Hotmail (2) - sgpease@msn.com

Hotmail (2) - sgpease@msn.com: "Television manufacturers can be a tricky bunch. Just when you think you've figured out their acronyms and slang, things change again. In the early days of HDTV people were scrambling to figure out the difference between 1080i and 1080p and manufacturers were playing sly with acronyms by sticking the EDTV (Enhanced Definition Television) acronym on sets without explaining how it differed from HD."

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9 Ways to Keep an Aging Brain Sharp | Online Psychology Degree Resource Guide

9 Ways to Keep an Aging Brain Sharp | Online Psychology Degree Resource Guide: "Everything slows down with age, especially our brains. Sadly, the old saying, “if you don’t use it, you lose it” is true in the case of plasticity, the brain’s ability to change. As we get older, it becomes harder for the brain to learn new things and recall information from the past. As frustrating as it is to feel disoriented and experience memory loss, it isn’t the end for your brain. Like your muscles, your brain needs daily exercise to stay in shape. Check out these nine ways to keep your brain sharp well into old age."

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Whale Sharks Freed From Fishing Net In Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesia (VIDEO)

Whale Sharks Freed From Fishing Net In Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesia (VIDEO): "According to the Guardian, while performing radio-frequency tagging of whale sharks in Indonesia's Cenderawasih Bay, a team of researchers from the nonprofit environmental organization Conservation International received a distress call from local fishermen. A pair of whale sharks had become ensnared in their nets."

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Spy Hawk RC-plane lets you snoop from the skies

Spy Hawk RC-plane lets you snoop from the skies: "If you’ve ever found yourself bemoaning the relative dearth of viable personal UAV (or "drone") options but still find the idea of an eye in the sky alluring, then you may well be in luck, because UK-based gadget purveyor RED5 has unveiled the Spy Hawk: a remote-controlled plane which runs from a rechargeable battery and features a video camera to facilitate easy snooping from up above."

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Keep cool downstairs with Kuchofuku’s air-conditioned pants

Keep cool downstairs with Kuchofuku’s air-conditioned pants: "If you’re looking to complement your air-conditioned shirt with a pair of pants to help keep your bottom half cool in the summer heat then Japanese company Kuchofuku has you covered. The Kuchofuku Air-Conditioned Cooling pants feature two battery-powered fans to direct a refreshing flow of air onto your legs and nether regions."

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SABRE on course to chill SKYLON into orbit

SABRE on course to chill SKYLON into orbit: "Reaction Engines has announced that is has successfully tested the key pre-cooler component of its revolutionary SABRE engine crucial to the development of its SKYLON spaceplane. The company claims that craft equipped with SABRE engines will be able to fly to any destination on Earth in under 4 hours, or travel directly into space."

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FACE android conveys human emotions with facial expressions

FACE android conveys human emotions with facial expressions: "Introduced by Japan’s Masahiro Mori, the “Uncanny Valley” principle states that the more a humanoid robot strives and fails to mimic human appearance, the less appealing it is to humans. In yet another attempt to cross the valley, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Pisa, Italy, endowed a female-form humanoid called FACE with a set of complex facial expression features. They did so in the hope of finding the answer to one fundamental question: can a robot express emotions?"

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Record-setting 500 trillion-watt laser shot achieved

Record-setting 500 trillion-watt laser shot achieved: "Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) have achieved a laser shot which boggles the mind: 192 beams delivered an excess of 500 trillion-watts (TW) of peak power and 1.85 megajoules (MJ) of ultraviolet laser light to a target of just two millimeters in diameter. To put those numbers into perspective, 500 TW is more than one thousand times the power that the entire United States uses at any instant in time."

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New “spintronic” OLEDs join next-generation display technology mix

New “spintronic” OLEDs join next-generation display technology mix: "We’ve seen a number of next-generation display technologies emerge in recent years, such as Sony’s “Crystal LED,” Uni-Pixel’s time-multiplexed optical shutter (TMOS) technology, and quantum dot LED (QLED) display technology from LG and QD Vision, and now there’s another one to add to the mix."

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Dark matter filaments detected for the first time

Dark matter filaments detected for the first time: "For the first time, a team of astronomers has "observed" a filament of dark matter connecting two neighboring galaxy clusters. Dark matter is a type of matter that interacts only very weakly with light and itself."

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The Best Websites for Watching Free Documentaries - How-To Geek

The Best Websites for Watching Free Documentaries - How-To Geek: "If you’re a fan of documentaries, there are many sites where you can watch them for free. The following is a list of sites we found, some of which allow you add comments about the films and even allow you to download the films."

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For Shelby, 50 years of blowing other cars' doors off | Road Trip - CNET News

For Shelby, 50 years of blowing other cars' doors off | Road Trip - CNET News: "Its most famous car may be worth $25 million, and its cars can top 200 miles an hour. CNET Road Trip visits with the famous American muscle car maker."

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