Goran Zec

to je taj s leptirima? - Ognjen Strpić

predivno - Ognjen Strpić

"Digital clock: only figures, no case, only the necessary – only accurate time. Each figure has self-contained power supply and independent control, it can be fixed to any surface autonomously. A light sensor will switch the clock to an invert mode: the figures are white in the dark time of day and black at daytime. Design: Vadim Kibardin" - Goran Zec from Bookmarklet

"The new SunCatcher is about 5,000 pounds lighter than the original, is round instead of rectangular to allow for more efficient use of steel, has improved optics, and consists of 60 percent fewer engine parts. The revised design also has fewer mirrors — 40 instead of 80. The reflective mirrors are formed into a parabolic shape using stamped sheet metal similar to the hood of a car. The mirrors are made by using automobile manufacturing techniques. The improvements will result in high-volume production, cost reductions, and easier maintenance." - Goran Zec from Bookmarklet

Vrijedi vidjeti i http://friendfeed.com/zecg... - Goran Zec

"One of the most vigorous schools of contemporary philosophy is the small Slovenian circle associated with Slavoj Žižek. But Žižek himself speaks with embarrassment of his situation: ‘Many of my friends think that if there is a Slovenian Lacanian School and we publish so much abroad, then what must happen in the center? The answer is nothing, absolutely nothing [...]. It is almost as if we are caught with our pants down when somebody comes to Ljubljana and then we just have to tell him that nothing is happening here’. Though Žižek reads this predicament in terms of Lacan’s ‘void’ or ‘lack’ at the center, a Latourian interpretation of Ljubljana is more convincing. Namely, Žižek’s group is not a powerful essence housed in some mighty fortress of the Slovenian capital, but merely a network that mobilizes disciples, publishers, and other allies throughout the globe." - Goran Zec

‘Yes, we have lost the world. Yes, we are forever prisoners of language. No, we will never regain certainty. No, we will never get beyond our biases. Yes, we will forever be stuck within our own selfish standpoint. Bravo! Encore!’ - Goran Zec

E sori, ali užasno me iritira što linkaš na ukradeni članak na net-u, iako originalni tekst postoji na netu. Nije stvarno stvar u tome što radim za NL, nego u jednostavnoj činjenici da na portalima ne potpisuju autore tekstova (u najboljem slučaju potpišu prepisivače). Bilo bi zbilja u redu u takvim slučajevima ne dizati klikanost smeću od portala nego uložiti minimum truda i postati izvornik. U ovom slučaju: http://www.novilist.hr/Vijesti... - miroslav

@ Goran. NL sad ima portal i većina je stvari na portalu, ali nije to samo stvar Novog lista. Generalno je užas što se ne potpisuje prave autore. - miroslav

"Because SQL databases proved to be such an excellent tool within this narrow but often useful role, developers found themselves reaching for the SQL database for any job at all. It’s the default, the catch-all for storing nearly anything the application developer can think of - and even some things that aren’t data storage at all. When all you have is a hammer, etc. Overapplication of the solution has given SQL databases a bad rap. Instead, let’s shift our thinking: use SQL databases for what they are good for, and select a different tool for other kinds of jobs. Here’s a few scenarios, and the tool you might use for them instead of a SQL database." - Goran Zec

"...two memoirs—journalist Jonah Raskin’s “Field Days: A Year of Farming, Eating, and Drinking Wine in California,” an account of organic farming in Sonoma County, and novelist Brad Kessler’s “Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese,” a chronicle of learning to raise goats and make cheese on a farm in Vermont. [...] In these fresh, impassioned reports from the fields, Raskin and Kessler remind us that the farming renaissance has been rooting in this country for decades. Indeed, the connection between humans and growing things—plants, animals—is a bedrock we ignore at our peril. Their explorations, eloquently reported, remind us, too, of the simple pleasures of growing things, of herding, of re-entering the natural landscape so thoroughly that human concerns regain their proper scale." - Goran Zec

