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About Nature Publishing Group Journals : Authors & Referees @ Npg
Nature has the highest impact factor of any journal publishing basic scientific research
Editor, Philip Campbell. A weekly, international journal, publishing papers from any area of science with great potential impact and whose importance extends well beyond the confines of the specific discipline concerned. Nature has the highest impact factor of any journal…
Academic History Writing And Its Disconnects By Tim Hitchcock | Digital Humanities Now
Limitations of note taking on ebooks
....I agree with you about the current crop of book simulators. They are rather stupid, and don’t let me have the kind of dialogic relationship with text that I want. Why shouldn’t my ‘reader’ know what I am working on, and privilege that subject in the text (perhaps…
Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
Bibliografia su ozio, lentezza e consumo
C. Baker, Ozio, lentezza e nostalgia, Emi, Bologna 2006. Z. Bauman, Consumo, dunque sono, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2008. , Lavoro, consumismo e nuove povertà, Città Aperta, Roma 2007. , L’arte della vita, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009. , Paura liquida, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009. , Vite di…
Amazon Kindle Touch Review
Amazon xray feature
The new X-ray feature takes things a step further. Clicking on it will bring up a list of proper names, including characters, historical figures and places. It brings up a timeline illustration letting you know how often the name appears in the book viewable by page, chapter…
Aspects Of The Theory Of Syntax - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax is a book written by American linguist Noam Chomsky, first published in August 1965. It is known in linguistic circles simply as Aspects. Chomsky wrote Aspects to address the various deficiencies found in transformational generative grammar…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
An explosion of books about AI
I am beginning to suspect that the singularity refers simply to an explosion of books about artificial intelligence.
Cartesian Linguistics - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Cartesian linguistics
Cartesian linguistics refers to a form of linguistics developed during the time of René Descartes, a prominent 17th century philosopher whose ideas continue to influence modern philosophy. Chomsky's book, Cartesian Linguistics, manages to trace the development of linguistic…
Digital Hermeneutics: Agora And The Online Understanding Of Cultural Heritage
Enriching museum records with the Simple Event Model
As information about the historical context of the object is currently not present in the museum database, we automati- cally enrich the database records with historical events from the “A Child in War” book by using information extraction techniques. Details of our approach…
Eichmann In Jerusalem - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
The banality of evil
Arendt's book introduced the expression and concept "the banality of evil."[1] Her thesis is that the great evils in history generally, and the Holocaust in particular, were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths, but by ordinary people who accepted the premises of their state…
Erik Davis - On Psychedelics
1960s literature on psychedelics
Once again, we have a reverberation with the 1960s, when many people first heard about mind-expanding chemicals through the trip manual The Psychedelic Experience (1963), written by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzner. This book mapped the dynamics of psychedelic…
Mass-market book called dmt: the spirit molecule
After abandoning the study, Strassman published some of his findings in the usual journals. But he also decided to write a mass-market book called DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2001), which included many of the mind-blowing first-person accounts of his subjects, along with a number…
Facetlens : Exposing Trends And Relationships To Support Sensemaking Within Faceted Datasets
Faceted classification (definition)
In faceted classification systems, the attributes of the items are grouped into multiple orthogonal categories called “facets.” For example, a database of books might have a Year facet to group together publications from the same year, and a Genre facet exposing attribute…
Hamlet On The Holodeck
Incunabula: a technology in its infancy
In 1455, Gutemberg invented the printing press - but not the book as we know it. Books printed before 1501 are called incunabula; the word is derived from the Latin for swaddling clothes and is used to indicate that these books are the work of a technology still in its infancy…
Cyberliterature
[...] so too does it [the computer] promise to reshape the spectrum of narrative expression, not by replacing the novel or the movie but by continuing their timeless bardic work within another framework. This book is an effort to imagine what kinds of pleasures such a…
How Books Will Become Machines
Book versus ebook is the wrong debate
About every ten years, it becomes urgent to confront ideas and ask the expertise of scholars and visionaries about this issue. But as if we were trapped in a per- petual present, the circling debates do not manage to go beyond the direct confrontation between two objects…
The rise and fall of the CD-ROM
The CD-rom rise and fall should make us reflect on the power and the limit of closed systems. Like book application, CD-rom had all the potential to continue the way of the Book. They were celebrated as its future. As closed environments they offered great creative freedom, but…
Book-machines versus the encyclopedia
It seems that books embodied in machines fail to deliver the main function of the printed book, i.e. allowing to structure complex discourses and narration. This is counterintuitive because mechanization steps usually offer more structuring options. Formalizing its conventional…
The core business model of search engines is about selling words
If search engines become the most direct way to discover books, writers will be encouraged to adapt their style and chosen vocabularies in consequences, reusing, for instance, words often searched or choosing them based on marketing considerations. We will progressively…
Book and encyclopedia as antagonistic technologies
Even if Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopedia is entitled Dic- tionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, its ambition is to be much more than a dictionary. The encyclopedia has aimed since its genesis at being in continuous expansion in order to en- compass the…
Lamartine on the future of books (1831)
The future of books in the 1830s. ‘Before this century shall end, journalism will be the whole press - the whole human thought. Thought will spread across the world with the rapidity of light, instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood. It will blanket the…
The encyclopedia's victory over the book
The first way to continue the book mechanization process consists in taking an encyclopedic perspective on book contents, introducing descriptive formalisms in order to turn structured text into well standardized resources. [...] This de- coupling between form and content has…
Nature of the book
One of the most obvious differences between books and maps is that books are representations of an higher dimension. A book is a container, a volume of dimension 3, capable of hosting one-dimensional text and bi-dimensional maps, tables, diagrams and trees. As a volume, a book…
The intrinsic conservatism of the encyclopedia paradigm
In evolutionary terms, in a closed and protected volume the Book offered room for constant innovation. Each printed book could be an isolated island. [...] As a standalone autonomous object, a book could take parts in an infinite number of publishing experiments. [..] It is…
The future of books in the 1930s
The future of books in the 1930s. This is how Paul Oltet in the 1930s was de- scribing the future reading desktop ‘The worktable does not hold any book. In- stead, there is a screen and a telephone. All the books are far away, in a huge building (...)’ cited in (Levie 2006).
