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Freeware library
wildcat
by wildcat  1-4-2007    6
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Beyond Wikipedia...reference sites you can''t do without
Newfman
by Newfman  9-15-2007    2
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XP - Alt Key Symbols
thisnamecantbetaken
by thisnamecantbetaken  12-22-2006    8
 How to make all those special symbols easily.
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Know where to search, No where to hide
antiw
by antiw  1-8-2007    3
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The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts
smagnolia
by smagnolia  10-3-2006    21
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Lifestraw Named World-Changing Idea
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-28-2008    6
 A revolutionary portable drinking filtration system, that will save thousands of lives. Pop and Donate, it can make a difference :-) Link to donation page below.
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17 Obscure Creativity-Sparking Websites
alanocu
by alanocu  4-28-2008    6
 lots of good clip potential at these sites
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The Future of Gaming
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-23-2008    1
 I have tried to capture some hints about the future of gaming. As the author remarks: "For now, the only way to predict the future of gaming is to predict that all predictions will be wrong." Yet, it seems that in the not so far future, games are going to deeply affect the way we perceive our world. Especially the younger generations will be affected, and to some extent it is already happening. It seems that eventually games will not only affect our perception of the world, they WILL become a substantial part of our world.
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Human 2.0 - Creating Gods
taksmaster
by taksmaster  3-1-2007    1
 Documentary about the upcoming technological singularity.
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10 Things You Didn't Know About You
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-30-2008    1
 Details on site.
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It’s Not What You Say, It’s the Order in Which You Say It
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  7-2-2008    1
 This research may hint that concepts exist an are being processed in the human brain, prior to and independent of language.
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Could an Acid Trip Help to overcome anxiety ?
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-5-2008    17
 This is an important article. I believe that psychedelic drugs not only have highly valuable therapeutic properties, but they can serve when responsibly used, to expand one's consciousness and boost intelligence and creativity in many aspects of life. The use of psychedelic drugs is one of those case where something which is highly beneficial to the individual is arbitrarily banned by the 'system' because the system do not want us too conscious, or too creative, not even too intelligence. All these threat the stability of the system while promoting independent thought. It is worth mentioning that the family of psychedelic drugs DO NOT contain dangerous addicting drugs such as opium, heroin, cocaine, crack, meth, etc.
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Becoming immortal
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-15-2008    26
 A very interesting read! Of course, what are we going to do with eternity is not a medical question but rather philosophical and emotional. At least we will have time enough for love... For the quasi immortal humans of the future, nothing in this existence will look even remotely similar to the way we see things today.
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Homosexual behavior due to genetics and environmental factors
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  7-1-2008   
 “Overall, genetics accounted for around 35 per cent of the differences between men in homosexual behavior and other individual-specific environmental factors (that is, not societal attitudes, family or parenting which are shared by twins) accounted for around 64 per cent. In other words, men become gay or straight because of different developmental pathways, not just one pathway.” For women, genetics explained roughly 18 per cent of the variation in same-sex behavior, non-shared environment roughly 64 per cent and shared factors, or the family environment, explained 16 per cent. The study shows that genetic influences are important but modest, and that non-shared environmental factors, which may include factors operating during fetal development, dominate.
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Physicist Claims First Real Demonstration of Cold Fusion
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  5-27-2008    6
 "Arata and Zhang demonstrated very successfully the generation of continuous excess energy from ZrO2-nano-Pd sample powders under D2 gas charging and generation of helium-4," Takahashi told New Energy Times. "The demonstrated live data looked just like data they reported in their published papers . This demonstration showed that the method is highly reproducible."
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Love Deactivates Brain Areas For Fear, Planning, Critical Social Assessment
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-20-2008    4
 One does not need an MRI scan to figure most of the conclusions of this research. :-) Love is not so blind as it is blinding. Yet... who cares? :-)
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Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-16-2008    3
 “Our plan is to have a demonstration-scale plant operational by 2010 and, in parallel, we’ll be working on the design and construction of a commercial-scale facility to open in 2011,” says Mr Pal, adding that if LS9 used Brazilian sugar cane as its feedstock, its fuel would probably cost about $50 a barrel.
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Meet Thomas Beatie. He's Pregnant.
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  3-24-2008    18
 Kudos!
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Comedian George Carlin is Gone
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-23-2008    1
 A sharp courageous comedian, a guardian of our sanity. Though we do not have king courts anymore, we still very much need the jesters.
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Zebra's Stripes, Butterfly's Wings: How Do Biological Patterns Emerge?
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-22-2008    2
 Previous work identified a specific signal necessary for getting these fly egg cells to move; the problem is that this signal is “graded.” Like drops of ink spreading out on wet paper, this signal travels in between surrounding cells, gradually fading away as it moves outwards. But clear lines are required for pattern formation — there is no grey area between a zebra’s black and white stripes, between heart and liver cells and, in this case, between migrating cells and those that stay put. How are graded signals converted to a clear move or stay signal? By examining flies containing mutations in different genes, the researchers discovered that one gene in particular, called apontic, is important for converting a graded signal.
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42 Creative Advertisements I Won't Miss!
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-27-2008    4
 It is amazing how sometimes a picture delivers a message in a way words would never do.
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Our Genome Changes Over Lifetime, And May Explain Many 'Late-onset' Diseases
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-26-2008    1
 They found that in almost one-third of individuals, methylation changed over that 11-year span, but not all in the same direction. Some individuals gained total methylation in their DNA, while others lost. "What we saw was a detectable change over time, which showed us proof of the principle that an individual's epigenetics does change with age,"
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Eat Your Vegetables !!!