"This memoir impresses most when Kessler records the quotidian in all its mystery and beauty. He records in lyrical terms his sheer love of being in the company of his herd, and moments of sheer hedonism. The first taste of his own home-made fresh chevre, for instance. “It tasted like nothing we’d ever eaten before—a custard, a creamy pudding, the cheese so young and floral it held... more... - Goran Zec

slicno: http://www.dougfine.com & http://www.youtube.com/watch... - klemo

"Gregory Crewdson constructs impresive photographs of America’s Suburbia in which beauty and a strong sense of the bizzare converge in perfect harmony. His works seem to be largely inspired by American Film and the Barroque Tenebrist Painters (such as Rembrandt), and tend to show an almost frozen protagonist surrounded by beautiful chaos." - Goran Zec

"This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog communities. Such a project requires a multidisciplinary approach, and contributions represent perspectives from Rhetoric, Communication, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, and Education, among others. We encourage you to post your responses to the essays; please see our posting policies." via http://delicious.com/ognjen - Goran Zec

"The building blocks of life may be more than merely common in the cosmos. That’s the implication of a pattern found in the formation of amino acids in meteorites, deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and simulations of primordial Earth. The pattern appears to follow basic thermodynamic laws, applicable throughout the known universe. "This may implicate a universal structure of the first genetic codes anywhere," said astrophysicist Ralph Pudritz of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. [...] Pudritz’s analysis, co-authored with McMaster University biophysicist Paul Higgs and published Monday on arXiv, doesn’t settle the former debate, but it does suggest that [the 20] basic amino acids are even more common than thought, requiring little more than a relatively warm meteorite of sufficient size to form. And that’s just the start." - Goran Zec

arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0402 "Of the twenty amino acids used in proteins, ten were formed in Miller's atmospheric discharge experiments. The two other major proposed sources of prebiotic amino acid synthesis include formation in hydrothermal vents and delivery to Earth via meteorites. We combine observational and experimental data of amino acid frequencies formed by these... more... - Goran Zec

"In a study headed by psychology researcher Philippe Goldin, participants with SAD underwent Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction—a form of meditation that helped them direct their attention to the sensations of simple things like breathing, lying down or just walking around. After the two-month meditation training, participants were less anxious and thought of themselves more positively. Results of Goldin's study are slated for publication in the August issue of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology. [...] "The idea is that if a person has the psychological flexibility to shift freely from one mode of thinking to another mode, then that is a sign of health," said Goldin. "It's when we get stuck in certain thinking patterns that our beliefs become maladaptive."" - Goran Zec

"What lights up this castle of star formation? The familiar Eagle Nebula glows bright in many colors at once. The above image is a composite of three of these glowing gas colors. Pillars of dark dust nicely outline some of the denser towers of star formation. Energetic light from young massive stars causes the gas to glow and effectively boils away part of the dust and gas from its birth pillar. Many of these stars will explode after several million years, returning most of their elements back to the nebula which formed them. This process is forming an open cluster of stars known as M16." - Goran Zec from Bookmarklet

Uuuuuuu kako je socan APOD danas! - ILLA

"I hope to show that understanding a little about time in modern physics helps us more deeply appreciate some of the most profound ideas in Buddhism. Furthermore, I will also suggest that some appreciation of Middle Way Buddhist ideas could aid in the development of physics. Thus a nontrivial synergy between these two very different disciplines is possible, one that results in deeper understanding and more compassionate action. While time may be a devouring tiger, appreciating these ideas might help us attain equanimity and encourage us to act more compassionately toward each other and the planet." - Goran Zec

"Forget the cheesy narrator and hokey graphics. Wobble the camera like you're Michel Gondry filming Eternal Sunshine. Ditch the pseudo-techno soundtrack that makes the kids shake their heads at you for trying to be hip, and go for something understated. Then you might have something as good as Colliding Particles. The filmmakers behind this unusual web series have thrown pretty much every science documentary convention to the wind, and, in doing so, have hit on something great.(Face it, unless it's David Attenborough we can do without a disembodied voice booming over stock footage of stars and sunsets.) As the name suggests, Colliding Particles does indeed tackle that behemoth of physics, the Large Hadron Collider. But by focusing on just three people among the thousands that contribute to the grand project, the series avoids watching like just another mildly interesting film about the LHC." (blurb from http://bit.ly/2lmDGP - via http://ff.im/4ZYiE) - Goran Zec

