Snow is on the ground in every state except one after winter storms in the South , Plains, and the Midwest left America so snowy that a snowball could be rolled from coast to coast. Even Hawaii has winter snow on the summits of volcanoes, leaving Florida as the only snow-free…
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Haiti earthquake anniversary: power struggle destroying recovery efforts
January 12, 2011 No Comment
Haiti marks the first anniversary of its disastrous earthquake on Wednesday with voodoo ceremonies and open air masses amid a barrage of warnings that its corrupt political power struggle was destroying recovery efforts. < Video Haiti still in rubble one year after earthquake Pictures Haiti earthquake anniversary The OAS demanded that Jude Celestin (C), the ruling party candidate, be removed from a run-off for president Photo: AP Rene Preval, the outgoing president, was last night under mounting pressure to reverse an apparent attempt to rig the election of his successor….
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Former President Bill Clinton took part in the official reopening of the Haiti’s historic Iron Market, rebuilt following the earthquake. It is one piece of visible development in an area largely destroyed. (Jan. 11)
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Even though games like Infinity Blade can be great fun on the iPhone, there’s no getting around the fact that touchscreen-centric, buttonless devices don’t offer the best gaming ergonomics. A modding project gone horribly right, however, might just fix that right up for all of us. Shane Wighton set out to build a robot to try and beat his favorite iPhone game, replete with a webcam and an Arduino setup, but in the process of doing so he “just realized that [he'd] made a mechanism to play tilt based phone games with a joystick.” Yes indeedy, one of the most awesome DIY gaming accessories was built by fluke as much as design. See it revolutionizing mobile gaming just after the break. Continue reading iPhone meets Arduino, tilt joystick for mobile games results (video) iPhone meets Arduino, tilt joystick for mobile games results (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 02:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Dr. Peter Rhee, a hospital trauma chief, says Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has “a 101 percent chance of surviving,” just three days after a gunman shot her in the head. Rhee also told AP about his response to Saturday’s mass shooting. (Jan. 11)
Continue reading …Study shows love for music relates to brain chemical, not to My Chemical Romance
January 12, 2011 No Comment
It would make sense that people listen to music for the sheer pleasure of it, right? That’s what we thought, but apparently there’s a scientific reason for this. Scientists have discovered that when Earthlings listen to pleasurable music, one particular chemical is loosed in the gord. The study, conducted by Robert Zatorre and Valorie Salimpoor of McGill University in Montreal, concluded that when the participants tuned into instrumental pieces they were familiar with, their brains released dopamine into the striatum — an area of the noggin linked with anticipation and predictions. According to PET scans, the members of the study unleashed the chemical 15 seconds before a climaxical moment in a song, signaling the possibility that humans may actually release it in anticipation and not as a reaction to a wailing solo. Bonus point? Chopped and screwed tracks unleashed forty times more dopamine. Just kidding, but it’s probably true. Study shows love for music relates to brain chemical, not to My Chemical Romance originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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A judge on Tuesday ordered the personal physician of Michael Jackson to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter after hearing testimony that he administered a dose of a powerful anesthetic and other sedatives then left the pop star alone. (Jan. 11)
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Investigators on Tuesday revealed more disturbing details about the events leading up to the assassination attempt against US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, including a menacing handwritten note in the suspect’s home. (Jan. 11)
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