Over 75? Time to go!

Over 75? Time to go

ARE the programmers of Apple’s iPhone trying to tell senior citizens it’s time to go? We hope not, although its inability to keep track of birthdays for people over 75 suggests otherwise. It seems they have limited the iPhone to events that repeat no more than 75 times – and the iPhone counts each birthday as an event, even if it was in the past. They created this rule before adding the birthday tracking feature, evidently forgetting that grandpa might be keeping track of grandma’s birthday, not just the grandchildren’s.

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Giant ’soap bubble’

The “Cygnus Bubble” nebula may actually be a cylinder that is being seen from one of its ends. This image was taken with the Kitt Peak Mayall 4-metre telescope in Arizona (Image: Travis A. Rector/U of Alaska Anchorage/Heidi Schweiker/NOAO)

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Stephen Hawking and his daughter.

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127001.100-meet-stephen-hawking-childrens-author.html

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SKB

Whatever the future holds it will hurt or please you less than you imagine

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How to make better choices.

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This week’s New Scientist gives tips to make better choices.

1. Don’t fear the consequences
2. Go with your gut instincts
3. Consider your emotions
4. Play the devil’s advocate
5. Keep your eye on  the ball
6. Don’t cry over spilt milk
7. Look at it another way
8. Beware social pressure
9. Limit your options
10. Have someone else choose

Quotes from the article:

“Whatever the future holds it will hurt or please you less than you imagine”

“Searching for evidence that could prove you wrong is a painful process”

“The more we invest in something the more committed we feel to it”

“If you find everyone in your group agreeing, play the contrarian”

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Pratfall !

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I dread reading news in the month of April. Difficult in knowing which one is genuine and which one is not. Here is a piece of news which says that scientist got their fundamentals wrong. This resulted in huge explosion at LHC.

“We are dumb-founded that we missed some very simple balance of forces. Not only was it missed in the engineering design but also in the four engineering reviews carried out between 1998 and 2002 before launching the construction of the magnet”

Pier Oddone. Director of Fermilab.

Pictures of LHC

Mean while, Johnny Hart the B.C cartoonist is dead.

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Pictures of LHC

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We are like children waiting for Christmas. – JoAnne Hewett

Compact muon Solenoid.

The biggest detector Atlas.

Pictures of LHC (Large Hadron Collider) near Geneva, Switzerland. It will smash protons with seven times energy and hundred times the rate of the top collider to date, the Tevatron at Fermilab Chicago.

LHC will probe the interactions of the particles down to the unprecendented scale of 10^-17 centimeters, which is roughly the size of universe a trillionth of second after the big bang, when the fundamental forces of nature were born.

Credits : Original photographs by Maximillier Brice / CERN. Davide Castelvechi in New Scientist.

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