Archive for February, 2006



When Seeing Is Misleading: Clutter Leads To High-confidence Errors

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
Visual targets imbedded in distractors lead not only to judgment errors, but also to higher confidence about erroneous decisions. The signed max model provides a plausible framework for explaining the disparity between perception and reality.
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Surgery For Child Apnea Leads To Weight Gain

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
A study by a University at Buffalo pediatric researcher investigating the causes of weight gain in children after they have their tonsils and adenoids removed to treat sleep-disordered breathing has shown that removing these tissues results in less fidgeting and other non-exercise motor activity.
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Amifostine Makes Radiation More Effective, Eases Side Effects

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
Doctors in Brazil have concluded that the drug amifostine eases many of the most common side effects associated with patients receiving radiation therapy to treat their cancer while simultaneously making the cancer more susceptible to radiation. The study was published in the March 1, 2006, issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of ASTRO, the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology.
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Complicating In Order To Simplify: New Twist In Classical Mechanics Finds Way Around …

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
In the rarefied sphere of classical mechanics, more can sometimes be elegantly less. In a paper that will be published March 1 in the proceedings of the Royal Society, two engineers at the Viterbi School of Engineering offer a new and potentially much more flexible method of mathematically describing mechanical systems. The method also resolves a more than 200-year-old mathematical paradox, according to Professor Firdaus Udwadia, who co-wrote the paper with his former PhD student Phailaung Phomosiri.
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Is OS X Truly Vulnerable?

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
Only one of three recent concerns about the security of Apple’s operating system is worth worrying about.
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“X” Marks the Spyware

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
A startup offers Internet users simple warnings about a website’s potential for spyware and spam.
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Choose your News

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
Posted by Erin Earl, Google Mobile Software Engineer



Have you ever noticed that in waiting rooms, the section of the newspaper you most want to read is either missing from the magazine rack, or someone else is reading it? It’s made me a real master of finding all the hidden pictures on the covers of Highlights magazine. Don’t even try asking me Where’s Waldo? I’ve found him 10 times already.



That’s what’s cool about Google News for mobile devices. You can access the news you want, whenever you want, by using a search box, top headline listings, and browsable news categories. Just type google.com on your web-enabled phone, and click the link to Google News. Goodbye, Waldo. Hello, everything else.



Updated with Wikipedia entry to Waldo/Wally.

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MIT on the Seine?

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
The EC is proposing a European Institute of Technology, but many are giving the ambitious idea a failing grade.
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Bulk E-Mail Fee Draws Fire

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
AOL’s plan to charge businesses and other bulk mailers a fee to bypass the company’s junk mail filters unites interest groups across the political spectrum in opposition. They accuse AOL of favoring the haves at the expense of the have-nots.
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Using India’s Poor as Guinea Pigs

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
Big pharmas have a billion people vying to be part of clinical trials of untested drugs. Areas known only for snakes and heat now have good hospitals after the government passed a law allowing the drug testing and advertised its “treatment naive” patients. By Jennifer Kahn from Wired magazine.
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