Millions hit by Google 'breakdown'

An apparent system error left millions of visitors to the site puzzled when links to all search results were flagged with the warning 'This site may harm your computer'. It is thought the site had erroneously identified all other websites - and some of its own pages - as containing malicious software or 'malware'.

One Twitterer, BradBrownDotCom, joked: "The Google outage frightened me like a schoolgirl, until I remembered an old technology called 'Yahoo'".

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Irak Love

I just yelled to say 'I love you'

Dozens of tongue-tied Japanese men met in a Tokyo park to shout messages of love to their wives. In a country where modesty and reticence are traditionally valued over outspokenness, expressing passion can be difficult. Every year like-minded men gather in Hibiya Park in central Tokyo to yell their affection.

Why Don’t Japanese Men Kiss Their Wives?

A dismal 0.56 daily kisses caused the show to state that it was an example of “Bad Nippon.”

Rocío Marquez

Rocío es Andalucía por los cuatro puntos cardinales. Cuando cierra sus preciosos ojos se produce una conexión con el duende que nos hace presenciar su gran ángel llenando de hermosura y frescor el espacio que domina mientras el espectador disfruta embelesado escuchando como La Estrella del Sur traza arabescos vocales y giros fantásticos que son pura orfebrería.

Rocío Márquez Limón, nació en Huelva el 29 de septiembre de 1985. Desde pequeña ya cantaba, pero es a la edad de 9 años cuando comienza a recibir clases de fandangos en la Peña Flamenca de Huelva. En este mismo año, gana el segundo premio de fandangos de Huelva, algo que le motiva para continuar aprendiendo. Paralelamente comienza sus estudios en el conservatorio, cursando hasta cuarto de grado Elemental...

Rocío Márquez, the new queen of mining cante, was born in Huelva (Andalusia) 22 years ago, she studied flamenco at the Fundación Cristina Heeren and Musical Education at the Universidad de Sevilla. She is the proud winner of different awards for her flamenco interpretations. Last year she won the Fosforito award in Calasparra and this year she received the Ciudad de Jumilla award...See Video

Fundación Thomas Merle

Organización No Gubernamental con sede en la ciudad de Carúpano, creada el 11 de octubre de 1993, un año después de la trágica desaparición física de Thomas Merle.

La Casa del Cable (Wire House)

Una de las cosas que llaman la atención de esta ciudad, es la casa del cable, donde llegó el primer cable submarino entre Europa y América, uniendo la ciudad francesa de Marsella con Carúpano, a finales del siglo XIX. Esta casa, hoy en día, sirve de sede a la Fundación Tomás Merle y del Proyecto Paria, dos de las obras más bellas que se realizan en el país y que han sido premiadas en el extranjero, por representar un modelo de crecimiento armónico entre el turismo, la industria, la naturaleza y la gente.

Quantum dreamin and optical illusions

Quantum consciousness, a phrase that sends most eggheads running for the hills, is currently on a roll. A coupla months back, Efstratios “Moussaka” Manousakis of Florida State University in Tallahassee published a paper suggesting that a certain kinda optical illusion could be explained in quantum terms.

Also, see the arXiv preprint The Quantum-Classical and Mind-Brain Linkages: The Quantum Zeno Effect in Binocular Rivalry by Henry P. Stapp.

Leonardo Da Vinci Cell Phone

“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (Britannica Forum: Your Brain Online)

In his cover article in the July/August issue of the The Atlantic Monthly (”Is Google Making Us Stupid?“), Nicholas Carr raises what for some will be an alarming prospect: that we may soon face the end of reading, the end of thinking, and the end of culture as we have known them for hundreds of years, thanks to the Internet and the dramatic ways in which it is reshaping the way we learn, interact, and express ourselves.

Nicholas Carr: All Hail the Information Triumvirate! (The Web, Google, and Wikipedia)

I was reading an interview today with Jorge Cauz, the president of Encyclopedia Britannica, in which he describes some of the Web 2.0-y tools that the company is preparing to roll out to enable readers to contribute to the encyclopedia’s content. (I’m on Britannica’s board of editorial advisors.) The interview touches, as you’d expect, on the great success that Wikipedia has achieved on the Web and, in particular, on its ever increasing dominance of Google search results. Cauz calls the tie between Wikipedia and Google “the most symbiotic relationship happening out there” - and I think he’s right.

Napping: the expert's guide

For years, napping ("siesta") has been derided as a sign of laziness. We are "caught" napping or "found asleep at the switch". But lately it has garnered new respect, thanks to scientific evidence that midday dozing benefits both mental acuity and overall health. A slew of recent studies have shown that naps boost alertness, creativity, mood, and productivity in the later hours of the day.Read more...

How a Surfer Dude Stunned the World of Science With the 'Theory of Everything'

A. Garrett Lisi

A laid-back surfer has just drawn up a new theory of the universe that is blowing the establishment’s socks off. His theory is seen by some as the “Holy Grail of physics”, and is earning rave reviews from distinguished scientists. In fact, his model appears to be the elusive overarching explanation to unite all the particles and forces of the cosmos, which has been the most baffling riddle of modern physics—stumping even Einstein. Read more...

ArXiv: 0711.0770 link: An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
A. Garrett Lisi ArXiv Search

Extraterrestrial Essentials For Life Confirmed

If you want to see the offspring of extraterrestrial interference in Earth evolution, you don't have to break into the X-files or start watching late night crazy-person public access. You could be looking at one in the mirror. Read more..

