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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... impediment known as "Foreign Accent Syndrome". In the first known case, in 1941, a Norwegian woman spoke in a German accent. All the elements of pr... ... Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery. Prions are controversial. Some scientists think that the encephalopathies are caused either by ...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

.... Then suddenly, they’re gone. 21. The Seeds of Cyberspace ―As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, new scientifi... ... link between math and harmonics. I‘ve since noticed how common it is for scientists to enjoy music as a hobby, as did Albert Einstein.) Soon aft... ...cluded not just merchants but also artists, diplomats, doctors, scholars, scientists, and priests from all religions, including Catholics, Nestorian... ... commercial vocabulary inspired thinking in ways previously unimaginable. Scientists, for instance, would frame comprehensive laws in physics stating... ...eclare himself England‘s king, but he also ruled as king of the Danes and Norwegians. English keeps ‘borrowing” more tongues Over centuries, Nors... ... of Cyberspace, however, weren‘t planted until 1939 when US Army Ordnance scientists built the world‘s first electronic computer to calculate ballist...

...op blend with the clickety-clack of a gang of wondrous Linotypes in full cry. Then suddenly, they’re gone. -- 21. The Seeds of Cyberspace-?As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, new scientific knowledge will flow to those who can apply it to practical problems.? -- 22. Knowledge-Sharing InfoTech—Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow-?It is a matte...

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The Renaissance of Science: The Story of the Atom, Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics

By: Dr. Albert Martini

...CH RIEMANN (1826 - 1866) GERMAN MATHEMATICIAN 124 CHRISTIAN FELIX KLEIN (1849 - 1925) GERMAN MATHEMATICIAN 125 NIELS HENRIK ABEL (1802 - 1829) NORWEGIAN MATHEMATICIAN 126 CARL GUSTAV JACOBI (1804 - 1851) GERMAN MATHEMATICIAN 127 KARL T. WEIERSTRASS (1815 - 1897) GERMAN MATHEMATICIAN 128 SIR WILLIAM R. HAMILTON (1805 - 1865) IRISH MATHEMATICIAN 129 CHARLES...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... by the Almighty, or maybe even by Emily Post. It reminds me of a Norwegian professor who did some undergraduate work at Stanford University... ...irst then put the knife down and ate with the fork in the right hand. The Norwegian assumed that after a few weeks the ignorant Americans would foll... ... Lee, because even science rests on basic assumptions. The observation of scientists has told us that the sun always rises in the east. BUT, what abo... ...er than the Earth was rotating I had a different point of view than other scientists who were standing in one place and saw the sun sink in the west... ...is uniformity in nature. Science cannot give certainty. The ancient Greek "scientists" could look at the sky and realize that the sun moves around th... ...d no worship. This being that created the universe just walked away. Many scientists who say they believe in a creator are deists. What does this de... ...theistic. The last statistics I saw were in 2008. They showed that 44% of Norwegians believed in God, 29% were agnostic, and 27% were atheists. When ... ... percentage of agnostics by 5% from two years earlier.‖ —―But 85% of Norwegians are members of the state Lutheran Church.‖ —―This is becau... ...ns are members of the state Lutheran Church.‖ —―This is because most Norwegians have been signed into the state church at birth and to remove t...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...ed years psychology has attempted to clear up the muddle through a scientific approach to understanding what it is to be human. But the social scient... ...he had been around today. Remember he‘s been dead for nearly a hundred years. If he had the MRI and the other neuroscience tools available to scient... ...ut a few imams in Denmark were offended. It took a few months for the offense to be broadcast to the Muslim world. Then a couple of Danish and Norweg... ...r between persons. It may be the Good Samaritan, who knew not the man he helped. It might be a husband and wife team working together such as scient... ...is was far larger than the conscious mind and so it controlled more of our actions. This he called the unconscious or subconscious mind. Most scient... ...ng or telepathy, the existence of ghosts, the power of the mind to move physical objects are but a few of the phenomena being investigated by scient... ... at Denmark, what can be the reasons for the bluebird of happiness continually building its nest in the trees of Tivoli? It isn‘t wealth, the Norweg...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...es, petro- leum Shortages: complex machinery and equip- ment, highly skilled scientists and techni- cians, energy, and transport Crude steel: 46.6 mil... ...djec- tive Icelandic Ethnic divisions: homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norwegians and Celts Religion: 95% Evangelical Lutheran, 3% other Protest... ...n: 4,178,545 (July 1987), average annual growth rate 0.30% Nationality: noun Norwegian(s); adjec- tive Norwegian Ethnic divisions: Germanic (Nordic, A... ...n (state church), 4% other Protestant and Roman Catholic, 2% other Language: Norwegian (official); small Lapp- and Finnish-speaking minorities Infant ... ...ll Magne Bondevik; Liberal, Arne Fjortoft; Socialist Left, Theo Koritzinsky; Norwegian Communist, Hans I. Kleven; Progressive, Carl I. Hagen Voting st... ... 3.1%; Red Electoral Alliance, 0.6%; Liberal People's Party (antitax), 0.5%; Norwegian Communist, 0.2%; other 0.4% Communists: 15,500 est; 5,500 Norwe...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

