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Why is temporal lobe called “temporal”

The name of “temporal lobe” follows “temporal bone”. But why “temporal”? The reason is that when people get old, the first region in the head which grows white hair is this region (see picture below). Thus this reg
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Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

You can find the text here. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’
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Paper accepted by PLoS Biol.

Just got to know last night that our ready-go paper is accepted by PLoS Biology. Even better, they also commissioned a Primer article to highlight the paper. This is such a relief after 2.5 years of submission-review-rejection cycle.
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Difference between Chinese and other

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Adobe Flex 3 Component Life Cycle

Adobe Flex 3 Component Life Cycle View more presentations from rjowen.
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Tips for writing faster MatLab programs

Avoid using explicit loop if possible %calculating the sum of the product of corresponding element in two row vectors A and B %bad example s = 0; for i=1:100 s = s + A(i)*B(i); end %good example s = A*B'; Avoid increment memory allocation, inste
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phpBB 3 spam filter

Standard phpBB captcha is broken. I modify it such that the user need to add the numbers in captcha images and enter the result (e.g. 1+2+3=6), instead of enter the original characters (e.g. ‘123’). Enter folder /includes/ucp edit file uc
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Badminton: Lin Dan vs Lee Zong Wei

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