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Woman & Technology Revisited - The Linux HOWTO
Women and Linux, but really, it's women and computers generally. "This document is intended mainly for the male Linux enthusiast who would like to see more women involved in Linux. Its secondary audience is both men and women who have been too busy having fun with Linux and computers to sit down and think about why most women don't share their interests. We hope you'll come away from this HOWTO with some understanding of why women stay away from Linux and with a few ideas about what you can do to reverse that trend."
:: STARTED BY w1rebaby
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:51 07.11.02
Food colourings linked to mood & behaviour changes in children by gov't study.
TEMPER tantrums in up to a quarter of young children could be caused by food colourings added to popular brands.
A government-funded study has established a link between colourings added to food and changes in children’s mood and behaviour.
:: STARTED BY Enamon
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:48 03.11.02
"Stuff that works"
The hotchpotch, the goodnuff, Rowland Emett and life & technology.
:: STARTED BY We're The Great Old Ones Now
:: 60 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:21 28.10.02
Information Theory
How do you think information has been impacted by recent inventions? How do you think it will be impacted by inventions to come? Got any good books/web sites on the subject?
:: STARTED BY tSuibhne
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:45 26.10.02
Blogger Hacked!
Blogger has been hacked and is down, beware.
:: STARTED BY w1rebaby
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:03 26.10.02
NASA Finds Ancient Bridge?
A 1,750,000 year-old man-made bridge? Hmmmmm...
:: STARTED BY nutella23
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:15 20.10.02
Cryptozoology: Scientists closing in on Orang Pendek, the Little Man of Sumatra
If the hair tests come in with unknown DNA, it means that there's a large primate out there in Indonesia that Western Science has dismissed as a legend - just as the Wild Man of Borneo was dismissed, until they identified the orangutan. What else could be waiting out there - sasquatch? yeti? skunk ape? bigfoot?
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:50 19.10.02
IRIS - the next wave of P2P, brought to you by the US Goverment
No summary available
:: STARTED BY tSuibhne
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:38 17.10.02
Atlantis Rising?? Caribbean Marine Archeology
No summary available
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 32 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:10 14.10.02
Do Primates Have a Future?
The top 25 most endangered primates, and the regions where they are found, are:
Greater Bamboo Lemur (Hapalemur simus) Madagascar
Perrier's Sifaka (Propithecus perrieri) Madagascar
Silky Sifaka (Propithecus candidus) Madagascar
Black-faced Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus caissara) Brazil
Buff-headed Capuchin (Cebus xanthosternos) Brazil
Northern Muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus) Brazil
Miss Waldron's Red Colobus (Procolobus badius waldroni) Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
Roloway Guenon (Cercopithecus diana roloway) and White-naped Mangabey (Cercocebus atys lunulatus) Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
Tana River Mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus galeritus) and Tana River Red Colobus (Procolobus rufomitratus) Kenya
Sanje Mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus sanjei) Tanzania
Natuna Banded Leaf Monkey (Presbytis natunae) Indonesia
Pig-tailed Snub-nosed Monkey or "Simakobu" (Simias concolor) Indonesia
Delacour's Langur (Trachypithecus delacouri) Vietnam
Golden-headed Langur (Trachypithecus poliocephalus) Vietnam
White-headed Langur (Trachypithecus leucocephalus) China
Gray-shanked Douc (Pygathrix nemaeus cinerea) Vietnam
Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) Vietnam
Yunnan Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) China
Guizhou Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus brelichi) China
Eastern Black Crested Gibbon (Nomascus nasutus) China and Vietnam
Mountain Gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda
Cross River Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) Nigeria and Cameroon
Sumatran Orangutan (Pongo abelii) Indonesia
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:21 12.10.02
Public understanding of science
How involved should the general public be in science?
:: STARTED BY Fist Fun
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:02 07.10.02
First private Moon landing given go-ahead
Commercial interest given go-ahead to land on Moon. GOod thing? Bad thing? Nothing?
:: STARTED BY Spatula Clarke
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:41 04.10.02
Asteroid Explosion & Nuclear War?
Doomsday scenario deluxe package! The movie Bruce Willis should have made...
:: STARTED BY nutella23
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:12 04.10.02
The Truth About Dogs
Dogs are genetically programmed to mooch off of you.
:: STARTED BY 8===>Q: alyn
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:11 04.10.02
Telesymphony
a symphony performed on mobile phones
:: STARTED BY Ariadne
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:58 03.10.02
New Statesman Right-Wing Blog article
No summary available
:: STARTED BY Someone Else
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:34 03.10.02
Randi again.
Debunking James Randi.
:: STARTED BY Enamon
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:51 02.10.02
Is there a reverse Placebo Effect?
No summary available
:: STARTED BY Enamon
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:49 02.10.02
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare - an evolution in learning or just another website?
:: STARTED BY Fist Fun
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:55 02.10.02
Pineal adventures
No summary available
:: STARTED BY feh
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:34 01.10.02
Female Circumcision: the good news and the bad news.
"Circumcised" women can still have normal sexual function, according to a new study.
This means that there's *really* no reason to do it, since the main rationale is to lower women's libido so they're less likely to engage in "improper" sex.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:58 01.10.02
More tech?
Are you interested in more tech oriented posts?
:: STARTED BY tSuibhne
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:20 27.09.02
Acupuncture, acupressure, & Reiki
Looking for info and pros/cons of these healing methods, especially personal accounts where applicable for help in dealing with on again/off again lower back problems.
:: STARTED BY nutella23
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:55 25.09.02
Is it hot in here? Temperature turns fruit flies gay.
A new study shows mutant fruit flies, when subjected to high temperatures, start practicing the love that dares not speak its name.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:06 25.09.02
Anyone read Wolfram's new book?
No summary available
:: STARTED BY iconoplast
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:08 25.09.02
The Antikythera Mechanism
Dare I mention... no, I should't, and yet.... ATLANTIS!?!?!?
:: STARTED BY gridley
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:43 25.09.02
Malcolm Gladwell on FACS: reading (and shaping) the mind through the face.
<B> "I knew someone who was on his communications staff. So I contacted him. I said, 'Look, Clinton's got this way of rolling his eyes along with a certain expression, and what it conveys is "I'm a bad boy." I don't think it's a good thing. I could teach him how not to do that in two to three hours.' And he said, 'Well, we can't take the risk that he's known to be seeing an expert on lying.' I think it's a great tragedy, because . . ." Ekman's voice trailed off. It was clear that he rather liked Clinton, and that he wanted Clinton's trademark expression to have been no more than a meaningless facial tic. Ekman shrugged. "Unfortunately, I guess, he needed to get caught—and he got caught."</B>
and, most excitingly,
<B>Ekman said that there was nothing magical about his ability to pick up an emotion that fleeting. It was simply a matter of practice. "I could show you forty examples, and you could pick it up. I have a training tape, and people love it. They start it, and they can't see any of these expressions. Thirty-five minutes later, they can see them all. What that says is that this is an accessible skill."</B>
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:25 24.09.02
How Does Human Consciousness Work?
"I cannot exaggerate how far we are from being able to construct a robot with the real-world cognitive capacities of a simple mammal."
"Aw, c'mon... not even a little?"
:: STARTED BY gridley
:: 36 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:05 22.09.02
Scientists create antimatter
The antimatter universe is here at last. Rejoice.
:: STARTED BY Sax
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:23 22.09.02
Has anyone tried sleep learning?
No summary available
:: STARTED BY GreatForm
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:10 18.09.02
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