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savio |
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Someone is selling air on Ebay
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Could someone talk some sense into the five people that have bid on this item, please? According to the description, this is one litre of bottled air from the area affected by the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
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duddy |
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This is the way scientists doodle
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A glimpse into the mind of a Nobel Prize winner - this doodle was made by physicist T.D. Lee during talks with Chen Ning Yang, while both were visiting scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US in 1956. Their discussions led to radical questioning of one of physics' basic principles and resulted in the duo being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 for discovering that the supposedly absolute law of parity conservation had been violated. ...
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duddy |
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duddy |
10 years ago |
Why PDAs failed
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I found this wonderful article online that seems to have been abandoned for some time now (source below), it's called: Timing of Entry from PDAs to Smart Phones: The Evolution of an IndustryDespite having innovative and sophisticated product designs, most of the early PDA companies failed. This was mainly because the success of PDAs was dependent on several aspects of enabling technology that had not been fully developed at the time a flurry of companies ventured into this sector. The success of PDAs was dependent on the invention of enabling technologies such as handwriting recognition software, modems, and power and memory miniaturization. Several enabling technologies had no capacity to support PDA manufacture. Handwriting recognition was ...
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Does your manager have a 'morning bias'?
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A new study has shown that managers rate workers who get an early start higher than those who get in and stay later, no matter how good they are at their jobs, or how many hours they work in total. So, no matter what your boss says about flex-time, get to work early!
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duddy |
9 years ago |
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duddy |
9 years ago |
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duddy |
9 years ago |
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bio_man |
9 years ago |
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duddy |
9 years ago |
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duddy |
9 years ago |
Unearthed statues from ancient times
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An enormous tomb has been unearthed in northern Greece, guarded by two beautifully preserved female figures. It’s been dated to the time of Alexander the Great.
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duddy |
9 years ago |
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duddy |
9 years ago |
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duddy |
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