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Tag Archives: article
Ending a dammed nuisance – Underwater Free Flow Turbines
Written for The Economist, March 8TH – 14TH 2008, Technology Quarterly section. A new generation of free-standing turbines will liberate hydroelectricity from its dependence on dams? read more | digg story
Social lending e credito alle piccole e medie imprese
(pubblicato su ventiquattro, magazine de Il Sole 24 Ore, dicembre 2006) Trentamila euro per lanciare la sua piccola impresa. Emma Hackforth era sicura di avere le carte in regola: titoli di studio, esperienza di lavoro, una casa che potesse garantire … Continue reading
The massacre of Erba and Italian media
When three members of a family where stabbed to death, and so were two other people in the house, the Italian press smelled the blood and slung itself on to it. Nobody thought the massacre could have generated another horrible … Continue reading
Il massacro di Erba e il massacro dell’informazione in Italia
Lunedi` 18 giugno (domani) Canale 5 trasmettera` una docufiction sul massacro di Erba. Quando tre membri di una famiglia furono pugnalate, e lo stesso per altre due persone casualmente in casa, la stampa italiana si lancio` subito sul caso. Pochi … Continue reading
(Google) trends of Mathematics
The Financial Times published a nice comments about James Simons (available here for free). Sixty year old, Mr Simons is a mathematician who is “the most successful hedge fund manager ever.” His hedge fund group (Renaissance Technology) has a name … Continue reading
Nessun ultimo viaggio, muore Kapuscinsky
E` morto anche Ryszard Kapuscinski. Anche, come tutti quei miti che avresti voluto incontrare una volta nella tua vita, e invece ritornano alla terra. Qualcuno che la terra l’ha vissuta, questa volta. Ho letto Ebano nel 2001, regalato da un … Continue reading
Guerra al terrore? E` solo un gioco di menzogne e tradimenti….
Un nuovo gioco di societa`, “The War on Terror”, ironizza sulla guerra al terrorismo, e subito gli alfieri della decenza levano le loro armi in nome del buongusto, ma poco importa: qualcuno e` riuscito a far satira in maniera nuova. … Continue reading
ePassport: fees and security issues
Your electronic passport is not safe from the person behind you at the ticket counter. Adam Laurie, a computer programmer from Kent, has released a programme that allows anyone with the book-sized electronic reader device to steal information contained in … Continue reading
Ricchezza e povertà
Il 2% piu` ricco del mondo possiede il 50% delle ricchezze. Non e` una grande novita`, ma il World Institute for Development Economic Research (WIDER) ha deciso di investire un anno di ricerca per avere un quadro piu` dettagliato della … Continue reading
Polonium Lethal Dose
I thought this calculation of the lethal dose of Polonium could be interesting (I did not find it anywhere, but maybe it’s just me). Today the BBC published a nice article, but does not explain how a lethal dose can … Continue reading