More powerful than computers

Well done are all the advancement of technology and achievements of society - but one thing as the most impressive remains - the human brain! '6, 4 x 10 to 18 computer operations, as in one second do all computers of the world, are equal to the number of nerve impulses that the processing of a single human brain in one second 'published in a recent survey of information resources by researchers from the University of Southern California.

Martin Hilbert and Priscilla Lopez are researchers on this project. They found that the total capacity for getting information in 2007. amounted to 295 exabytes. This figure is calculated by adding the capacity of digital memory and analog devices in the world, according Popsci.com.

In this study, researchers learned that in 2000. are as much as 75 percent of the stored information was stored in analog form, respectively, on video cassettes. In 2007. the relationship has turned in favor of digital media so that they were stored in 94 percent of information.

Although the results obtained seem high, the study authors noted that it is only about one hundred of the total amount of information stored in DNA molecules of any one human being.

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Types of Boredom

There are two main categories of boredom: situational boredom and chronic boredom. Situational boredom is when a person experiences boredom on encountering a certain specific situation or series of events like reading a book or watching a movie or listening to a lecture in a classroom.

Chronic boredom is a state of mind which will be experienced most of the time irrespective of the time and the place. People who are suffering from this boredom will even get bored with people who are a permanent part of their lives like children or parents. 

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History of the printing

The Chinese used wooden blocks to print Buddhist writings by hand on scrolls. Chinese writer Fenzhi mentioned in his writings Yuan Xian San Ji that woodblocks were used to print Buddhist scripture during the Zhenguan years (627-649 A.D.). 

The oldest known surviving woodblock-printed work is a Buddhist scripture of the Chinese Wu Zetian period (684-705 A.D.) discovered in 1906 in Tubofan in the Xinjiang province of China. Printing is considered one of the four great inventions of China; the other being the compass, gunpowder and paper. 

While there are no surviving examples of the Chinese printing presses of the 11th Century, the oldest surviving dated printed book on record is the Buddhist Diamond Sutra, dated 11 May 868 AD. Park Gi Tae from VANK (Voluntary Agency Network of Korea) contributed as follows: The Jikjia Buddhist doctrinal book called Jikjisimcheyojeol or “Jikji in short form is the oldest book made by metalloid type. It had been made in 1377, 78 years earlier than “the Bible in 48 lines” made by Gutenberg. However, recent excavations at a Korean pagoda have unearthed a Buddhist woodblock text even older than the Daimond-Sutra.

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