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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...o 10 years, compared to worker ants which survive on average 50-150 days and up to 2 years in the tropics. Some ant varieties create no nests.... .... Yet, one of his more famous tableaux, Le Bateau (The Boat), hung upside down for 2 months in 1961 in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Not on... ...nd attained a discrepancy between the calendar and the natural solar year of merely 2.2 seconds per year. According to this calendar, the Spring... ... They were: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Another four - Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, an... ...ion. Secession was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court only in 1869 (in Texas vs. White) - four years after the Civil War ended. New Eng... ...a white mob lynched, in September 1862, forty four Union supporters in Gainesville, Texas. Similar events took place in Shelton Laurel, North Carol... ...owned by one, Edward Lloyd. The coffee house was situated on the Thames bank in Tower Street, close to all the maritime and shipping activities.... ...ntress (magician-witch) Morgan le Fay. Other refractive phenomena include looming, towering, sinking, stooping, etc. In looming an object below the... ... as late as 1687. A Venetian, Fausto Veranzino, leaped, using a parachute from a tower. Louis-Sébastien Lenormand jumped from a tree with two par...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...ges, Hebrew included. The problem, though, is not limited to the ivory towers. E-zines plagiarize. The print media plagiarize. Individual journal... ...fields and peer-reviewed. This ensures both objectivity and accuracy. 2. Accessibility - Huge amounts of material were assembled under one "roof"... ...rtunes of online reference vendors. But as long as the Internet - with its 2,000,000,000 (!) visible pages (and 5 times as many pages in its database... ...e or made rare. One way to "rarefy" content is to review and rate it. 2. Quality-rated Content There is a long term trend of clutter-breaking w... ...his: professors who tell me their students will not read paper textbooks, Texas preparing for all textbooks to be e-Books. . . . Q. PG is a prime ex... ... or DVD. Our target audience is the person on the street, not the ivory tower scholars, who all want to take over how our books should look, and n... ...l scholars and intellectuals left are on the retreat, back into the ivory towers of a century ago. Increasingly, their place is taken by self-taught ... ...ive Engine - Innovation and the Capitalist Dream Forgent Networks from Texas wants to collect a royalty every time someone compresses an image us...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...he more I have, for both are infinite. (William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2) Are we confronted merely with a bear market in stock... ...ed by mutual rubbishing and dogmatic thinking. The few that wander out of the ivory tower and actually bother to ask economic players what they thin... ...it depends on whom you ask. The European Central Bank maintains an annual target of 2 percent. Other central banks - the Bank of England, for instan... ... the Bank of England, for instance - proffer an "inflation band" of between 1.5 and 2.5 percent. The Fed has been known to tolerate inflation rates ... ...ve been no Microsoft or Intel. It would seem that both management gurus and ivory tower academics agree that innovation - technological and financ... ...onal (UPI) Also Read: The Disruptive Engine - Innovation Forgent Networks from Texas wants to collect a royalty every time someone compresses a...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...ree individuals. The Zapatistas movement in Mexico is an attempt to do just that. 2. Or, by creating voluntary, self-regulating organizations of f... ...rtue of two facts: (1) Both the brain and the computer are "thinking machines" and (2) the latter is the product of the former. Thus, the computer ... ...igin) and forward, simultaneously, in order to establish a feedback parity loop. 2. The neuron cannot be a binary (two state) machine (a quantum ... ...eroon, the Mangbetu in Central Africa, the Ache in Paraguay, the Tonkawa in today's Texas, the Calusa in current day Florida, the Caddo and Iroquois... ... immunology. The notion of laboriously using building blocks to construct an ebony tower of science is not supported by the history of human knowle... ...ve been no Microsoft or Intel. It would seem that both management gurus and ivory tower academics agree that innovation - technological and financ... ... to more information of superior quality or that he believed that his observations tower over the opinions of thousands of respondents and carry mo... ...western University and a former student of his, Wendy Wood, now a professor at the Texas A&M University: "Like (the evolutionary psychologists), Ea...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...ree individuals. The Zapatistas movement in Mexico is an attempt to do just that. 2. Or, by creating voluntary, self-regulating organizations of f... ...rtue of two facts: (1) Both the brain and the computer are "thinking machines" and (2) the latter is the product of the former. Thus, the computer ... ...igin) and forward, simultaneously, in order to establish a feedback parity loop. 2. The neuron cannot be a binary (two state) machine (a quantum ... ...eroon, the Mangbetu in Central Africa, the Ache in Paraguay, the Tonkawa in today's Texas, the Calusa in current day Florida, the Caddo and Iroquois... ... immunology. The notion of laboriously using building blocks to construct an ebony tower of science is not supported by the history of human knowle... ...ve been no Microsoft or Intel. It would seem that both management gurus and ivory tower academics agree that innovation - technological and financ... ... to more information of superior quality or that he believed that his observations tower over the opinions of thousands of respondents and carry mo... ...western University and a former student of his, Wendy Wood, now a professor at the Texas A&M University: "Like (the evolutionary psychologists), Ea...

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