Curiosidades
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Variant of a simple, non-auditory digit span test. The digit span is often used to measure short-term memory via the phonological loop . The objective is to remember as many digits as possible.
cognitive fun!
Abandoned Places: 10 Creepy, Beautiful Modern Ruins
Abandoned Places | We humans are explorers by nature. The quest for discovery, both old and new, is part of what separates us from rest of the animal kingdom. Since the world we live in has been largely mapped and plotted, we urban adventurers turn our sights toward the relics of old and the ruins of the recent past. If you find beauty in urban decay, in the crumbling and abandoned places of yesteryear, you’ll want to read on.
I've never thought of my allergies as a big deal. Sure, my peanut allergy has caused an emergency room visit here and there, and my dad used to pick me up from sleepovers because of my emphysema-like wheezing around cats. No big thing, right? But a few years back it seemed about time I went to see an allergy specialist and get a comprehensive list of the things my body hates.
Paleofuture - Paleofuture Blog
Creating Passionate Users
This blog has always been about optimism, creating better user experiences, helping users spend more time in flow, and learning. There are 405 posts here. More importantly, there are nearly 10,000 comments from y'all that add so much more to the topics, and from which myself and others have learned a great deal.
Aunque continúa siendo una leyenda, una de las versiones más populares cuenta que durante el tercer siglo, Valentín, un joven enteramente entregado al cristianismo, unía a jóvenes parejas en matrimonio, esto a espaldas del emperador romano Claudio II, quien bajo la creencia de que los hombres solteros eran mejores soldados que los casados, prohibió los casamientos para no arriesgar ni reducir su potencial grupo de soldados. Desafiando dicho mandato sobre el matrimonio, Valentín continuó casando a jóvenes parejas en secreto, hasta que fue descubierto por el emperador quien ordenó que lo encarcelaran y mataran. Durante las últimas semanas de su vida, uno de sus carceleros reconociendo en Valentín a un hombre de letras, lleva a su hija Julia, ciega de nacimiento, para recibir lecciones de él. Era una joven preciosa y de mente ágil.
Ballesterismo
Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System
GDACS is a cooperation framework between the United Nations, the European Commission and disaster managers worldwide to improve alerts, information exchange and coordination in the first phase after major sudden-onset disasters.
