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Sunday, 22 April 2012

Turning lead into gold and coffee into words

Posted on 06:33 by Unknown
Back in the days before there was chemistry, alchemists were trying to turn lead into gold.

Nowadays scientists turn coffee into words, money into data, and data into papers.
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