day 1 - mercoledì 22 luglio
Il gruppo è formato da me, Luca, Roberto (detto “il Presidente”) e Stefano. Luca e Roberto fanno 102 anni messi assieme; e come ama ripetere Luca, il merito è tutto del Presidente. Stefano, tranquillo, rilassato e simpaticissimo, viene da Pisa, ed è quello che ha …
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This is the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/business/energy-environment/24geotherm.html
And this is one very nice and informed comment from a PhD student that puts things into the right perspective:
more ...1) The major difference between enhanced geothermal and standard oil and gas extraction is the …
Echidna e ornitorinco sono dei mammiferi ovipari appartenenti all’ordine Monotremata. Ecco dei brani tratti dall’articolo del New York Times che mi ha catturato:
more ...The long-beaked echidna is a genuine living link between reptiles and birds on one branch, and more familiar placental mammals like ourselves on the next …
A couple of quotes taken from a nice article by Philip Greenspun which does not deal with diets:
Diet #1
more ...In the 1980s Steve Ward, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, described a sure-fire dieting scheme. “All that you need for my diet is graph paper …
This piece which appeared on the New York Times a few weeks ago got me hooked: “They had it made”, by David Brooks. This is just one click away from the full essay published on the online June issue of The Atlantic, “What makes us happy”, by Joshua W. Shenk …
more ...La differenza nel trattamento delle notizie. Ecco come il New Yorker e La Repubblica sviluppano due articoli profondamente differenti partendo dalla stessa notizia di agenzia:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/02/11/080211fa_fact_hersh/
http://www.repubblica.it/2007/08/sezioni/esteri/medio-oriente-36/israele-siria/israele-siria.html
more ...Useless stats on network speeds using speedtest.net.
- Eni / ??? / Milano
70932 kbps (download) 16594 kbps (upload)
ping 13 ms
- Wind / ADSL / Bari
535 kbps (download) 213 kbps (upload)
ping 126 ms
- Alice / ADSL / Pietro Bari
2696 kbps (download) 251 kbps (upload)
ping 115 ms
- Fastweb / ADSL / Giulia
4840 kbps (download …
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Il numero 26 di Alpinist non uscirà mai.
E anche io ho smesso di arrampicare. Niente più climbing partners.
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