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Dec 1, 2009, 10:52 am
Triangle Transit is trying out a new program to offer passengers wireless internet access while riding a select few of the regional bus system’s routes.
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Nov 30, 2009, 1:33 pm
A visualization of the decline of western European empires. Things get interesting around the 1960s.
Visualizing empires decline from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo. Comment - Like
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Nov 22, 2009, 10:36 pm
by Sir Patrick Bateson
The use of hounds in hunting excites great passions. Hunting deer is particularly hated by those who are opposed to it and ardently loved by those who support it. If you wept... Comment - Like
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Nov 22, 2009, 2:23 pm
what were you thinking wearing white?
didn’t you know that you might look like a deer’s throat?
nevermind that you walk upright and study chemistry.
That afternoon, Jason D. Cloutier, 31, ... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2009, 9:56 pm
Last August (meaning 2008), my PowerBook’s screen started to flicker. It usually did this when the laptop was booting up or when waking up from sleep mode. I associated the flicker with the su... Comment - Like
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Nov 9, 2009, 7:03 am
by Alex Rosenberg
This is a précis of an argument that naturalism forces upon us a very disillusioned “take” on reality. It is one that most naturalists have sought to avoid, or at least qualify... Comment - Like
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Nov 8, 2009, 6:21 pm
Not everyplace needs to look like Times Square. Let New York be New York and Durham be Durham.
This is it. The billboard industry has submitted their proposal requesting to change Durham’s curre... Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2009, 10:05 am
Clients and friends of nicomedia,
As many of you know, I started the website and digital media design company nicomedia to specialize in cultivating an internet presence for small businesses, non-pro... Comment - Like
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Oct 25, 2009, 10:51 pm
by William G. Lycan
Abstracted from ‘Qualitative experience in machines,’ The Digital Phoenix: How computers are changing philosophy.
1. Many people, perhaps most people, have the idea that... Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2009, 6:25 am
by Dan Batson
We humans spend a remarkable amount of time, money, and energy to benefit others, including family, friends, and strangers. Why do we do it? Do we ever care about others for their sakes... Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2009, 8:34 am
by Raymond Tallis
Does evolution explain our behaviour? The short answer is: No. And you may well concur with that answer but ‘out there’ there is an increasing constituency of thinkers claiming ... Comment - Like
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Aug 31, 2009, 1:28 pm
... prey. Such traditions are transmitted across generations so that researchers in the new sub-discipline of “Primate Archeology” (Haslam ... a supportive kinswomen like a grandmother ... Comment - Like
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Aug 28, 2009, 12:57 pm
Apparently Obama was riding along a Martha’s Vineyard trail with no helmet, and the bare-headed ride was caught by a photographer. Not a very good example to set…
No-helmet Obama
LetR... Comment - Like
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Aug 24, 2009, 11:59 am
Periodically, the editors of On the Human will share links to current research and news concerning topics relevant to this website and the discussions that take place here. Today is our first installm... Comment - Like
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Aug 11, 2009, 3:35 pm
Hmmm. Should I get a recumbent or an upright bike? If the ZWEISTIL makes it into production, you won’t have to choose. The bike demonstrated in the following video is an entrant in this yearR... Comment - Like
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Aug 4, 2009, 12:44 pm
by: Timothy Lenoir
Most researchers agree that there is no reason in principle why we will not eventually develop conscious machines that rival or surpass human intelligence. If we are crossing to a... Comment - Like
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Jul 27, 2009, 12:49 pm
I got a call last week from my mom who wanted advice about bikes. Be still my beating heart! My folks, riding bikes!
Over the weekend, I received this cell phone pic… a new Trek Pure (lime green... Comment - Like
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Jul 23, 2009, 12:03 pm
One of nicomedia’s newest clients is Kenneth Lewis for US Senate, Inc. Kenneth Lewis is a Triangle-based lawyer who’s running for the US Senate. For this Democratic contender for the Senat... Comment - Like
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Jul 22, 2009, 7:16 am
by Joseph Tabbi
In a panel discussion at the 1998 “Bookends” conference at SUNY Albany, Jacques Derrida spoke of Internet initiatives under way by his younger colleagues in France at the time. Th... Comment - Like
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