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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #90 on: January 07, 2011, 05:13:21 pm »
Subnormality did it again recently with a great allegory of individual maturation. I especially love that goat far off on the side of the mountain: "Is built for climbing."

That says it all.

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #91 on: January 07, 2011, 08:08:20 pm »
The two that touch me deeply are "Died Happy: Won the War," and "Is Afraid... But Does it Anyway."

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #92 on: January 08, 2011, 04:21:33 pm »
Some computer science students introduce kids to Computer Science... without any computers.

[youtube]VpDDPWVn5-Q[/youtube]

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #93 on: January 08, 2011, 11:54:32 pm »
Nice. Very accessible.

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #94 on: January 09, 2011, 06:18:51 am »
XDDD I kinda enjoyed that video! At the "Super fun mat" thingy I couldn't help noticing the unintentional philosophy there; competitions are healthy, but if you want to know where you're going and go forward fast make sure nobody is left behind. We often compare ourselves to others, after all. We're a society.

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« Reply #95 on: January 09, 2011, 04:25:54 pm »
XDDD I kinda enjoyed that video! At the "Super fun mat" thingy I couldn't help noticing the unintentional philosophy there; competitions are healthy, but if you want to know where you're going and go forward fast make sure nobody is left behind. We often compare ourselves to others, after all. We're a society.

With that mindset, you're sure to win any reality show contest you ever decide to join. Please don't though, those shows are horrible.

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #96 on: January 11, 2011, 05:24:28 am »
Another planet found! Possibility to be in hospitable zone! :D And it's WAY NEARER than Gliese!
http://www.sify.com/news/nasa-discovers-first-rocky-planet-outside-solar-system-news-national-lblmAlideag.html?ref=consumers

Yup! It's Kepler-10b.

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #97 on: January 12, 2011, 04:37:18 am »
Nice to see some scientific confirmation on something most everyone takes as a given.  It seems unlikely in the extreme that there wouldn't be rocky planets outside our star-system.

But I would be more impressed if we would, you know, actually take some steps to send men and women to other planets.  No one has so much as set foot on the moon since the year I was born, and that is sad!

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #98 on: January 13, 2011, 12:37:11 pm »

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #99 on: January 17, 2011, 03:05:52 pm »
Scientists trying to clone, resurrect extinct mammoth

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/17/scientists-trying-to-clone-resurrect-extinct-mammoth/?hpt=T2

Pretty interestin'.

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #100 on: January 19, 2011, 07:54:29 am »
Wow! There has been debates or practices of cloning of a Mammoth for ages now, but I wonder if they've got the technology today to fulfill this task.


Psst! Did you know that James Cameron was thinking of making a Spiderman movie? Here's the script!

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« Reply #101 on: January 19, 2011, 02:41:04 pm »
Pretty sure that script is over ten years old. Wikipedia has the full story. They are making a new spider man, though, with the "best friend" from the social network/the young guy from dr parnassus.

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #102 on: February 07, 2011, 12:11:12 am »
http://www.gizmag.com/book-saver-scanner-from-ion-unveiled/17532/

This would be really neat to have, as well as being more efficient than a scanner. But the comments on that page interest me. Would this machine really mess up publishers that badly?

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #103 on: February 07, 2011, 05:26:06 am »
Haha yeah I saw that one on my RSS. Quite fascinating! Unfortunately not many people are happy with it, especially for the price and the "look". OCR is still a complicated process regarding formatting.

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #104 on: February 07, 2011, 06:46:41 am »
Yeah, so you don't have to disassemble a book to get better scan quality. >_>