The Archdriud Report: “The orbiters are silent now, waiting for the last awkward journey that will take them to the museums that will warehouse the grandest of our civilization’s failed dreams. There will be no countdown, no pillar of flame to punch them through the atmosphere and send them whipping around the planet at orbital [...]
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The Atlantic: “Mysterious and possibly nefarious trading algorithms are operating every minute of every day in the nation’s stock exchanges. What they do doesn’t show up in Google Finance, let alone in the pages of the Wall Street Journal. No one really knows how they operate or why. … ‘They are moving the high-frequency services [...]
Wikipedia: “The fable is also known by the name of other characters such as Chicken Licken or Chicken Little (USA), and by the phrase ‘The sky is falling’ that occurs there. It is an old cumulative tale about a chicken who believes the world is coming to an end. The phrase ‘The sky is falling’ [...]
Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad: It takes a ten-dollar shoe to fit my feet… Your two-dollar shoe hurts my feet… I’m blowin’ down this old dusty road…
arXiv: “Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) uses a rapidly changing magnetic field that is powerful enough to induce currents in neurons in the brain. Focus the field in the visual cortex and the induced eddys cause the subject to ‘see’ lights that appear as discs and lines. Move the the field within the cortex and the [...]
traveling to, situated on, or living on the other side of mountains. archaic (esp. from the Italian point of view): foreign; barbarous. 1 another term for tramontana (a cold north wind blowing in Italy or the adjoining regions of the Adriatic and Mediterranean.) 2 archaic a person who lives on the other side of mountains [...]
ISR – Rorschach: “The International Society of the Rorschach and Projective Methods (ISR) was founded on September 13, 1952, in Bern (Switzerland) by the Assembly of Delegates to the Second International Congress of the Rorschach. The idea had been launched in 1949 during the First International Rorschach Meeting. “
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