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Why Time Flies By As You Get Older 252

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @11:03PM from the like-a-banana dept.

Ant notes a piece up on WBUR Boston addressing theories to explain the universal human experience that time seems to pass faster as you get older. Here's the 9-minute audio (MP3). Several explanations are tried out: that brains lay down more information for novel experiences; that the "clock" for nerve impulses in aging brains runs slower; and that each interval of time represents a diminishing fraction of life as we age.

Comment Re:[Don't] Profit! (Score 1) 501

by daydr3am3r on Thursday April 09, 2009 @06:21AM (#27515841) Attached to: No More <em>D&D</em> PDFs, Wizards of the Coast Sues 8 File Sharers

According to 2nd edition rules (which are the only ones I'm familiar with),dying at -10 instead of "the norm" 0 hp's was an optional rule. Of course it was convenient and everybody ended up using it. There was even a Dragonlance-specific proficiency that allowed you to stay conscious and active until you reached -10 hp's too, can't remember its name though.

Comment Bad ISPs (Score 5, Informative) 117

by daydr3am3r on Thursday April 24, 2008 @05:27AM (#23180336) Attached to: Vuze Study Exposes P2P Throttling By Canadian ISP Cogeco

For those who are bored to RTFA and dig through its links, there is a handy Bad ISPs list maintained by the Azureus team.
That being said, there are many ISPs who also do p2p traffic caching, which is not inherently a bad thing. Certain block lists consider those wrongfully malicious as well.

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