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Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family . Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry , and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts. Huxley spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. Aldous Huxley was a humanist , pacifist , and satirist , and he was latterly interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is also well known for advocating and taking psychedelics .
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Layer 8: Raytheon gets $10.5M to develop "serious games"
These aren't your basic video gaming systems here. The US government gave Raytheon BBN Technologies a $10.5 million today to develop what it called "serious games" that result in better decision-making by teaching players to recognize and diminish the effects of their own biases when analyzing information used to make decisions. Under a contract from the government's cutting edge research group , the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), Raytheon BBN will develop game-based training programs featuring an international detective theme developed by game designers, cognitive psychologists and experts in intelligence analysis and in measuring game-player engagement.
TORONTO - Stephen Hawking says the colonization of outer space is key to the survival of humankind, predicting it will be difficult for the world's inhabitants "to avoid disaster in the next hundred years." The renowned astrophysicist explores some of the most remarkable advancements in technology and health with the new U.K.-Canadian series " Brave New World With Stephen Hawking ," debuting Saturday on Discovery World HD.
Stephen Hawking: Space Exploration Crucial To Human Survival
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Ajax (also AJAX ; / ˈ eɪ dʒ æ k s / ; an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML ) [ 1 ] is a group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications . With Ajax, web applications can send data to, and retrieve data from, a server asynchronously (in the background) without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. Data can be retrieved using the XMLHttpRequest object .
Achilles and Ajax play a board game with knucklebones on this late 6th-century lekythos , a type of oil-storing vessel associated with funeral rites "Aias" redirects here. For other uses of this name, see AIAS (disambiguation) and Ajax (disambiguation) .
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Geosmin is an organic compound with a distinct earthy flavor and aroma, and is responsible for the earthy taste of beets and a contributor to the strong scent ( petrichor ) that occurs in the air when rain falls after a dry spell of weather or when soil is disturbed. It is produced by a variety of microorganisms. Chemically, it is a bicyclic alcohol with formula C 12 H 22 O , a derivative of decalin . Its name is derived from the Greek γεω "earth" and ὀσμή "smell". [ edit ] Production
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A guy calling himself Cookie Monster has written what looks to us like the most clear and persuasive explanation for the Occupy movement we've seen anywhere, a copy-and-pastable screed that everyone should send to their crazy aunts and skeptical grandfolks. Admittedly, we don't know for sure that the following bit of Cookie Monster/#OWS brilliance was penned by a guy. But it turned up in an Onion AV Club comment thread on an article about how some "Muppet insiders" are feeling squeamish about that upcoming new Muppet movie, and to argue the fundamentals of the American economy in such a forum seems awfully boyish, so the evidence is good enough for us. (The Av Club, remember, is the not made-up Onion site that lavishes serious attention on everything that matters in pop culture, especially Community . And Cookie Monster, remember, is these days a reformed glutton, so who better to school the world on the ways of the 1 percent?)
"Cookie Monster" Offers Best Explanation Yet for Occupy Wall Street
Seven Awful Things Ann Coulter Just Said About Occupy Wall Street - San Francisco Art - The Exhibitionist
Ann Coulter's job is to say as many awful things as she can in the increasingly tiny slices of media time that she is afforded. Currently, she's peddling her book on talk radio stations around the country and probably wishing the folks at Fox would call her more often. This morning, she telephoned Bryan Sussman at KSFO, San Francisco's official media home for people who complain all day that their views have no media home. As you might expect, they talked about her book (SPOILER: The villain is liberals!) as well as the Occupy movement.Florida | The largest numbers of gamblers come from poorest segment of population, says Florida Family Policy Council
In the ongoing war about gambling in Florida, some critics have turned to the Bible to state their case. The Florida Family Policy Council, an Orlando-based conservative Christian organization, has sided with gambling opponents. In a post on its blog, the council poses the question Is Gambling Morally Wrong? The blog post from Oct. 20, 2011, uses partial quotes from Wayne Grudem, a theology professor at Phoenix Seminary in Arizona and author of the book Politics According to the Bible :
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The first $2,500 from a contributor to Obama Victory Fund 2012 will be allocated to Obama for America, designated for general election debt retirement. The next $30,800 from a contributor will be allocated to the Democratic National Committee. Any additional amount(s) from a contributor will be divided equally among the Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Virginia State Democratic Party Committees, up to $10,000 per committee and subject to the biennial aggregate limits. A contributor may designate a contribution for a particular participant.25 Worst Passwords of 2011
Pro tip: choosing "password" as your online password is not a good idea. In fact, unless you're hoping to be an easy target for hackers, it's the worst password you can possibly choose. "Password" ranks first on password management application provider SplashData's annual list of worst internet passwords, which are ordered by how common they are. ("Passw0rd," with a numeral zero, isn't much smarter, ranking 18th on the list.) The list is somewhat predictable: Sequences of adjacent numbers or letters on the keyboard, such as "qwerty" and "123456," and popular names, such as "ashley" and "michael," all are common choices. Other common choices, such as "monkey" and "shadow," are harder to explain.Using lorem ipsum to focus attention on graphic elements in a webpage design proposal In publishing and graphic design , lorem ipsum [ 1 ] is placeholder text (filler text) commonly used to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation, such as font , typography , and layout , by removing the distraction of meaningful content. The lorem ipsum text is typically a section of a Latin text by Cicero with words altered, added and removed that make it nonsensical in meaning and not proper Latin. [ 1 ]
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Socionists are very interested in determining the types of famous people and understanding how socionic type plays out in history, in the arts, in social life, and in other areas of human achievement. How can one analyze objectively people one doesn't know personally, who are long dead, or who appeared imbalanced and neurotic (like Hitler , for example)? Theoretical background Let us review for a moment some very fundamental concepts of socionics, taken from The Socion, or Socionics Basics , by Aushra Augusta (emphasis added by me): In other words, all people have a lopsided information structure; some kinds of information they reflect upon within themselves but do not share with others, while other kinds of information they consistently convey to others and actively implement in their surroundings.
Guidelines for Typing Famous People
News November 2012: The Socionics.us website is being transferred to my personal website, rickdelong.com, as a sub-domain. An automatic redirect will be installed. This is to save money on hosting and for other reasons which will shortly be made public. Updates October 2012: Richard Feynman (LIE) June 2012: Allan Holdsworth (SLI) February 2012: Working on guitarist typings: Di Meola, Zappa, etc.