Caracas Morphosis 2.0.0.8

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"Star Trek" Creator And Wife To Spend Eternity In Space

The creator of "Star Trek" and his wife will spend eternity together in space. Celestis Inc., a company that specializes in "memorial spaceflights," said Monday that it will ship the remains of Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett Roddenberry into space next year.

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Octuplets Born In California (And Baby #8 Was A Surprise!)

A woman gave birth to eight babies in Southern California on Monday, the world's second live-born set of octuplets. Read more...

Google plans to make PCs history

Google is to launch a service that would enable users to access their personal computer from any internet connection, according to industry reports. But campaigners warn that it would give the online behemoth unprecedented control over individuals' personal data.

The Google Drive, or "GDrive", could kill off the desktop computer, which relies on a powerful hard drive. Instead a user's personal files and operating system could be stored on Google's own servers and accessed via the internet.

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New Catfish Species Climbs Rocks

bagre

El Bagre

A previously unknown species of climbing catfish has been discovered in remote Venezuela, and its strange traits are shaking the evolutionary tree for these fish. The newfound catfish, Lithogenes wahari, shares traits with two different families of fish — Loricariidae (armored catfishes) and Astroblepidae (climbing catfishes). It has bony armor that protects its head and tail, and a grasping pelvic fin that helps it to climb vertical surfaces such as rocks. These characteristics in L. wahari suggest to ichthyologists Scott Schaefer of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and Francisco Provenzano of the Universidad Central de Venezuela ...

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Logran medir un análogo clásico del efecto Casimir

El vacío no es la nada. El vacío tiene propiedades y éstas pueden ejercer su influencia. Si colocamos muy próximas dos placas metálicas en el vacío aparece una fuerza que tiende a juntarlas, es el efecto Casimir. En realidad este efecto es minúsculo, si no lo fuera sería incluso concebible extraer energía del vacío. Sin embargo este efecto puede resultar un engorro si estamos trabajando con dispositivos nanomecánicos. Una maquinaría cuyos componentes sean del orden del nanómetro puede atascarse debido a este tipo de efectos.

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¿Qué vio Galileo?

¿Fue la vista?

En opinión de algunos especialistas, los problemas de la vista de Galileo pueden haber contribuido a algunos de los errores en sus observaciones astronómicas. Entre esos errores se cuenta la creencia expresada en trabajos iniciales de que Saturno poseía dos satélites naturales y no era perfectamente redondo. Read more...

Tunneling Effect (Efecto Túnel)

http://physweb.bgu.ac.il/GROUPS/HIGHLIGHTS/ymeir1.html

Read more... Thanks to Mi Tribu Urbana Gracias a Mi Tribu Urbana

Carlo Beenakker: Physics of the Domino Effect

The Domino Effect is a classic example of a chain reaction: Toppling the first stone in a row of dominoes will bring down the entire row.

See domino effect video.

For the Quiz, which is broadcast on national television on Christmas Eve, I was asked to do the experiment and explain the outcome. My explanation was oversimplified, but the best I could do for a TV show. Hans van Leeuwen (my colleague) provided a much more rigorous analysis (see link at bottom).

Links: Carlo Beenakker Hans van Leeuwen van Leeuwen arXiv preprint

'El chip prodigioso' se hace realidad

La realidad ha vuelto a superar a la ficción. Quién iba a pensar que las historias que vimos en películas como Un viaje fantástico (1996) o El chip prodigioso (1987) podrían salir de la pantalla y saltar al mundo real. Pues así es. Un grupo de científicos australianos ha desarrollado un nanorobot con un diámetro de 250 nanómetros, o el espesor de 2 a 3 cabellos, potencialmente capaz de operar el cerebro. Read more...

Inside the Savant Mind: Tips for Thinking from an Extraordinary Thinker

You may never recite calculations like Rain Man, but you can still learn to improve cognitive performance with advice from this interview with a savan Read more...

Goodbye Mr. Bush - Play the Game

Play the Game ( from tamakum )

The Transistor

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Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain, the men behind the transistor, were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics. Today, transistors are found in virtually every electronic device. Play a Game

Alirio Diaz

Alirio Díaz nace en una familia musical, de orígenes modestos, y es el octavo de once hermanos. Con dieciséis años se muda a Carora donde concluye sus estudios primarios. Luego se muda a Trujillo donde aprende a tocar el saxofón y el clarinete, y entra a trabajar en la banda municipal que dirigía Laudelino Mejías, lo cual le permite estudiar la guitarra, y aprender el inglés y la tipografía. Con estas habilidades se muda a Caracas en 1945, donde estudia en la Escuela Superior de Música José Ángel Lamas, bajo la tutela de Raúl Borges.

Viaja a España en 1950 con una beca del gobierno venezolano y allí estudia en el Conservatorio de Madrid con Regino Sainz de la Maza. Un año después viaja a Siena, donde Andrés Segovia dictaba un curso de guitarra. Gracias a su excelente técnica y dedicación en tan sólo tres años se convierte en asistente y luego sustituto en los cursos de guitarra del maestro Segovia. A partir de ese momento inició sus actividades como concertista por toda Europa y el mundo.

Read more... en Wikipedia

Kate Moss

Kate Moss en Wikipedia

Sueldos

If you work at UCV this is for you.

Si trabajas en la UCV entérate de cuanto ganas.

Visita la página de Sueldos Sueldos That is the Sueldos web page

Darwin Office

(from lateralaction)

Gell-Mann Murray: What Is Complexity?

What is complexity? A great many quantities have been proposed as measures of something like complexity. In fact, a variety of different measures would be required to capture all our intuitive ideas about what is meant by complexity and by its opposite, simplicity.

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