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The Trick

30 Mar 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Fatharach

  The Trick We stopped calling demons demons started calling them disease We stopped calling heathens heathens, started respecting beliefs Higher knowledge for lower logos, Lesser fear surrendered freedom We understood without knowing, then we learne...

The biggest existing diamond is... a STAR!

30 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86

It's called BPM37093 and it's located in Centaurus constellation The scientist nicknamed it as "Lucy", as the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky of Diamonds", but it has nothing to do with the English band or the primitive woman found in Ethiopia. Lucy, o...

Web Ontologies. Standards and Formats for Linked-Data and the Semantic Web: RDF (Resource Description Framework), OWL (Web Ontology Language), JSON-LD, etc. [relevant to Solid, Holo and others]

27 Mar 2020 5 minute read 0 comments rhyzom

Already mentioned Tim Berners-Lee's latest project (Solid) in a previous recent post. And as pointed out, Linked-Data and the concept of the Semantic Web are at the core of the concept. Basically it is an extension and advancing of the idea of intero...

Foldit: A Game that Helps Predict How Proteins Fold

26 Mar 2020 2 minute read 2 comments orbithunter

What is Foldit? Foldit is a citizen science computer game that lets players predict and design the structure of proteins. This is also commonly known as Protein Folding. Knowing the structure of a protein, or the way the protein will fold is import...

Selection of Marshall McLuhan quotes (highly recommended to have a quick glance through...)

23 Mar 2020 10 minute read 0 comments rhyzom

I was recently looking for a few McLuhan quotes for a piece I'm doing and since I haven't read/re-read McLuhan in ages I had forgotten just how much more powerful and relevant he gets as time goes by. So, decided to share what I picked and saved (muc...

Corona: A Reaper Or A Wake-Up Call?

22 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments jasonholt

Over the last few months, the world has come to a standstill due to the CoronaVirus outbreak, which is threating life and spreading faster than anything in recent history. It's a sensitive subject to talk about, especially when there's a lot of misin...

Amethyst

21 Mar 2020 2 minute read 0 comments dexpartacus

During my mountains excursions or wherever I can find stones, if I like their shape or colors, I take it with me at home. I used to do it especially when I was a kid and I'd find my bedroom shelves full of all kinds of stones, after a while I'd sele...

The Impact of Second-generation Cryptocurrencies on Banking

20 Mar 2020 6 minute read 0 comments GGori

By Giuseppe Gori, CEO, Gorbyte.com   Since the advent of Bitcoin, over ten years ago, the cryptocurrency market has been very active, but mostly speculative. Many new currencies have been created, but not much has changed in their basic conception. S...

A step forward against COVID-19 (part 2)

20 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments 10 minutes

The start of tests of developed vaccines to combat the coronavirus. The Federal Oversight Service for the Protection of Consumer Rights and WelfareHuman from Russia (Rospotrebnadzor) announced this Friday the start of tests of a prototype vaccine aga...

A step forward against COVID-19

19 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments 10 minutes

The Chinese Defense Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that it had "successfully" developed a vaccine against the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19 pneumonia, and has authorized human tests, although the text he did not specify w...