February 2012
29 posts
Bilingual immigrants report better health than... →
AtlanticCities: How Climate Change Could Be the... →
climateadaptation:
“L.A. still gets nearly 90 percent of its drinking water from out-of-town resources, just as it has for more than a century. But the Sierra Nevada snowpack could shrink by as much as 90 percent by 2100, experts say. Runoff already peaks 10 to 15 days earlier today than it did 50 years ago, according to a 2008 Purdue University study.
Meanwhile, aquifers along the coast of...
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Perché le zebre sono a strisce? →
what alan watts just helped me to realize.
hollygolly:
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Anyone who believes he could organize thousands of... →
….Finally, a powerful line of evidence that this is a purely political controversy, rather than a scientific debate, is that the membership lists of the creationists and the climate deniers are highly overlapping. Both anti-scientific dogmas are fed to their overlapping audiences through right-wing media such as Fox News, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh. Just take a look at the...
Van Gogh for the colorblind →
Deutschland muss Franzosen wärmen - Frankreich... →
nucleare:
Es ist kalt in Deutschland, bitterkalt. Mehrere Zeitungen melden jetzt, dass der Strom knapp wird. Die Netzbetreiber in Deutschland mussten erneut ihre Reserven anzapfen. Die Versorgung sei jedoch gesichert, sagen die Energieversorger. Dramatischer ist die Lage in Frankreich. Dort läuft so einiges anders als in Deutschland. I problemini che stanno avendo i francesi col freddo ed il...
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Algorithm Measures Human Pecking Order - The way... →
“We show that in group discussions, power differentials between participants are subtly revealed by how much one individual immediately echoes the linguistic style of the person they are responding to,” say Kleinberg and co.
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Was die Kälte mit dem letzten Sommer zu tun hat →
Warum gibt es trotz Klimaerwärmung so frostige Phasen wie jetzt? Sibirische Kälte kommt aus dem Osten, aber auch im Westen liegt eine Quelle.
“Magari si vivesse solo di inizi. Di eccitazioni da prima volta, quando tutto ti...”
– Niccolò Fabi. (via misseternalunsatisfied) Perché? E’ una scelta!
16 Year Old Girl Scouts Fighting for... →
stopkillingourworld:
I thought the Girl Scouts ditched palm oil already, I know it was previously in the news. Anyway, let’s get it done this time… sign the petition.
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“Scrivi una frase, rileggila e se senti che qualcosa di orecchiabile solletica il...”
– Italo Calvino (via i-will-not-save-your-life)
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Certo che con tutti 'sti
cornerlist:
smartphones, GPS, sensori di parcheggio, macchine che si parcheggiano da sole, cloud computing, tergicristalli automatici, [ad lib.] stanno tirando su una stirpe di idioti. E in gran parte, direi, ci sono già riusciti.
Per esempio. I sensori di parcheggio. Qualcuno mi spiega il senso dei sensori di parcheggio?
Io coi sensori di parcheggio ci sono nato. Si chiamano occhi e senso...
January 2012
49 posts
Multitasking may harm the social and emotional... →
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Experiences are better when we know they're about... →
People often view the “last” moments of an event positively simply because they signal the end of an experience, say University of Michigan researchers.
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Group settings can diminish expressions of... →
In the classic film “12 Angry Men,” Henry Fonda’s character sways a jury with his quiet, persistent intelligence. But would he have succeeded if he had allowed himself to fall sway to the social dynamics of that jury?
Optical Illusion experiment shows higher brain... →
We all know that our pupils contract when our eyes are exposed to increases in the brightness of light. The reason is to both protect the delicate inner workings of our eyes and to help provide for optimum viewing based on available light. But we also know that our pupils dilate, or become larger when we are aroused, regardless of the reason, which means that pupil size is not always just a...
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How wings really work →
A 1-minute video released by the University of Cambridge sets the record straight on a much misunderstood concept – how wings lift.
Climate-driven heat peaks may shrink wheat crops →
More intense heat waves due to global warming could diminish wheat crop yields around the world through premature ageing, according to a study published Sunday in Nature Climate Change.
Antibiotics Prove Powerless as Super-Germs Spread →
“In India, where poor hygiene and the availability of over-the-counter antibiotics encourage the development of resistance, an estimated 100 to 200 million people are reportedly already carriers of these virtually unbeatable killer bacteria.”
“Il genere umano non può sopportare troppa realtà.”
– Thomas Stearns Eliot - Quattro quartetti (via alfaprivativa)
The problem with lying
limoncellomusings:
is that you get used to it. and then you do it, when there’s hardly any need to.
“What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther...”
– Egyptian Book of the Dead (via mademoiselleplaguedoctor)
“I Greci avevano più termini per il mare: hals è il sale, il mare come materia;...”
– P. Matvejević - “Il Mediterraneo e l’Europa” (via alfaprivativa)
Perché Napster aveva ragione | Il Post →
steff1024:
Assicurati i brevetti e iniziata la produzione (che tale non fu, come vedremo più avanti), Watt dedicò gran parte delle sue energie a combattere gli inventori rivali. Nel 1782 si assicurò un altro brevetto, reso «necessario come conseguenza […]. dell’essere stato così ingiustamente anticipato da [Matthew] Wasborough nel movimento a pedale». Nell’ultimo decennio del secolo, quando il...
ANTI-PROPAGANDA: Roundup: Argentina's human... →
stopkillingourworld:
Since I’m on a MONSANTO roll this morning:
Claire Robinson ISIS, 6 October 2010 http://www.i-sis.org.uk/argentinasRoundupHumanTragedy.php *Ten years of GM soy and glyphosate poisoning have escalated rates of cancer and birth defects. *GM soy a death sentence for humans and the environment Argentina has become a…
via mamitah