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The story of the Royal Society is the story of modern science. Our origins lie in a 1660 ‘invisible college’ of natural philosophers and physicians. Today we are the UK’s national science academy and a Fellowship of some 1,600 of the world’s most eminent scientists. Nullius in verba The very first ‘learned society’ meeting on 28 November 1660 followed a lecture at Gresham College by Christopher Wren. The Royal Society's motto 'Nullius in verba' is taken to mean 'take nobody's word for it'. Advancements and adventure The early years of the Society saw revolutionary advancements in the conduct and communication of science. We published Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica, and Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment demonstrating the electrical nature of lightning. The leading scientific lights of the past four centuries can all be found among the 8,000 Fellows elected to the Society to date. Independence

splashpage-apps-maps Introducción a HTML5 HTML5 es la actualización de HTML, el lenguaje en el que es creada la web. HTML5 también es un termino de marketing para agrupar las nuevas tecnologías de desarrollo de aplicaciones web: HTML5, CSS3 y nuevas capacidades de Javascript.La versión anterior y más usada de HTML, HTML4, carece de características necesarias para la creación de aplicaciones modernas basadas en un navegador. El uso fuerte de Javascript ha ayudado a mejorar esto, gracias a frameworks como jQuery, jQuery UI, Sproutcore, entre otros. Flash en especial ha sido usado en reemplazo de HTML para desarrollar web apps que superaran las habilidades de un navegador: Audio, video, webcams, micrófonos, datos binarios, animaciones vectoriales, componentes de interfaz complejos, entre muchas otras cosas. Ahora HTML5 es capaz de hacer esto sin necesidad de plugins y con una gran compatibilidad entre navegadores. Nuevas etiquetas de HTML5 HTML4 y HTML5 son 100% compatibles entre sí. Código : o un . Hacer cosas como Este es obvio.

ChronoZoom ChronoZoom is an educational tool for teachers and students who want to put historical events in perspective. A great many resources have been created already in ChronoZoom for your enjoyment and enlightenment. Start Exploring Use ChronoZoom to get a perspective of the extensive scale of time and historical events relative to what happened around the world. New Teacher Resources RT @MSFTResearch: See how #Chronozoom helps students “think historically” & travel though time with 3 newly created curriculum modules http… #chronozoom is a valuable tool for illustrating Climate Change: @metanexus Anyone can author their small or Big History on the 14 Billion year timeline at - an open source project. @BillGates Congratulations to the Big History Project. RT @BillGates: Big History is my favorite course ever. You don't have any favorite timelines yet.

The Social Sciences | Research and Documentation Online 5th Edition Bibliography of Asian Studies. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 1956–. An index to European-language scholarly publications in Asian studies. Ethnic NewsWatch. Ann Arbor: ProQuest, 1985–. Handbook of Latin American Studies. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1935–. HAPI: Hispanic American Periodical Index. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1970–. African American Digital Initiatives Africa South of the Sahara . Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library . Center for World Indigenous Studies LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center NativeWeb: Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World Pew Hispanic Center Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Ed. American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation. Ed. Atlas of the North American Indian. By Carl Waldman. By Sam D. Ed. Ed.

Inequality Is The what, where, how and why of gene ontology—a primer for bioinformaticians Louis du PlessisLouis du Plessis is studying a Masters degree in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the ETH Zurich. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. His research interests include computational biology, machine learning and image processing. Nives ŠkuncaNives Škunca is a PhD student at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb. Her research interests include computational functional annotation and machine learning. Abstract With high-throughput technologies providing vast amounts of data, it has become more important to provide systematic, quality annotations. The first attempts at classifying gene functions made use of natural language annotations in databases. The ‘GO Consortium’ consists of a number of large databases working together to define standardized ontologies and provide annotations to the GO. Figure 1: The goal of this review is to provide a primer to the GO for bioinformaticians. Figure 2: Figure 3:

History business-card-designs By Janos Racz Long gone the days when you simply handed over a white piece of paper with your name and contact info on it to potential clients. Nowadays, who do you think clients will call first, the guy with his name on a sheet of paper or this other one with her name engraved in this colorful plastic wonder? And what’s that? A little magnifying glass and a free sample of her product? This is too good to be true! You get the idea, right? This is good news to designers, since it’s yet another opportunity to come up with new creative ideas to present corporate identities or market themselves, and it’s also good news to everyone else, since having stylish, beautiful business cards is a great way to express your uniqueness and maybe even get an edge over the competition. In this collection we present 50 beautiful business card designs for inspiration, we hope they’ll give you some ideas and inspiration for your next design project! Business Card by XtrDesign Brandcore corporate by digitalAM . . .

{{Hatnote}}: Listen to Wikipedia It’s been a little quiet on the Hatnote blog since the launch of RCMap, but today’s post puts an end to that. After a recent NPR/TED broadcast on the nature of collaboration gave a voice to real-time editing, we couldn’t help but try it out, too. So, without further ado, Listen to Wikipedia. (Tune your speakers/headphones accordingly.) Bells are additions, strings are subtractions. Apart from being a hopefully-pleasant audiation, Listen to Wikipedia (L2W) also addresses a couple other inquiries we’ve gotten more than a few times: Whereas RCMap only displays anonymous edits, L2W presents all edits to the main namespace in real time, with special handling for new-user signups for good measure.L2W uses color a bit differently, too. Listen to Wikipedia was written by Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi, and is open-source. We hope you enjoy listening to L2W as much as we enjoyed building it. –Stephen and Mahmoud

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