Geniuses, criminals do best work in their 30s:
LONDON (Reuters) — Geniuses and criminals may not seem to have much in common but they both do their best work in their 30s — and mainly to impress the opposite sex.
When Satoshi Kanazawa, of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, studied biographies of prominent, mostly male scientists he discovered that they made their key discovery before their mid 30s, around the same age that criminal behavior peaks.
He believes the male competitive urge to attract females is a driving force for the scientific and criminal achievements, according to New Scientist magazine.
“They do whatever they do” in order to win the sexual attention of women, Kanazawa said.
He added that the competitive drive decreases with age and as men’s priority shifts from competing for women to taking care of their offspring.
“Kanazawa also found that marriage dampens the drive in both arenas,” the magazine added.
Yea, after walking 5,000 miles to win my third wife I realized I was really motivated for some of that sweet luvin. Though, the energy just dried up and had evaporated within days of our engagement. By the wedding day I was already practicing for another marathon, for another Mrs. Swanson.
Single mum’s website attracts 5,000 requests for a date:
A Norwegian single mum who set up her own website in an online search for a date has been overwhelmed with 5,000 offers.
Vikki, 22, from Bergen, introduces herself with pictures and video recordings on her website.
She has received emails from about 5,000 men wanting to meet her – including eight marriage proposals.
However, the blonde mother-of-two has still not found her soulmate.
She says she wants a man from Bergen, as she would never want to move out of her home town.
Vikki told Bergens Avisen: “I am shocked at the amount of interest I have received. I never thought a homepage could bring this amount of interest.
“I believe in true love. Only time will show when I will meet the man of my dreams. It could be online or at the grocer’s tomorrow.”
[sigh] She said no, despite the fact that I’m rich, young, and an Aggie. What else can a woman want or need?
Los Alamos, NM – Dr. Sidney P. Dinsmore, a senior researcher with the US Department of Energy, has achieved a scientific breakthrough by creating the first sustainable cold fusion reaction in a laboratory by combining enriched pasta with anti-pasta, something that physicists and Italian chefs heretofore had thought impossible. [Continued]
Yup, and guess who the tutor for Dr. Dinsmore was back in college? That’s right, they didn’t call me Timmy the Teacher for nuthin.
It’s been almost 15 years since our academic friends at the U of U announced what basically amounted to Purple Monkey Dishwasher Fusion. This certainly is a momentus occasion. Go banana?
Ms. Caroline Gabriel penned an informative article regarding 802.16 (WiMAX) at The Inquirer today. If you’ve read my fully-clothed explanation regarding this beefy wireless standard, you would probably enjoy hers too (she has many of the same conclusions and observations with regards to cellular and WiFi).
A quick refresher.
802.11x is designed primarily for local area networks (LAN) with a maximum indoor distance of approximately 150 meters (outdoors is another story). 802.16x is designed for “last mile” service to wireless LANs and for backhauls in WiFi hotspots (basically, instead of using a landline as a backhaul from your Access Point [AP], you can now use 802.16-based products that get the job done, and then some).
Currently, 802.16a (it was ratified in January, she says March) allows for 30+ mile hops and has a maximum transfer rate of 70 Mbps (as opposed to 54 Mbps with 802.11 ‘a‘ & ‘g‘).
An interesting nugget Ms. Gabriel quotes from the president of the WiMAX industry group:
Labrecque says that collaborating on mass market products will achieve similar economies of scale to those seen in Wi-Fi WLan devices. She says base stations will cost under $20,000 and support 60 enterprise customers with T1-class connections.
Yea, so if you’re really good this next year, I mean extra super duper good, Santa might reward you with a Terminator Deluxe Supremo WiMAX Router™.
Ms. Grabiel also discusses some more of the alphabet that we will soon see ratified and implemented into the 802.16 family (some future 802.11 soup):
The “b” extension is concerned with quality of service features, while the “c” extension focuses on interoperability. It relates to protocols, test suite structures and test purposes. Similarly, 802.16d focuses on fixing the errata and other protocols not covered by 802.11c.
The “e” taskgroup is working on enhancing the Wireless LAN air interface to support mobile as well as fixed broadband. It incorporates the work of the ad hoc committee, the Handoff Committee. A draft will be completed in July for ballot.
The “d” amendment creates system profiles for compliance testing for 802.16a devices. These tests will be in place within two months.
If the FCC doesn’t nerf the available power emissions for signals or narrow the “unregulated” wavelengths (like 5.4 ghz), initiatives like LanLinkup could begin to bare fruit sometime in the next couple of years.
And I mean some nice sized melons.
