(2.12.2005)
Napster Planning to Attack iPod
(2.12.2005)
New Polymer Could Tell Fishers When the Line is Hot
(2.12.2005)
Real "Space Federation" Coming
(2.12.2005)
MIT Working on a $100 Laptop for the World's Poor
(2.12.2005)
New Multi-Player Pac-Man Can Jump Machines
(2.12.2005)
Hewlett-Packard Fires Boss, Gives Her $42 Million to Leave
She's even getting health benefits for an extra year. Wouldn't $42 million cover a trip to the doctor?
(2.12.2005)
Self-Esteem No Cure-All for Academic Failure?
Article in Scientific American article says we've been barking up the wrong tree for a long time about self-esteem; it may not have the causal relationship with high test scores and overall happiness that we've been led to believe; they may be correlation only.
(2.12.2005)
Quake That Caused Asian Tsunami was 9.3, Not 9.0
Northwestern University seismologists say it was three times bigger than originally thought (Richter is a logarithmic scale), making it the second-largest ever recorded. 1/3 of the movement was "fast slip," but the missing part was "slow slip."
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