February 2011
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'Tiger Mothers' leave lifelong scars - CNN.com →
willw2:
another fab rebuttal to the tiger mother article.
January 2011
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BBC World Service - Japan: A Friend In Need →
The BBC’s Tokyo correspondent Roland Buerk investigates Japan’s growing ‘rent a friend’ service sector. Several agencies now rent out fake spouses, best men, relatives, friends, colleagues, boyfriends and girlfriends to help clients get through social functions such as weddings, parents’ evenings - and even funerals.
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“Breaking wind is set to be made a crime in an African country. The government of...”
– African country set to make breaking wind a crime | Mail Online (via willw2)
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The Facebook Setting You Should Change as Quickly... →
world-shaker:
Facebook has at long last offered an option to use the encrypted “HTTPS” protocol, a feature it will begin rolling out today but won’t finish for a “few weeks.” You should check now if it’s available, and sign up as soon as it is enabled for your account. The performance overhead is minor—zippy Gmail, for example, uses HTTPS for everything—and it’s an important step to keep your...
December 2010
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November 2010
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False bus stops →
readmorewikipedia:
In Australia, the United Kingdom and Germany, some nursing homes build false, imitation bus stops for their patients who are suffering from dementia. Some of these bus stops are even fitted with outdated advertisements and timetables — 30 years outdated.
The patients will sit at the bus stop waiting for a bus to take them to their imagined destination. After some time the...
“Wikileaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through...”
– Evgeny Morozov (via alexanderpf)
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Evolution and Devolution Wall Art →
Scroll left to right to view entirety of image.
Simply amazing.
via BLU
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October 2010
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Students lonely, frustrated after a day unplugged →
Bare. Fidgety. Lonely. Plagued by the deafening silence. The clock ticking ever so slowly. Singing songs in the shower to give the impression of listening to music.
These are just some of the observations made over the past week by first-year students participating in the global media experiment “Unplugged” at Bournemouth University in the U.K. No, they were not held in solitary...
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A Spray of DNA to Keep the Robbers Away →
alexanderpf:
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands — When the McDonald’s down from City Hall here was burglarized a few years ago, its managers decided they needed a new security system. It was just about that time that local police officers were offering something totally different that they hoped would stem a rising tide of robberies that occur mainly in the immigrant neighborhoods of this...
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WatchHong Kong Night Lights.
beautiful.
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How Do Hybrid Cars Work?
fakescience:
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WatchShot high above the streets of New York City, UP THERE reveals the dying craft of large-scale hand painted advertising and the untold story of the painters struggling to keep it alive.
via UP THERE
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Taste of Child Labor Not So Sweet →
nogreenpaint:
“United States chocolate manufacturers, including Hershey’s and Mars received unwelcomed media attention in 2001 as reports of the use of child labor on West African cocoa farms surfaced. Investigations revealed that children harvest cocoa beans under conditions that qualify as the worst forms of…
Prior to this upcoming Halloween, advise children and those you know, who...
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Study Links Warm Hands, Warm Heart →
Our judgment of a person’s character can be influenced by something as simple as the warmth of the drink we hold in our hand.
“If you’re going out on a date anytime soon, you may find this bit of science news useful: In a carefully controlled experiment, people who held something warm were more likely to perceive someone else as emotionally “warm” – and they were...
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WatchUnofficial video for My Girls off Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
Most of the footage comes from 3 documentaries:
-Picture of Light (1994), Rivers and Tides (2001), Bodysong (2003)
via Rob Chesnutt
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Dim Light at Night Linked to Weight Gain in Mice →
willw2:
Randomly stumbled across this article that supports my contention that it’s healthy to wear a blindfold at night.
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Sensory Deception: Lab Mice Can 'Smell' Light
Scientists are beginning to understand precisely how our brains distinguish one odor from another, thanks to some extraordinary mice.
These mice can “smell” light.
That’s possible because their brains contain cells that have been genetically altered to respond to light as if it were an odor. It’s all part of a field called optogenetics that is helping researchers...
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Richard Thaler on Libertarian Paternalism
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Liberty and Freedom: A breathtaking attack on... →
socialisimo:
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2010/10/young-attack-fairness
It’s worse than we feared. The Browne report, released today, advises the government that the best way to fund a “competitive” higher education system and provide businesses with the goods, services and skills…
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WatchBeautiful People - The Books
Video by David Bird
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September 2010
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Can Exercise Make You Feel More Full?: Scientific... →
exercise reduces inflammation, which in tune reduces hunger :)
Good related article here.