Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Enter the robot self

Sounds good to me.

2011 preview: Enter the robot self - tech - 29 December 2010 - New Scientist:

"Why drag yourself to work through rush-hour traffic when you can stay at home and send a remote-controlled robot instead?

"Firms in the US and Japan are already selling robot avatars that allow office workers to be in two places at once. So 2011 could be the year when many of us find ourselves sitting across the desk from an electronic colleague."

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

How to Thrive: Dan Buettner's Secrets of Happiness

"People are happiest when they spend their time and money on experiences, as opposed to objects."

"The happiest people in America socialize about seven hours a day."

"You're three times more likely to be happy if you are married."

"The biggest determinant of whether or not you'll like your job is if you have a best friend there."



Trillions of Earths Could Be Orbiting 300 Sextillion Stars

"Trillions and trillions"

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/12/01/131730552/-trillions-of-earths-could-be-orbiting-300-sextillion-stars

'No Labels' Movement Seeks Bipartisanship

"No Left. Not Right. Forward."



2010 world gone wild: Quakes, floods, blizzards

2010. The year the Earth struck back.


Awesome photo: A Supercell Thunderstorm Cloud Over Montana

Is that a spaceship or a cloud?

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap101130.html


AP: Nearly 1 in 4 youths fail US Army exam


This is eligible youths, mind you. High school graduates who are neither obese nor have criminal pasts.

Seems we're failing our minority children, especially.

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