Modernist art haul, 'looted by Nazis', recovered by German police | World news About 1,500 modernist masterpieces – thought to have been looted by the Nazis – have been confiscated from the flat of an 80-year-old man from Munich, in what is being described as the biggest artistic find of the postwar era. The artworks, which could be worth as much as €1bn (£860m), are said to include pieces by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, Max Beckmann and Emil Nolde. They had been considered lost until now, according to a report in the German news weekly Focus. The works, which would originally have been confiscated as "degenerate art" by the Nazis or taken from Jewish collectors in the 1930s and 1940s, had made their way into the hands of a German art collector, Hildebrand Gurlitt. Gurlitt, who had not previously been on the radar of the police, attracted the attention of the customs authorities only after a random cash check during a train journey from Switzerland to Munich in 2010, according to Focus.
Google's Latest Patent Could Have You Going Around 'Liking' Everything With Your Hands A drawing of the "heart" gesture from Google's latest patent. (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) The patent, vaguely titled "hand gestures to signify what is important," appears to pave the way for a model of Glass controlled by hand gestures instead of or in addition to verbal and touchpad commands. Current advertisements for Glass imply that the headset will offer a totally hands-free user experience. Though Google's patent has been approved, that's no guarantee the company will use it. Perhaps the "heart" hand motion will merely complement Glass's extant interface, or function as a hook for a photo-to-product service like Amazon's phone app, Amazon Mobile, which lets you snap a picture of a product and then find it online. We'll have to wait and see -- and maybe "like" it when it comes. Earlier on HuffPost:
Best Public Golf Courses in Every State 2012 Golf.com Zurich Classic of New Orleans - TPC Louisiana |Full Leaderboards» B.Martin 1 2:50 p -10 -10 A.Svoboda 2 10:00 a -8 -8 P.Hanson T3 9:50 a -7 -7 S.Noh T3 2:20 p -7 -7 E.Compton T5 8:40 a -6 -6 8inShare Bookmark & Share Facebook StumbleUpon Reddit Tumblr Del.ic.ious Digg Related Gallery Top 100 Golf Courses You Can Play: 25-1 Related Stories Special Section: Top 100 Courses You Can Play 2012 Top Stories Videos More Videos Make More Putts With The Proper Thumb Position prevnext Best Public Golf Courses in Every State 2012 Published: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | 12:15:49 PM | Comments (0) inShare8 Comments Facebook StumbleUpon Reddit Tumblr Del.ic.ious Digg As part of Golf Magazine's biennial Top 100 Courses You Can Play, our ranking of the best public golf courses in the U.S., we have also ranked the best courses in every state. Courtesy of Chambers Bay Alaska 1. Arizona 1. California 1. Colorado 1. Hawaii 1. Idaho 1. Montana 1. Nevada 1. New Mexico 1. Oregon 1. Utah 1.
Voici comment internet peut reconditionner votre cerveau INTERNET - E-mail. Tweet. Facebook. Google. À l'âge de la technologie, nos ordinateurs donnent parfois l'impression d'avoir pris le contrôle sur nos vies de tous les jours --de la façon dont nous faisons les courses à la façon dont nous trouvons l'âme sœur. Mais comment ce temps passé devant l'écran peut-il affecter nos cerveaux? Dans son livre publié en 2010, "The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brain («L'effet d'internet sur nos cerveaux»)," l'auteur Nicholas Carr écrit: «Internet est un système basé sur l'interruption. Rien de bien positif. Ainsi, pour ce qui est de la technologie, à quels comportements nous préparons-nous -- et comment cela affecte nos esprits? Fait #1: À cause d'internet, vous pourriez avoir le cerveau d'un accro. Fait #2: Vous pouvez vous sentir plus seul et plus jaloux. Fait #3: L'utilisation d'internet peut augmenter le risque de suicide chez les adolescents. Fait #4: On pourrait être plus enclins à avoir des problèmes de mémoire.
Facebook and Twitter Are Reshaping Journalism As We Know It January 19, 2009 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Editor's Note: This article combines two interviews by Rory O' Connor with the CEO of Facebook and the Co-Founder of Twitter. I spent much of last fall at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government as a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Rory O'Connor : With slumping public approval, journalism is facing a crisis of trust. Randi Zuckerberg: The concept of "the trusted referral" is integral to the success of content sharing on Facebook. People will always want to consume content from experts and they will always look to trusted news sources and journalists for important news and current events, but the market has become so oversaturated that it is now just as important to rely on one's friends to help filter the news.
