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... to the sayings ofthe sages of old and modern times, I would like to offer my own definitions of culture and morality In my view, the mix ofthe beliefs and deeds of a society constitutes the ... scorching sun of their habitat by covering virtually all parts of their bodies On the other hand, the inhabitants ofthe wet tropics have to minimize their clothing to enhance the ventilation ofthe body, ... challenges, from the funding of scientific research andthe recruiting of new individuals into the fields of science and technology to the communication of both the value of science and specific...
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... ofthe key environments in which this work formed and developed These include the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences (and especially the Interact Lab) at the University of Sussex, UK; the ... seepage has been gathering momentum with the advent of texts, PCs, coevolving software agents, and user-adaptive home and office devices The mind is just less and less in the head If we not always ... Space The year is 1960 The pulse of space travel beats insistently within the temples of research and power, andthe journal Astronautics publishes the paper that gave the term “cyborg” to the...
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