Daoist Studies Isn't That King David? Nope, It's Just Dave : Krulwich Wonders... Usually they're naked, ancient and stony. But all of a sudden, they could live next door. Photo and idea conception: Léo Caillard; Retouching: Alexis Persani The Paris-based designer Leo Caillard had, as he wrote me, "the idea conception" and took the photographs.
Kurt Gödel's Ontological Argument Kurt Gödel is best known to mathematicians and the general public for his celebrated incompleteness theorems. Physicists also know his famous cosmological model in which time-like lines close back on themselves so that the distance past and the distant future are one and the same. What is less well known is the fact that Gödel has sketched a revised version of Anselm's traditional ontological argument for the existence of God. How does a mathematician get mixed up in the God-business? Gödel was a mystic, whose mathematical research exemplified a philosophical stance akin to the Neo-Platonics. Talking about proof theory often feels like discourse about God: When you talk about God, you have to discuss issues like "if God created the Universe, then who created God?" Some of the pioneering work of Kurt Gödel showed that the modal logic of philosophers which was used to analyse the ontological argument for the existence of God was also very useful in proof theory and metamathematics. g where t a
World Public Library Association Twenty-five Things to Know on Becoming a Teenager | Off-topic A family I know has a tradition of making a book when their children hit 13. Everyone writes a memory, or a piece of advice. I set down to write a list of 25 things that are *actually* true. Is there anything wrong here? Is there anything I'm missing? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
Practice-It!, a web-based Java practice problem tool for computer science students Web History Center - WHC Team WHC Team The following individuals and institutions are actively contributing to setting up the Web History Center and preparing it to fulfill its mission. William B. Pickett, Co-Founder, Historian Marc Weber, Co-Founder, Collections and Communications Specialist Robert Cailliau, European Coordinator, Web Pioneer at CERN Jean-François Groff, Web Tools Expert, Web Pioneer at CERN Bebo White, Webologist, Web Pioneer at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Joshua M. Join us! You are welcome to join our efforts to build the Web History Center.
Amazing Pictures From the National Geographic Traveler Photo ContestDaily News Dig Tweet National Geographic Traveler Photo contest is a yearly event were people send in photos of wildlife. So lets look at some of this year’s top contenders. The first prize winner will go on an expedition to the Galápagos with the National Geographics team, while runner-ups will receive the publicity and honor of having his or her photo published in the National Geographic Traveler magazine or website. SEE ALSO – Amazing Pictures Of Nature You Wont Believe Are Real Fénec the Soul of the Desert “The fennec, or desert fox is a canine mammal species of the genus Vulpes, which inhabits the Sahara Desert and Arabia. The Power of the Criollo “The power of the Criollo horses at the Cabanha Ipuã located in Paranà, Brazil. Portrait of an Eastern Screech Owl “Masters of disguise. Hungry Hummingbird “A very hungry humming bird drinking from the mouth of a person in Wyoming during an extreme drought in 2012.” ( Photo by Sundell Larsen) Dueling Tigers Bird Love Curiosity of a Chimpanzee in Men Naughty Monkey
Clone a Hard Drive Using an Ubuntu Live CD Whether you’re setting up multiple computers or doing a full backup, cloning hard drives is a common maintenance task. Don’t bother burning a new boot CD or paying for new software – you can do it easily with your Ubuntu Live CD. Not only can you do this with your Ubuntu Live CD, you can do it right out of the box – no additional software needed! The program we’ll use is called dd, and it’s included with pretty much all Linux distributions. dd is a utility used to do low-level copying – rather than working with files, it works directly on the raw data on a storage device. Note: dd gets a bad rap, because like many other Linux utilities, if misused it can be very destructive. Of course, the flip side of that is that dd is extremely powerful, and can do very complex tasks with little user effort. We’re going to take a small hard drive that we’ve been using and copy it to a new hard drive, which hasn’t been formatted yet. sudo fdisk –l Now the fun part: using dd.