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The Chemistry of Fragrances

Perfumes have always presented something beautiful an almost mysterious. In the past they were only available to higher classes and the well off once but luckily nowadays almost everybody can smell nice. Basics: Perfume (English: /ˈpɝː.fjuːm/) is a mixture of fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents used to give the human body, [...]

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Google Gets an Upgrade

According to Google’s Grzegorz Czajkowski, many of the things people are involved in can be represented in the form of graph, including professional activities and personal relationships. The company was the first to use advanced graph analysis methods like PageRank to get more from the Web. Using graphs in a dynamic environment like the society brings a new angle to [...]

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Future of education

Future of education

Article inspired by Education in digital age by Dejan Petrovic and First Annual Friends of the Library Public Lecture
Read any science-fiction book from decades ago and you will likely be surprised by the ways that fantasy has met reality. However, not even the most creative mind got it right when it came to the advancements in education. “In fact nobody anticipated the end of the space exploration era and the start of the information revolution” (reference: The Role of Search Engines in Advancement of Education).

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