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txt: CERN: How the web began

The first proposal for the World Wide Web (WWW) was made at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, and further refined by him and Robert Cailliau in 1990.

 

txt: Antimatter atoms produced and trapped at CERN

Antimatter – or the lack of it – remains one of the biggest mysteries of science. Matter and its counterpart are identical except for opposite charge, and they annihilate when they meet. At the Big Bang, matter and antimatter should have been produced in equal amounts. However, we know that our world is made up of matter: antimatter seems to have disappeared. To find out what has happened to it, scientists employ a range of methods to investigate whether a tiny difference in the properties of matter and antimatter could point towards an explanation.

 

links:

  - CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva.

- The ALPHA Collaboration

- CERN Courier: Keeping antihydrogen: the ALPHA trap

 

img: General views of the ALPHA experiment; - CERN PhotoLab

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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:19:43 -0800 A digital Googlenaissance http://oddtag.posterous.com/a-digital-googlenaissance http://oddtag.posterous.com/a-digital-googlenaissance txt: A digital renaissance: partnering with the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage
The Renaissance, Europe's period of cultural, political and scientific rebirth, began in Florence around 600 years ago. At Google we're interested in a (small “r”) renaissance of a different kind — a digital one. Since the launch of Google Books, we’ve been working with libraries and publishers around the globe to bring more of the world's books to more readers around the globe. Any school child should be able to access the works of Petrarch, Dante or Vico (or, if they're so inclined, Machiavelli). In the case of these more famous authors, this is already largely possible, but what about the work of Guglielmo il Giuggiola or Coluccio Salutati? We want all of the great literature and writings of Italy to be accessible to the general public.
links: - MiBAC / Google: Conferenza Stampa di presentazione di uno storico accordo - Europeana

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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:05:03 -0800 Internet as a tool (of freedom) http://oddtag.posterous.com/internet-as-a-tool-of-freedom http://oddtag.posterous.com/internet-as-a-tool-of-freedom txt: March 11, 2010: Lawrence Lessig speech at Italian Parliament: Internet is Freedom [blip.tv ?posts_id=3351759&dest=-1]

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