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Both of these add-ons are certainly nice, but the real game changer is Microsoft's solution to a fundamental flaw in most mobile platforms. Instead of having to toggle back and forth between separate apps so you can check Facebook or send a tweet, the WP7 team figured out how to aggregate all your social-networking content in a People hub on your Start screen. Likewise, photos from your mobile device, PC and various social networks will be neatly organized within the Pictures hub. In all, WP7 has created six distinct hubs - People, Pictures, Music+Video, Games, Office...
...liberals smarter? Kanazawa quotes from two surveys that support the hypothesis that liberals are more intelligent. One is the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which is often called Add Health. The other is the General Social Survey (GSS). The Add Health study shows that the mean IQ of adolescents who identify themselves as "very liberal" is 106, compared with a mean IQ of 95 for those calling themselves "very conservative." The Add Health study is huge - more than 20,000 kids - and this difference is highly statistically significant. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...Data now decides everything from the number of drivers needed each day to the exact routes their trucks should travel. "This traditionally is a company of engineers obsessed with detail," says Doug Caldwell, a principal at ParcelResearch.com based in Portland, Ore. "And all of those hundreds of little things add up to impressive advantages in efficiency, in cost and in keeping service levels high...
...neglect diners in hospital beds, Bumrungrad is into the 11th year of a project that sees Thai chefs from major hotels creating themed menus that dovetail with patients' dietary restrictions. Here's hoping they go easy on the chili, though. Not everyone needs to add spice to the results of a CT scan...
...ease credit for small businesses; the Federal Aviation Administration's reauthorization, a bipartisan measure that has been kicking around Congress for three years and would, analysts say, create upwards of 125,000 new jobs by modernizing aerospace infrastructure; and "meaningful" infrastructure investments, including, possibly, energy programs. "Every time you add something to a bill, there are some people who think that you bring support on - maybe you do, but you probably get support lopping off," says Senator Ben Nelson, a Nebraska Democrat. "And so I've always felt that with certain legislation, you ought to do it incrementally, because...