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Passing on body hatred. Dear Mum, I was seven when I discovered that you were fat, ugly and horrible.
Up until that point I had believed that you were beautiful - in every sense of the word. I remember flicking through old photo albums and staring at pictures of you standing on the deck of a boat. Your white strapless bathing suit looked so glamorous, just like a movie star. Passing on body hatred. Information Vs. Knowledge Vs. Experience. There’s no question that self-education has never been easier.
We can consume countless blog posts, articles, books, videos, TED talks, and Reddit AMAs. We take MOOCs, and can study along with course syllabuses from Ivy League universities. What Causes an Earthquake? Faults Explained. We all have our faults, and that includes planet Earth.
Earthquakes rattle the globe every day, big and small, most recently making news this week with temblors in Puerto Rico and southern California. They all spring from faults deep underground, but what kind? The impact and severity of each quake depends on the answer to that question. Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes, yet there are only 24 hours in a day? Michael A.
Lombardi, a metrologist in the Time and Frequency Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., takes the case. In today's world, the most widely used numeral system is decimal (base 10), a system that probably originated because it made it easy for humans to count using their fingers. The civilizations that first divided the day into smaller parts, however, used different numeral systems, specifically duodecimal (base 12) and sexagesimal (base 60).
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Close roads to get everyone home faster. Can we harness the power of Braess's paradox? IT IS the second game of the 1999 US National Basketball Association play-offs – the New York Knicks vs the Indiana Pacers. The eighth-seeded Knicks are holding their own against the number 2 seeds when their best player, Patrick Ewing, tears his Achilles tendon. The Knicks's success against the Pacers was so unexpected that the story behind it has since become a legend, even gaining its own name. Do what you love, love what you do: An omnipresent mantra that’s bad for work and workers. From Gandhi to MLK, history’s giants have become marketing tools. And the world kept turning.
Another day, another Doodle. But is Google the right booster for one of the Harlem Renaissance’s greatest treasures? We’d be appalled if McDonald’s used Martin Luther King Jr.’s image to sell hamburgers or if Coca-Cola put Mohandas Gandhi on a soda can. Simple Banking. Before You Abandon Those Resolutions, Read This. Now that we're a little over a week removed from New Year's, you may be starting to feel guilty about those resolutions you announced, wrote down--but haven’t yet acted upon.
You may not have abandoned them just yet, but your resolve is wavering. Let me suggest an easy experiment--a minor tweak that can be applied to those languishing resolutions. By adding a few words, you can turn a resolution statement or command into a question--resulting in what I hereby dub the “questolution.” Okay, the term is a bit clunky, but the idea is irresistibly simple: a questolution is a resolution worded in the form of a question. Death: A special report on the inevitable. Cookies on the New Scientist website close Our website uses cookies, which are small text files that are widely used in order to make websites work more effectively.
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Shop. Slavery's last stronghold. Nouakchott, Mauritania (CNN) Moulkheir Mint Yarba returned from a day of tending her master’s goats out on the Sahara Desert to find something unimaginable: Her baby girl, barely old enough to crawl, had been left outdoors to die.
The usually stoic mother — whose jet-black eyes and cardboard hands carry decades of sadness — wept when she saw her child’s lifeless face, eyes open and covered in ants, resting in the orange sands of the Mauritanian desert. The master who raped Moulkheir to produce the child wanted to punish his slave. He told her she would work faster without the child on her back. Trying to pull herself together, Moulkheir asked if she could take a break to give her daughter a proper burial. “Her soul is a dog’s soul,” she recalls him saying. Later that day, at the cemetery, “We dug a shallow grave and buried her in her clothes, without washing her or giving her burial rites.”