| Нехайки #49, #50 |
[Mar. 5th, 2004|08:33 am] |
old king and his horse
in pigeon graffiti -
waiting for rain
pillow talk promises -
dream on,
dream on... |
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| reading |
[Mar. 5th, 2004|08:36 am] |
Soul Made Flesh. The Discovery of the Brain - and How It Changed the World. by Carl Zimmer.
Essential Tibetan Buddhism. by Robert A.E. Thurman.
How the Irish Saved Civilization. by Thomas Cahill. |
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| Science news (biology, medicine) |
[Mar. 5th, 2004|08:47 am] |
Mysterious virus may thwart HIV
HIV patients who are also infected by a second, mysterious virus are less likely to develop AIDS and die of the disease, suggests a new study.
Up to six years after their initial HIV-infection, men whose blood contained the second virus - known simply as GB virus C (GBV-C) - were nearly three times less likely to die than HIV-positive men who did not have the secondary infection.
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| Science news (teen psych development) |
[Mar. 5th, 2004|08:51 am] |
Celebrity "friends" key in teen development
Celebrity worship may play an important part of growing up, suggest the results of a UK study.
Star-struck teens are generally emotionally well-adjusted and popular, with their celebrity interests forming a healthy part of adolescent development and bonding, say psychologists from the Universities of Leicester and Coventry.
However, those with extreme celebrity fascination, are likely to be lonely children without close attachments to friends or family, suggests the new study.
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| Антология хайку. Переводы. Владимир Герцик. |
[Mar. 5th, 2004|03:37 pm] |
#5
На голой ветке
Березы - маленькие
Бутоны капель
On a bare birch
Branch - tiny
Buds of water |
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| Intellectual Property. Greenspan at Stanford. |
[Mar. 5th, 2004|04:09 pm] |
Intellectual property the next big thing, Greenspan predicts
As America's economy shifts from emphasizing the production of material goods to the creation of ideas, the issue of intellectual property rights has assumed increasing importance, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Feb. 27 at the inaugural economic summit hosted by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
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| Science/technology. Artificial vision. |
[Mar. 5th, 2004|04:13 pm] |
Model keeps virtual eyes right
You can tell a lot about a person by noticing where that person's gaze falls, and how long it stays.
Researchers from the University of Southern California have developed a computer simulation of the areas in the primate brain that perform initial visual processing, and have used the neurobiological model to produce realistic automatic head and eye movements in a virtual model of a human head.
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