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I’ve been meaning to make this post for several months now It just took me a while to get around to it. (Or to get a “round tuit” as my mother used to say…never did figure out what a round tuit was, but wouldn’t you know it, they sell them on online.) Anyway, already off [...]

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Sleepy? Read this!

What is the deal with sleep? Why do we need it? How do we get the most out of it? What if we can’t get enough of it?
Here is a good page about sleep that combines a lot of great research finding. It seems really common-sensical to me.
Sleep isn’t just a form of rest! Sleep [...]

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$100 Self Powered Laptop

MIT has announced a $100 laptop that can operate for 10 minutes on a 1 minute hand crank. Man…we need more things like this in our schools, and in our lives.

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Household LED Bulbs

Not only do we need to find alternate (clean, renewable) ways to produce energy, we need to find ways to not use as much. Here is one idea that is starting to take hold: Replacing Incandescent light bulbs and even compact fluorescents (CFLs) with LED Bulbs. Once price of these bulbs come down a bit [...]

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Are PC’s Becoming Relics?

Is the day of the home PC going to become a thing of the past in the near future. Jonathan Schwartz, president of SUN, seems to think they are.
“The majority of the world will first experience the Internet through their handset,” Schwartz said.
This quote got me to thinking. Most things that the average person [...]

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