Sex, math, and scientific achievement
Sex, math, and scientific achievement By Nat Torkington Scientific American have an interesting article about gender balance, bias, and abilities. The danger in talking about whether ability is...
View Articlepost-structuralistm and (formal) ontologies
post-structuralistm and (formal) ontologies – http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-dev/2008JanMar/0066.html I am looking for pointers for thinking about whether some ontological constructs,...
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Exhibition wiki for Worlds Away
Exhibition wiki for Worlds Away: “ In the research process for Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, Design Director and Curator Andrew Blauvelt uncovered many interesting words invented to describe...
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A Selection of Esoteric Programing Languages
A Selection of Esoteric Programing Languages: “ Write code that nobody is able to understand, but still does compute – that could be one of the ways to understand ‘Esoteric Programming Languages‘. It...
View ArticleInternet overhaul wins approval
A complete overhaul of the way in which people navigate the internet has been given the go-ahead in Paris. The net’s regulator, Icann, voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on so-called...
View ArticleThe mystery of the Swedish bookshop
Other countries have different defining genres. For Spain, it is swashbuckling action romps (from Don Quixote to Arturo Pérez Reverte’s Captain Alatriste). For Italy, it is intellectual games-playing...
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Alphabetic & Ideographic
Alphabetic & Ideographic Chair, Chaise, Stuhl, Sedia, Silla ” (via Cumulus.)
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Design in the real world
The English is clear enough to lorry drivers – but the Welsh reads “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.” When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a...
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