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Ovid: External Link - 0 views

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    On the psychological effects of television
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The 'Cinématographe Lumière' a myth? - 0 views

  • As early as 1888 Augustin Le Prince (1842 - 1900?) was able to take motion pictures and project them. In the studios of Edison movies were already being produced in 1892.
  • From 1892 Birt Acres (1854-1918) was working on an ever better version of his 'kinetic camera', resulting in the 'Kineopticon'.
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Rerun Nation: How Repeats Invented American Television - Derek Kompare - Google Books - 0 views

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    A history of television through the lens of American's repeat tendency
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American Time Use Survey Summary - 0 views

  • On an average day, nearly everyone age 15 and over (95 percent) engaged in some sort of leisure activity, such as watching TV, socializing, or exercising. Of those who engaged in leisure activities, men spent more time in these activities (5.9 hours) than did women (5.2 hours). (See table 1.)
  • Watching TV was the leisure activity that occupied the most time (2.8 hours per day), accounting for more than half of leisure time, on average, for those age 15 and over. Socializing, such as visiting with friends or attending or hosting social events, was the next most common leisure activity, accounting for 43 minutes per day. (See table 1.)
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Web research could give you a bad dose of cyberchondria - 0 views

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    "The internet has quickly become the whole world's largest medical library and more of us are using online sources to find out information about our health."
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Bioprinting and Immortality - 0 views

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    - If it really works, we may draw that much closer to reinventing the very definition of life itself and testing the sustainability limits of our planet. - Many controversial factors.
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