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POPSColorstrology A metaphysical world where color is your guide (go to site to find out 'your' color)... "The content in the site is strictly for entertainment purposes..."
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POPSClearest sign yet of dark matter detected "Had the experiment seen five events above the expected background, the claim for having detected dark matter would have been a lot stronger. Nonetheless, the team cannot dismiss the possibility that the two events are because of dark matter." "Space-based telescopes like PAMELA have seen particles that could be coming from the annihilation of dark matter in our galaxy. Similar sightings have been made by a balloon-based experiment called ATIC. Soon, the Large Hadron Collider will be starting to smash protons together in the hopes of creating dark matter."
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POPS"Blue Skies" versus "Goal-Oriented" Research The Large Hadron Collider at Cern near Geneva has now achieved the status of the most powerful particle accelerator and the biggest and most expensive experiment in history. Will it be worth its cost? (via @ProfBrianCox)
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POPSHow fast is your site? An experimental feature in Google's Webmaster Tools that shows you information about the speed of your site and suggestions for making it faster...
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POPSThe Big Picture of the Milky Way The image spans a mind-boggling area of 120 feet long (ca. 36.6 m) by 3 feet wide at its sides, bulging to 6 feet at the center of our humongous galaxy. The panorama represents the combined effort of two Spitzer survey teams, who used two of the onboard instruments.
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POPSSquare Twitter Co-Founder Launches New Mobile Payment System
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POPSHow does an Etch-a-Sketch work? I absolutely love this device. I can vaguely remember it from when I was a child. I didn't know what it was called, and for some reason never thought of searching online for it. I came accross an article by chance that mentioned it. Hopefully, I will soon be the owner of one of those and am terribly excited - more than I should reasonably be :) And now I also know how it works...
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POPSHow to do Philosophy (via @Wildcat2030) I think Wittgenstein deserves to be famous not for the discovery that most previous philosophy was a waste of time, which judging from the circumstantial evidence must have been made by every smart person who studied a little philosophy and declined to pursue it further, but for how he acted in response. Instead of quietly switching to another field, he made a fuss, from inside. He was Gorbachev. (...) A Proposal: Instead of trying to answer the question: -- What are the most general truths? let's try to answer the question -- Of all the useful things we can say, which are the most general?
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POPSHow to Escape Perfectionism "To the chagrin of those of you who regard yourselves as perfectionists, you simply exhibit perfectionistic tendencies in an unrealistic attempt to achieve what in the majority of cases cannot be achieved to begin with." I guess, that's why we never actually "attempt", because we know/sense it's impossible... That doesn't keep us from wanting to achieve... It's frustrating eventually...
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POPSOne man's loss of sensation allows researchers a window into basic questions about touch and movement Cases like Waterman?s are remarkable in the precision of the damage: Waterman lost none of the nerves that control muscle movement and he is still able to feel temperature, pain, deep pressure and muscle fatigue (see chart on page 20). He has lost all of the cutaneous nerves that provide the skin with the sense of touch and all of the nerves attached to muscles and tendons that provide a sense of joint and limb position. More, on video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKxyJfE831Q
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POPSThe myth of the Concentration Oasis "The ability to focus on a single task, relatively uninterrupted, is the strange anomaly in the history of our psychological development. (...) New technology has not created some sort of unnatural cyber-world (...) and when we compare the level of stress and distraction it causes in comparison to the life of the average low-tech family, it's nothing. (...) The past, and for most people on the planet, the present, have never been an oasis of mental calm and creativity. And anyone who thinks they have it hard because people keep emailing them should trying bringing up a room of kids with nothing but two pairs of hands and a cooking pot."
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POPSCoffee - I like coffee so much that I have tea for breakfast :-) One man's roller coaster history with coffee: "I like coffee so much that I have tea for breakfast: The first cup of the day in particular is so good that I’m afraid I won’t be able to properly appreciate it when I am half-asleep. Therefore, I celebrate it two hours later when I am fully conscious".
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POPSUK Snow Pictures Of course, the UK media always go wild if a bit of snow falls, especially in London. But 's no joke when you remember the less reported sitings of zombie snowmen.
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