How an NFL football player could have fallen in love with someone he never met

http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/18/how-manti-teo-could-have-fallen-in-love-with-someone-he-never-met/?iid=hl-main-lead / sports story star Notre Dame footballer gridiron American football fake dalliance girlfriend who never existed first round pick NFL draft April famous grandmother died developed emotional relationship woman met online authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her brain activity goes love is pretty complicated mix of chemical, cognitive and goal-directed behavioral processes signature characteristic being in love feels good neurotransmitters it activates is dopamine chemical associated with rewards Cocaine acts directly on the dopamine system brain likes being in love. And when the brain likes something, some of its other functions like reasoning or alertness to warning signals might get overlooked Humans have an innate sincerity detector," says Barbara L. Frederickson, a psychology professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and author of the soon to be released book Love 2.0 but only if we make eye contact /

Victorian retro phone handset

Credit: ThinkGeek/ GeekAlerts

Use it with any phone that has a 3.5 mm headphone jack.

http://www.geekalerts.com/victorian-retro-phone-handset/

A month with Apple's Fusion Drive

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6679/a-month-with-apples-fusion-drive / Mountain Lion solid state drive SSD flash spinning platter hard drive disc disk caching solutions Intel chipset mSATA SSD OEM caching vendors Ultrabook hiding latency lower memory hierarchy iMac MacBook Air Pro Samsung PM830 combination performance reliability Link A Media Intel S3700 controller excellent performance consistency more proven affordable option /

Boeing 787 batteries same as those in electric cars? Umm, NO

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1081753_boeing-787-batteries-same-as-those-in-electric-cars-umm-no

If Professor Paul Czysz, mentioned in the article linked above, had read the previous 787 battery article in this blog, he could have saved himself some embarrassment. / LiIon lithium ion EV electric vehicles Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft fires lithium-ion battery pack FAA federal air authority Paul Czysz, professor emeritus of aeronautical engineering at St. Louis University Japanese company GS Yuasa cobalt oxide CoO2 chemistry mobile-phone laptop batteries energy content density thermal event fire overheat manganese spinel LiMn2O4 cathodes /

Wires smaller in diameter than light waves boost solar cell efficiency

Credit: Wallentin et al./ Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/01/wires-smaller-than-light-waves-boost-solar-cell-efficiency/ / PV photovoltaic solar cells researchers materials novel physical phenomena extract maximum electricity sunlight lowest cost extracting more power arrays nanowires stand vertically inexpensive substrates less materia less costly materials principle trap more light geometry arrays outperformed conventional counterparts indium phosphide InP wavelength light trapping Jesper Wallentin comparable efficiencies higher voltage conventional InP solar cell surface area exploited principle resonant trapping current full planar cell of InP greater efficiency lower cost maximizing efficiency converting sunlight electric current reducing cost per unit of electricity advantage less material surface area inexpensive semiconductor materials /

Can treatment for ADHD stunt a child's growth?

http://drdunckley.com/2010/04/27/can-taking-stimulants-stunt-my-childs-growth/ / ADHD attention deficit hyperactivity disorder adult height appetite suppressant shorter slimmer /

Float over New York City at dusk in a gorgeous HD video

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2013/01/float-over-new-york-city-at-dusk-in-a-gorgeous-hd-video/267136/ / disk sunset Aerial footage Melisa Dunbar captures Manhattan's skyline magic hour lights come on commuters flood avenues gyro-stabilized camera Arri Alexa creates impression weightlessness watch full screen appreciate effect /

Four next-gen controllers that will kill the mouse as we know it

Credit: Leap Motion/ Digital Trends

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/the-best-devices-that-will-kill-the-mouse-dead/ / digital Leap Motion Mauz iPhone Kickstarter project input device phone bird Leonard3do 3D glasses bird Tobii Rex eye gaze /