The Origin of Fortune Cookies
adminOK, since they serve fortune cookies at the end of the meal in Chinese restaurants, you figure fortune cookies are from China. Wrong. They don't even have fortune cookies in…
Brains work differently in US and Asia
That's what a study done at MIT says. East Asians and Americans were asked to make both absolute and relative judgments about shapes and length of lines in a drawing.…
Spellify Spell Checker for your website
I use Firefox as my browser, much better than Internet Explorer. One of the add-ons I use is a spell checker. But many people don't have a spell checker in…
Love on Campus
William Deresiewicz writes a stupendous article, Love on Campus, for the American Scholar in the style of a literary critic about how English professors are portrayed in the movies these…
I want one! Asus eee
I just heard about the Asus eee, a micro laptop at a great price. Out of Taiwan, this company has been making video and sound cards, and motherboards, for years.…