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Five Best Disk Defragmentation Tools [Hive Five]
Defragmenting your hard drive regularly is an important part of regular hard drive maintenance, and the best tools can defrag your drive regularly or on demand when your games start to slow down or yo… Continue reading
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Tagged defrag, Defraggler, Defragmentation tools, Disk defrag, Disk defragging, Disk defragmenter, Disks, Feature, Hard Drive, Hive Five, Mydefrag, Smart defrag, syndicated, Top, utilities, windows
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Five Best Disk Defragmentation Tools [Hive Five]
Defragmenting your hard drive regularly is an important part of regular hard drive maintenance, and the best tools can defrag your drive regularly or on demand when your games start to slow down or yo… Continue reading
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Tagged defrag, Defraggler, Defragmentation tools, Disk defrag, Disk defragging, Disk defragmenter, Disks, Feature, Hard Drive, Hive Five, Mydefrag, Smart defrag, syndicated, Top, utilities, windows
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Did hot dogs save us from colon cancer? [Food Science]
After 1978, two strangely related things happened: a new set of regulations for processed meat limited the amount of nitrite used in hot dogs, forcing manufacturers to add ascorbate or erythorbate instead. And the following that year, there was a majo… Continue reading
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Tagged Cancer, food, Food Science, Hot Dogs, medicine, science, syndicated, Top
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Did hot dogs save us from colon cancer? [Food Science]
After 1978, two strangely related things happened: a new set of regulations for processed meat limited the amount of nitrite used in hot dogs, forcing manufacturers to add ascorbate or erythorbate instead. And the following that year, there was a majo… Continue reading
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Tagged Cancer, food, Food Science, Hot Dogs, medicine, science, syndicated, Top
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Check out "Dyslexie," a new font that helps dyslexics read with ease [Neuroscience]
The National Institutes of Health estimate that one out of every five persons in the US suffers from dyslexia, a brain-based learning disability that can make it frustratingly difficult to read. One way people have tried combatting the symptoms of dysl… Continue reading
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Tagged Christian boer, dyslexia, Dyslexie, Jennifer nalewicki, Neuroscience, science, syndicated, Top, Typography
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Check out "Dyslexie," a new font that helps dyslexics read with ease [Neuroscience]
The National Institutes of Health estimate that one out of every five persons in the US suffers from dyslexia, a brain-based learning disability that can make it frustratingly difficult to read. One way people have tried combatting the symptoms of dysl… Continue reading
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Tagged Christian boer, dyslexia, Dyslexie, Jennifer nalewicki, Neuroscience, science, syndicated, Top, Typography
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Why are most people right-handed? [Evolution]
It seems like such a simple question, but it’s actually one of the most biggest mysteries in all of science. Is it because of how our brains are organized, how ancient humans gripped tools, or is it simple anti-lefty prejudice?
Nobody knows for sure, … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, Brain, evolution, handedness, Human evolution, Left-Handedness, neanderthal, Neuroscience, primate, Right-Handedness, science, syndicated, Top
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Why are most people right-handed? [Evolution]
It seems like such a simple question, but it’s actually one of the most biggest mysteries in all of science. Is it because of how our brains are organized, how ancient humans gripped tools, or is it simple anti-lefty prejudice?
