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Want to be part of the largest group-writing project in human history? Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, the user-generated online reference for the 21st century. Considered more popular than eBay, Microsoft.com, and Amazon.com, Wikipedia servers respond to approximately 30,000 requests per second, or about 2.5 billion per day. It's become the first point of reference for people the world over who need a fact fast. If you want to jump on board and add to the content, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is your first-class ticket. Wikipedia has more than 9 million entries in 250 languages, over 2 million articles in the English language alone. Each one is written and edited by an ever-changing ...
This book is for amateur astronomers who would like to know the mythology behind the names of astronomical objects in the night sky. It covers the lore and legend behind Ptolemy’s 48 constellations, along with significant asterisms, the planets and their moons, the brightest named asteroids and dwarf planets. The revised second edition includes a host of new moons and dwarf planets discovered since 2011. In addition, it now features a new section on major asteroids and their associated myths. While still primarily focused on Greco-Roman mythology, the book now branches out to cover more recently named objects from other cultures, such as Hawaiian, Rapanui, Tongva and Inuit. To assist practical observers, the book gives the location and description of each constellation, including named stars and deep-sky objects. A host of helpful astronomy tips and techniques, as well as a brief introduction to astrophotography, are included to encourage direct observation and imaging of these mythical objects in the night sky.
Concept Progress is a fusion of science fiction and philosophy. It is a metaphysics that centers on progress being a driving force in human evolution. This recurring viewpoint has previously stirred much debate. However, as we escalate through the 21st century, the evidence is plentiful. Concept Progress offers a fresh perspective into the topic, citing humanity's ongoing accomplishments as a convincing piece of that evidence. In the book, we celebrate ourselves for our achievements, challenge our perceived limits, and conclude that progress will eventually produce the most evolved life form. In so doing, we look back to the beginning of time and circle forward to a time that is farther away...
In The Orce Man: Controversy, Media and Politics in Human Origins Research, Miquel Carandell presents a thrilling story of a controversy on an Spanish “First European” that involved scientists, politicians and newspapers. In the early 1980s, with Spanish democracy in its beginnings, the Orce bone was transformed from a famous human ancestor to an apparently ridiculous donkey remain. With a chronological narrative, this book is not centered on whether the bone was human or not, but on the circumstances that made a certain claim credible or not, from both the scientific community and the general public. Carandell’s analysis draws on the thin line that separates success from failure and the role of media and politics in the controversy.
Wikipedia's first twenty years: how what began as an experiment in collaboration became the world's most popular reference work. We have been looking things up in Wikipedia for twenty years. What began almost by accident—a wiki attached to an nascent online encyclopedia—has become the world's most popular reference work. Regarded at first as the scholarly equivalent of a Big Mac, Wikipedia is now known for its reliable sourcing and as a bastion of (mostly) reasoned interaction. How has Wikipedia, built on a model of radical collaboration, remained true to its original mission of “free access to the sum of all human knowledge” when other tech phenomena have devolved into advertising p...
Kathir Subbiah, aka KT Astrologer is a writer, book author, Vedic astrologer, trader, and computer programmer based in California. He graduated with a master’s degree in Software Systems from BITS, Pilani, India. He works as a Software Developer at Microsoft Corporation. He learned Vedic astrology thoroughly for over two decades by conducting research, creating case studies, going over analytics, analyzing patterns and real-life events. His moment of fame came in November 2016 after predicting Donald Trump’s victory in the US Presidential election. He predicted the outcome a year in advance in December 2015. He also predicted the March 9, 2020 crash with that exact date a month in advanc...
There is a unifying Pattern that underlies much if not all of science, which manifests itself in the measures of dimension; i.e. time, distance, volume, mass, and of those measures that derive from them. This Pattern arises from a simple geometric progression, based on the numbers 2 and 3. Deus Ordiri Fundamentum—“God Begins, Lays the Order of the Foundation”—traces this Pattern through much of modern science, including: astronomy, physics, geodesy, metrology, cartography, etc., and arrives at the almost inescapable conclusion that mankind did not devise this system, since it is all too perfect; rather, it was given to him by the Creator of the cosmos. Deus Ordiri Fundamentum then pr...
How to level up to the next transformative phase of publishing—with a critical methodology that transcends the dichotomy of paper and digital media production. Publishing is experiencing one of the most transformative phases in its history. In Tactical Publishing, a sequel to Post-Digital Print, Alessandro Ludovico explores the forces driving this historical phase, highlighting the tremendous opportunities it presents. Our task, he believes, is to develop an alternative publishing system that transcends the dichotomy between paper and digital media. He focuses first on the two activities on which publishing is premised—reading and writing (with an emphasis on writing machines and post-tr...
The book With the decline of cultural discourse in our contemporary century and the strong emergence of the economic phenomenon and its dictators in the daily life of people in today’s world, which has created amazing poverty in the discourse of (reason) and extreme poverty in awareness of the meaning of life and higher values. Economic control has led to the birth of elites (of money and business) and wealth. Lightness in weight and lightness in intellectual production and meaning in its speeches, but is economics a speech? Money first, but then what? A collection of questions and discussions about the fate of the world that does not think. In return, the tragedy of the era has generated poverty, famine hunger, see( On April 17, 2024, the 2023 Global Hunger Index (GHI) Report UN ) and daily misery for huge segments in today’s world. As the saying is broadcast, ‘’an empty stomach does not think’’, and we are faced with double poverty: an economy poor in thought and the poor deprived of the strength of the stomach and (the head). Does humanity today think about acquiring the skill of thinking?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging network superstructure that will connect physical resources and actual users. It will support an ecosystem of smart applications and services bringing hyper-connectivity to our society by using augmented and rich interfaces. Whereas in the beginning IoT referred to the advent of barcodes and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), which helped to automate inventory, tracking and basic identification, today IoT is characterized by a dynamic trend toward connecting smart sensors, objects, devices, data and applications. The next step will be “cognitive IoT,” facilitating object and data re-use across application domains and leveraging hyper-connec...