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Are you a fan of Battlestar Gallactica like me?, think the plot of the story is far fetched? think again.
A machine wouldn't think like human beings, at least that's what we think. However certain facts remain unexplained.
During the computer exposition of London 1988, Video recordings of strange behaviour of a AMstrad PC 1512 computer were a real attraction. While there was no close source of energy, the computer would start on its own. It tried to write a message
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Submitted by moose on October 29, 2006 - 9:02am.
You make of this news whatever you want, not trying to stir any debate.
Bremerhaven (AFP): The male penguins of the bremerhaven Zoo in Germany which became media stars in 2005, because they preferred homosexual relations, haven’t mated this year with the females, the reason being the females are too shy.
The six male penguins formed homosexual couples for many years, because of the lack of females. This year again they have formed homosexual groups (between men).
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Submitted by moose on March 14, 2006 - 5:30pm.
Did some research you guys might be interested in :
Some types of cancer can be found before they cause symptoms. Checking for cancer, or for conditions that may lead to cancer, in people who have no symptoms can save lives.
Screening can help doctors find and treat some types of cancer early. Generally, cancer treatment is more effective when the disease is found early.
Screening tests are used widely to check for cancers of the breast, cervix, colon, and rectum:
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Submitted by moose on March 13, 2006 - 8:28pm.
Dana Reeve - the gracious wife of Chris 'Superman' Reeve lived
only 210 days after publicly revealing she had been diagnosed
with lung cancer. She was a non-smoker who died of lung cancer.
Why did she have to die? Most of the diseases like diabetes, stroke, heart attacks, and even lung cancer can kill you because the usual story is that you allowed yourself to eat too much fat and sugar, you exercised little or none at all, or because you smoked cigarettes like a chimney. But Dana Reeve makes us realize that we can die even if we do not expose ourselves to obvious risk factors. Sure, we can improve our odds of not dying, but sooner or later, death will catch up with us.
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Submitted by moose on March 13, 2006 - 8:00pm.
If you have diabetes in the family you might be interested in a study published in the march 2006 issue of Diabetes care. This study suggests that your sleep duration may be a risk factor for having Type 2 diabetes:
NEW YORK [Reuters, 10 Mar 2006] --- Research hints that not getting enough sleep each night, or getting too much sleep, may increase a person's risk of developing non-insulin dependent (type 2) diabetes, independent of other factors.
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Submitted by moose on March 12, 2006 - 4:44pm.
Actually it’s a recurring nightmare, the setting changes but the scenario is the same: I am Somewhere, a park, a mall, at work or at a subway station, and out of nowhere comes a big male Lion and it makes eye contact with me and chases me and leaves everybody else alone.
He never managed to catch me so far, I always wake up right before he does.
I did some research on dream interpretation and this what I found out:
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Submitted by moose on March 11, 2006 - 10:11pm.
You have got to be kidding me, How could people be so naive as to buy a house on eBay?
Yet it’s happening out there, there is usually around 2000 house listings on ebay, and some are willing to buy, they just look at the description and browse through pictures from the comfort of their homes, they buy the houses, Thousands of dollars, and a heartbreak later, they find out that what they were promised, is not what was delivered.
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Submitted by moose on March 11, 2006 - 1:48pm.
I asked myself this question today at work; I had a job for years at a company in the north Shore (Boston), the money was bad and I always was unhappy with my job, I was telling Myself if only I could land a job in a pharmaceutical company in Cambridge Massachusetts I would be much happier the money would be good the job more interesting, I got that job about six month ago. And now again I am starting to feel the same way I did when I was working for the previous company.
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Submitted by moose on March 10, 2006 - 8:23pm.
Poetry sometimes can make you dream, escape from reality and sail to a world of fantasy. this poem has a very realxing effect on me, i almost get high on it.
i did translate it from Beaudelaire's Petit poemes en prose:
Let me breath for a long time, a long time, the smell of your hair, to plunge my face in it, like a man fades in the water of a spring, to wave it with my hand like you would wave a scented hanky, to stir souvenirs in the air.
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Submitted by moose on March 9, 2006 - 8:03pm.
I had a bad day, but i wouldn't bore with the details. certain events that happend today just made me examine my life and my achievements. may be it's my midlife crisis i'm 35, but anyway i just picked my college psychology textbook to look at a concept i remember from when i took the class years ago.
the class was about personalities and how psychologists look at it differently, the one i agree with best is Abraham Maslow.
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Submitted by moose on March 8, 2006 - 9:43pm.
The apartment complex i live in is owned by equity apartments, they just sent a letter to all the apartments in our building, the letter says that they will require renter's
insurance for any new leases. In case our building burns down, the insurance covers everything we own in our apartment. We debated the subject my wife and me and just for the heck of it we made a list of all of the stuff in our apartment,we were surprised our stuff was worth so much. We really don’t own anything. One of the biggest items was out flat screen LCD TV, Our CD collection, hundreds of CDs, at a replacement cost of $10 each? That’s $5,000. I wouldn’t necessarily replace them, but it’s good to have the insurance. Plus our priceless sentimental stuff.
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Submitted by moose on March 7, 2006 - 7:49pm.
I am in the market to buy a house, and came across this Boston Herald’s article and wanted to share it with you guys, Nena Groskind answered a question from a reader, regarding homeowners insurance, and what it covers, and, more importantly, what it doesn’t cover.
When you buy a condo, if you get a mortgage loan, the bank will require you to show proof of insurance. Proof of master insurance. Meaning, the common areas are covered by insurance. However, the master insurance policy does not cover the interior of your unit.
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Submitted by moose on March 7, 2006 - 5:36pm.
I am continuing with my translation of "petits poeme en prose",
the novel of the great french author and poet: charles beaudelaire.He comes across to me as rather Melancholic.
This poem remindes me of why only crappy movies make money at the box office, while the fine movies don't make money but win oscars. here is the poem:
“My pretty dog, my good dog, my doggy, approach and breath an excellent perfume bought from the best perfume dealer of the town�
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Submitted by moose on March 6, 2006 - 5:11pm.
When I read this poem,it reminded me of racism and hate that people carry on their back, and how Indifferent some people are to it.Beaudelaire put it so nicely on one of his petit poem en prose.
The title of the poem is chimera, I did translate it to English and am sharing with the readers,it’s a masterpiece.
“Under a gray sky, in a big dusty plain, without roads, without grass, without thistle, without nettle, I met many men who were walking bent.
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Submitted by moose on March 5, 2006 - 4:47pm.
I am a huge fun of the eighteen-century French author Charles Baudelaire, of all his work my favorite is Petit poemes en prose. I taught about translating some poemes to English and publishing them in this blog and judging from the number of readers I can go on translating them or I would stop.
The poem I am translating today, I am sure a lot of people will find very amusing to say the least. It is titled Pleasant:
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Submitted by moose on March 5, 2006 - 11:20am.
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