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Messier 8
Seen through small telescopes and binoculars as a fuzzy glow, M8 is a region of intense star formation with a characteristic pink hue from ionized hydrogen (Balmer H-α recombination line). While red is indeed the hydrogen emission in this image by the 8-m Gemini South telescope on Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes, the other…
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Body Self Perception
Body Self Perception For me it is sort of like trying to define the space around you and the depth perception one has of that space. It is also about location and whether awareness can pick up on other thing happening within that environment, while circumvented to the virtual reality. This idea is one where I…
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Space Weather
3-day Solar-Geophysical Forecast issued May 27 22:00 UTC Solar Activity Forecast: Solar activity is expected to be low with a chance for C-class events, and a slight chance for an M-class event, as regions on the disk continue to evolve. Geophysical Activity Forecast: The geomagnetic field is expected to be predominately unsettled with occasional active…
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An Affirmative Choice by Canadian Government?
In the decision the CRTC ruled that rural and remote broadband access should be left to market forces and targeted government funding with private-public partnerships. Not necessarily the right one in my opinion. But I have a plan, and within the United States there are those who have already paved the way. I’ll give that…
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We,ve Come a Long Way…..Have We?
Journalist Hunter S Thompson working at his ranch circa 1976 near Aspen Colorado. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images See: Key workers: writers at their typewriters – in pictures The story awoken my own history in the development of the means with which to write. How we write today. What it means to have this technology…
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Advancing the Web to Empower People: Challenges and Solutions
Advancing the Web to Empower People: Challenges and Solutions from Web Foundation on Vimeo. This video summarizes the vision of the World Wide Web Foundation and provides one example of the work we are doing in Africa to empower farmers through the Web. Many thanks to our funder and partner, VU University, Amsterdam, and our…
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A Type ‘Zero’ Civilization
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Kardashev scale
Kardashev scale projections for human civilization ranging from years 1900 to 2030, based on data from the International Energy Agency World Energy Outlook.The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring an advanced civilization’s level of technological advancement. The scale is only theoretical and in terms of an actual civilization highly speculative; however, it puts energy…
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The Black Swan
“All swans are white” is a falsifiable claim – it could be proven wrong. Black Swan, Claremont (Cygnus atratus), Tasmania, Australia Even so, the statement all swans are white is testable by being falsifiable. For, if in testing many swans, the researcher finds a single black swan, then the statement all swans are white would…
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Space
Space is the boundless, three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction.[1] Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of the boundless four-dimensional continuum known as spacetime. In mathematics one examines ‘spaces’ with different numbers of…
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Triangle of Thoughts
