Sci&Tech History

Do you have any tendency in buying something? By clustering list of what you have bought by using your credit card, we can get some understanding about people and a certain product. A person who like to buy product A, for example, maybe have some similarities with someone who like watching metal music or literature […]

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This is not a Chip ‘n Dale, story, this is a story about worm (C. elagans), a tiny nematode that serves as a model organism in so many fields of research.
In much C. elegans work, researchers introduce mutations or otherwise manipulate the genome to see the impact on the developing organism. Large numbers of the […]

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I’ve got this cool article from ScienceNow, an alike explanation I found in a book about happiness. The book tells about how our expression when we smiling have a physical reaction to our body. Below is the article from ScienceNow.
The Importance of Being Frightened
By Gisela Telis
ScienceNOW Daily News
16 June 2008
Why do we wrinkle our noses […]

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How can ICT help people? Or maybe, we have to propose a more philosophical question, should people be helped? In blend technology, the introduction of the emerging technology should blend with and preserve at least some of the prevailing traditional production techniques (Usui 1994). The literature includes cases in which modern biotechnology, laser technology, […]

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Reading Indonesia’s technology policies documents, delivers me to words such as human welfare, justice and poverty reduction. Should technology discourse related directly to poverty, or is it better to talk about national system innovation and see poverty reduction as an impact? The first one indicated no differentiation among government agencies in Indonesia. Every agency want […]

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Preparing a country report about how science and technology can reduce poverty make me wonder: where are Indonesian thoughts? I read a lot of documents about Indonesia, but most of them is written by non-Indonesian. I don’t know whether my references was influenced by the term of country report–effected the international standard asked–or is it […]

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Indonesia’s government has several technology program for rural area such as technology diffusion, appropriate technology (teknologi tepat guna). Unfortunately, those programs only sustain due to training period. After trainers left the area, people targeted as technology adopter use to turn back to their old habit. Reason of this phenomena can be classified into several level […]

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One Laptop Per Child, an ambitious project to bring computing to the developing world’s children, has considerable momentum. Years of work by engineers and scientists have paid off in a pioneering low-cost machine that is light, rugged and surprisingly versatile. The early reviews have been glowing, and mass production is set to start on October, […]

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A friend of mine have difficulties in kept promises especially related with time. This habit doesn’t occur when he is taking a train or an airplane. Similar, offices also use machine with finger print or card to control their employee office hours. Suddenly, we become much more like machine than we realize. In the same […]

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“When we look at garbage, we don’t see garbage, O.K.?” said Robert Reed, a spokesman for Norcal Waste Systems, the parent company of Sunset Scavenger and Golden Gate Disposal and Recycling Company, the main garbage collectors in the city. “We see food, we see paper, we see metal, we see glass.” (NY Times, May 7, […]

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