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How to prevent your laptop battery from a shorter and shorter life:
e typical lifespan of a lithium-ion laptop battery is about 18 months to 2 years, Buchmann says, but yours will last much longer if you don't punish it too much. The main stresses include undercharging, overcharging, and one that few of us consider: heat. Temperatures inside a laptop can reach more than 110 degrees Fahrenheit, which is hell for a battery. Ideally, Buchmann says, you should try to keep your battery charged from 20 percent to 80 percent. Keep in…
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Is your dog among the smartest breeds?
giving dogs language learning and other tests devised for infants and toddlers, Dr. Coren has come up with an intelligence ranking of 100 breeds, with border collies at No. 1. He says the most intelligent breeds (poodles, retrievers, Labradors and shepherds) can learn as many as 250 words, signs and signals, while the others can learn 165. The average dog is about as intellectually advanced as a 2- to 2-and-a-half-year-old child, he has concluded, with an ability to understand…
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They may legalize polygamy in Russia. The women are asking for it.
e reasons why men – and, even more interestingly, women – are advocating polygamy in Russia and Mongolia are as much about economics as they are about sex. The critical issue is demography. The Russian population is falling by 3% a year – and there are 9 million fewer men than women. Nationalists, such as the eccentric leader of the Liberal Democratic party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, claim that introducing polygamy will provide husbands for "10 million lonely women" and fill Mother…
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Cheating your way through the NYC Marathon (chart):
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What has the recession done to Americans’ odds of bankruptcy?
the United States in 2007, the odds that an adult would file for bankruptcy were 1 in 207.2. By 2008, those odds had increased to 1 in 158.6. Perhaps not surprisingly, given the state’s ongoing financial turmoil, the odds that a personal bankruptcy will be filed in California are 1 in 8.47—the highest in the country. via bookofodds.com Join over 320,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You…
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Zimbabwe’s 79,600,000,000% Inflation:
mbabwe's inflation rate had hit 79,600,000,000% per month putting Zimbabwe in second place. We wondered whether in our second edition Zimbabwe would overtake the all time hyperinflater, Hungary (1945-1946) at 41,900,000,000,000,000% per month, but it was not to be. via marginalrevolution.com Join over 320,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy New Harvard Research Reveals A Fun Way To Be More Successful How To Get People To Like…
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Are Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives?
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France – Under 24? Have a Free Newspaper – Slate Magazine
sales lag, the French government is trying to encourage young people to read newspapers again by offering a free subscription to people between the ages of 18 and 24 to any paper of their choice. While newspaper readership is declining around the world, it's particularly bad in France, where half as many papers are sold as in the United Kingdom or Germany, and where only 10 percent of people under 24 reported paying for a paper in 2007. The government…
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