Futurist Thomas Frey: For colleges and universities, the great age of experimentation is now upon us.
Last week, Harvard and MIT announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to offer free online courses from both universities.
HP busted for putting less and less ink into printer cartridges
What you see is not what you get.
The price for HP ink cartridges isn’t shrinking but the amount of ink that HP puts into those cartridges sure has, according to an investigation by HP Ink Cartridges.co.uk.
The site took two of the same model of ink cartridges, the HP 350. One was produced in 2010, the other in 2012. They sawed off the top and measured the spot that holds the ink with a sponge. The one from 2012 held about half the ink from 2010. But from the outside they looked the same…
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Facebook to launch its own app store
App Center
Facebook is launching a new App Center, The App Center will not just have Facebook apps but will be “a place to find social web, desktop, and mobile apps”, as well.
Ugly pancake contest seeks your entries
Nutritious and informative.
Saipancakes, who normally makesastounding pancakes like the ones above, had a rather spectacular pancakefail (below), prompting him to inaugurate an ugly pancake contest…
Pancakefail example.
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Thinking with your heart as well as your head is the zen way of Rex the cat
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Quote of the Day: “When you don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s hard to know when you’re finished.” – Tommy Smothers
Wi-Fi-Blocking Wallpaper protects your Web Fortress by keeping neighbors out
Privacy?
Scientists from the institut polytechnique Grenoble INP and the Centre Technique du Papier have developed a novel new product so gratuitous, it almost seems necessary: a silver-crystal coated wallpaper that can block neighbors from freeloading off your Wi-Fi network. The silver crystals are arranged in such a way that they are able to block certain wireless frequencies, not least of which is the same frequency as a WiFI router.
But, what about just setting up a password-protected network?
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In Case of Emergency, eat this book
You never know when that time might be NOW!
After you’ve foolishly walked away from your Land Rover to explore a mirage in the Arabian desert, you’ve found yourself lost. What to do?
Thank goodness for this survival guide that explains how to keep yourself alive with tips on dealing with scorching temperatures, building shelters, lighting a fire and so on. The best thing is: you can eat the book!
Actually the whole thing is a clever ad campaign by Y&R Dubai ad agency for Land Rover…
Study: Parents today are happier than their childless counterparts
Looks like having kids may not make you miserable after all.
Based on early research, the conventional wisdom that’s developed over the past few decades has been that parents are less happy, more depressed and have less-satisfying marriages than their childless counterparts.
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Assassin bug carries victims on its back to fend off enemies
Assassin bug
The assassin bug is less than a centimeter in length and that is something for which, quite possibly, we can be truly grateful! The bug is found in Malaysia and has a trick up its sleeve once it has finished its dinner. It attaches the empty carcases of its victims on its back – a ploy thought to be an attempt to avoid becoming a victim itself. (Photos)
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86 million Americans are ‘invisibly unemployed’ because they have stopped looking for work altogether
86 million Americans were not counted in the labor force because they didn’t keep up a regular job search.
In the United States there are many more jobless people than you might think there are.
The unemployment rate is falling, but that doesn’t include the millions of nonworking adults who aren’t even looking for a job anymore. And hiring isn’t strong enough to keep up with population growth.
Smartphones indespensible in the US: Study
More Americans can’t live without their smartphones anymore.
People are using their mobile devices increasingly to settle a dispute, coordinate a meeting, find a restaurant or get emergency information, according to a new study released Monday.
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Amazing macro photographs of insects covered in dew
Common Fly covered in dew.
Perspective is everything. And that is especially true when considering these amazing photographs by Ondrej Pakan. He takes creepy crawlies that you’d usually steer clear of and turns them into something beautiful…
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