The Bookish Man

 Pulling Teeth in Eighteenth-Century Paris-  Improbable Research 

The Lure of the Decimal- "The precision fetishism cropped up recently when the Environmental Protection Agency changed the list of cars eligible to be junked for bucks in the cash-for-clunkers program. The agency said “more precise” data calculated “to four decimal places” caused the revisions. But how accurate can fuel-economy calculations be? Not that precise: 0.0001 miles is about six inches."- WSJ.com: The Numbers Guy 

Ringxiety:- Ringxiety is described as the sensation and the false belief that one can hear his or her mobile phone ringing or feel it vibrating, when in fact the telephone is not doing so.-   Best of Wikipedia

Haptic reader helps the blind read- 

"The Haptic Reader looks like a flatbed scanner, in this case users place their typed text on the scanner and it’s converted into Braille by raising the surface of the device on the opposite side of the paper.

The reader is also capable of producing text to voice files for those cases in which braille isn’t convenient or for non-blind readers looking to create a voice file from their typed text"- from The Inquisitr » Technology (Shared by David Kordalewski)


Shapes and tools designed to order ("The ability to engineer complex shapes to custom specification...) with DNA 


Nanotechnology-  Next Big Future  (Shared by Kaoru Shimitsu)




Teaching children how to be more resilient along with regular classroom instruction can improve children's outlook on life, curb depression and boost grades- EurekAlert!  



Escherization- via Trivium