Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Monday, July 14, 2003

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Leonardo da Vinci: "Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]


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SGI Releases New Workstations: "SGI unveiled two new graphics workhorses today, the Tezro (an Octane2 replacement) and the much-anticipated Onyx 4." [Slashdot]


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The End of Cancer (As We Know It): "Meet three scientists who are using the revelations of the Human Genome Project to reshape medicine. By Jennifer Kahn from Wired magazine." [Wired News]


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Pentagon Alters LifeLog Project: "Bending a bit to privacy concerns, the Pentagon changes some of the experiments to be conducted for LifeLog, its effort to record every tidbit of information and encounter in daily life. No video recording of unsuspecting people, for example. By Noah Shachtman." [Wired News]