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...carbon tax. Instead, it's to offer simplicity. That's on display in one of the site's more innovative features, "Translating Uncle Sam," in which MNN's bloggers take raw data from government websites - whose comprehensiveness is eclipsed only by their impenetrability - and put it into user-friendly terms. Given the way people twist data, knotting them like Atlanta traffic, in environmental debates - especially those about global warming - this is a genuinely valuable service. Notes Babbit: "We'll have better graphs...
...smartest people actually showed performance reductions, a result that may address some of the concerns over "cheating": on tasks involving working memory and impulsivity, stimulants had a leveling effect, allowing below-average performers to catch up to their peers, not dominate them. According to Farah, the typical student user is actually not the overachieving brainiac but a "white male frat brother with a B average...
...obsession with verisimilitude is oddly out of place in a virtual world. And you see that same fixation repeated endlessly throughout Home. It's as if the Sony guys, watching some of the abuses at Second Life, were worried about what would happen if they gave control to the users. But hasn't the past decade, and the past five years especially, been about putting the user in control? Even the iPhone, which comes from the controllingest control-freak company of them all, Apple, is an open platform upon which any developer can build applications. Home could definitely use some...
...Sony ignored the whole user-generated thing and has instead created an environment that's as closed, locked down and totalitarian as "the Village," where the Prisoner dwelled. Everything here is too perfect, from the mall, where you can shop for real virtual jeans, courtesy of Diesel, to your virtual home within Home, a gorgeous, modern apartment that you can fill with virtual furniture from the likes of Lignet Roset. Seriously -Diesel and Lignet are among the many who have signed up to be Sony's partners here, and Home is a platform for them to hawk their brands...
Getting your tubes tied is not the most appealing phrase, but it's way more user-friendly than sterilization. Maybe that's why the maker of Essure--a newer, cheaper, faster, scalpel-free alternative to tubal ligation--is marketing the procedure as "permanent birth control...