Books could survive by becoming closed interactive applications
The second way to continue the book mechanization process is to design a new close vehicle for its contents. [..] Applications are fully interactive programs adapted to dedicated interfaces like smartphones, tablets or desktop computers. They can fetch their contents directly…
Early printed books copied manuscripts
Thirty years after the ‘invention’ of the printing press, most of the books print- ed were just copies of medieval manuscripts. The ‘readers’ just wanted more of the same. For several decades, this paradigm-shifting technology essentially produced ‘old-styled’ books. Old-styled…
The future of books in the 1880s
The future of books in the 1880s. ‘Many books and stories may not see the light of print al all; they will go into the hands of their readers, or hearers rather, as phonograms’ Hubert, Philippe in an 1889 essay in the Atlantic Monthly. The same year, Edward Bellamy predicted in…
Iannotate — Whatever Happened To The Web As An Annotation System? | The Scholarly Kitchen
Challenges in digital annotation systems
There are significant challenges to digital annotation systems, particularly shared annotation systems. While server space was an issue with Mosaic in the 1990s, this isn’t the critical problem any longer, although at scale an annotation system does require some significant…
I’m Still Here: Back Online After A Year Without The Internet | The Verge
Blaming the internet is wrong
What I do know is that I can't blame the internet, or any circumstance, for my problems. I have many of the same priorities I had before I left the internet: family, friends, work, learning. And I have no guarantee I'll stick with them when I get back on the internet — I…
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
La saggezza che diventa tua
La saggezza che hai cercato a lungo in biblioteca ora brilla in ogni foglio, perché adesso è tua. Hermann Hesse
Osx Dictionary
Red herring (dictionary definition)
something, esp. a clue, that is or is intended to be misleading or distracting: the book is fast-paced, exciting, and full of red herrings. [so named from the practice of using the scent of red herring in training hounds.]
Power Systems: Conversations On Global Democratic Uprisings And The New Challenges To U.s. Empire
Reading a book is an intellectual exercise
And reading a book doesn’t just mean turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then…
Rdf Primer
Blank nodes for things without URIs
Blank nodes also provide a way to more accurately make statements about resources that may not have URIs, but that are described in terms of relationships with other resources that do have URIs. [..] The point is that saying something like "the author of the book is…
Difference between RDF and object oriented languages
One important difference is that instead of describing a class as having a collection of specific properties, an RDF schema describes properties as applying to specific classes of resources, using domain and range properties. For example, a typical object-oriented programming…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
Love was perfected in India
Shantu worked in his taxi sixteen hours a day for six days every week. He was determined that his son and two daughters would know lives that were better than his own. He saved money for their education and for the substantial dowries he would be required to provide if the…
Taking Better Notes In Zotero – Profhacker - Blogs - The Chronicle Of Higher Education
Notes like index cards, not marginalia
This is all well and good for certain types of notes, such as summaries of books that I read for exams. It’s kind of like scribbling marginalia in a book. But this method is not so good for other types of notes, such as pieces of evidence or quotations. The problem is that…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
A book as companion for continual growth
First, I would recommend that you not “see” this material as a book, in the sense that it is something to read once and put on a shelf. You may choose to read it completely through once for a sense of the whole. But the material is designed to be a companion in the continual…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Rereading Grof on the unconscious
What made me sit down and reread Stanislav Grof’s Realms of the Human Unconscious at precisely this point? I just don’t know. Several times in the following narrative there are going to be examples of events I can understand only as direct intervention of the unconscious in my…
Where to find first-hand trip reports
The ’60s and ’70s high tide of firsthand reports is a thing of the past. Today the only popular compilation in print is Charles Hayes’ Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures (2000). Despite patchiness, the fifty accounts make gripping reading. While I was…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
A culture with few magical objects
Now it is symptomatic of our rusty-beer-can type of sanity that our culture produces very few magical objects. Jewelry is slick and uninteresting. Architecture is almost totally bereft of exuberance, obsessed with erecting glass boxes. Children’s books are written by serious…
One's human nature
If, then, I am not saying that you ought to awaken from the ego-illusion and help save the world from disaster, why The Book? Why not sit back and let things take their course? Simply that it is part of “things taking their course” that I write. As a human being it is just my…
The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
To trade smth for smth else
My curiosity ignited, I grabbed my Kindle and purchased the book. One minute later, it had finished downloading. For the rest of the day, I traded book writing for reading.
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Books need indexes as travellers need maps
Someone once said that “a book without an index is like a country without a map”. However interesting and worthwhile the experience of driving from A to B without a map might be in its own right, there can be no doubt that when the goal is to arrive at one's destination as…
An index maps the knowledge in a book
The word “index” means many things, most of which relate to pointing in some way (“index”, plural “indicis”, is Latin for forefinger, informer, or sign). The sense we are interested in is that given in the Concise Oxford Dictionary as: 6. Alphabetical list, usu. at end of book…
Tim Lott – Zen Buddhism And Alan Watts
Life was, in zen parlance, yugen — a kind of elevated purposelessness.
All the same, I read a couple of Watts’s books. They made a significant impact on me. The Meaning of Happiness (1940) and The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951) are striking primers to his work, and they underlined what Rowe was already teaching me: that life had no intrinsic meaning…