Non-Blockbusters to See in 2016 (Part 1) Blackhole Water Slide. The Amish understand a crucial thing about modern medicine that most Americans don’t — Quartz. The Allegheny Plateau, sprawling across northern Pennsylvania and beyond, is an ecosystem of forested hills, with land that supports black bears, bald eagles and wandering turkeys, as well as a patchwork of wild herbs: burdock, jewelweed, chamomile and sheep sorrel.
Cellphone reception is spotty and gas stations are few and far between. Tucked away among the streams branching from the Cowanesque river is a cluster of small white and tan buildings, including the office of John Keim, an Amish elder and community healer. In the 1980s, Keim’s young son was scalded by a pot of boiling water, burning off his skin from collarbone to waist. Hospital care was out of the question. Previously, two of Keim’s cousins had been burned in a fire and spent three months in an Indiana hospital. Every week, relatives had sent letters describing how the children screamed as their wounds were cleaned and their bandages changed.
Keim and his wife treated their son at home. Munch, Monet, Michelangelo, and more: High art through a LEGO lens. Sam Machkovech Seattle's Pacific Science Center is the latest home to Nathan Sawaya's all-LEGO art exhibit. Sam Machkovech Seattle's Pacific Science Center is the latest home to Nathan Sawaya's all-LEGO art exhibit. Sam Machkovech Starry Night. Sam Machkovech The Second Chinese Horse. SEATTLE—We at Ars love a good piece of LEGO design, particularly the fare found at regional fan fests like BrickCon on an annual basis. Oregon-raised artist Nathan Sawaya, on the other hand, has made art out of LEGOs for years—and shown it off at art galleries across the world since 2007. From Monet to Munch, and from Egyptian temples to politically charged Americana, Sawaya's Art of the Brick collection crosses a ton of artistic movements off the LEGO list. This Skeletor-looking sculpture, sadly, was the closest Sawaya's exhibit got to anything in the way of pop culture.
Listing image by Sam Machkovech. This gif took a lot of balls to make. A gratuitous gallery of warbirds for Memorial Day. Jonathan Gitlin The workhorse of the US Army Air Corp's Eighth Air Force in World War II was the B-17. This one is a B-17G called Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby and it flew 24 combat missions during the war, ending its service after making an emergency landing in Sweden. The Eighth Air Force suffered very heavy casualties during WWII—more than 26,000 personnel lost their lives.
Jonathan Gitlin The workhorse of the US Army Air Corp's Eighth Air Force in World War II was the B-17. Americans have honored those lost in war in some shape or another since just after the Civil War. The museum can be found at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The collections under those massive hangars are organized chronologically, from the beginning of flight through World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War, through to today. Listing image by Jonathan Gitlin.
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Oh the things I could create—the only limit would be my imagination. Of course, there were likely a few other hurdles such as my (in)ability to model my vision in 3D CAD or the size constraints of the machine, but still, the possibilities! Near infinite possibilities are great, but what specifically would I create first? The sort of amorphous blob that appeared in my mind initially wouldn’t make the most useful or interesting physical object. Luckily, novice 3D creators can jumpstart their creative juices by exploring www.thingiverse.com to see what others have created. From there, www.tinkercad.com allows anyone to access tutorials and learn how to create those yet-to-be-envisioned masterpiece. At Thingverse, I discovered a wide variety of little plastic models of larger items and other miscellaneous bits I’d largely describe as trinkets. William Gibson has written a comic, and you should read it. Warning: this post contains minor plot spoilers.
IDW Publishing The cover of Archangel issue #1. IDW Publishing The cover of Archangel issue #1. IDW Publishing Archangel's roots are in an unsuccessful pitch to a German TV company involving "Nazi flying saucers. " IDW Publishing What will our heroes from 1945 make of the interlopers from the future? We're in an exciting time for new comics right now, and I'm not talking about Captain America's reveal as a Hydra agent. "It's an alternate-history/cross-worlds story," Gibson writes in the back matter. Archangel begins in February 2016, but it's a very different 2016 to the one we know. A father and son occupy the new White House as President and Vice President. All is not lost, though.
The rest of the first issue plays out in 1945, in which British intelligence officer Naomi Givens is tasked with finding out what just fell out of the skies of Berlin. Givens is a characteristically Gibsonian protagonist. Listing image by IDW Publishing. Businessinsider. Here’s something that has always puzzled me, growing up in the U.S. as a child of Russian parents. Whenever I or my friends were having our photos taken, we were told to say “cheese” and smile.
