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24 August 2011

Preserving the confusion of tongues

Only 3% of people speak 96% of the languages left in the world. Each language reflects the culture and environment of the people who speak it, but we're in a race against time to preserve what we can of these small insights into humanity's past. Peter Wittenburg describes the tactics being taken in Europe to document some 70 dying languages around the world and to capture the culture each embodies.

Peter Wittenburg
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How do new high-performance computing users know where to start when they set out to learn more about HPC? The training roadmap aims to have the answers.

Miriam Boon
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The bridge between Europe and India

Using robots in Grenoble, France, Indian researchers in Mumbai could perform crystallography on  HIV proteins.

Dipak Singh
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Mapping publications in science
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Reading you like a computer

Researchers have developed a new algorithm that can determine whether someone is threatening or trustworthy just by analyzing the features of a person's face. So who is more attractive, Cameron Diaz or Albert Einstein?

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