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"The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science,forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science. Scholars have selected the titles in this collection for their historical importance."
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"Building novel augmentation devices to explore sensory, bodily and cognitive extension
The e-sense project is funded by an AHRC speculative research grant and runs from October 2008 – March 2010. In this interdisciplinary research, philosophy and art combine with various flavours of computing: ubiquitous; wearable; and physical.
We are initially rapidly prototyping a range of sensory augmentation devices including:
a minimal tactile vision sensory substitution (TVSS) system;
a Third Eye worn as a ring.
Philosophical analysis and artistic exploration inform our design process and user studies of the resulting augmentation devices will reciprocally feedback into these two disciplines." -
"Fundamentally speaking one of the most essential components of any industrial ecosystem is the machine tool a device which is used to “fabricate metal components of machines“. Consequently the absence of a machining capacity precludes the ability of an entity (regional,national and or continent-wide) to industrialize.The question then becomes how do we effectively seed and propagate the skill of machining cheaply and pervasively? How do we Bootstrap the Industrial Age? The open source MultiMachine presents us with what could turn out to be one of the more attractive options."
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