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Holographic television to become reality

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:24:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "It took us a while to make that first breakthrough, but as soon as you have the first element of it working the rest often comes more rapidly," he said. "What we are doing now is trying to make the model better. What we showed is just one color, what we are doing now is trying to use three colors. The original display was four inches by four inches and now we're going for something at least as big as a computer screen."

There are no more great barriers to overcome now, he said.

The breakthrough has made some long-time researchers of the technology believe that it could now come to fruition.

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Picture this: you're sat down for the Football World Cup final, or a long-awaited sequel to the "Sex and the City" movie and you're watching all the action unfold in 3-D on your coffee table

It sounds a lot like a wacky dream, but don't be surprised if within our lifetime you find yourself discarding your plasma and LCD sets in exchange for a holographic 3-D television that can put Cristiano Ronaldo in your living room or bring you face-to-face with life-sized versions of your gaming heroes.

The reason for renewed optimism in three-dimensional technology is a breakthrough in rewritable and erasable holographic systems made earlier this year by researchers at the University of Arizona.

Dr Nasser Peyghambarian, chair of photonics and lasers at the university's Optical Sciences department, told CNN that scientists have broken a barrier by making the first updatable three-dimensional displays with memory.

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The typewriter symbolized the golden age of writing

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:23:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The golden age of the typewriter has passed, but its memory lives on. That memory exists in the great literature it helped produce, in everyday parlance such as “Carbon Copy” (CC) and “Carriage Return" (CR), as a storyline in detective fiction and films, but most of all it lives on in the “QWERTY” keyboard design, its great legacy to the technology that consigned the typewriter to history."

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The typewriter symbolized the golden age of writing in the last century. It not only helped produce great literature, but often became part of the story itself.

Redolent of Parisian garrets on the left bank of the Seine, with writers like Joyce, Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the humble typewriter helped produce great literature. Invented in the 19th Century, it dominated the writing scene of the last century, but was made obsolete by the advent of word processors and computers.

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The First Typewriter

the first purchasers was Mark Twain, who was the first writer to deliver a typed literary work, Life on the Mississippi, to his publisher.

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n the early model typewriter, a writer could not see what was typed until 4 lines of type had been completed as the type bars struck the bottom of the platen.

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QWERTY Keyboard Layout

.” It goes on to say that type bars carrying the most frequently occurring word pairs are well separated to prevent the jamming of the bars.

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Electric Typewriters

Air Pollution Pollutes Brains as Well!?

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:56:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Heavy air pollution has and is endangering the future of your children and our society as well as others.

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Mexico City’s air pollution may be undermining neural and mental functioning in some children

Mexico City wears a thick coat of air pollution that clogs lungs and takes a toll on hearts and blood vessels. But that’s just the beginning — the metropolis’s dirty air may have contributed to brain inflammation and intellectual deficits in at least some school-age children, a new study suggests.

Among healthy children aged 7 to 18, lifelong Mexico City residents scored lower than their peers from Polotitlán — a Mexican city with low levels of air pollution — on tests of memory, flexible thinking, novel problem-solving skill and the ability to monitor and change one’s behavior during challenging tasks, scientists report in an upcoming Brain and Cognition. These tests make up part of standard IQ measures for school children.

Tags: global warming, green, pollution, dumb and dumber

Antisocial Behavior May Be Caused By Low Stress Hormone Levels

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:27:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The differences between participants with severe antisocial behaviour and those without were most marked under stressful conditions. While the average adolescents showed large increases in the amount of cortisol during the frustrating situation, cortisol levels actually went down in those with severe antisocial behaviour.

These results suggest that antisocial behaviour may be more biologically-based than previously considered, just as some individuals are more vulnerable to depression or anxiety due to their biological make-up."

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Levels of cortisol in the body usually increase when people undergo a stressful experience, such as public speaking, sitting an exam, or having surgery. It enhances memory formation and is thought to make people behave more cautiously and to help them regulate their emotions, particularly their temper and violent impulses.

