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Artificial Intelligence Will Get Dumber as an Age of Improbability and Surprise Begins
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Using Moore’s Law to Predict Future Memory Trends
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Zomia -- James Scott on highland peoples
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Dirty Airline Secrets: Where Germs Live in Planes
Studies confirm what you already suspected: An airplane is a dirty place. But you might be surprised at just how unhygienic they can really be.
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When Did the US Get Off The Gold Standard?
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Faster-than-light travel discovered? Slow down, folks
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Photons travel at the speed of light — they are light! — so this means the neutrinos, if this is all true, traveled faster than light speed. Holy Kessel Run!
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NASA selects crash site for aged satellite
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The satellite changed astronomers view of the heavens after providing proof the whole universe was bathed in gamma rays, an energetic form of light invisible to the eye and hardly detectable on Earth.
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AFRICA/CONGO - Biso na Biso: the voice of the forest promotes relations between Bantu and Pygmies
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The Thera Project is named for the Greek island Thera, commonly known as Santorini now. More than 3,400 years ago, Thera was hit by an enormous volcanic eruption, which destroyed a good portion of the island. It is widely believed that this event and the ensuing tsunamis brought about the end of the Mino... |
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One of the features that the Brown researchers seem most excited about is the device’s power consumption, which is just 100 milliwatts. For a device that might eventually find its way into humans, frugal power consumption is a key factor that will enable all-day, highly mobile usage. Amusingly, though, the research... |
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Without naming any names, this man I know who brews his own beer would like to see a blog post about what the deal is with yeast.
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The death of King George V, in January 1936, made a public impact which not only allowed Rudyard Kipling to slip into the grave comparatively unnoticed, but after half a century still seems historically remarkable. Eight years earlier, ... |
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Sunflowers are annual plants that produce large or small yellow flowers in the summer. Sunflowers are very popular because of their beauty, and because they are easy to grow. Planting su... |
Time and Space Across Time and Space
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This curriculum module encourages students to think about the concepts of time and space by showing them how they have been viewed at different times in history and in different cultures--including the Igbo culture of Nigeria.
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Twin paradox
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In physics, the twin paradox is a thought experiment in special relativity involving identical twins, one of whom makes a journey into space in a high-speed rocket and returns home to find that the twin who remaine... |
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How to Prune Bushes After Cold Weather
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Late fall pruning or fertilizing can stimulate a flush of new growth especially susceptible to cold injury.
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Don't give infants or toddlers cold or cough medicines
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It's time for the proverbial classroom rhyme, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 and discovered America.
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How do we lose (or gain) weight? Is it really as simple as “calories in, calories out” (i.e., eat less than you burn), or is what you eat more important than how much? Is “3500 calories equals one pound” a useful rule of thumb, or just a myth? I don’t think I would normally find these to ... |
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When Bertha, the massive drill worming through the waterfront, came to a halt last December, speculation took a turn for the surreal. What stopped the world’s largest tunnel-boring machine just 1,000 feet into its 1.7-mile journey? A locomotive buried 60 feet below the surface for a century had blocked progress on the ... |
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