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Bit Nov 1, 2008

Is Redundancy Always Redundant?

Normally, we associate the idea of redundancy with such concepts as wastefulness, uselessness repetition, and superfluity. However, there…

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History Jan 1, 2006

Montaigne and the Ottomans

Essays are like flexible rhapsodies.”1 They are freer, arbitrary, and subjective as compared to a more rigid, systematic,…

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Accident Jul 1, 2005

The Sinning Forelock

One of the most amazing studies ever conducted on brain function occurred after an industrial accident. The subject…

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Education Apr 1, 2003

The Rise of Visual Information

Interpreting many events into visual information has become the dominant way of perceiving and learning in many fields:…

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Culture & Society Jul 1, 2002

Privacy under Surveillance

Privacy is a fundamental human right in diverse regions and cultures. It has become one of the modern…

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Environment Jan 1, 2002

Is DNA Everything?

Over the last couple of years, we have heard a great deal about cloning, a scientific procedure that…

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