The French island of Corsica
This Envisat composite image shows the French island of Corsica, one of the largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea. Corsica is located just 90 km west of Italy, and 170 km south of France. Sardinia is just to the south...
Word of the Day
naupathia
- Seasickness.
'Naupathia' comes from a Greek term meaning 'ship suffering.'
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Quote of the Day
Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data—i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion. 
- Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French semiologist.
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