Pillars of Creation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
february 2012 by james
The Pillars of Creation no longer exist. In 2007, astronomers announced that they were destroyed about 6,000 years ago by the shock wave from a supernova. Because of the limited speed of light, the shock wave's approach to the pillars can currently be seen from Earth, but their actual destruction will not be visible for another millennium.
space
wikipedia
february 2012 by james
Leading question - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
march 2011 by james
"[L]eading question is a question that suggests the answer or contains the information the examiner is looking for."
language
law
wikipedia
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march 2011 by james
2010 Flash Crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
february 2011 by james
"[T]he equity market began to fall rapidly, dropping more than 600 points in 5 minutes for an almost 1000 point loss on the day by 2:47 pm. Twenty minutes later, by 3:07 pm, the market had regained most of the 600 point drop. [...] [P]rices stopped falling when, At 2:45:28 p.m., trading on the E-Mini was paused for five seconds[...]"
wikipedia
finance
economics
algorithms
from delicious
february 2011 by james
YAGO2
february 2011 by james
"YAGO2 is a huge semantic knowledge base, derived from Wikipedia, WordNet and GeoNames. "
nlp
data
wikipedia
wordnet
geonames
from delicious
february 2011 by james
Virtual water - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
april 2010 by james
"Virtual water (also known as embedded water, embodied water, or hidden water) refers, in the context of trade, to the water used in the production of a good or service."
water
food
environment
wikipedia
from delicious
april 2010 by james
The Great Game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
july 2008 by james
"The Great Game is a British term for what the British saw as a strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia."
history
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afghanistan
russia
empire
july 2008 by james
Planned obsolescence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
july 2008 by james
"the process of a product becoming obsolete and/or non-functional after a certain period or amount of use in a way that is planned or designed by the manufacturer."
obsolescence
business
wikipedia
economics
design
july 2008 by james
Oku no Hosomichi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
march 2008 by james
'meaning "Narrow road to/of the interior", translated alternately as The Narrow Road to the Deep North and The Narrow Road to the Interior) is a major work by the Japanese poet, Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694)'
travel
wikipedia
poetry
japan
japanese
march 2008 by james
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