Avevo da tempo in casa una versione di Alice in Wonderland annotata da Martin Gardner, famoso editor della colonna di giochi matematici di Scientific American.
Sono al capitolo VI ("Pig and Pepper"), dove Alice chiede al Cheshire Cat:
more ..."Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from …
Il 29 agosto 2009 il New York Times pubblica un articolo di Amy Cortese, "Wiggling Their Toes at the Shoe Giants".
Il 31 agosto sul sito della Repubblica trovo un pezzo di Federico Rampini, "Le scarpe con le dita hanno conquistato l'America".
Lo leggo.
Sensazione di déjà vu.
Lo rileggo …
more ...This is the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/business/energy-environment/24geotherm.html
And this is one very nice and informed comment from a PhD student that puts things into the right perspective:
more ...1) The major difference between enhanced geothermal and standard oil and gas extraction is the …
An interesting piece was published a few days ago on the official google blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/future-of-search.html
Let me quote two passages:
more ...It would be much nicer if we had a device with great connectivity that could do searches without interruption. One far-fetched idea: how …