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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to

someone else:
Christianity: Ken Schenck has a short post on different ways the New Testament authors used the Old Testament.
Computing: (or maybe politics) Leonard Pitts on how connecting with people on-line can make us not see what's around us.
Gizmo's Freeware on a site that lets you make a free web page.
Health: WebMD says that having a flu shot lowers the risk of heart disease.
Science: National Geographic reports that Eucalyptus trees in Australia deposit minute amounts of gold in their leaves, and that this might be useful in pointing miners to gold deposits underground.
Wired reports that it is possible to predict a child's ability in math by observing how well they can estimate quantities when so young that they can't yet use words.


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Sunspots 391

Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else:

 

Science:  The Scale of the Universe is a web page that shows you objects from the yoctometer range through a Gigaparsec, which is roughly 10 to the 25th power meters. This web page took a little time to get started, then worked fine.

Wired reports that an elephant can say five words in the Korean language.

(or education) Wired reports that doing math problems is, indeed, painful for some people.

Politics:  (or something) Wired reports on technology developments that could make it even easier for the President (whoever he is) to take out bad guys. Clearly, these developments also pose potential dangers.

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