Science: Wired has posted the year's best microscopic
views of living things. Spectacular (in a small way).
Wired has also compiled a presentation of the top
scientific discoveries of 2012. These include confirmation of the
Higgs field, and synthesis of an alternate information molecule, XNA.
Sports: (and academics!) USA Today
tells us that the number one teams in men's college basketball and football, as of December 18, 2012, are also number
one in graduation rate. That would be Duke basketball, at 100%, and
Notre Dame football, at 97%.
Politics: (sort of) Kathleen Parker, columnist, says
that one of the factors contributing to the decline of the middle class is that fewer people with high school education, but not a college education,
get,
or stay married. She makes some suggestions for fixing this.
According to a report
in Wired, there is little or no correlation between video game
playing and carrying out acts of violence.
Computing: Gizmo's freeware tells us about two
on-line services that will help us save a web page, graphics and
text, to our computers, as a single .PDF file.
"Viruses and malware don't teleport into your PC — they're
let in. In almost all cases, that means opening a seemingly innocent attachment, clicking a bogus 'You're infected!' popup, or visiting malware
havens such as porn sites." - Fred Langa, Windows Secrets,
December 20, 2012
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