I Took a Lot of Drugs at a Psychedelic Boot Camp Just before Christmas I booked myself onto a thing called the African Savannah Transformation Retreat. This was a ten-day getaway in South Africa that promised to transform people through a combination of starvation, sunshine, and psychedelic drugs. The drugs we would take were ayahuasca, mescaline, and iboga, though the participants on the retreat didn't call them by their real names, they called them the Mother, the Father, and the Grandfather, which was confusing for a minute. "Have you done Mother before?" I beg your pardon? There were 25 people on the retreat, mostly from North America and Europe. A confession: While I've tried many drugs, I've never managed to get addicted to any. In less than 24 hours we'd be vomiting in front of each other and sobbing uncontrollably. On the first day, in glorious sunshine, we arrived at the retreat center in the countryside a little over an hour from Johannesburg. Fabian is the brains behind the retreat. Fabian prepares shots of mescaline. "And?"
About La Caja China Roasting Boxes | Discover More About Our Pig Roasters It was the year 1985 during the Christmas season, when Roberto Guerra was cooking a pig on a makeshift barbecue, talking about all the trouble and long waiting time involved in this process. His father then talked about the long, wooden box he remembered from his childhood in Cuba. His father told him how the old contraption, called the Chinese Box, cut the roasting times virtually in half. A few years later, the company, La Caja China, was born. Making the company's most popular model requires cutting and joining large pieces of plywood to form the box, and then scoring, bending and spot welding aluminum sheeting to form a lining. Other metal parts such as the charcoal tray and grid and the drip tray are produced in the company's factory in Medley, Florida. La Caja China provides a distinctive cooking experience for everyone. Anyone can set up our roasters simply by downloading our assembly instructions. So, what are you waiting for?
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave - Alex Gendler Want to read the Allegory of the Cave in its complete format? Go to this site and get started. To better understand the allegory’s larger context, try reading the rest of The Republic by Plato and these classic lectures. Then, check out this modern scientific interpretation of what it tells us about human knowledge. Want to see two different visual representations of this allegory? You may also want to read a summary of the Theory of Forms and how it relates to language. Interested in comparing Plato’s Allegory of the Cave to a real-life issue such as alcohol and addiction?
Tahmin - Vikipedi Tahmin, gündelik dilde, bilinmeyen bir şey hakkında hakkında rastgele veya belirsiz bilgi kullanarak bir sonuca varmaktır. Elde var olan bilgiye dayanarak bir çıkarım yapılır, bu çıkarıma dayanarak geleceğe dönük bir öndeyi yapılabilir. Hem çıkarım (eğer eksik bilgiye dayalıysa), hem de öndeyi için gündelik dilde tahmin sözcüğü kullanılır. Eksik bilgi ile çıkarım yapma kavramının spesifik anlamlarına karşılık gelen daha özelleşmiş kavramlar vardır. Çıkarım için kullanılan bilgiler, duyular yoluyla da elde edilmesi durumunda net algılanamayan bir duyum da tahmin konusu olabilir, bu durumda tahminin içine algılama ve tanıma kavramları da girer. Felsefedeki anlamıyla ise spekülasyon (fikir yürütmek), olasılıklara dayalı çıkarımlarla tahminî bir sonuca varmaktır. Kestirim[değiştir | kaynağı değiştir] Kestirim, bir sonucun hesaplanarak elde edilen bir yaklaşımıdır, hesaplama için kullanılan bilgi eksik veya belirsiz olsa dahi elde edilen sonuç pratik anlamda kullanılabilirdir.
The Social Conquest of Earth Edward O. Wilson’s latest book is structured around three questions: Where did we come from, what are we, and where are we going? Philosophers and theologians have been chewing on these questions for millennia, but subjectively—from inside the box, as it were. So, where did we come from? Homo sapiens , says Wilson, is a highly complex species that has evolved from a series of lucky breaks, evolution-wise. Wilson concludes that we are a complicated lot, and for good reasons. It is this capacity for the evolution of large social groups that makes us special, according to Wilson. Eusociality, in the rare instances it is achieved, evolves through the process called multi-level selection. The seeds of eusociality were planted in our species long before the dawn of agriculture, but once that happened and our numbers increased, all hell broke loose, so to speak. .)
Assembled Philosophers How to Have One-Night Stands in Your Twenties Photo by Bruno Bayley A version of this article originally appeared on VICE UK. There needs to be a guide to one-night stands because one-night stands are impossibly complicated. The challenges involved are also totally different to those you'll encounter in a loving relationship. Figuring out what to do with your spooning arm, "learning to say sorry" and creating iCals for oral sex almost make settling down seem like a good idea when you consider the risks of one-night stands—whether that's fucking over a friend, being forced to confront your self-esteem issues head-on, or catching an exotic disease that ends up making someone's penis look like a sea anemone. Here's an A–Z guide for any of love's true soldiers who find themselves caught up in the sturm und drang that is one-night stand living. READ: The VICE Guide to Adulthood And thus you both enter into the invisible laser maze that is "unspoken sexual boundaries." Photo by Jamie Taete "Do you want to come upstairs for coffee?"
