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Norm Goldblatt at Wonderfest.org hosted by fora.tv

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That's why I am fascinated by Physics when I was young and why I am still fascinated by Physics some 50 years later. If looking at mother earth from one of Saturn's moon is not exciting enough, watch how science figure out the black hole at the center of our own galaxy.

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When we refer to knowing something, we usually mean know-how and know-what. These are knowledge that get things done. Let's taking cooking curry as an example. The know-how is the recipe, the method of preparation, the know-what is the knowledge of the right combination of different types of spices to make the dish.However, there are some useful know-x too. If I know someone who can make a good

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This will be a very fun way to learn some Science:

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In the book, we talked about different types of rules:Rules of normal social behaviour Rules of physicsRules of engagement within the online role playRules defining structure and process of online role playSocial rules are guides and may be broken. Here is a good example when it should. From the angle of corporate training, what has gone wrong in the case of Qantas? Does Qantas actually know

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I have Sony's PRS 505 for a while now and really enjoy reading with it. BUT I still want one with a larger display, color and ...My mind was set on Kindle DX, unfortunately, it is not available outside USA and is black and white only. It seems that there will be more choices when DX become available here. I am happy to wait.Slashgear reports that Qualcomm mirasol color video ebook readers to

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Sandra Wills, Elyssebeth Leigh and I are writing a book on Role-based e-learning to be published by Routledge in the coming June/August. In one of the chapter, I have updated my model on the various dimensions a moderator plays in role play simulation. Previous, I have 5 dimensions:Administrator Guardian Angel Resident Resource Manipulative Devil Improvising Storyteller The new dimension is

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MICROSOFT has held talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp over a possible plan for the software giant to pay the media company to remove its news websites from Google. [source]The source cited the biggest beneficiary to be the newspaper. I do not agree. In fact, it will spell the end of news paper.News are everywhere, news agencies competing against each other, bloggers "reporting" live and new

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I don't know what I can say about this.I know that a child will develop its intonation at the early age and will be very difficult to change later in life. I myself is a good example of speaking broken Cantonese-toned English. I also know that a child can simultaneously master several different languages almost effortlessly at the early years. However, is it best for the child to teach her a

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This Taiwanese student earns his school fee by typing. Only $40 Taiwan dollar (US$1.24) per 1000 words. But he can so 137 words per minute.This girl does 616 words in 1 min. 11.03 sec, averaging at 520.2 words per minutes.

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What about 0.3 sec? The following video shows a 5-year in Taiwan using all his 10 fingers.

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On online discussion:“Tell Your Story” encourages posters to share their perspective on a topic and avoid assuming they can know or can represent the perspective or thinking of others. For millennia, humans have learned through sharing stories. We’re wired that way. Telling my own story keeps me anchored in real events, emotions, intentions, and outcomes without second guessing the emotions or

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The answer is this is a fan. Watch James Dyson's explanation:also posted at Sustaining Future

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The initial comments at slashdots focuses on the accuracy of the data and soon shifted to speculation of the causes. In his book Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcom Gladwell writes about the birth month of players in the Ontario Junior Hockey League. More players were born in January than in any other month. Why? Read Chapter 1 of the book.Want to know the answer now? The explanation for

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While I have not given sufficient thinking on the implication of "The Petabyte Age" to have proper comment, I want to point out my underlying stance for scientific theory.Science focuses on repeatable observable events. We throw a stone up, it falls back down. Do it again, it falls again. So, we try to *understand* a collection of similar events (throwing the stone up, forward etc) by proposing

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Does Random Acts of Kindness still exist?

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Online Sexual Exploitation

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According to PCMag, two Kindle users – one of them a high school student – have filed a class-action lawsuit against Amazon after the company remotely deleted copies of George Orwell's "1984" from their e-readers ... for breach of contract, intentional interference with their belongings, as well as violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Washington Consumer Protection Act.In this

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In the original post, I thought Amazon only deleted the archived copies. It turned out that those copies on customers' Kindles were also deleted remotely. That is a complete new can of worms!Let's suppose I have bought a copy of 1984 on my Kindle and have backed it up on a local offline storage. Will the copy, I later put back on Kindle, automatically disappear as well?I was thinking of

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New York Times posted a story about "Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers".Apparently, the publisher has changed its mind after selling some electronic edition of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm and decided to take back the electronic copy and refund the customers.This causes a few questions:1. Is

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How can you design a parabola which can focus sunlight at the focus at different time of the day without tracking?Here is the answer:And a mould for creating the compound parabolic solar cookers

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Today on Australian Seven's "Deal or No deal", it is a classic probability case.In the last round, the contestant was left with his and his daughter's cases to open. The board has $4000 and 50cents. The host has been playing up for a mega-guess which would be $10,000. The bank offers $2020, should he accept it? (Answer in white below. Highlight to cheat and see my answer.)No. We can do much

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One of my complain of the eBook reader is its display size. They are mostly 6" display, fitting a typical letter size or A4 size document to such a screen means displaying the document in 30% - which is very demanding on the eyes.Other larger format eBook readers are prohibitively expensive. Amazon's Kindle DX is like a fresh air in this dull market. Is there any cause of excitement for

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Thisor thisEastern vs Western. You choose!

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