Public broadcasting in the US is a somewhat involved issue which I don't have time to research, but cutting 15% of it probably isn't good for what level of discourse does exist on the airwaves.
At this amusement park spa, you can get a bath in coffee, green tea, wine and sake. And now ramen.
More for journalism, but useful tips for prose in general, from ad copy, to speeches, to fiction.
Something about taxes only applying to profit and gain, and income is neither.
Slow transmission in autonomic nerves for duodenum contraction control. Some molecule called "ceramide" found in the axonal lipid seems to important.
Can handle uneven terrain, including curbs.
"This electronic balance system is custom-programmed to the user's center of gravity, to monitor and respond to subtle changes in motion. Reach forward to shake hands, and your iBOT® Mobility System moves with you."
71-year-old Hall of Famer Gary Player talked to a couple of people, and it appears to be around.
Being marketed to manage crazy Japanese businessmen and "naughty" boys with a mild electric shock. Not meant as weapon, although a warning is given about use on those with heart disease. Don't know how you're supposed to know that.
An address change threw everything out of whack.
Thinking sharpens in diverse groups:White jurors in diverse groups mentioned more facts, made fewer factual errors, corrected more mistakes and raised the possibility of racism more often than did white jurors in homogeneous groups.
Mouse skin cells were genetically manipulated to revert back to embryonic state. All the ethical controversy can end.
Update: Done. Parallels work in Japan.
Small, cylindrical wind turbines provide power for the condensing system to extract water from the air. Claiming possibility of 10 000L/day from rooftop unit.
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Johnson & Johnson proposal to Britain's NHS. The link to the NYT article is gated. The paper is not.
The company would refund any money spent on patients whose tumors do not shrink sufficiently after a trial treatment.
It was too big to paste here, but I assure anybody who recognizes the name, it's at least a good smirk.
You know, the starfish vs. the yearner (?) Self-reported for going to sleep.
You wear the ring and it buzzes to wake you up. There are two that can be set for different times, if needed: One for you, one for whomever sleeps beside you.
Also for the hard of hearing.
There are dutch auctions (explained at the site) and then,
The second type of mystery auction involves offering a silly item, such as Cheez Whiz or a 7-year-old hamburger, as the “item”. Then irresistible gifts are implied for winning the auction.But the bidders just have to hope that the implied gift is cool and worth, say, $3500.
In post-menopausal women, could increase chances by up to 30%, possibly by allowing estrogen buildup.
Can be USB- or 4 AA-cell powered. For more industrial use, there's also this vest from some company called Entrak, with 8 hours of circulation before recharge.
There's too much money floating around for it to be squeaky clean.
Don't go on a Monday, and that fast food seat is uncomfortable to prevent you from hanging out too long.
So The Lancet reports. Taking Izhevsk as a typical Russian city, a survey was taken of relatives of 1750 men who died from 2003-05. The survey shook out that 43% of deaths could be attributed to excessive alcohol consumption.
The protein is brain-specific and is called conserved dopamine neurotrophic factor. It is important to temper any optimism with the history of a previous protein that looked hopeful, but in the end showed unacceptable side effects in larger trials.
Provincial authorities are responsible for enforcing the laws Beijing pass, but they're too comfortable with the tax revenue from polluters to get serious. So, NGOs have been aggressively advocating laws for greater transparency and accountability, and Beijing seems to be complying. People getting their say in communist China? Times sure do change.
A separate top-down measure here to deny loans to heavy polluters.
Very interesting presentation of stats of our technologically exponential times. It finishes by asking what kind of educational reforms are needed to better align with the world that is emerging. It does not mention the singularity.
Reviews of restaurants, auto shops, doctors, etc. contributed by local consumers of the particular city (US).
Points are traded for cash on eBay in France. Some are pensioners who haven't driven in years who just need a bit of money:
In return for money, the seller provides his or her name and licence number in response to the speed camera ticket. The notice that is automatically sent to the owner of the offending vehicle includes a form for identifying another driver. Checks are extremely rare.
Once the files are uploaded, this brilliant little utility generates links to the files or markup for linking to or embedding the file you've uploaded so it's easy to share the link with a friend or add it to a web site.
Well thank goodness it maxes out at 80 000 yen, or about US$650.
A subculture of heavy fliers trying to load up on points, more for perks and upgrades these days.
Just the abstract (unless you have a subscription) discovering that deportation does not account for low incarceration rates of immigrants in the US.
Something's in beta, and you don't personally know anyone to invite you. Just go here.
Well, that patch in the middle was surprising to discover. This New Madrid Zone stretches for about 120 miles and had the largest earthquake recorded on the continental US. Memphis, St. Louis, and large portions of Kentucky and Ohio are in it.
