Today I Learned Something New

Is your face beautiful?

A German University of Regensburg conducted a study on the characteristics of beautiful faces of men and women. The study looked at a selection of people ranked as attractive and unattractive. The researchers defined common features in both groups and as a result, created the prototypes of attractive and unattractive faces of men and women. Below are the findings of this research.

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Facebook will release their own e-mail service competing with Gmail. The service may go live already tomorrow (Monday, November 15). The Facebook email service will most likely have better spam protection because Facebook knows a lot of your your friends and friends of your friends. This means you will easily identify spam emails because they will be sent from outside of your circle of connections. This will be one of the strongest competitive advantages of FB mail.

We shouldn’t forget that Facebook knows more than 500 million people in the world by their first name. That is why the potential for the new service is huge.

So get ready to register a new e-mail. Early birds will get the best, as always. For now, keep an eye out for announcements on your Facebook profile. You will be able to register your new e-mail address as name@fb.com or name@facebook.com.

Here is how Facebook e-mail will work:

When ripe, an eggplant is a vegetable of black (or white) and of oval shape. They don’t really look like eggs. This is, however, a baby eggplant – it does look like an egg.

I just lost my belief in long-term survival of human race.

In this video is a wonder dog Rowan. He was born without eyes. He finds his way around through echolocation by using his own barking as a signal. The signal mirrors from the objects nearby and thereby indicates the location of the dog. In the meantime, a four year old blind boy has learned to find his way around by clicking his tongue. He can even ride a bike. Bats also use echolocation to navigate.

If you are a long-distance biker, you want this pump. You’ll be able to pump your bike by “borrowing” air from any car you see on the street. The device was invented by some guy called Aleksi who lives in Helsinki.

I have just noticed that Google has released a new feature called in-page analytics. It allows you to view where people click on your website. On each page of the website, you will see which links people click most in percentage. See the image below. The figures show directly in your browser (tested in Chrome), when you are logged into your Analytics account. The tool will be very useful for any website and especially bloggers who want to measure user engagement across the blog. I am enjoying this new feature.

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There is a theory which claims that human race was almost extinct 70,000 years ago, when the world’s population was reduced to 1,000 breeding pairs by a mega-colossal volcanic eruption, which changed the climate and made the planet freeze.