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Comment Re:I agree (Score 1) 431

by sanyasi on Friday August 28, 2009 @12:00PM (#29231961) Attached to: We're In the Midst of a Literacy Revolution

According to several historians, the armies that fought in the Civil War were the most literate armies in history up until sometime right around the year 2000

The battle of Gettysburg had a total of 200,000 combatants. Lee had 75000 men, and the Union forces had 94,000 men. Citation. The battle of Passchendaele had 800,000 dead, wounded or captured alone. 3 million troops fought in total in the American Civil War. There were over 38 million dead, wounded or missing combatants in World War 1, and that doesn't even count how many participated. We're talking orders of magnitude more soldiers, obviously some of them were dumb as fuck.

Comment Re:1 Question (Score 1) 226

by sanyasi on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @10:11AM (#27311267) Attached to: NASA Tests Heaviest Chute Drop Ever

When will America start using SI units as the standard? Pounds don't mean anything to me.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=50000+pounds+in+kgs

Comment Re:I'd rather have 4/36 (Score 1) 1055

by sanyasi on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @02:06AM (#26444659) Attached to: How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out?

> All in all, unless you are in perfect health and never get sick, it is much cheaper to live in Canada. Unless you are in perfect health, and are 100% confident enough of it to not insure yourself, its still going to cost you insurance money in the USA.

Comment Re:In the UK, try Cambridge, York, Warwick... (Score 2, Interesting) 386

by sanyasi on Saturday December 27, 2008 @10:41PM (#26246231) Attached to: Study Abroad For Computer Science Majors?

I'm a junior at a top liberal arts college in the US - currently spending the year studying Part II Computer Science at Cambridge. If you can get in (the application process is long and unnecessarily bureaucratic), there's nothing like it. It's absolutely fantastic. Also, the drinking age is 18. Everyone loves Americans in the post-11/5 world. Cambridge is breathtakingly beautiful, and a year in Cambridge ain't exactly a bad experience to have.

PS3 Folding@Home Begins with Impressive Numbers 114

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 23, 2007 @03:56PM from the make-science-history-in-your-living-room dept.

hansamurai writes "As we've previously discussed, the Folding@Home client is now available on the PS3, and already some early results are in. The total number of teraflops generated by PS3s has already exceeded all other OS contributions combined and the entire project is heading towards one petaflop of distributed computing power. Stanford notes that their teraflops calculation is conservatively calculated so the total power could be under-appreciated. With the PS3 European release complete and the Folding client already available to them, the number of users will continue to grow for the time being, let's hope that the project does not run out of work units to pass out. Kotaku has some numbers that are a few hours old since the Stanford server is getting hit pretty hard with the renewed interest in the project."

Submission + - New vote on .xxx Internet address nears

Submitted by

Billosaur

on Friday March 23, 2007 @03:52PM

Billosaur writes: "ICANN is once more set to vote on the creation of the .xxx Internet address. Though the proposal has been voted down by ICANN's board twice before, ICM Registry Inc., the group behind those previous proposals, resubmitted it after they "agreed to hire independent organizations to monitor porn sites' compliance with the new rules, which would be developed by a separate body called the International Foundation for Online Responsibility." Once more the proposal has led to pornographers and religious groups finding themselves on the same side, the porn industry worried that the domain would lead to government controls, the religious groups worried it would make access too easy and allow porn to expand even further onto the Internet."

Why Exercise Boosts Brainpower 331

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @01:27PM from the muscle-head dept.

aditi sends us a report from Reuters on research indicating that exercise boosts brainpower by building new brain cells in a brain region linked with memory and memory loss. Quoting: "Tests on mice showed they grew new brain cells in a brain region called the dentate gyrus, a part of the hippocampus that is known to be affected in the age-related memory decline that begins around age 30 for most humans. Researchers used magnetic resonance imaging scans to help document the process in mice — and then used MRIs to look at the brains of people before and after exercise. They found the same patterns, which suggests that people also grow new brain cells when they exercise."

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