Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2006 No Comments »
According to a report from industry watchers MetaFacts, nearly half of Mac owners are 55 and older – that’s almost double the share for average home-PC users.
How amazing. I would assume that only grannys can afford the extra that a mac costs, and would be even more willing to pay for the Apple’s reputation for [...]
Posted in Cool Science on Nov 21st, 2006 No Comments »
Over the next few years, some experiments hold out a chance of finally being able to show whether or not time can move backward as well as forward. Theoretically, at least, it might be possible for the future to influence the past, said John Cramer, a physicist at the University of Washington. He and his [...]
Posted in Cool Science on Nov 21st, 2006 No Comments »
Vocal communication involves caterwauls for mating, chattering upon spotting prey, hissing to ward off an intruder, or shrieking when hurt or terrified. Meowing is not part of this language. Meow-ese, it would seem, is a language developed exclusively for humans.
How fascinating! The article goes on to discuss research into this inter-species communication, and how [...]
Posted in Cool Science on Nov 20th, 2006 No Comments »
Cosmologists Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok have a radical idea… They theorize that the cosmos was never compacted into a single point and did not spring forth in a violent instant. Instead, the universe as we know it is a small cross section of a much grander universe whose true magnitude is hidden in dimensions [...]
Posted in General on Nov 20th, 2006 No Comments »
If you’re looking for evidence that today’s mass-produced vegetables don’t quite measure up to those your grandparents ate, you can find it in data published by the US Department of Agriculture.
“Of the 13 nutrients that we were able to study, we found statistically reliable declines in six of the 13,” he says. Levels of other [...]
Posted in Cool Science on Nov 20th, 2006 No Comments »
Some years ago scientists at CALTECH California Institute of Technology in Pasadena discovered that humans possess a tiny, shiny crystal of magnetite in the ethmoid bone, located between your eyes, just behind the nose.
It seems that magnetite helps direction finding in animals and helps migratory species migrate successfully by allowing them to draw upon the [...]
Posted in General on Nov 20th, 2006 No Comments »
I’m getting very sick of incredibly complicated synths creating sounds so complex that that fitting one into a composition involved removing almost everything else. This synth isn’t one of those.
And it’s free.
buchty.net’s ESQ-8 VST
Posted in General on Nov 20th, 2006 No Comments »
And give him my thanks – anything that can distract me for a moment from all the other tumultuous events going on in my life is welcome.
Then, if you would kindly kick his arse, I’d be most appreciative.
Posted in General on Nov 20th, 2006 No Comments »
I’ve always thought of converting the best nuggest of online discussion into easily digestible blog posts. This is a practice post, and I would like to know what anyone who reads this thinks of this. Is this easy to read? Of value?
And how am I supposed to go around getting people’s permission to do this, [...]
Posted in General on Nov 20th, 2006 No Comments »
There are many incompetent people in the world. Dr. David A. Dunning is haunted by the fear that he might be one of them.
Dunning, a professor of psychology at Cornell, worries about this because, according to his research, most incompetent people do not know that they are incompetent.
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One reason that the ignorant also tend to [...]