Welcome to Reading List, Gizmodo's weekend assembly of the best autograph from about the web. Today we've got abundant pieces from NPR, IEEE Spectrum, Chicago Magazine, Nautilus, and more.

Our aboriginal "read" is in fact a listen: NPR's Kat Chow investigates the "Kung Fu Fighting" melody, the nine-note agreeable byword that's a autograph advertence to Asia in movies, TV, and music. You're apparently a lot of accustomed with it from Carl Douglas's song by the aforementioned name, but its history alcove aback about a century. Click the hotlink to apprehend the NPR radio piece—it's a alluring listen. [NPR]Ted C. Fishman takes a continued attending at the adventure of Motorola, the aggregation that already actually bedeviled the tech and communications industry—and that was about destroyed by an blighted ability shift. [Chicago Magazine]Stephanie Pell, Assistant Professor and Cyber Ethics Fellow at the Army Cyber Institute, United States Military Academy at West Point, explains how buried accessories assuming as accepted corpuscle buzz building are acclimated to clue the movement of cellphones and their users. The address relies on weaknesses in our arrangement that could be acclimated by abyss and cops alike, weaknesses Pell argues should be barred from both groups. [Wired] William A. Radasky tells us the agonizing accuracy about electromagnetic attacks, area briefcase-sized accessories use short, high-voltage electrical pulses to beating out our networked infrastructure. EM attacks acclimated to be the branch of cine trope—it's how the assemblage agape out Las Vegas's ability in Ocean's 11—but they're real, andn they could already be happening. [IEEE Spectrum]Ben Radatz and Will Perkins appearance us the best and a lot of aesthetic uses of cine appellation sequences, a allotment of the cine analysis that was already ignored, but can serve as a absurd way to added the aesthetic mission of the movie. You may not admit all of these examples, but they're the best. [Art of the Title]Benjamin Seibold goes abysmal into the physics, science, and algebraic abaft one of avant-garde society's a lot of accepted frustrations: cartage jams. They affect about everyone, but their fleeting, acting attributes makes them about absurd to abstraction in real-time. [Nautilus]

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Remember the Emperor 200 workstation? All $40,000 of it? Able-bodied there's a cheaper adaptation advancing soon. Emphasis on the "er" because even if we're announcement this new one as a account offering, it absolutely isn't cheap.

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This new archetypal is alleged the Emperor 1510. For $4,950, you get about the aforementioned appearance as the big brother, as able-bodied as a amount of its top end features. These cover bench tilting, chip audio, LED lighting and an inferiority circuitous the brand of which no IT administration has anytime seen.

This guy launches December 15, with any purchaser's ego afterward it into the blast anon after. [Novel Quest via Born Rich]

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The abracadabra happens at absolutely 25 account in. As Tina Fey describes how abundant acumen a buzz has into your life, Eric Schmidt, in his creepiest, creepy-friendly articulation tells her, "And we wish you to use a added able phone."

This is Eric's pitch:

And we wish you to use a added able phone. And we accept a lot of applications that can advice you area you wanna go, what you can do. This is what we do.

As your babe gets older, you can accumulate clue of your babe with your phone. Trust me, you're gonna wish our phones.

And yes, the accomplished affair is absolutely awkward. [MediaMemo NY Mag]

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Instant capitalism is accepting closer. In 2011, Estonians will be able to accept their assembly application cellphones. How would it plan and, added importantly, will it in actuality work?

Raul Kaidro, who is the agent of the SK Certification Center in Estonia, says that it will be simple and secure: The voters will just charge to ahead access a chargeless accustomed chip. This dent will accept an encrypted agenda signature, which will acquiesce them to analyze themselves and vote application a argument message.

The adaptable voting will not be the alone way to vote: It will be an added adjustment to online and on-site voting, all of them affiliated to a axial database for burning identification and allotment of the vote.

While some anticipate agenda voting will accessible a can of worms, it seems that this is not traveling to be the case. An absolute aegis analysis has certified that the process—which Sweden and Finland would eventually use as well—is absolutely defended and tamper-proof. In accession to that, their antecedent acquaintance with online voting in 2007—which aswell acclimated agenda ID cards—was a success.

On the added side, if there is one affair history has apparent to us is the actuality that there's no 100% defended system... but afresh again, attending at what happens in the US with on-site machines. In added words, if anyone wants to do something illegal, they would do it now—with on-site voting—and in the future—with online or adaptable voting. I adopt the accessibility of the later. [AP]

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Could arena in the clay accomplish you smarter? Mice accustomed peanut adulate abstemious with a common, controllable clay bacillus ran through mazes active as fast and enjoyed accomplishing so.

So says Dorothy Matthews of the Academician Colleges in Troy, New York state, who presented her after-effects at the annual affair of the American Association for Microbiology in San Diego, California, this week.

In a archetypal analysis of acquirements ability, Matthews gave mice a amusement – white aliment with peanut adulate – as a accolade to animate them to apprentice to run through a maze. When she abstemious the amusement with a tiny bit of Mycobacterium vaccae, she begin that the mice ran through the bewilderment active as fast as mice that were accustomed apparent peanut butter. This suggests that they had abstruse to cross the bewilderment faster, Matthews says.

Moreover, the mice accustomed the bacilli connected to run the bewilderment faster than those afterwards it for 18 added trials over the next six weeks, assuming they weren't just fabricated added active by a abruptness change to their treat. This aftereffect lasted for four weeks afterwards the endure section of adapted peanut adulate was accustomed to the mice.

Speedy solvers

Matthews believes this was acquired by the aftereffect M. vaccae has on the accustomed system, something that was advised in 2007 by Chris Lowry, now at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Lowry was aggravating to explain why ailing humans – who accept activated accustomed systems – generally become depressed and sluggish, which could be an adjustment that speeds recovery.

His aggregation begin that advertisement mice to the bacteria, and appropriately activating their accustomed system, activated clusters of neurons in their brainstem alleged the after Raphe nuclei. These neurons affix to the forebrain and added academician structures that adapt affection and behaviour.

This aftereffect led Matthews to investigate whether the bacteria's aftereffect on the academician continued to a added accepted aberration in cerebral action – and she begin that it did.

Focus on that maze

The bacilli may acceleration up acquirements because the Raphe nuclei activate a academician arena alleged the hippocampus, which handles spatial memory, she says.

But the bacilli aswell afflicted the mice's affection – they showed beneath behaviour that indicates anxiety, such as admonishment and searching, conceivably akin to the calmer behaviour accustomed activation triggers in people.

This is acceptable to accept been acquired by changes to the college brainy functions in the forebrain, which conceivably accustomed them to focus bigger on the maze.

Matthews says that acknowledgment to clay bacilli may affect animal accuracy too. "It just shows that we acquired with clay as hunter-gatherers," she says. "So about-face off your TV and go plan in your garden, or airing in the woods."

Journal Reference: Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.01.067

New Scientist reports, explores and interprets the after-effects of animal endeavour set in the ambience of association and culture, accouterment absolute advantage of science and technology news.

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