Well, I won’t show everything, here’s some of them:
Body Position Affects Your Memory: Can’t remember your anniversary, hubby? Try getting down on one knee. Memories are highly embodied in our senses. A scent or sound may evoke a distant episode from one’s childhood. (Interesting)
Big Brains Cause Cramped Mouths: Evolution isn’t perfect. If it were, we might have wings instead of wisdom teeth. Sometimes useless features stick around in a species simply because they’re not doing much harm.
The World Laughs with You: Just as watching someone yawn can induce the behavior in yourself, recent evidence suggests that laughter is a social cue for mimicry. Hearing a laugh actually stimulates the brain region associated with facial movements. (I swear this is true!)
When I see someone smile, I feel like smiling too. It’s natural for me. So smile more and soon you would see more of the world smiling back at you.
Ever wondered how did George Lucas come up with the name for R2-D2?
Rumor has it that George Lucas and a co-worker were editing American Graffiti, when a co-worker asked Lucas for âReel Two, Dialog Twoâ, which is abbreviated âR2D2â. Lucas supposedly wrote down the abbreviation and used it as the name of the now famous droid in Star Wars.
“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs.
Sentence construction
The sentence is unpunctuated and uses three different readings of the word “buffalo”. In order of their first use, these are:
c. The city of Buffalo, New York (or any other place named “Buffalo”), which is used as an adjective in the sentence and is followed by the animal;
a. The animal buffalo, in the plural (equivalent to “buffaloes”), in order to avoid articles and is used as a noun;
v. The verb “buffalo” meaning to bully, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
It may be revealing to read the sentence replacing all instances of the animal buffalo with “people” and the verb buffalo with “intimidate”. The sentence then reads
“Buffalo people [whom] Buffalo people intimidate [also happen to] intimidate Buffalo people.”
Preserving the meaning more closely, substituting the synonym “bison” for “buffalo” (animal), “bully” for “buffalo” (verb) and leaving “Buffalo” to mean the city, yields
Did you know that SMS started in 1992 by Acision and today most of us can’t live without it. So happy birthday SMS!
15 Years of the SMS
The mobile phone industry is today celebrating the 15th birthday of the Short Message Service Centre (SMSC), the principal application behind text messaging first brought to market by Acision in 1992. The first ever SMSC was introduced as a product designed primarily to deal with the demands and improve reliability of a developing mobile industry, and in that year the first of many deals was signed with Telenor.
Despite the rapid evolution of the mobile market, SMS is still the most important value-added service for operators. For operators looking to provide subscribers with robust messaging services, today’s mix and match platform means they can specify SMS capacity to meet their requirements. It is this scalability that makes the SMSC cost effective and adaptable to both growing and mature markets. Even in the most developed markets, such as Western Europe where SMS service penetration has reached 90%, SMSCs are vital to operators seeking to differentiate themselves through high-quality enhanced messaging services.
