February 2012
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“I believe that one day hydrogen and oxygen, which together form water, will be...”
– From “The Mysterious Island” by Jules Verne, 1874
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January 2012
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ACTA is modern slavery and censorship on Internet,... →
PLEASE help us stop from enslaving us into censorship on Internet under #ACTA terms — this is VERY dangerous !!! http://bit.ly/Ah2BXl
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“In 2035, the average real price of crude oil in the Reference case is about $145...”
– Projections in the Annual Energy Outlook 2012
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“Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies.”
– ascribed to Nicolás Gómez Dávila
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“It is both greedy and irresponsible for American corporations to allow untaxed...”
– Carl Gibson (via azspot)
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“The only problem for libertarians is that they cannot point to even a single...”
– Hullabaloo (via azspot)
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“The American way of life is not negotiable.”
– George Bush, sr., 1992
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“Most popular web-based businesses are deflationary. They substitute expensive...”
– The Growth of the Internet and the Happy Recession
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“If you find your life tangled up with somebody else’s life for no very...”
– The Books of Bokonon From Cat’s Cradle By Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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“It’s difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends...”
– Upton Sinclair
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“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling...”
– Winston Churchill, November 1936
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“and in each of those decades (the 1950’s and 1960’s) more oil was...”
– President Jimmy Carter, 18 April 1977
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“…imagine my astonishment when the newest threat to free speech has come from...”
– Sergey Brin (via azspot)
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“The U.S. has an unemployment crisis and a debt problem, but many people in...”
– Peter Diamond, Institute Professor emeritus at MIT via RMS
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Automated Matrix-style learning demonstrated →
A US-Japanese team of researchers have demonstrated a system that uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) feedback to attune a person’s visual cortex to match the brain patterns needed to perform various high-performance tasks with little or no conscious effort. The researchers, from Boston University (BU) and ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories (Kyoto), acknowledge their...
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