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Semantic search: Google.Noesis.

March 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Technology, science

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Noesis noesis is a Greek word meaning understanding as “the ability to sense or know something, immediately”.

Two new improvements to Google results pages.

Today we’re rolling out two new improvements to Google search. The first offers an expanded list of useful related searches and the second is the addition of longer search result descriptions — both of which help guide users more effectively to the information they need.

More and better search refinements 

Starting today, we’re deploying a new technology that can better understand associations and concepts related to your search, and one of its first applications lets us offer you even more useful related searches (the terms found at the bottom, and sometimes at the top, of the search results page).


 

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The Khan Academy:from basic arithmetic to America’s money crisis

January 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Games, design, science

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The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.

We have 700+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, and finance which have been recorded by Salman Khan. He has also developed a free, adaptive math program available here.

 



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NY Exhibit Unveils Women’s Lives In Ancient Greece

December 21st, 2008 · No Comments · science

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This undated photo provided by the Onassis Cultural Center shows a 2nd century A.D. marble statuette of Athena, sometime worshiped as a goddess of war, wearing a breastplate made up of coiled snakes. A woman’s place has never been just in the home – not even in ancient Greece. The proof is in an exhibit titled “Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens,” a collection of artifacts at the Onassis Cultural Center in New York that corrects the cliched idea of Athenian women as passive, homebound nurturers of men and children. (AP Photo/Onassis Cultural Center)

 A woman’s place has never been just in the home – not even in ancient Greece. The proof is in an exhibit titled “Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens” – a collection of artifacts that correct the cliched idea of Athenian women as passive, homebound nurturers of men and children.

 

 


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Great Secret of Water:Consciousness & Water

December 9th, 2008 · No Comments · System Analysis, science



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IF I WERE YOU:PERCEPTUAL ILLUSION OF BODY SWAPPING

December 4th, 2008 · No Comments · science

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The concept of an individual swapping his or her body with that of another person has captured the imagination of writers and artists for decades. Although this topic has not been the subject of investigation in science, it exemplifies the fundamental question of why we have an ongoing experience of being located inside our bodies. Here we report a perceptual illusion of body-swapping that addresses directly this issue. Manipulation of the visual perspective, in combination with the receipt of correlated multisensory information from the body was sufficient to trigger the illusion that another person’s body or an artificial body was one’s own. This effect was so strong that people could experience being in another person’s body when facing their own body and shaking hands with it. Our results are of fundamental importance because they identify the perceptual processes that produce the feeling of ownership of one’s body.

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