Researchers at Harvard University and MIT wanted to see if a mathematical model developed to track and predict the spread of infectious diseases such as SARS and foot-and-mouth disease could also apply to the spread of happiness – and found that it worked.
How are sadness and happiness like diseases? They’re infectious, study finds.
5-Minute Project idea from popular science magazine:
To stash your passwords where no one will ever look
1. Carefully open up the floppy’s plastic casing, and remove the round disk inside
2. Write your passwords on one-inch-square pieces of paper. Glue them to the edge of one side of the disk
3. Reassemble the casing, and slide open the metal piece to view the passwords whenever you need them
NBC Nightly News 6.3.2010 news segment. Jupiter takes hit from asteroid or comet. Earth is saved. 
We are not talking about two guys named Justin Case and Justin Time going against each other. What we are talking about is learning things “just in case” versus “just in time”. That was a lame attempt to be funny, wasn’t it? Even if it was so what? Let’s move on, shall we? Today, I stumbled upon John D. Cook’s blog while I was doing a valuable research on the Internet. Right, I was doing a research. Don’t ask me what it was about though. Back to Prof. Cook’s blog entry. He posed the following question: “What do you learn just in case you’ll need it in the future, and what do you learn just in time when you do need it?” I know you are dying to know the answer to this question. Go ahead and click on the following link and find out: ”Just in case” versus “just in time”
In case you are wondering, the following is the definition of otaku from Urban Dictionary:
Otaku is the honorific word of Taku (home).
Otaku is extremely negative in meaning as it is used to refer to someone who stays at home all the time and doesn’t have a life (no social life, no love life, etc)
Usually an otaku person has nothing better to do with their life so they pass the time by watching anime, playing videogames, surfing the internet (otaku is also used to refer to a nerd/hacker/programmer).
In the Western culture, people confuse otaku to be something positive like “Guru”. If you think about it, it’s not really good to be called a guru if it means you are a total loser who can’t socialize with other people except through the Internet.
Other Japanese words which have been confused by Westerners also include but not limited to: Anime, Manga, etc
George Kembel: Awakening Creativity
George Kembel, co-founder and executive director of the d.school, explores ways to tap the latent human capacity for creativity and innovation.
To: Rush Limbaugh
From: Roger Ebert
You should be horse-whipped for the insult you have paid to the highest office of our nation.
Please click on the hypelink to read the rest. A Letter to Rush Limbaugh :: rogerebert.com :: Opinion.
What a great invention!
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