http://www.thebutterflyfiles.com Small Pieces of Information Can Lead to Big Ideas Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:45:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Starting November 12, One Laptop Per Child will be offering a Give 1 Get 1 Program, For $399, you will be purchasing two XO laptops —one that will be sent to empower a child to learn in a developing nation, and one that will be sent to you at homeread more ... http://www.thebutterflyfiles.com/general/nicholas-negroponte-announces-give-one-get-one-one-laptop-per-child-olpc-program/ This is the intro for the first episode of The Simpsons Season 19. Bart writes on the board "I will not wait 20 years to make another movie". Check out this leaked intro on Youtube.read more | digg story http://www.thebutterflyfiles.com/general/the-simpsons-season-19-intro-continues-where-movie-left-off/ From slick sci-fi to tired nerd clichés, the networks' "geek TV" offerings run the gamut from engaging eye candy to unwatchable dreck this fall. Read these reviews of show pilots, then set your DVR on "geek out." NBC's Chuck and Journeyman and CBS's The Big Bang Theory are reviewed.read more ... http://www.thebutterflyfiles.com/general/chuck-journeyman-big-bang-theory-best-and-worst-geek-tv-pilots-this-season/ This nighttime movie of the depths of the north pole of Saturn taken by the visual infrared mapping spectrometer onboard Cassini reveals a dynamic, active planet lurking underneath the ubiquitous cover of upper-level hazes. The defining feature of Saturn's north polar regions--the spinning six-sided hexagon feature--is clearly visible.read more | ... http://www.thebutterflyfiles.com/general/mysterious-giant-hexagon-circling-saturns-north-pole/ Scientists say they have evidence that a ferocious dinosaur made famous by the movie Jurassic Park definitely had feathers. Experts say the dinosaur, called Velociraptor, had a wing structure just like modern birds. VOA's Jessica Berman reports.read more | digg story http://www.thebutterflyfiles.com/general/scientists-find-conclusive-evidence-velociraptor-had-feathers/ For millennia, layers of animal waste and other organic matter left behind by the creatures that used to roam the Arctic tundra have been sealed inside the frozen permafrost. Now climate change is thawing the permafrost and lifting this prehistoric ooze from suspended animation.read more | digg story http://www.thebutterflyfiles.com/general/mammoth-dung-prehistoric-goo-may-speed-global-warming/ A Clay County woman's family said it's seeking justice after their loved one died shortly after being shocked 10 times with Taser guns during a confrontation with police.read more | digg story http://www.thebutterflyfiles.com/general/wheelchair-bound-woman-dies-after-being-shocked-with-taser-10-times/ OpenCongress's new "Congress, I'm Watching" widget lets you announce which bills in Congress you support or oppose, while also sharing links to clear, up-to-date information that encourages others to get involved the legislation themselves.read more | digg story http://www.thebutterflyfiles.com/general/let-congress-know-you-are-watching/ Spare a thought for the M.E.(Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) sufferer. For years he and she has been scorned by a medical establishment that has seen the problem as being all in the mind. As such, the M.E. sufferer has been labeled an hysteric who is merely attention seeking. Now researchers in ... http://www.thebutterflyfiles.com/general/myalgic-encephalomyelitis-its-not-all-in-the-mind-its-in-the-gut/ Fitness doesn't require the use of expensive equipment. Your brain is enough. Interview with Dr. Judith Beck, Director of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond. Her most recent book ... http://www.thebutterflyfiles.com/general/how-to-think-like-a-thin-person-and-lose-weight/