Nobody knows for sure, … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, Brain, evolution, handedness, Human evolution, Left-Handedness, neanderthal, Neuroscience, primate, Right-Handedness, science, syndicated, Top
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Crank Up Your Laptop’s Gaming Power with an External Video Card Dock [DIY]
If your laptop’s integrated graphics just aren’t cutting it for the games you want to play, you can actually connect a desktop graphics card to your ExpressCard slot with an external dock. More »… Continue reading
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Tagged gaming, hardware, laptops, syndicated, Top, Upgrades, Video Games
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The mystery of dark matter just refuses to be solved [Astrophysics]
Dark matter almost certainly exists – otherwise, galaxy clusters wouldn’t have sufficient gravity to hold themselves together. It was hoped dwarf galaxies could confirm the leading dark matter theories. But a new study has drawn a big, frustrating blan… Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, astrophysics, Cold dark matter, cosmology, dark matter, dwarf galaxy, galaxy, science, syndicated, Top, Weakly interacting massive particle, wimp
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Neal Stephenson’s Reamde is a high-tech incarnation of the Great American Novel [Book Review]
Neal Stephenson’s new novel Reamde seems like it could never work: it’s an epic-length thriller packed with infodumps about obscure ideas and 200-page gun fights. But the book is fantastic. Stephenson stages a crazy narrative collision between Chinese… Continue reading
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Tagged Book Review, Neal Stephenson, Reamde, syndicated, Top
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Puns, Puzzles, and Easter eggs in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale [Books]
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is justly admired as one of the great dystopian novels, but just how deep does it go? Daniel Abraham, author of The Dragon’s Path and many other novels, and co-author of Leviathan Wakes, explores the clues in Atwoo… Continue reading
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Tagged dystopias, Margaret Atwood, Republished, syndicated, Top, Writing
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Chrome Remote Desktop Controls Other Computers from a Chrome Tab [Chrome Extensions]
Chrome: Over the weekend, Google unveiled Chrome Remote Desktop, a new Chrome extension that allows you to remotely control and manage another Mac, Windows, or Linux system through Google Chrome, as l… Continue reading
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Tagged Chrome, Chrome Extensions, ChromeBooks, Extensions, google, News, Remote Control, Remote Desktop, Remote Management, syndicated, Top
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10 Stubborn Food Myths That Just Won’t Die, Debunked by Science [Nutrition]
Every other week, new research claims one food is better than another, or that some ingredient yields incredible new health benefits. Couple that with a few old wives’ tales passed down from your pare… Continue reading
Feast your eyes on a complete quadruple rainbow [Optics]
What does it mean?! You’re looking at a picture of the first fourth-order rainbow ever reported in nature. Just don’t strain yourself looking for the other two bows; you won’t be able to see them in this picture.
And yet something about this photograph… Continue reading
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Tagged Double rainbow, Fourth order rainbow, germany, Michael theusner, Optics, Physics, Quadruple rainbow, Rainbows, science, syndicated, Third order rainbow, Top, Triple rainbow
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Yawning Cools Your Brain, Keeps You Alert [Brain Hacks]
Yawning is typically linked to tiredness, but a group of researchers from Princeton and the University of Arizona have found it may simply be a means to regulate brain temperature. More »
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Tagged Brain hacks, Medical, research, science, Sleep, syndicated, Top
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What’s so bad about sugar? [Debunkery]
We blame sugar for adding extra calories to almost anything we purchase in the grocery store, and call sugary snacks “junk food.” But is sugar really junk? Let’s take a look at some common myths about sugar, and find out why there are good reasons for… Continue reading
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Tagged biology, Debunkery, medicine, science, Sugar, syndicated, Top
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How big of a dose of radiation do you get when reading Playboy? [Mad Science]
Glossy magazines often contain a substance that has elevated levels of uranium and thorium. This means that reading one for various lengths of time slightly heightens your level of radiation exposure. Find out how much magazines like Playboy are poiso… Continue reading
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Tagged mad science, Magazines, Physics, Radiation, science, syndicated, Thorium, Top, Uranium
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The Higgs boson might explain the origins of the universe and dark energy [Mad Science]
We still haven’t found the Higgs boson, the hypothetical particle that explains why other particles possess mass. But that might not be the only cosmic mystery the Higgs can solve. It could also explain how the universe got its shape.
That’s the theor… Continue reading
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Tagged cosmology, dark energy, Dilaton, Expansion, Higgs boson, Inflation, mad science, Physics, science, syndicated, Top, Universe
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Why Intuition Makes People More Likely to Believe in God [Psychology]
The nature of faith is often a thorny topic for psychology and other sciences to grapple with, but a new study indicates a powerful link between how we think and what we believe. It all goes back to intuition.
Harvard researchers have found that peopl… Continue reading
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Tagged belief, Cognition, God, Intuition, Psychology, reflection, religion, science, syndicated, thinking, Top
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