Friday, 6 March 2009
Soldiers disappointed at losing the chance to kill more people.
Dang, he done took our war ‘way. Gobama.
Just the Apple App Facts, Jack
If you tried to buy every app in the App Store at once, it would cost you $71,442.69
The most popular price? You might assume it would be free, it’s actually $0.99 — by a long shot.
The most popular category by far is “games” with 5,263 apps,
followed by “entertainment” with 3,497 apps.
The third most popular category is Books
The least popular app category? Weather.
Check out the rest of the article for free, here
Amazon Gets Into the Used-Game Business
After enjoying a virtual monopoly in the used videogames market, videogame specialty retailer GameStop Corp. faces a threat from a potentially formidable rival, Amazon.com Inc.
The Seattle Internet retailer launched a service Thursday in which it will allow customers to trade in used videogames for store credit, taking aim at a key portion of GameStop's business.
Check it out here.
Visual Cues Help People Understand Spoken Words
New research from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and the City College of New York shows that the visual information you absorb when you see can improve your understanding of the spoken words by as much as sixfold.
Check it out here.
Thursday, 5 March 2009
Brain Differences Found Between Believers In God And Non-believers
Believing in God can help block anxiety and minimize stress, according to new University of Toronto research that shows distinct brain differences between believers and non-believers.
Check out the full article here
The precision of remote context memories does not require the hippocampus
Although the clarity of many memories fades with time, some memories may maintain their original precision. Here we used a context discrimination procedure to evaluate whether the hippocampus is important in maintaining precision as memories mature. Spared discrimination in hippocampal-lesioned mice indicated that precise, remote context memories may be supported by extra-hippocampal brain regions.
Check out the paper here
Listen to your DNA
The folks behind the DNA-Rainbow project (discussed on Slashdot before) apparently have some time to play around with genome data. After creating amazing pictures from the human DNA code they are now transforming all chromosomes to audio and streaming them to the Internet
Check it out here
Via slashdot
Global Warming gets it's own top level domain name
Al Gore is partnering with this company to help secure ICANN approval for a new .ECO top level domain name for Environmentally friendly companies and websites.
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