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Category Archives: Articles
aNobii: virtual libraries and actual sales
This post was inspired by “ aNobii Library and copies sold“ (in Italian), by jumpinshark. I do also enjoy scraping various sites, aNobii included before they hired me:), and I think that looking from the outside one often has ideas that would otherwise … Continue reading
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Librerie virtuali di aNobii e vendite reali
Questo post è stato ispirato a “Libreria aNobii e copie vendute“, di jumpinshark. Anche io mi diverto a fare scraping di siti vari, aNobii incluso prima che ci finissi a lavorare:), e credo che guardando dall’esterno spesso si abbiano idee … Continue reading
Fantacalcio Bayesiano
Mi è stato detto che la chiave del fantacalcio (a cui non ho mai giocato) è quella di individuare quale calciatore effettivamente scenderà in campo la domenica. O si tira a caso, oppure ci si informa sulle varie testate sportive … Continue reading
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Google Friends etc….
With Google Friends, you “add social features to your site”. Whatever that means! GF is an application based on Opensocial . Opensocial is a standard for having the same application working on different social network sites. The simplest feature, for … Continue reading
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Tell me how you drink, I’ll tell you who you are
I have interviewed the CEO of a investment management firm. We were speaking about the need of investment in infrastructure (mainly water), and how good, or bad, the situation is around the world. And then he made a more specific … Continue reading
Water Fuel Car Scam –again?!
If you (as I did) thought that only Fox news reached the lowest level of journalism in claiming that a car can use “just” water as a fuel…. well, you (we) were wrong. Even REUTERS has decided to spread the … Continue reading
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Fox News and Water Fuel Cars
And someone says Physics is not important. And someone thinks journalists should be competent. Please note, the video below is something like a scam. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/6Rb_rDkwGnU" width="425" height="344"/] Nowadays, there is a silly competition in offering green solutions. General Motors, … Continue reading
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Mirror Neurons
In 1992, three Italian researchers from Parma, Italy, were studying the motor cortex of monkeys’ brains – a region that until then was supposed to deal exclusively with movement. Through electrodes implanted in the brain, they could “see” neurons firing … Continue reading
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Virtual water: impossible reality in Yemen
While Yemen suffers from grave water shortages, specialists and officials keep on warning that the country ’s water supply relies on limited groundwater. Only 125 cubic meters are available annually per capita, and the groundwater has been polluted and heavily … Continue reading
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Water in California – US and Mexico
The US made a desalination plant in Yuma, Arizona, where the Colorado River leaves the US to enter Mexico. The US uses 90% of the water of the basin of the river, and leaves 10% to Mexico. The problem is, … Continue reading