Tag: Science
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Search for Ithaca
A geological engineering company said Monday it has agreed to help in an archaeological project to find the island of Ithaca, homeland of Homer’s legendary hero Odysseus. It has long been thought that the island of Ithaki in the Ionian Sea was the island Homer used as a setting for the epic poem “The Odyssey,”…
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Science News
News about scientific topics annoys me. The latest, on the melting of the Martian polar ice caps hinting at a warmer than usual Sun causing global warming makes me wonder if Kate reads about science as voratiously as I do? I mean, as I started to read this, I recalled that the number and size…
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A couple of quotes
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. Rene Descartes French mathematician & philosopher (1596 – 1650) Quote Details: Rene Descartes: Each problem that I… – The Quotations Page It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that powerattracts the corruptible. The sane are usually…
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Science Mysteries, Explained
Science Mysteries, Explained – Popular Science The world is full of mysteries, and we at Popular Science strive to do our part to help you make sense of them. What causes Slurpee-induced brain freeze? Will junior1s piano lessons make him smarter? Can men produce breast milk? We’ve covered these important bases and more to help…
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QotD: Books From My Childhood
What books did you love as a child? Submitted by hearts. The Encyclopedia Brown series was perhaps my favorite to read. Several books in the Wikipedia link published before 1985 sound very, very familiar. I had at least a dozen of them, so I guess I had the majority of the 17 published at the…
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Current Reading List
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century Stone of Tears (Sword of Truth, Book 2) Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Yup, still on reading five books.
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Another Nail in the Coffin of UNIX?
If you have an audio copy of “Taps” play it now…. SGI – Services & Support: End of General Availability for MIPS® IRIX® Products: SGI launched the MIPS IRIX family of products in 1988. Since then, this technology has powered servers, workstations, and visualization systems used extensively in Manufacturing, Media, Science, Government/Defense, and Energy. After…