Stroke Patients Sing Their Way Back to Speech –Also: Good News for Bad Singers (below) By Leo Kretzner, San Diego, CA. February 21, 2010. Taking systematic advantage of an ability known about for a hundred years, the speechless are learning to sing their words – and finding they come far more easily that way. This was […]
Stroke Patients Sing Their Way Back to Speech
Stroke Patients Sing Their Way Back to Speech –Also: Good News for Bad Singers (below) By Leo Kretzner, San Diego, CA. February 21, 2010. Taking systematic advantage of an ability known about for a hundred years, the speechless are learning to sing their words – and finding they come far more easily that way. This was […]
Fiber Optics Bring Faster Internet, DVDs on Demand: Seth Porges
When cable television systems were invented in 1948, Harry Truman was president and few Americans owned TVs. Since then, television sets have morphed from monstrous boxes into svelte flatscreens and we now have hundreds of channels, but cable’s basic guts are largely unchanged. So it’s understandable why so many TV buffs are begging Verizon Communications […]
20 Tips for a Customer-Friendly Web Site
What annoys an Internet user the most? A quick unscientific survey of a local Internet café suggests the top three turn-offs are: Sites that are very slow to download; Ones that are confusing to use; Sites that do not contain the promised information; The single most common reaction to sites like these […]
Drawing Mona Lisa in 80 milli seconds
Celebrities and popular TV show hosts of Mythbusters, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, drew Monal Lisa in 80 Milliseconds. Yes, that is right. They literally drew it in 80 ms. This was a part of a demonstration that compared the CPU to the prowess of a GPU, at NVISION 2008 You have got to see […]
Why chameleons change colour:
If you think that the need to camouflage from predators drove the evolution of colour change in chameleons,you’re wrong.Going by a study recently,it it because of an instinct to rapidly signal dominance to fellow lizards.A team of international researchers has carried out the study and found that the dramatic colour changes of chameleons are tailored […]