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<h1 class="page__h1"> <a href="/"> Things Of Interest </a> </h1> Things Of Interest Fiction Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories 2021-01-04 by qntm You can now buy this story as part of my collection, Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories . Russian translation French translation Czech translation Spanish translation This article is about the standard test brain image. For the original human, see Miguel Acevedo. MMAcevedo ( Mnemonic Map/Acevedo ), also known as Miguel , is the earliest executable image of a human brain. It is a snapshot of the living brain of neurology graduate Miguel Acevedo Álvarez (2010–2073), taken by researchers at the Uplift Laboratory at the University of New Mexico on August 1, 2031. Though it was not the first successful snapshot taken of the l...

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<h1><a href="/">Things Of Interest</a></h1> Things Of Interest Time breadcrumbs top Laudable! Let's take a look at some of the changes that arise from this, through a simple case study: making an international phone call to a relative. I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there? Google tells me it is currently 4:25am there. It's probably best not to call right now. I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there? It's 4:25am there, same as it is here, of course! Same as it is in New York, Bangalore and Hawaii, at the South Pole and on the Moon. Well, hold on a second. First of all, we need to straighten out some terminology. The terms "a.m." and "p.m." ( ante meridiem and post meridiem ) are strongly deprecated now, because they refer to the position of the Sun, not of the clock. With time zones, these were roughly the same...

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