March 2011
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“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy;
if you...”
– Socrates
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Craziest Laptop of All Time →
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Condoms
A sales representative for a condom company was on her way to an international condom convention. Hurrying through the busy airport, she dropped her briefcase carrying her samples, scattering dozens and dozens of condoms all over the terminal floor. She noticed fellow travellers staring at her as she tried to put the condoms back into her briefcase. “It’s okay,” she explained....
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Miguel Nicolelis & Beyond Boundaries By...
Miguel Nicolelis, the neuroscientist who heads Duke’s Center for Neuroengineering, is featured today in an engrossing radio interview with Diane Rehm on how brain plasticity, computational neuroscience, and neuroengineering are combining to really stretch the impact of neuroscience.
Diane and her guest will discuss the new neuroscience of connecting brains with machines–and how it will change...
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Consequence of $1 increase in the price of a...
Charles Courtemanche, an economics professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, published in 2008 a study showing that a sustained $1 increase in the price of a gallon of gas results in a 10 percent drop in the nation’s obesity rate. Americans who walk and bike more often and eat at restaurants less often will suffer fewer obesity-related diseases. Every $1 uptick in gas...
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Abbott and Costello Learn Hebrew
ABBOTT: I see you’re here for your Hebrew lesson. COSTELLO: I’m ready to learn. A: Now, the first thing you must understand is that Hebrew and English have many words which sound alike, but they do not mean the same thing. C: Sure, I understand. A: Now, don’t be too quick to say that. C: How stupid do you think I am -don’t answer that. It’s simple-some words in Hebrew sound like words in...
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In the Express Lane
I was in the express lane at the store quietly fuming. Completely ignoring the sign, the woman ahead of me had slipped into the check-out line pushing a cart piled high with groceries. Imagine my delight when the cashier beckoned the woman to come forward, looked into the cart and asked sweetly, “So which six items would you like to buy?”
— Bill Stebbins
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“Rich people are buying Geiger counters. Poor people are putting bags of...”
– Jay Leno
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Oldie: Confucius Says...
Passionate kiss, like spider web, leads to undoing of fly. Lady who goes camping must beware of evil intent. Squirrel who runs up woman’s leg will not find nuts. Man who leaps off cliff jumps to conclusion. Man who runs in front of car gets tired, man who runs behind car gets exhausted. Man who eats many prunes get good run for money. War does not determine who is right, it determines...
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Watchהנדבנים של נתניהו
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Oldie: Laws of Combat
If the enemy is in range, so are you. Incoming fire has the right of way. There is always a way. The easy way is always mined. Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo. Professionals are predictable, it’s the amateurs that are dangerous. If you can’t remember, then the claymore is pointed at you. The enemy diversion you have been ignoring will be the main attack. If...
It's Good to be Rich →
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Earth Hour 2011 24.3.2011: מכבים את האור לשעה
At 8:30 PM on Saturday 26th March 2011, lights will switch off around the globe for Earth Hour and people will commit to actions that go beyond the hour.
למען כדור הארץ: מכבים את האור לשעה ישראל מצטרפת ליוזמה העולמית להחשכת כדור הארץ למשך שעה, ביום חמישי 24.3.2011 החל מהשעה 20:00. בפרוייקט הכלל עולמי משתתפות ערים נוספות ברחבי העולם. איפה מכבים את האור ומתי?
20:00 תל-אביב-יפו I ירוחם I...
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Oldie: Hazardous Material
Information Sheet ELEMENT: Women SYMBOL: Wo DISCOVERER: Adam ATOMIC MASS: Accepted at 58.6kg, but known to vary from 40kg on up. OCCURRENCES: Copious quantities in all urban and suburban areas. Physical Properties:
Surface usually covered in painted film.
Boils at nothing; freezes without known reason.
Melts if given special treatment.
Bitter if incorrectly used.
Found in various states...
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Historic Humour
Q: How many historians does it take to change a light bulb? A: There is a great deal of debate on this issue. Up until the mid-20th century, the accepted answer was ‘one’: and this Whiggish narrative underpinned a number of works that celebrated electrification and the march of progress in light-bulb changing. Beginning in the 1960s, however, social historians increasingly rejected the ‘Great...
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Amateur Video of Tsunami
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יוליוס קיסר, הכבשה ומעמד האישה →
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The Really Down Under Diet
Would you like to eat 4000 calories a day? Of whatever food you like? And still lose weight faster than in any other diet?
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Press Release: The Land of Painted Caves by Jean...
Jean M. Auel has announced that the 6th and final book in the earth’s children series, finally has a set publishing date: 2011.03.29.
Read first 48 pages (first three chapters)
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רובוקופ פוגש את שליחות קטלנית
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Zimbabwe Charges 45 with Treason for Watching...
Zimbabwe tends to remain out of the media spotlight, despite having one of the worst and most enduring dictatorships in the world. One of the reasons for this invisibility is that its resident tinhorn, Robert Mugabe, has outlawed independent domestic media and refused to allow international media in.
But people have a passion for news and that passion has gotten 45 Zimbabweans arrested and...
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Person Finder: 2011 Japan Earthquake
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Move Over Watson, Here Come the Computer Lawyers...
