Carter Emmart: A 3D atlas of the universe. The sexual threats against Emma Watson are an attack on every woman. In her famous 1996 commencement address, writer Nora Ephron warned the new graduates of Wellesley college that they were entering a world that was hostile to women's achievements and begged them to "take it personally.
" "Understand," she said, "every attack on Hillary Clinton for not knowing her place is an attack on you. " We must all take such attacks personally, she argued: "Underneath almost all those attacks are the words: Get back, get back to where you once belonged. " On September 21, actress and UN Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson stood up at the UN Headquarters in New York City and delivered a powerful speech condemning the harm that gender discrimination causes to both men and women, and inviting men to become active participants in the global struggle for equality. The next day, anonymous individuals set up a website targeting Watson with sexual threats, counting down the five days until, we were meant to presume, her private nude images would be made public.
4th Dimension explained by a high school kid. Climate Change: The Bigger Picture. I’ve noticed some parallels among three defining institutions of our civilisation: money, war, and mainstream religion.
All three demand, in one way or another, the sacrifice of the immediate, the human, or the personal in service to an overarching ulterior goal that trumps all. Disciplined by economic exigency, millions of people sacrifice time, energy, family, and what they really care about in pursuit of money. Disciplined by an existential threat, a nation at war turns away from culture, leisure, civil liberties, and everything of no utility to the war effort. The Carl Sagan Portal. Truth. First published Tue Jun 13, 2006; substantive revision Tue Jan 22, 2013 Truth is one of the central subjects in philosophy.
It is also one of the largest. Truth has been a topic of discussion in its own right for thousands of years. Moreover, a huge variety of issues in philosophy relate to truth, either by relying on theses about truth, or implying theses about truth. It would be impossible to survey all there is to say about truth in any coherent way. The problem of truth is in a way easy to state: what truths are, and what (if anything) makes them true. Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Citation: Huitt, W. (2007).
Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Educational Psychology Interactive. The Birth of Tragedy. The Birth of Tragedy.
7 Books That Will Violently Shift Your Perspectives. Nominate. Iain McGilchrist: The divided brain. A Nation of Wimps. Maybe it's the cyclist in the park, trim under his sleek metallic blue helmet, cruising along the dirt path... at three miles an hour.
On his tricycle. Or perhaps it's today's playground, all-rubber-cushioned surface where kids used to skin their knees. And... wait a minute... those aren't little kids playing. Timeline Photos. Jessica Green: We're covered in germs. Let's design for that. 100 Websites You Should Know and Use (updated!) Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword.
Among them: “hlizifikh,” a wild but powerful strike; “hrakkarikh,”a quick and accurate strike; and “gezrikh,” a fake-out or decoy strike. But you won’t find these words in George R. R. Culture. Planck Satellite Image Maps the ‘Oldest Light’ in the Universe. The European Space Agency published on Thursday the first image of the oldest light in our Universe taken by its $900 million Planck space telescope.
While it might look like an underwhelming picture of a speckled Easter egg, scientists say the above image is a near-perfect view of the earliest days of the universe: “The extraordinary quality of Planck’s portrait of the infant Universe allows us to peel back its lawyers to the very foundations, revealing that our blueprint of the cosmos is far from complete,” said the ESA’s director-general, Jean-Jacques Dordain.
(MORE: A Super-Telescope Goes to Work) Planck captured the tiny variations in the temperature and polarization of the universe’s cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation — light which was finally “set free” after the Big Bang when the universe had cooled enough for it to spread. The Mind Unleashed. Magnificent Giant Tree: Sequoia in a Snowstorm. A Brighter Shade of Green: Rebooting Environmentalism for the 21st Century, by Ross Robertson. This brings me to Worldchanging , the book that arrived last spring bearing news of an environ-mental paradigm so shamelessly up to the minute, it almost blew out all my green circuits before I could even get it out of its stylish slipcover.
Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century . It’s also the name of the group blog, found at Worldchanging.com, where the material in the book originally came from. Run by a future-savvy environmental journalist named Alex Steffen, Worldchanging is one of the central hubs in a fast-growing network of thinkers defining an ultramodern green agenda that closes the gap between nature and society—big time. After a good solid century of well-meaning efforts to restrain, reduce, and otherwise mitigate our presence here on planet Earth, they’re saying it’s time for environmentalism to do a one-eighty.
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I’ve been in photography since I’m 15 (so that’s almost 30 years .. gosh !!) Khan Academy. Moana: Wayfinding with Code Grades 2+ | Blocks Minecraft Hour of Code Make Music with Scratch. Happy Planet Index. Trampled by Turtles-Wait So Long. Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote. Listen to a Wall of Music. Coke Vs. Pepsi: Taste Test and Fierce Rivalry. The Generations of Men: How the Cycles of History Shape Your Values, Your Idea of Manhood, and Your Future.
As is the generation of leaves, so to of men: At one time the wind shakes the leaves to the ground but then the flourishing woods Gives birth, and the season of spring comes into existence; So it is with the generations of men, which alternately come forth and pass away. - Homer, The Illiad, Book Six If you’ve been following AoM for awhile now, you know that Kate and I love history.
I studied classical history in college and Kate actually taught American history and Humanities at a community college here in town. And in running the Art of Manliness for the past five years, we’ve read hundreds of old writings while researching material for our posts and two books. Stephen Hawking on time travel, M-theory, and extra terrestrial life.
Stephen Hawking is near-universally recognized as a brilliant scientist, and one small facet of his complex genius is the rockstar ability to democratize scientific knowledge. It's becoming increasingly important as purveyors of pop culture continue to eschew acknowledgment and respect for the most basic scientific principles. Hollywood in particular has continued its marginalization of scientific knowledge with blatant disregard in recent films. But Hawking acts like a great counter force against anti-intellectual movements. He takes complex scientific principles and explains them so the general public can understand and, more importantly, appreciate the science behind them. International: The lottery of life. Warren Buffett, probably the world’s most successful investor, has said that anything good that happened to him could be traced back to the fact that he was born in the right country, the United States, at the right time (1930).
A quarter of a century ago, when The World in 1988 light-heartedly ranked 50 countries according to where would be the best place to be born in 1988, America indeed came top. But which country will be the best for a baby born in 2013? Watching this scientist sample lava from an active volcano will make your heart race. Francis chan. Almost two years ago, my family and I were in Asia trying to figure out where the Lord wanted us to live and minister. While apartment hunting in Hong Kong, I had a strong sense that God wanted me to return to the US.
TO UNDERSTAND IS TO PERCEIVE PATTERNS. Charlie Chaplin final speech in The Great Dictator. The Great 2012 Doomsday Scare. The Great 2012 Doomsday Scare This guest article on 2012 was written by E. C. Krupp, Director of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles and is reprinted with permission from Sky & Telescope Magazine. The publisher and the author reserve all rights. Lunar Alphabet. Einstein’s Office: Genius in the Details. Stephen Hawking: Professor, Patient and Total Badass.