Author: RafaelFajardo

Micro Python: more powerful than Arduino, simpler than the Raspberry Pi Wired UK University of Cambridge theoretical physicist Damien George has built a tiny microcontroller that is more powerful thanArduino and far simpler than the Raspberry Pi. Just funded onKickstarter, the £24 board runs an adapted version of Python known as Micro Python and will allow users to simply paste lines of… Read more →

Spanish version original Amapola, lindísima Amapola, Será siempre mi alma tuya, sola. Yo te quiero, amada niña mía, Igual que ama la flor la luz del día. Amapola, lindísima Amapola, No seas tan ingrata, ámame. Amapola, Amapola, ¿Cómo puedes tú vivir tan sola? via Amapola song – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. “Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)” is a 1924 song by… Read more →

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC said the total area of opium poppy fields in Afghanistan was up 36% last year to 209,000 hectares 516,450 acres. Potential production of opium rose 49% to 5,500 tons, more than global demand. Southern provinces such as Helmand saw the largest increase. via Afghanistans opium production at record high | Circa News. Read more →

In western Herat Province, held up as an island of stability and progress in Afghanistan, this forlorn border town is instead a showcase for an intensifying crisis: Long the global leader in opium production, Afghanistan has now also become one of the world’s most addicted societies. via That Other Big Afghan Crisis, the Growing Army of Addicts – NYTimes.com. Read more →

Few doubts remain that a cave discovered by a team of Italian archeologists led by Professor Francesco D’Adria in the ancient city of Hierapolis in classical Phrygia is indeed the mythical ‘Gate to Hell’ of Greek antiquity.Celebrated as the portal to the underworld in Greco-Roman mythology and tradition, the cave called Plutonium or Pluto’s Gate was a destination for the… Read more →

The project, created by Simon de Diesbach, Jonas Lacôte, and Laura Perrenoud, involves one conductor, one Kinect, and up to 24 laptops each loaded with a single sample. Those fragments, which can be selected from a preloaded library or snapped up from an in-the-works crowdsourced platform, are triggered purely by the movements of the conductor’s hands. Each instrument is mapped… Read more →