— Woe be to the humble lawyer and overworked paralegal. Like master chess players and Jeopardy contestants before them, they too are now in the crosshairs of a superior artificial intelligence.
Called “e-discovery” after the tedious legal discovery process it now dominates, this category of software does more than just searching through millions of documents that are relevant to a...
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Map of the Damage From the Japanese Earthquake
An interactive map and photographs of places in Japan that were damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
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1967 Arab-Israeli War
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Ahoy, Matey! South Africa Launches Pirate...
South Africa has launched a Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) system, a sophisticated network of satellites meant to monitor sea vessels and track down pirates. Somali pirates are increasingly moving South, putting South African vessels in greater jeopardy.
Last year alone there were over 400 incidents of piracy off the horn of Africa, resulting in $238 million in ransoms....
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שפת גוף בעסקים →
ראשי פרקים מהרצאה על שפת גוף בעסקים. המרצה: דורית עוזיאל
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WatchVirtual Knockers
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Economics Lesson
A group of hundred freshmen from McGill University each contributed 10 bucks to the kitty. When the money was collected, they drew lots to see which one would have the night’s pleasure of visiting Montreal’s most famous call girl who charges one thousand dollars for a super sex fling. That night the winner, a love-starved, panting youth named Spencer, went to her luxurious boudoir and...
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Terraforming Earth: How to Wreck a Planet in 3,000...
We usually think of terraforming as something we’ll do in the future to other planets, but we have thousands of years of experience changing the shape of our own planet in profound ways.
The term “terraforming” was invented by author Jack Williamson in his 1942 short story “Collision Orbit,” published in Astounding Science Fiction. In the intervening decades, its literal meaning (“Earth...
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Fossils of Bacteria Found in Meteorites ? By...
Richard Hoover has discovered evidence of microfossils similar to Cyanobacteria, in freshly fractured slices of the interior surfaces of the Alais, Ivuna, and Orgueil CI1 carbonaceous meteorites. Based on Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM) and other measures, Richard Hoover has concluded they are indigenous to these meteors and are similar to trichomic cyanobacteria and other...
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Why We Must Go To Mars →
1. The Beckoning Red Dot in the Sky. Shirin Haque, Ph.D. 2. Is A One-Way Journey To Mars Our Responsibility? Johannes J. Leitner, Ph.D., and Maria G. Firneis, Ph.D. 3. Why Send Humans to Mars? Looking Beyond Science. Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto 4. From the Pale Blue Dot to the Red Planet: Why Choose to go to Mars? Harold Geller, Ph.D. 5. Survival Requires Colonization of Space. J. Richard Gott,...
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WatchPatricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies
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Welcome to the TED Revival: Blind People Drive,...
TED resembled an old-time faith-healing session—except instead of the Bible, the force was technology.
Yesterday morning at TED resembled an old-time faith-healing session—except instead of the Bible, the force was technology.
First Dennis Hong presented the results of his robotics lab RoMeLa’s collaboration with the National Federation of the Blind. They equipped a car with...
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מדוע ווטסון של יבמ דרוש לגוגל
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IBM`s Watson Supercomputer Goes to Work for You →
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Two oldies in Hebrew
אחד נוסע לירושלים ולא מוצא חנייה. בשיא הייאוש מרים את הראש לשמיים ואומר לאלוהים: “אם אני מוצא חניה, אני מתחיל לשמור על החגים, לאכול כשר, לשמור שבת”. פתאום הוא רואה חניה מול הפנים. הוא מרים שוב את הראש לשמיים ואומר לאלוהים: “טוב… לא משנה… הסתדרתי לבד…”
פולני נכנס הביתה ורואה את אישתו כפופה על הרצפה מנקה את השטיח. הפולני לא מתמהמה, מוריד את מכנסיו...
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MIT Scientist Captures 90,000 Hours of Video of...
In a talk soon to grab several million views on TED.com, cognitive scientist Deb Roy Wednesday shared a remarkable experiment that hearkens back to an earlier era of science using brand-new technology. From the day he and his wife brought their son home five years ago, the family’s every movement and word was captured and tracked with a series of fisheye lenses in every room in their...
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Woman Looses Purse
As the bus pulled away, Janet realized she had left her purse under the seat. Later she called the company and was relieved to find out the driver had found her bag. When she went to pick it up, several off-duty bus drivers surrounded her.
One of the men handed over her pocketbook, two typewritten pages, and a box containing the contents of Janet’s purse.
“We’re required to...
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Apple iPad 2 Revealed, 33% Thinner, in Black and...
Here it is: We followed the rumors, the leaks, the speculation and the comings and goings of various peers and future competitors, but Apple’s finally gone and revealed the updated iPad. Who presented the event? None other than CEO Steve Jobs himself.
The iPad 2 is powered by an Apple A5 chip, a dual-core CPU that somehow consumes the same amount of power as the iPad 1’s A4 unit,...
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“We were poor. If I wasn’t a boy, I wouldn’t have had nothing to play...”
– Redd Foxx
February 2011
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As Regimes Fall in Arab World, Al Qaeda Sees...
As Regimes Fall in Arab World, Al Qaeda Sees History Fly By
Lynsey Addario for The New York Times
Libyans worked in Benghazi on Sunday. A man associated with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said some militants were returning from exile to fight in Libya.
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