Do Infants See Colors Differently

Infants, unlike adults, store color categories in the brain's right hemisphere. This new finding reveals the surprising power of language over perception.
Do Infants See Colors Differently

17 Tips to Help You Get Leaner and Fitter

We don’t want to lose weight, although that’s often stated as the goal — we want to get leaner. We want to shed the fat and leave just the lean muscle (some of us want to increase the muscle, others just want to lose the fat). We want to be healthy and in good shape and able to be physically active.
17 Tips to Help You Get Leaner and Fitter

5 Tips to Help You Live a Well-Balanced Life

With the hustle and bustle of our everyday lives, we often find ourselves yearning for a quieter, more balanced life. If your life has come to resemble an endless race to the finish line, take a look at the suggestions below to bring a greater sense of peace, calm, and even simplicity back into your life.
5 Tips to Help You Live a Well-Balanced Life

10 Healthy Foods Under 1 Dollar

Even with rising food prices, it's possible to shop for healthy foods without spending a fortune.
10 Healthy Foods Under 1 Dollar

Punctuality: More Than Showing Up on Time

When you think of what values you seek from co-workers, colleagues, and clients, punctuality is probably one that wouldn’t immediately come to mind. Being web workers, parents, co-workers, spouses and just about every other role you can imagine, we have many demands for our attention and sometimes these time frames overlap.
Punctuality: More Than Showing Up on Time

Secure Passwords Keep You Safer

There's been a lot written on this topic over the years -- both serious and humorous -- but most of it seems to be based on anecdotal suggestions rather than actual analytic evidence. What follows is some serious advice.
Secure Passwords Keep You Safer

The Traveling Web Worker: What You Should Know About Your Destination

With the mobility that comes with web working, we can now afford to travel for leisure while taking our work with us. However, the nature of our work gives us very specific needs. We can’t just expect to open our laptops in the mountains of Nepal and start working.
The Traveling Web Worker: What You Should Know About Your Destination

4 Free Digital Photography and Image Editing Resources

Many web workers are involved with digital photography, graphics and image editing. There are a number of excellent, free resources available online for staying abreast of the latest news on these topics, and improving your skills.
4 Free Digital Photography and Image Editing Resources

Air Hostesses of Yesteryear

Miniskirts, hairspray and polyester, the official look of the 1960s air hostess.
Air Hostesses of Yesteryear

Taking your laptop into the US?

Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you're entering the country. They can take your computer and download its entire contents, or keep it for several days. Customs and Border Patrol has not published any rules regarding this practice, and I and others have written a letter to Congress urging it to investigate and regulate this practice.
But the US is not alone. British customs agents search laptops for pornography. And there are reports on the internet of this sort of thing happening at other borders, too. You might not like it, but it's a fact. So how do you protect yourself?
Taking your laptop into the US?

Laptops: How to Thief-Proof Your Laptop

PC World magazine rounds up eight tips to stop thieves from stealing your laptop, the most obvious-yet-effective of which is simply locking it up. Apart from their suggestion that you encrypt your hard drive (we'd recommend the cross-platform TrueCrypt for that), all of their suggestions require you to throw down a bit of cash. If you're not up to spending any money but you still want to beef up your laptop security, hit the jump for a look at a few no-cost solutions for guarding your laptop against thieves.
Laptops: How to Thief-Proof Your Laptop

13 Must-See Google Maps Mashups

There are plenty of obvious ones (Frappr, Zooomr, Trulia) but we’ve made some quirkier picks for our must-see mashups. Enjoy!
13 Must-See Google Maps Mashups

Airplane Air Not So Germy

Admit it. When that guy four rows ahead of you starts hacking, you can almost see the viruses wafting your way.
Airplane Air Not So Germy

Moving Tips

Relocation advice.
Moving Tips

Google Started Blurring Street View Faces

Google updated the panorama photo imagery of Manhattan as part of Google Maps, and for this update also blurred the faces of persons shown in the pictures.
Google Started Blurring Street View Faces

More Than an Exercise in Vanity

“I’ve been lifting weights since I was 12 years old and look at me,” he said. Dr. Thompson is small and wiry with not a bulging muscle on him. He speculated that he must have a genetic inability to build muscles, no matter how hard he works at it.
But are his muscles healthy?
More Than an Exercise in Vanity

Packing Clothes :: One Bag

Although perhaps more relevant to business than vacation travel, most of us do not want to spend our days looking like a wrinkled mess. Thus a natural concern is how to arrive at our destination(s) with our packed clothing in a fairly pristine state. By pristine, I mean that garments will have creases where we want them to be, and not have creases where we don't want them.
Packing Clothes :: One Bag

How to Enjoy Your Job

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
How to Enjoy Your Job

Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today

The estimated population of the world will pass 6,666,666,666 today.
Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today

Bruce Lee’s Top 7 Fundamentals for Getting Your Life in Shape

If you haven’t been living under a rock for the last 30 years I’m pretty sure you know who Bruce Lee was. If you have, then you may be interested to know that Lee was a very famous martial artist and actor who sparked the first big interest of Chinese martial arts in the West in the 60’s and 70’s. But besides being an awesome fighter and iconic figure Lee also had some very useful things to say about life.
Bruce Lee’s Top 7 Fundamentals for Getting Your Life in Shape