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Technology Could Enable Computers To 'Read The Minds'Of Users
New techniques under development could allow computers to respond to users'thoughts of frustration or boredom (too much or too little work) by applying functional near-infrared spectroscopy technology, which uses light to monitor brain blood flow as a proxy for user workload stress. Applying this noninvasive, portable imaging technology in new ways, the researchers hope to gain real-time insight into the brain's emotional cues. The Snarky ViceSquad Is Ready to Be Taken Seriously. Seriousl
VBS.tv, a new web-based TV channel created by the scruffy misanthropes behind Vicemagazine, is elbowing its way into the crowded young industry of internet television. All the players are looking for an audience for original online video, and VBS.tv editors are using the jaundiced worldview of their street-culture rag to inform their coverage of global events. Anti-aging Enzyme's Secrets Revealed
Johns Hopkins researchers have determined how a tiny molecule normally squelches the activity of an enzyme that otherwise could help yeast, worms and flies live longer. The Scholastic Art &Writing Awards
These awards "have celebrated [more than] 80 years as a unique presence in our nation's classrooms by identifying and documenting outstanding achievement of young artists and writers in the visual and literary arts."The site features entry rules, galleries of works by award recipients back to 2001, and material about alumni and judges. A Sampling of New Words and Senses From the New 2005 Copyright of Merr
"Find a sample of the nearly 100 new words and senses that have been added"in 2005 to this well-known dictionary of American English. Terms include "cybrarian (noun) ... a person whose job is to find, collect, and manage information that is available on the World Wide Web." First X-Ray Detection Of A Colliding-Wind Binary Beyond Milky Way
Imagine two stars with winds so intense that they eject an Earth's worth of material roughly once every month. Next, imagine those two winds colliding head-on. Such titanic collisions produce multimillion-degree gas, which radiates brilliantly in X-rays. Astronomers have conclusively identified the X-rays from about two-dozen of these systems in our Milky Way. But they have never seen one outside our galaxy -- until now. Gravely Gorgeous: Gargoyles, Grotesques &the Nineteenth-Century Imagin
This site is a companion to an exhibit about the admiration by Victorians of the Gothic style of architectural decoration of cathedrals, which featured gargoyles ("decorative waterspouts that preserve stonework") and grotesques (that "serve a variety of other practical and ornamental functions, as corbels or capitals, for instance"). Includes a gallery of images and a glossary. From the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. Standardization of Women's Clothing
This online exhibit discusses how "between 1949-1952 the National Bureau of Standards (NBS, now NIST) conducted a comprehensive study of women's body measurements to develop a sizing standard for women's ready-to-wear clothing."This standard was withdrawn in 1983. Includes comments on sizing and vanity (as the average woman's body was changing shape, "manufacturers began selling bigger clothes labeled with smaller size numbers") and recent developments. From the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. IACP Cookbook Awards
Find lists of the winners of this award (previously known as the Tastemaker Awards) for outstanding cookbooks. Includes cookbooks in categories such as bread and baking, food reference, chefs and restaurants, health and diet, and best first book (the Julia Child Award). Features current award winners and finalists, and an archive of winners back to 1986. From the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP).
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