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Kadlec's latest book, The Power Years: A User's Guide to the Rest of Your Life, is now in paperback
...Most of the free online calculators ask users to answer a number of questions related to their family histories, their own medical histories and various behaviors including what they eat, how they drive and how much they sleep. The decidedly ominous Death Clock calculator generates a countdown timer with the number of seconds the user has left to live, but other sites display an age someone with characteristics like the user can expect to attain...
...during his commute on the T. “I think it’s amazing. [The podcast] is one of the only open sources of high-end education, provided you have the right technology,” Goodwin said. “It’s a very user-friendly course on top of the wide range of material.” Harry R. Lewis, Gordon McKay professor of computer science, also began podcasting his course, Quantitative Reasoning 48, “Bits,” last spring. “The Extension School may soon be making additional...
...universities, and 57 institutions have enrolled worldwide, according to Nikki Reed, a spokeswoman for Microsoft. Major selling points in the companies’ pitches are larger inboxes for students—both Microsoft and Google offer more than 2GB of storage space—and interfaces that are more user-friendly than usual university Webmail systems. Harvard students with FAS e-mail accounts are currently allotted 40MB of inbox space. The e-mail addresses, which would continue beyond graduation, would still bear the .edu suffix as well as the university’s domain name, both companies...
...turns out you don’t have to stop looking at porn just because you’re worried that your girlfriend will find out from her UA lab partner that you’ve bookmarked PremiumBukkake.com. The User Assistants (UAs) in the Personal Computer Clinic at the Science Center might be exposed to some pretty sick stuff on frozen laptop screens, but you don’t need to worry about having your fascination with naughty nurses made known to the public. When asked if the computers brought into the clinic ever had dirty pictures frozen onscreen...