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"A fascinating article here at Physorg on how human beings remember and recall words. Researchers at Queensland University of Technology and the University of South Florida compare two ways of thinking about connections between similar words 1) Networks of similar words and 2) something analogous to spooky action at a distance"
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"Die Köpfe hinter dem weltgrößten BitTorrent-Tracker haben ein amüsantes englischsprachiges Manifest veröffentlicht."
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"Am heutigen Tag 9 des Prozesses wurden Sachverständige befragt, die tiefe Einblicke in Technik und Kultur von BitTorrent lieferten."
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"Stuart Semple hat 2057 Smiley-Wolken über London losgelassen, um die Leute ein wenig aufzuheitern."
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"A New Zealand woman has had a custom mermaid tail prosthetic made for her by Weta Workshop (special effects studio responsible for Lord Of The Rings, etc.). Nadya Vessey lost both of her legs below the knee as the result of a medical condition when she was young"
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"Hypebot hat einen fantastischen Fünfteiler am Start, der literarisch und existenzialistisch beginnt (ein Roboter rätselt darüber, ob er selbst, das System oder etwa beide kaputt sind und ob er es kaputt gemacht hat oder etwa das System selbst und so weiter und so fort), dann die Geschichte des „Problems“ anhand der zwei P2P-Meilensteine Napster und Pirate Bay erzählt und schließlich anhand der persönlichen Geschichte des Autors die Auswirkungen der Vernetzung der Fans in Communities auf die Musik-Kultur."
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"NASA will stay on track to return humans to the Moon by 2020, according to an overview of President Obama's 2010 budget request released on Thursday."
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"ESA has announced the European prime and backup crewmembers for the 105-day Mars500 study. From 31 March 2009, two Europeans are set to join four Russian crewmembers on a simulated human mission to Mars."
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radical transparency: a way to sum it up in a nutshell might be to say that instead of worrying about who should watch the watchers, why don’t we make sure everyone – and anyone – can get at all the data in standardized formats
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"During The Pirate Bay trial, the music industry placed the blame for the decline in their revenues squarely on the shoulders of file-sharers. Their logic is clearly flawed, but it could sway the verdict if no alternative explanation is presented. So, if piracy isn’t to blame, then what is *actually* killing the music industry?"