Daily Archives: October 17, 2012

Alexandria was built to align with Alexander the Great’s birth date

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Deskarati

Giulio Magli and Luisa Ferro with the Politecnico of Milan claim in a paper published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology that new evidence they’ve uncovered shows that the ancient city of Alexandria in Egypt was built to align with … Continue reading →

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Iodine

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Deskarati
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Earth-sized planet found around Alpha Centauri B

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Deskarati

European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system—the nearest to Earth. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered around a star like the Sun. The planet … Continue reading →

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The cardboard bicycle

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Deskarati

Don’t tell Izhar Gafni that a bicycle can’t be made of cardboard. An Israeli engineer working in industrial design, he was always fascinated by the potential that comes from the interplay of technologies applied to materials. Gafni was too curious … Continue reading →

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Logical Positivism

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Deskarati

The formalism of philosophy shown by Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein was further developed by a group of philosophers in Vienna and Berlin.  In the early part of the twentieth century, they formed the Vienna Circle and the Berlin Circle with a doctrine … Continue reading →

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