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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) - a sort of image format which records shapes and lines instead of pixels - is partially supported in most web browsers but not in Internet Explorer. Javascript libraries...
View ArticleEvery breath you take
Scientists in Israel have developed a system that allows (some, not all) people who are "locked in" to type messages by simply holding and releasing their breath. The system was also adapted to control...
View ArticleUp the down staircase
Before the development of rubber technology and tubing made medical gavage feasible for the average patient doctors usedtofeedpeoplethroughtheass.
View ArticleI felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of to-do lists...
IPv6, a newer version of the Internet Protocol that most of the net will convert to during the next few years due to "address exhaustion" with the current IPv4, (previously, previously) has a variety...
View ArticleAnd there was wailing and gnashing of teeth
Once upon a time, typographical practice was anarchy. Printers put in all sizes of spaces in haphazard ways, including after periods. Then, a standard emerged: the single space after a period....
View ArticleUncle America
Blood Brother (2013) focuses on an American man who, after initially visiting as a tourist, moved to India to volunteer at the Arias Home of HOPE, a home for HIV-positive children in Acharapakkam, near...
View ArticleThe Ket had seven souls, unlike animals, who had only one.
The Ket from the Lake Munduiskoye (2008, 30 min.) The Ketpeople are an indigenous group in central Siberia whose population has numbered less than two thousand during the past century. Although mostly...
View ArticleOpen defecation solves the child mortality puzzle among Indian Muslims
“Hindus are, on average, richer and more educated than Muslims. But oddly, the child mortality rate for Hindus is much higher. All observable factors say Hindus should fare better, but they don't....
View ArticleThe *first* revelation this week, at least
This week's Glenn Greenwaldrevelation is that Britain's GCHQ JTRIG intelligence organization offers its agents and planners tools with abilities to increase the search ranking of chosen web sites,...
View ArticleGermany's 2014 Africa Prize for rescuing Timbuktu manuscripts
Abdel Kader Haidara awarded Germany's 2014 Africa Prize for rescuing Timbuktu manuscripts. Under his direction centuries' worth of texts were smuggled out when the city was taken by book-burning...
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