Twice as much potassium as sodium cuts heart risk Getting twice as much potassium as you do sodium could cut your risk of death from cardiovascular disease in half. That’s the conclusion of a study from Loyola University Health System in Chicago, which looked at people who weren’t asked to chang...

Kensington promised us that the SlimBlade Trackball would turn us into "smooth operators," and we certainly felt retro behind the ball -- we hadn't used a trackball since the original Kensington Turbo Mouse. Muscle memory issues and a loss of efficiency drove us back to our trusty MX Laser after jus...

When Jen and I moved out of our apartment in the city, one of the things we were most excited about was a life free of roaches and mice. We lived in a pre-war building, so the little buggers occasionally came with the territory. I hate mice almost as much as Jen hates roaches. So when we spotted one...

John Steinbeck died on this day in 1968 at the age of 66, six years after he won the Nobel Prize, which even he himself didn’t expect. Critical scorn When asked by a reporter whether he believed he deserved the prize, he responded, "Frankly, no,� says Robert Gottlieb. In a New York Review of Boo...

Section: Peripherals, Mice / Keyboards Yesterday I talked about the keyboard and how it is rooted in the history of computers, but this week is also important for another input device: the mouse.  The 40th birthday of the mouse also coincided with history being made, as Logitech announced that ...

... His face looked vaguely familiar. However, I couldn't, for the life of me remember where I've seen the guy before. After I was done eating, I went outside. Seemed like a nice day for a walk. As always, my weekend has taken me on yet another crazy adventure. I wasn't exactly sure why I agreed to ...

There are mice in my apartment. Hijinks ensue. Now what? I live with my boyfriend and 1 roommate in the 2nd floor of a 3 floor apartment building in Brooklyn. I have only had experience with outside mice coming in my parents home in the suburbs. Here's an approximate timeline because I am in slow bu...

Section: Peripherals, Mice / Keyboards, Reviews The first time my dad used a mouse, he held it like a remote control, waving it futilely at the screen. The folks at Kensington may have witnessed this, for they’ve created the Slimblade Presenter Media Mouse, a mouse that actually can be used as...

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A letter abstract in the June 22nd Nature Medicine is entitled Reversal of learning deficits in a Tsc2+/- mouse model of tuberous sclerosis. Tuberous sclerosis is a rare genetic disease that affects the central nervous system and causes benign tumors to grow on the brain, kidneys, heart, eyes, lungs...