But if my parents also happened to be in the photo, they were stone-faced. So were my Russian relatives, in their vacation photos. My parents’ high-school graduation pictures show them frolicking about in bellbottoms with their young classmates, looking absolutely crestfallen. It’s not just photos: Russian women do not have to worry about being instructed by random men to “smile.” This does not mean we are all unhappy! Russians’ fondness for the gentle scowl seems even more unusual to expats than its actual, climatic cold. So why is this? Krys focused on a cultural phenomenon called “uncertainty avoidance.” Smiling is a sign of certainty and confidence, so when people in those countries smile, they might seem odd. Intelligence and Smiling Honesty and Smiling. Quora. Uk.businessinsider. The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest families in Florence — Quartz. South Korea tops the charts when it comes to measuring the world’s fastest internet connectivity speeds.
At 26.3 megabits per second, it was the only country above the 25 Mbps threshold in the third quarter of 2016, according to a new report (pdf) published by US-based cloud services provider Akamai. South Korea’s hyper-connectivity is no surprise: It is the result of nearly 20 years of labor. In the 1990s, the South Korean government made a big push toward the broadband industry.
It liberalized its telecommunications sector, built a robust national infrastructure for high-speed internet, and introduced regulations to keep the broadband market competitive. The government encouraged citizens to get computers and use high-speed internet connections by subsidizing the cost for low-income people and others not connected at the time. Between 1996 and 2001, there was a six-fold rise in Korean internet hosts. A high population density works in Korea’s favor. What happens if we burn all the fossil fuels? It has been decades since we recognized the threat of climate change, yet very few governments have instituted policies that address the threat. The first strong international agreement was only established very recently. Meanwhile, the companies that supply fossil fuels continue to push exploration for new supplies. Under those circumstances, it's fair to consider what would happen if the burning of fossil fuel continued unabated. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change typically considers a scenario in which fossil fuel use continues along its current trends until the end of the century.
But a new study examines what would happen if the burning of fossil fuels continues for centuries and we gobble up a conservative estimate of everything that's left to extract. That study suggests that the future is going to be significantly warmer than we might have expected. Carbon dioxide's warming influence doesn't go up in a linear fashion as its concentration increases. Uk.businessinsider. When Boston Dynamics posted a video of its humanoid robot, Atlas, walking in the snow and recovering from getting kicked, Google was not happy. YouTube/Boston DynamicsBoston Dynamics and its Atlas robot As one former employee told Tech Insider, it "soured the soup" of a relationship that was already heading south.
Bloomberg first reported the issues surrounding the video when it obtained an email posted on an internal Google forum. "There’s excitement from the tech press, but we’re also starting to see some negative threads about it being terrifying, ready to take humans’ jobs,” Courtney Hohne, a director of communications at Google and the spokeswoman for Google X, wrote in that email. Hohne asked her colleagues at Google to “distance X from this video,” writing, “we don’t want to trigger a whole separate media cycle about where BD really is at Google. " That last point Hohne makes is key: where Boston Dynamics fits into Google's vision has been an issue for some time. Brendan Hoffman/Getty. TransferCar Lets You Rent a Car One-Way for Free. Health | How care home keeps elderly healthy. A year ago, 88-year-old Jean Lavender used to find walking any distance a struggle. Now she is keen to get outside for a walk most days.
And she puts the transformation down to the most simple of medicines - water. She is one of a group of residents at a care home in Suffolk who have been encouraged to increase their intake of water. And they have all reported dramatic results. Jean says she feels 20 years younger. "I feel more alert - more cheerful too. I'm not a miserable person, but it's added a sort of zest. " Staff at The Martins care home in Bury St Edmunds started a "water club" for their residents last summer. Residents were encouraged to drink eight to 10 glasses of water a day, water coolers were installed, and they were each given a jug for their room.
The views of some residents after drinking more water Dehydration Doctors have long highlighted the risks of dehydration for elderly people. Even she has been surprised by how much difference it's made, though. ELI5: How did aristocrats prove their identity back in time? : explainlikeimfive. Imgur. Inside The College That Abolished The F And Raked In The Cash.
Boosting productivity at work may be simple: Stand up – Science Bulletin. Research shows 46 percent increase in workplace productivity with use of standing desks. Credit: © Mack Male / Flickr Most people have heard the argument that standing desks are good for the body. They can help burn more calories and fight obesity. Standing can even help improve students’ attention and cognitive functioning. The researchers examined the productivity differences between two groups of call center employees over the course of six months and found that those with stand-capable workstations–those in which the worker could raise or lower the desk to stand or sit as they wished throughout the day–were about 46 percent more productive than those with traditional, seated desk configurations. The study was published in the journal IIE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors.
