Archive for 'General'
Migration vs Immigration vs Emigration
Ok, It’s just my native tongue but listening to the BBC this morning coming to work I was struck by people using these terms (and the noun forms for the participants) seemingly interchangeably! So what is the difference? Webster’s New World Dictionary (2nd College Ed.) says of migration ” to move from one place to […]
Posted: January 4th, 2007 under General.
Tags: bbc, wikipedia
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Galatea 2.2
I have been catching up on back issues of Wired Magazine recently and came across this notice of Richard Powers’ new book “The Echo Maker”. The description sounded interesting. I researched Capgras syndrome and found that indeed it is real psychological disorder. However, rather than jump right into his current book I looked around at […]
Posted: January 3rd, 2007 under General.
Tags: book, brain, science_fiction, Wired_magazine
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SPLOGS – Interesting Wired Mag article
SPLOGS are an exponentially increasing threat to the blogsphere. Here is an interesting article from Wired magazine
Posted: January 3rd, 2007 under General.
Tags: blogshere, spam, spammers, Wired_magazine
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