Saturday, October 30, 2010

The four principles of wikinomics: openness, peering, sharing and acting global

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The word and prefix wiki means quick or fast. It has roots in the Hawaiian language or even deeper in Austronesian [1]. The term wikinomic...
Monday, October 25, 2010

E-readers present e-books on e-ink screens

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The e for electronic became popular with terms such as e-mail. Today, the letter e, followed by a hyphen, precedes various nouns that nam...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

Nebulosa hermani, a dioptine moth named after Lee H. Herman, a curator at the American Museum of Natural History

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Nebulosa hermani is a moth species of the Dioptinae subfamily. James S. Miller describes how he caught it in the Andean cloud forest of Ec...

Velvet belly lantern shark, a dogfish shark species named after its velvet-black, bioluminescent belly

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The velvet belly lantern shark ( Etmopterus spinax ) is named after its velvet-black belly [1]. Shorter names for this dogfish shark specie...
Friday, October 22, 2010

LAMP stack: Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP and Perl bundle

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A lamp is a lamp. But written with all letters in upper-case, LAMP is an acronym in information technology, standing for the collection of ...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Weltwissen, a German compositum directing attention to a science exhibition in Berlin

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The German word Weltwissen is composed of the two nouns Welt and Wissen meaning world and knowledge , respectively. The meaning of the c...
Monday, October 18, 2010

Kurzarbeit, a German compositum referring to employee retainment during times of recession

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The German term Kurzarbeit is composed of the adjective kurz , meaning short, and the noun Arbeit , meaning work or employment. For an empl...