Link: Scientists dicover that magnetic fields are key to making remorseless super villains

Moral judgments can be altered by disrupting specific brain region “Previous studies have shown that a brain region known as the right temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) is highly active when we think about other people’s intentions, thoughts and beliefs. In the new study, the researchers disrupted activity in the right TPJ by inducing a current in … Read more

5 steps to get your blog entries on Twitter, Facebook and Google Buzz all at once, using only your WordPress blog

Everyone knows that Twitter, Facebook and Google Buzz are powerful ways to direct people’s attention toward lovely artifacts of interestingness on the Web. Yet what person of Internetly grace has the time to update all three along with his or her most delicious of blogs? Sure, in an ideal world you would write entries aesthetically and micro-culturally optimized for each service, but the following five steps will allow a single post to your blog to be elegantly propagated through these important hubs of your online social network.

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Enjoy embarrassing, uncomfortable and random video chats on your own Web site with Chatroulette clone

You too can get all Chatroulettey with CamChat. Don’t know about Chatroulette? It’s a one-on-one video chat room that connects you with a random person using the same service. Yeah, lots of opportunity for being offended, shocked or amused. However, if this CamChat clone  were restricted to registered users on your site, you might be … Read more

Watch live particle physics action to see if the Higgs boson travels back in time to sabotage the Large Hadron Collider before it destroys the universe!

On March 30, CERN will provide a live Webcast of the Large Hadron Collider’s first attempt to collide particles at 7 teraelectron volts. That’s the highest level so far and it will recreate “conditions at the Big Bang birth of the universe 13.7 billion years ago.” Oh, and for an explainer on time traveling and … Read more

Link: Journalism students in Denver must write for Wikipedia to prepare for the (unpaid) future

Journalism students turn to Wikipedia to publish stories | eCampus News “Denver journalism students are writing Wikipedia entries as part of a curriculum that stresses online writing and content creation as readers move to the web en masse.” “‘I see journalism as being completely online within the next two to five years,’ said a journalism … Read more