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

thinkahol.wordpress.com/...roscience-aka-the-hard-problem 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.

Excellent Test and Tagging in Adelaide - 1 views

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Windows 8 Freezes on Startup Fixed - 0 views

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  • julia Dexter on 17 Aug 13
     
    If your Windows 8 freezes on Startup, you can try the number of solutions being disucssed in this video
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Resolve Error Code 8000ffff on Your Windows Phone - 0 views

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  • James Hatch on 20 Sep 13
     
    You may encounter this error code, when you try to download from the Windows phone store or restore a backup on your phone. It just prompts you with an alert stating "There is a problem completing your request. Try again later. "
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How do you feel about the term 'citizen science'? | OceanSpaces - 0 views

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  • The reason such a plethora of terms has proliferated is that each comes with the baggage - like how 'citizen science' might sound to an undocumented worker - of preconceived notions and affiliation with a particular structure of program. No one term has yet emerged to describe the wide spectrum of participatory science. Here at OST, we’ve decided to use the term ‘citizen science’ for a variety of reasons, most notably that it’s one of the easiest to understand and becoming one of the most popular. But we still have feelings about the term, so we’ve done a straw poll of staff members to see how they feel.
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Scientists Disarm AIDS Virus' Attack on Immune System | Health | English - 0 views

www.voanews.com/...n-Immune-System-130313993.html Scientists Disarm AIDS Virus' Attack on Immune System | Health English
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  • thinkahol * on 25 Sep 11
     
    Scientists say they have found a way to disarm the AIDS virus in research that could lead to a vaccine.  Researchers have discovered that if they eliminate a cholesterol membrane surrounding the virus, HIV cannot disrupt communication among disease-fighting cells and the immune system returns to normal.  
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Test essay 9: Forces acting on scientists to share and not to share : Christina's LIS Rant - 0 views

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  • Todd Suomela on 03 Jul 09
     
    notes on the topic of incentives for/against sharing in science
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On Being a Scientist: Third Edition - 0 views

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  • Todd Suomela on 27 Mar 09
     
    The scientific research enterprise is built on a foundation of trust. Scientists trust that the results reported by others are valid. Society trusts that the results of research reflect an honest attempt by scientists to describe the world accurately and without bias. But this trust will endure only if the scientific community devotes itself to exemplifying and transmitting the values associated with ethical scientific conduct.
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Jesse Schell's mindblowing talk on the future of games (DICE 2010) « fox @ fury - 0 views

fury.com/...-the-future-of-games-dice-2010 Jesse Schell's mindblowing talk on the future of games (DICE 2010) « fox @ fury
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  • thinkahol * on 07 Jul 11
     
    Jesse Schell's talk about the future of game design as it invades the real world is just astounding. If you do experience design of any kind it'll be the most valuable (and entertaining) 20 minutes you'll spend all week.
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Evolution machine: Genetic engineering on fast forward - life - 27 June 2011 - New Scie... - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...gineering-on-fast-forward.html Evolution machine: Genetic engineering on fast forward - life 27 June 2011 New Scientist
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  • thinkahol * on 01 Jul 11
     
    Automated genetic tinkering is just the start - this machine could be used to rewrite the language of life and create new species of humans
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Norms, "Ideology", and the Move against "Functionalist" Sociology « Ether Wav... - 1 views

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  • However, at the same time, another critique questioned the basic validity of that framework. This critique shared the SSK critique’s interest in describing actual scientific work, but, like Mertonian sociology, it focused on scientists’ and others’ sense of the essence of scientific culture without directly addressing knowledge-production processes. This critique held that, because “functionalist” ideal-type systems of scientific behavior could not actually be found in their pure form, such systems did not meaningfully exist. Legitimate sociology had to be obtained inductively from the empirical record, as studied by historians and ethnologists.
  • Todd Suomela on 21 Oct 11
     
