Interesting trivia

Publisher's daleks claim exterminated - The Guardian via Current Awareness by sally on 16 April
"Today a high court battle over who owns the rights to tell the story of Doctor Who's best-known adversaries was won by BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm."
Full story The Guardian, 16 April

Arts & Letters Daily 17 April 16 April
Memory in a computer is located somewhere on a chip. But we have no idea where memories in our brains are stored. Gary Marcus explains. more

Microscopic world : physical chemistry tutorial via Latest Internet resources added to Intute: Science Engineering and Technology on 14 April
This tutorial covers classical mechanics, quantum theory, atomic structure, molecular structure, spectroscopy and kinetics. The tutorial was written by Robert Disselkamp and is hosted on the Solaris Science website. It is shareware and is available as a PDF file.
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Eating your own dog food via silicon.com: Public Sector by Peter Cochrane on 14 April
How do so many designers get it so badly wrong?

Shakespeare's Pulp Fiction via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on 19 April
Livejournal's Ceruleanst's produced a couple of passages' worth of Pulp Fiction, as written by William Shakespeare:
J: And know'st thou what the French name cottage pie?
V: Say they not cottage pie, in their own tongue?
J: But nay, their tongues, for speech and taste alike
Are strange to ours, with their own history:
Gaul knoweth not a cottage from a house.
V: What say they then, pray?
J: Hachis Parmentier.
V: Hachis Parmentier! What name they cream?
J: Cream is but cream, only they say le crème.
V: What do they name black pudding?
J: I know not;I visited no inn it could be bought.

Link One virtual step for man, one real leap for mankind
Imagine being able to take a step back in time and walk through the streets of ancient Pompeii hours before the eruption of Vesuvius.
ICT Results Bulletin Issue 17 (April 2008)

Emotional machines
Emotions are an intrinsic part of communications. But machines don’t have, perceive or react to them, which makes us – their handlers – hot under the collar. But thanks to building blocks developed by European researchers, machines that "feel" may no longer be confined to science fiction.
ICT Results Bulletin Issue 17 (April 2008)

Cloud Appreciation Society via Latest Internet resources added to Intute: Science Engineering and Technology on 15 April
A UK-based society which is dedicated to clouds. The website contains news related to clouds, a photo gallery with more than 3,500 photos, a discussion forum, cloud related poems and drawings submitted by members and information on how to become a member of the society.

Arts & Letters Daily (18 Apr 2008)
Plants are green because the sun that keeps them alive is a type G star. If they'd evolved for a red dwarf, plants would be black... more

Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn?via 3quarksdaily by Abbas Raza on 23 April
Gary Wolf in Wired:
SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget. Unfortunately, this moment is different for every person and each bit of information.
More here. [Thanks to Akbi Khan.]