From Time:
Ning Wen and his wife were arrested last fall at their home office in Manitowoc, Wis., for allegedly sending their native China $500,000 worth of computer parts that could enhance missile systems. As these naturalized citizens await trial, similar episodes in Mount Pleasant, N.J., and Palo Alto, Calif., point only to the tip of [...]
Podcasters, should you encode in mono or stereo? From IT Conversations:
I want to correct a bit of mis-information that’s floating around the Podosphere: that you should avoid the use of stereo when encoding your MP3 podcasts that are mostly speech. If you just want the quick answer:
Encode mostly speech podcasts using Joint Stereo with [...]
From Wired:
Logical and precise, left-brain thinking gave us the Information Age. Now comes the Conceptual Age - ruled by artistry, empathy, and emotion.
Every year I post bout the firebombing of Dresden and Hamburg. This year is no different, except that at my source is the new English langue version of Der Spiegel launched recently:
VICTOR KLEMPERER’S DRESDEN DIARIES: Surviving the Firestorm
Once, as she was searching, she had wanted to light a cigarette and had had no matches, something [...]
From the Discovery Channel
Do Valentines Hinder Love?
Senders of greeting cards and valentines may actually use the cards to distance themselves from their feelings, reflecting a culture in which relationships, due to social and economic pressures, are “necessarily temporary,” according to a new book by an Ohio State University professor [Barry Shank].
…He also mentioned that [...]
From Science Blog: “Study links Ebola outbreaks to great ape carcasses”
All recent Ebola virus outbreaks in humans in forests between Gabon and the Republic of Congo were the result of handling infected wild animal carcasses, according to a study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and its regional partners. Appearing in the February edition of [...]
From Little Green Footballs:
Religious Education students in Britain must now include the letters “pbuh” (“peace be upon him”) in parentheses every time they write the name of Mohammed, according to teacher David Holford.
[Update: Sleuthing by wise heads at Abelard.org and uk.politics.misc indicate this is story may well be bunk.]
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From Endgadget:
It was bad enough that we had to face the rumors that Dell was coming out with a 24-inch widescreen LCD monitor just two days after we finally succumbed to temptation and ordered the 2005FPW, their 20-inch widescreen LCD, but today the 2405FPW went from rumor to reality. And as you’d expect, it’s [...]
From American Scientist newsletter:
“A broken heart can actually break your heart, according to a new study out of Johns Hopkins University. Cardiologist Ilan Wittstein has shown that the overwhelming emotional stress that accompanies the end of a long relationship—due to death, divorce or breakup—can provoke a heart malfunction that is similar to a heart attack.
Wittstein [...]
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