.... Then suddenly, they’re gone. 21. The Seeds of Cyberspace ―As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, new scientifi... ... link between math and harmonics. I‘ve since noticed how common it is for scientists to enjoy music as a hobby, as did Albert Einstein.) Soon after... ...cluded not just merchants but also artists, diplomats, doctors, scholars, scientists, and priests from all religions, including Catholics, Nestorian... ... commercial vocabulary inspired thinking in ways previously unimaginable. Scientists, for instance, would frame comprehensive laws in physics stating... ...eclare himself England‘s king, but he also ruled as king of the Danes and Norwegians. English keeps ‘borrowing” more tongues Over centuries, Norse ... ... of Cyberspace, however, weren‘t planted until 1939 when US Army Ordnance scientists built the world‘s first electronic computer to calculate ballist...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...dent and later a colleague—helped in more ways than I can count. A number of scientists and computer scientists made me see things I other- wise would... ...siderable intellectual talents to explaining why writers, telecom companies, scientists, manufacturers of consumer electronics, and a host of other gr... ...from the Commerce Department—whether to develop this particular network. The scientists are enthusiastic. They talk of robustness and dumb networks wi... ...your world have never heard of instant messaging—a nostalgic thought. As the scientists talk, it becomes clear that they are describing a system witho... ...tious Speech: The DMCA and Freedom of Expression Jon Johansen, a 16-year-old Norwegian, was the unwitting catalyst for one of the most important cases... ...ght have changed all of that. Let us return to Mr. Johansen, the 16-year-old Norwegian. He and his two anonymous collaborators claimed that they were ... ...ight not be the same as the one given even by undeniably legitimate computer scientists. A large number of legal arguments were involved in the Reimer... ... the Farmers’ Tale was all about. Perhaps one day, in a case not involving a Norwegian teenager, a hacker maga- zine run by a long-haired editor with ...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...April, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, and the US-based Global Health Coun... ...sm. More often, innovation is systematically and methodically pursued by teams of scientists and researchers in the labs of mega-corporations and ... ...hese, in turn, drive software companies, creators of content, financial engineers, scientists, and inventors to a heightened complexity of thinking... ... and the social status they endow. Productive and constructive competition - among scientists, innovators, managers, actors, lawyers, politicians, ... ...ference groups (of investors, for instance) or even market niches (e.g., stem cell scientists) should be targeted to optimize economic outcomes? I... ... clients it had identified in stage I above (investors, other countries, diplomats, scientists, and so on). Great care should be taken to align the ... ...oined the armed - though mostly peaceful - rebels of the Chiapas region in Mexico. Norwegian NGO's sent members to forcibly board whaling ships. In...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...capital as ‗climate refugees,‘ driven out by floods and cyclones that some scientists believe have intensified because of rising global temperatures.... ...e say that Thomas Jefferson or George Washington would be ardent physical scientists today and that their philosophies and politics would follow thei... ...fferent letters or combinations of letters the same sound. For example in Norwegian kj, s, sh, sk and tj can all have the sh sound. That‘s too confu... ...nd a half million people, that has two major languages ‗nynorske‘ or new Norwegian, and Bokmal, the language of Oslo and the major cities. Plus the...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

...f not emergencies, are often scheduled rather far in the future, but if the Norwegian surgeons don’t get around to you, you will probably be sent to... ...on from Luxemburg would have to give up about $55,000 per year. The average Norwegian and American would have to give up about $35,000 a year. Would... ...religious leaders concerned? No! The world needs more souls now. Only a few scientists and other academics seem to realize the catastrophe that is a... ...eal with the purpose of life. Those are the people who need convincing. The scientists already know the enormity of the problem. I don’t think you c...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

