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Potato = po-tay-(ˌ)tō , Potato = pə-ˈtah-(ˌ)tō

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It is neither part of the Apple family nor any part of Pine family.  Every where else in the world it is a Anana but not the English speaking country's. It's a Pineapple. I'm surprised the Banana is not called Squashapple.

Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education | Video on TED.com

I'm ready for a change are you?

No paper books.

I justed missed the ' Read An eBook Week '. Which was March 6-12 2011. Several years ago I started looking around for free eBooks (electronic books). One of the first great site I found was Free eBooks by Project Gutenberg . It turns out that Project Gutenberg was created in 1971 by Micheal Hart. Project Gutenberg is considered to be the largest collect of free eBooks.  Micheal Hart  has been labeled the father of e-publishing and eBooks. There was an interview with him about eBooks in 2002. At that time he was not at all impressed with the technologically being produced. He knew that portable devices could be produced to read eBook. Such as the Dynabook.   Alan Kay  in 1968 created a concept of the Dynabook. Alan wrote a paper 1972 title ' A Personal Computer For All Ages '. Now this was before the mass amount of people even heard of 'person computers'. Those of you that are not sure about what I mean. What you now call a computer or laptop. Which was called

Body parts dyeing before the body does.

More people are living longer at times it seems that we out living our body parts. We are needing to find ways to extend the life of our body parts. Some would say 'So what we can just get a transplants'. The problem with that thought is that amount of available transplants has not increased. Actually the amount of people that are needing new parts has double in the last 10 years but NOT the amount of transplants. The list keeps getting longer and longer. What can we do to fix this problem? One thing is to look at nature. They have that if you cut 1/5 of the ventricular chamber of a fish's heart. It will regenerate it self without any indication of the damage that was done, NONE. Scientist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Have tried this with mice one day old. After 21 days later. The heart is back to normal. Without any scaring but if the mice is 7 days old. It don't happened. It reacted in the same way we had always thought. Now we need to fi