The much-anticipated—and dreaded—report outlines the coalition government's plans to address the largest budget deficit Britain has faced outside of wartime. Almost all government departments, excluding health and overseas aid, will see their budgets cut by an average of 19 percent over four years, according to the so-called spending review. Cuts of 83 billion pounds (about $131-billion) are expected to result in the elimination of 490,000 public-sector jobs.
The news for British universities is particularly bad: Excluding research support, which will remain flat, the amount of money going to higher education will decline by 40 percent over the next four years, from 7.1 billion pounds (about $11-billion) to 4.2 billion pounds (about $6.6-billion).
"Could you actually take your oath that you are the son of the father of whom she says that you are? Telemachus, you know, did not care at all to insist in support of Penelope, the daughter of Icarius, who was regarded as a very chaste woman, that she spoke the truth when she declared that Odysseus was his father.
Nel fondo manoscritti sono compresi: codici del sec. XV, Cronache, Statuti e ordinamenti, Archivi familiari, blasonari e genealogie, raccolte di iscrizioni, altri manoscritti di argomento faentino.
Tra i più conosciuti si citano:... Felice Feliciano Veronese [Sylloge inscriptionum latinarum veterum] (riconosciuto da Augusto Campana come in parte autografo).
An analysis of 10,000 porn stars' careers and demographic profiles that uncovers what they really look like, what they do, and how their role has changed
The Codex Seraphinianus is a book written and illustrated by the Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978.[1] The book is approximately 360 pages long (depending on edition), and appears to be a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world, written in one of its languages, a thus-far undeciphered alphabetic writing.
“It’s hard for me to imagine someone dedicating themselves to producing page after page of what looks like writing without it being writing, just for that purpose,” Jackson said.
Let readers attempt to build up their own numeracy in a very simple way. All they need to do is to get a sheet of paper and write down on it the numbers 1 to 20. Then they should proceed to think a bit about some large numbers that seem of interest to them, and try to estimate them within one order of magnitude (or two, for the larger ones). By "estimate" here, I mean actually do a back-of-the-envelope (or mental) calculation, ignoring all but factors of ten. Then they should attach the idea to the computed number.
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
The goal of Lybba is to create an online central repository of medical information, a "Wikipedia" for the health care industry. Lybba is a non-profit organization that is committed to transforming health care using the principles of the open source movement.
Learning to program is like learning to write good natural language. The best way to do it is to read some stuff written by masters of the form, write some things yourself, read a lot more, write a little more, read a lot more, write some more ... and repeat until your writing begins to develop the kind of strength and economy you see in your models.
LEAD: In Kennebunkport, Me., the Vice President is known to one and all as ''George.'' And why not? George Herbert Walker Bush started hanging out in Kennebunkport before he could spell c-a-t, let alone c-h-a-r-i-s-m-a. They know him up there. But what's the rest of America's reason for turning surnames, complete with Mrs., Mr., Ms.
Per "letteratura italiana" intendiamo un campo vastissimo di opere, autori, testi e scritti che coprono un larghissimo arco cronologico, che va dal Duecento
What a fantastic way to learn ancient history: via the parallels with modern times. This book was a smash hit when it first came out in 1939, and yet it went out of print, and hasn't been in print in half a century.
We’ve been claiming information overload for decades, if not centuries. As a species, we’re pretty good at inventing new tools to deal with the problems of increasing information: language,...
Upravo odsutnost iz kanona čini Josipa Horvata svojevrsnom neispisanom pločom, likom razmjerno čistim od sedimenata “ocjena i mišljenja” prethodnih generacija, i stoga privlačnim za nas. Neinterpretirani, “neobrađeni” Horvat postaje točka s koje možemo početi drugačije razgledavati onu prošlost čijim su nas “ispravnim interpretacijama”; razgledavati je, na primjer, sa sviješću da uz glavni, dominantni akord uvijek postoje i drugačiji suzvuci
Und heute schon ist das Buch, wie die aktuelle wissenschaftliche Produktionsweise lehrt, eine veraltete Vermittlung zwischen zwei verschiedenen Kartothekssystemen. Denn alles Wesentliche findet sich im Zettelkasten des Forschers, der's verfaßte, und der Gelehrte, der darin studiert, assimiliert es seiner eigenen Kartothek.
The first step in providing a proper analysis of the dramatic view Lucius Anneus Seneca held, in regards to his tragedy works, is to investigate his language and precise use of high and pregnant words.
radio aporee is an open project about the creation and exploration of public soundscapes. it collects and organizes sound recordings from daily surroundings and environments all over the world
Predstavljanje knjige autora prof. dr. sc. Pave Barišića, ministra znanosti i obrazovanja , "Ideal vladavine puka - Uvod u filozofiju demokracije" u izdanju Hrvatskoga filozofskog društva i Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Splitu održano je u utorak, 20. prosinca, u Sveučilišnoj knjižnici u Splitu. Riječ je o knjizi nastaloj sistematiziranjem i prilagodbom uglavnom ranije objavljenih tekstova, odnosno o sveučilišnom udžbeniku za kolegij Filozofija demokracije Odsjeka za filozofiju...
