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Meade Instruments Corporation - Meade Customer Support: "Meade Autostar Supplementary Software Downloads"

Paul Nitze - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Paul Henry Nitze (January 16, 1907 – October 19, 2004) was a high-ranking United States government official who helped shape Cold War defense policy over the course of numerous presidential administrations."

Herman Kahn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Herman Kahn (February 15, 1922 – July 7, 1983) was one of the preeminent futurists of the latter third of the twentieth century. In the early 1970s he predicted the rise of Japan as a major world power. He was a founder of the Hudson Institute think tank and originally came to prominence as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at RAND Corporation, USA. He was known for analyzing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability.

His theories contributed to the development of the nuclear strategy of the United States."

Welcome To Popcorn Hour: "With Popcorn Hour you can stream or playback digital media content from a variety of sources, such as your PC, network-attached storage, digital camera or USB storage (Flash drive, HDD, DVD drive). Popcorn Hour also makes it easy to download and stream content directly from popular Internet sites like SHOUTcast™ Radio, Blip.tv, Revision 3 and dozens of other online content sources*. Popcorn Hour even has a built-in download utility, eliminating the need to rely on your PC to download files from the Internet."

Men's skincare and shaving: "50 STYLE THOUGHTS"

Pacific Northwest Earthquakes Could Strike Closer to Home | Wired Science | Wired.com: "Major earthquakes occurring along the Cascadia subduction zone off the coast of Washington state could strike closer to the state’s urban areas than some models have suggested, a new study notes."

Penn Gazette | Essays | Notes from the Undergrad: "Yawn: It’s one of the best things you can do for your brain."

Notes and Recommendations for 16 December 1998: "That's not all. War, on these guys' conception, is now conducted in every aspect of society. Foreign manipulation of the content of American news media, for example, is 'cultural war'. Taken all together, the result is -- and this is their term -- 'total war'. You might have thought that the Soviet Union had fallen, that the United States was by far the greatest military power on earth, that the heavy cloud of the Cold War had lifted, and that it was time for the United States to stand down from its total mobilization, disband the national security state, end the culture of secrecy, reshape the military in some reasonable proportion to its plausible adversaries, and get to work on the rest of society's problems. You might think all of that, but you would be wrong. In the world of the Internet, it would seem, things have only gotten worse. We are now in a world of permanent, total, omnipresent, pervasive war. Cold War plus plus: all war, all the time. They said this."

Rat Made Supersmart -- Similar Boost Unsafe in Humans?: "The lab rat can remember objects three times longer than her smartest kin, the study says. Thanks largely to this memory boost, she's also much better at solving complex tasks, such as traveling through mazes using only partial clues to find rewards—a key method for measuring rat intelligence."

nagash: 1491: "Terra preta, Woods guesses, covers at least 10 percent of Amazonia, an area the size of France. It has amazing properties, he says. Tropical rain doesn't leach nutrients from terra preta fields; instead the soil, so to speak, fights back. Not far from Painted Rock Cave is a 300-acre area with a two-foot layer of terra preta quarried by locals for potting soil."

ASPM (Gene) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "A new allele (version) of ASPM appeared sometime between 14,100 and 500 years ago with a mean estimate of 5,800 years ago. The new allele has a frequency of about 50% in populations of the Middle East and Europe, it is less frequent in East Asia, and has low frequencies among Sub-Saharan African populations.[4] It is also found with an unusually high percentage among the peoples of Papua New Guinea, with a 59.4% occurrence.[5]"

Technology Review: TR35: "A children’s toy inspires a cheap, easy production method for high-tech diagnostic chips"

EnGarde Secure Linux :: About EnGarde: "The Community Edition of EnGarde Secure Linux was designed to support features suitable for individuals, students, security enthusiasts, and those wishing to evaluate the level of security and ease of management available in Guardian Digital enterprise products. Its development is very much driven by not only the requests from the community, but also their continued participation."

Brother News Release: "Brother Develops Mobile Spectacle-type Wearable Retinal Imaging Display"

What type of math is needed to understand the universe? : science: "Okay. To get any meaningful experience out of studying physics, you must know calculus. You need to understand multivariable calculus along with vector calculus. Next, you should have a look at some matrix algebra, including systems of equations and eigen-stuff. Physics is all about expansions in terms of eigenfunctions. Next, get to know about tensors and higher-rank forms. Study classical field theory; after you've mastered this, you should quantize it to explore physics at the quantum level. Quantum field theory is the key to understanding theoretical physics under the umbrella of the Standard Model. At the most basic level, the laws of physics (particles and their interactions) are governed by what's known as group theory. In fact, the Standard Model is an instance of the SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) group. I'm no expert in the most detailed technicalities, but string theory is also heavily laden with group theoretical structures.

Other topics you'll need to know: Green's functions and differential equations, and about 7 years worth of non-fundamental physics.

It takes a long time to get to know about this field. If you're genuinely interested in understanding, you should explore the physics degree options at a university. Popular science books will only get you...well, nowhere."

Revolution Games - revolution: "Beneath a Steel Sky"

Functional Geometry: "Peter Henderson wrote an article about a method to describe pictures with functional programs. I've implemented it in Lisp. An updated version of the article uses curves and different shapes and has some references to other applications for this method, like 'An Algebra of Music'."

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