I know a lot of people (you know who you are) who will be happy to hear this: More than a decade's use of mobile phones does not increase the risk of brain cancer, according to one of the largest studies yet conducted into the link. ... The latest study published in the US Journal of the National Cancer Institute, is a follow up to a study in 2001. It extends to an average of … [Read more...] about Your Cell Phone Is Not Killing You
When Your Camera Does Not Matter
Ken Rockwell compares the picture quality from a $150 camera to that of a $5000 camera. As you'd expect, if you pixel-peep, the $5000 camera is better. If you examine the photos at a reasonable resolution, however, the cameras take similar pictures. They'd look the same in 8x10" prints too. The differences between the cameras are not as important as variations in how you … [Read more...] about When Your Camera Does Not Matter
Who Needs Aliens When the Sea is Full of Creatures Like This?
Here's a cool and slightly freaky video of an octopus escaping from a box through a 1 inch hole. … [Read more...] about Who Needs Aliens When the Sea is Full of Creatures Like This?
Dead Letters
AP writer Meghan Barr has an article about dead letter handling for zipcode 10048: It is the kind of holiday mail that might have been tossed aside, discarded like any other piece of junk mail: a special gift offer for a facial at a local spa. Only the address on the letter no longer exists. And the woman the letter is addressed to died more than five years ago in the … [Read more...] about Dead Letters
Bong Hits 4 Jesus
Bong Hits 4 Jesus is going to the Supreme Court! Basically, a bunch of people showed up at a rally in Juneau, Alaska, to watch the Olympic torch pass by, and one of them held up a "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner. His name was Joseph Frederick and he was a student at Juneau-Douglas High School. The school had let him out early to go see the torch, so they tried to discipline him … [Read more...] about Bong Hits 4 Jesus