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Differences Between Macs and PCs

10/10/2012 21:43
  Design If you grew up in the 1980s, the concept of design might seem like a superficial and unimportant aspect of a computer. But design is a big differentiator between Macs and PCs. For the better part of three decades, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs focused on the outward...

Differences Between Macs and PCs

10/10/2012 21:41
C Are you Team Mac or Team PC?   If you were to wade into the middle of any large technology conference and shout out "Macs are whack" or "Apple rules, Microsoft stinks," you could start a riot. The conflict between Apple supporters and Windows fans...

VIRTUAL REALITY PICTURES

10/10/2012 21:10
  The CAVE system is one of the most immersive display systems for virtual reality environments. Learn all about virtual reality gear and its applications on the next pages. Courtesy of Dave Pape    

People Thought the World Was Flat Before Columbus.

07/10/2012 21:48
  Christopher Columbus crew had a lot to be worried about as they set sail. There was the possibility that they might wind up with scurvy or meander into a vengeful weather front, and of course there were all those warnings about where there be monsters. But falling off the edge of the...

Mother Birds Will Abandon Babies if You Touch Them.

07/10/2012 21:45
    You're out in the yard and you see a distressing sight – a baby bird is floundering around on the ground, looking like it's desperate to get in the air, but it can't despite all its efforts. Suddenly, out of your peripherals, you spot a cat readying for a pounce. Sacre bleu! You...

Glass is a slow moving liquid

07/10/2012 21:43
  Glass Is a Slow-moving Liquid. You may have lived for field trips as a kid, looking forward to a whole day of out-of-school fun and exploring. That is, until you got started on a tour of some musty building that seemed, well, boring. Not even the tour guide's explanation of...

The Great Wall of China Is the Only Man-made Object Visible from Space.

04/10/2012 20:31
  The Great Wall of China Is the Only Man-made Object Visible from Space. The Great Wall of China gets a double whammy on this myth. You can see other man-made objects from space (especially when the part of the Earth being viewed is awash in the artificially illuminated glow...

False Fact:Body Heat Dissipates Mainly Through the Head.

04/10/2012 20:28
  Look at my cool hat! It is keeping my head warm. Sort of like my clothes are keeping my rest of me warm.   Body Heat Dissipates Mainly Through the Head. You lose most of your body heat through your head because there are so...

False Fact:Mount Everest Is The Tallest Mountain in the World

04/10/2012 20:16
  Pictured: Mount Everest. (Pipsqueak!) Mount Everest Is The Tallest Mountain in the World. Mount Everest is one whopping big mountain, but is it the tallest in the world? In fact it is not. A mountain is highest in regard to how far it soars above sea...

False Concept of Milky Way galaxy`s shape

04/10/2012 20:02
   Completely False 'Facts' Everyone Knows   This may not have hit your radar when it happened, and even if it did, you might not have given it a second thought. But we did, my friend, we did. In 2005, the Spitzer Space Telescope (launched in 2003) beamed back conclusive...
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