BitTorrent’s popularity is growing every day. Despite efforts from anti-piracy outfits such as the MPAA and IFPI, torrent sites continue to grow traffic wise, and there is no sign that this trend will be brought to a halt anytime soon.
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Saturday, March 22, 2008
BitTorrent Sites Show Explosive Growth
"Power Shift" -How to Boost Your Memory
A recent study suggests that merely glancing from left to right (the traditional “shifty look” of spies and sneaks) can boost memory power and help people differentiate between real and imagined memories. Moving the eyes up and down had no such effect.
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Super Mario explains parallel universes
Quantum mechanics got you down? Let Mario guide you through one of physics' most tantalizing theories: parallel universes. In this video, you'll find a fairly succinct explanation of the many-worlds hypothesis, as illustrated by a modified version of that classic Nintendo game.
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Light From Halfway to the Beginning of the Univer
How far can you see with your own eyes on a clear night? Would you believe seven billion light years?
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Ball lightning bamboozles physicist
Scientific theories and experiments have failed to convince a physicist what's behind the mysterious natural phenomenon of ball lightning.
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Key to Happiness: Give Away Money
New research reveals that when individuals dole out money for gifts for friends or charitable donations, they get a boost in happiness while those who spend on themselves get no such cheery lift.
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Foreign Investors Systematically Dumping US Treasuries
As feared, foreign bond holders have begun to exercise a collective vote of no confidence in the devaluation policies of the US government. The Federal Reserve faces a potential veto of its rescue measures. Asian, Mid East and European investors stood aside at last week’s auction of 10-year US Treasury notes. “It was a disaster,” said Ray
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Michio Kaku: Mr Parallel Universe
Our universe is doomed, says Professor Michio Kaku. Fortunately, he's working on several escape routes: time travel, wormholes, and another universe entirely. There really is a childish wonder to his expressive face. And take this line he has on the future of the planet: it has no future. In five billion years' time the sun will
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The UFO Phenomena - Religion or Science?
Is the world’s fascination with the possibility of UFO's and more a religion or a natural intuitive sense that life is “out there,” based on current scientific research and recent planet-search discoveries? How do the belief's in UFO's clash with religious beliefs??
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The lightbulb of the future?
Luxim's tiny plasma lightbulb outshines LEDs. The plasma bulb uses 250 watts, and achieves around 140 lumens/watt, making it very bright and highly efficient. By comparison, conventional lightbulbs and high-end LEDs get around 15 and 70 lumens/watt, respectively.
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