Well, Toyota apparantly put a whole different meaning to the term Flower Power :')

I wonder if an evaluation is part of the kindle-amazon program. Kindle could really profit from this, if they could design an e-reader that meets students 'desires'.
Sure, this generation might not entirly be won into the new technology (geez, we become old so quickly!) but the future students will.

Its also a matter of adaptation. New means, new ways. I don't know if we should make the e-reader as close as possible to the benefits of the real book, anyways. Arent there any 'digital' options that could make it a way better academic/learning in general tool?

I don't know what they are saying in this article.
They speak of 25 gallon to get from coast to coast. Coast to coast is about 3000 miles (google earth tells me).
A regular 25 gallons of diesel would get you to about 750 miles?
So i was thinking: yeah good deal!

Then further on in the article they say that only 5% of the fuel is algae fuel.
Then what do they mean with the 25 gallon thing? Is 25 gallon 5% of the entire fuel used to get from coast to coast? In that case, i guess you're far better off with running regular fuel :') Or is that 25 gallon just a number? (Just like that previous electric car add about some car driving 1/100)

What did i miss?

Even though a 'regular' position in society is the easy, most simple option, it is not your written destiny. You can make anything out of your own life when you are consciouss and aware. People who are depressed with life often go "Society is unfair, they should provide for me, it's gotta change, everything is so bad" and by having that analysed (and they often have very extensive and large stories often pretty well argumented too, on all the subjects that personally bugs the hell out of them) they are still left with empty hands, no empowerment, feeling more helpless because instead of looking into things that they can actually do, they put all their energy in seeing every possible obstacle on their way. Plus they validate every action that they don't take with all those virtual obstacles. They stay in the same position.

Once people find out that life is in their own hands, and when they start the journey there are always possibilities and other routes to pass certain obstacles, they become alot more happier. THAT is something society should foster instead of throwing over the entire system. When people take responsibility over their own lives and live it the way they want to, then society will change, because it's population will change. That's always the way it works, individuals are always a load of steps ahead.

Well, its all in definition. If they defined "multitasking" on the basis of people being continuously preoccupied with tv, mobile phones and computers then the definition of multitasking is limited to those actions and that meaning. "What is multitasking" is a question that deserves a research on its own, if not a whole philosophical debate. But it doesn't work that way in these kind of researches. The definitions are often very poor, not very broad-sentenced (that would take alot more time and resources to actually research etc) and don't often live up to the complexity of it's common meaning. I see it all the time, valid scientific statements based on very poor definitions. "People who think they are good at multitasking are actually really bad at it" has some sort of scientific truth, but common sense goes "ORLY?!" It says so very little, because its definition is so small. The impact however can be enormous, that's the worst part. Scientific research can change peoples belief, and with the change of beliefs it can change peoples actions, their attitude. Most of the people do not have the brains nor knowledge or attitude to critically look at any research, so i wouldn't be surprised if some people would actually think that multitasking=bad. Or something like that. Anyhows, On the subject of attention. I did a module of NLP in school and at some point i read that people can only process about 9 blocks (or less, cant remember exactly) of information. Meaning that your attention/focus cannot be on more than 9 things at the time, and the more blocks you process, the worse your attention for the individual blocks becomes. For example, i'm writing, while actively thinking about what i want to say, translating from dutch to english, checking grammar and sentence structure. It's taking me a while to write this post since i'm also paying attention to the cats on my desk for example. If i didn't need to that, words would flow out of my fingers more fluently. And they do ever more so when the cats leave, or once i feel i start getting better at translating, for example. Ofcourse theres also alot of stuff people do unconsciously, they require no conscious attention. Take walking for example or moving in general, breathing, letting your heart beat, having thoughts spawn into existence. (Focussing on thoughts is something different though)