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Current MLB Players To Build A Team Around | The Dugout Doctors

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:40:52 -0800

This guy has Molina ranked above Mauer. Right.....

Why Even Monkeys Might Resent Wall Streets Record Bonuses -- New York Magazine

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:25:37 -0700

Fairness--and resentment at the perceived lack of it--is an ingrained human instinct. It's one of the first things children learn to complain about. But it's more atavistic, even prehuman. In one experiment, scientists at Emory University offered capuchin monkeys food in exchange for tokens. The monkeys were happy to get slices of cucumber, until they saw other monkeys getting grapes, at which point they got angry and stopped cooperating.

Google Wave secured with crypto fairy dust Email Security Messaging News SC Magazine Australia/NZ

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:26:04 -0700

Google Wave, the search giant's email-like collaboration tool, has been designed to avoid common security issues associated with traditional email because it contains a 'sprinkle of crypto fairy dust', according to the product manager of the technology, who was speaking to media in Sydney today.

UC Davis News & Information :: Women Are Sort of More Tentative Than Men, Arent They?

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:09:24 -0700

From the page: "Men were tentative when writing about make-up or other stereotypically feminine topics, especially when they thought they were writing to a woman, he found. For example, one man, believing he was corresponding with a woman, wrote: "maybe girls prefer the quality of products at Sephora over other major department stores? I don't know."" - What idiot came up with this study. Maybe people are more tentative when they actually don't know something.

The Rest Of The Story - Had We Not Used The Bomb | Bobs Blog

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:30:02 -0700

From the page: "22 divisions against 1 million Japanese defenders on the main island of Honshu and the Tokyo Plain. It�s goal: the unconditional surrender of Japan. With the exception of a part of the British Pacific Fleet, Operation Downfall was to be a strictly American operation. It called for using the entire Marine Corps, the entire Pacific Navy, elements of the 7th Army Air Force, the 8 Air Force (recently redeployed from Europe), 10th Air Force and the American Far Eastern Air Force. More than 1.5 million combat soldiers, with 3 million more in support or more than 40% of all servicemen still in uniform in 1945 �" would be directly involved in the two amphibious assaults. Casualties were expected to be extremely heavy.
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Intel offers distributed computing to 250 Million Facebook users - Bright Side Of News*

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:32:50 -0700

The "Progress through Processors" campaign is dedicated to expanding the knowledge about distributed computing to new audiences, ones that are not as tech savvy as most of readers on the site. But that doesn't matter - what matters is to expand the reach of distributed computing to hundreds of millions of Facebook users.

Truth to be told, this is nothing else but an interface to download the BOINC [Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Networked Computing] client with pre-selected and pre-registered projects [you register and select inside the Facebook app itself].

All in all, this is a pretty simple idea from Grid Republic, supported by Intel. The only thing that nobody will tell you is that using a GPU, e.g. a graphics card is much more efficient than using a processor... hence, why not use both?

The truth about grit - The Boston Globe

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:49:08 -0700

In recent years, psychologists have come up with a term to describe this mental trait: grit. Although the idea itself isn't new - "Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration," Thomas Edison famously remarked - the researchers are quick to point out that grit isn't simply about the willingness to work hard. Instead, it's about setting a specific long-term goal and doing whatever it takes until the goal has been reached. It's always much easier to give up, but people with grit can keep going.

Malaria Jumped to Humans From Chimpanzees | Wired Science | Wired.com

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:23:01 -0700

Malaria appears to have originated in chimpanzees and jumped over to humans at some point in the last two million years, bucking the leading theory that the disease had evolved along with humans.

After gathering blood samples from nearly 100 chimpanzees in central Africa, researchers uncovered eight new strains of the parasite that causes chimp malaria. By comparing genes from the new chimp strains to genes from human malaria, scientists discovered that like HIV, our malaria bug is a gift from chimpanzee

Putting the hate on hipsters - The Boston Globe

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:37:18 -0700

It was only the next day that I realized the reason for my aggressive behavior. I was annoyed with these two because they were grown men wearing cut-off skinny jeans, espadrilles, fedoras (instead of bicycle helmets), and - I'm guessing - T-shirts that were dripping with irony, most likely sporting an iron-on transfer of Natalie from "The Facts of Life.''

Free Cities - Free things to do in your city!

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:10:56 -0700

From the page: "Free Cities apps are designed towards enhancing your vacation experience for less. Cities all over the world provide locals and tourists with a wealth of free activities ranging from museums, concerts, tours, parks and national and historic monuments. As the name suggests we�ve chosen major cities throughout the world and created an app for each city that details its free activities."