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8 Settlements With a Population of Just One Person

Buford is an unincorporated community in Albany County, Wyoming, United States. It is located between Laramie and Cheyenne on Interstate 80. Buford is at 8000 feet (2500 m) of elevation, making it the highest community on Interstate 80. It has a population of 1 person. Don Sammons, who is the only resident, is also the operator of the Buford Trading Post. His son moved out around 2008.


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Put Down Your Smartphone To Feel Better

A study by the British Psychological Society found a link between stress levels and the number of times a person picks up their smartphone to check messages and mails. As an addict, I can completely agree with this finding. In short, the more you do it, the worse you feel.

Oddly, the study found that less stress was induced when checking work e-mail rather than other online interactions. The group conducted a survey of 100 Britons in different lines of work.

The study found something they called a “helpful-stressful cycle” in which a smart phone is purchased to help manage the workload and then becomes the bane of their existence, inciting compulsive behaviors and stress.

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Amazon’s top-selling games of 2011

Physical
1.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
2.Just Dance 3
3.Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
4.Battlefield 3
5.Batman: Arkham City
6.Madden NFL 12
7.Portal 2
8.Just Dance 2
9.Gears of War 3
10.FIFA Soccer 12

Digital
1.Deus Ex: Human Revolution
2.Battlefield 3
3.The Sims 3
4.Battlefield Bad Company 2
5.Sid Meir’s Civilization V
6.Dead Island
7.Total War: Shogun 2
8.Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
9.Crysis 2
10.Dragon Age 2

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Record player translates tree rings into music

The project known as Years is one by Bartholomaus Traubeck in which a record player has been modified to shine light and receive back signals from slices of trees. What the player receives from the bounced-back light is no less than bits of information translated from the rings made through the tree as it grew from a tiny sapling. In this way, the tragedy that is the fact that the tree had to die in order to tell its story is made quite apparent to the viewer and the listener.

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