Depending on how representative designers are of the target audience, a project might need more or less user testing. Still, usability concerns never go away completely. more
Email mayday saves South Atlantic sailors
A retired couple who got into difficulty while sailing across the South Atlantic managed to raise the alarm by emailing coastguards in Cornwall.
Data creation outstrips storage for first time
Digital information is being created at a faster pace than previously thought, and for the first time the amount of digital information created each year has exceeded the world’s available storage space, according to a new IDC report.
It has been attacked, venerated, questioned and praised.
It has been attacked, venerated, questioned and praised.
The adjectives used to describe it are many and varied.
It is the only major new religion to have emerged in the 20th century.
People from all walks of life use it every day.
It is growing at an incredible rate.
Everyone seems to have an opinion on it.
It is in the news.
It is talked about in the media, TV and world wide web.
What is Scientology?
Antidepressants Are No Better Than Placebos
New evidence supporting the notion that these expensive drugs loaded with side effects are about as effective as sugar pills.
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One Woman's Astonishing Experiment With Aspartame
A picture is worth a thousand words — see the effects of this deadly neurotoxin for yourself! here
Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes
Jacob Nielsen has some great tips for developers… here
Vaccines acknowledged to cause seizures
On Friday, February 22, the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services HHS conceded that this girl’s complex partial seizure disorder was caused by her vaccines.
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Not by Fire, but by Ice by Robert Felix
A book that I urge everyone to read. The Author is an architect who has laboriously read through enough scientific papers so that the reference section is TWENTY EIGHT pages long. He puts it all together in a way that makes a lot of sense and in also in ways that anyone can understand it. See www.iceagenow.com and “Global Warming: The cause is oceans warming, not greenhouse gases“ by Gary Novak.
BBC Documentary: 70,000 years ago the World Population was Reduced to 5,000-10,000 people from a Super Volcano!
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Scientists Disclaim Role of CO2 in Global Warming
100 scientists in the climate scientific debate made it abundantly clear with hard scientific evidence that greenhouse gases are not the main drivers of global warming. In other words, human activities do not cause warming and economy-destroying laws are not needed. More…