Glasgow's joking computer
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Glasgow Science Centre in Scotland is exhibiting a computer that makes up jokes using its database of simple language rules and a large vocabulary.
News tagged with workshop
Obsidian handaxe-making workshop from 1.2 million years ago discovered in Ethiopia
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Spain, working with two colleagues from France and another from Germany has discovered an Obsidian handaxe-making workshop from 1.2 million years ago in the Awash ...
Tear down academic silos: Take an 'undisciplinary' approach
Solving societal problems such as climate change could require dismantling rigid academic boundaries, so that researchers from varying disciplines could work together collaboratively—through an "undisciplinary" approach, ...
Social Sciences
Jun 2, 2022
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Beyond LHC: Particle physicists explore the potential of more powerful proton colliders
(Phys.org) —An international group of about 100 physicists gathered last week for the first formal workshop at SLAC to explore the world of high-energy physics beyond CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which is famous for unearthing ...
General Physics
May 5, 2014
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Google replants its garage roots in tech workshops
Amid all the free food and other goodies that come with a job at Google Inc., there's one benefit a lot of employees don't even know about: a cluster of high-tech workshops that have become a tinkerer's paradise.
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Apr 26, 2011
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New report details AI infrastructure for Earth system predictability
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) to help collect, understand and analyze large sets of information has the potential to revolutionize our ability to observe, understand and predict processes in Earth's systems.
Earth Sciences
Jan 24, 2023
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Learning how clothes are made has a 'transformative' effect on people's relationship with fast fashion
Knowing more about how clothes were made can have a transformative effect on people's relationship with fast fashion, a new study shows.
Social Sciences
Aug 12, 2022
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Can improv boost the confidence of marginalized youth? Researcher partners with Second City theater to find out
Shortly before the pandemic, the University of Toronto's Stephanie Begun put up some flyers for a free improv workshop at a Toronto homeless shelter for youth. It was an idea she'd been toying with for years—that participating ...
Social Sciences
Dec 8, 2021
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Learning biology by playing with proteins
It's a cloudy July afternoon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and MIT Edgerton Center Instructor Amanda Mayer is using brightly-colored plastic to build proteins. She takes a small yellow block and moves it to the end of a chain ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 26, 2021
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Remodeling ruins to preserve rural heritage
Around 120 architecture students, including some from EPFL, took part in a unique workshop on Mount Luzzone in Ticino on 6–7 July 2019. They remodeled the ruins of an ancient hamlet in order to preserve an important—and ...
Archaeology
Jul 9, 2019
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