Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
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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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
An acquaintance of mine from Santo Domingo recently came to RIT to pursue his masters degree in telecommunications engineering. Just as it happened to me during my first day of class, one of his professors outlined how he would be using Turnitin.com to deter plagiarism and crosscheck all papers submitted. ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
The folks at the Mozilla Foundation, the organization behind the increasingly popular Firefox web browser, decided they would release the latest version of their hot application with an interesting goal in mind: break the world record for most downloads ever for any application in a day. Incredibly, before the 24-hour ...
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