Digital human resurrection?

If you say so.

The 50 Best Inventions

TIME's recent roundup.

The Future of Personalized Medicine @wsj

It may be possible to live a long, disease-free life. Conditions that kill, including cancer and heart disease, could be prevented or delayed by a new way of looking at and treating health.

Galaxy Hosts 100 Billion Planets, in New Estimate @wsj

Every star has a planet.

New Year’s Resolutions, recycled

Do the math before joining a gym

Books that are never done being re-written

As electronic books push aside paper ones, movable type will be increasingly replaced by movable text.

Our world in 2011, according to Twitter

Source: http://frugaldad.com

Tools for making good decisions for our future selves

Brokering the battle between our present and future.

The Brain Surge of Mid-Childhood @NYTimes

Middle childhood is a "time of great cognitive creativity and ambition, when the brain has pretty much reached its adult size and can focus on threading together its private intranet service"

Study linking virus and chronic fatigue just yanked

The prestigious journal Science retracted a 2009 report that linked chronic fatigue syndrome to a virus.

Telexistence robot avatar transmits sight, hearing and touch

Users get a sense of what the robot experiences.

Grandma's Ham (here's what she told me about 10 years ago when i asked her how to fix it and I wrote it down. She just turned 85 this past Thanksgiving.)

(“16-20 pound ham when expecting all of y’all.  Otherwise 10.  Smithfield is good.”)
If smoked, not cooked.  Cut or pull the skin off.  Very easy to do.
325 degrees, 20 minutes per pound.  (3 lbs, 1 hour)
Roasting pan, metal rack under it.  Cover the ham with Reynolds Wrap.
4 or 5 cups of water in the pan.
When near done, put brown sugar on top.  Or can do that from the beginning.
Take out, stick a fork in, should go in easily.

If it’s a pre-cooked ham, heat for about 10 or 15 minutes per pound.

Let get cold before slicing.

Earth-sized planets found around star Kepler 10. @wsj

Astronomers reported the discovery of two Earth-sized planets orbiting a distant Sun-like star—the smallest and, researchers said, most significant of alien worlds detected so far.

What went wrong with Freakonomics?

Popularize statistics, but be careful.

Check out just how fast the information age is moving.

You won't believe it.

Is marriage obsolete?

The proportion of married adults has hit record lows.