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Sources: Office of the SIGTARP; New York Times; New York Daily News; Telegraph; CNN; New York Times; Cleveland Plain Dealer...
Students do share some blame for the inundation of emails. From the start of freshman year, whether because of our broad curiosity or plain indecisiveness, many of us have signed up on every group and event list that could ever even remotely interest us. But we wouldn’t have to do this if we had a more intelligent, refined online events calendar. Right now, students don’t use the current online events calendar, HarvardEvents, because it’s just too overwhelming—it’s one big mass of uncategorized daily events...
Seemingly disjointed but colorful memories about Indians, kissing, and just plain living in the Florida Everglades. Warm winters not included...
...blink problem Wang complained about has less to do with lighting than the plain fact that her Nikon was incapable of distinguishing her narrow eye from a half-closed one. An eye might only be a few pixels wide, and a camera that's downsampling the images can't see the necessary level of detail. So a trade-off has to be made: either the blink warning would have a tendency to miss half blinks or a tendency to trigger for narrow eyes. Nikon did not respond to questions from TIME as to how the blink detection was designed...
...well-documented way to slow memory decline is through plain old aerobic exercise, says Art Kramer, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Illinois, who found that six months of walking for about an hour three times a week improved memory, attention and decision making among study participants, whose average age was 72. "Physical activity appears to be neuroprotective," Kramer says. (See TIME's video about fitness gadgets...