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I just found a mesmerizing sight.

Definitely worth stopping off for a minute or two at

Whitney's Music Box

I wish you ENOUGH...

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how grey the day may appear.

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more.

I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.

I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger.

I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.

I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.

I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.

They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them but then an entire life to forget them.

What Does the World's FASTEST Computer Do?

The world's fastest supercomputer will probably
never be known as the world's fastest supercomputer.

RIKEN's MDGrape-3 is the first machine to break
the petaflop barrier -- that's 1 quadrillion calculations (
floating-point operations, to be specific) per second --
and it's three times faster than the
currently ranked fastest computer in the world,
IBM's BlueGene/L.

But MDGrape-3 is so specialized that it can't run the
software used to officially rank computing speed.
What it can do is determine the effect of any chemical
compound on one of the most intricate systems in the
human body in a couple of seconds.

MDGrape-3 is designed for pharmaceutical research,
specifically molecular dynamics simulation.
In developing drugs, pharmaceutical companies have to
analyze thousands on thousands of chemical compounds
to find out how they'll affect the protein-bonding structures in the human body.

Protein structures called enzymes are the building blocks
that do all of the work within a cell, and the way these proteins
bond with any drug compound introduced into the human body
determines the body's response to that drug.

MDGrape-3 produces simulations of these molecular interactions.

Read the rest of this article at How Stuff Works

Connection Found Between Soft Drink Consumption and Mental Health Problems

A Norwegian study has shown that teens
who drink the largest quantities of sugary soft drinks
also have more mental health problems,
including hyperactivity and distress.

More than 5,000 Norwegian 15- and 16-year-olds
were surveyed regarding their soft drink habits,
and then given a standard mental health questionnaire.

There was a clear association between soft drinks and hyperactivity,
and additional links to other mental disorders.

Most of the teens drank between one and six soft drinks each week.
Teens who skipped breakfast and lunch tended to
consume more soft drinks than others.

The worst mental health problems were seen in the
10 percent of boys and 2 percent of girls
who drank four or more soft drinks a day.

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