2014. 120. obljetnica rođenja Pavla Vuk-Pavlovića. 2014 120th Anniversary of Vuk-Pavlović’s Birth. 2014. 120. obljetnica rođenja Pavla Vuk-Pavlovića. 2014 120th Anniversary of Vuk-Pavlović’s Birth. autor Milan Polić. proizvedeno 2004. / 2014. Podrijetlo Slideshow...
"Ja mislim da Rijeka ionako malo glasa za nju. Rijeka je multinacionalna, više je, neću reći čija, ali dobro je, ostali smo živi i po porijeklu imovine i svačemu", kazala je Dubravka Grabar.
Nakon rehabilitacije Draže Mihailovića u Srbiji i sve učestalijeg veličanja ustaštva u Hrvatskoj, uz paralelne pokušaje da se četnički i ustaški pokret prikažu kao antifašistički, naprosto se nameće pitanje: tko je uopće bio na poraženoj, fašističkoj strani?
Yesterday news broke about the discovery of a graffito from Pompeii that was, in the usual sensationalist way, hailed as a text that would require us to rewrite our history books: https://www.instagram.com/p/BpAaf2XitTm/?taken-by=massimo_osanna The text, according to Massimo Osanna and Antonio Varone and on the basis of the published photo, ought to be read as follows:…
Currently in Universities, students are being prepared for jobs that do not exist. We are training to use technologies that will not exist for years. We are training students to solve problems that we don't even know are problems yet. People 10 years ago were expected to have 3 different careers in their lifetime. Todays learners will have 10 - 14 jobs by the time they are 38 years old. In today's workforce 1 in 4 workers have been with their current employer for less than 1 year and 1 of 2 workers has been thier for less than 5 years. How does that make you feel in Thailand when you pay for your government job? Wanna know more?....
The TLG Canon currently includes 3657 authors from Homer to the fall of Byzantium. Approximately 1000 of them do not have texts in the corpus--the texts are in various stages of digitization or correction but will eventually be added. The TLG corpus contains approximately 8,000 files. Many of these files represent work collections (e.g. Anthologia Graeca), therefore, we have no way of estimating the exact number of actual works. A rough estimate: 11,000. The number of words is another difficult question to answer because it depends of what one defines as a word (e.g. should partial words be included?) Again, a rough estimate would be 84 million (currently in the online version). For the period from Homer to 2 AD the TLG contains 1719 authors, an approximate total of 20 million words.
Tijekom 18. i 19. stoljeća kroz šumovite predjele Gorskog kotara sagrađene su četiri ceste koje su povezale Panonsku nizinu s Hrvatskim primorjem. Izgradnju Karoline, Jozefine, Lujzijane i Rudolfine pokrenuli su austrijski vladari po kojima su dobile...
Official website of the Cassini Imaging Team and the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) where Saturn system images are processed, archived, and posted for the scientific community and the public. The Imaging Team leader, Dr. Carolyn Porco, is the Director of CICLOPS.
A CRITIC AT LARGE about management consulting. Ordering people around was elevated to a science in October of 1910, when Louis Brandeis, a lawyer from Boston, held a meeting with a bunch of experts who, at Brandeis’s urging, decided to call what they were experts at “scientific management.” Everyone there…
The Codex Seraphinianus was written and illustrated by Italian graphic designer and architect, Luigi Serafini during the late 1970's. The Codex is a lavishly produced book that purports to be an encyclopedia for an imaginary world in a parallel universe, with copious comments in an incomprehensible language. It is written in a florid script, entirely invented and completely illegible, and illustrated with watercolor paintings.
Technologically, craftsmen were ready to follow Gutenberg’s example, opening presses across Europe. But they could only guess at what to print, and the public saw no particular need to buy books. The books they knew, manuscript texts, were valuable items and were copied to order. The habit of spending money to read something a printer had decided to publish was an alien one.
nversion. If you’re stuck, come up with ideas for the opposite of what you want. If your goal was to design the best website for your team, switch to designing the worst one you can imagine. Five minutes at an inverted problem will get your frustrations out, make you laugh, and likely get you past your fears. Odds are high you’ll hit something so horribly bad that it’s interesting, and in studying it, you’ll discover good ideas you would never have found any other way.
Do the people who constantly pester us for our opinions care what each and every one of us really thinks? Sort of and not really. What they require are opinions in bulk, so many of them that they can be analysed and averaged out and processed into useful data. Only then can they be sold, and then used to encourage us to buy more stuff. Our judgments matter, but primarily in aggregate, which makes us not so different from the faceless mass of television's audience as we are sometimes led to believe. The main distinction is that the crowdsourced are active collaborators in the commodification of their opinions, while TV viewers just get to sit on their duffs.