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Portrait of the artist: Bill Viola, video artist | Culture | The Guardian

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'I fell into a lake aged six and saw the most beautiful world. My work is about getting back there'

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London 2012: army to use 'sonic weapon' on Thames during Olympics

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American-built 'long-range acoustic device', used by US military in Iraq, can produce deafening 150db levels at one metre

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2012 Olympics: Kabul. Baghdad. London. Three to avoid this summer

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The Olympics have become an Orwellian parody of what happens when a world agency blackmails a government aching for prestige into spending without limit. Not one defence spokesman has come up with a plausible scenario for the jets and missiles. The latter have a range of just three miles and are said to be usable "only at the express instruction of the prime minister". What will they shoot down, and on whose head will it crash?

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Co-op boycotts exports from Israel's West Bank settlements | World news | The Ob...

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Hilary Smith, Co-op member and Boycott Israel Network (BIN) agricultural trade campaign co-ordinator, said the Co-op "has taken the lead internationally in this historic decision to hold corporations to account for complicity in Israel's violations of Palestinian human rights We strongly urge other retailers to take similar action."

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The 'world's most pampered – and bored – prisoner' - Telegraph

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The 30-year-old man has his meals brought to him from a local restaurant because it is not economical to lay on a canteen service for him alone.

He enjoys the exclusive use of a gym, library and television room and occupies one of six cells which make up San Marino's only jail, which is tucked into a wing of a former Capuchin monastery.

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Asteroid mining

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A new company called Planetary Resources, with investors and advisers including the Google bosses Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and the Avatar director James Cameron, aims to mine valuable metals from the asteroids that routinely zoom past the Earth. Along with gold, platinum and other metals, the company hopes to find water, which could provide the raw material for rocket fuel, raising the possibility of fuel stations for passing deep-space rockets

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Israel expected to block 'flytilla' of international Palestinian sympathisers | ...

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The mayor of Bethlehem, Victor Batarseh, told a press conference: "These people are coming to talk about peace, they are not coming to wage war against Israel. They are coming to visit the Palestinian people who are under occupation and to talk to them and to help them because these people are isolated."

Turner said she would seek legal advice on Jet2.com's move. "I think the airline should honour its commitment. We had checked in, and we have our boarding passes.

"Every country has the right to control its own borders. But to stop us leaving British shores just shows the extent of Israel's power and influence."

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Bonobo Chat, An App For Talking With Apes

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Bonobo Chat is an app that enables Bonobo apes and humans to communicate through lexigrams—abstract symbols that represent words. Bonobos or humans can compose lexigram sequences using the app’s touchscreen interface. Humans can also speak English and have the app translate their speech to lexigrams. Additionally, the app will allow Bonobos to operate remote doors, vending machines, and even a “RoboBonobo” robot. The app is being developed by Ken Schweller of the Great Ape Trust in Iowa. Schweller is raising funds for the app on Kickstarter.

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How bots are taking over the world | Dan O'Hara and Luke Robert Mason | Comment ...

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Bots create 24% of tweets. Half of the internet traffic clicking through our websites and profiles is not human. Even Wikipedia is not immune: 22 of the 30 most prolific Wikipedia editors are bots. And as increasing numbers of us use online resources and social media in connection with our jobs as well as our personal lives, we need to realise how many of our "co-workers" are in fact algorithms, because we will have to live up to their standards. Bots are becoming our peers.

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Cyberwarfare takes Heidegger's ideas to their logical end

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there is one new form of warfare where Heidegger's insight might turn out to be more relevant. It's called cyberwarfare. The ability to destroy a country's infrastructure – to bring down its electricity grid or disrupt water supplies by hacking into the computers that run these systems – offers a nation the prospect of waging war without incurring either physical or psychological risks for the aggressor's citizens: casualty-free war, if you like.

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Battle of the Bulges - 1940s style

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Battle of the Bulges - 1940s style. Strange gym equipment are being used to help these 1940s women get in to shape.

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Dennis Morris: 'Suddenly we were black, not coloured' – interview

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Dennis Morris is celebrated for his iconic photographs of the Sex Pistols and Bob Marley. But few knew that in that pivotal era he was also documenting black British life in London…

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BBC News - Which is the world's biggest employer?

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The National Health Service (NHS) in England is at the centre of a big political row about its reform. It's often said to be the third biggest employer in the world, after the Chinese army and Indian Railways. But is that really true?

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French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment - Telegraph

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50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment.

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Damien Hirst and the great art market heist | Art and design | The Guardian

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However, Serota, like other museum directors, is expected to find money to run his institution from a variety of sources, including corporations and private individuals, and this makes museums vulnerable to pressure from those who wish to use them to confer value on their holdings.

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Are video games just propaganda and training tools for the military? | Technolog...

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Like much of early computing, nascent digital gaming benefited from military spending. The prototype for the first home video games console, the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey, was developed by Sanders Associates, a US defence contractor. Meanwhile, pre-digital electronic flight simulators, for use in both military and civilian training, date back to at least the second world war.

Later, the games industry began to repay its debts.

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SXSW In A Nutshell: Homeless People As Hotspots

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marketing company called Bartle Bogle Hegarty is doing a little human science experiment called Homeless Hotspots. It gives out 4G hotspots to homeless people along with a promotional t-shirt. The shirt doesn't say, "I have a 4G hotspot." It says, "I am a 4G hotspot."

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Rock bands to create soundtracks for roller-coaster rides

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A music industry seeking to diversify as physical sales fall has hit upon theme parks, which attract millions of thrill-seeking youngsters each year, as a potential new source of revenue.

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Letizia Battaglia: shooting the mafia

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When the photographer returned to Sicily she didn't expect a war – but then the Corleonesi began a killing spree. Twenty years on from the murder of her friend the anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, one of the great photographers of our time talks about her experiences

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The forgotten plight of the Bedouin in the Holy Land

1 save http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/03/01/the-forgotten-plight-of-the-bedou...

The Bedouin of Israel and the occupied territories are easy to pick on. Self-identifying as neither Israeli nor Palestinian, not often considered as such by either community in return, their plight is less attention-grabbing, less politically-infused than that of other communities in the Holy Land. Accordingly, when their rights are apparently under assault, their suffering can easily disappear under the radar.

Never fully comfortable guests in either national camp, it is the actions of Israel that ostensibly have been the most cruel to the Bedouin.

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