Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk—they come from families with money. Giorgos Kallis: Green new deal ne smije biti vezan uz ekonomski rast. Alternatives & Resources - ethical.net. Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk—they come from families with money. Humane by Design. 13 open source backup solutions. Watch this short video "before you enlist!" How to keep working. Regio Earth Conference & Balkan Earth Festival - August 2019. Footage Contradicts U.S. Claim That Maduro Burned Aid Convoy. Graphic design in film: the ultimate guide. In recent years, the role of graphic design in film has become more established, with more and more directors recognising the importance visual artists play in bringing their visions to life.
That said, graphic design in film still remains, for some reason, an underrated and unpopular career path. Want to Change the World? First, You Have to Listen to It. The essay that follows is adapted from Irshad Manji’s newly published book, “Don’t Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times.“ Liberals, among whom I count myself, are sometimes wise.
So wise that we should take much of our own advice to others. In the wake of 9/11, for example, many of my fellow liberals said that Americans must strive to understand why some Muslims gravitate to jihadism. Want to Change the World? First, You Have to Listen to It. The Value of Exercising Civility—in Both Oikos and Polis.
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This is a myth. Aside from a few lemons who were notable for their rarity, the majority of teachers I worked with for nine years in New York City’s public school system were dedicated, talented professionals. Before joining the system I was mystified by the schools’ abysmal results. I too assumed there must be something wrong with the teaching. This could not have been farther from the truth. Teaching French and Italian in NYC high schools I finally figured out why this was, although it took some time, because the real reason was so antithetical to the prevailing mindset.
Washington Irving High School, 2001–2004 My NYC teaching career began a few days before September 11, 2001 at Washington Irving High School. Motivated Reasoning Is Disfiguring Social Science. On February 15, the American Psychological Association (APA) Council of Representatives voted for a resolution opposing parental spanking (full disclosure: I serve on the APA Council of Representatives but speak only for myself).
The resolution statement presented spanking research as if data conclusively links spanking to negative outcomes in children such as aggression or reduced intellectual development. I happen to do some research on spanking’s effects on children. Although I am by no means a spanking advocate, I was alarmed by the way an inconsistent, correlational, and methodologically weak research field that routinely produces weak effect sizes was mischaracterized as consistent and strong. Unfortunately, this resolution is part of a larger bias among professional guilds such as the APA, wherein messy science is laundered for public consumption, presenting it as more impressive than it actually is. Motivated Reasoning Is Disfiguring Social Science. Microsoft Pledges to Protect and Defend Linux!!! Review of 8 Linux file managers. One of the most common administrative tasks that end users and administrators alike need to perform is file management.
Managing files can consume a major portion of your time. Locating files, determining which files and folders (directories) are taking the most disk space, deleting files, moving files, and simply opening files for use in an application are some of the most basic—yet frequent—tasks we do as computer users. File management programs are tools that are intended to streamline and simplify those necessary chores. Many choices Many people aren't aware of the wide array of choices available in file managers, nor do they realize the full capabilities of the ones they do know about. This is How to Correctly Plant Tomatoes to Grow 5–8 ft Plants. Posted on: February 6, 2019 at 9:59 pm Last updated: February 16, 2019 at 9:59 am Tomatoes are special fruits, and as such, they require special care to flourish (and bodyguards, as we’ll see later).
The heights they can grow to are determined largely by the varieties planted. Syrian War Report – Feb. 16-18, 2019: French Officer Is Punished For Revealing Truth About Conflict. Rural and coastal food systems research. Putin o zemljama EU: "Gdje je njihov suverenitet?" Na tiskovnoj konferenciji 14. veljače u Sočiju, ruski predsjednik Vladimir Putin je govorio o pitanju američkih projektila u Europi, temu koju smatra blisko povezanom s pitanjem suvereniteta država Europske unije.
Unemployment is low only because 'involuntary' part-time work is high. Liberapay. The 7 Major Flaws of the Global Financial System. Reinventing the Greenhouse - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE. A Chinese greenhouse.
Picture: Chris Buhler, Indoor Garden HQ. (This article has been translated into French, Spanish, Dutch and Polish). The quest to produce warm-loving crops in temperate regions initially didn't involve any glass at all. In Northwestern Europe, Mediterranean crops were planted close to specially built "fruit walls" with high thermal mass, creating a microclimate that could be 8 to 12°C (14 to 22°F) warmer than an unaltered climate. Later, greenhouses built against these fruit walls further improved yields from solar energy alone. During the oil crises of the 1970s, there was a renewed interest in the passive solar greenhouse. [7] However, the attention quickly faded when energy prices came down again, and the all-glass greenhouse remained the horticultural workhorse of the Northwestern world. The Chinese Solar Greenhouse The Chinese passive solar greenhouse has three walls of brick or clay.
We Can't Do It Ourselves - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE. Illustration: Diego Marmolejo.
Climate Change Policies Policies to address climate change and other environmental problems are threefold: decarbonisation policies (encouraging renewable energy sources, electric cars, heat pumps), energy efficiency policies (decreasing energy input/output ratio of appliances, vehicles, buildings), and behavioural change policies (encouraging people to consume and behave more sustainably, for instance by adopting the technologies promoted by the two other policies). We Can't Do It Ourselves - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE. Could We Run Modern Society on Human Power Alone? - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE.
Image: A human powered student room.
