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• The Future of Big Data, Part 1

  

  Big Data is getting plenty of attention nowadays. Too much attention according to some pundits. In fact, some pundits believe that there is a Big Data bubble... Read more

  The 30 January 2013 by   Stephendeangelis
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• Guest Post: 50p

  

  As some of you might remember, towards the end of last year DrFreddy over at Synthetic Remarks offered out his services as a guest blogger to anyone... Read more

  The 29 January 2013 by   Brsm
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• What Are the 5 Or is It 6 Rodent Senses?

  

  Sight Taste Smell Touch Sound Kinesthetic Sense – they memorize their environment and can maneuver through it without looking. Information provided by Bell... Read more

  The 29 January 2013 by   Probestpest
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• Cave Art: A Creationist Hoax

  

  In 1879 Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola was conducting an archaeological excavation of the entrance to Altamira Cave, Spain. He’d just returned from a French... Read more

  The 28 January 2013 by   Reprieve
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• Novartis Gives Up On Nicotine Vaccine

  

  Another one bites the dust. Novartis, a leading health care products company, called it quits on its NIC002 nicotine vaccine project, which failed badly three... Read more

  The 27 January 2013 by   Dirkh
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• American Amazon Assault Force

  Greek Legend has it that the women Amazon warriors did cut their right breasts off to fight better and would go to any extent to achieve victory. Read more

  The 27 January 2013 by   Fadi Bejjani
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• Bees: How Intelligent is the Hive Mind?

  

  "Honey bees are fascinating creatures," writes Ben Coxworth. "They live harmoniously in large communities, divided into different castes, with some of the worke... Read more

  The 25 January 2013 by   Stephendeangelis
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• Depleted Uranium: Radioactive Poison of the Future War.

  

  Pakistan may use it against India in future. ByDr. Nitish Priyadarshi Recently I got the chance to see a film on uranium disaster. Film was based on the effect... Read more

  The 25 January 2013 by   Priyadarshi
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• Is Hefting to Perceive the Affordance for Throwing a Smart Perceptual Mechanism?

  

  In the last post, I reviewed Geoff's first paper looking at whether people can perceive the affordance for throwing an object to a maximum distance and a first... Read more

  The 24 January 2013 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Two Faces of Nature: Fibonacci and Fractal

  

  Leonardo Fibonacci is an italian mathematician born in Pisa (Leaning Tower) in the late 12th century. He was credited with spreading the Arabic numeral system i... Read more

  The 23 January 2013 by   Fadi Bejjani
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