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8 Top Twitter Track Tools to Organize the People You Follow

The proliferation of tools created to support Twitter is astounding due to the early adoption and usage of the Twitter API by developers worldwide.  While there are plenty of web applications to choose from to analyze and visualize your activity with Twitter, the Twitter tracking apps that help you manage all of your friends and followers with ease are indispensable.

Here’s a rundown of eight of the best Twitter tracking apps to help you keep track of your friends and followers, and decide among them who are adding value to your usage of one of the world’s most popular social networking tools. Read more at www.makeuseof.com

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Surface tension, inertia, gravity... I knew cats were smart, but wow!

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Cats' Tongues Employ Tricky Physics

by Gisela Telis

11 November 2010, 2:02 PM

Cats like to do things their own way—even, it seems, when it comes to drinking. Researchers have discovered that felines have their own style of lapping water. Their tongues perform a complex maneuver that pits gravity versus inertia in a delicate balance.

On their own time, Stocker and a small crew of his colleagues filmed Cutta Cutta—and eventually nine more cats from a local shelter—with a high-speed camera. They found that, as opposed to dogs, cats rest the tips of their tongues on the liquid's surface without penetrating it. The water sticks to the cat's tongue and is pulled upward as the cat draws its tongue into its mouth. When the cat closes its mouth, it breaks the liquid column but still keeps its chin and whiskers dry (see video).

They realized that feline lapping balances the liquid's inertia, its tendency to keep moving upward as the cat draws its tongue in, against the pull of gravity, which drags the liquid back down into the bowl. To get a satisfying drink, the cat must lap faster than gravity can overtake inertia. Good timing gives the cat the biggest drink, because the column of water is at its longest and thickest right before gravity wins out and pulls it down, the team reports online today in Science.

Enlarge Image Tricky tongue. Jasper, and all other cats, drink water in a very unusual way. Credit: Amy Duffield

Perfect balance. A robotic tongue mimics the pinpoint lapping cats use to keep inertia and gravity in balance.

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