Word: lots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...iPad does a lot - Web browsing, e-mail, photos, music, movies, games, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, e-books - but you'll notice that it doesn't do anything your other devices don't, and in many cases your other devices do those things better. The difference lies in what you can do with the iPad. You can pick it up. You can rest it in your lap. You can pass it around. You can leave it on a coffee table. You can tuck it in a bag. You can one-hand it while reading on a train. (See the best...
...beginning to shake. But the idea never gained much traction. The very difficulty of predicting earthquakes makes it hard to study how animals react to them. "This was a completely fortuitous event," says Halliday. "It would be practically impossible to plan research like this. You'd spend a lot of time watching toads with nothing happening." (Read "Why Chile's Quake Wasn't Unexpected...
...Grant, though, is convinced there's a connection. The question now, she says, is whether seismologists can do anything with her research to try to predict the next big one. "A lot of people are asking, 'Can we use them as a kind of monitoring tool, keep one at home and watch to see if they run away?' " says Grant. "That's obviously not going to work." But she's hoping something might...
...asked for headshots and résumés. I didn’t have a headshot, and I scrawled my own pathetic résumé: “Juggling—basic skills. Dancing—a little bit in high school (a big lie) and a lot in trashy clubs (a small lie). Singing—was in a choir once.” After a moment’s hesitation, I decided not to mention my double-jointed thumb...
...Sandra and Leigh do have a lot of accumulated institutional knowledge, and she uses that to very good means in our meetings and the policies that we follow. So it’s going to be a loss to see her go,” said Quincy House Master Lee Gehrke. “At the same time, there are other Masters who have significant experience...