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...opened up its platform to outside developers. That allowed programmers to create tiny applets that, in turn, made the service more useful and fun and pulled in more users. Blowing up the browser and letting the same developers figure out new ways to use the pieces is every bit as smart...
...Recently, a pair of research psychologists - Vincent Egan of the University of Leicester and Giray Cordan of the University of Exeter - completed a survey of 240 subjects, half of whom had been drinking, to find out how drinkers and nondrinkers experience attraction. What they found was interesting, if a bit creepy. (Learn about addiction and the brain...
...average, the participants found the "15-year-olds" slightly more attractive than the "19-year-olds," which reconfirms our inclination toward neoteny. Both men and women found the more youthful images of girls to be a bit more attractive than the older ones...
...phase 4. But though an emergency committee met on April 25 to evaluate the situation, the WHO hasn't made the pandemic declaration yet. Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's interim assistant director-general for health, security and environment, said on Sunday that its experts "would like a little bit more information and a little bit more time to consider this." The committee is set to meet again by April 28 at the latest...
...regionals. The junior was only three seconds behind the event’s top finisher, demonstrating the quality of his effort.“It was pretty amazing,” Gillespie said. “I’m just really happy...[The personal best] was a bit of a surprise, but training has been going well, and I have a lot of faith in the program.”Freshmen Stephen Couch and Kailyn Kuzmuk also competed in their respective 5000 events, finishing 37th and 27th. Kuzmuk’s time of 17:29.27 proved good enough...