An interesting piece popped-up today in Yahoo News about the differences in brain activity between introverts and extroverts.

Researchers using brain scans have found introverts have more brain activity in general, and specifically in the frontal lobes. When these areas are activated, introverts are energized by retrieving long-term memories, problem solving, introspection, complex thinking and planning.

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The student, Ren Ng, ran out of patience with taking pictures the traditional way — adjusting the distance between the camera lens and sensor or film before snapping each shot. So he created something that far surpasses Photoshop. A photograph can be modified after the fact even if nothing is in focus, he said.
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A NY Times article posted on Slashdot about efforts to develop gifted children is a very interesting issue to me. I was a fairly sharp kid and always had problems in Elementary School because teachers were not able to grasp that I was very far ahead of my classmates. Basically I’d always get in [...]

Yes, it’s highly ironic that I’m up at 1 AM reading a sleep blog, but it’s good stuff.

Discovery has a few videos showing off some new mini-cameras that they’ve attached to a trained Eagle, so that you can get a “birds eye view” of an Eagle in flight. Very impressive.

According to a press release by NASA today, at some point in the past, water existed on Mars.

Looks like NASA released the first color, panoramic photo of Mars, supposedly color adjusted to how it would look to the human eye. Check out the photo (700 KB) for yourself.

I remember hearing about this guy some time ago, but now there appears to be all kinds of information out there about him and his stories.

What better way to start off the geek stuff topic than with a Britney Spears link? But its not just any Britney Spears site!