The efficiency is actually crap -- 6.5% (working towards 15%). However, existing cells cost about $2.30 to generate a watt. These will only cost $0.10.
Short food for thought. As noted in the comments, don't just be contrarian, but if your diet of fiction is great, do notice whether your models of humanity are based on actually observing and discovering real people.
Wasn't there a voiceover at the end of Fight Club noting how we had been groomed to believe that we were going to become rock stars?
Of all the explanations for crime rates -- demographics, prison term length, socioeconomics -- lead (yes, the metal) exposure levels have the most significant and best conserved correlation across eras and nations. His data from multiple countries, which have different abortion rates, police strategies, demographics and economic conditions, indicate that lead is the only explanation that can account for international trends.
The previous query regarding causes was warranted.
More longitudinal imaging case comparisons here and here.
The shot is of the hasema swimwear option for the more devout Muslim women in Turkey. The article was published in the lead-up to the election. It notes the rise of prosperity of and greater cultural accomodation of the more religious citizens.
I did read a take on the political landscape and "secular" equals old guard, restrictive (banning hijabs and such). In Turkey's case, it's the Muslim party that is progressive, with its eye on the individual freedoms required for EU membership and to conduct commerce.
Includes depreciation, interest on your loan, taxes and fees, insurance premiums, fuel costs, maintenance, and repairs.
In case you have forgotten. And again here.
Check the comments at the lifehacker post -- copyright is immediate upon creation. Proving that, though, is made easier by registering. Click through for the actual government site.
It has a GB of RAM, TV/VGA out, and wireless connectivity (incl. cell data svcs). The "almost" part is not knowing the power of the processor and seeing a Windows Mobile OS.
As more people migrated to urban centers in the 13th century, undergarment use went up. Thrown out pieces were an affordable substitute for parchment, and thus helped lower the cost of publishing. Comments here indicate that plenty of the surplus cloth arrived due to the Black Death.
However,
... even in countries where there were few or no towns and, therefore, schools, such as Iceland, the literacy rate continued to grow rapidly. “Many people learnt to read at home, usually from their mothers,” says Dr Mostert. “The role of female literacy in the home has been underestimated until quite recently.”
From a diner to a private school to Goldman Sachs.
You never have to find out their real phone number; they never have to find out yours. You just need an e-mail address. You will provide your real number to forward the call to your phone, but no one will see it. Call Me feature for sites and Facebook available.
through a voicemail delivered by email, you and anyone you want to talk with, can be connected very quickly, via local phone numbers, even if your mobile phone isn’t allowed to dial International numbers.Free while in beta. Eventually, will charge for long distance, or so I read somewhere.
Herpes simplex against colorectal that had metastasized to the liver.
The idea of using infection to rid of certain cancers is old, although back then, it seemed to be more a case of stimulating immune response. But as the knowledge was being refined (esp. so as not to lose the patient to the infection in some cases), shiny, new radiation and chemo came onto the scene.
The link is to the poll ranking of the fifty. The list is hyperlinked. Use the tabs underneath the title to browse descriptions.
... future company performance deteriorates when CEOs acquire extremely large or costly mansions and estates ...
Well, there it is.
Link through for original paper.
Updated daily, the site puts up shots of the first half of the 20th century. This is the guy after which the site is named. Apparently a coal miner in Alabama in 1910.
Also, these tips specifically to extend your laptop's battery life.
Like sickle cell, in one context it's bad, and in another it's good. From a study on red deer, a speculation that those bad looks might actually be good in the opposite sex, so that trait persists:Extrapolating to humans (and oversimplifying, sorry) you might imagine that a particular shape of the nose or turn of the chin would look drop-dead hunky on a male, but horsey on a woman ...
Instead of wasting time, jumping from site to site, hit all the majors from the one interface.
Religiously themed guide to 1300 sites in 55 countries. Search by country, religion or other categories.
If you're shopping for an internet connection and speed is a concern, here are some questions you could ask.
Haven't gone through the actual paper. The title link is to Marginal Revolution for expanded excerpt, comments and another link to a story on early mental health problems affecting adult life. Don't know how they're referring to "human capital" here:
We find that as of age 20, differences in initial conditions account for more of the variation in lifetime utility, lifetime earnings and lifetime wealth than do differences in shocks received over the lifetime. Among initial conditions, variation in initial human capital is substantially more important than variation in learning ability or initial wealth for determining how an agent fares in life.
Supposedly, resting may be the wrong advice. Natural-feeling strengthening and stretching may be more the answer. Check with your MD.
Hulking muscles, incredible strength due to two copies of gene mutation controlling for growth factor myostatin. Happens to humans too.
