Nature art. The Truths – 40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World. If you’re a visual learner like myself, then you know maps, charts and info graphics can really help bring data and information to life.
Maps can make a point resonate with readers and this collection aims to do just that. Hopefully some of these maps will surprise you and you’ll learn something new. A few are important to know, some interpret and display data in a beautiful or creative way, and a few may even make you chuckle or shake your head. If you enjoy this collection of maps, the Sifter highly recommends the r/MapPorn sub reddit. You should also check out ChartsBin.com. 1. Map by Google 2. Map via Wikimedia Commons 3. Map by Stuart Laycock (via The Telegraph) 4. Map by eatrio.net via Reddit Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, forming about 300 million years ago. 5. Map by Business Management EU. Razstrupljanje telesa. Goldman Sachs - La banque qui dirige le monde.flv. 50 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in 2013 – Updated.
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Let us know by emailing tips@critical-theory.com to be included in our monthly book roundup. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Vol I By Rosa Luxemburg This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg’s Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg’s most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.In addition to a new translation of her doctoral dissertation, “The Industrial Development of Poland,” Volume I includes the first complete English-language publication of her “Introduction to Political Economy,” which explores (among other issues) the impact of capitalist commodity production and industrialization on non- capitalist social strata in the developing world.
Also appearing here are ten recently discovered manuscripts, none of which has ever before been published in English. Making Major Life Changes. Sitting at my desk on a late afternoon in September, I watch the sunlight as it bounces off the leaves of the trees in front of my window, cascades down the serpentine steps leading to my office, and merges with the shade on the roof of the house next door against the backdrop of a clear blue sky.
This is the first day I can feel the coming fall through the differences in how the light manifests on familiar surroundings, and I am in awe of the beauty of the light's shadings and endless patterns and keenly aware of its fleeting nature. Sign up for an account, page 1. Razkošje narave in samote. Space - Magic Fly (Discomare 1977) video kurtigghiu. The psychedelic and grotesque proto-GIFs of the 19th century. Phenakistoscope disc, Fores (publisher), Moving Panorama, England, 1833.
Richard Balzer’s love affair began about 40 years ago, when he saw his first magic lantern — an early image projector invented in the 1600s. Finally, An App To Fix Your Terrible Personality. While technology has given us more ways to talk to each other, it hasn’t made us any better at it: We still rant, ramble, whine and generally irritate each other.
So what would happen if we let software try to fix our sub-par conversation skills? That’s the question artists Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald hope to answer with Us+, a new art project and application that aims to make humans more personable by giving us feedback from -- of all things -- an unfeeling algorithm. Us+, which launched Monday, monitors your Google+ video chats and interrupts with criticism when it detects you blathering or being a "downer. " It's free, and although it's social commentary, not a genuine startup, Us+ actually works The app points to a future that is more certain than sci-fi: computers that program humans' personalities.
The Selling of ADHD: Diagnoses, Prescriptions Soar After 20-Year Marketing Effort by Big Pharma. This is a rush transcript.
Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Taken at face value, the latest figures on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, suggest a growing epidemic in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 15 percent of high school children are diagnosed with ADHD. The number of those on stimulant medication is at 3.5 million, up from 600,000 two decades ago. ADHD is now the second most common long-term diagnosis in children, narrowly trailing asthma. But a new report in The New York Times questions whether these staggering figures reflect a medical reality or an over-medicated craze that has earned billions in profits for the pharmaceutical companies involved.
The marketing effort has relied on studies and testimonials from a select group of doctors who have received massive speaking fees and funding grants from major pharmaceutical companies. Well, to discuss this issue, we’re joined by four guests. Dr. JOHN EDWARDS: Good morning. DARKSIDE LIVE in the Boiler Room NYC. DARKSIDE LIVE in the Boiler Room NYC. Djordje Balasevic-Prva ljubav==Zlaja== Table of Contents.
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