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...major news websites show the results of their labor: did you know that it took all of time for the world population to hit one billion in 1804, but only twelve years for it to jump from five billion to six billion? Did you know that one tenth of all the people who have ever lived are alive today...
Finally, in the Oh-Bonehead-Me Department: in a column about "burning" your own CDs, I said you could compress CDs to the MP3 format (roughly a tenth the original size), then record the songs to a CD-R disc. But how would you play it? Answer: only on your computer. If you want to play MP3s in your CD player, you need to convert the tunes to .wav files--MusicMatch and Real.com's software will do that--then burn them. The files, of course, will expand tenfold. So forget about squeezing 10 albums onto...
...taken more than a year for the scientists to report their findings in the journal Science. But the wait is hardly over. The bubbles of brine, trapped in crystals of irradiated halite (essentially table salt from space turned blue by radiation), are so small ?- about an eighth or a tenth the diameter of a human hair ?- that they lie beyond the capability of existing technology. Never fear; a researcher in Cambridge, England, is apparently on the verge of developing a highly precise mass spectrometer that might be able to tackle the problem. Until then, NASA asteroid specialist Michael Zolensky...
...bill's average annual break for the best-off tenth of all taxpayers...
...Roughly the size of a pack of cigarettes, Diamond Multimedia's Rio was the first "Walkman" designed solely to play digital audio files encoded with a form of compression called MP3. MP3 can reduce the storage needs of CD songs to roughly one tenth their original size without significantly sacrificing sound quality, and it has rapidly emerged as an open standard for transmitting music over the Internet. Songs, which can be downloaded from the Internet or "ripped" from CDs, are loaded into the Rio from a personal computer. MORE...