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Science Friday

Science videos and discussions.

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Jerry Ryberg on 2006-08-03

Good science site.

Alexander Tsang on 2006-10-23

Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide from 2-4pm Eastern time as part of NPR's 'Talk of the Nation' programming.

AdverSmarts

Looks at advertising and food marketing.

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Michael Morrison on 2009-02-16

Media literacy

Thomas the Tank Engine

Play online at Thomas and Friends.com. Explore fun and free online games, activities and printables for kids and preschoolers. Watch online videos of Thomas the Tank Engine.

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The Playground - ABC Childrens TV

Welcome to The Playground with fun games and information on all ABC Children's Television Programs

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Clifford Puppy Days: Designed for children ages 3-7, the animated television series is based on the books of the same name and uses classic storytelling to present universal social, emotional, and moral messages to young children.

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BBC - CBeebies - Postman Pat

Have fun with Postman Pat - online games and activities

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An Uneasy Feeling - Op-Ed Columnist Bob Herbert - NYTimes.com

This about covers it.

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As The Washington Post reported over the weekend, the entire past decade “was the worst for the U.S. economy in modern times.” There was no net job creation — none — between December 1999 and now. None!
Middle-class families in 2008 actually earned less, adjusted for inflation, than they did in 1999.
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- We need to create more than 10 million new jobs just to get us back to where we were when the recession began in December 2007.
- We’re not smart as a nation. We don’t learn from the past, and we don’t plan for the future.
- We keep talking about how essential it is to radically improve public education while, at the same time, we’re closing libraries and firing teachers by the tens of thousands for economic reasons.
- Shared sacrifice is not part of anyone’s program. Politicians can’t seem to tell the difference between wasteful spending and investments in a more sustainable future.
- You can’t have a healthy economy with so many millions of people out of work, and there is no plan now that would result in the creation of millions of new jobs any time soon.

Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components

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Fenimore on 2006-10-02

Perian is a free plugin that enables QuickTime to play almost every popular video format.

naoaki onozaki on 2006-10-28

OSX QuickTimeで各種codecを再生

Rob on 2006-11-02

a plugin to let quicktime play most any file type. use with flip4mac

The mystery of tinnitus : The New Yorker

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a treatment plan called tinnitus retraining therapy. It combines counselling, to reduce the anxiety caused by the phantom sounds, with sound therapy, using a neutral background noise.
a treatment plan called tinnitus retraining therapy. It combines counselling, to reduce the anxiety caused by the phantom sounds, with sound therapy, using a neutral background noise.
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- Tinnitus—the false perception of sound in the absence of an acoustic stimulus, a phantom noise—is one of the most common clinical syndromes in the United States, affecting twelve per cent of men and almost fourteen per cent of women who are sixty-five and older.
- The device currently approved by the F.D.A. for tinnitus treatment, produced by a company called Neuromonics, resembles an MP3 player. I put the earbuds in and listened to a soothing piece of classical music. “That is meant to induce relaxation,” Stocking explained, a key component of the tinnitus management strategy. Then I noticed a soft white noise that was programmed to mask my own tinnitus. Again, within moments, the tinnitus was gone.
- other strategies include using sounds in the environment, like soft background music from a stereo or more directed sounds that come from a fan or a small desktop sound machine. Similarly, a device called a sound generator, which is worn on the ear, can supply a white noise that partially interferes with the tinnitus. “It really provides a sense of relief and control over the tinnitus,” Stocking said. “Patients feel they are able to do something about it. And, by providing additional sound, it seems to bring down the sensitivity of the auditory system.”

How to add a diigolet button to your browser toolbar, which can be used to save and share websites on Diigo

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