Peter F. Hamilton's scifi novels "Void" and "Commonwealth Saga" presents interesting things about immortality and brain chips. In his books set in the future, there is technology to regenerate humans (when you get old, step into a rejuvenation clinic, where you spend some time reversing ageing, so you step out again…

hmm...I wonder if there is any measurable placebo effect that would favour branded over generics (when both the active chemicals and binders are the same).

Argh, damn you, my brother found this article and has been messing with connection all day. Fortunately this kind of attack is pretty easy to block. As the article mentions, the attack spoofs ARP packets to convince computers that the android phone is the router, so the simple fix is to set up a static ARP table so…

yes, calls are good. Also I hate it when people send multiple texts in quick succession when they could simply combine everything in one text and use punctuation!

Yeah! I cook salmon fillet seasoned with light soy sauce and beer (preferably Australian lager), covered with saran wrap (the microwave-safe version) and microwave on high for two minutes.

YES! Grill-skillet makes regular bacon into epicbacon. I have a cheap square cast-iron grill skillet, and it is the most incredible cooking tool ever.

the splash is half the fun!

We live in an amazing age of global connectivity. This opens up some very interesting possibilities for startups to get funding; websites like [www.kickstarter.com] have allowed entrepreneurs to crowd-source their startup funding to an amount that they would not normally have access to without having to loose a big…

or from someone else sleeping on your arm all night

GnuCash! Cross-platform and open source.

Get on one of these: [zombiesafehouse.wordpress.com]

As Minjin explains, frequency does change the heat output of transistors. This is a phenomena of transistors called switching losses - because transistors don't switch on and off instantaneously, every time it switches there will be some energy lost as heat. The higher your frequency, the more times you switch per…

bonus technique

Observe special chopstick technique from ancient Chinese masters (ok not really).

also works way better than anything else you can find in a kitchen to extract bread that is stuck in a toaster, also stops you from electrocuting yourself. One thing I find useful is if you have knives and forks with relatively thin handles, you can hold them backwards in one hand and use their handles as chopsticks.…

Hmm...I think chopsticks would be a better choice. 15-inch Brazilian cherrywood cooking chopsticks are the mainstay of my kitchen.

Cooling vs Noise is a big issue! I hope you include that in the next lesson!

Yes, I totally agree with you, that's why I find that suppressing subvocalisation increases reading speed, but doesn't necessarily improve comprehension or memory.

Ah yes, the TL;DR method. I apply this liberally. Saves a lot of time.

When I skim-read I imagine myself making a buzzing sound with my mouth, I find this helps suppress subvocalisation, and speeds up skimming.