From the monthly archives:
Charles Stross is a well known writer. He writes from science fiction to fantasy. Now he has written an excellent blog post human colonization on other star systems is impossible:
Historically, crossing oceans and setting up farmsteads on new lands conveniently stripped of indigenous inhabitants by disease has been a cost-effective proposition. But the scale factor [...]
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HTML has been in continuous evolution since it was introduced to the Internet in the early 1990’s. Some features were introduced in specifications; others were introduced in software releases. In some respects, implementations and author practices have converged with each other and with specifications and standards, but in other ways, they continue to diverge.
HTML4 became [...]
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Wow, this tutorial is pretty simple. I was looking for something like this for my small project. This CSS code gives the same effect as with a JavaScript rollover except users dont need JavaScript and you only have to load a single image.
I really hate having to use JavaScript for image rollovers as it seems [...]
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Describes the scientific causes – why does it rain so frequently in the rainforests around the world?
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Apple has launched a version of its web browser Safari for Windows, competing head to head with Microsoft’s Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox.
According to Apple’s website:
The fastest web browser on any platform, Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. And it executes [...]
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A talking paper made by scientists that can speak to you and has been created.
One interesting idea would be to use it on cigarette packaging, so instead of having a written message warning you of danger to your health, you would have a spoken one.
The prototype display uses conductive inks, which are sensitive to [...]
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Cold can relieve pain and reduce inflammation says the new study findings. Protein senses cold Single receptor responds to cold and menthol:
Three papers, two published recently in Neuron and the third in this week’s issue of Nature, have shown that mice rely on a single protein, called TRPM8, to sense both cold temperatures and menthol, [...]
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A little history about modern mobile phone and its inventor Dr. Martin Cooper.
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