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Five Apps We Can't Wait to See on the iPad
With the iPad, 'casual' computer use will just increase. And since the iPhone already has a lot of apps that are better, fuller featured and easier to use than their desktop equivalents, and since all should 'just work' on your shiny new iPad, albeit at original size in the middle of a big. black screen, or scaled up to fit.
 Marijuana-like Brain Chemicals Work As Antidepressant
Researchers have found that boosting the amounts of a marijuana-like brain transmitter called anandamide produces antidepressant effects in test rats. Improving Password Protection With Easy To Remember Drawings
An inventive way of improving password security for handheld devices such as iPhones, Blackberry and Smartphone has now been developed. The software, which uses pictures instead of letters and numbers, has been initially designed for handheld devices, but could soon be expanded to other areas. Those who took part in testing this system created passwords that were a thousand times more secure than ordinary textual passwords. Most testers also found them easy to remember. National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies
This site from Indiana University provides information about Japan for teachers, students, and the general public. It features a "Japan Digests"section with essays on a "wide variety of topics ... [such] as haiku, kabuki, rice, Japanese education, economics, and Japanese-American internment,"annotated lists of recommended websites about Japan arranged by topic (such as architecture, food, pop culture, and women), lesson plans, news headlines, and more. [Ironic] LONDON: A jailed cocaine dealer is working as Santa Claus on
John Tams, who dons beard, boots and red suit to work in a cafe's Christmas grotto, said he wanted to give something back to the community... New, Hands-on Science Demos Teach Young Students How Volcanoes 'Blow T
Geologists at Rutgers University have created three hands-on demonstrations that show how heat and pressure underground move rocks and earth to build up volcanic mountains, and in some cases, cause them to literally blow their tops. These activities, which depict the actual forces that caused Washington's Mt. St. Helens to blow or Hawaii's Kilauea to spew red-hot rivers of lava, captivate kids while giving them a foundation for studying earth science in high school. Delocator
A site "to assist the public in finding and supporting independently owned cafes."Search by ZIP code for listings and reviews "of both independently owned cafes and Starbucks retail stores."Note: Items are listed by ZIP code rather than proximity, and some locations may be outside of the stated five-mile radius. From the group Finishing School; original installation was at the San Francisco Art Institute. It's Elemental: Polonium
Background about the radioactive element polonium, which was "discovered by Marie Sklodowska Curie, a Polish chemist, in 1898. She obtained polonium from pitchblende, a material that contains uranium."Includes a brief description of uses, facts and figures, and other details. From the Jefferson Lab, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. [Odd] A Romanian couple has named their son Yahoo as a sign of gratitu
Daily Libertatea said on Thursday Cornelia and Nonu Dragoman, both from Transylvania, met and decided they were meant for each other following a three-month relationship over the net.They married and had a baby this Christmas, whom they decided to name after one of the worldwide web's most popular portals."We named him Lucian Yahoo after my father and the net, the main beacon of my life,"Cornelia Dragoman was quoted as saying. Dopey Red Glass
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