ArtuRocks - Slashdot User

Comment Old age is not a happier time of life? (Score 2, Informative) 143

by ArtuRocks on Wednesday August 29, 2007 @08:34PM (#20406349) Attached to: Brain Implants Relieve Alzheimer's Damage

If this works in humans, old age could be a much happier time of life.

Ummm.... huh? Two problems I have with that sentence:
1.) Granted, I'm 34, so I'm not talking from experience, but from what I gather old age is already a happier time of life.
2.) If I'm interpreting the sentence correctly, the sentence is implying that most of the time when people reach old age they get Alzheimer's. If that is true, then I need a reality check because I didn't know that.

Submission + - Perpetual Motion machine hits "technical snag& (vnunet.com)

Submitted by whoever57 on Thursday July 05, 2007 @01:55PM

whoever57 writes: The demonstration of Steorn's perpetual motion machine ("Orba") appears to have hit "technical difficulties". Most people might call this "difficulty" the law of conservation of energy, but the Irish company claims that the problem may be related to the heat from the camera lighting on the display.

Submission + - Men focus on crotches

Submitted by JavaRob on Sunday March 18, 2007 @07:35PM

JavaRob writes: A study by the Online Journalism Review using eye tracking to improve page layouts turned up an odd result: men tend to reliably look at crotches in photos.

"Although both men and women look at the image of George Brett when directed to find out information about his sport and position, men tend to focus on private anatomy as well as the face. For the women, the face is the only place they viewed. [...]This difference doesn't just occur with images of people. Men tend to fixate more on areas of private anatomy on animals as well, as evidenced when users were directed to browse the American Kennel Club site."

Interestingly, it seems like even knowing that their eye movements were being recorded didn't affect the habit.

Side note: the main article is actually interesting, if you can manage to tear your eyes away from George Brett's groin.

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