Month: October 2012
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More info, No info… The end is like the beginning…
Fill the world with an enormous amount of information… See people becoming overwelmed by much data… Important knowledge lost in the abyss of the Internet… In a weird way, the end is like the beginning when nothing was known…
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New York Times, Internet, medium…
Staffers at the New York Times briefly walked out Monday afternoon in protest of the management’s position on contract negotiations. [1] Among others, the newspaper’s owners call for separate contracts for print and digital employees… Yes, we live in the era of “appearances”… Internet appears less… (what?) … so editors for the Internet edition of the…
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Rodin Museum, talking without talking…
I recently visited the Rodin Museum in Paris. Here are some photos from there. Art can talk to people without talking… Philosophy at its best… Let’s just hope that in the era of industrialization we will continue to have masterpieces like these…
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Opera experiment: Things DO travel faster than light, what’s the big deal?
Scope A lot have been said for the OPERA experiment. It is now common understanding that a fault in the measuring equipment resulted in the neutrinos measured faster than light. The site http://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-physics-basics/neutrinos/neutrinos-faster-than-light/opera-what-went-wrong/ is the main source of information concerning that problem. However there are some unanswerd questions still hovering in the air… This is an…
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Ants’ hive mind – Could humans also have one?
Researchers at Arizona State University tracked individual ants marked with colored dots as they selected a home out of a set of eight nest sites, half good and half poor. On their own, ants got overwhelmed and chose good sites only 50 percent of the time — no better than chance. But when the whole colony was…
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