In addition to helping the bottom line of the company, standing during the day can improve worker health. Benden cautioned that the research did not employ a random sample. Journal Reference: Facebook begins tracking non-users around the internet. Facebook will now display ads to web users who are not members of its social network, the company announced Thursday, in a bid to significantly expand its online ad network. As The Wall Street Journal reports, Facebook will use cookies, "like" buttons, and other plug-ins embedded on third-party sites to track members and non-members alike. The company says it will be able to better target non-Facebook users and serve relevant ads to them, though its practices have come under criticism from regulators in Europe over privacy concerns. Facebook began displaying a banner notification at the top of its News Feed for users in Europe today, alerting them to its use of cookies as mandated under an EU directive.
"Publishers and app developers have some users who aren’t Facebook users," Andrew Bosworth, vice president of Facebook’s ads and business platform, tells the Journal. "We think we can do a better job powering those ads. " "we have a greater opportunity than other companies. " The secret life of Kim Jong Un’s aunt, who has lived in the U.S. since 1998. Kim Jong Un’s maternal aunt and her husband, known in North Korea as Ko Yong Suk and Ri Gang, pose for a portrait in New York’s Times Square on April 23. They have been living in the United States since 1998, and run a dry-cleaning store. (Yana Paskova/For The Washington Post) NEW YORK — Wandering through Times Square, past the Naked Cowboy and the Elmos and the ticket touts, she could be any immigrant trying to live the American Dream.
A 60-year-old Korean woman with a soft perm and conservative clothes, she’s taking a weekend off from pressing shirts and hemming pants at the dry-cleaning business she runs with her husband. But she’s not just any immigrant. She’s an aunt to Kim Jong Un, the young North Korean leader who has threatened to wipe out New York with a hydrogen bomb. And for the past 18 years, since defecting from North Korea into the waiting arms of the CIA, she has been living an anonymous life here in the United States with her husband and three children. But look closer. Uk.businessinsider. What Game Is Bernie Sanders Playing with Donald Trump? Uk.businessinsider. Game of Thrones is revealing George R.R. Martin's biggest secrets. It's weird. Every week throughout season six, a handful of Vox's writers will discuss the latest episode of Game of Thrones. Before you dig in, check out our recap of Sunday's episode, as well the archive of our entire discussion to date.
Next up is politics writer Andrew Prokop. Andrew Prokop: Emily, among the many ways to interpret the scene where Arya watches a Braavosi theater troop reenact her father's downfall, perhaps my favorite is that Arya is a die-hard fan of George R.R. Martin's books, gazing on with horror at how that crude, gratuitous nudity-filled, crowd-pleasing HBO adaptation gets so much wrong! As a big fan of the books, I've been in Arya's position before. But "The Door" took us into even weirder adaptation territory, when it revealed a twist Martin has been planning for decades … before he managed to do so in the books. Of course, I mean Hodor's tragic origin story and fate. And indeed, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. "Well, I’m writing book 6, The Winds of Winter. Why You Shouldn't Worry So Much About Being a 'Perfect' Mother.
Websites to Sharpen Your Programming Skills (Challenges/Exercises) ELI5: Why are anti-depressants advertised on television, but other psychiatric medications aren't? : explainlikeimfive. The average raise for US CEOs last year was 10 times the pay of the average American worker (EXPE) — Quartz. CEOs running the biggest US companies saw their pay increase an average 4.5% last year, putting the median CEO pay package at $10.8 million, according to a report from the Associated Press. At $468,449, the median pay raise alone is more than 10 times the pay of the average American worker. Topping AP’s list of the most highly compensated CEOs is Expedia’s Dara Khosrowshahi, who made $94.6 million—an 881% raise from the year before, according to Equilar, which crunched the numbers for AP.
Khosrowshahi’s big pay day, like that of many of the CEOs, comes in the form of stock options, and is tied to the company’s future performance, with some shares not vesting until 2018 or 2020. Expedia did well last year—its shares rose 47%—and so did Khosrowshahi. “Dara Khosrowshahi has been a transformational CEO,” the company said in an emailed statement. The one group that can hold CEO salaries in check are shareholders, who can register their disapproval by casting non-binding votes on compensation. ExxonMobil CEO: ending oil production 'not acceptable for humanity' | Business. Location of Aristotle's tomb to be revealed at Thessaloniki conference Thursday | Life. Quora. Seventeen Words That Spelled Trouble for Hillary Clinton.
Uk.businessinsider. Tesla's newest hire may be proof Elon Musk is ready to hear some hard truths about batteries (TSLA) — Quartz. This cartoon explains how the rich got rich and the poor got poor. 4 Women with 4 Very Different Incomes Open Up About the Lives They Can Afford. Lego and the Trouble With Telling Girls How to Play. Three Things You and Your Partner Should Agree On Before Moving In Together. The Hidden Science of Elevators. Uk.businessinsider. These Apps Are the Perfect Money Saving Tools for Lazy People Like Me.
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This is a story about my mentally challenged dog named Stanley. I know this sounds strange. Please just hear me out. Uk.businessinsider.