When the Foo-project evolved at ZKM Karlsruhe in 1993, nobody knew how to call it. Just to be able to talk about, it got the working title “foo” according to RFC 3092. When it came to the first publicly available version, its “nickname” had got deep into the slang of the authors, and considering that “foo” may stand for the two main programming paradigms used in it (functional and object orient...

this paper is a comparative study between francis bacon's the new atlantis and william blake's the book of urizen. the researchers will examine the two writers' views about science and its impact over two different epochs. in this respect, methods and forms of acquiring knowledge will be scrutinized to reveal how different these authors are in their definitions of scientific thou...

The top-down approach to well-being focuses on how people attend to and construe information in their lives and how these processes affect their well-being. In this chapter, we review evidence that attention and construal, broadly conceived, influence well-being. We then discuss specific types of attention and construal (i.e., cognitive outlooks) that affect wellbeing. Such cognitive outlooks i...