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bio-albedo

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bio-albedo n. / 'bī-ō- al-'bē-dō

The global-warming effect of a red algae that blooms in melting snow.  The resulting pink hue reduces the albedo (reflectivity) of ice caps and glaciers causing them to absorb more of the sun's rays and melt even faster.

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biots

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Mobile artificial agents that can sense a simulated environment interact (signal mate find food) with other biots and learn and evolve over time. Fresh from BioLand at the University of California Los Angeles an experiment to develop distributed forms of intelligence using massively parallel computing.

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bompeln

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n. / 'bam-peln

Stoplights in the pavement introduced in Germany for pedestrians who text when walking.  A contraction of boden (ground) and ampein (traffic lights) bompein are said to help keep 'snombies' (snartphone zombies

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