The Highly Sensitive Person The Psychological Power of Satan Justice Antonin Scalia and Keyser Soze agree: the greatest trick the devil could ever pull is convincing the world he didn’t exist. Fortunately for them, the devil does not seem to be effectively executing this plan. Some 70 percent of Americans, according to a 2007 Gallup Poll, believe in his existence. This personification of evil has implications beyond the supernatural, influencing how we think about what it means for people to be “pure evil.” Evil has been defined as taking pleasure in the intentional inflicting of harm on innocent others, and ever since World War II social psychologists have been fascinated by the topic. The issue of whether “pure evil” exists, however, is separate from what happens to our judgments and our behavior when we believe in its existence. According to this research, one of the central features of BPE is evil’s perceived immutability. Are you a scientist who specializes in neuroscience, cognitive science, or psychology?
Google's Long History of Social Media Attempts [INFOGRAPHIC] Sure Facebook privacy issues can be frustrating, but what's the alternative? With more than 400 million users, no other social media platform has been able to touch Facebook's grip on person-to-person networking. But rumors have already started to fly that Facebook may soon face some stiff new competition. Google is supposedly getting into the market with Google Me, a not-yet-launched, oft-rumored social network that will directly compete with Facebook. Nothing is for certain yet, but more and more sources are saying Google Me does exist, and that could mean good things for all of us. Still, Google hasn't had the best track record when it comes to social media attempts. EDIT: The graphic has been updated to include Google Lively. More Google Resources from Mashable: - 10 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Google- 10 Must-See Google Street View Sightings- 5 Must-See Google Easter Eggs- 4 Ways Non-Profits Can Use Google Buzz- The Small Business Guide to Google Apps [img credit: Robert Scoble]
Behind the scenes: plastic-eating barnacles in the North Pacific Gyre I’ve been temporarily released from my social media silence to talk about my latest paper, which is published in the open-access journal PeerJ. So first of all HAI EVERYONE! Second of all – here’s how I accidentally discovered that gooseneck barnacles are eating plastic, and why it’s so difficult to figure out what effect that is having on the ocean. On my 2009 expedition to the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, otherwise known as the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” I collected a bunch of barnacles, along with samples of a lot of other organisms that were growing on the debris, because I was interested in seeing what species were there. Gooseneck barnacles look kind of freaky. This is a figure from our paper that shows (a) barnacles growing on a buoy; (b) a closeup of an individual barnacle. It took me a couple years to get around to processing those samples, but eventually I found myself in the lab dissecting barnacles in order to identify them. My jars of samples.
Remove your social media from Google search Many social media sites offer options to help protect your privacy on the Web. You can make your profile private, which won't allow anyone you haven't approved to see your information, or you can remove your name from the account and use a different nickname that only friends would look for. However, these changes will only affect your content moving forward, not the stuff you've posted in the past. So if you're just seeking a quick fix to get your personal thoughts and pictures of past and present out of the results, this is how you can do that. First you'll need to copy the URL for your profile. Using my Twitter profile as an example, the link would look like this: After submitting the cached information (if necessary), you will see the status page load again detailing your request along with the date. Not enough separation of social media and search engine for you?
I’ll see your horrifying crab barnacle and raise you a heart eel This was originally posted at alistairdove.com June 21, 2010. To see another bizarre parasitic relationship, check out Rebecca Helm’s recent piece on the marvelous world of Sacculina barnacles parasitic in crabs. My good colleagues Janine Caira and Georga Benz wrote a paper way back in 1997 about one of the strangest parasites ever recorded in an animal. Shortfin mako shark. Janine and her co-author Nancy Kohler had received a report from a longliner of a really big foul-hooked shortfin mako caught near Montauk, NY. Janine and her colleagues were unable to determine the path of entry, but they showed good evidence that the eels were alive in the heart prior to the shark being killed and put in the fridge, because their guts were full of blood and there were pathologic changes to the heart. The horrifying part is that the shark was almost certainly alive as the eels made their way into its flesh and began to consume its life blood from the inside. para_sight (138 Posts) Dr.