Archive for the 'Science-Technology' Category

BBC has an interesting section called Science & Nature with sub-sections for Animals, Prehistoric Life, Human Body & Mind, Space and HOT TOPICS - The science behind the news.

I just got Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox and went to the useit.com website. The website looks bare and oldfashioned but it is packed with useful information.
The current Alertbox is titled Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous… and starts like this:
Summary:
AJAX, rich Internet UIs, mashups, communities, and user-generated content often add more complexity than they’re worth. They also [...]

The Last Supper is the painting by Leonardo da Vinci shown in amazing detail. The computer image is 16.118.035.591 pixel (172181 x 93611) and you can click on it to get closer and closer.
They have some other work as well, check their Portfolio.

A link to Green Fuel, Literally turned up in one of the mailing lists I belong to. It is an interesting post giving hope for the future.
Most of us think of solar power as coming from glass panels on rooftops, and increasingly large arrays in the middle of some sun-drenched desert. Now it can come [...]

BBC writes that Contagious yawn ’sign of empathy’.
Yawning may reveal more about a person than their boredom threshold, according to research. A susceptibility to contagious yawning may actually be a sign of a high-level of social empathy.
“We believe that contagious yawning indicates empathy. It indicates an appreciation of other people’s behavioural and physiological state,” she [...]

The expression “Once in a Blue Moon” is true this month. It is used to indicate that something is a very rare event. A blue moon refers to the second full moon that occurs in any calendar month. June 2007 has two full moons, on June 1 and on June 30. Two full moons within [...]

I came across a post titled A Time Travel with the Backup’s History. There is a graphic with a time line showing the changes in backup media. I started in the IT business in 1971, I have seen most of these changes happen.
Punched cards were not used for backups when I started but they were [...]

cRANKy™ is a new kid (?) on the block. It is a search engine targeted at the 50-plus community. The idea is that Cranky does not search the entire internet, only selected sites.
A cool thing is that the front page shows the ten most searched phrases, updated regularly. At this moment they are as follows:
1. [...]

Your browser leaks a lot of information that can be collected by servers. To find out more, go to Project IP and see for yourself.

Are you a gadget freak? Or simply interested in what is new? Whatever, go to Crave: The gadget blog and find the latest.

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