union with God” and agreed to participate in an experiment devised by neuroscientist Mario Beauregard of the University of Montreal. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI, Beauregard seeks to pinpoint the brain areas that are active while the nuns recall the most powerful religious epiphany of their lives, a time they experienced a profound connection [...]

The number of American doctors using speech software to record and transcribe accounts of patient visits and treatments has more than tripled in the past three years to 150,000. The progress is striking. A few years ago, supraspinatus (a rotator cuff muscle) got translated as “fish banana.” Today, the software transcribes all kinds of medical [...]

The same awe-inspiring Johannesburg venue, which witnessed Mandela’s first mass rally following his 1990 release, will stage tomorrow’s Opening Match, the first of 64 games. In one sense, it is familiar territory for the South Africa coach, Carlos Alberto Parreira, as he prepares to lead a team at his sixth FIFA World Cup, which is [...]

Russell A. Poldrack is the director of the Imaging Research Center and professor of psychology and neurobiology at the University of Texas at Austin. As a busy researcher who owns an iPhone, iPad, and several computers, I often find it very difficult to practice what I preach when it comes to the dangers of multitasking [...]

This year, Oracle OpenWorld will be held Sept 19-23rd in San Francisco. Also this year, JavaOne and Oracle Develop will be held Sep 19-23d in San Francisco. How can that be? Simple. Oracle has acquired the city of San Francisco. OK, not all of it. But an awful lot of it. And it didn’t actually [...]

JFK Marilyn photo – Bing Images.

Like previous versions of Fedora as well as version 10.04 of Ubuntu, Fedora 13 primarily uses graphics drivers with kernel-based mode setting (KMS). In some respects, Goddard once again takes the lead in terms of KMS support, as Fedora supports Intel and NVIDIA graphics chips via the current versions of X.org’s “intel” and “nouveau” graphics [...]

User: Can you help me fix this computer problem? You: No, you’re a Squatter. I’m not talking about a $5,000-a-day-hooker-and-blow* kind of habit. Hey, that old dog can learn new tricks…I’ll be damned You: Click the Start button Squatter: What’s a Clark button? You: The Start button Squatter: Where do I type Clark? You: It’s [...]

Year 2010 Valentine Day February 14, Job Anniversary Day February 16 , 6 years’ sexy shot,companionship It is not a friendship or marriage or job, but, it is something fabulous and greater paradigm shift than anybody can enjoy in life. Passing 6 six years with 6 Ws. Weather,Wealth,Wine,Women, Water,World. I got all during those last [...]

“Look at Clinton and Monica Lewinsky,” she said, referring to the former president, a frequent butt of Letterman’s jokes. “You have a naïve young woman, and the leader of the free world is interested in her. That’s pretty much an aphrodisiac.” “I’m not saying,” she added, “that that’s what happened in Letterman’s case. But he’s [...]

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” – Albert Einstein “No matter what you hear in there, no matter how cruelly I beg you, no matter how terribly I may scream, do not open this door or you will undo everything I have worked for.” [...]

When I was a college professor I used to tell my students that “there are no stupid questions”, but that was 25 years ago, back when entry into the computer room was closely guarded.  Back then, Geekdom had “barriers to entry“, and only those people who had studied for years could gain entry into the [...]

It so happened that after crores and crores of years of regulating the Earth, its inhabitants and its problems and being bored with heaven and the nymphs, the adventurous lot of the Gods decided on a picnic.

You have enrolled yourself as a corporate soldier and out of the 168 hours in a week you sell 40 hours to a company of your choice but, like any person-for-profit or person-for-charity, you tend to either short-change or WYAO. The rising trend in the digitized workplaces around the world is such that the workforce [...]

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