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Sustainability of Digital Formats
: a repository of mostly technical information about digital content file formats related to storing images (moving and still), text, sound and websites
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at 11:52 PM on August 29, 2008
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The Checklist
- "If a new drug were as effective at saving lives as Peter Pronovost’s checklist, there would be a nationwide marketing campaign urging doctors to use it"
[single page]
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at 6:14 AM on January 2, 2008
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TheDataWeb
- a network of online data libraries on topics including census data, economic data, health data, income and unemployment data, population data, labor data, cancer data, crime and transportation data, family dynamics, vital statistics data
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at 7:03 AM on December 26, 2007
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Wiki City Rome
- "
anyone with an Internet connection will be able to see a unique map of the Italian capital that shows the movements of crowds, event locations, the whereabouts of well-known Roman personalities, and the real-time position of city buses and trains."
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at 10:22 PM on September 7, 2007
(3 comments)
Where the Engineers Are
- "To guide education policy and maintain its innovation leadership, the United States must acquire an accurate understanding of the quantity and quality of engineering graduates in India and China."
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at 2:01 AM on August 24, 2007
(39 comments)
Magic Ink
- Information Software and the Graphical Interface
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at 11:14 PM on April 7, 2007
(29 comments)
Neurolaw
- The Brain on the Stand
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at 6:06 AM on March 11, 2007
(8 comments)
Water footprint
- "of an individual, business or nation is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual, business or nation"
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at 1:09 PM on January 11, 2007
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Cost of Government Day
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n. the date of the calendar year, counting from January 1, on which the average American has earned enough in cumulative gross income to pay for his or her share of government spending (total federal, state, and local) plus the cost of regulation."
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at 10:55 PM on December 3, 2006
(16 comments)
Diary of a Collapsing Superpower
- "Seventeen years ago, the Berlin Wall fell, and two years later the Soviet Union broke apart. More than 1,400 minutes published earlier this month in Russia from meetings that took place behind the closed doors of the Politburo in Moscow read like a thriller from the highest levels of the Kremlin. They reveal Mikhail Gorbachev as a party chief who had to fight bitterly for his reforms and ultimately lost his battle. But in doing so, he changed the course of history and helped bring an end to the Cold War."
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at 7:48 AM on November 28, 2006
(32 comments)
Andras Schiff's
lecture-recitals on Beethoven's piano sonatas
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at 6:30 PM on November 1, 2006
(16 comments)
Neuroscience Gateway
- "a comprehensive source for the latest research, news and events in neuroscience and genomics research"
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at 4:27 PM on October 2, 2006
(6 comments)
Still in the uncanny
valley? - a great attempt at photorealism.
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at 6:21 PM on August 31, 2006
(50 comments)
Grigory Perelman, awarded the Fields Medal for his work on the Poincare Conjecture,
talks to the New Yorker.
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at 8:36 PM on August 29, 2006
(17 comments)
Motion Mountain
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The project aims to produce a simple, vivid and up-to-date introduction to modern physics, with emphasis on the fundamental ideas of motion. 'Simple' means that concepts are stressed more than formalism; 'vivid' means that the reader is continuously challenged; 'up-to-date' means that modern research and ideas about unification are included."
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at 7:26 PM on August 17, 2006
(4 comments)
The Human Speechome Project
- "A baby is to be
monitored by a network of microphones and video cameras for 14 hours a day, 365 days a year, in an effort to unravel the seemingly miraculous process by which children acquire language.". Selected video
clips.
Paper (PDF, 750KB). To test hypotheses of how children learn, Prof Deb Roy's team at MIT will develop machine learning systems that “step into the shoes” of his son by processing the sights and sounds of three years of life at home. Total storage required:
1.4 petabytes.
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at 12:40 PM on July 23, 2006
(21 comments)
Nature has a somewhat technical but free
supplement on stem cells (alongwith a podcast and related
blog).
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at 8:12 AM on July 2, 2006
(6 comments)
The
Aria Database is a diverse collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias.
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at 11:12 PM on May 4, 2006
(6 comments)
The Nata village blog
- "A unique opportunity to witness the battle to control the spread of HIV/AIDS in an African village."
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at 9:26 PM on April 17, 2006
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The avuncular state
- "A smarter, softer kind of paternalism is coming into style"
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at 7:41 AM on April 12, 2006
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Douglas Hofstadter
says, "
What troubles me is the notion that things that touch me at my deepest core -- pieces of music most of all, which I have always taken as direct soul-to-soul messages -- might be effectively produced by mechanisms thousands if not millions of times simpler than the intricate biological machinery that gives rise to a human soul.". That was prompted by his reception to the
output of David Cope's project
Experiments in Musical Intelligence.
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at 4:35 AM on April 11, 2006
(22 comments)
An interactive Shockwave-based look at Bach's
Well-tempered Clavier. Go one level up and
explore the entire coverage of Bach.
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at 2:26 AM on April 10, 2006
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