How to outift your living room for 3D TV

 

IEEE Spectrum - the magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - has a great article explaining how to outfit your living room for 3D TV.  IEEE is the world's largest professional association for the advancement of technology.

What is Happiness?

 
 
...from David Sosa's article in the New York Times:

Happiness is more like knowledge than like belief. There are lots of things we believe but don’t know. Knowledge is not just up to you, it requires the cooperation of the world beyond you — you might be mistaken. Still, even if you’re mistaken, you believe what you believe. Pleasure is like belief that way. But happiness isn’t just up to you. It also requires the cooperation of the world beyond you. Happiness, like knowledge, and unlike belief and pleasure, is not a state of mind.

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The best notebook lock

ClickSafe reduces the number of steps it takes to lock up a notebook from five to a single click, said Greg Avera, vice president of U.S. Sales for the Redwood Shores, Calif.-headquartered Kensington.

How to boost your brain

Helen Thomson, in the October 4 2010 issue of New Scientist magazine, details six ways to make our brains smarter

1) musical training
2) transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
3) exposure to blue light...probably mediated by a recently discovered pigment in the retina called melanopsin
4)  flavonoids, found in fruits such as blueberries and blackcurrants and also in cocoa, green tea and red wine
5) exercise/physical activity
6)  meditation

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