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Monday, February 20, 2006
Explaining Ice: The Answers Are Slippery "The explanation once commonly dispensed in textbooks [about why ice is slippery] turns out to be wrong. And slipperiness is just one of the unanswered puzzles about ice. Besides the everyday ice that you slip on, there are about a dozen other forms, some of which experts suspect exist in the hot interior of Earth or on the surface of Pluto. Scientists expect to discover still more variations in the coming years." posted by Farookh at 11:07 PM Comment (0)  
'Sleeping on it' best for complex decisions "Complex decisions are best left to your unconscious mind to work out, according to a new study, and over-thinking a problem could lead to expensive mistakes." posted by Farookh at 8:00 PM Comment (0)
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Personal Rapid Transit Here is a video mockup of the PRT in use at the MS Redmond campus and details on the proposed solution. posted by Farookh at 3:54 PM Comment (0)
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Cooking an egg using a PC He should've used an Intel chip instead of an AMD. His cooking time would've been 3 mins instead of 11 mins. posted by Farookh at 10:31 PM Comment (1)
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