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-4-2008    5
 Eat your vegetables, or else.... :-)
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14 Research-Proven Ways To Boost Brain Power
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-11-2008    2
 In response to Mohir's clip: Not all hope is lost... I worked hard to find a few proven ways, to train your brain, and mine of course... :-)
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What You Eat Might Actually Improve Your Intelligence
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  7-2-2008    2
 Am going to find something smart to eat. brb :-)
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The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
wildcat
by wildcat  6-25-2008    1
 "Speaking at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference this past March, Peter Norvig, Google's research director, offered an update to George Box's maxim: "All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them."
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Encyclopedia Of Spices
Socratoad
by Socratoad  12-24-2006   
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Oh Baby! First photograph of early modern computer
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-17-2008    4
 Run baby run! :-)
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Thinking ahead: Bacteria anticipate coming changes in their environment
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-15-2008    5
 To test this idea, the researchers exposed a population of E. coli to different temperatures and oxygen changes, and measured the gene responses in each case. The results were striking: An increase in temperature had nearly the same effect on the bacterium's genes as a decrease in oxygen level. Indeed, upon transition to a higher temperature, many of the genes essential for aerobic respiration were practically turned off. To prove that this is not just genetic coincidence, the researchers then grew the bacteria in a biologically flipped environment where oxygen levels rose following an increase in temperature. Remarkably, within a few hundred generations the bugs partially adapted to this new regime, and no longer turned off the genes for aerobic respiration when the temperature rose.
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10 Ways We Get the Odds Wrong
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-20-2008    2
 And the two last ones: IX. We Love Sunlight But Fear Nuclear Power Why "natural" risks are easier to accept. X. We Should Fear Fear Itself Why worrying about risk is itself risky. Though the odds of dying in a terror attack like 9/11 or contracting Ebola are infinitesimal, the effects of chronic stress caused by constant fear are significant. Studies have found that the more people were exposed to media portrayals of the 2001 attacks, the more anxious and depressed they were. Chronically elevated stress harms our physiology, says Ropeik. "It interferes with the formation of bone, lowers immune response, increases the likelihood of clinical depression and diabetes, impairs our memory and our fertility, and contributes to long-term cardiovascular damage and high blood pressure."
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How did the Universe Begin ?
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-24-2008    5
 The no-boundary wave function also states that space-time was not what we see today at the outset of universal expansion. “When the universe started out,” Hartle explains, “there wasn’t ordinary space-time. Instead of three space directions, as we have now, there were four space directions. At some point, a transition was made to ordinary space-time.”
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Get Out of Your Own Way
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-28-2008    5
 Conscious thought may well be largely overrated according to some of these studies. Alternatively, however, perhaps we do not fully understand the function of consciousness. For example, perhaps it is important in reflective thought which is not time bound and goal oriented. Some of our most profound thought processes of self description and self definition, might be of such kind. At any case, in matters of clear cut decision making and choice, consciousness seems to be more of a disturbing factor than anything else.
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Scientists Apply for First Patent on Synthetic Life Form
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-8-2007    6
 Without getting into the ethical implications which are fundamental and complex, This is an unprecedented step, a far reaching dangerous idea rapidly reaching its timely fruition, full of both positive potential and peril. Welcome to the 21st century :-) We will really have to tread wisely and courageously here.
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The new shape of music: Music has its own geometry, researchers find
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  4-17-2008    3
 Fascinating!
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3-D Viewing without Goofy Glasses
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-14-2008    1
 As with earlier techniques, the illusion requires specially-created content to start with. In this case, a digital movie file effectively has two frames for each ordinary movie frame. The first is an ordinary color image, identical to what would be seen on a two-dimensional screen. A second frame, rather than showing a second offset view, encodes information about how viewers should perceive depth in the first frame. It appears as a grayscale version of the first, with white indicating foreground objects, black denoting deep background, and shades of gray indicating points in between.
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A Game worthwhile playing !
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  5-10-2008    2
 As a serious gamer I am certainly going to devote some time to this one. The idea is brilliant. Collaborative computing may bring breakthroughs that are decades away otherwise. If you pop this at least give the game a try :-)
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The essence of happiness
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-19-2008    1
 Interesting.
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Scientists Map the 10 Billion Neurons of Human Cerebral Cortex
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  7-2-2008   
 This research goes a long way in validating Ray Kurzweil's predictions, that we will soon be able to scan the brain accurately enough to create a working simulation of it. The implications are literally vast.
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The Illustrated Book of Sexual Records
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  7-4-2008    1
 This is a web jewel: Funny, comprehensive and interesting. Explore and enjoy. :-)
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NASA Plans to Visit the Sun
Silkweaver
by Silkweaver  6-14-2008    4
 The two mysteries prompting this mission are the high temperature of the sun's corona and the puzzling acceleration of the solar wind: Mystery #1—the corona: If you stuck a thermometer in the surface of the sun, it would read about 6000o C. Intuition says the temperature should drop as you back away; instead, it rises. The sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, registers more than a million degrees Celsius, hundreds of times hotter than the star below. This high temperature remains a mystery more than 60 years after it was first measured. Mystery #2—the solar wind: The sun spews a hot, million mph wind of charged particles throughout the solar system. Planets, comets, asteroids—they all feel it. Curiously, there is no organized wind close to the sun's surface, yet out among the planets there blows a veritable gale. Somewhere in between, some unknown agent gives the solar wind its great velocity. The question is, what?
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