Life begins again in March

Posted by jillian under fun

March is a month of metamorphoses (maybe alliteration, too). Winter begins to trans-mutate into spring, cold weather starts its unsteady migration north, and my pseudo-seasonal affective disorder/endless winter rage gradually fades.
 And of course, March is a month of madness, or so says basketball. It’s so easy to get caught up in playoff mayhem and the […]

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Vending Machines: An Analysis of the Cost to Value Ratio

Posted by lesly under fun

 This is more a question than an actual post, but why is it that I have no problem paying $0.85 for this:

or $1.29 for this:

but it seems ridiculous for me to pay $0.85 for this?

 

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Medical Mistakes

Posted by miranda under health

In the most recent report addressing medical mistakes in the U.S., studies revealed that nearly 3% of patients in the nation’s hospitals are victims of hospital errors. In addition, these patients have a 25% chance of dying from the mistake. Three percent of patients does not sound like a substantial amount; however, considering […]

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Passively Multiplayer Online Game

Posted by adam under Uncategorized, fun

A lot of people have gotten into massively multiplayer online games (MMOG) in recent years.  You just have to look at World of Warcraft with its ten million subscribers to see how popular they’ve become.  There is one major problem with MMOGs that keeps a lot of people from playing them, and that’s the amount of time […]

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Synaesthesia: what are your colors?

Posted by jillian under fun, science

What color is the text you are reading right now?
Black? Red? Blue? A mixture of many colors? Do you see a buffalo?

If you see plain boring black, then you do not have grapheme-color synaesthesia. Don’t feel bad, I don’t have it either, which is why I can say for sure that this text is actually […]

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