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Years back a classmate asked if flash drives get heavier the more you use it. I laughed at her. I stand corrected. E-readers get heavier with each book Using Einstein’s E=mc² formula …
A week ago, a minivan driver knock a toddler down in China and then ran over her again. He offers an upsetting explanation to his behavior: The minivan driver who knocked Wang down, and then ran over her deliberately, has since surrendered to the police, but offered a curious explanation for his action. He said ...
From The New York Times’ Cooking section: Why Do Sandwiches Taste Better When Someone Else Makes Them? When you make your own sandwich, you anticipate its taste as you’re working on it. And when you think of a particular food for a while, you become less hungry for it later. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, ...
From New Yorker: A recent article in Esquire reports that many trousers are significantly more ample than the marked waist size. This is due to “vanity sizing.” The magazine collected a batch of pants by different manufacturers, all marked as having a thirty-six-inch waist. At H&M, they were actually thirty-seven inches; at Calvin Klein, thirty-eight ...
An innovative man installs lighting for people in his town using a clever trick: Isang Litrong Liwanag One Liter of Light. Language is Tagalog.
Here’s how to install PHP Pear in Mac OS X Lion 10.7 using the Apache/PHP install that comes with XCode. Once you have PHP set up, you need to run the following installer: kahwee-mba:Volumes kahwee$ sudo php /usr/lib/php/install -pear-nozlib.phar Password: [PEAR] Archive_Tar - installed: 1.3.7 [PEAR] Console_Getopt - installed: 1.3.0 …
If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. Malcolm X
United States loses AAA credit rating. United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor’s on Friday, in a dramatic reversal of fortune for the world’s largest economy. S&P cut the long-term U.S. credit rating by one notch to AA-plus on concerns about ...
I haven’t been writing for some time — not just referring to blogging but also writing in general. Work has occupied me more than I expect. I never can have as much time to think and write as before. It’s kinda a bummer though admittedly I do find the income quite useful.
Singapore has the highest percentage of millionaire households. According to a study reported in the Financial Times, more than 15% of Singapore households are millionaires. No other country comes close (#2 Switzerland has less than 10% millionaires.) Singapore will soon have a million millionaires, out of a population totaling a mere 5 million. I expect ...
Discovery / Science Channel’s “How It’s Made” Magnets episode Conclusion: it’s a miracle!
According to North Korea’s Chosun Central Television, China is happiest place on earth, USA’s most dreadful. North Korean “Global Happiness Index” ranks China no. 1, USA dead last China is the happiest place on earth(!!) according to a new global happiness index released by North Korea’s Chosun Central Television. China earned 100 out of 100 ...
Japan population is decreasing: C’mon, Japan, Procreate! Despite a slight uptick in the fertility rate in 2010, Japan’s population just keeps on falling. The country’s population decline l …
ALCATRAZ is coming to FOX midseason 2012 and Jorge Garcia (Hurley in Lost) is in it. J.J. Abrams is executive producer. Will definitely be checking this out.
Lim Zi Rui is one of Reform Party’s youngest members. This is just too hard to watch. RP’s Lim Zi Rui at Ang Mo Kio GRC rally, May 1 Lim Zi Rui is an aerospace engineering student from NTU making an attempt to convince others why he deserves to be a member of parliament.
Osama bin Laden is killed in a firefight and U.S. troops later took custody of his body. BIN LADEN DEAD, U.S. OFFICIAL SAYS WASHINGTON —President Obama announced late Sunday that Osama bin …
Weird stuff, but auto-tune’s amazing. You don’t need to even sing now. How convenient. Ode to the Brain! by Symphony of Science “Ode to the Brain” is the ninth episode in the Symphony of Science music video series. Through the powerful words of scientists Carl Sagan, Robert Winston, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Jill Bolte Taylor, Bill Nye, ...
Founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has acquired Delicious from the hands of Yahoo saving it from ceasing operations. YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious Today, we’re pleased t …
So regarding the overpopulation issue in China, yes it’s real: 史上最牛的菜市场 Look at how close the train is travelling past the people. And they are very daring.
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