Random Nifty Links
24 August 2005, 4:40 PM
Via the BBC:
Bones reveal first shoe-wearers: Sturdy shoes first came into
widespread use between 40,000 and 26,000 years ago, according to a US
scientist. Student
unearths Einstein paper: An original Albert Einstein manuscript has
been unearthed at a university in the Netherlands by a student.
Via National Geographic: Chinese,
Americans Truly See Differently, Study Says: Chinese and Americans
literally view the world differently, according to a new study, which
found that the two groups tend to move their eyes in distinctly different
patterns when looking at pictures.
Lovely. It's going to get harder and harder to avoid advertisements: Billboards beam
adverts to passing cellphones. And it may also get ahrder to drive
past the speed limit:
Speed of cars 'will be limited by computer'.