"A popular genre among professional futurists is trend extrapolation, identifying those aspects of the present that are likely to become dominant in the shaping the future. These are more likely to be eutopic than dystopic, and so the client receives some mild uplift, which is after all what the futurist is being paid for. This paper offers an alternative approach, which is to see what sorts of things might go wrong in the next century. It makes no claims about the likelihood of any particular one of them occurring, but aims to present a structured list that could be helpful in alerting us to the opening of any one fault-line to a significant degree. There may be an accumulating sense of gloom as one works through this analyses; but that should not be interpreted as doom. All societies have their ailments, most of which are not lethal and some of which are actually resolved in time." - Goran Zec

"Pragmatically, our 21st century kids' education is quickly bifurcating. The formal half, “school,” is becoming an increasingly moribund and irrelevant institution. The informal, exciting half of kids' education occurs “after school.” [...] If our schools in the 21st century are to be anything more than holding pens for students while their parents work, we desperately need to find ways to help teachers integrate kids' technology-rich after-school lives with their lives in school. It doesn't help if, in the words of Henry Kelly, president of the Federation of American Scientists, “the cookies on my daughter's computer know more about her interests than her teachers do.” It helps even less that a great many of our teachers and administrators have no idea what a cookie or a blog or a wiki even is." - Goran Zec

"...about anything and nothing in particular." - Goran Zec

"In his revolutionary bestseller, THE LONG TAIL, Chris Anderson demonstrated how the online marketplace creates niche markets, allowing products and consumers to connect in a way that has never been possible before. Now, in FREE he makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them. Far more than a promotional gimmick, FREE is a business strategy that may well be essential to a company's survival. Pdf_16x16 288 Pages" - Goran Zec

AUDIO BOOK http://bit.ly/freelistening - dear2world

"Is sociology the study of social questions, or is it the study of associations? In this paper the author takes the second position and extends the study of our associations to nonhumans. To make the argument clearer, the author chooses one very humble nonhuman, a door-closer, and analyzes how this 'purely' technical artifact is a highly moral, highly social actor that deserves careful consideration. Then the author proposes a vocabulary to follow human and nonhuman relations without stopping at artificial divides between what is purely technical and what is social. The author builds 'its' or 'his' own text in such a way that the text itself is a machine that exemplifes several of the points made by the author. In particular, the author is constructed and deconstructed several times to show how many social actors are inscribed or prescribed by machines and automatism." - Goran Zec

Link is messed up. Try: http://www.psf.wur.nl/en... - Goran Zec

al zapravo - više filozofira :) (eto me, sociološka konzerva, eh) - Mare

"Adam Curtis has gone a bit mad. The insultingly gifted documentary maker behind The Century Of The Self and The Power Of Nightmares seemed rather quiet of late. In fact, since his 2007 BBC2 series The Trap, his only visible pieces of work were two short (and superb) mini-documentaries he created for my BBC4 series Screenwipe and Newswipe. People kept asking me what he was up to. I assumed he was chipping away at some new documentary which would be announced when he was ready. He's ready now. He's made a new documentary called It Felt Like A Kiss. Except it isn't just a documentary. It's also a piece of interactive theatre, with music composed by Damon Albarn and performed by the Kronos Quartet. And it doesn't take place in a cinema or concert hall, but across five floors of a deserted office block in Manchester." - Goran Zec

I like when he has to find the actor to act the actor who plays him while he directs the play about some actors that play him. LOL. Oh, there were movies like that, but, nothing so meta meta meta meta... :) In this dealing with reality I find some similarity. I would like to see this kind of work orchestrated on the web in the near future. :) - dear2world

"Looking at this from the female perspective, what we see is that marriage provides women with an opportunity to have relatively brief commitments to men, have children, and then sever the commitment while retaining the children and the financial support of her ex-husband. Now, you may say: that's awfully cynical! Most women are not like that! Not so fast. As you can see from the discussion of female human nature as it pertains to mating and sexuality in Part II, females will tend, by virtue of wired mating patterns that evolved too recently to have been overthrown, towards a kind of serial monogamy or polygyny, choosing mates among the best men they can find, as well as switching mates to get a healthier mix of quality sperm for their eggs, ensuring greater reproductive success down the line. Women have evolved to be like this – it works well for procreating their own line and increasing its likelihood of success in light of the limited reproductive opportunities women face." - Goran Zec

