Rory Stewart says Britain must make the best of Brexit. This is the unedited transcript of an interview between Rory Stewart, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Conservative MP for Penrith and The Border and Ferdinando Giugliano of La Repubblica. The interview took place on Thursday 30 June 2016 in London (UK) Can you explain what is happening in the Conservative Party? It has been an extraordinary day…. It is extraordinary. The first problem that I can see is that the conversation is still domestic.
All the candidates are still emphasizing domestic issues and keep saying ‘what matters is the economy’. A happiness researcher has found that there are four keys to a fulfilling job — Quartz. History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places. Sleeping with a Gentrifier — The Bold Italic. Sleeping with a Gentrifier A few weeks ago, I moved to the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco — the bright-orange yolk at the center of our gentrification-eviction debate — for the second time. This time, instead of being a single artist in a collective house, I moved in with my boyfriend, who owns his apartment. As I walked from BART to my new house, I noticed a handmade poster with the Twitter logo fluttering on it that read, “Invasive Species.” And for the first time, I thought, “That means us.” I first lived in the Mission 10 years ago. I had holes in all my clothes, a neon-pink studded belt I’d altered with silver rivets and an aimless existence loosely centered on rejecting authority and oppressive systems.
With my index fingers, I bang-typed magical-realism stories on my manual typewriter, then Xeroxed them into zines alongside collages with lesbian-feminist messages. After a few years, I left San Francisco. Then, within a month of being back, I fell hard. “I know you would. History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places.
The importance of being alone in the digital era — Quartz. If it weren’t for former University of Chicago colleague Barack Obama, Cass Sunstein might be the most well-known constitutional law professor of his generation. With a long career as a writer, academic, public intellectual, and government official, Sunstein has developed a unique reputation for blending legal scholarship, social science research, philosophy, and economics into practical approaches that can be used to inform and improve American public policy. He’s perhaps best known for the work he did with behavioral economics pioneer Richard Thaler, with whom he wrote the 2008 best-seller Nudge.
That book argued that by using the power of behavioral economics, policy makers, business people, and other “choice architects” can steer people toward decisions that maximize their well-being. His latest book is a bit different. It’s called The World According to Star Wars. Yes, Star Wars. Quartz: In this era of fragmentation, Star Wars remains a mass-media phenomenon.
Sometimes sports. Health | Depression link to processed food. Brian Godfrey: "I gradually got rid of foods that were causing the problem" Eating a diet high in processed food increases the risk of depression, research suggests. What is more, people who ate plenty of vegetables, fruit and fish actually had a lower risk of depression, the University College London team found. Data on diet among 3,500 middle-aged civil servants was compared with depression five years later, the British Journal of Psychiatry reported. The team said the study was the first to look at the UK diet and depression. They split the participants into two types of diet - those who ate a diet largely based on whole foods, which includes lots of fruit, vegetables and fish, and those who ate a mainly processed food diet, such as sweetened desserts, fried food, processed meat, refined grains and high-fat dairy products. Those who ate the most whole foods had a 26% lower risk of future depression than those who at the least whole foods.
Mediterranean diet. Stone Art by The Ancient Art of Stone. Nan goldin. Dark Rooms. Just as certain works of literature can radically alter our understanding of language and form, there are a select number of books that can transform our sense of what makes a photograph, and why. Between 1972 and 1992, the Aperture Foundation published three seminal photography books, all by women. “Diane Arbus” (1972), published a year after the photographer’s death, documented a world of hitherto unrecorded people—carnival figures and everyday folk—who lived, it seemed, somewhere between the natural world and the supernatural.
Sally Mann’s “Immediate Family” (1992), a collection of carefully composed images of Mann’s three young children being children—wetting the bed, swimming, squinting through an eyelid swollen by a bug bite—came out when the controversy surrounding Robert Mapplethorpe’s “The Perfect Moment” exhibition was still fresh, and it reopened the question of what the limits should be when it comes to making art that can be considered emotionally pornographic. I am professional wolf trainer Andrew Simpson - and yes, I know 'Ghost' on Game of Thrones! AMA! : IAmA. 10 More awesome Photoshop tutorials. 11 More creative photoshop tutorials. Found 20 more WW2 images for y'all.
