EXTRA CREDIT - OK Guys, this is your last change to get some extra credit before the block ends. Read one or more of the following articles, and write me some comments suggesting what the article is about. If you must, you can also email me your comments at jgiacobbe_southpointe@cox.net

Remember, next week is our last week of the block, so get your stuff together and get it to me yesterday. Your final exam will be Wednesday, March 10th. DON'T PANIC! (well, maybe, on the other hand, some of you should panic, and/or study harder...

Others May Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves, Study Finds

sciencedaily.com  —  Humans have long been advised to "know thyself," but new research suggests we may not know ourselves as well as we think we do. While individuals may be more accurate at assessing their own neurotic traits, such as anxiety, it seems friends, and even strangers, are often better barometers of traits such as intelligence, creativity and extroversion.

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Building a More Survivable ‘Future’ for the Army

wired.com  —  The Army once planned to build a family of networked, electric-powered combat vehicles that would use information — instead of inches of armor — to help them survive on the battlefield. Now, it looks like the service is completely rethinking its approach.

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An Infrared View of the Galaxy

 

nasa.gov — This sweeping panorama is the sharpest infrared picture ever made of the Galactic core. The center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures in the hot ionized gas swirling around the central 300 light-years.

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