The new research, funded by the Wellcome Trust, shows that adolescents with severe antisocial behaviour do not exhibit the same increase in cortisol levels when under stress as those without antisocial behaviour. These findings suggest that antisocial behaviour, at least in some cases, may be seen as a form of mental illness that is linked to physiological symptoms (involving a chemical imbalance of cortisol in the brain and body).

Reduced levels of the 'stress hormone' cortisol has been linked to antisocial behaviour in male adolescents. (Credit: iStockphoto)

Tags: stress, mental health

Time does not bring relief

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:17:50 GMT

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TIME does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year’s bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide!

There are a hundred places where I fear
To go,—so with his memory they brim!
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, “There is no memory of him here!”
And so stand stricken, so remembering him!

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Alzheimer's memory loss faster among well-educated

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:40:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: strange...I just thought that the more your read, think & write, the more you shall be excercising your brains!...wasted a lot of time in getting qualified!!!

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Having more years of formal education delays the memory loss linked to Alzheimer's disease, but once the condition begins to take hold, better-educated people decline more rapidly, researchers said on Monday.

Their study, published in the journal Neurology, tracked memory loss in a group of elderly people from New York City's Bronx borough before they were diagnosed with Alzheimer's or another form of old-age dementia.

Every year of education delayed the accelerated memory decline that precedes dementia by about 2-1/2 months, according to the researchers at Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

But once this memory loss began, the rate of decline unfolded 4 percent more quickly for each additional year of education, the researchers said.

Someone with 16 years of schooling might experience memory decline 50 percent more quickly than another person with just four years education, based on the findings.

Tags: alzheimer, memory loss, education, research, neurology.

The Promise

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:01:35 GMT

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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Promise is most given when the least is said. ~George Chapman

When a man takes an oath… he’s holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then - he needn’t hope to find himself again.

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. ~Denis Waitley

Tags: nietzsche, arendt, promise

John Lennon's Birthday

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:56:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Remember? Keep his vibe alive!

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Today is the anniversary of John Lennon's birthday. He would have been 68. His memory and his mission of peace lives.

Imagine Peace

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IMAGINE PEACE

Think PEACE, Act PEACE, Spread PEACE.

Master memorizer's five tips for remembering things

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:56:29 GMT

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Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

Refresh your memory: Ed Cooke's top five tips

1. Concentrate When you meet someone new you might not even look at their face properly, so it's not surprising that you might forget them. That relates to everything: words, ideas, numbers. If you concentrate on something, you are more likely to remember it

2. Identify whether you are interested in something or not For example, you might not be interested in the name "Catherine" because you have heard it many times before. But if you know that, you can associate something else that you are interested in with the name "Catherine", if it's a name that you need to remember

3. Forge links If you have to remember a series of things, try linking each thing to a moment in a familiar story

4. Rummage your outer memories Practise recalling things that might be on the fringes of your memory, such as recently learned words or recipes

5. Practise daily At the end of each day, go through in your mind everything that has happened during the day.

John McCain Rightly Blames Fannie and Freddie

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:24:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are directly to blame for the economic crisis. But McCain missed the opportunity to expand on Obama's part in the financial meltdown.

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Pin Tail On Donkey

The Debate: John McCain rightly laid the blame for the economic crisis on Fannie and Freddie, and the blame for that on the Democrats. But he missed opportunities and left much too much on the podium.

The blame for the most serious economic crisis in recent memory should be laid squarely at the feet of Barack Obama and the Democrats. He and they should be denied the reins of economic power.

Tags: john mccain, fannie, freddie, economic crisis, democrats, obama

Cheat Sheet Roundup - Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:01:30 GMT

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Cheat Sheet Roundup - Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers

Lets face it, unless you have a photographic memory, no developer can remember all the different functions, options, tags, etc. that exist. Documentation can be cumbersome at times, thats why I like cheat sheets. They are quick references that feature the most commonly forgotten things on a specific topic. You can print them out and hang them on your wall, or just keep them handy in your bookmarks for quick reference.

I have rounded up over 30 cheatsheets that developers might find useful.

