Transhumanism Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international cultural and intellectual movement with an eventual goal of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.[1] Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations, as well as the ethics of developing and using such technologies. They speculate that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into beings with such greatly expanded abilities as to merit the label "posthuman".[1] History[edit] According to Nick Bostrom,[1] transcendentalist impulses have been expressed at least as far back as in the quest for immortality in the Epic of Gilgamesh, as well as historical quests for the Fountain of Youth, Elixir of Life, and other efforts to stave off aging and death. First transhumanist proposals[edit]
50 Outdoor Summer Activities For Kids I am seriously down to HOURS until my kids are done with school and I am getting a little nervous . . . the first few days are always fun, but then the "I'm Bored" whines and cries set in. Ahhhh! I rounded up some fun outdoor activities that would be perfect to chase the bored blues away and keep kids from turning into couch potatoes over the summer. Most can be done for free or very inexpensively and you can help the kids get set-up with these activities and then let their imaginations run wild. If you did one activity a day, it might get you through the middle of July. After that, you are on your own! 3. 12. 21. 23. 24. 25. 27. 30. 32. 37. 43. 46. 47. 48. 49.
10 things we didn't know last week 1. The French had no official word for French kissing… until now. It's "galocher". Find out more (CBS) 2. XXXXXL size is being introduced for men at department store Debenhams, a three-X leap from its former largest size XXL. Find out more (Daily Mail) 3. Find out more 4. More details (New Scientist) 5. More details (Smithsonian Magazine) 6. Find out more (Daily Mail) 7. Find out more (LA Times) 8. 6X8 is the multiplication children get wrong most while 9x12 takes longest. Find out more (Times) 9. Find out more Is 'Adventure Time' One Big Allegory For Discovering Sex? Cuber presents five more short graybles in latest "Adventure Time." Cartoon Network Watching last night's anthology episode of "Adventure Time," entitled "Five More Short Graybles," I was reminded of the crazed photographer in Leos Carax's "Holy Motors" when he first spots the scraggly-haired Merde character, played by Denis Lavant, in the middle of a crowd and can't stop snapping pictures: "So... weird! So weird!" That's the reaction "Adventure Time," with its loopy blend of bright colors and surreal mini-plots, constantly invites. A sequel to last season's "Five Short Graybles," the episode once again featured narrator Cuber, a portly futuristic being who presents a series of interlocking "Adventure Time" short stories on his Holo-Pyramid Viewer. READ MORE: Why 'Adventure Time,' Now In Its Fifth Season, Is More Groundbreaking Than You May Realize Jake and Finn stick their thumbs in a lot of holes. The final installment with BMO brought everything home.
zCush Baby Nap Mat Review & Giveaway - The Photographer's Wife If you’re new here…thanks for visiting! If you enjoy reading, we do hope you stick around and follow along as we travel, esepcially to Walt Disney World, review great products and hold awesome giveaways! Subscribe by email | Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Pinterest | Follow us on Twitter | Follow us on YouTube I’ve mentioned the zCush Baby Nap Mat before HERE and HERE because of how much we liked it. It really was one of those products that we honestly didn’t think about or even know about prior to Trent being born, but were suddenly so grateful to have found it. and used it every single day afterward until he ultimately grew out of it. I am seriously THE WORST at transferring Trent from one spot to another. I wish! Before he would fall asleep, we would put Trent in the nap mat and then feed him or rock him to sleep. The side zips open for easy access. It truly was a lifesaver! And because babies make messes, the mat and cover are machine washable! or at these local retailers.
HIV inner shell structure revealed Researchers have for the first time unravelled the complex structure of the inner protein shell of HIV. The US team, reporting in Nature, also worked out exactly how all the components of the shell or 'capsid' fit together at the atomic level. Until now the exact structure had proved elusive because of the capsid's large size and irregular shape. The finding opens the way for new types of drugs, the researchers from the University of Pittsburgh said. It was already known that the capsid, which sits inside the outer membrane of the virus, was a cone-shaped shell made up of protein sub-units in a lattice formation. But because it is huge, asymmetrical and non-uniform, standard techniques for working out the structure had proved ineffective. The team used advanced imaging techniques and a supercomputer to calculate how the 1,300 proteins which make up the cone-shaped capsid fit together. She added that the fast mutation rate of HIV made drug resistance a big problem.
