I got asked to write a review on a website… something I don’t normally do. But I have a couple friends graduating with their masters/bacholers plus going into teaching which has interested me. And the site in this case was something that was related. In getting into college you need to do several things to [...]
Welcome to Living in the Whine Country. A new design has been up with only a few reported issues. It is still under going development, mainly with speed tweaks. But if you notice an issue, please feel free to let me know, so I can get it fixed. Also let me know if you have any story ideas you want me to cover.
I was reading about how book sellers in Frankfurt where judging how popular books where going to be by how many where stolen…
The Frankfurt Book Fair has an indicator to help publishers gauge public interest in the new offerings presented at the annual exhibition — the unofficial “most stolen book” index.
Bild am Sonntag and Germany’s [...]
“Bootylicious” was dominating the airwaves , Rush Hour 2 was battling American Pie 2 for box office (if not artistic) greatness and the US was more concerned about stem cells than homeland security. It was August in 2001, and just because the Internet bubble had already burst, the internet itself was still going strong. With [...]
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I read a lot, and I’ve always found it hard to explain how I sort of skim the books, reading the whole thing, but at the same time not feeling like I am. People pay a lot of money to “learn how to speed read” and my answer is always, don’t let it stress [...]
One of the Christmas gifts I got last year that I’m still enjoying is a Mythbusters desk calender. Todays was an interesting fact I thought I’d share.
Technically, a daddy longlegs is not a spider. It doesn’t make silk; it’s not a predator; and, it doesn’t scavenge. However, even though a daddy longlegs is not considered [...]
I recently posted about how they found 237 reasons to have sex. And I still think that’s an arbitrary number. So today when I read this, I thought that it was interesting…
Tyler Cowen quotes from a new study testing the relationship between grades and delayed sexual activity. Last December I passed a paper along to [...]
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Wikipedian Protester [xkcd by Randall Munroe]
Considering all the political speech I went through tonight. The talks about “What is comfort” I felt this *cute* toon actually hits good. So many state things without siting, and even though the Wikipedia has gotten a black eye for invalid info… the community policing the information seems [...]
When men look at pictures of women in the buff, where are their eyes likely to go first?
Nope. Higher.
In a new study, using eye-tracking gizmos, where guys looked first on a naked woman defied stereotype.
Men are more likely to look at a female’s face before gazing at other body parts, according to a new study [...]
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Israel believes its newly-orbited Ofeq-7 satellite can track people and weapons in any targeted country, including Iran.
Israeli officials said Ofeq-7 contained a reconnaissance platform that could spot bottles on the floorOfeq-7 contained a reconnaissance platform that could spot bottles on the floor. They said the camera payload could identify and send high-resolution images of [...]
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…I know how hard it is to reach you so I am posting this here in case you come by. I’m just worried about you, because your at an age– that is hard to handle for a young person. Believe me– I was there once myself. I was about your age when I had a [...]
