Sep 20
Before you begin renovating, know which projects will increase your home’s worth and which ones can harm it.
Sep 20
House Set To Examine Link Between Video Games, Culture Of Violence In Wake Of Navy Yard Shooting
Posted in: Today's ChiliWASHINGTON — The revelation that the man who shot and killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday played violent games for up to 16 hours a day has reawakened a long-simmering debate on Capitol Hill over the potential link between such games and mass shootings.
Military contractor Aaron Alexis’s mother and those who knew him well have spoken freely of his interest in gaming, and his friends have speculated that it adversely affected his state of mind. Foreign press, led by British newspapers, have focused on what they’ve called his “addiction” to violent video games. Here at home, The Drudge Report has bannered the connection repeatedly.
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Sep 20
From fruity to minty to popcorn-y, all smells can be classified as one of 10 types of aroma, scientists say.
Taste, vision and hearing can be quantified, but a systematic description of smell has remained elusive. Now, researchers have used mathematics to describe odors systematically and simplify them into 10 categories: fragrant, woody/resinous, fruity (non-citrus), chemical, minty/peppermint, sweet, popcorn, lemon, pungent and decayed.
“It’s an open question how many fundamental types of odor qualities there are,” study researcher Jason Castro of Bates College said in a statement. “This is in striking contrast to olfaction’s ‘sister sense,’ taste, where we know that five basic qualities seem to organize sensations,” Castro said. [8 Strange Things Scientists Have Tasted]
Castro and his colleagues took a standard database known as Andew Dravniek’s 1985 Atlas of Odor Character Profiles. The profiles contained long lists of descriptors — such as “sweet,” “floral” or “heavy” — which people had rated in terms of applicability to 144 different odors.
Using statistics, the scientists determined which combinations of descriptors were the key ones — those used most often without being redundant. The technique was similar to compressing a digital file, which reduces its size without sacrificing useful information.
The analysis resulted in 10 basic odor groups. Why 10? It could also have been nine or 11, but 10 was the smallest number that still captured the interesting features of smell, Castro said.
The group is now applying their methods to a bank of chemical structures to predict how each chemical will smell. Nobody has been able to make this kind of prediction accurately, Castro said, and he expects perfume and fragrance companies will take an interest in it.
The research was detailed Sept. 18 in the journal PLOS ONE.
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Sep 20
Ed Schultz: I’m ‘Pissed’ At Claims I Ranted At Obama, Doubters Can ‘Kiss My Ass’
Posted in: Today's ChiliEd Schultz decided on Thursday that he was angrier than he’d been on Wednesday about the claims that he ranted at President Obama during a 2011 meeting.
That claim could be found in a new book by Schultz’s MSNBC colleague Richard Wolffe, who said Schultz “[ripped] into an impassioned plea for the president to stand up and fight.” Obama, Wolffe added, was not pleased.
Schultz denied on his Wednesday TV show that it had happened. But he was clearly still agitated on his Thursday radio show, going on a nearly 6-minute, angry monologue in his efforts to deny that he’d ranted at Obama.
Sep 20
Happy National Singles Week! Yes, this actually does exist and no, we’re not joking. While most of the year people who fly solo have to deal with annoying couples and friends who are constantly trying to set you up, this week we’re celebrating the good life and all it has to offer. Take for example the glories of not having a roommate. No, it’s not scary, it’s actually pretty awesome, right? We think so. That’s why we rounded up the 10 best things about living alone.
Being able to walk around half (or fully) naked.
Sep 20
Need a time out? You’re in luck. In honor of Bliss’ Triple Oxygen Month, HuffPost’s GPS for the Soul has teamed up with Bliss spa experts to provide the best tips to take a rejuvenating time out each and every day for the month of September. We want to help you make the next 30 days a time of reflection and renewal. Make sure to check back here every day for your new Time Out Tip, and learn more about Bliss’ new line of Triple Oxygen products by clicking here.
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Sep 20
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Sep 20
[Click] Hi, is that David Bowie?
[Silence] …
It’s NASA here. We’ve got some news. While it’s not a conclusive answer, the Curiosity Rover wasn’t able to detect any traces of methane in the Gale Crater. Presence of the gas is one of the things that we were hoping would support our theories about life on Mars, so this comes as a bit of a blow. Now, there *are* terrestrial microbes that don’t generate methane, so it’s not as if this is a firm “no,” but it’s not looking anywhere near as likely as it was before. So, uh, does that help at all?
[Silence] …
Uh, well, thanks. Bye!
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Sep 20
This article was written on June 27, 2007 by CyberNet.
I think most everybody will agree that Opera for Nintendo Wii has been quite the success. Ever since it was released into beta in December, it’s been available to users for free. Between December and now, the Opera team has worked to perfect the browser, and in April it reached its final form with a bunch of improvements.
Starting on Sunday, July 1st, the Internet Channel browser will no longer be free. At that time, it will cost 500 Wii points to get it. Every 100 Wii points is $1, so the Opera-powered browser will cost $5 which I’d say is really reasonable.
The great thing though is that if you don’t have it yet, you can still get it! For some of you, the problem is that you’d love to download the Internet Channel, but you just can’t seem to get your hands on a Wii. Unfortunately for you, you’ll have to purchase it once you do manage to get your hands on a system.
To get the browser, just follow the instructions in the cartoon above! Just be sure you do it before July 1st.
Source: Opera Watch
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Sep 20
There is nothing quite like cuddling up to your other half, and the entire experience is made all the more cozy when it is raining or cold outside, while the both of you are under the sheets. The actors and actresses in the movies make it seem all too easy, they go to sleep looking sharp, and wake up without a strand of hair out of place, breath that is worthy of any perfume bottle, not to mention missing those panda eyes. Of course, even better is, they have slept throughout the night holding one another without ever being apart. With the Cuddle Mattress, you might not be able to achieve all of the above where looking great physically is concerned, but you can definitely try to see whether this mattress lives up to its name as the two of you snooze through the night.
Cuddling is great, although for most of us, it works well within a short period of time, before the negatives kick in – an overall feeling of numbness, tingling, as well as the unintentional kicks. The Cuddle Mattress was specially designed to literally remove the pain of getting close to your other half. It looks like a normal mattress, although it has been divided into different sections to make the entire cuddling business extremely comfortable. Mehdi Motjabavi is the person behind the Cuddle Mattress, which he has plans and dreams to see it transformed into a viable product.
Basically, the Cuddle Mattress will be able to solve any dead-arm-in-bed issues thanks to the creation of space for the cuddling arm so that it does not end up getting squashed. As mentioned earlier, the Cuddle Mattress will feature a slew of sections, and the central section was designed to support your torso, while the top and bottom ends have been sliced apart. This allows you to slide your arm in between two of the slices when cuddling your partner so that no compression is experienced. If you are part of the Forever Alone brigade, fret not, you can also use this to sleep comfortably on your side.
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