    Very interesting summary of debates on SSK and Mertonian science studies during the mid-20c. Describes the move away from functional, ideal-type, descriptions a la Merton to more historically specific microhistories a la Daston.
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What if the revolution that ends 'gun control' is a technological one? - St. Louis gun ... - 0 views

www.examiner.com/...control-is-a-technological-one What if the revolution that ends 'gun control' is a technological one? - St. Louis gun rights | Examiner.com
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  • thinkahol * on 19 Oct 11
     
    And now, as CNC milling machines and stereolithography (three dimensional printing) devices fall in price to the point of being not out of reach for a hobbyist's workshop, home manufacture of scary "assault weapons" will soon be a few mouse clicks away.
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Microsoft offers a glimpse into the future of productivity | KurzweilAI - 1 views

www.kurzweilai.net/nto-the-future-of-productivity Microsoft has posted an awesome new concept video with some ubercool interfaces could be here in five to ten years estimates Kurt DelBene President Office Division. That sounds a bit conservative. "All of the ideas are based on real technology " he said.
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  • thinkahol * on 30 Oct 11
     
    Microsoft has posted an awesome new concept video with some ubercool new interfaces that could be here in five to ten years, estimates Kurt DelBene, President, Microsoft Office Division. That sounds a bit conservative. "All of the ideas in the video are based on real technology," he said. "Some of the capabilities, such as speech recognition, real time collaboration, and data visualization, already exist today. Others are not yet available in specific products, but represent active research and development happening at Microsoft and other companies." "Other companies" … hmm, some of the concepts look a bit like Nokia's visionary Morph concept tech  (see the video at the bottom of this post and our 2010 news item).
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FreedomBox Foundation - James Vasile - YouTube - 0 views

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  • thinkahol * on 04 Dec 12
     
    Freedom Box Executive Director James Vasile speaks at the Contact Summit, hosted by Douglas Rushkoff and held at the Angel Orensanz Foundation in New York on October 20, 2011.
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Amateur Science and the Rise of Big Science | Citizen Scientists League - 0 views

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  • Several trends came together to increase the professional nature of scientific work. First was the increasing cost of scientific work and its complexity. Scientific equipment became more precise and expensive. Telescopes, like those by Herschel, became bigger and bigger. Also, the amount of knowledge one needed to gain to contribute became increasingly daunting.
  • Second, the universities changed. Pioneered by the German states, which at the beginning of the 19th century was dismissed as a scientific backwater, universities began offering focused majors which trained students in a specific discipline rather than classical education as a whole. This was pioneered by Wilhelm von Humboldt, brother of the famous scientist Alexander von Humboldt, who was the Prussian Minister of Education.
  • Germany, once united, also provided impetus to two other trends that accelerated their dominance of science and the decline of amateurs. First, was the beginning of large-scale state sponsorship of science through grants which were first facilitated through the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (now the Max Planck Institute). This eventually supplanted prizes as the dominant large-scale source of scientific funding. Countries like France that relied on prizes began to fall behind. Second, was the intimate cooperation between industrial firms like BASF and universities.
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  • he final nail in the coffin was undoubtedly the Second World War. The massive mobilization of scientific resources needed to win and the discovery of war-winning inventions such as the atomic bomb and self-correcting bomb sight (with help from Norbert Wiener of MIT) convinced the nations of the world that the future was in large-scale funding and support of science as a continuous effort. Vannevar Bush, former president of MIT, and others pioneered the National Science Foundation and the military also invested heavily in its own research centers. Industrial labs such as those from Bell Labs, GE, Kodak, and others began dominating research as well. Interestingly, the first military investment in semiconductors coupled with research from Bell Labs led to what is now known as Silicon Valley.
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Public's Knowledge of Science and Technology | Pew Research Center for the People and t... - 3 views

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  • Todd Suomela on 24 Apr 13
     
    "The public's knowledge of science and technology varies widely across a range of questions on current topics and basic scientific concepts, according to a new quiz by the Pew Research Center and Smithsonian magazine."
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Benefits of Cumulus Cloud Broadcasting Platform - 1 views

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  • Aman Khani on 20 Jun 16
     
    Cumulus Broadcasting platform supports multichannel playout for live and nonlinear feeds. It includes hybrid layout architecture that enables playout either on the cloud or at the edge of affiliate platforms.
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