Web Development Cheat Sheets

Databases / SQL Cheat Sheets

Language Cheat Sheets

Version Control Cheat Sheets

Other

Commercially Printed CheatSheets

Visibone - javascript, browsers, colors, fonts, html.
TechnoChallenged - web dev, programming, os, software

Am I missing any good ones? Feel free to post any others in the comments.

Updates:

Perl - thanks Dom.
Regex - thanks bjhanifin
Perl - thanks Derek
Subversion - nice reference card, thanks Andreas
Debian - thanks again Andreas
UML - Andreas again, thanks
PostgreSQL - thanks for the suggestion frank.

Tags: javascript, css, html, xhtml, mysql, sql, jsp, python, java, php, ruby

Drugs Hint At Potential Reversal Of Autism

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:04:38 GMT

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Drugs Hint At Potential Reversal Of Autism

by Jon Hamilton

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Morning Edition, September 23, 2008 · Scientific researchers can spend years in the lab on obscure topics, like how a sea slug remembers or how a fruit fly sees color. But every now and then, a basic scientist makes a discovery that changes human lives.

Mark Bear, who directs the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, is one of those basic scientists. He's discovered a system in the brain that could change the lives of thousands of people with the genetic disorder known as Fragile X Syndrome.

Fragile X is a mutation on the X chromosome that can cause mental retardation and autism. Until now, there has been no treatment.

Bear and other scientists have also identified several drugs that seem to correct the problem.

The drugs don't replace the missing brakes in the brain.

they limit acceleration by reducing the activity of a group of receptors on brain cells known as mGluR5 receptors.

Tags: health

Sarah Palin: Good Guy or Bad Guy?

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:56:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I throw up a little every time I see a McCain/Palin bumper sticker.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/161204/page/1

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McCain says that he always puts country first. In this important case, it is simply not true.

Can we now admit the obvious? Sarah Palin is utterly unqualified to be vice president. She is a feisty, charismatic politician who has done some good things in Alaska. But she has never spent a day thinking about any important national or international issue, and this is a hell of a time to start. The next administration is going to face a set of challenges unlike any in recent memory. There is an ongoing military operation in Iraq that still costs $10 billion a month, a war against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan that is not going well and is not easily fixed.

This is nonsense—a vapid emptying out of every catchphrase about economics that came into her head.

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Tags: elections, election 08, mccain, palin, economy, crisis, video

Sweet smells foster sweet dreams

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:45:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Smell is the only sense that doesn't 'sleep'.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

When the smell of roses had been wafted under the noses of slumbering volunteers they reported experiencing pleasant emotions in their dreams.

An odour of rotten eggs had the opposite effect on the 15 sleeping women, the German scientists found.

They waited until their subjects had entered the REM phase of sleep, the stage at which most dreams occur, and then exposed them to a high dose of smelly air for 10 seconds before waking them up one minute later.

Professor Tim Jacob, an expert in smell and taste at Cardiff University, said: "Smell is the only sense that doesn't 'sleep'. Information continues to reach the limbic system of the brain and that includes the hippocampus, or memory area and the amygdala, that is involved with emotional response.

"Other senses have to pass through the 'gate' of the thalamus, which is closed when we sleep."

Tags: science, health, news

So tired of the straight line

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:28:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks:
And everywhere you turn
Theres vultures and thieves at your back
And the storm keeps on twisting
You keep on building the lie
That you make up for all that you lack
It dont make no difference
Escaping one last time
Its easier to believe in this sweet madness oh
This glorious sadness that brings me to my knees

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Sarah McLachlan angel

Spend all your time waiting
For that second chance
For a break that would make it okay
Theres always one reason
To feel not good enough
And its hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
Oh beautiful release
Memory seeps from my veins

Let me be empty
And weightless and maybe
Ill find some peace tonight

In the arms of an angel
Fly away from here
From this dark cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
Youre in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort there

So tired of the straight line
And everywhere you turn
Theres vultures and thieves at your back
And the storm keeps on twisting
You keep on building the lie
That you make up for all that you lack
It dont make no difference
Escaping one last time
Its easier to believe in this sweet madness oh
This glorious sadness that brings me to my knees

In the arms of an angel
Fly away from here
From this dark cold hotel room

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