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 CONTRIBUTOR: . A Dutch Egyptologist
recently deciphered the oldest known abecedary or alphabet-like primer on a
3,500-year-old shard of pottery from an Egyptian tomb excavated 20 years ago.
The earliest alphabets go back to the 19th century BC. The text on the ostracon
or shard had not been understood in the 20...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . As far as
crowd-pleasers go, it is hard to beat mummies. When Tutankhamun and the Golden
Age of the Pharaohs opened at the Melbourne Museum in 2011, it broke all
previous records for touring exhibitions in Australia, attracting more than
800,000 visitors over its run and 10,192 visitors on a single day...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Archaeologists doing
an underwater survey in the Aegean Sea in Greek territorial waters have found an
amazing 22 shipwrecks of merchant vessels that sank between 700 BC and the 16th
century AD. The researchers have surveyed just 5 percent of the coasts of the
Fourni archipelago and expect to find...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . ZME Science 50 years
ago, on October 28, 1965, an unlikely British geophysicist made a map that set
the record straight on how the world’s tectonic plates fit together....
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CONTRIBUTOR:
. Qualcomm on Tuesday announced a muscle video camera for surveillance
systems. It's part of the company's Snapdragon 618 IP camera platform. The unit
combines a six-core, 64-bit processor; next-generation graphics crunching; and
embedded digital signal processing. It can perform advanced video analytics.
Moving analytics to the camera can save a...
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CONTRIBUTOR:
. A persistent meme among the media is that Ben Carson is a scientifically
ignorant guy who thinks the earth was created six thousand years ago. Not so
fast. The Christian Post is reporting on comments Carson made specifically
addressing that issue. Stoyan Zaimov writes: Republican presidential candidate
Ben Carson clarified...
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. The NY Times has put together a lovely illustrated story about data
collection on Greenland. The story is prettily terrifying, though. The ice is
melting, and forming lakes of liquid water on the surface of the ice cap, which
then drains away in fast-running rivers that cut deeper into the...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Selling
internationally is challenging, but if you succeed there are so many benefits.
PayPal is one vendor that has lots of experience selling online and resources to
help small businesses do just that. Selling beyond your borders takes your
ability to appreciate and understand another market, new cultures and
customs....
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CONTRIBUTOR:
. That's historian of technology George Dyson contemplating the dangers of
analog intelligence rather than digital intelligence in John Brockman's latest
"big question" compilation, this time on AI. The real curveball however might be
captured by another one of Dyson's quote: "My real worry is not that machines
will become too...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Socrates and his
successors Plato and Aristotle are perhaps the best known and most influential
philosophers of ancient Greece. Nevertheless, Greek philosophy had already been
flourishing for more than a century prior to the birth of Socrates (said to be
in 469 BC). These Greek philosophers who were practicing their...
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