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Wordle: Solidarity

USA 360° PANORAMAS

panoramas.dk

Hans Nyberg, a Danish photographer, showcases his panoramic images of some US landmarks in his web site .  Make sure that you check the full screen images. Pictures are large, so broadband connection is recommended!

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Management Lessons on an Aircraft Carrier at Sea

blogs.openforum.com

“Very few people have the opportunity to experience life on a nuclear aircraft carrier up close and personal. Recently, Bill Reichert had the extraordinary experience of spending a day and a night at sea in the Pacific on board the USS Nimitz. Bill was part of a Navy outreach program to give ordinary landlubbers a perspective on the mission and operations of a naval strike group.” read

Paul Krugman’s fear for lost decade

guardian.co.uk

“As analysts and media hailed the tentative emergence of green shoots last week, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman caused international shock with a prediction that the world economy would stagnate just as badly, and for just as long, as Japan’s did in the 1990s. In an exclusive interview, he talks to Will Hutton about his anxiety for the future - and how Gordon Brown might have saved Britain from the blight that hangs over the West.” read

Grey hair is a sign of stress, say scientists

telegraph.co.uk

“When the going gets tough, stem cells which produce colour in hair follicles are damaged, say scientists. But the good news is that limiting the amount of stress can stop grey hairs growing.” read

Basic anatomy ‘baffles Britons’

news.bbc.co.uk

Many people in the UK are unable to identify the location of their major organs, a study suggests.” read

President Obama writes girl a note for missing school

msnbc.msn.com

“(AP) GREEN BAY, Wis. - Ten-year-old Kennedy Corpus has a rock-solid excuse for missing the last day of school: a personal note to her teacher from President Barack Obama.” read

Nokia developing phone that recharges itself without mains electricity

guardian.co.uk

“A new prototype charging system from Nokia is able to power itself on nothing more than ambient radio waves – the weak TV, radio and mobile phone signals that permanently surround us. The power harvested is small but it is almost enough to power a mobile in standby mode indefinitely without ever needing to plug it into the mains, according to Markku Rouvala, one of the researchers who developed the device at the Nokia Research Centre in Cambridge, UK.” read

Why your brain just can’t remember that word?

newscientist.com

“Most of the time the brain works as it ought to: limbs move, memories are retrieved and experiences processed. But occasionally things go awry. In tip-of-the-tongue experiences, for instance, words suddenly and perplexingly go missing only to reappear seconds or minutes later. Another brain quirk – déjà vu – confirms the fallibility of memory. Now two new studies have shed light on both phenomena.” read

Email ‘n Walk Lets You Multitask Without Getting Hit By a Car

lifehacker.com

“iPhone App. “Email n’ Walk” overlays an email composition window on top of the view from your iPhone’s camera, so you can type out an email and watch where you’re going.” read