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POPSClipmarks helps make Firefox a favorite browser As part of a piece about Apple launching Safari for PCs, the Telegraph's inhouse expert gave ONE example of an extension that makes Firefox the favorite browser for many. Guess which one? Clipmarks! Thanks Rick!
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POPSOne World, Many Minds: Intelligence in the Animal Kingdom In recent decades scientists have cast aside a linear, sequential view of brain evolution in which the human brain incorporates components resembling the brains of modern fishes, amphibians, reptiles and birds and have adopted a new view of divergently branching brain and mind evolution. Substantial cognitive abilities have evolved multiple times, based on differing neural substrates—including the mental agility that enables us humans to decipher brain evolution and its meaning
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POPSThe Great Silence His question became famously known as the Fermi Paradox. The paradox is the contradiction between the high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and yet the lack of evidence for, or contact with, any such civilizations.
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POPSEverNote - Create, Organize, Find any type of Notes Nice stuff from some Russian boys. Remember the Apple Newton fiasco? They were responsible for the hand-recognition piece. I heard a story (which is likely to be BS, but it has an amusement factor) that they bought the technology from some professor for a bottle of vodka. Hopefully this version works better than Newton did.
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POPS Photometeors One common example and three not-so-common photometeors that you can start looking for.
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POPSThe cognitive neuroscience of magic Magic combines multiple principles of attention, awareness, trust and perception to both overtly and covertly misdirect the audience. Whether they are used for performance art or as a means to illicitly separate victims from their money and valuables, the accomplished performer uses robust and intuitive manipulative devices that are of great interest to neuroscientists pursuing the neural underpinnings of cognition, memory, sensation, social attachment, causal inference and awareness.
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POPSThe Singularity Frankenstein Singularity defender George Dvorsky is spot-on when he calls for the singularity-aware to “frame the issue as a scientific endeavor and pitch the various scenarios as hypotheses” and in that “we need to keep the language within the scientific vernacular”. And that’s exactly what’s NOT happening.
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POPS10 Common Myths about Mental Illness 8. Children can’t have serious mental disorders. 9. Doctor/patient confidentiality is absolute and always protected. 10. Mental illness is no longer stigmatized in society.
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POPSWho is the victim here? FTA: Second, Polanski was "demonized by the press" because he raped a child, and was convicted because he pled guilty. He "feared heavy sentencing" because drugging and raping a child is generally frowned upon by the legal system.
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POPS World's Largest Disease Association Network In the great scheme of things, we can think that there are two ways to understand the things that surround us,” lead author César Hidalgo of Harvard University . “One is to try to understand what things are made of, i.e. take the objects that make up the world and break them up in order to study their components. The second way is to take the objects that make up the world and see how they relate to other objects, in what context they occur and how they are connected. Until now, medicine has concentrated most of its efforts in generating understanding by disaggregating their objects of study (diseases) into essential components (genes, proteins, pathways, organs). Here we show that it is in principle possible to characterize and understand diseases also by looking at their context, rather than their components
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POPSThe Sins John Edward Did Not Commit You know what? I get sick and tired of the moral majority being the judge and jury of a personal situation which is between a husband and wife, especially since so many of them just love to pork it up with hot babes themselves or better yet, love getting same sex encounters in public restrooms.
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POPSWeird 'spookfish' has mirrors for eyes The other half of the eye, which looks like a black bump on the side of the head, points downwards into the ocean depths. The researchers believe that this part of the eye is looking for flashes of bioluminescent light that may give away predators lurking beneath. This 'diverticular' eye uses a complex mirror to detect and focus the light. "A mirror can give a very high contrast or bright image, which is exactly what you need in the deep sea," explained Partridge. " can also gather a lot of light," he said. The mirror is made from tiny plates, most likely guanine crystals, stacked up in multiple layers. While this arrangement is not unique in the animal kingdom – it gives fish their silvery sheen – the plates are arranged in such a way that they direct the light to a sharp focus on the retina. "There's a kind of very unique micro-assembly going on," said Partridge.
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POPSWhat Does The Red Dot On The Forehead Mean ? Worship of intellect is trusting your own intellect AND other's intellect, especially in the fields you do not have enough knowledge. Intellectual honesty and its worship have been corner stones of Hindu thought. 'Fully THINK (ponder) on what I said and then do as YOU deem fit'. Indian scriptures ask 'Drushtipootam nyasetpaadam, vastra pootam pibet jalam' - Look (think) before you leap (embark on any activity) and 'filter the water with a cloth before you drink'. Kathopanashad calls intellect as the charioteer. Body is a chariot, Indriyas (sense/connotative organs) are horses, mind is the reins to be used to control them, Atman (Self) is the rider within, and Vishay (objects of senses) are the tracks on which horses run. It asks us to overcome the ego, be selfless, yet asks to do all actions/ work/ worship with intellect.
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