OSL-Expédition 7eme continent Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters ¿Cuáles son los páises más y menos conocidos del mundo? Publicado el 19/06/2012 Hace unos días hablaba en el blog sobre cuántos países existían en el mundo. Después de explicar lo complicado de la pregunta, y cómo el número puede variar entre 187 y 205 (o incluso más), dejé un juego. La mecánica del juego en cuestión era simple: nombrar todos los países del mundo que gozan de un reconocimiento mayoritario. A bastante gente le gustó el juego, gracias a lo cuál, analizando los resultados de más de 1.300 personas que jugaron, he podido establecer una lista de cuáles son los países más y menos conocidos por aquellos que jugaron. A continuación os muestro esos países en un mapa en el que los más conocidos se muestran en verde y los menos conocidos se muestran en rojo: Mapa de países más y menos conocidos (en grande) Parece bastante claro que los grandes damnificados de nuestro conocimiento son las desconocidas islas y archipiélagos que pueblan el Mar del Caribe y, sobre todo, las que pueblan el Océano Pacífico.
Brain Games & Brain Training Hours of daylight vs latitude vs day of year.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Blues The Blues™ anchors a multi-media celebration that raises awareness of the blues and its contribution to American culture and music worldwide. Under the guiding vision of Executive Producer Martin Scorsese, seven directors will explore the blues through their own personal styles and perspectives. The films in the series are motivated by a central theme: how the blues evolved from parochial folk tunes to a universal language. The seven-part film series includes: Feel Like Going Home by Martin Scorsese The Soul of a Man by Wim Wenders The Road to Memphis by Richard Pearce Warming by the Devil's Fire by Charles Burnett Godfathers and Sons by Marc Levin Red, White & Blues by Mike Figgis Piano Blues by Clint Eastwood
Population 7 Billion One day in Delft in the fall of 1677, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, a cloth merchant who is said to have been the long-haired model for two paintings by Johannes Vermeer—“The Astronomer” and “The Geographer”—abruptly stopped what he was doing with his wife and rushed to his worktable. Cloth was Leeuwenhoek’s business but microscopy his passion. He’d had five children already by his first wife (though four had died in infancy), and fatherhood was not on his mind. “Before six beats of the pulse had intervened,” as he later wrote to the Royal Society of London, Leeuwenhoek was examining his perishable sample through a tiny magnifying glass. Its lens, no bigger than a small raindrop, magnified objects hundreds of times. Leeuwenhoek had made it himself; nobody else had one so powerful. Leeuwenhoek became a bit obsessed after that. Nobody then really had any idea; there were few censuses. Historians now estimate that in Leeuwenhoek’s day there were only half a billion or so humans on Earth.
KSBR JAZZ!FM88.5 Los cables submarinos que llevan internet a todo el mundo Tags: Cables submarinosFibra ópticaInternet La creciente utilización de dispositivos móviles para conectarse a internet puede llevar a pensar que el flujo de la red se está trasladando a las antenas y los satélites. Pero los datos muestran otra realidad bien distinta. Las venas que garantizan el funcionamiento mundial de la banda ancha, en realidad, se mueven por debajo del agua en cables de fibra óptica que cruzan océanos, mares y lagos. Concretamente el 99% de las telecomunicaciones digitales entre continentes y países separados por el mar viajan de esta forma. Infraestructura que permite que una orden de compra o un email pueda ir y volver en un cable que mide 6.000 kilómetros por debajo del mar en apenas 60 milésimas de segundo. Telekom Egypt ha realizado un mapa que traza los principales cables submarinos que hacen posible que internet sea un fenómeno mundial interconectado. - Los cables, en muchos casos, imitan las rutas utilizadas por los buques de carga que transportan mercancía.
My Way The Mind-Blowing Mount Roraima - All That Is Interesting - StumbleUpon Mount Roraima is the highest of the Pakaraima mountain chain in South America and one of the world’s most extraordinary natural geological formations. The 31 square kilometer summit area of Mount Roraima is defined by 400 meter tall cliffs on all sides and includes the borders of Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana. The tabletop mountains of the Pakaraima’s are considered some of the oldest geological formations on Earth, dating back to over two billion years ago. The result is the staggering landscape of Mount Rariama which we tour below in photographs and video:
Break.com AAG Annual Meeting AAG Annual Meeting: New York 2012 February 24–28 Getting around the Big Apple is easier than ever with a wide range of ne mobile apps on your portable device. The AAG has assembled a list of some useful Apple and Android apps that can help you maneuver around the city, plan museum visits, find a great restaurant, book theatre tickets, or learn more about the city's history and ecology. Note: iOS refers to any mobile Apple device General Guides Food and Drink Yelp (Android, iOS) - Free Reviews of restaurants, bars, and more Opentable (Android, iOS) - Free Restaurant reservations Time Out New York (iOS) - Free Hundreds of brief reviews and suggestions by neighborhood for dining, drinking, museums, music, nightlife, and other events and sights including free and cheap events Tripadvisor (Android, iOS) - Free Planner, suggestions, and reviews on things to do, restaurants, etc. Points of Interest