Shock Waves – A blast in Baghdad tests the endurance of a soldier and his family:
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Google Mashup of Mexico’s Drug Cartels:
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How can you keep an aging brain sharp?
a NYTimes.com: Educators say that, for adults, one way to nudge neurons in the right direction is to challenge the very assumptions they have worked so hard to accumulate while young. With a brain already full of well-connected pathways, adult learners should “jiggle their synapses a bit” by confronting thoughts that are contrary to their own, says Dr. Taylor, who is 66. Teaching new facts should not be the focus of adult education, she says. Instead, continued brain development and…
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Held hostage by the Taliban:
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The Major Works of Counterintuitive Thought From the Past Decade
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The Craziest Thing Ever Done at the U.N. General Assembly:
dian Diplomat Filibusters Himself to (near) Death Year: 1957 Quote: "The Security Council regards this as a dispute. It is not a dispute for territory. There is only one problem before you ... that problem is the problem of aggression." Impact: With this epic filibuster during a debate on Kashmir, Indian U.N. envoy Krishna Menon holds the record for the longest speech in the history of the U.N. Security Council. In total it lasted over eight hours. Menon actually collapsed…
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What is the hardest language?:
th all that in mind, which is the hardest language? On balance The Economist would go for Tuyuca, of the eastern Amazon. It has a sound system with simple consonants and a few nasal vowels, so is not as hard to speak as Ubykh or !Xóõ. Like Turkish, it is heavily agglutinating, so that one word, hóabãsiriga means “I do not know how to write.” Like Kwaio, it has two words for “we”, inclusive and exclusive. The noun classes (genders)…
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On brewing coffee with plastic explosives:
ring an email discussion of the explosive used by the testicle-toasting terrorist of Detroit, my friend retired Col. John Meyer commented on his own use of the stuff -- and offered a warning. "I've heated many a cup of coffee on C4, rolled into little balls," he said. "The trick was to never try to stamp out the fire when you were finished." Asked to explain this use of C4, he added: The small balls of C4 used to heat…
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