101 AMAZING FACTS
Posted on July 19th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
40 MAPS THAT WILL HELP YOU MAKE SENSE OF THE WORLD
Posted on July 18th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
“40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World.” The 22 countries that Great Britain never invaded. The only countries that don’t use the metric system are Liberia, Myanmar and, of course, us. McDonalds restaurants around the world. (The busiest is in Moscow.)
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WHAT’S REALLY WARMING THE WORLD?
Posted on July 17th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
“What’s Really Warming the World?” Search on that phrase and you’ll come up with an interactive chart put together by Bloomberg Business. It’s a view of temperature changes in air and water over the last 135 years, plotted against things like volcanic activity, deforestation, changes in solar radiation, etc. The strongest correlation is seen with so-called “greenhouse gases.”
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FREE GAMES, REALLY
Posted on July 16th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
BUYING A NEW COMPUTER
Posted on July 15th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
When we buy a new Windows 10 computer this summer, we’ll be asking ourselves: Should we get one with a traditional hard disk drive or one of the new solid state drives? Hard disk drives have been around for 60 years. They were a tremendous advance over floppy disks. They were invented by IBM and were originally called “Winchester Drives,” because they were as fast as a rifle bullet, they said. The name may have been influenced by the fact that the IBM lab that designed the drive was across the street from the Winchester mansion in San Jose, Calif. Solid state drives have no moving parts, they’re all chips. But even if you buy a computer with one of […]
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WHAT’S NEW IN ELECTRIC CARS
Posted on July 14th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Electric cars are hot, so to speak, and the latest entry comes from the Morgan Motor Car Company in Malvern Links, Wales. Bob drove a Morgan for more than 20 years and it remains his all-time favorite car. It’s very British: They made one car a day.
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FAKE TECH SUPPORT
Posted on July 13th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
A reader told us she got a call from a guy saying that her Windows computer was about to crash. She took it seriously because he claimed to be from Microsoft. This is a scam and not a rare one.
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TIPS AND TRICKS
Posted on July 12th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Here are some time and frustration saving tips and tricks: — Scroll down a website by tapping the space bar. It’s faster than finding the scroll bar with your mouse. — When filling out a form online, tap the “Tab” key to jump to the next field. — To find your state quickly in a drop-down list that has all of them, keep tapping the first letter until it pops up. — To increase the size of text on the screen, hold down the “Ctrl” key (or the “Cmd” key on the Mac), and then tap the plus sign. Ctrl-minus will decrease the size. –On a smart phone, tap the period to fill in “.com” automatically. When you’re in an […]
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WHY DO THE MOST VENOMOUS SNAKES PREFER WARM CLIMATES?
Posted on July 11th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
“Veritasium” is a YouTube channel for science videos. We looked at the world’s roundest object, the most radioactive places on earth, and why the most venomous creatures prefer warm climates, especially Mexico, with 80 deadly venomous creatures. Brazil and Australia follow closely, but here’s the mystery: Australia’s most venomous snakes live in the coldest places. It turns out that there are more venomous snakes in warm countries, but as a percentage of the total number of snakes, there are less.
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FREE BOOKS
Posted on July 10th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
“100 Legal Websites to Download Books” Search on that phrase to find thousands of free books. We were already familiar with Bartleby and Project Gutenberg, but many others, like Fiction.US and ByGosh.com, were new to us. They’re listed by category, including classics, textbooks, children’s books, math and science, foreign language, plays, history, mystery and so on.
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