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Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic.
Baloney.
” — Newsweek, 1995: http://www.newsweek.com/id/106554[video]
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Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic: case report -
From British Medical Journal:
As a surgeon Rogozov had no difficulty diagnosing acute appendicitis.In this situation, however, it was a cruel trick of fate. Heknew that if he was to survive he had to undergo an operation.But he was in the frontier conditions of a newly founded Antarcticcolony on the brink of the polar night. Transportation was impossible.Flying was out of the question, because of the snowstorms. Andthere was one further problem: he was the only physician onthe base.
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This is a real photo of the sky over northern Norway last night. And no one knows what it is.