Nowadays, when many social networking websites and the Web 2.0 are present in Internet, it is always nice to see new and defiant sites that can become a hit by promoting simple ideas and building a growing community. This the case of Wis.dm
Wis.dm is a website where a member asks a simple YES/NO question of any type (well, maybe not offensive type). The question is published and all the other members can answer YES or NO and also they can begin a conversation on the topic in question.
As several social networking websites, Wis.dm has a positioning system for the members by means of points that modify the user visibility and the user questions are ranked as the user participates in the system. This points system is internal and secret, but if an user is very active in the wesbite, he will surely get a good ranking.
Equally you can have a friends group and mark them, so you have high-priority access to the questions they ask in such a way that can begin frequent conversation forums about topics that interest to the community that you and your friends conform.
Ah, wis.dm is free. To give it a glance, click here.
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It has turned out to be true. When people choose colors, women prefer pink while the men prefer blue. Although all we knew it for own experience, a team of British investigators of the Newcastle University has given now to this “preference” an irrefutable scientific character.
“The long history of color preference studies has been described as ‘bewildering, confused and contradictory’” , wrote Anya Hurlbert in the journal Current Biology (she is the research leader). And although some recent studies have suggested there is a universal preference for blue, there are not systematic conclusions due to the variety and the poor control on the mensuration methods. Also, Dr. Hurlbert continues, “there has not been much previous evidence to support the idea of sex differences when picking colour”.
One of the conclusions of the last research is that the preference of the women for pink could be biological and not cultural, and it could be explained if we analyze the history since the remote times, when the humans were hunters, and the women, who mainly picked up the food, needed a “visual specialization” in order to identify the redder mature fruits.
In a simple test, the researches worked with 171 people (young men and women) and each person had to select the preferred color quickly among a series of colored rectangles that were showed.
The result was the universal favorite color, for all, seemed to be the blue. But with a special preference, on the part of the women, for the red-green axis, what changed their preference of colors lightly from blue to red, and cataloged pink and violet as favorite colors for the girls. The differences were so clear among men and women the investigators were able to predict the sex of some participants based on their profile of chromatic preferences.
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This gadget is really cool for this summer time.
It is a lights projector created by Takara Tomy. It allow us to transform our bedroom or living room into a marine bottom, a beach or a forest.
According to its creator, the projector allow us to translate a virtual reality to our bedroom and we can feel the full nature.
Besides that, this gadget include a plug for a music player and in this way you can add more authenticity to your virtual space.
For more information or to buy it ($ 84): Click here
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Jimdo is an AJAX site editor created by three friends from Germany. It is a useful resource to build and launch a website without knowing anything about HTML or software coding because everything is managed by a visual edition tool where you change texts, place or upload photos, modify colors, layouts, videos, flash movies, etc.
Even, you can build a site taking another website as initial template. (Of course, you should change some things in order to avoid design plagiarism!). Now, if you prefer work directly on the code, you can do it, but only if you want.
As they say: Jimdo is so easy your grandmother can use it.
They have a free version that allows to use a jimbo subdomain in order to host the website: yourname.jimdo.com, but this version include some text-ads. But, if you want, you can upgrade yourself to a pro account (JimdoPro). It allows to use your own domain name. Besides that, JimdoPro is ad-free.
Their accounts for customers start with 500 MB of storage which is usually enough for a small website. The pro accounts are starting from $6.
More information: http://jimdo.com/
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The hormone that alerts us when we are full, also regulates our desire to eat some foods, said a group of scientists, in a discovery that explains why people get fat. This discovery could become a source of new treatments for the obesity.
The research shows that those patients with a rare genetic disorder, because they don’t have the hormone called leptin, eat less after they have received injections with this hormone, according to the researcher of the Cambridge University who headed the research (Dr. Farooqi).
Some previous investigations showed that the hormone is not useful when we want to lose weight if we have normal levels of leptin, but the scientists don’t still understand exactly how it works, said Farooqui.
“By studying patients who have no leptin and then treating them with leptin, we can tell what it is doing”, said Farooqui in a telephone interview. “It gives a clear look at how leptin operates in the brain.”
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