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...Friday may be the only smart person to take sexuality seriously, the only one who could give me marital tips without all that cuteness and overanalysis that depress me by outing just how difficult it is for most couples to communicate. But unfortunately, Friday is the wife of my boss's boss, Time Inc. editor-in-chief Norman Pearlstine. A smarter man would not call her and confess her role in shaping my sexuality. Then again, a smarter man wouldn't have called his mom for sex advice...
...She’s a solid, smart Ivy League player,” Delaney-Smith said...
...Smart dust, actually. That's the name for the wireless networks of sensors, called motes, that Pister, 39, is building. Each mote has a chip about the size of a grain of rice that detects and records things like temperature and motion at its location. Attach it to a battery the size of an aspirin, and a mote will keep doing this for longer than a year; add a power source the size of a bottle cap, and your mote is good for a decade. Most important, the motes have minuscule radio transmitters that talk to other motes...
...world. "It's going to be a hugely revolutionary technology," he says. Already, he has performed an experiment for the U.S. Army in which a mere eight motes were dropped from a plane and used to detect a fleet of vehicles on the ground. Homeland Security will start using smart dust this summer in a pilot project to protect ports in Florida. And Honeywell has started using motes in supermarkets to make giant refrigerators more energy efficient. Says Pister: "There's a potential to do for the physical world what the Net did for the world of ideas." --By Chris...
...you’re not convinced that Radcliffe Rugby merits the commentator’s chair, consider this: they’re smart enough to see through political B.S. and cynical enough about current affairs to want real change. They’re politically committed, extracurricularly over-committed, and they can sing a mean rendition of “Doe, a deer, a female deer,” that, if included here, would ensure that Crimson President Amit R. Paley’s mother never invites me to Seder again...