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We’re Evolving, Seriously… · BlogIssues

By tammii 357 days ago from http://www.blogissues.com

It looks like humans are evolving at a faster pace than in the distant past. According to a recent study with data from an international genomics project that describes the past 40,000 years as a time of supercharged evolutionary change:

Science fiction writers have suggested a future Earth populated by a blend of all races into a common h

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How to Study Less by Learning Things Once - lifehack.org

By Court 382 days ago from http://www.lifehack.org

Helps you to learn things the first time around. One of the most unproductive things ever is not learning and being forced to try to learn again. One thing that I really enjoyed about this post was how it teaches to to identify problems areas that might be harder for you to remember.

Once you have identified the problem areas, the lesson c

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Banning students from using the web

By robojiannis 322 days ago from http://changemod.com

If anyone has been a student during the digital age, he/she will know, that using wikipedia as an essay source is a tabu in the academical circles. But the decision of a lecturer to ban her students from using online services, has raised some interesting issues: Should students be allowed to use wikipedia and google in their university essays

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How to Download Mp3s from Pandora Internet Radio

By myzticshadow146 393 days ago from http://www.gearfire.net

You’ve got to love Pandora Internet Radio. Many such as Last.fm have tried, but no one has succeeded in showing you tunes you love than Pandora.Based on the Music Genome Project, Pandora takes a song that you like and finds songs with similar attrib

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Make Your Life Easier with AutoHotkey

By myzticshadow146 393 days ago from http://www.gearfire.net

AutoHotkey is a basic scripting/programming language used to automate tasks on your Windows PC. This may sound intimidating to the average user, but it is probably the easiest scripting/programming languages to learn. On a very basic level, you can

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How to Disable Hyphenation in Microsoft Office and Photoshop

By myzticshadow146 393 days ago from http://www.gearfire.net

Hyphenation is a great way to make your documents look fuller and make good use of space. However sometimes, depending on what you are doing, you won’t want long words to break up when they reach the margin. Here is how you can turn off hyphenation

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Stem Cell Research - Growing A New Immune System · BlogIssues

By tammii 375 days ago from http://www.blogissues.com

Possibly good news for people suffering from autoimmune illnesses: Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have managed to transplant new blood-forming stem cells into the bone marrow of mice, effectively replacing their immune systems.

Rebooting

Although this treatment is not ready to be performed on humans yet, there

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What has science to say about your social networks?

By robojiannis 320 days ago from http://changemod.com

How do I get more attention on my blog? Many step-by-step guides have been written about this question. All very insightful, but sometimes the scientifical background is missing. Why is linking and commenting bringing more traffic? How does a social network work? How does an emergent behavior influence the traffic of your blog? Why does parti

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Eight Year Old Boy Passes Law School Exam

By greendan 269 days ago from http://www.infoniac.com

An eight-year-old boy from Brazil, following his dream of becoming a judge, managed to pass a law school entrance test. However, he was not admitted to the university, as he had not graduated from high school. Joao Victor Portellinha de Oliveira, the 8-year-old boy was initially enrolled in the Universidade Paulista, a private

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Being An Atheist Equals Being Intelligent? · BlogIssues

By tammii 259 days ago from http://www.blogissues.com

Are atheists really more intelligent than religious people? At least one Danish professor thinks so. After conducting a "study" which involved over 7000 subjects, he came to the conclusion that religious people are less intelligent than other who don't believe in higher entities / atheists.
I personally think that it would

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