Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Friday, November 7th, 2008
Now that we're all getting used to the idea that Barack Obama is president-elect, all the promises he made during the campaign will surely be scrutinized and checked up on intensely during the next few weeks. From a technology and science standpoint, Mr. Obama presented some very interesting policies and ...
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
The Poor Children
Source: job_earth's photo stream
The worldwide financial crisis has been receiving constant press coverage during the past two months or so. The occasion could not be more opportune for us to join the thousands and thousands of blogs that will bring attention to the Blog Action Day 2008. This ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
Cancer, as many of you already know, is the unrestrained development of certain cells in the organism. The disease, according to its Wikipedia entry, takes millions of lives every year:
Cancer may affect people at all ages, even fetuses, but the risk for most varieties increases with age.[1] Cancer causes about ...
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Nicholas Carr's article, Is Google Making Us Stupid?, is a far-reaching piece of reading regardless of your field of study or work:
Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
That's right. As stated by a recent article in the UK's Guardian web site, technology has made it so easy for people to waste time that many doctors and researchers believe procrastination should be treated as a serious medical condition:
Time-wasting is not just an irritating habit. It is an affliction ...
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