August 6th, 2006

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AOL Releases Search Data, Pity the Fools

This weekend the AOL research team made public a file which contains logs showing the searches performed by approximately half a million users over the course of three months. Article about it here. The AOL engineers claimed that they had anonymized the data so that the users who performed the searches could not be […]

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Why are Deep Sea Fish So Horrifying

I recently saw the amazing deep sea episode of BBC’s Blue Planet documentary series. If you are a fan of HP Lovecraft and “horrors from the deep” kind of stuff, you will love this show.
Watching this episode and the more pleasant “open ocean” episode that it’s paired with, I got wondering: what causes deep […]

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Brainwave Synchronization and the iPod nano

Mental states can be altered through the use of specially designed audio recordings, such as binaural beats, or other technical means in order to manipulate human brainwave patterns to achieve a desired mental state such as alertness, relaxation or meditation.
One approach which has been developed and refined over many years by the Monroe Institute is […]

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