150 days later. Carlos "White Feather" Hathcock. A Game of Thrones history lesson part III. Researchers Examine Family Income And Children's Non-Cognitive Skills. Barbara Wolfe and Jason Fletcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found children from lower income families have lower non-cognitive skills than children from richer families. You know, when we think about disparities in American education, we think about things like race, gender. There is also income, which is one of the most persistent disparities. Children from more affluent families do better in school on average than children from poor families.
And there's new social science research exploring why this is the case. To talk about it, I'm joined by NPR social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam. Hey, Shankar. SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: Hi, David. GREENE: So dig into this research for us. VEDANTAM: Well, we've known for a very long time that family income really matters. BARBARA WULF: When we think about who is a good employee and who's likely to succeed in the workplace, you hear a lot of attention paid to these what I'll call non-cognitive skills. GREENE: OK. GREENE: OK. Clinton wants high-speed Internet in every U.S. home by 2020. Play Video Play Fullscreen Clinton wants high-speed internet in every U.S. home by 2020 The presumptive Democratic nominee released a comprehensive tech plan that reads like a Silicon Valley wish list. SAN FRANCISCO — If there was any lingering doubt as to tech's favored presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton put an end to that Tuesday.
The presumptive Democratic nominee released a comprehensive tech plan that reads like a Silicon Valley wish list. It proposes investments in computer science and engineering education, expansion of 5G mobile data, making inexpensive Wi-Fi available at more airports and train stations, and attaching a green card to the diplomas of foreign-born students earning STEM degrees. In short, the plan hits on nearly every big-ticket issue in tech, says Box CEO Aaron Levie, a Clinton supporter. Campaign advisers have said other Clinton proposals, covering infrastructure and education, would help raise funds that would go toward paying for the technology agenda. Why do we eat lunch at our desks? Because capitalism | Life and style. What are you having for lunch?
A store-bought sandwich that crumbles all over your keyboard as you digest the latest depressing world news? A $10 salad, eaten in front of your computer, as you toggle mindlessly between Facebook and your work? If you’re like the majority of American office workers, whatever you’re having for lunch, you’re probably dining al desko. Some 80% of employees don’t take a regular lunch break. Rather, we cram in our calories solo, and swiftly: on average it takes just 15 minutes to eat lunch. Lunch, as we know it in Anglo-American society today, was cooked up during the industrial revolution.
At the turn of the century, speed and efficiency shaped the lunch break. The fabled power lunch was another innovation designed to optimize food-fuelled productivity. As technology makes face-to-face meeting and eating increasingly redundant, the power lunch of yore has lost its appetite appeal. Here’s the thing though. So enjoy your limp sandwich while it lasts. How Brexit and the Rise of Donald Trump Reflect the Changing Lines Between Left and Right on Both Sides of the Atlantic. When United Kingdom voters last week narrowly approved a referendum to leave the European Union, they underscored again how an era of unrelenting economic and demographic change is shifting the axis of politics across much of the industrialized world from class to culture.
Contrary to much initial speculation, the victory for the U.K. leave campaign didn’t point toward victory in the U.S. presidential election for Donald Trump, who is voicing very similar arguments against globalization and immigration; The British results, in fact, underscored the obstacles facing his agenda of defensive nationalism in the vastly more diverse U.S. electorate. But the Brexit referendum did crystallize deepening cultural fault lines in U.K. politics that are also likely to shape the contest between Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Both geographically and demographically, the British referendum split the U.K. along lines familiar in America. All of this replicates American patterns. What Does Kevin Bacon Have to Do with Global Financial Stability? Could Kevin Bacon have saved us from the 2008 financial crisis? Probably not. But the network science behind six degrees of Kevin Bacon just well may have. According to the famous saying, every movie actor is separated from Kevin Bacon by six degrees of separation or less, going from co-star to co-star (actually most are separated from Bacon by only three degrees). Actors form a “small-world” network, meaning it takes a surprisingly small number of connections to get from any one member to any other. Natural and man-made small-world networks of all kinds are extremely common: The electric power grid of the western United States, the neural network of the nematode worm C. elegans, the Internet, protein and gene networks in biology, citations in scientific papers, and most social networks are small.
Most of these small networks use hubs, or nodes with an especially large number of links to other nodes. Kevin Bacon is a hub, because he’s starred in so many movies. Also in Economics 1. 2. 3. The Foods That Are Most Dangerous to Dogs, and Why. The myth of millennial entitlement was created to hide their parents’ mistakes — Quartz.