I have indeed seen articles declaring that organic farming is too inefficient, yielding less when compared to conventional farming. This study disproves those assumptions.
A discovery re rational economics' ultimatum game: ... one player divides a pot of money between himself and another. The other
then chooses whether to accept the offer. If he rejects it, neither player
benefits. And despite the instincts of classical economics, a stingy offer
(one that is less than about a quarter of the total) is, indeed, usually
rejected....the responders who rejected a low final offer had an average testosterone level more than 50% higher than the average of those who accepted.
However, as the article linked through points out, the choices are rational from an evolutionary, rather than a purely arithmetic, standpoint. Marketers have always been ahead of classical economists in understanding the biological imperatives behind irrational decisions, if not necessarily delineated Dawkins style.
Some search thingy has collated the deals at Amazon into 10x% off categories.
A short excerpt from a book about the godfathers (mostly ethnic Chinese) of commerce in SE Asia (includes Hong Kong). Golf and willing slaves keep things moving.
Winner gets play on Spike TV. This one is the best on repeat viewing (2:30) -- apparently done by a professional shop. Via Julio (I would've linked, but nothing's happening).
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The seeds were there near the beginning. A couple of leaders were positing maintaining private agriculture back in 1928-29. Stalin said no, even if it possibly meant civil war. Eventually, the burgeoning urban population strained already plummeted grain productivity. Oil revenues could buy food for a while, until the Saudis decided to stop propping up oil's price. The article makes a parallel with the Spanish empire when mentioning establishment of empires on unstable resources: The Spanish empire, without losing a single battle on the ground for fifty years, managed to lose all of its possessions in Europe outside of the Pyrenees...
Link to whole article here.
Helium-filled, two should suffice to power a house. Would cost less than conventional cells per unit area.
Hidden in the back of a pizzeria in NY, $10 can get construction workers and traders some exotic dancing relaxation.
But don't prevent him from fishing by cutting his line and squaring him in the balls once he gets a clue. Maybe some fairer trading from the wealthier nations would help (speaking of fishing, check this). Actually, the question mark is in the title because I can't believe that funding has gone beyond patchwork tokenism up to now, even if cumulatively large over time.
The article is properly dismissive of celebrity conceit not considering Africans as agents in the improvement of their lives. However, Jeffrey Sachs is lumped in with Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow. His expertise shouldn't be regarded quite that askance -- note his coverage of weather-linked bonds and co-op loans to buffer farmers' crop risk, a development that could use encouragement.
The news seems to be getting better for sub-Saharan Africa: '04-'06 GDP growth at ~6%/yr, private capital inflow surpassing aid, elementary education expansion at twice the rate of Western experience; Nigeria's judiciary is starting to flex; and hopefully ideas like a charter establishing auditing standards for resource extraction and distribution will catch on.
For their part, wealthier citizens of the world can push their governments for fairer trade arrangements, and push companies to demand transparency from corrupt dictators in order to do business. There needs to be more noise about these points in the mainstream press.
With baby oil, and dental floss, antacid tablets, and cotton swabs.
Usually with excerpts of things they've seen in their lifetimes. Navajo woman at 104 years:
Now you can visually remember what pages you've looked at before. An extension for Firefox.
Even criminal organizations have observable laws and codes to maintain profits. In fact, a pirate ship was more democratic than the tyrannical legitimate navy and merchant vessels where the captain was accorded too much power.
The original paper here.
Well... These "truths" are based on an evolutionary biology interpretation of behaviors. It claims that suicide bombers in a Muslim society are more likely because of the greater violence from polygyny (seen in other cultures), and because of the promise of 72 virgins (mates) in the hereafter (What? Too broad a stroke. In a young male, testosterone can fuel hatred and self-aggrandizement to absurd levels, too. All battle sacrifices can be seen as helping a broader, threatened genetic strain with which the individual identifies.)
However, the point about a male's midlife crisis having to do with the wife's age rather than the man's -- they make it sound sensible.
Basic marketing, but also mentions how fresh food prep could be suspect for microbial contamination.
The urban, blue collar, retirement age is 50 for men and 55 for women; five year bump up for govt or higher-grade professionals. Little early, huh? The one-child policy introduced in 1980 helped to make this catastrophe-in-development happen. Of course, having too many children is a catastrophe itself.
Speeds over 30 mph, steering only with paddles. Actual footage of the kayak in action begins about 3 1/2 minutes into the video.
Linked to the Wikipedia entry on the famine. Some controversy on British role. Just wanted to show the picture here:
I have heard that fermented soy, like miso, natto, tempeh, is okay in smaller portions (East Asian diets consume regularly, but not in huge North American portions). No very specific details here, but an intro to those unfamiliar with the issue.
