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The S in "SSN" doesn't stand for Secure
and neither does the other S.
A group of researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University say they’ve discovered patterns in the issuance of numbers that make it relatively easy to deduce the personal information using publicly available information and some basic statistical analysis ( Read more... ) -
This is how I justify sometimes having the radio on while driving
Take Note: Doodling Can Help Memory
Researchers in the United Kingdom found that test subjects who doodled while listening to a recorded message had a 29 percent better recall of the message's details than those who didn't doodle. The findings were published in Applied Cognitive Psychology"If someone is doing a boring task, like listening to a ( Read more... ) -
Somewhere, George Lucas is taking notes
From today's "Hit and Run" in the P-D:
Italian defender Marco Materazzi finally has given his version of the verbal exchange he had with France's Zinedine Zidane, which resulted in the infamous head butt that got Zidane expelled from last July's World Cup soccer final ( Read more... ) -
Is it something about "B" people?
One wonders . . .
On Monday, simple arithmetic reflected the outcome of that effort when better than one out of four city students - 28 percent of an expected enrollment of slightly more than 33,000 - failed to show up for the first day of classes ( Read more... ) -
Next CSI spinoff?
Might be. Cuz soon forensic entomologists are gonna be all the rage.
(Need I say, that link's potentially tummy-upsetting?) -
Someone on a BBS pointed this excellent editorial out to me...
Ignore the silly blurb and just read the article below it. It's a killer nonpolitical summary of the U.S. news media's inability to simply report the news.
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The media don't cover the news. They hunt it down, beat it to death, resuscitate it, and beat it to death again. Television news programs aren't information outlets so much as guess-the ( Read more... ) -
Oh, right. Check your change everyone!
Specifically, check for Wisconsin quarters that have an "extra leaf" on the corncob (to me it looks like what they're talking about is at the left bottom of the corncob ( Read more... ) -
"Duuuude, you drive like my old man!"
- A recent study has found that, among other things, a cell phone conversation degrades the performance of a 20-year-old driver to that of a 70-year-old. Ha!
- What is it about "There's more to Star Trek than film" that some people just cannot comprehend??? >_<
- What is it about "Get your rear in gear already" that I just cannot comprehend?? >_<
- What is ( Read more... )