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Art by Laetitzia As we all know, communication is essential in society.
What Does Your Body Language Say About You? How To Read Signs and Recognize Gestures - Jinxi Boo - Jinxi Boo
This house belongs to an old man who has only ever left the island once – to go to war. And each time I pass his house on my way home to Edinburgh I think about how much I want to stay. And how one day I just might.
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Recently, cartographer Bill Rankin produced an astounding map of Chicago , which managed to show the city's areas of racial integration. Eric Fischer saw those maps, and took it upon himself to create similar ones for the top 40 cities in the United States . Fisher used a straight forward method borrowed from Rankin: Using U.S.
Infographic of the Day: How Segregated is Your City? | Fast Company
World Population Growth Infographic
Just how much is the world's population expected to grow over the next 40 years?
12.08.2010 - Our brains are wired so we can better hear ourselves speak, new study shows
Like the mute button on the TV remote control, our brains filter out unwanted noise so we can focus on what we’re listening to. But when it comes to following our own speech, a new brain study from the University of California, Berkeley, shows that instead of one homogenous mute button, we have a network of volume settings that can selectively silence and amplify the sounds we make and hear. Activity in the auditory cortex when we speak and listen is amplified in some regions of the brain and muted in others.
Is the ‘F’ word co-opted by conservatives & consumerist media?
On The Issues Magazine The Progressive Woman's Magazine Winter 2011: The Rise of Enlightened Sexism by Susan J. Douglas
Interactive Features | More Science This Web-only article is a special rich-media presentation of the feature, " 12 Events That Will Change Everything ," which appears in the June 2010 issue of Scientific American . The presentation was created by Zemi Media .
12 Events That Will Change Everything, Made Interactive: Scientific American
Green, Healthy & Safe Product Ratings & Reviews | GoodGuide
Led by Professor Dara O'Rourke of UC Berkeley, GoodGuide's science team – chemists, toxicologists, nutritionists, sociologists, and lifecycle analysis experts – rates products and companies on their health, environmental and social performance.
Drunken Coffee Jello Squares | The Hungry Mouse
OK, kids: This is coffee.Whether it's before, during, or after you shoot, we've posted some awesome photography tips, tricks, and hacks this year. Here are the most popular for 2010. People are for portraits.
Most Popular Photography Tips, Tricks, and Hacks of 2010
What they found there was a sea teaming with life and the largest deep water coral reef in the word. There are literally millions of sea birds with many species represented, such as the sea eagle, the cormorant and the puffin.
Lofoten – Arctic Circle Anomaly
Video clip NIST fought tooth and nail to keep secret contains clear audible booms as eyewitness describes “continuing explosions” from direction of Building 7