Every time Joy picks someone to be a speaker at her woman’s club, they moan about the lack of a laser pointer for their PowerPoint presentation. We found one that’s so useful we may have to get it.
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Thwarting a dictator or anyone else’s surveillance is a whole lot easier these days. Dissidents all over the world can go under the radar with something called “the onion router.” The onion router is a free download at TorProject.org.
The onion router prevents people from le
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A new study from SRI International found that using games from PBSKids.org made four and five-year old kids significantly smarter in math. They improved in counting, recognizing shapes and patterns. The games they played, “Cat in the Hat,” “Dinosaur Train,” “Curious George” and “Sid the Science Kid” are all free at PBSKids.org.
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“Survive! Inside the Human Body,” by Suk Young Song, is a series of three 180-page comic books, each of which is $18 from NoStarch.com. The books were originally published in Korea and have now been translated for the American market. They sold more than 20 million copies in Korea and they are terrific.
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TodayIFoundOut.com has fascinating stuff. We looked at why bathing was unpopular in the Middle Ages. (Considered dangerous by some, effete by others.) Queen Isabel of Spain bragged she only bathed twice in her life: at birth and before her wedding. Louis XIV matched her, bath for bath; people said he smelled like a barnyard animal. (He also liked to dance in ballets, wearing only a golden clam shell.) Perfume was popular.
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Even though an LED light bulb can last 30,000 hours, compared to 750 to 1000 for an ordinary bulb, we’ve been reluctant to spend $70 on one. The “Lumen TL 800” may change our minds. Very impressive.
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