Category: real life
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Magnets: Beyond Holding Things to Fridges
Some random but fascinating tidbits that I’ve learned while writing my comps today: There are over fifty known sensory systems that have been identified in living things. Why, then, is a “sixth sense” seen as a far-out impossibility? The genome of bacteria that can sense magnetic fields is only about 4.3 megabytes. All the information…
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Rotten Apple
Is it just me, or are Apple’s new iPods sorta disappointing? The Shuffle hasn’t changed. The Nano does video and has a new interface, but looks fat and ugly (best comment I’ve seen about it: “does it do the truffle shuffle?”). What’s now called the “Classic” has the new interface and looks pretty good, and…
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Location Location Location
I started up Google Earth for the first time in a while today. The newest addition is the ability to see what space looks like from any location on Earth, which is pretty cool. So of course, the first place I go to is our new house. The space stuff was boss, but I made…
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