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How are smartphones affecting teenagers?
A generation who have spent their entire adolescence with smartphones are feeling the effects. My understanding is that teenage crime is down, under-age sex is down and that many children are actually more social than the generation before. All of… Read More ›
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We’ve predicted and broken human population limits for centuries
Worries about population expansion resurfaced with World War I. “Population pressure is always a major cause of war,” remarked biologist Raymond Pearl in his 1925 book The Biology of Population Growth. As head statistician for the U.S. Food Administration during… Read More ›
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This could have been the future
In the early 1960s, technology companies like Phillips began experimenting with condensing reel-to-reel tape players and recorders into something that could be carried around and used by a layperson. Eventually, this would lead to the ascendancy of the cassette tape… Read More ›
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Telephony in the year 2000 as seen in 1900
Tweeted by Steve Crandall. Not too far out then.
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The Most Amazing Places on Earth
The World is a beautiful place. It is a full of amazing places that everyone don’t know they really exist. There are many amazing places on Earth that you must see and enjoy once in life with your family and… Read More ›
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Magnetic Thinking Putty
As soon as a super magnet comes close, it seems as if the Magnetic Thinking Putty comes to life. Since the putty contains ferromagnetic micro particles, it is attracted by magnets. It gets totally bent out of shape in order… Read More ›
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After Generation Z comes Generation Alpha
A survey of Canadian Millennials. I imagine it’s pretty much the same worldwide. And it’ll be more so for later Generations. . That got me looking at what the various generations are and found this: Generation Name Births Start Births… Read More ›
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The Extraordinary True Story of the First Camera Phone
Phillipe Kahn invented the first camera phone on June 11th, 1997, the day his daughter was born. He had his jerry-rigged system, a mobile phone plus a digital camera, in the delivery room and was able to capture little Sophie… Read More ›
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Magic Photo Cube Album
Here’s a DIY to make one out of cardboard. I’ve seen one from the Dali museum, and what’s amazing is a detail that these featureless sides must lack: the sides came together to make a surprising number of distinct images… Read More ›
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The Samsung Gear Sport looks better than any Apple Watch
Get motivated to move more, eat better, and live a healthy life. The Gear Sport tracks your fitness and diet, keeping you on the right path to reach your goals. It’s as stylish as it is functional. Change the… Read More ›
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