Thursday, January 19, 2012
Google+
Google's social-network challenger to Facebook:
Google+
Google Circles are groups of friends you organize by topic: Friends, Family, College Buddies, Roommates, etc. From your Circles page you drag and drop your contacts into each of these groups, which makes it easier to share what you want with them. Read more here.
Google+
Google Circles are groups of friends you organize by topic: Friends, Family, College Buddies, Roommates, etc. From your Circles page you drag and drop your contacts into each of these groups, which makes it easier to share what you want with them. Read more here.
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Neurosynaptic Computing Chips
A new generation of experimental computer chips designed to emulate the brain’s abilities for perception, action and cognition by IBM unveiled in August 2011:
Neurosynaptic Computing Chips [for more information check IBM's website at: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35251.wss]
Neurosynaptic Computing Chips [for more information check IBM's website at: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35251.wss]
Gelotology
The study of humor and laughter and its effects on the body from a psychological and physiological perspective:
Gelotology
Gelotology
Coordinated Universal Time
The primary time standard by which the world (computer servers, web services, etc.) regulates clocks and time:
Coordinated Universal Time (it is abbreviated as UTC)
Coordinated Universal Time (it is abbreviated as UTC)
Biofortification
A method of breeding crops to increase their nutritional value through conventional selective breeding, or through genetic engineering:
Biofortification
Biofortification differs from fortification as it makes plant foods more nutritious as the plants are growing, rather than having nutrients added to the foods when they are being processed.
Biofortification
Biofortification differs from fortification as it makes plant foods more nutritious as the plants are growing, rather than having nutrients added to the foods when they are being processed.
Edgar Allan Poe
American author, poet, editor and literary critic, best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre; he was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre:
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Macabre
The quality of having a grim or ghastly atmosphere in works of art which emphasizes the details and symbols of death:
Macabre
This quality is often found in Latin writers, though there are traces of it in Apuleius and the author of the Satyricon. The outstanding instances in English literature are John Webster, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mervyn Peake, Charles Dickens, and Cyril Tourneur. In American literature notable authors include Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. The word has gained its significance from its use in French as la danse macabre for the allegorical representation of the ever-present and universal power of death, known in English as the Dance of Death and in German as Totentanz. The typical form which the allegory takes is that of a series of images in which Death appears, either as a dancing skeleton or as a shrunken shrouded corpse, to people representing every age and condition of life, and leads them all in a dance to the grave. Of the numerous examples painted or sculptured on the walls of cloisters or church yards through medieval Europe, few remain except in woodcuts and engravings [read more here].
Macabre
This quality is often found in Latin writers, though there are traces of it in Apuleius and the author of the Satyricon. The outstanding instances in English literature are John Webster, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mervyn Peake, Charles Dickens, and Cyril Tourneur. In American literature notable authors include Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. The word has gained its significance from its use in French as la danse macabre for the allegorical representation of the ever-present and universal power of death, known in English as the Dance of Death and in German as Totentanz. The typical form which the allegory takes is that of a series of images in which Death appears, either as a dancing skeleton or as a shrunken shrouded corpse, to people representing every age and condition of life, and leads them all in a dance to the grave. Of the numerous examples painted or sculptured on the walls of cloisters or church yards through medieval Europe, few remain except in woodcuts and engravings [read more here].
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