Do E-Books Make It Harder to Remember What You Just Read? I received a Kindle for my birthday, and enjoying “light reading,” in addition to the dense science I read for work, I immediately loaded it with mysteries by my favorite authors. But I soon found that I had difficulty recalling the names of characters from chapter to chapter. At first, I attributed the lapses to a scary reality of getting older — but then I discovered that I didn’t have this problem when I read paperbacks. When I discussed my quirky recall with friends and colleagues, I found out I wasn’t the only one who suffered from “e-book moments.” Online, I discovered that Google’s Larry Page himself had concerns about research showing that on-screen reading is measurably slower than reading on paper. This seems like a particularly troubling trend for academia, where digital books are slowly overtaking the heavy tomes I used to lug around. VIDEO: Trippy Video: Inside the World Series of Memorization Second, the book readers seemed to digest the material more fully.
Time Magazine Throws Up Its Hands As It Gets Pwned By 4Chan The hackers of 4Chan have succeeded in completely gaming Time Magazine’s online poll for its Time 100 list of the most influential people on the planet. At the top of the list is Christopher Poole, aka Moot, the founder of the 4Chan online forum, whose members used some coding to get his name to the top of the list. Not only did they help moot win the poll, but they also arranged the next 20 names to spell out “Marblecake, also the game.” This is just the “people’s choice” list, not the official list picked by Time’s editors, but still it makes you wonder whether the editors at Time bother to read anything on the Internet. Moot denies knowing about any concerted plan by his followers to influence the poll, though TIME.com’s technical team did detect and extinguish several attempts to hack the vote. Except Time.com’s technical team didn’t do a very good job, because the top 21 names still spell out the Marblecake sentence.
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Nuits, dormeurs et rêves de la Renaissance au musée du Luxembourg Les artistes de la Renaissance ont abondamment abordé le thème, essentiellement en peinture. Car il est plus difficile de représenter un monde parallèle en sculpture. C’est pourtant sur une sculpture que s’ouvre l’exposition : un plâtre représentant une figure endormie, d’après "La Nuit" de Michel Ange, qui a inspiré des nombreuses sculptures et peintures. La conception du rêve est alors toute autre que celle qui nous est familière. Battista Dossi, Allégorie de la Nuit, vers 1543-1544, Dresde, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Gemäldegalerie © BPK, Berlin, Dist RMN-Grand Palais / Elke Estel / Hans-Peter Kluth Le sommeil, source d’inspiration Battista Dossi figure "La Nuit" sous les traits d’une femme majestueuse, endormie et entourée de monstres, menacée par un homme, avec un château en flammes au fond. Paolo Caliari, dit Veronese, La Vision de sainte Hélève, vers 1570-1575, Londres, The National Gallery Comment inscrire l’espace du rêve dans le tableau ? © 2013, Photo Scala, Florence
2009 - The World's Most Influential Person Is... In a stunning result, the winner of the third annual TIME 100 poll and new owner of the title World's Most Influential Person is moot. The 21-year-old college student and founder of the online community 4chan.org, whose real name is Christopher Poole, received 16,794,368 votes and an average influence rating of 90 (out of a possible 100) to handily beat the likes of Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Oprah Winfrey. To put the magnitude of the upset in perspective, it's worth noting that everyone moot beat out actually has a job. Since moot launched 4chan.org in 2003, the site has given birth to Internet memes as diverse as Lolcats and Rickrolling. 4chan averages 13 million page views a day and 5.6 million visitors a month; by some estimates it is the second largest bulletin board in the world. See the world's most influential people in the 2009 TIME 100. For proof of moot's influence on the Web, one need look no further than the TIME 100 poll results. See a video on the TIME 100 moot vs.
My $4,739 iPhone App Weekend and 11 Lessons To Help You (If you’re looking how to develop and outsource and app, check out my course App Academy) (Be sure to read part 2: Life as App of the Week and Earnings Report) This weekend has been on the craziest weekends of my life. Since Thursday night, every morning has felt like Christmas. Seven months ago, I knew I had a great idea and I wanted to make money from it but didn’t realize how much money I would make. It seems my idea and hard work paid off in ways I could not imagine. Back in the Old Days For years I have tried to make money online. I got frustrated I wasn’t seeing the results I wanted to see. I hated my job and constantly thought of what else I could do. Last October 2010, I had my breaking point after a horrible night at my miserable job. In the car ride home that night, I felt upset at myself. That night I came home and wrote a note to myself to stop living like this. I taped that note to my bathroom mirror and above my desk where I could be reminded it of it every day. Great!!
Post Human « Redéfinir la vie », Post Human, vingt ans après Outil de recherche aussi nécessaire aux études curatoriales qu’à l’histoire de l’art, le principe de reproductibilité des expositions a récemment privilégié un certain nombre d’expositions canoniques, lors d’expositions-archives ou littéralement identiques aux originales. Il en existe de moins connues ou moins analysées, qui ont pourtant elles aussi marqué leur temps et les esprits. Il faut citer à ce sujet « Post Human », une série d’expositions organisée par Jeffrey Deitch en 1992[1] qui examinait la manière dont l’art « figuratif[2] » réagissait aux avancées biotechnologiques et informatiques, ainsi qu’aux changements dans les comportements humains post-68, remettant fondamentalement en question les principes humanistes. Couverture du catalogue Post Human, design graphique Dan Friedman, 1992 © DESTE Foundation. Timur Si-Qin, Premier Machinic Funerary: Part I, 2014 (detail). Juliette Bonneviot, XenoEstrogens, 2015. J. 4 I. 12 R. 14 J.
Christopher Poole Christopher Poole (born c. 1988)[1] is an American internet entrepreneur from New York City, noted for founding the websites 4chan and Canvas. He originally started 4chan anonymously, under the pseudonym moot (always written with lower case). Impact and activity On September 12, 2009, Poole gave a talk on why 4chan has a reputation as a "Meme Factory" at the Paraflows Symposium in Vienna, Austria, which was part of the Paraflows 09 festival, themed Urban Hacking. In 2010, Poole was reported to have raised $625,000 to create a new online enterprise, Canvas.[14][15] The website opened on January 31, 2011, and features digitally modified images uploaded by users who are required to self-identify using Facebook Connect.[16] In April 2010, Poole gave evidence in the trial United States of America v. In November 2012, Poole sent a cease and desist letter to Moot.It, an internet startup.[19][20] Identity References