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How many thoughts are contained in a Mars Bar? – Sixty Symbols

How many thoughts are contained in a Mars Bar? – Sixty Symbols Discussing entropy, energy, information – and Maxwell”s Demon. Featuring Professor Phil Moriarty. H This was posted on Google+

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Take Home Free Wi-Fi From The Denver Public Library

Take Home Free Wi-Fi From The Denver Public Library Checking out books, CDs and DVDs from a library is nothing new, but now some families can also take home free Wi-Fi. This was posted on Google+

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Closing The Knowledge Gap With Low Cost Tech

Closing The Knowledge Gap With Low Cost Tech Long time readers of my posts will know about Anyfesto, a project to take low cost gear and make them local servers of all manner of goodness. Hearing this report on a local NPR station had me wondering about my most recent work on Anyfesto, that being […]

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Physics of Computer Chips – Computerphile

Physics of Computer Chips – Computerphile You can’t beat physics. Why the chip manufacturers are heading for a wall. We asked nano-scientist P This was posted on Google+

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Waves Around The World

Waves Around The World Do you miss twiddling around the dials looking for a signal, any signal , in the hiss of noise? Do you fondly remember getting your news from the various news services around the globe? This web site will make you happy. Wide-band WebSDR in Enschede, the Netherlands On this page you […]

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