Your Cell Phone Is Not Killing You
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… Read more
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 8×10″ prints too. The differences between the cameras… Read more
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
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.… Read more
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… Read more
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