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Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
Una generazione di tecnici senza passione
Quella nata negli anni Sessanta, i baby boomers, è una generazione di tecnici, gente capace ad applicare, impressionata dalle potenzialità reddituali di un corso di studi, mai guidata dalla passione, mai spinta dal desiderio, ma sempre dall’opportunità. Uomini e donne che fin…
Una contesa tra avversari d'accordo sui principi
«Una volta padre Nicanor portò al castagno una scacchiera e una scatola di gettoni per invitarlo a giocare a dama, ma José Arcadio Buendia non accettò, affermando che non aveva mai potuto capire il significato di una contesa tra due avversari che erano d’accordo sui princìpi…
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Theory of Mind in six words
What is Theory of Mind? A literary example may help explain it. Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write an entire novel in only six words, and what he wrote is a perfect illustration of Theory of Mind. That’s because when you read it, it will activate yours. For sale…
Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea)
Un romanzo travestito da saggio
Apre il libro di Daniel Deserti, si mette a leggere. Le sensazioni che le comunicano le prime pagine sono le stesse di quando si era affacciata nell’abitacolo della vecchia Jaguar e l’aveva guardato negli occhi: attrazione, apprensione, desiderio di saperne di più. È un romanzo…
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
Il pennello e la spada
Il samurai si presenta, al senso comune, come un guerriero. Così, però, se ne coglie soltanto una parte della rigorosa formazione. La cultura letteraria era il complemento dell’arte della guerra, benché non tutti i samurai potessero fregiarsene.1 L’espressione «il pennello e la…
Micropublications: A Semantic Model For Claims, Evidence, Arguments And Annotations In Biomedical Communications
Limitations of statement-based models
Statement-based models have been proposed as mechanisms for publishing key facts asserted in the scientific literature or in curated databases in a machine processable form. Examples include: Biological Expression Language (BEL) statements [18]; SWAN, a model for claims and…
Prof.dr. B. Mons
Confirmational reading
The use of scientific literature and databases is rapidly shifting from ‘exploratory’ reading to ‘confirmational reading’ to check elements of the hypotheses that massive data analyses throw at us. This requires a very different role for scholarly communication and this is not…
Research Fronts 2014 : 100 Top Ranked Specialties In The Sciences And Social
The geography of science
Price hailed the work of Small and Griffith, remarking that while co-citation analysis of the scientific literature into clusters that map on a two dimensional plane “may seem a rather abstruse finding,” it was “revolutionary in its implications.”He asserted: “The finding…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Finding Win/Win role models
One thing I have found particularly helpful to Win/Lose people in developing a Win/Win character is to associate with some model or mentor who really thinks Win/Win. When people are deeply scripted in Win/Lose or other philosophies and regularly associate with others who are…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Advaita means not-two
Over the intervening years I had been surprised by the increasing number of people who were coming to feel the same way. Not only had Buddhism made steady inroads into Western culture, but so had the Indian tradition of Advaita Vedanta, of nondual philosophy. Probably Ramana…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
Defining periods and settling terminological disputes
The design of such thesauri contributes to: the basic problems of how to define cultural periods and their interrelations (even when precise time, space and other properties are debatable or even unknown), and to the applied problem of communication, that arises because of…