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Coping with grief: The things i’ve learnt – Designing Experience. Everyone at some point in their life will experience grief and loss, its an unfortunate, inevitability of life.

Coping with grief: The things i’ve learnt – Designing Experience

The reason grief is so challenging is because it manifests itself physically, psychologically and even spiritually (when you start to doubt your beliefs as to why something so terrible could happen). I’ve learnt that grief is never a straight line or a series of stages like the ones proposed. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance, you may feel all of them at once or you may feel depression before denial, there is no set order and there is no set rule book to say you’ll experience them all either. Republican security experts rail against Trump in open letter. Image copyright Getty Images An open letter signed by 50 Republican national security experts has warned that party nominee Donald Trump "would be the most reckless president" in US history.

Republican security experts rail against Trump in open letter

The group - which includes the former CIA director Michael Hayden - said Mr Trump "lacks the character, values and experience" to be president.

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How does misinformation spread online? In the run up to the 2013 Italian elections, a social media post exposing the corruption of parliament went viral.

How does misinformation spread online?

Italian politicians were quietly certain that, win or lose, they would be financially secure by taking money from the taxpayer. Parliament had quietly passed a special welfare bill specially designed to protect policy-makers by ensuring them an incredible unemployment package should they lose their seat in the upcoming election.

Person of the Year 2015 Runner-Up: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. By Massimo CalabresiIllustration by Piotr Lesniak for TIME They rallied to his call: the violent and the suicidal, the lawless and the fanatical, gathering in cyberspace from around the world to pledge allegiance to his self-proclaimed caliphate.

Person of the Year 2015 Runner-Up: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Some acted in his name in the real world, killing hundreds of innocents at hotels, mosques and concert halls from Paris to the Sinai, Beirut to San Bernardino. A handful of adherents were close to him, like the woman who ran his sex-slave operation. Others were thousands of miles away yet under his command and control, like those behind the attacks in France on Nov. 13 that killed 130 people.

Still others may have had no more connection to him than a declaration of allegiance on Facebook—like Tashfeen Malik, who posted right before she and her partner killed 14 people in Southern California on Dec. 2. Here Are All the Roads That Lead to Rome. All roads might not technically lead to Rome—but, if you happen to be in Europe, the majority of them do.

Here Are All the Roads That Lead to Rome

In a new infographic, designers Philipp Schmitt, Benedikt Groß, and Raphael Reimann set out to answer the centuries-old question of: Do all roads actually lead to the Italian capital? To find the answer, the designers began by crunching some numbers. Carlisle State Brewery - Carlisle, Cumbria, UK - the State-managed Liquor Trade This unique experiment dates back to the First World War, with the construction of the country's largest munitions factory to the north of Carlisle on the Scottish Border between Longtown and Gretna.Its construction took two years to complete and finally employed over 25,000 people, some of whom were housed in two new towns constructed in the area.

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Unfortunately, these townships could only accommodate a minority of the workers - the majority were forced to live in Carlisle, the only large town within 50 miles.This influx of workers, free of family ties and with a large amount of disposable income had the obvious effect on the liquor trade throughout the town, with clear effects on munitions production and safety. The problem was evident when reviewing the statistics for drunkenness in the area.

From 1914-15 these stood at approximately 250 convictions; this rose to nearly 1000 in 1916. Why Do Some Non-Ginger Guys Have Ginger Beards? Males aged 18 to 60 have been hit by an epidemic of beard growing over the past two years or so.

Why Do Some Non-Ginger Guys Have Ginger Beards?

Experts have underestimated how long it will continue to rage, although if current trends continue, all young urban media professionals will be affected by 2017 (probably). As more guys jump onto the hairy bandwagon, you’ve probably asked yourself, why are so many beards ginger even if their hair is dark? What ISIS Really Wants. What is the Islamic State?

What ISIS Really Wants

Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. XKCD Wiki. #xkcd ...is an IRC channel full of pretty okay[citation needed] guys and girls (as well as anthropomorphic lifeforms and animals).

XKCD Wiki

Sometimes we talk about xkcd. Subject matter The subject of #xkcd changes very, very quickly. The topic usually has nothing to do with the conversation at hand, so pay attention. Would you feel inspired in a weird workplace? - BBC News. Can a quirky office make you a better worker?

Would you feel inspired in a weird workplace? - BBC News

Meet the people who do conventional work in unconventional places. Whether it's the constant babble of voices in your open plan office, the strip-lighting, or the claustrophobia of the battery-cage desk formations. Guy Martin: My 1,000-mile Indian road trip on a Royal Enfield. In the first episode, we see Grimsby-born Martin crawling through Delhi traffic at three miles an hour, before spending 12 hours in a city station waiting for a delayed train for a part of the journey he would complete by rail.

For the rest of the 1,000 miles, he rode on a Royal Enfield – a British-designed vehicle which went out of production in the UK in the 1970s but remains the most popular bike in India. One dealer Martin meets in the documentary claims he could find a person who knew how to fix the bike on every street corner in the country. 'My horn was worn out after one day' (Photo: James Woodroffe/Channel 4) 10 American Foods that are Banned in Other Countries. Americans are slowly waking up to the sad fact that much of the food sold in the US is far inferior to the same foods sold in other nations.

In fact, many of the foods you eat are BANNED in other countries. Here, I’ll review 10 American foods that are banned elsewhere. 6 Ways Bletchley Park Has Made The UK A World Leader In Digital Government. CN train plows through New Brunswick snow. The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics. Description: Global ethics focuses on the most pressing contemporary ethical issues - poverty, global trade, terrorism, torture, pollution, climate change and the management of scarce recourses. It draws on moral and political philosophy, political and social science, empirical research, and real-world policy and activism.

The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject, presenting an authoritative overview of the most significant issues and ideas in global ethics. The 31 chapters by a team of international contributors are structured into six key parts: normative theory conflict and violence poverty and development economic justice bioethics and health justice environment and climate ethics. Desperate migrants try to swim to Britain from France - BBC News. Migrants desperate to get to England from the French port of Calais are now trying to swim across the English Channel - with disastrous consequences, reports the BBC's Paddy O'Connell.

Last summer, sitting outside his pub near Dover, landlord Nigel Wyndmus saw a small dinghy. A cutter from the coastguard drew up alongside. At first he mistook what was happening for a training exercise. "The boat was just a few hundred yards out," Mr Wyndmus said, "and we realised that it was illegal immigrants trying to get to England. " He added: "People coming across on boats was not really considered an option" - he believed it was all done by stowaways boarding lorries and trying to break into the Channel Tunnel. Breton-gallois an. Breton-gallois an. Paul Ford: What is Code? A computer is a clock with benefits. They all work the same, doing second-grade math, one step at a time: Tick, take a number and put it in box one. Tick, take another number, put it in box two. Tick, operate (an operation might be addition or subtraction) on those two numbers and put the resulting number in box one.

Tick, check if the result is zero, and if it is, go to some other box and follow a new set of instructions.

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An Old Man's Poem (this made me cry) Scientists have figured out what makes Indian food so delicious - News - Food and Drink - The Independent.