Three years ago, TIME magazine published a cover story called “The Me Me Me Generation—Millennials are lazy, entitled narcissists who still live with their parents.” It was the print version of clickbait, designed to be devoured by TIME’s Baby Boomer base, or perhaps flipped through angrily by millennials killing time at TIME’s most reliable subscriber, the doctor’s office. That is, if the millennials in question were lucky enough to have health insurance, which roughly 23% did not at the time. Of course, these kinds of inconvenient statistics did not make it into the piece. When TIME’s cover story was published, millennials were in the fourth year of the “jobless recovery,” facing high unemployment, mounting debt, and an eroded social safety net.
And yet, with breathtaking cluelessness, TIME framed the millennials’ desperate search for stable work as a privileged character flaw—look at the kids too flaky to handle “choosing from a huge array of career options.” Clarence Thomas Has His Own Constitution. This year’s Supreme Court term abounded in so much drama—the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the tie votes among the remaining Justices, the liberal victories in the final days—that it was possible to miss a curious subplot: the full flowering of Justice Clarence Thomas’s judicial eccentricity.
Since his stormy confirmation, in 1991, Thomas has been the target of much unfair criticism. Some have argued, for example, that his years of silence during oral arguments meant he was not doing much work at all. In fact, Thomas is the most prolific opinion writer on the Court—and that is especially true this year. According to statistics compiled by Professor Steve Vladeck, of the University of Texas Law School, Thomas wrote opinions in thirty-eight of the sixty-two cases the Justices decided in the 2015-16 term. That’s twice as many as Justice Samuel Alito, a conservative, like Thomas, and the next-most active writer on the court. CBBC Newsround | World | The Battle of the Somme. What was the Battle of the Somme? It was a battle in World War I and it's remembered for two main things. Firstly, for being a really big battle where thousands of soldiers died in a very short amount of time.
Secondly, it's remembered because the Somme was not the big success that the Allied armies had hoped for, and so it's often seen as a needless loss of life. Why was there a battle? In 1916 Britain and France were part of a group of countries called the Allied Powers. They were fighting World War I against another group called the Central Powers, led by Germany with Austria-Hungary. A lot of the fighting took place along the Western Front where the soldiers had dug out a lot of special ditches called trenches. The soldiers lived in the trenches and mounted attacks using things like rifles, machine guns and poison gas. Breaking through the trenches wasn't easy so the British and French planned a really big attack that became known as the Battle of the Somme. But there was a problem. The science is in: exercise won’t help you lose much weight. We’ve been conditioned to think of exercise as a key ingredient — perhaps the most important ingredient — of any weight loss effort.
You know the drill: Join the gym on January 1 if you want to reach your New Year’s weight loss goal. But in truth, the evidence has been accumulating for years that exercise, while great for health, isn’t actually all that important for weight loss. To learn more about why, I read through more than 60 studies (including high-quality, systematic reviews of all the best-available research) on exercise and weight loss for a recent installment of Show Me the Evidence.
Here’s a quick summary of what I learned. Exercise accounts for a small portion of daily calorie burn One very underappreciated fact about exercise is that even when you work out, the extra calories you burn only account for a small part of your total energy expenditure. Javier Zarracina/Vox That leaves only 10 to 30 percent for physical activity, of which exercise is only a subset. Go deeper: Uk.businessinsider. C. Galliani In the 1950s France, in the midst of dealing with insurgencies in its colonies in Algeria and Indochina, recognized a military need for easily transportable artillery that could quickly be deployed to the front lines. It happened upon one very novel solution: a militarized Vespa scooter with a built-in armor-piercing gun. The Vespa 150 TAP, built by French Vespa licensee ACMA, was designed expressly to be used with the French airborne special forces, the Troupes Aéro Portées (TAP).
The Vespa TAP was designed to be airdropped into a military theater fully assembled and ready for immediate action. This high level of mobility made the TAP the perfect anti-guerilla weapon, since enemy irregulars could appear at a moment's notice even in remote locations. Outfitted with an M20 recoilless rifle, the TAP proved more than capable of destroying makeshift fortifications used by guerrillas in Algeria and Indochina.
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