| 19-Jun-13 | Manal al-Sharif: A Saudi woman who dared to drive | There's no actual law against women driving in Saudi Arabia. But it's forbidden. Two years ago, Manal al-Sharif decided to encourage women to drive by doing so -- and filming herself for YouTube. Hear her story of what happened next. |
| 18-Jun-13 | 11 Weird Books That Really Exist | With more than 300,000 books published yearly in the US alone, editors and publishing companies have to be discerning about what titles they choose to release. Although not every author’s masterwork is cut out for The New York Times Best Seller list, there are some books that are just so downright bizarre that it’s hard to imagine anyone reading them at all. |
| 17-Jun-13 | Avoiding those unwanted free applications | These days, installing a free program can feel like running a gauntlet. You go to the program’s webpage, click the big, colorful Download button … and end up with an entirely different program. You try again, only to discover you must download some sort of download manager to download the app you want. |
| 14-Jun-13 | Hollywood and physicists still don't really get gravity | In a dramatic scene in the current Star Trek movie, the laws of gravity are seriously violated as the starship falls out of the sky. It shows how creators of science fiction find it just as hard to deal with the universal force as physicists do. In the dramatic scene, the intrepid starship Enterprise loses power and begins a long fall to Earth...
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| 13-Jun-13 | Brilliant blue lobster caught off Antigonish, N.S. | A rare blue lobster was caught in waters near Antigonish on Friday. According to research based out of the University of Maine, the odds of catching a blue lobster in North America are about one in two million. The blue colouration is caused by a genetic defect that causes the lobster to produce an excessive amount of a particular protein that gives the lobster the unique colour. |
| 12-Jun-13 | Does Spelling Matter? | A professor of English at one of the world’s most venerable centers of learning has outraged language purists by challenging whether spelling matters. Simon Horobin of Magdalen College, Oxford was this week said to have prompted shocked gasps from an audience at the annual Hay-on-Wye literary festival in western England by suggesting that spellings of they’re, their and there could be standardized. |
| 11-Jun-13 | Lisa Bu: How books can open your mind | What happens when a dream you've held since childhood ... doesn't come true? As Lisa Bu adjusted to a new life in the United States, she turned to books to expand her mind and create a new path for herself. She shares her unique approach to reading in this lovely, personal talk about the magic of books. |
| 10-Jun-13 | 13 iPhone features you might not know about | Do you know how to save an image on your iPhone? Did you know that you can tell Siri to set an alarm? If you want to become an iPhone power user, it’s best to know about some of the hidden features Apple put in its operating system. Here are 13 iPhone features you might not know about... |
| 07-Jun-13 | Facebook's identity problem: Teens hate a permanent record | Next time you tell a teen you know to get off Facebook, you may be in for a bit of a surprise: they might happily comply. According to a recently released study from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, though teenagers are still using the social network in very high numbers, many of them are starting to resent the service, and are starting to wish they used it less. |
| 06-Jun-13 | Google Glass may be too much of a good thing | If you were to take the breathless, salivating technology press at their word, Google Glass is the next must-have gadget after the iPhone. The much-discussed “augmented reality” eyewear, which displays information on a tiny screen near the corner of your eye, seems to be destined to become the latest symbol of our ongoing fascination with digital things. |