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Can Silence Actually Drive You Crazy?
Many stories have circulated claiming the longest anyone has stayed in an ultra-quiet anechoic chamber is 45 minutes, the reason being any longer would drive you insane. To me this sounded like unsubstantiated rubbish, like the claim the Great Wall is the only manmade structure visible from space. So I put my own psyche on the line, subjecting myself to over an hour of the most intense quiet on Earth.
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Samsung Galaxy Note Pro review
There’s no room for a BlackBerry in the boardroom anymore. And that old, thick, has-to-be-plugged-in-or-it'll-die-in-three-minutes PC and external mouse on the desk in front of you? That has to go too. What you, self-respecting businessman that you are, need instead is something small and light so you can work from anywhere.
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Facebook is buying WhatsApp for $16 billion
Facebook has entered into an agreement to purchase WhatsApp, the massively popular messaging client, for $16 billion in cash and stock.
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So this explains the phrase boiling with anger
Body temperature locations based off human emotions.
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Document from 1981 reveals why mouse cursor is tilted and not straight
Have you ever wondered why mouse cursor on your computer is slightly tilted and not straight? Why isn’t the cursor positioned vertically which would be a more logical choice? Because that would be more convenient for selecting text and other tasks.
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How the North ended up on top of the map
Why do maps always show the north as up? For those who don’t just take it for granted, the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top. But there’s really no good reason for the north to claim top-notch cartographic real estate over any other bearing, as an examination of old maps from different places and periods can confirm.
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Dew on a dragonfly
Dragonflies are important predators that eat mosquitoes, and other small insects like flies, bees, ants, wasps, and very rarely butterflies. They are usually found around marshes, lakes, ponds, streams, and wetlands because their larvae, known as "nymphs", are aquatic. Some 5680 different species of dragonflies (Odonata) are known in the world today.
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Why life on other worlds would be far weirder than us
Last month, the American Astronomical Society's 223rd meeting featured the announcement of a few breakthroughs: Using the Kepler space observatory, researchers had discovered a planet roughly the...
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Luge P.O.V. - This is how it feels to be a luger
What it's like to fly down an ice tunnel at 130 km per hour, wearing nothing but spandex and a helmet... Just don't blink.
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The 1932 Winter Olympics Looked Way More Fun, Dangerous than Sochi
Buried deep in the video database of the Internet Archive is footage of one of the first Winter Games — Lake Placid in 1932. The Olympics have changed since then; they're safer, smarter, and lamer.
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Happy days: Human brain now registers smiley face emoticon as real facial expression
The human brain has adapted to react to emoticons in the same way we would to expressions on real human faces, new research suggests.
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Scientists manage to turn human skin into stem cells
Human skin cells have been turned into stem cells which have the potential to develop into fully-formed embryos, simply by bathing them in weak citric acid for half an hour, a leading scientist has told The Independent on Sunday.
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Tech Time Warp of the Week: The Horrifying Apple Super Bowl Ad That Time Forgot, 1985
In 1985, Steve Jobs and company ran a TV ad called Lemmings, which you can watch above. The ad once again painted the IBM crowd as drone-like humans under a godawful spell, and it aimed to ramp up interest in Apple’s latest brainstorm: the Macintosh Office. The only trouble is the ad actually turned people off, not on — and the product it pitched wouldn’t be ready for years.
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An Aging Brain Is Still Pretty Smart
A few years ago, Michael Ramscar, a linguistics researcher at the University of Tübingen in Germany, came across a paper saying that cognitive decline starts as early as age 45. He was 45 himself and felt he hadn't yet peaked. He remembers thinking: "That doesn't make sense to me; 99 percent of the people I look up to intellectually, who keep me on my mettle, are older than I am."
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A seahorse inspecting a diver's watch
Or maybe he's just using it as a mirror to check himself out.
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How I lost my $50,000 Twitter username
I had a rare Twitter username, @N. Yep, just one letter. I’ve been offered as much as $50,000 for it. People have tried to steal it. Password reset instructions are a regular sight in my email inbox. As of today, I no longer control @N. I was extorted into giving it up.
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Hoaxsters bought us 75,000 fake followers in a new kind of Twitter attack
Aside from a phishing attack by the Syrian Electronic Army and a few fraudulent pizza orders from 4chan users, most of the threats the Daily Dot and its reporters have received over the past two and half years have been bogus. But the one we received Monday was the most peculiar to date. A social media marketing firm threatened to flood the Daily Dot’s Twitter account with fake followers. And we knew these guys could deliver.
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Apple reflects on 30 years of Macintosh computers
Thirty years ago, the Mac put the power of technology in everyone's hands, launching a generation of innovators who continue to change the world. This video celebrates some of those pioneers and the incredible impact they've made.
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IP address does not prove online piracy, US judge says in landmark ruling
A US federal judge in Washington wrote that a suspected internet pirate should not be prosecuted solely because his computer's IP address was identified by a film studio. The landmark opinion may tip the fortunes of defendants in similar situations.
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Traveling in a Boeing 747 in the 1970s was pretty damn awesome
Air travel did have a Golden Age. There was more space, classier interiors and bolder designs. You don't even have to go back to the 50s and 60s to see that. Here are some of the actual cabin interiors for the Boeing 747s in the 1970s. They are awesome.
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Ball Lightning isn't just a myth, it's real and has been recorded for the first time...
For centuries, people have reported seeing luminous, spherical orbs during storms — a phenomenon known as “ball lightning”.
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The iPod of Prison
Why a cheap, decade-and-a-half-old model of AM/FM radio remains ubiquitous in correctional facilities and coveted outside them.
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Google Unveils Smart Contact Lens That Lets Diabetics Measure Their Glucose Levels
This isn’t Google Glass in a contact lens, but it may just be Google’s first step in this direction. The company’s Google X lab just teased a smart contact lens on its blog that is meant to help diabetics measure their glucose levels.
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Drinking Alcohol Doesn't Actually Kill Brain Cells
Myth: Alcohol kills brain cells. Now, to qualify that title, pure alcohol will absolutely kill brain cells and many other types of cells, which is why it is used as a disinfectant. However, recent research has shown that the quantity of alcohol you could possibly take in, without killing yourself, does not introduce enough alcohol into your bloodstream to kill brain cells.
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Kids These Days: A 1950s Guide to Hooking Up
An archival film teaches the high school kids of yesteryear about how physical to get on a date.
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Scientists discover giant trench under Antarctic Ice
The research involved scientists from Newcastle University, the University of Bristol's Glaciology Centre, the British Antarctic Survey and the universities of Edinburgh, Exeter, and York. They charted the Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands – an ancient mountain range buried beneath several kilometres of Antarctic ice - by combining data from satellites and ice-penetrating radars towed behind skidoos and on-board small aircraft.
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Net neutrality gets a kick in the teeth
A US court has ruled against the FCC's Open Internet regulations, putting the future of net neutrality completely up in the air.
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Scientists have created 'micro-windmills' that could juice your cellphone
Researchers at the University of Texas Arlington have developed tiny "micro-windmills" so small that ten of them can fit on one grain of rice. If you were to glue a hundred of them onto a cell phone case and hold it out the window, researcher J.C. Chiao says, you could potentially revive your dead phone in just a few minutes.
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Google purchases Nest for $3.2 billion
Google has just purchased Nest Labs, the maker of the Nest Learning Thermostat and Protect smoke detector, for $3.2 billion in cash. According to a Google press release, Nest will continue to...
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New Study Exposes Acupuncture As Pseudoscience
A new study published online in the journal Cancer suggests that any relief acupuncture brings may be the result of a placebo effect.
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