Las 9 peores decisiones arquitectónicas
Una muestra de lo increíblemente desatinadas que pueden ser algunas personas en el arte de construir. Todo puede suceder, aquí la realidad supera a la ficción... y a la estupidez. 1. La escalera hasta el techo. 1. La escalera hasta el techo. 2. 2. 3. 3. 4. 4. 5. 5. 6. 6. 7. 7. 8. 8. 9. 9. Comparte este post Síguenos para no perderte ni un post Síguenos para no perderte ni un post Deja tu comentario
Cyborg America: inside the strange new world of basement body hackers
Shawn Sarver took a deep breath and stared at the bottle of Listerine on the counter. “A minty fresh feeling for your mouth... cures bad breath,” he repeated to himself, as the scalpel sliced open his ring finger. His left arm was stretched out on the operating table, his sleeve rolled up past the elbow, revealing his first tattoo, the Air Force insignia he got at age 18, a few weeks after graduating from high school. Sarver was trying a technique he learned in the military to block out the pain, since it was illegal to administer anesthetic for his procedure. “A minty fresh feeling... cures bad breath,” Sarver muttered through gritted teeth, his eyes staring off into a void. Tim, the proprietor of Hot Rod Piercing in downtown Pittsburgh, put down the scalpel and picked up an instrument called an elevator, which he used to separate the flesh inside in Sarver’s finger, creating a small empty pocket of space. The implant stayed put the second time. “I’m a cyborg!” Video Part.01 History.01
Visualizing Punishment » The Society Pages
Four decades ago, the United States launched a grand policy experiment. The nation began locking up an unprecedented share of its citizens, increasing its rate of incarceration by more than 400% over the period. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the number of U.S. prisoners finally stabilized in 2009, showing small declines for the first time since the 1970s. The long-term effects of this experiment are only beginning to come into focus, but they are so powerful and so concentrated in communities of color that scholars such as Michelle Alexander liken mass incarceration to a “new Jim Crow”—a wide-ranging and racialized system of social control. This boom was unparalleled among Western developed nations. On any given day, about 2 million U.S. citizens are now behind bars and more than 3 million former prisoners are contending with labor market discrimination, loss of voting rights, difficulty securing housing, and problems reconnecting with family. Time Space Percent of U.S.
Un sorprendente video en color muestra cómo era la vida en Berlín en julio de 1945
En la Red ha aparecido una insólita grabación en color en el que se aprecia cómo transcurría la vida entre las ruinas de la capital alemana después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en julio de 1945. El video ha sido compuesto a base de materiales de archivo por la agencia Kronos Medios. La calidad del video, que registra la vida en Berlín después de la guerra, sorprende por su nitidez. Sepa más sobre la Gran Guerra Patria en nuestro proyecto especial aquí. En la grabación se aprecia el estado en que quedó la capital alemana tras la guerra, en concreto el Reichstag, la Puerta de Brandeburgo, el búnker del Führer y el bulevar Unter den Linden. Sepa más: Increíbles fotos: Alemania antes y después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial
In Search of the Living, Purring, Singing Heart of the Online Cat-Industrial Complex | Underwire
A cat wearing a short tie plays music on a cat-shaped keyboard (“Pancake Meowsic Video,” 185,459 views). A woman performs sun salutations with a cat on her back (“Cat Loves Yoga,” 1,539 views). A man slaps two cats on an ironing board to the beat of “Atmosphere” (“Cat Slap Joy Division,” 357,605 views; watch this one). (Now, I mean.) Writing that paragraph took more than an hour. Maru, which means “circle” or “perfection” in Japanese, is a Scottish fold with nonfolded ears. But Maru is just one of Japan’s famous Internet cats, and his reign will not last forever. There’s also the famous flying-Pop-Tart cat, of course, Nyan Cat; his tie to Japan remains obscure unless you’ve been made aware, by someone who knows something about Japan and cats, that nya is how Japanese cats say “meow.” Photo: Alamy est I unfairly ratchet up your collective expectations: I will never get to pet Maru, and neither will you. A few days later the publicist writes back: Impossible. Pages: 1 23456View All
It's not just criminals who feel unsafe when the police are around
The idea that police on our streets makes people feel safer is usually taken as a given. It's the basis of the so-called "reassurance policing" agenda, which advocates higher numbers of visible front-line police. And when increased police numbers are announced, members of the public often welcome the news. "I'm all for more police on the streets," said a Chicago resident earlier this month after the announcement of increased patrols, "It makes me feel safer seeing them around my community." A new study challenges this received wisdom. The researchers quizzed over 200 Amsterdam residents out shopping about how safe they currently felt. Next, the researchers showed 124 students pictures of a street scene and asked them to rate how safe it seemed. Van de Veer and her colleagues proposed two possible explanations for what they described as this "ironic" consequence of police presence. Why were men particularly prone to feeling unsafe in the presence of police?
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Revolt of the Rich
It was 1993, during congressional debate over the North American Free Trade Agreement. I was having lunch with a staffer for one of the rare Republican congressmen who opposed the policy of so-called free trade. To this day, I remember something my colleague said: “The rich elites of this country have far more in common with their counterparts in London, Paris, and Tokyo than with their fellow American citizens.” That was only the beginning of the period when the realities of outsourced manufacturing, financialization of the economy, and growing income disparity started to seep into the public consciousness, so at the time it seemed like a striking and novel statement. At the end of the Cold War many writers predicted the decline of the traditional nation-state. Our plutocracy now lives like the British in colonial India: in the place and ruling it, but not of it. In both world wars, even a Harvard man or a New York socialite might know the weight of an army pack.
Digital Dualism and the Cannibal Cop
And if my thought-dreams could be seen They’d probably put my head in a guillotine Bob Dylan, It's All Right Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) I've been slightly surprised by the lack of attention paid in tech theory circles to the Cannibal Cop case, now in the hands of a jury in Manhattan. Certainly it's a remarkably lurid story, but its luridness shouldn't distract us from the fact that it places in stark relief what at first glance might seem some relatively esoteric questions regarding where the line can be drawn between fantasy and reality in the era of the Internet. Specifically it relates to one of the more hotly debated topics in the philosophy of technology at the moment, digital dualism. For those who haven't been following the headlines, the Cannibal Cop is a New York City police officer named Gilberto Valle. Valle's wife, Kathleen Mangan-Valle, testified during the trial about what her husband had in mind. This is not a question the digital theorists have ignored. ©Doug Hill, 2013
