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ibmconsulting: New water-based organic battery is cheap, rechargeable and eco-friendly David Szondy, gizmag.com Lithium-ion batteries have made portable, rechargeable electronics commonplace. Unfortunately, they do have some glaring drawbacks, including heat issues, being made with rare, toxic elements, and the fact the technology doesn’t scale up very well…
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Director Alex Rivera’s ‘Sleep Dealer’ Rises Again
Director Alex Rivera’s ‘Sleep Dealer’ Rises Again jonnyskov: Director Alex Rivera’s Dystopian Sci-Fi Film ‘Sleep Dealer’ Gets A Digital Re-Release Via Sundance Institute Artist Services. Director Alex Rivera ‘s dystopian A friend of mine and I saw this recently. The basic premise is a future where migrant workers stay in Mexico and do work in…
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The specific purpose of this post–perhaps I should have begun with the thesis–is to say something about both games and schools. In addition, I’d like to express a general message about the way we transmit values to the next generation. Are we doing it with intention? Do we take the time to think about the…
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Some OLLU majors up for elimination gain second life – San Antonio Express-News
Some OLLU majors up for elimination gain second life – San Antonio Express-News Small, private, non-profit university in San Antonio, Texas, to downgrade philosophy to a minor, to rework art, english, and spanish majors along vocational lines. Almost eliminated all four.
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Instructors fired, classes canceled, students kicked off campus at Anamarc College – KFOX – El Paso Top Stories – Breaking News, Weather, and Traffic
Instructors fired, classes canceled, students kicked off campus at Anamarc College – KFOX – El Paso Top Stories – Breaking News, Weather, and Traffic Private, for profit, vocational school in El Paso, Texas, closes abruptly. Will not issue transcripts. Dismisses faculty.
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futurescope: Beyond Blood – Emotional attachment and inheritance by algorithm ‘Beyond Blood’ imagines a legal system where algorithms take over the inheritance process during intestacy situations where the deceased has not left a will and the state has to distribute the estates. In his book Shaping Things, science fiction writer Bruce Sterling predicts that in…
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sebastiansdrawings: How to draw a sphere.
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sebastiansdrawings: Updated version of a previous cheat sheet. Made with Paper
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Late Twitter
warrenellis: Morning, Computer: Late Twitter – It’s a pity that I’ve been able to feel Twitter slow down and grow less porous over the last year — before I could have it running at its peak on multiple screens. That, I fantasised, would be a marvellous way to detect the future leaking into the present.…
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As Cheshire noted in his original documentation for the game, “Bolo is the Hindi word for communication. Bolo is about computers communicating on the network, and more important about humans communicating with each other (via Bolo (1987 video game) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)