Mare, istina, djeluje jednodimenzionalno i cinično. Meni je zanimljiv dio kako društvo i zakonodavstvo podržavaju takvu strategiju žena... na tragu Fight Cluba i Durdenovog "We are a generation of men raised by women". - Goran Zec

Some scientists quibble with the name, but Fransson says the network really is the brain’s default. [...] “You don’t even have to be conscious for it to be apparent” [...] Slow yet coordinated fluctuations in activity bind the network together. The syncopations continue even while people are asleep, under anesthesia or in comas. But it is unlikely that such activity reflects ongoing conscious processing, Greicius contends. The fluctuations that move through the network are incredibly slow, he says, with one cycle every 15 to 20 seconds. Most conscious thought happens in split seconds, so it is more likely that the plodding pulses are for “subconscious synapse maintenance,” he says. Greicius thinks the low-level fluctuations in the network help keep the neurons in contact. [...] The default mode network sometimes stirs during monotonous tasks, drawing away a person’s attention. Such reactivation of the network predicted errors up to 30 seconds before a person made a mistake" - Goran Zec

"Alzheimer's disease appears to particularly affect brain areas involved in the default network. [...] People with schizophrenia also have faster cycles of activity in their default networks during a resting state than healthy people do, Calhoun and another group of colleagues reported in the March 2007 American Journal of Psychiatry." - Goran Zec

"Unspeakable beauty and unimaginable bedlam can be found together in the Trifid Nebula. Also known as M20, this photogenic nebula is visible with good binoculars towards the constellation of Sagittarius. The energetic processes of star formation create not only the colors but the chaos. The red-glowing gas results from high-energy starlight striking interstellar hydrogen gas. The dark dust filaments that lace M20 were created in the atmospheres of cool giant stars and in the debris from supernovae explosions. Which bright young stars light up the blue reflection nebula is still being investigated. The light from M20 we see today left perhaps 3,000 years ago, although the exact distance remains unknown. Light takes about 50 years to cross M20." - Goran Zec from Bookmarklet

Pretty! - Alix Whitmire ☂

"Forest gardening (also known as 3-Dimensional Gardening) is a food production and land management system based on replicating woodland ecosystems, but substituting trees (such as fruit or nut trees), bushes, shrubs, herbs and vegetables which have yields directly useful to humans. By exploiting the premise of companion planting, these can be intermixed to grow on multiple levels in the same area, as do the plants in a forest. In part based on the model of the Keralan home gardens, temperate-climate forest gardening was pioneered by the late Robert Hart on his one eighth of an acre (500 m²) plot at Wenlock Edge in Shropshire." via http://friendfeed.com/spaceco... - Goran Zec from Bookmarklet

"The three crops benefit from each other. The maize provides a structure for the beans to climb, eliminating the need for poles. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil that the other plants utilize and the squash spreads along the ground, monopolizing the sunlight to prevent weeds. The squash leaves act as a "living mulch," creating a microclimate to retain moisture in the soil, and the prickly hairs of the vine deter pests. Maize lacks the amino acids lysine and tryptophan, which the body needs to make proteins and niacin, but beans contain both and therefore together they provide a balanced diet. Native Americans throughout North America are known for growing variations of three sisters gardens. The Anasazi are known for adopting this garden design in a more xeric environment. The Tewa and other Southwest tribes often included a "fourth sister" known as "Rocky Mountain bee plant" (Cleome serrulata), which attracts bees to help pollinate the beans and squash." - Goran Zec

zaista genijalno - zlatko zivlak

da poleni jesu lepi...bivsa doktorantkinja moje majke se njima bavila pa sam se nagledala slika, a sada su jos lepsi sa unapredjenim mogucnostima mikroskopije - Ksenija

Neznani autor. - Goran Zec

Mišo pjeva: "Drugi joj raspliće kosu a jaje volim ! " Kakve veze ima jaje s tim ?! - Mario Profaca

argahahhhaa, MMK! - maja zeleninokat

gdje to? - Ognjen Strpić

Ideja je bila poslati pozive mailom u kojem zapravo *piše* tko organizira predavanje i kome se mogu javiti za dodatke podatke. Web sučelje je (ipak) samo rezervacija. FWIW, prihvaćam kritiku za domenu :-) - Dobrica Pavlinusic