNot with a bang but a whimper? From the AP: The European Organization for Nuclear Research says its new particle collider has been damaged worse than previously thought and will... -
Preventing train crashes
Posted on September 21, 2008 | No CommentsFrom The Economist: A little automation could save lives TIME and again, evidence shows computer-controlled vehicles have fewer accidents than those driven by people. Still, we have a pathological reluctance... -
Can Cell Phones Contribute to Male Infertility?
Posted on September 21, 2008 | No CommentsFrom Newsweek: A new study finds that the radiation emitted by cell phones can lower sperm quality. -
not really reading
Posted on September 21, 2008 | No CommentsMark Bauerlein has an article on the difficulty of slow reading online. In the eye-tracking test, only one in six subjects read Web pages linearly, sentence by sentence. The rest...