...rsity. He had one of these faked degrees. And he was already teaching at a Norwegian university. In Scandinavia they are usually so honest that they ... ...e citizens, but outstanding educators, along with the outstanding research scientists, are the most likely foreigners to have a chance at citizenship...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...n is deeply implanted. The second discovery of Iceland is due undoubtedly to a Norwegian pirate named Naddodd, who had been carried out of his course ... ...troke of his ten-pound cutlass, cut a Spaniard exactly in half; and Pierson, a Norwegian, who, with a sabre, would shave off the ears of his prisoners... ...ere a race of giants; for the people, as they have since been met with by such scientists as Darwin, are found to be but little more than the height o... ...rst accident happened in the drowning of Mr. Wier, the master's mate. Here the scientists of the expedition, Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander, spent several... ...sitors returned on shore and did not come back again. While lying here the two scientists, Banks and Solander, with ten seamen went on shore to make i... ...ack to the ship. After recovering from the effects of their exposure, the two scientists visited a village of some fourteen huts occupied by some fif... ...e may observe that this description in nowise accords with that given by other scientists of cuttle-fishes found in any part of the world's waters. In... ...day. The first permanent settlement on this far distant land was by a party of Norwegian exiles, whose numbers were recruited by friends from the moth...

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The Soul of a Bishop

By: H. G. Wells

...way from Christianity, to the Theosophists and the Christian 61 H G Wells Scientists—she had felt she was only “st’aying fu’tha.” And then suddenly w... ...to a group of people who had gathered upon a little beach at the head of a Norwegian fiord. There were three lads, an old man and two women, and they ... ...sh up these dead to us. Why does the world suffer these things? Why did we Norwegians, who are a free-spirited people, permit the Germans and the Swed... ...obe, “while Chinese merchants and T urkish troopers, school-board boys and Norwegian fishermen, half-trained nurses and Boer farm- ers are full of the...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

... munch sandwiches and throw the crusts on the floor. A large brick-colored Norwegian 23 Sinclair Lewis takes off his shoes, grunts in relief, and pro... ...an working over his order-blanks. But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty... ...let’s!” shrieked Juanita Haydock. “Say, Dave, give us that stunt about the Norwegian 50 Main Street catching a hen.” “You bet; that’s a slick stunt; ... ...grays” which Ezra still drove. The town was as hetero- geneous as Chicago. Norwegians and Germans owned stores. The social leaders were common merchan... ...new with a cold cer- tainty that Dave was rehearsing his “stunt” about the Norwegian catching the hen, Ella running over the first lines of “An Old Sw... ...st to heal everybody, rich or poor. You—that ‘re always spieling about how scientists ought to rule the world, instead of a bunch of spread-eagle poli... ...t home; they agreed that ambassadors and flippant newspapermen and infidel scientists of the bu- reaus were equally wicked and to be avoided; and by c...

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The Theory of the Leisure Class

By: Thorstein Veblen

...stance, as a typical case, even so late as the middle of this century, the Norwegian peasants have instinctively formulated their sense of the superio... ...confi- dently find that we do have, a very large proportion of schol- ars, scientists, savants derived from this class and deriving their incentive to... ...trial process. Through these groups of men, then — investigators, savants, scientists, inventors, speculators — most of whom have done their most tell...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...e, fine headed, nobly form’d, superbly destin’d, on equal terms with me! You Norwegian! Swede! Dane! Icelander! you Prussian! You Spaniard of Spain! y... ...engineers have accomplish’d their work, After the noble inventors, after the scientists, the chemist, the geologist, ethnologist, Finally shall come t... ... of God shall come singing his songs. Then not your deeds only O voyagers, O scientists and inventors, shall be justified, All these hearts as of fret... ...Hungarian his way, and the Pole his way, The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return. The homeward bound and the outward bound, The beautiful...

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Selected Writings

By: Guy de Maupassant

.... He related to us at some length the enormous results obtained by English scientists and the doc- tors of the medical school at Nancy, and the facts ... ... there on Saturday, when I got into ‘Delila,’ with my wife. ‘Delila’ is my Norwegian boat, which I had built by Fourmaise, and which is light and safe...

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