4 Surprising App-Design Principles, From The Instagram Of Quick Quizzes When we first wrote about Polar, an addictive app that invites you to make and take “this or that”-style quizzes, we called it “an object lesson in mobile design done very, very right.” Luke Wroblewski, the mobile-first design evangelist behind Polar, tells us four winning strategies he used to supercharge Polar’s user experience. If you want people to actually engage with your mobile app, not just download it and forget it, read on and take notes. 1. No one is paying full attention to your mobile app. Wroblewski wanted to streamline Polar’s interactions so that a user could take 10 polls in less than a minute using just one hand. 2. How often do you download an intriguing-sounding app, only to be confronted with a screen full of boxes to fill out before you can even launch it? This process, called “gradual engagement,” “is kind of controversial,” Wroblewski admits. 3. 4. Results Download Polar here, and read Luke Wroblewski’s blog here
Plato: The Republic 1-4 Plato: The State and the Soul The Republic The most comprehensive statement of Plato's mature philosophical views appears in Πολιτεια (The Republic), an extended treatment of the most fundamental principles for the conduct of human life. Because it covers so many issues, The Republic can be read in several different ways: as a treatise on political theory and practice, as a pedagogical handbook, or as a defence of ethical conduct, for example. What is Justice? Book I of The Republic appears to be a Socratic dialogue on the nature of justice (Gk. δικαιωσυνη [dikaiôsunê]). The elderly, wealthy Cephalus suggests that justice involves nothing more than telling the truth and repaying one's debts. In an effort to avoid such difficulties, Polemarchus offers a refinement of the definition by proposing that justice means "giving to each what is owed." The Privilege of Power But of course Socrates has other ideas. Is Justice Better than Injustice? It helps to have a concrete example in mind.
Why I'm Always Late I woke up this morning to a text from Andrew. It was a link: “optimistic-people-have-one-thing-common-always-late” Intriguing. I got reading. “People who are continuously late are actually just more optimistic. They’re big-thinking: “People who are habitually late don’t sweat over the small stuff, they concentrate on the big picture and see the future as full of infinite possibilities.” Late people just get it: “People with a tendency for tardiness like to stop and smell the roses…life was never meant to be planned down to the last detail. By the end of the article, I had never felt prouder to be a chronically late person. But also, what the hell is going on? I’m late because I’m insane. So I thought about this for a minute, and I think I figured out what’s going on. 1) Okay lateness. 2) Not okay lateness. Haltiwanger’s article is (I hope) talking mostly about okay lateness. Group 1 is simple.
Photog Trades Dignity for Recognition With Awful Studio Portraits | Raw File Combover. Photo Credit: Terry Brown/Gordon StettiniusCornrows. Photo Credit: Terry Brown/Gordon StettiniusBeehive. Photo Credit: Terry Brown/Gordon StettiniusCountry and Western. Photo Credit: Terry Brown/Gordon StettiniusPermBeehiveGovernorMagicianLoverMutton chopsCurlsStubbleDreadsRockerInstitutionalKey WestGringo StarrMohawkCountrySuaveBieberComb-overHigh and tightSkulletSweptMulletSkaterTousledUnkemptFounderWrestlerSenatorBig manWetlook It’s difficult to get noticed in the world of photography. “I sign portraits as though I am that somebody,” says Stettinius. For the past five years, Stettinius has sculpted beards, raided wardrobes and spray-tanned his way into over two dozen alter-egos. Described by Stettinius as “a prank run amok,” the Mangini Studio Series grew out of Brown and Stettinius’ shared nostalgia for the studio session. Stettinius self-confesses a “disquieting need to experiment with the proud but oft-maligned permanent-wave hairstyle.”
Susanne Langer Susanne Katherina Langer (née Knauth) (December 20, 1895 – July 17, 1985) was an American philosopher, writer, and educator and was well known for her theories on the influences of art on the mind. She was one of the first women in American history to achieve an academic career in philosophy and the first woman to be popularly and professionally recognized as an American philosopher. Langer is best known for her 1942 book entitled, Philosophy in a New Key. Life[edit] Born Susanne Katherina Knauth, Langer was raised in Manhattan's West Side in New York. She was the daughter of Antonio Knauth, an attorney, and Else Uhlich, both immigrants of Germany. Education[edit] Her early education included attendance at Veltin School For Girls, a private school as well as being tutored from home. Philosophy[edit] Langer's philosophy explored the continuous process of meaning-making in the human mind through the power of “seeing” one thing in terms of another. The History of Feeling[edit] Rhetoric[edit]
It's Not Your Imagination, Single Women: There Literally Aren't Enough Men Out There There really aren't enough men. Photo via Flickr user krystiano We all have that friend: the beautiful, intelligent, driven woman who—like Katherine Heigl in every rom-com—can't find a decent date. Every guy she goes out with is an asshole; she consistently dates "below" her league, and she's on the verge of giving up on a committed relationship altogether. Not long after he turned 30, the writer Jon Birger realized he and his wife knew a lot of women like that. One day at lunch, Birger casually asked her about her boyfriend. This got Birger, a former economics writer for Fortune and Money, thinking: How could a man of that age be so cavalier about casting aside such an amazing woman? Related: This Group of Straight Men Is Swearing Off Women Because They Hate Feminism Using his background in economics and statistics, Birger sought out an answer. VICE: How did you determine that there was this nation-wide "man deficit" among the college-educated? So, where are all the men? That's huge!
Stop Stealing Dreams There are several versions of the manifesto. One is a PDF designed to be read on your screen. Feel free to email this anyone you think might want to read it. You're also free to post it on a website, as long as you don't edit it or charge for it. The other featured edition is a PDF formatted to be printed on any printer. If you have a Kindle or a Nook or any other device, see below for some links on how to import the PDF to your device.