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Dinosaurs May Have Been Smaller Than Previously Thought

ScienceDaily (2009-06-22) -- The largest animals ever to have walked the face of the earth may not have been as big as previously thought, according to a new article.

The dark side of animation

The dark side of animation

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A red-wine polyphenol called resveratrol demonstrates significant health benefits

A red-wine polyphenol called resveratrol demonstrates significant health benefits

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The Display That Watches You

For decades, engineers have envisioned wearable displays for pilots, surgeons, and mechanics. But so far, a compact wearable display that's easy to interact with has proved elusive.

Researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) have now developed a screen technology that could help make wearable displays more compact and simpler to use. By interlacing photodetector cells--similar to those used to capture light in a camera--with display pixels, the researchers have built a system that can display a moving image while also detecting movement directly in front of it. Tracking a person's eye movements while she looks at the screen could allow for eye-tracking control: instead of using hand controls or another form of input, a user could flip through menu options on a screen by looking at the right part of the screen. The researchers envisage eventually integrating the screen with an augmented-reality system.

Two-way display: This image shows a detailed layout of the Fraunhofer display chip, which combines photodetectors with an organic light-emitting diode display.
Credit: Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems

People Who Wear Rose-colored Glasses See More, Study Shows

ScienceDaily (2009-06-06) -- A new study provides the first direct evidence that our mood literally changes the way our visual system filters our perceptual experience suggesting that seeing the world through rose-colored glasses is more biological reality than metaphor.

Why your brain just can't remember that word - life - 08 June 2009 - New Scientist

Why your brain just can't remember that word - life - 08 June 2009 - New Scientist

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New Cleaning Protocol For Future 'Search For Life' Missions

ScienceDaily (2009-06-08) -- Scientists have developed a new cleaning protocol for space hardware, such as the scoops of Mars rovers, which could be used on future "search for life" missions on other planets.

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Blogs, leuk, maar het kost te veel tijd...

"Douglas Quenqua reports in the NY Times that according to a 2008 survey only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days meaning that "95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled." Richard Jalichandra, chief executive of Technorati, said that at any given time there are 7 million to 10 million active blogs on the Internet, but it's probably between 50,000 and 100,000 blogs that are generating most of the page views. "There's a joke within the blogging community that most blogs have an audience of one." Many people who think blogging is a fast path to financial independence also find themselves discouraged. "I did some Craigslist postings to advertise it, and I very quickly got an audience of about 50,000 viewers a month," says Matt Goodman, an advertising executive in Atlanta who had no trouble attracting an audience to his site, Things My Dog Ate, leading to some small advertising deals. "I think I made about $20 from readers clicking on the ads.""