People who are bicultural and speak two languages may unconsciously change their personality when they switch languages, according to a U.S. study.
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Knee brace on leg can produce enough power to run 10 mobiles!
Cancer patient’s tumours vanished within two months after being injected with billions of his own cloned immune cells.
“The song ‘The Sound of Silence’ might hold more truth than ever imagined, suggests a new study that determined people can hear silent objects based on reflected and ambient sound.” – Discovery
Alltop.com is a refined collection of some of the best blogs on the web categorised under different sections like life, gossip, startups, programming, travel, India, China, etc. (82 categories at the time of writing).
If it adds any credibility, one of person behind Alltop is Guy Kawasaki, that was a good enough reason for me to look at it.
Wave dragon “is a pioneering large scale ocean energy solution for bulk electricity generation.” “The Wave Dragon overtopping device elevates ocean waves to a reservoir above sea level where water is let out through a number of turbines and in this way transformed into electricity.”
Watch the promotional video below.
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Top500.org generates lists of world’s supercomputers based on various user defined metrics. For example here is a list of the supercomputers ranked by the processing speed (most number of operations per second) which is toped by IBM’s BlueGene/L at 478 TeraFlops (trillion operations per second).
A slightly lengthy but super-interesting read about the birth of SuperMemo, a software that will help you remember things. It exploits the spacing effect to decide which information to remind you of and when.
Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to this algorithm
BusinessWeek’s compilation of most innovative companies in the world.
For example, here is a lesson in Physics.
Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers at TED