Generated by Bowdoin Daily Sun
Correlated with Bowdoin sources
Associated with the State of Maine
Even now, in our advanced time, some of history’s most important technologies have been lost or can’t be replicated. Here’s a top 10.
Brunswick ME September 6, 2010, 9:53 am  57°F wind speed: 4 mph W |  Sheila Watt-Cloutier A leading Inuit activist, a MacArthur Genius Award-winning fisherman-scientist, and an internationally acclaimed pianist are among the scholars and artists in residence at Bowdoin this year.  Walt Disney World Monorail by William Allen Walt Disney was a mastermind who valued American industry and science, though his namesake company has replaced ingenuity with product placement, contends columnist John Kao, and what America needs now is “the bold thinking of a Walt Disney more than ever.”
Chemical analysis of the bones of ancient Nubians who lived some 2,000 years ago shows they were regular consumers of their own homebrew — an antibiotic beer. The chemist who made the discovery writes about it in a paper published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
As beautiful as birdsong is, it’s nearly impossible for the human ear to distinguish the plethora of hidden notes and melodies. A new CD from the British Library juxtaposes original recordings with remastered versions in which the speed has been slowed, revealing the intricacies in all their glory.
It’s called “retargeting” — an ad for something you’ve shopped for online follows you from site to site, popping up on Facebook, YouTube and other pages you visit. This highly personalized form of marketing is being called the latest breakthrough in digital advertising.
Mounting research suggests that people treat computers and other technologies with the same social rules and expectations usually reserved for other humans.
That’s some workout! Bowdoin neuroscientist Hadley Horch and her students have developed a cricket “treadmill” to help them study the cricket’s remarkable ability to regenerate damaged auditory neurons. Story includes a video.
TIME magazine has compiled a list of its 50 best websites, with categories such as news, social media, and health and fitness. It also has short list of what it calls the five “most overrated” sites. |  |
Copyright © 2010 Bowdoin Daily Sun - All Rights Reserved - Questions or Comments? | ||
