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Previewing McCain and Obama on geek issues

Last week, representatives for Barack Obama and John McCain addressed the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference on topics ranging from NSA surveillance to net neutrality to the competitiveness of American workers in the new economy...

Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm (W...

SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it...

David Blaine - This Time, He'll Be Left Breathless (New York Times)

As a doctor monitored his heart and his blood and breathing, David Blaine filled his lungs with pure oxygen and prepared to hold his breath -- for 16 minutes, he hoped. Mr. Blaine is a famous magician, but he insisted that this was no trick...

Happiness is the measure of true wealth (Telegraph)

It comes as no surprise to learn from a study published this week that, although Britons are twice as rich as they were in 1987, they are no happier...

Daily caffeine 'protects brain' (BBC)

Coffee may cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body, research suggests...

Five Myths About Drinking Water (NPR)

Is bottled water better for you than tap? Or should you choose vitamin-enriched water over sparkling? Experts say, skip it all. None of these products are likely to make you any healthier...

Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind - New York Times

Other activities that deplete willpower include resisting food or drink, suppressing emotional responses, restraining aggressive or sexual impulses, taking exams and trying to impress someone...

The Science Of Sleep (CBS News)

One of the most exciting new discoveries in the field of sleep research involves learning and memory...

Literature's self implosion (Times Literary Supplement)

We need expert evaluative critics ? but our professors keep denying the value of literature itself...

140-year-old Math Problem Solved (ScienceDaily)

A problem which has defeated mathematicians for almost 140 years has been solved by a researcher at Imperial College London...

TV and Computer Limits Make Kids Slimmer (Wall Street Journal)

Blocking your kids? access to TV and the computer could help them shed weight, an experiment with 70 overweight children showed...

College applications can be too good (The Boston Globe)

With the scramble to get into elite colleges at a fever pitch and with a rising number of educational consultants and college essay specialists ready to give students a competitive edge, admissions officers are keeping a sharp lookout for essays that migh

The Years of Experience Myth (Coding Horror blog)

Somehow, they've forgotten that what software developers do best is learn...

Web 2.Over (Slate Magazine)

What Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! means for the economy and for Google...

The Autumn of the Multitaskers (Atlantic Monthly)

Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy. One man?s odyssey through the nightmare of infinite connectivity...

MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study (Wired News)

Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong...

Calvin students protest Isom decision (Grand Rapids Press)

Calvin College students on Wednesday protested the college board's decision last fall to not waive a church membership requirement for a popular education professor...

?None? - (New York Times)

All the benefits of studying and learning the classics are irrelevant if few students are actually reading or engaged in the material...