by Minter Dial | Aug 6, 2009 | Education
For all of you living outside of the US who write the date ‘normally’ (i.e. DD/MM/YY), tomorrow morning the time and date will read: 04:05:06 07/08/09 five minutes and six seconds after 4 AM in the morning of the 7th of August 2009 If nothing else, pause...
by Minter Dial | Aug 5, 2009 | Education
For the guitar players out there who don’t play as often as they might like (or are just starting up), I thought this “how to” was rather good. Ease Finger Soreness when Learning to Play Guitar – wikiHow My favourite ideas in this list:...
by Minter Dial | Aug 3, 2009 | Travel
If you are driving around Kent, England, and are wondering which National Trust sites to visit, I recommend putting Ightham (pronounced item) Mote, Sevenoaks, high on your list. This medieval moated manor house, dating from 1320, has a splendid history. After a...
by Minter Dial | Aug 2, 2009 | Health, Sports
A recent study by team of three biomedical researchers from the USA and Holland (headed by Steven Collins at the University of Michigan) has, according to all the newspaper articles I ran across, solved the “burning mystery” why people tend to swing their...
by Minter Dial | Aug 2, 2009 | Education
Here is a 10-minute video that had me giggling, at first, then laughing blissfully out loud. This video is from the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University in Japan, where scientists have managed to train a chimpanzee named AI (Artificial Intelligence?) to...