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...university students—more than half of them from Harvard. In the experiment conducted by Harvard Medical School researchers, some students slept eight hours, while the other half stayed awake for 35 hours. Near the end of the second day, students were placed in an MRI scanner, as pictures flashed before them, said the study’s leader, psychologist Matthew Walker of University California at Berkeley. The first were relatively neutral, such as an empty wicker basket. But near the end of the 100-image sequence, the photos became more disturbing, such as one of severed limbs. Walker...
...looking for ways to speed up the queue. She discovered that many students, especially kindergarteners, can't remember their six-digit ID number, which they're required to type into keypads at the end of lunch lines. She then found out that there was technology that would allow a scanner to identify a kid qualified for lunch with the swipe of a finger, moving him or her quickly along. It would help kids who regularly forget their lunch money, and it would potentially remove some of the stigma faced by children who receive special tickets for free or reduced lunch...
...official UC blog and an online archive of past UC documents, Council President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 said yesterday. The archive innovation is a product of the labors of UC Student Affairs Committee Chairman Michael R. Ragalie ’09, who used a feed-scanner to compile digital images of 10 years of UC legislation, minutes, agendas, and correspondence, and then did the programming to make the 200 documents—dating from 1982 to 1992—searchable. “The original goal was to have a way for council members to look...
...kind scanner used to digitize the plates was built piecemeal, largely by volunteers and workers at the observatory, and will be able to take 120 photos of two small plates—each measuring 8-by-10 inches—in just over a minute...
...hello), Spanish ("amigo"), English ("badge"), Arabic ("silah," or weapon) and Iraqi slang ("mamnoon," or thank you). During the course of a recent day of meetings in the Green Zone, I was sniffed by dogs six times, sent my bags through four metal detectors, was photographed once by a body scanner that can see through my clothes and was patted down too many times to count...