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Webmention.io
Webmention.io is a hosted service created to easily receive webmentions on any web page. You might also be interested in reading about this project on the IndieWeb wiki.
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Open science: a future shaped by shared experience
On the surface, it looked as if there was nothing in mathematics that Timothy Gowers couldn't achieve. He held a prestigious professorship at Cambridge. He had been a recipient of the Fields Medal, the highest honour in mathematics. He had even acted as a scientific consultant on Hollywood movies.
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Nothing to hide argument
The nothing to hide argument states that individuals have no reason to fear or oppose surveillance programs, unless they are afraid it will uncover their own illicit activities.
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Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'
The belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.
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Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential Online: Re-design Project
The initial focus of the re-design project is on the World Problems database. The other databases such as Global Strategies, as well as the complementary databases Human Values, Human Development, Patterns and Metaphors, Bibliography, Integrative Concepts, etc, may be added at a later date.
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Loop (graph theory)
In graph theory, a loop (also called a self-loop or a buckle) is an edge that connects a vertex to itself. A simple graph contains no loops. In a graph with one vertex, all edges must be loops. Such a graph is called a bouquet.
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Sneh / Snow (2013) by Ivana Sebestova (excerpt)
Animated short about dream and snow.
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Death penalty over China ant scam
Wang Zhendong promised investors returns of up to 60% if they put money into the fictitious ant-breeding project, the court heard. Wang, from Liaoning province, raised 3bn yuan ($390m; £200m) in three years, prosecutors said.
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Noli turbare circulos meos!
According to Valerius Maximus, the phrase was uttered by the ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer Archimedes. When the Romans conquered the city of Syracuse after the siege of 214–212 BC, the Roman general Marcus Claudius Marcellus gave the order to retrieve Archimedes.
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Feedback Loop Analysis in the Encyclopedia Project
In parallel with the work on individual data elements in the Strategies and Problems files (Section 9.
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ANU QRNG – Quantum random numbers
This website offers true random numbers to anyone on the internet. The random numbers are generated in real-time in our lab by measuring the quantum fluctuations of the vacuum. The vacuum is described very differently in the quantum physics and classical physics.
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Union of International Associations
The Union of International Associations (UIA) is a research institute and documentation centre, based in Brussels. It was founded over one hundred years ago, in 1907, by (Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1913), and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.
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Space Elevator Reference Top Story
Exosphere, a Chilean company and who labels themselves as a "learning and problem-solving community", will hold a three week Space Elevator program in Budapest, Hungary in mid-July as part of its Copernicus Series.
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Great Pacific garbage patch
The Great Pacific garbage patch (also Pacific trash vortex) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean. It is located roughly from 135°W to 155°W and 35°N to 42°N.
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Tourists hurt in Maldives blast
Twelve tourists have been wounded in a bomb blast in a park near the main mosque in the Maldives capital of Male, the UK Foreign Office has said. Two Britons, two Japanese and eight Chinese tourists were hurt by the bomb - reported to have been homemade.
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Zeno's Paradox - Numberphile
Dr James Grime is back and talking about tortoises. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ In many ways this video follows on from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFNjA9LOPsg and then http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMP9a2J4Bqw James Grime's website is: http://singingbanana.com NUMB
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Full text: 'Bin Laden tape'
An audiotape purported to be from Osama Bin Laden has been broadcast by the pan-Arab al-Arabiya and al-Jazeera satellite channels. In the tape the voice offers conditional reconciliation with Europe.
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Ducks' odyssey nears end
A consignment of thousands of rubber ducks is expected to wash up any day on the coast of New England - after more than a decade at sea.
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100+1 zahraniční zajímavost
Atlas světa Ruiny prastarých mayských pyramid ozvláštňují jinak jednotvárnou a téměř plochou krajinu mexického státu Yukatán na severu stejnojmenného poloostrova.
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US plans 'robot troops' for Iraq
The US military is planning to deploy robots armed with machine-guns to wage war against insurgents in Iraq. Eighteen of the 1m-high robots, equipped with cameras and operated by remote control, are going to Iraq this spring, the Associated Press reports.
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Mostly Harmless - an Elite: Dangerous novel (working title)
Set in the worlds of Elite, inspired by the wit of Douglas Adams; the tale of the least deadly assassin the galaxy has ever known. 811 backers pledged £17,005 to help bring this project to life.
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Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination
Ralph Waldo Emerson? Lynn H. Hough? Aerosmith? Anonymous? Life is a journey, not a destination.
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'This is just a scene from hell'
The BBC's world affairs editor John Simpson was accompanying a convoy of US special forces and Kurdish fighters when it came under attack from an American warplane. At least 10 people were killed, including a Kurdish translator working with the BBC team, Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed.
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Wormhole 'no use' for time travel
For budding time travellers, the future (or should that be the past?) is starting to look bleak. Hypothetical tunnels called wormholes once looked like the best bet for constructing a real time machine.
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10 Amazing Practical Jokes
Visit http://www.quirkology.com Buy the book UK: https://goo.gl/BKadJg Buy the book US: https://goo.gl/XLTErW Music: https://cameronwattmusic.wordpress.com
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