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The Universe of Discourse : World's shortest explanation of Gödel's theorem
World's shortest explanation of Gödel's theorem A while back I started writing up an article titled "World's shortest explanation of Gödel's theorem". But I didn't finish it, and later I encountered Raymond Smullyan's version, which is much shorter anyway.
The jobless young: Left behind | The Economist
MARIA GIL ULLDEMOLINS is a smart, confident young woman. She has one degree from Britain and is about to conclude another in her native Spain. And she feels that she has no future.
TL;DR I love my job, I love my career, I love solving hard problems, and I love crafting great software. Just not as much as a I love my daughter. When I was younger, i was one of the developers who would get to work early, code all day, leave the office after everybody else, and then get back online and code at night. It didn’t matter what I was coding on, I just wanted to be coding.
Why I Go Home: A Developer Dad’s Manifesto | A Work in Progress
NASA Announces Design for New Deep Space Exploration System
NASA is ready to move forward with the development of the Space Launch System -- an advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle that will provide an entirely new national capability for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit. The Space Launch System will give the nation a safe, affordable and sustainable means of reaching beyond our current limits and opening up new discoveries from the unique vantage point of space. › Download HD Version (642 MB .mov) The Space Launch System, or SLS, will be designed to carry the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, as well as important cargo, equipment and science experiments to Earth's orbit and destinations beyond.
Ask the average person what they associate with personality disorders and you get a blank stare or description of a human chameleon capable of changing from normality to social menace in the blink of an eye. In reality, the majority of people with a personality disorder are a greater danger to themselves than others, with high rates of self-harm and attempted suicide as a way of managing often turbulent emotions. Most of us recognise our moods and feelings and manage them until they pass, while many people with personality disorders have a tendency to get stuck in these emotional states which increase in intensity, resulting in behaviour that many of us find unusual. These limiting patterns of behaviour and response become engrained like a scratched record, producing great feelings of anxiety and frustration. Sadly, public perception of the condition is largely media driven with a succession of sensationalist headlines, films and books.
Personality disorders: One of the most controversial & misunderstood areas of mental health | | Independent Editor's choice Blogs
This is a special guest post by the wonderfully talented and charming Natalie London. Let's say you're at a tea party, a gaming convention, a steampunk masquerade ball - some kind of social event. You meet some new people, and want to get to know them. You're chatting to one of them, and you're trying to make conversation. Because you care about such things, or more likely because you don't have a huge repertoire of small talk, you ask what they do for a living.
Being social with sex workers: how not to be a jerk
Their ability to land large-scale attacks like that of September 11 might be eroded, but the group has another strategy: using our strengths against us A decade after the attacks of September 11, 2001, national security opinion leaders are converging around the ideas that the threat of terrorism has been substantially reduced over the past 10 years, and that al-Qaeda is on its death bed. "Al-Qaeda is sort of on the ropes and taking a lot of shots to the body and the head," White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan told the Associated Press on August 31. Defense secretary Leon Panetta said in July that the United States is "within reach" of "strategically defeating" the jihadi group, and the Washington Post has confirmed that his assessment is shared by many analysts.
Al-Qaeda Is Winning - Daveed Gartenstein-Ross - International - The Atlantic
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, "Permission to fight (against disbelievers) is given to those (believers) who are fought against, because they have been wronged and surely, Allah is Able to give them (believers) victory" [Quran 22:39] "Those who believe, fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve, fight in the cause of Taghut (anything worshipped other than Allah e.g. Satan). So fight you against the friends of Satan; ever feeble is indeed the plot of Satan."[Quran 4:76]
Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America' | World news | Observer.co.uk
North Dixie Drive (2011) - IMDb
Edit North Dixie Drive is the portrait of a small community of businesses and people residing in the Northridge section of Dayton, OH. It is the story of big time wrestlers, mechanics, a donut salesmen, an eccentric country singer, barbers, exotic dancers and car repo men. This collection of people, from all walks of life, live and work around a traffic circle situated along highway I-75, and fight to keep their lives and careers afloat in a failing economy.
Daily Kos: Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did
I remember that many years ago, when I was a smart ass home from first year of college, I was standing in the kitchen arguing with my father. My head was full of newly discovered political ideologies and black nationalism, and I had just read the Autobiography of Malcolm X, probably for the second time. A bit of context. My father was from a background, which if we were talking about Europe or Latin America, we would call, "peasant" origin, although he had risen solidly into the working-middle class.If you share the typical British appetite, you will have worked your way through more than 1.5kg of meat this week as part of your annual 80kg quota of flesh-eating. That leaves you behind your typical American counterpart – working his or her way to 125kg a year – but still near the top of the international league of carnivores. The case for cutting our meat consumption has long been a compelling one from whichever perspective you look at it – human health, environmental good, animal welfare, fair distribution of planetary resources . But it has never been a popular idea. The number of people in this country claiming to be vegetarian or partly vegetarian has stayed stable over the last decade, at around 4.8m.
Is it time we all gave up meat? | Life and style | The Guardian
Scientists squeeze light past quantum limit › News in Science (ABC Science)
Tiny ripples The race to discover gravity waves may be getting closer to the finish line with scientists successfully squeezing light using quantum mechanics. The detection of gravity waves is one of the Holy Grails of astronomy and astrophysics. It will allow researchers to study the inner workings of exploding stars and colliding black holes. Einstein's general theory of relativity predicts these massive astronomical events generate tiny fluctuations, causing the fabric of space-time to expand and contract - like ripples on the surface of a pond. These yet to be discovered waves require the most sensitive detectors ever built, but up until now they've not been sensitive enough.A pill to make you smarter? Drug grows brain cells | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have found a drug that can help the brain grow new cells and said their study may lead to ways to improve experimental Alzheimer's drugs. The researchers' work, done on rodents, builds on findings that all mammals, including humans, make brain cells throughout their lives. Most of these die, but this drug helps more of the baby cells survive and grow to become functioning brain cells.NPG's policy on authorship : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
To the dismay of many (yet to the delight of a few), Nature Publishing Group announced today that its flagship journal, Nature , will no longer accept submissions from humans ( Homo sapiens ). The new policy, which has been under editorial consideration for many years, was sparked by a growing sentiment in the scientific community that the heuristics and biases inherent in human decision-making preclude them from conducting reliable science. In an ironic twist of fate, the species has impeached itself by thorough research on its own shortcomings. The ban takes effect on 12 September and will apply to those who self-identify as human. Authors will be required to include, in addition to the usual declaration of competing financial interests, the names of all humans consulted in preparation of the submitted work. Other journals are likely to adopt a similar policy.Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD ; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner A few minutes of watching "SpongeBob SquarePants" appeared to have negative effects on executive function in 4-year-olds, researchers reported. In a randomized controlled study, kids who watched the fast-paced cartoon about sea creatures for nine minutes did less well on tests of attention and cognition than those who spent the same amount of time drawing, according to Angeline Lillard, PhD, and Jennifer Peterson of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.