January 2011
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The picture reported here is a work made by Picasso: “Two Characters” (1934), located at the MART, the Museum of Modern Art in Rovereto (TN), which dedicates a gallery to the masterpieces of modern art of the museum of Winterthur. Today I’ve visited the gallery … and even though I’m not a fan of this type of art, I have to admit that the works are not bad at all. But looking at those I felt...
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Children's belief in Santa is scientific
And of course the only reason they get the wrong result is because this time there really is a grand world-wide ongoing conspiracy to interfere with their experiments and falsify their results, and everyone is in on it! Forged videos and secret disguises! Evidence tampering, as Dad wolfs down that cookie! Deception by respected senior scientists (parents) they thought they could trust on a...
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Why Google give away their software
There’s another reason they don’t charge for their services, though. Since Google’s business is advertising, shifting industries away from paying business models is in their interest. If people are willing to pay for email, mapping and documents, Google’s business model is limited. Thus, using the outsized revenues they make from advertising on search, Google gives away Gmail, Maps, Docs,...