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What we’re missing now, on another level, is not just biology, but cosmology. People treat the digital universe as some sort of metaphor, just a cute word for all these products. The universe of Apple, the universe of Google, the universe of Facebook, that these collectively constitute the digital universe, and we can only see …
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Today's featured article SMS König was the first of four König class dreadnought battleships of the German Imperial Navy during World War I . König ( Eng: "King") was named in honor of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany .
Un tee-shirt (Quartermane/Flickr) L’universitaire américain Paul Duguid, spécialiste des médias, a travaillé sur Wikipédia. Il évoque le modèle de savoir démocratique de l’encyclopédie en ligne et ses limites. « La “connaissance” est un bien que nous acquérons par un engagement plus actif », estime-t-il. Professeur à l’université de Californie à Berkeley, a écrit avec John Seely Brown, de Xerox, « The Social Life of Information » (« La vie sociale de l’information »), Harvard Business Press, 2000. Il a publié une étude sur Wikipédia et les limites de l’auto-organisation dans la revue en ligne First Monday.
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Lasers are essential to an incredibly large number of applications. Today, they are used in bar code readers, compact discs, medicine, communications, sensors, materials processing, computer printers, data processing, 3D-imaging, spectroscopy, navigation, non-destructive testing, chemical processing, color copiers, laser "shows", and in the military. There is hardly a field untouched by the laser. But what exactly is so unique about lasers that makes them so effective?
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Benjamin : It's like I was playing some kind of game, but the rules don't make any sense to me. They're being made up by all the wrong people. I mean no one makes them up. They seem to make themselves up.
A fantastic book released by Scene which draws its focus on the present day control over computers and communication including signal and image processing, speech and audio processing and many other aspects.Enjoy!!! Description: With success of ICEEE 2010 in Wuhan, China, and December 4 to 5, 2010, the second International Conference of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ICEEE 2011) will be held in Macau, China, and December 1 to 2, 2011.
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The Most Amazing Feat of Self-Control Ever | Psychology Today
In a life-or-death situation, human beings are capable of incredible feats of bravery and self-control . One of the most remarkable ever recorded was that of Leonid Rogozov, the medic at a Soviet Antarctic research station who was forced to remove his own appendix. I write about the incident at some length in Extreme Fear ; to my delight, I've discovered that Rogozov's son has recently published a paper providing even more details on the case. The more I learn, the more incredible it seems. During the late ‘50s and early ‘60s, the Cold War took on new and more literal meaning as the United States and Russia expanded their rivalry into the heart of Antarctica.North/Latin America Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) - Bloomberg
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The Most Important Image Ever Taken
This image is the farthest humanity has peered into the universe. We now know that the universe is much larger than previously thought. A much more in-depth explanation of the science behind the video can be found at Deep Astronomy Movies, wallpapers, info on our universe, and information on the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's next orbiting observatory can be found at NASA's Hubble site