All articles by: Mdia

Bored? Go play a game!

Procrastination can be productive: On http://fold.it/portal/ you can play a game and feel good about yourself: you are then not ‘really’ procrastinating, you are contributing for science. At least that is the way I do and it works! Foldit is a puzzle game that helps to learn how proteins fold. Does not sound much? Proteins [...]

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“How-to” guide to new models of sustainability

Over 40 organizations endorse The Declaration and “How-to” guide to new models of sustainability in the digital era that are released today by the Free/Libre Culture Forum (http://2010.fcforum.net) after 4 months work. http://fcforum.net/sustainable-models-for-creativity Each year, the FCForum brings together key organisation and active voices in the sphere of free/libre culture. It responds to the need [...]

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New sustainable models for creativity

drafted during 4 months by the Free/Libre Culture Forum. Each year, the FCForum brings together key organisation and active voices in the sphere of free/libre culture. It responds to the need for an international arena in which to put together and coordinate a global framework for action, and to the need to defend and expand [...]

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Science needs collaboration and knowledge sharing

There are petabytes of research data being produced in laboratories around the world, but the best web search tools available can’t help us make sense of it. Why? Because more stands between basic research and meaningful discovery than the problem of search. Many scientists today work in relative isolation, left to follow blind alleys and [...]

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Complex Networks Explained

Igor Nikolic – TEDxRotterdam 2010 from TEDxRotterdam on Vimeo.

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O Brasil quer ajuda dos USA para combater terrorismo? Telegrama do Wikilieaks

ASSUNTO: BRASIL: Blackout-causas e implicações, classificados por: Encarregado de Negócios Jackson Cherie, Razões 1.4 (b) e (d). REFTELS: A) BRASÍLIA 2008 672, B) BRASÍLIA 2008 593, São Paulo C) 2008 260 1. (S) RESUMO: Em 10 de novembro às 22:13, o Brasil viveu um apagão que mergulhou 18 dos 27 estados do Brasil nas trevas, [...]

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This is zombo com and other authentically web websites

A little of the absurd, funny, creative and unregulated internet in 3 links. (I am so glad every time I find out that this piece of the world wide web is not extinct yet! ) 1- Welcome to zombo com The unnatainable is unknown at zombo com! (and the background music is top! ) 2- [...]

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World premiere at The Pirate Bay

Die Beauty is a Surreal thriller into a feverish fairy tale world . A story about friendship and alienation , family ties and Kindred blood . A group of girls want something to happen . Something That Will make everything change . A dead body floating down the river Would ask Exciting . And if [...]

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‘Pioneer One.’ the first ever made-for-torrent-series

I do believe in what Torrent Freak says: “One of the main challenges that independent content producers face today is not piracy, but finding ways to to get their work noticed.” Pioneer One is an ambitious project from Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith who have collaborated before on ‘The Lionshare’, a BitTorrent-exclusive film which was [...]

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Film: the future of food.

I am posting this film here because it is the a shocking issue and we don’t hear enough about it. I get very emotional about this issue and emotional is said never to lead good approaches, but emotional we are, and emotion lead our choices. The film is not only about the US and how [...]

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