Golnar Abbasi. The Rise and Fall of Human Power Throughout most of history, humans have been the most important source of mechanical energy. Building cities, digging canals, producing food, washing clothes, communication and transportation: it all happened with human muscle power as the main source of energy. Human power was complemented with animal power, and windmills and watermills became increasingly important from the middle ages onwards. These days, human power plays virtually no role anymore. Electric Dreams. How to Build a Low-tech Internet - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE. Picture: A node in the Scottish Tegola Network. More than half of the global population does not have access to the "worldwide" web.
Up to now, the internet is mainly an urban phenomenon, especially in "developing" countries. Telecommunication companies are usually reluctant to extend their network outside cities due to a combination of high infrastructure costs, low population density, limited ability to pay for services, and an unreliable or non-existent electricity infrastructure. Even in remote regions of "developed" countries, internet connectivity isn't always available. Internet companies such as Facebook and Google regularly make headlines with plans for connecting these remote regions to the internet. Meanwhile, several research groups and network enthusiasts have developed and implemented much cheaper alternative network technologies to solve these issues. If We Insulate Our Houses, Why Not Our Cooking Pots? - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE.
Image: a fireless/gas cookstove from the 1920s. In the previous article, we found that cooking food is an incredibly inefficient process. The thermal efficiency varies from 13% for electric hobs to 23% for gas hobs, and from 5 to 25% for open fires and crude biomass stoves. Cooking stoves also produce considerable levels of indoor air pollution -- especially in developing countries but also in the modern kitchens of wealthy households. These results show that in both developed and developing nations, energy efficiency and pollution levels in the cooking process can stand to be improved.
The Revenge of the Circulating Fan - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE. Picture: the 152 cm diameter Haiku ceiling fan from Big Ass Fans. Power consumption is 2-8 watts for normal range of use. Compressor-based cooling or air-conditioning (AC) puts increasing pressure on electric grids worldwide. In the USA, the birthplace of the technology, AC accounts for approximately 20% of year-round electricity consumption by American households, and 15% of total electricity use. [1] The widespread use of AC explains in large part why Americans use so much more electricity than Europeans: AC electricity use by an American household equals 60% of all electricity used by the average European household. [2] Peak Power Demand.
CityChanger CargoBike. Cargo cyclists replace truck drivers on European city streets - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE. Cargo cyclists replace truck drivers on European city streets - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE. How to Downsize a Transport Network: The Chinese Wheelbarrow - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE. Transport options over land Before the arrival of the steam engine, people have always preferred to move cargo over water instead of over land, because it takes much less effort to do so. But whenever this was not possible, there remained essentially three options for transporting goods: carrying them (using aids like a yoke, or none at all), tying them to pack animals (donkeys, mules, horses, camels, goats), or loading them onto a wheeled cart or wagon (which could be pulled by humans or animals).
Heat your house with car tyres and earth - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE. Energy hungry America teaches the world how to build ecological houses. A dirt cheap and 100 percent ecological house that has all the comforts of an ordinary home, without being connected to the electricity grid, waterworks, sewer system or the natural gas network. It does exist, but in most countries, building one is not allowed. An Earthship is a completely self-sufficient house that has a natural temperature regulation, without the use of a heating system.
The status quo of electric cars: better batteries, same range - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE. The 2010 Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi i-MiEV have exactly the same range as the 1908 Fritchle Model A Victoria: 100 miles (160 kilometres) on a single charge From about 1895 to the mid-1920s, and following the bicycle craze of the 1890s, electric cars shared the road with petrol and steam powered cars. EV's were comparatively slow, heavy, and had a smaller range than their alternatives. During the very early years, however, electric automobiles were the most popular option for a short time, mainly because of two reasons. Firstly, they were easy to start, while a gasoline car had to be cranked up and a steam powered car required a long firing-up time (not unlike a wood gas car).
Secondly, there were few paved roads outside the city at the turn of the 20th century, which made the limited range of EV's not that problematic. High Speed Trains are Killing the European Railway Network - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE. Reinventing the Greenhouse - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE. Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE. Picture: fruit walls in Montreuil, a suburb of Paris. The modern glass greenhouse, often located in temperate climates where winters can be cold, requires massive inputs of energy, mainly for heating but also for artificial lighting and humidity control. According to the FAO, crops grown in heated greenhouses have energy intensity demands around 10 to 20 times those of the same crops grown in open fields.
Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE. Overdraft Protection: What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know. Nobody wants the embarrassment of seeing their debit card declined. To help, bankers came up with a seemingly beneficial solution. Overdraft protection is a service that allows card users to pay for items even if they temporarily do not have the funds, and it can help consumers potentially avoid such awkward problems. Porodice zamenjuju automobile kargo biciklima - Bajsologija. Dok je u Americi trend kargo bicikla relativno sveža pojava, u Evropi je to jedan od najuobičajenijih načina tranporta za roditelje i decu. Kada su u SAD pre 15 godina kargo bicikli prvi put počeli da se prodaju, bili u namenjeni “čudacima”. The world's premier open source event listing. Open source organizations and foundations. What is the open source way? The open source way is about applying the principles of open source software development beyond software. Beyond technology.
Open source alternatives. BUKA Magazin - Znam kako funkcioniše svemir, zašto bih onda trčao da uzmem neki milion dolara, recite mi? BUKA Magazin - Znam kako funkcioniše svemir, zašto bih onda trčao da uzmem neki milion dolara, recite mi? Just a friendly reminder that the best center in the NBA once asked "does anybody wanna play hoops" on Facebook. (AND DIDN'T GET A SINGLE LIKE ON IT, BTW)
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