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POPSShow me your team face Judith Donath from the MIT social media group explores the implications of using software to provide appropriate body language for online avatars.
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POPSFirst Online EMBL PhD Symposium The First Online EMBL PhD Symposium is a bold experiment in online collaboration. Why have a conference tied to a geographical location when your effort is global? Ok, besides getting drunk together, why have a fixed location? EMBL is trying to see if you can hob nobs and find out about the latest news in a purely virtual environment (probably second life and/or a wiki setting) and push the science forward.
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POPSSoviet Era Posters A fascinating (to me) peek into the Soviet world, via posters. History for sure, but not so very long ago
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POPS25 Greatest Science Books of All Time The Origin of Species (1859) Darwin's masterwork is, undeniably, The Origin of Species , in which he introduced his theory of evolution by natural selection. Prior to its publication, the prevailing view was that each species had existed in its current form since the moment of divine creation and that humans were a privileged form of life, above and apart from nature. Darwin's theory knocked us from that pedestal. Wary of a religious backlash, he kept his ideas secret for almost two decades while bolstering them with additional observations and experiments. The result is an avalanche of detail—there seems to be no species he did not contemplate—thankfully delivered in accessible, conversational prose. A century and a half later, Darwin's paean to evolution still begs to be heard: "There is grandeur in this view of life," he wrote, that "from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
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POPS14 free vertical CSS menus Sometimes it's better not to bother reinventing the wheel. :) Here's some great CSS menu designs to give a solid navigation element to your site using only ul and li in the html.
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POPSMSN buys Firefox Picked this one up from www.donationcoder.com Thanks again Carol! Watched one of the videos, pretty cool!
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POPSNew Robot Shrugs Off Injury "It looks like a four-armed starfish, but so far it's unaware of its own shape. After flailing its arms for a while, however, the robot gets a sense of its design and begins to walk. The real feat comes when engineers remove a part of its leg: The robot senses a change in its structure and begins walking in a different way to compensate. The demonstration is the first proof that a robot can generate a conception of itself and then adapt to damage, a handy skill to have in unpredictable environments."
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POPSReverse Dictionary I've had many many many moments when I can't remember a word....I still haven't tried out this site though....I just thought it was interesting that someone actually finally came up with it...
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POPSFor Invictus: V Meets The Secret Service Funny, weird, stupid, and crazy. That's one ugly V mask. I wish he used yours, Invictus. Read the rest of the article here and watch the streaming video here (256k cable) and here (56k dial-up) .
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POPS(video)Samsung's Machine gun sentry robot You saw them on Aliens, you fought and used them in HalfLife2. Now for $200,000 you'll be able to buy a samsung sentry gun that shoots 5.56mm bullets at anybody foolish enough to be detected by its daylight or IR camera. hattip to david crane http://www.defensereview.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=950
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