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After typing in all manner of personal information (okay, I fudged on my weight), I hit the send button with a certain trepidation. I watched in horror as my instant background check appeared before the gathered group of onlookers at iDate 2007, an Internet dating conference held in Miami this week. The make of my unfashionable car, a reference to my ex-husband, info on a dubious family member (how many times did I bail him out of jail?) and other tidbits about my life popped up onscreen and made my palm sweat on the mouse. But seconds later...
Monkeys experience binocular rivalry. They can learn to press a button every time their perception flips, while their brains are impaled with electrodes that record any change in activity. Neuroscientist Nikos Logothetis found that the earliest way stations for visual input in the back of the brain barely budged as the monkeys' consciousness flipped from one state to another. Instead, it was a region that sits further down the information stream and that registers coherent shapes and objects that tracks the monkeys' awareness. Now this doesn't mean that this place on the underside of the brain...
...check your answers, click on the "More Pictures" button, above, and progress to the completed grid...
These are examples of the time-honored presidential restart--an unofficial third term for re-elected Presidents loping toward the history books. Bush could use a reset button. Not only does he face emboldened Democrats who aren't planning to give him any breaks, but also his own Republicans are grumpy. A former top aide says it is "impossible to overstate the disappointment and disgust" among Bush loyalists about how the President squandered his post-9/11 popularity. So Bush is using a pair of momentous appearances this month--his "new way forward" speech on Iraq and his penultimate State...
...download at fboweb.com that shows realtime flight traffic for many airports, and even has an hourly snapshot of all planes currently in the air that have a U.S. departure or arrival. (Once you have Google Earth installed, go to fboweb.com and click on the "Google Earth Primer" button.) It's a dramatic piece of software: there you are, in your own home, and you can monitor planes taking off and landing at LAX, O'Hare or a handful of other impossibly busy airports. The SpaceNavigator improves the experience, by giving you a manageable way to, say, find a particular plane...