Saturday, September 12, 2009

Tropea

clipped from www.panoramio.com
Italy - Panorama Pizzo 3
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Tropea - Italy

A beautiful place like CInque terre and the beaches of Amalfi ..without the tourists
City of Tropea and the Piccola UniversitĂ  Italiana
n 1993 the Centre was founded as “Caffè Culturale”. In 2004 the name was changed to “Piccola UniversitĂ  Italiana” it has been recognized with  presa d’atto prot 23860/P from 30.11.04 by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. The Centre is located in the heart of Tropea in a beautiful house typical of the area. Lessons are held in classrooms or else out on the terrace.
Tropea is a charming medieval town of 7000 inhabitants situated at the neck of the "Boot" at the same latitude as the famous Eolean islands. Italians refer to it affectionately as the "Pearl of Calabria"
The town is built on a rock which rises 42 meters from the sea and every visitor cannot but be charmed by its romantic winding lanes.
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Friday, September 11, 2009

September 11, 2001 As Seen From Space

very sad day...
space
the chaos taking place in lower Manhattan was very visible from more than 250 miles above Earth
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One of a series of pictures taken of metropolitan New York City (and other parts of New York as well as New Jersey) by one of the Expedition Three crew members onboard the International Space Station (ISS) at various times during the day of September 11, 2001. The image shows a smoke plume rising from the Manhattan area. The orbital outpost was flying at an altitude of approximately 250 miles. The image was recorded with a digital still camera. <via globalsecurity.org>
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The smoke plume extending into New Jersey.
View of New York City on 9/11/01 from the International Space Station
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what pilots see regularly

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http://imgur.com/mzt0i.jpg
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a never ending wave ....

clipped from www.youtube.com

wakesurfing

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HOW TO WAKESURF

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How To Hide An Airplane

clipped from www.sonnyradio.com

During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers
needed to
hide





the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to
protect it from


being a




target for



a Japanese air attack. They covered it with
camouflage


netting and to make it look like a rural
subdivision from the air.




Before...


After...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Philosophical Weblogs

This is a list of weblogs that are devoted to topics in and around analytic philosophy, or that are by analytic philosophers
clipped from consc.net

Philosophical Weblogs

This is a list of weblogs that are devoted to topics in and around
analytic philosophy, or that are by analytic philosophers.
Suggestions for addition are welcome.

  • Bioethics (Bioethics.net)
  • Group Weblogs (Topical)

  • Ethics (Ethics Etc)
  • Philosophy of Mind (Brains)
  • Philosophy of Mind (Brain Pains)
  • Metaphysics (Matters of Substance)
  • Philosophy of Sport
  • Philosophy of Time
  • Philosophy Talk
  • Teaching Philosophy (In Socrates' Wake)
  • What Sorts of People Should There Be?
  • Philosophy of Religion (Prosblogion)
  • Political Philosophy (Public Reason)
  • Philosophy of Science (It's Only A Theory)
  • Philosophy of Art
  • Gender, Race, and Philosophy
  • Free Will/Responsibility (Garden of Forking Paths)
  • Feminist Philosophers
  • Formal Epistemology (Choice and Inference)
  • Ethics (Pea Soup)
  • Ethics of Resource Allocation
  • Experimental Philosophy
  • Group Weblogs (Local)

  • ANU (Probably Possible)
  • London (Bloggin the Question)
  • Philosophers (= roughly: Philosophy Ph.D.)

  • Anton Alterman (Brain Scam)
  • Albert Atkin (The Wages of Ignorance)
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