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Aimee Mullins and her 12 pairs of legs (or, prostethics as an advantage)(ted.com)
11 points by albertcardona 16y ago|2 comments
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A special report on debt. Repent at leisure(economist.com)
1 points by albertcardona 16y ago|0 comments
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by albertcardona 16y ago
You are saying then that corporations are missing (quote): And all you have to do, is not destroy the whole reason you want to hire them.
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by albertcardona 16y ago
All examples of use are indoors. Rough outdoor floors may prove too much. In any case an impressive device.
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by albertcardona 16y ago
Reads like their server is beyond capacity at the moment. Any cached copies? EDIT: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Q3SZ-4y... 500 The request has been canceled by the administrator or by the server. cold
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by albertcardona 16y ago
"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" must have been where I read it, ages ago. Thank you!
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by albertcardona 16y ago
If it isn't, it is in any case a great sentence. Thank you.
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by albertcardona 16y ago
Someone once said that madness was necessary for creating. Does anybody know who it was? Can't find it.
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by albertcardona 16y ago
line drawings are "not something we've evolved to be able to understand," he said, but rather, people in all cultures—and even babies and monkeys—can understand a simple line drawing. the metaphor is often more understandable than the re
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by albertcardona 16y ago
Clojure continues making everyday programming easier, while ensuring type and time and thread correctness. Outstanding.
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by albertcardona 16y ago
I work with invertebrate sensory neurons (neuroscientist here). For a starter, check out the pick pocket neurons in Dan Tracey's paper ("nociceptive" means pain receptors): http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(07)0...
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by albertcardona 16y ago
I've been running barefoot on the beach since I was a kid. Unaware that such practice would now be considered better than running with shoes. I did it for fun, splashing the water or just feeling the moist of the sand by the sea shore.
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by albertcardona 16y ago
""Technical skills are a hygiene factor for [software] architects. You need to hav them to be accepted for the job. But emotional intelligence and ability to understand organizations are the skills that define how good you really are." The
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by albertcardona 16y ago
The doctor's reconstruction of what happened to the survivor's brain is, at most, shaky. But the overall story is great.
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by albertcardona 16y ago
Domingo is from "domini/us", lord or sir, or head of the house (from "doma", home).
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by albertcardona 16y ago
"... was an American composer, band leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and electronic instrument inventor." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Scott
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by albertcardona 16y ago
For a moment I saw "Dalecs" without the armor.
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by albertcardona 16y ago
Biology (and any science field). The ability to process massive amounts of data is key.
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by albertcardona 17y ago
In gmail it did: the "friday night you are drunk and shouldn't send this email" feature.
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by albertcardona 17y ago
A million years ago, humanity's genome looked rather different. Is there any point in colonizing another galaxy with an alien species (i.e. ourselves, evolved)?
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by albertcardona 17y ago
Jared Diamond describes a case of a man having "visited the farm" and then being ill with fever. Diamond cited the case as a possible transfer of "crowd diseases", originated in animals, to humans. "Guns, Germs and Steel", Jared Diamond. ED
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by albertcardona 17y ago
Planarians (flatworms) have many immortal species as well. They are able to grow and degrow, changing their cell populations to the proportions found in juveniles. They are able to divide by fission, where the head remains and the tail grow
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by albertcardona 17y ago
Flexible time is what is so great about academia. If only the university bureaucrats also worked on flexible time.
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by albertcardona 17y ago
I recall a sentence (cruelly) stating (paraphrasing): "The problem with country X is stupidity. Let's remove all safety labels from everything and let the problem get solved by itself." Well-prepared individuals who can stay cool in tense
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by albertcardona 17y ago
A very compelling read.
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Brainwashed: How to Reinvent Yourself (Seth Godin)(changethis.com)
57 points by albertcardona 17y ago|35 comments
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by albertcardona 17y ago
"Women mating strategies" by Elizabeth Cashdan: http://www.anthro.utah.edu/PDFs/ec_evolanth.pdf
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by albertcardona 17y ago
A much structured and detailed argument against parking lots is done by Jane Jacobs in her book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities." She shows data, not just a hand-picked (bad) example.
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by albertcardona 17y ago
The movie (and the novel) portrayed an active-aggressive policing of citizens. What is described in this article (even if perhaps exaggerated) is not unlike what the movie portrays, but in passive form. The concluding paragraph--on adults t
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by albertcardona 17y ago
I am disturbed by the creepy similarities to "A Clockwork Orange" (which the article refers to, as well). The concluding paragraph is plain scary. I hope UK's situation is not entire like that.

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