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Latest technology of 2009

I'm a self-proclaimed technical wizard and these are the latest and greatest things to be hitting store shelves this year. Betamax cassettes and video recording doohickies. These magic tapes will play movie...

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Filk Music

Filk music originated in the 1950s when science fiction fans would gather at a convention for a sing-along. The word filk derives from folk. Apparently, there was a typo in the program flyer, and a new musical genre emerged! A filksong is often a...

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Historiography of Ada Augusta Lovelace

In this new 21st century we share an image of a computer programmer best epitomized by that wunder-geek, Bill Gates. Few people would guess the individual long considered the first computer programmer was a...

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Everyday is significant-October (First half)

People often wait for a 'good day' to start doing a good work. But, No, it is proper forethought, planning, ability to accumulate resources etc, that make a venture success. If we look into the history, we...

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Free Tools On The Internet For Satellite Tracking

In this digital age there os nothing that technological sphere does not cover. Similarly, hobbies have also gone hi-tech and ‘tracking satellites' in orbits is one such hobby among many others. Enthusiastic amateurs from around the world use...

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What's NASA Worth?

Space cowboys, riding their expensive rocket engines into the sky, are wasting our time and money. Their job ended when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, but continues to give our strained economy no respite....

2 comments    technology science united states
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Are We Able To Grow The American Economy While Also Balancing The Budget?

I have been in a quandary the past few weeks while I developed and then wrote my Hub, "My Budget Alternative To Rep. Paul Ryan's Path To Survival Of The Fittest". That article was written because of my urgent feeling that our federal budget deficit...

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Earth's Fate May Have Already Been Recorded

Was the first man made object sent into space from Earth, a suicide note?

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The New Literates

That which we choose to define, we choose over which to have responsibility -- which explains why we now have a largely irresponsible culture, and defintions being confused with both divinity and duplicity.

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Teens in 1950's, Sputnik and Russian Scientists

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