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News Desk: What Facebook Really Wants : The New Yorker - 0 views

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News Desk: What Facebook Really Wants : The New Yorker

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  • thinkahol * on 24 Sep 11
     
    One way to change something big is to get people really riled up about how you've changed something small. Repaint the boat, and let them to argue about that. By the time they've realized that green is no worse than blue, they won't have the energy to wonder whether it was a smart idea for you to set sail for Australia.
thinkahol *

STEPHEN HAWKING: How to build a time machine | Mail Online - 0 views

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  • thinkahol * on 16 Aug 10
     
    All you need is a wormhole, the Large Hadron Collider or a rocket that goes really, really fast.
thinkahol *

On "Consciousness: The Black Hole of Neuroscience" aka the "hard" problem | Thinkahol's... - 1 views

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On "Consciousness: Black Hole of Neuroscience" aka the "hard" problem | Thinkahol's Blog

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  • thinkahol * on 08 Nov 11
     
    What had been lacking until relatively recently was an overarching framework or theory through which to grasp the nature of consciousness. The lack of a general theory of consciousness, of how it comes to be that there is something that it is like to be, was really the last rational bastion of opposition to the scientific assertion that consciousness emerges from the brain.
thinkahol *

It's Official: Tunisia Now Freer than the U.S. | Informed Comment - 0 views

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It's Official: Tunisia Now Freer than the U.S. | Informed Comment

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  • thinkahol * on 09 Mar 11
     
    An Arab country with neither secret police nor censorship is unprecedented in recent decades. Tunisia is inspiring similar demands in Egypt and Jordan. When skeptics wonder if the Revolutions of 2011 would really change anything essential in the region, they would be wise to keep an eye on these two developments in Tunisia, which, if consolidated, would represent an epochal transformation of culture and politics. Arguably, Tunisians are now freer than Americans. The US government thinks our private emails are actually public. The FBI and NSA routinely read our email and they and other branches of the US government issue security letters in the place of warrants allowing them to tap phones and monitor whom we call, and even to call up our library records and conduct searches of our homes without telling us about it. Millions of telephone records were turned over to George W. Bush by our weaselly telecom companies. Courts allow government agents to sneak onto our property and put GPS tracking devices under our automobiles without so much as a warrant or even probable cause. Mr. Obama thinks this way of proceeding is a dandy idea.
Pump Wat

Best Quality Clean Water Pumps - 1 views

In the previous months, I was looking for quality water pumps for my house that will ensure safe drinking water for my family. I have asked several friends where I could possibly look for the best ...

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shalani mujer

Trusted PC Tech Support - 1 views

Computers are the most essential commodity for me, especially for my business. That is why whenever I experiences computer trouble, I would really look for a PC tech support specialist to fix my co...

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thinkahol *

People who really identify with their car drive more aggressively, study finds - 0 views

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People who really identify with their car drive more aggressively study finds

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  • thinkahol * on 19 Oct 11
     
    The studies found:People who perceive their car as a reflection of their self-identity are more likely to behave aggressively on the road and break the law.People with compulsive tendencies are more likely to drive aggressively with disregard for potential consequences.Increased materialism, or the importance of one's possessions, is linked to increased aggressive driving tendencies.Young people who are in the early stages of forming their self-identity might feel the need to show off their car and driving skills more than others. They may also be overconfident and underestimate the risks involved in reckless driving.Those who admit to aggressive driving also admit to engaging in more incidents of breaking the law.A sense of being under time and pressure leads to more aggressive driving.
Philip Solars

The Right Solar Panel! - 1 views

As an environmentalist, I really want to help conserve energy to preserve Mother Nature. I want to be as eco-friendly as I can be. My advocacy was empowered by National Solar Traders. They have pro...

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Philip Solars

Go Solar Today! - 1 views

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David Mills

Quality GPS Tracking Products - 3 views

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shalani mujer

They Effectively Fixed My laptop - 1 views

I love to surf the internet using my laptop, then one day it just stopped running. I did not know what to do since the blue screen error did not disappear though I have tried rebooting my laptop. ...