Naked Came the Stranger Cover of reissue of Naked Came the Stranger Naked Came the Stranger is a 1969 novel written as a literary hoax poking fun at contemporary American culture. Though credited to "Penelope Ashe", it was in fact written by a group of twenty-four journalists led by Newsday columnist Mike McGrady. McGrady's intention was to write a deliberately terrible book with a lot of sex, to illustrate the point that popular American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar. Hoax [ edit ] Mike McGrady was convinced that popular American literary culture had become so base—with the best-seller lists dominated by the likes of Harold Robbins and Jacqueline Susann —that even a wretchedly written, literarily vacant work could succeed if enough sex was thrown in. The publisher, Lyle Stuart , was an independent publisher then known for controversial books, many with sexual content. Synopsis [ edit ] Reception [ edit ] See also [ edit ] Notes [ edit ] References [ edit ] External links [ edit ]
secret agent trench coat sewing pattern | Shop Boy's or girl's coat. Classic unlined trench coat includes double-breasted button front, raglan sleeves, shoulder flap, button tabs at the sleeves, and a tie belt at the waist. The unisex version (View A) has pockets, while the ultra feminine alternate version (View B) features a dropped-waist skirt. Skills Used Each of our patterns calls on a unique set of sewing skills. Haven't ever done one of these things before? After successfully sewing this pattern, you will have developed the following skills: bias bound seams, buttonholes, collar, patch pockets, and raglan sleeves. Suggested Fabrics Medium-weight woven fabrics like canvas, corduroy, twill, denim, and coated (raincoat) cottons. Notions Coordinating thread, light- to medium-weight fusible interfacing (match your fabric with the appropriate weight of interfacing), eight 3/4" buttons.
What can we learn from children's writing? 30 May 2013Last updated at 20:45 ET A BBC Radio 2 short story competition aimed at children up to the age of 13 has had 90,000 entries. It's an exercise in creativity but the words they used have also been put into a database which gives us an insight into the way they think. Every one of the 40 million words from the story-writing competition has been collated and analysed by lexicographers at the Oxford University Press, in order to monitor and track children's language. It is the third edition of the 500 Words competition, organised by the Chris Evans Breakfast Show, and the second year the OUP has analysed the entrants. Here are some of the findings. Kids write "mum" more than "dad" Mums may get more mentions but dads are portrayed as action men The most common word of all was "mum" - or some variation of it, such as "mam" or "mar" - with a total of 115,627 mentions. "Dad" trailed behind, only just scraping into the top 15 most common words, with about half of the mentions of "mum".
I don’t hate millennials anymore! Like many of my colleagues in the American academy, each fall I consult the Mindset List for entering college freshmen produced annually by Beloit College of Wisconsin. Designed to identify “the experiences and event horizons of students and . . . not meant to reflect on their preparatory education,” the list is marked by a frequent use of “always” and “never,” reminding us that many cultural and experiential commonplaces for those writing syllabi are foreign, inscrutable, and sometimes ancient history to the syllabi’s intended audience. On the list for the class of 2013, three facts controverting my own early experience catch the eye: one demographic, one geographic, and one pedagogic. As a member of Generation X (b. 1970), I have long attributed the difference between my contemporaries and the Generation Y, or Millennial, students I teach (born between 1979 and 2003 or so) as one of substance and content. I was stunned. “What do you mean?” Oh, that’s right, I thought.
Teaching Children How to Raise Urban Chickens The increased interest in consuming locally and sustainably produced food has spawned a thriving locavore movement. (“Loca” meaning local, “vore” meaning eat.) Locavores include commercial growers interested in keeping the environment as clean as possible, farmers selling food close to where it’s grown (an oft-cited number is no farther than 100 miles from the point of purchase.) Being a locavore can be as simple as using your own food grown in your really kick-ass veggie garden or being committed to only buying locally produced food. My dog recently discovered the locavore culture. So maybe chicken-tending is best left to those parents with children who won’t go all feral and drooly around backyard fowl. Before starting your own coop, here are a few reading assignments for the kids: Try Nikki McClure’s To Market, To Market. The book teaches kids (and maybe their parents too) that food comes from somewhere other than just the grocery store. The Hen House The Chicken Run The Perch or Roost
Brain cells give insight into Down's syndrome Brain cells have been grown from skin cells of adults with Down's syndrome in research that could shed new light on the condition. US scientists found a reduction in connections among the brain cells and possible faults in genes that protect the body from ageing. The research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences gives an insight into early brain development. Down's syndrome results from an extra copy of one chromosome. This generally causes some level of learning disability and a range of distinctive physical features. A team led by Anita Bhattacharyya, a neuroscientist at the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, grew brain cells from skin cells of two individuals with Down's syndrome. This involved reprogramming skin cells to transform them into a type of stem cell that could be turned into any cell in the body. Brain cells were then grown in the lab, providing a way to look at early brain development in Down's syndrome.
Generation X: An Inconvenient Era A data-based look at the financial context of the past 30 years from the perspective of Gen X. I am honored to publish an insightful essay by longtime contributor Eric A. on the inconvenient financial era Generation X finds itself in. What sets this essay apart from most other generational analyses is its focus on data and charts. In The Brewing Generational Conflict (May 15, 2013), I mentioned the Cultural Monster Id (CMI) that arises whenever inter-generational emotions are freely expressed. Personally, I don't find much value in these outpourings of Cultural Monster Id, for several reasons. There's also a bit of intrinsic falsity in defining generational characteristics. We can while away many a night around the campfire lambasting or lauding various supposedly generational traits, but I don't think that gets us anywhere useful. Luck matters, timing matters, but so does context. Large cohorts generate their own self-referential feedback loops. Wow, this investing stuff is easy! Wow!