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Exodus from Niederhausen

Spring had arrived, the snows in the valley had melted and the Rhine was no doubt moving swiftly when my 2nd-great-grandmother, then 23-year-old Francisca Förstl, left that valley where...
Facebook hoaxes work because you allow them to

Facebook hoaxes are easy to foil when you understand that they only work when you allow them to. Here are some keys to understanding how and why they work: Double-checking facts ruins a hoax Email...
From a domain name to a website

People often think of a domain name and a website as being the same thing, but there are actually several steps involved in relating a domain name that you can own to the web server that hosts a...
PHP isset() and undefined vs. NULL variables

As is often the case, while trying to overcome one limitation I encountered with the PHP programming language, I managed to overcome another one that often leaves programmers stumped; namely, the...
Cold Water Exposure: Treating Noradrenergic Dysfunction

This article by Charles Norton (my son) first appeared in the May 2010 issue (Volume 2, Issue 5) of Brain Waves, a publication of Binghamton University Neuroscience Club. by Charles Norton (...