When Simple Becomes Complicated: Why Excel Should Lose its Place at the Top Table

Lawrencium's place at the table.

The discovery — or, rather, the synthesis — of lawrencium spanned several years and several experiments from two research teams, in Berkeley, USA, and in Dubna, Russia1. In 1961, the US-based team first reported the synthesis of an isotope of element 103. Mixed californium isotope targets 249,250,251,252Cf were bombarded with boron beams; the reaction products were caught by a metalized Mylar t...

Why should home networking be complicated?

In today’s life, an Internet connection in a home can be considered a utility like a telephone or even to some degree electricity. Not having an efficient home network is like having just one electrical outlet in the whole house versus having outlets throughout the house and being able to plug in all your appliances at once any time you want. Networking devices from wireless routers to storage,...

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When and Why Should Translations Be Reused?

Med fler och fler verktyg för översättning tillgängliga kommer antagligen översättare att bli betydligt mer effektiva än idag. Men det är inte enbart själva översättningsprogrammen som är av intresse. Effektiva analyser av källtexten och av ev. tidigare måltexter har också avgörande betydelse, särskilt när det gäller att välja mellan en mängd olika typer av verktyg. Vissa texter lämpar sig väl ...

When the Self Becomes Other

How can people adaptively analyze and “work through” negative feelings without ruminating? This paper will briefly review findings from an integrative program of research, which suggests that a critical factor determining whether people’s attempts to adaptively reason about negative experiences succeed or fail is the type of self-perspective they adopt. That is, whether people analyze their fee...