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thinkahol *

Video - Douglas Rushkoff on Why Jobs Are Obsolete - WSJ.com - 1 views

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Video - Douglas Rushkoff on Why Jobs Are Obsolete WSJ.com

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  • thinkahol * on 13 Nov 11
     
    All the fixation on creating jobs in America is outdated and misguided, argues media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff. He explains to WSJ's Dennis Berman his theory on new models that could actually increase productivity and make Americans more satisfied.
Web Design Saudi

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John Dewey

The Best Electrical Safety Company - 1 views

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David Mills

Making My Fleet Business More successful - 1 views

I admit managing my fleet business has been very challenging. There were even times when I wanted to give up because I could no longer figure out how to make it succeed considering that I have alr...

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Todd Suomela

Guest Post: Tom Levenson on Isaac Newton as the First Cosmologist | Cosmic Variance - 0 views

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  • Newton knew what he had done. He was no accidental writer. A parabola, of course, is a curve that keeps on going – and that meant that at the end of a very long and very dense book, he lifted off again from the hard ground of daily reality and said, in effect, look: All this math and all these physical ideas govern everything we can see, out to and past the point where we can’t see anymore. Most important, he did so with implacable rigor, a demonstration that, he argued, should leave no room for dissent. He wrote “The theory that corresponds exactly to so nonuniform a motion through the greatest part of the heavens, and that observes the same laws as the theory of the planets and that agrees exactly with exact astronomical observations cannot fail to be true.” (Italics added).
  • To make his ambitions absolutely clear Newton used the same phrase for the title of book three. There his readers would discover “The System of the World.” This is where the literary structure of the work really comes into play, in my view. Through book three, Newton takes his audience through a carefully constructed tour of all the places within the grasp of his new physics. It begins with an analysis of the moons of Jupiter, demonstrating that inverse square relationships govern those motions. He went on, to show how the interaction between Jupiter and Saturn would pull each out of a perfect elliptical orbit; the real world, he says here, is messier than a geometer’s dream.
Todd Suomela

The Bohr paradox - physicsworld.com - 0 views

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  • Why? The best explanation I have heard is advanced by the physicist John H Marburger, who is currently science advisor to US President George Bush. By 1930, Marburger points out, physicists had found a perfectly adequate way of representing classical concepts within the quantum framework using Hilbert (infinite-dimensional) space. Quantum systems, he says, “live” in Hilbert space, and the concepts of position and momentum, for instance, are associated with different sets of coordinate axes that do not line up with each other, thereby resulting in the situation captured in ordinary-language terms by complementarity.“It’s a clear, logical and consistent way of framing the complementarity issue,” Marburger explained to me. “It clarifies how quantum phenomena are represented in alternative classical ‘pictures’, and it fits in beautifully with the rest of physics. The clarity of this scheme removes much of the mysticism surrounding complementarity. What happened was like a gestalt-switch, from a struggle to view microscopic nature from a classical point of view to an acceptance of the Hilbert-space picture, from which classical concepts emerged naturally. Bohr brokered that transition.”
  • In his book Niels Bohr’s Times, the physicist Abraham Pais captures a paradox in his subject’s legacy by quoting three conflicting assessments. Pais cites Max Born, of the first generation of quantum physics, and Werner Heisenberg, of the second, as saying that Bohr had a greater influence on physics and physicists than any other scientist. Yet Pais also reports a distinguished younger colleague asking with puzzlement and scepticism “What did Bohr really do?”.
Todd Suomela

Why I spoofed science journalism | Martin Robbins | Science | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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  • What's wrong with science journalism? How did it become so dull and predictable? And how do we fix it?My point was really about predictability and stagnation. The formula I outlined – using a few randomly picked BBC science articles as a guide – isn't necessarily an example of bad journalism; butscience reporting is predictable enough that you can write a formula for it that everyone recognises, and once the formula has been seen it's very hard to un-see, like a faint watermark at the edge of your vision.
samantha armstrong

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FixComputerpProblemsSite Surely Knows How to Fix Computer Problems! - 1 views

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