links for 2010-03-20

According to Hopkins' article, Facebook not only drives a high amount of traffic, higher than Google News, but its users are far more loyal, as well.

Troxler's fading or Troxler's effect is a phenomenon of visual perception. When one fixates a particular point, after about 20 seconds or so, a stimulus away from the fixation point, in peripheral vision, will fade away and disappear. The effect is enhanced if the stimulus is small, is of low contrast or equiluminant, or is blurred. The effect is enhanced the further the stimulus is away from the fixation point.

Trend #1: Facebook is killing it!
Trend #2: Lifestreaming!
Trend #3: Checking In!
Trend #4: Visual Search!
Trend #5: Social games!
Trend #6: Augmented reality!
Trend #7: Google Wave & Google Buzz!
Trend #8: Sh!t you’re not ready for that !
Trend #9: L’ émergence d’un nouveau mode de consommation du web: La tablette multi-touch

Recouverts d’une substance inflammable, des nanotubes de carbone produisent un puissant courant électrique lorsque l’on déclenche la combustion. Remarquablement efficace mais mal compris, ce procédé de conversion thermoélectrique pourrait déboucher sur des batteries de petites tailles conservant indéfiniment de l’énergie.

Instead of killing off cancer cells with toxic drugs, scientists have discovered a molecular pathway that forces them to grow old and die.

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