How Do You Count Parallel Universes? One question, one wildly off-tangent hypothesis.
Question: given how we can't seem to find dark matter, let alone dark energy, is there any theory that suggests that neither exists *within* our universe, but are instead somehow manifestations of the multiverse?
The Sound of History: Mescaline, Music, and Terror - Entertainment - Govindini Murty - Decoding the Cultural Influences in 'Prometheus,' From Lovecraft to 'Halo' A guide to the literary, artistic, and political tropes alluded to in Ridley Scott's sci-fi blockbuster Fox Ridley Scott's long-anticipated Prometheus took in $50 million at the weekend box office, and with its heady mixture of sci-fi spectacle and metaphysical speculation is already generating passionate debate.
The lost souls of telecommunications history. Feature. The Curse of XanaduBy Gary Wolf It was the most radical computer dream of the hacker era.
Ted Nelson's Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form. No Joke: Subway Systems Obey Emergent, Natural Laws As They Grow. Subway systems are marvels of engineering and design, even more so for the ones (like London’s or New York’s) that were built in the early 20th century.
But still, any rider of a mass transit system has no doubt cursed its design at some point. Why doesn’t the train go here instead of there? Why should an express line reach this neighborhood and not that one? Who’s to blame (or praise) for mass transit system design? According to a French physicist named Marc Barthelemy, nobody is. The three patterns that any major metropolitan subway system (with more than 100 stations) should have in common are: A core and branches, with core stations arranged in a ring shape above the city center A number of branches that tends toward the square root of the total number of stations About 20% of core stations contain transfers to two or more other lines. Death By Utopia. John B.
Calhoun relaxing in Universe 25 In the late 20th Century, John B.
Brief History of the Internet. Barry M.
Leiner, Vinton G. Cerf, David D. Thoughts on Google Plus: The Magic Isn’t Social, It’s Semantic. 75-year-old woman cuts off Internet to Georgia and Armenia. A retired 75-year-old woman has single-handedly managed to cut off the Internet connection of two countries.
She was digging around for scrap metal when she happened upon something far more valuable: Armenia and Georgia’s connection to the Internet. The interior ministry in Tbilisi said the woman hacked into a fibre-optic cable which runs through Georgia to Armenia, causing thousands of Internet users in both countries to lose connection for a few hours on March 28. Georgian interior ministry spokesman Zura Gvenetadze told the Associated Foreign Press that she found the cable and had intended to steal it. She was then found in the village of Ksani, north of Tbilisi, Georgia’s capitol, and has been charged with damaging property. The woman could be seeing up to three years of prison if convicted.
Gvenetadze said the woman’s age has been taken into account and she has been released pending the end of the investigation and upcoming trial. More at BBC News and Yahoo!
Semiotic web project. D Rams article. Without Internet, Urban Poor Fear Being Left Behind In Digital Age. One Per Cent: 3D printer provides woman with a brand new jaw. Paul Marks senior technology correspondent An 83-year-old Belgian woman is able to chew, speak and breathe normally again after a machine printed her a new jawbone.
Made from a fine titanium powder sculpted by a precision laser beam, her replacement jaw has proven as functional as her own used to be before a potent infection, called osteomyelitis, all but destroyed it. The medics behind the feat say it is a first. Elings. 21st Century Description and Access. Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries. Jack M.
Maness MLS, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries, 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder, CO, USA. Email: jack dot maness at colorado dot edu Received June 19, 2006; Accepted June 29, 2006 Abstract This article posits a definition and theory for "Library 2.0". Keywords. How Big Telecom Used Smartphones to Create a New Digital Divide. As the 2011 holiday shopping season geared up, the country’s leading mobile wireless carrier, Verizon, announced a special deal.
For a limited time only, customers could get the popular HTC Droid Incredible 2 smartphone for free, if they signed up for a two-year data plan. Since the phone’s full retail price is usually more than $430, the deal meant a savings of more than $200 with a new contract. It features a four-inch touchscreen and eight mega-pixel rear camera, along with top-of-the-line video and one of the industry’s fastest processors. It’s everything you need to feel like you’ve got the Internet in your pocket, and for a fraction of the price of a computer.
That’s a compelling selling point for many buyers, but particularly so among the black and Latino consumers who are so key to the now-massive smartphone market. There are 234 million cell phone subscribers in the United States, 45.5 million of whom own smartphones. America Online—and Mobile.