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(http://www.nytimes.com)
- scanned by: il pinolo
over 2 years ago
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The Open University, the distance-learning behemoth based in England, has vastly increased its visibility with open courses, which frequently show up in the Top 5 downloads on Apple’s iTunes U, a portal to institutions’ free courseware as well as ...
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(http://www.superior-mind.com)
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over 2 years ago
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Binaural beats can be used to entrain your brainwaves to change your state of mind on command. The process uses a well established scientific principle called the frequency following response to cause your current brain waves to change to your des...
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(http://dsc.discovery.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 3 years ago
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Ronald Arkin, a professor of computer science at Georgia Tech, is in the first stages of developing an "ethical governor," a package of software and hardware that tells robots when and what to fire. His book on the subject, "Governi...
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(http://www.newscientist.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 3 years ago
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David Crandall and colleagues at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, analysed the data attached to 35 million photographs uploaded to the Flickr website to create accurate global and city maps and identify popular snapping sites.
The enormous...
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(http://www.techcrunch.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 3 years ago
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Today, Google Labs launched a new product called Google News Timeline, which lays out the top stories from Google News in columns for each day. You can scroll down to see more stories or, of course, can search for specific topics or keywords. (It ...
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(http://www.consumerenergyreport...)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 3 years ago
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Two environmental groups have teamed up with Google in an effort to help steer renewable energy development away from sensitive areas, by utilizing Google Earth maps.
The National Audubon Society and the Natural Resources Defense Council on Wed...
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(http://thesciencebehindit.net)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 3 years ago
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A clever new search resource that takes news articles based on scientific developments that have failed to link back to the original source and takes a stab at finding the initial release. ALLELUJA!!! Such search and semantic stringing will be an...
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(http://www.foresight.org)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 3 years ago
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Jeriaska has made available videos of presentations from Convergence08, held on November 15-16, 2008 in Mountain View, California, to examine the convergence of NBIC (Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno) technologies. Follow for the links.
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(http://mashable.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 3 years ago
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The site allows users to share their own experiences with different prescription drugs, ranging from Ambien, to Zoloft, to yes, Viagara. And, the feedback is extremely detailed, providing average scores (on a 0-100% scale) users have submitted for...
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rateadrug, drug, drugs, pharma, pharmaceuticals, socialmedia, feedback, reviews
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(http://www.eff.org)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 3 years ago
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San Francisco - In celebration of Sunshine Week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today launched a sophisticated search tool that allows the public to closely examine thousands of pages of documents the organization has pried loose from se...
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(http://www.reuters.com)
- scanned by: butterscotch
over 3 years ago
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Google Inc has updated its online map of the world to add the more than two- thirds of the planet that lies underwater and provide a way to view changes to glaciers and other geography over time.
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