QuicK GeeK
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
booze news ...
How much do we really know about alcohol and its affects on us? BBC has an interesting website which might help to clear things up.
Start with a quiz which will quickly split truth from the myth. Check out an example from the quiz:
Myth 4 of 9:
After a couple of drinks people around you look more attractive
Is this statement true or false?
Responses in this quiz so far:
True (10311 votes) 71.7%
False (4066 votes) 28.3%
What scientists say:This statement is true. Scientists have found proof of the beer-goggle effect. Researchers found that men and women who have drunk a moderate amount of alcohol find the faces of the opposite sex 25% more attractive. With alcohol also lowering inhibitions, this generally results in increased sexual behaviour.That’s an interesting piece of information to know ;)
The site is quite fun, it talks of alcohol drink making, how our body takes it and what really happens in the end ;) ...
Start with a quiz which will quickly split truth from the myth. Check out an example from the quiz:
Myth 4 of 9:
After a couple of drinks people around you look more attractive
Is this statement true or false?
Responses in this quiz so far:
True (10311 votes) 71.7%
False (4066 votes) 28.3%
What scientists say:This statement is true. Scientists have found proof of the beer-goggle effect. Researchers found that men and women who have drunk a moderate amount of alcohol find the faces of the opposite sex 25% more attractive. With alcohol also lowering inhibitions, this generally results in increased sexual behaviour.That’s an interesting piece of information to know ;)
The site is quite fun, it talks of alcohol drink making, how our body takes it and what really happens in the end ;) ...
Monday, February 23, 2004
New generation PC
Since Doug Engelbart’s demonstration of a word processor in 1968, computers quite quickly became a integral part of our lives. However pre-history of the computer goes all way back to the fourth century B.C. to the Babylonia (now Iraq), to the abacus, a simple counting aid.
In 60th one computer needed at list two rooms and over 20 people to serves them; and now we have a tiny machines as big as a note book doing 100 times more and 100 times faster then their big old ancestors...
So what's next?
Maybe this -> a computer called P-ISM. (The name does not really work for the adds but the thing does look cool... )
Here is the concept: five different pens make a computer. One pen is a CPU, another is a camera, third creates a virtual keyboard, another projects the visual output and displays and the fifth is a communicator (a phone).Each pen communicates wirelessly with the others. For more click here ...
In 60th one computer needed at list two rooms and over 20 people to serves them; and now we have a tiny machines as big as a note book doing 100 times more and 100 times faster then their big old ancestors...
So what's next?
Maybe this -> a computer called P-ISM. (The name does not really work for the adds but the thing does look cool... )
Here is the concept: five different pens make a computer. One pen is a CPU, another is a camera, third creates a virtual keyboard, another projects the visual output and displays and the fifth is a communicator (a phone).Each pen communicates wirelessly with the others. For more click here ...
Monday, February 02, 2004
Art and science
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) - a true Renaissance man.
Many people in the last few centuries were trying to understand how his genius did really affect the world. Check out the website on Leonardo da Vinci
The Myth of the Renaissance in Europe opens the door into the secretes of the Renaissance time which will always be teasing enigma to the world...
Many people in the last few centuries were trying to understand how his genius did really affect the world. Check out the website on Leonardo da Vinci
The Myth of the Renaissance in Europe opens the door into the secretes of the Renaissance time which will always be teasing enigma to the world...
