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Welcome to Stone Studio! About this talk Like your uncle at a family party, the rumpled Swedish doctor Lennart Green says, “Pick a card, any card.” But what he does with those cards is pure magic — flabbergasting, lightning-fast, how-does-he-do-it? magic. via TED

1. They don’t talk as much as you, because they know they got smart by listening. 2. They know lots of things other than what they’re specialised in. Theirs is the gift of a broad mind, constantly fed with the stimulant of being interested in what everyone else is doing. 3. They juggle home, work [...]

Case 1 When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens wouldn’t work at zero gravity (ink won’t flow down to the writing surface). To solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12 million. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, in [...]

Homeopathy purportedly works by diluting substances, such as sulfur, to almost nothing and then using them to spur the body to heal itself. But the skeptics say there’s no proof, and what’s more the extreme dilution of the ingredients means the remedies are nothing more than, say, sugar water. As the federal National Center for [...]

What’s a cookie? How do I protect myself on the web? And most importantly: What happens if a truck runs over my laptop? For things you’ve always wanted to know about the web but were afraid to ask, read on

If you’re reading this article, it’s likely that you spend a fair amount of time online. However, considering how much of an influence the Internet has in our daily lives, how many of us actually know the story of how it got its start? Here’s a brief history of the Internet, including important dates, people, [...]

Luis von Ahn, Carnegie Mellon University; from Computing Research that Changed the World: Reflections and Perspectives, March 25, 2009. An example is his new reCAPTCHA project, which has enlisted hundreds of millions of people to help digitize books by solving CAPTCHAs on the Internet. CAPTCHAs are widespread security measures that von Ahn helped invent almost [...]

In this article let us review 15 practical examples of Linux grep command that will be very useful to both newbies and experts. First create the following demo_file that will be used in the examples below to demonstrate grep command. 1 

A map of the sexual networks at a midwestern high school, with each dot representing a student (pink for female, blue for male), illustrates how a student in a relationship with one classmate may unknowingly be linked to hundreds of others. Numbers by a figure indicate how many times that pattern was observed. For example, [...]

I asked God to take away my bad habit. God said, No. It is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up. I asked God to make my handicapped child whole. God said, No. His spirit is whole, his body is only temporary I asked God to grant me patience. [...]