Bolivia Gives Legal Rights To The Earth Law of Mother Earth sees Bolivia pilot new social and economic model based on protection of and respect for nature. Bolivia is to become the first country in the world to give nature comprehensive legal rights in an effort to halt climate change and the exploitation of the natural world, and to improve quality of life for the Bolivian people. Developed by grassroots social groups and agreed by politicians, the Law of Mother Earth recognises the rights of all living things, giving the natural world equal status to human beings. Once fully approved, the legislation will provide the Earth with rights to: life and regeneration; biodiversity and freedom from genetic modification; pure water; clean air; naturally balanced systems; restoration from the effects of human activity; and freedom from contamination. The legislation is based on broader principles of living in harmony with the Earth and prioritising the “collective good.” Bolivia Rain forest The Law of Mother Earth includes the following:
Why the "loudness wars" are killing today's music July 03, 2006 Why the “loudness wars” are killing today’s music Pull out a vinyl record from the 70s or early 80s, and listen to it. Odds are it’ll have a big dynamic range — it’ll be whisper-quiet in some parts and booming loud in others. You’ll pick up new nuances every time you listen to it. Now listen to any music track recorded in the last ten years, and it’ll be radically different. Nope, says a writer at Stylus magazine. See those two graphs overhead? But so what? One result of [overcompression] is that modern CDs have much more consistent volume levels than ever before. I’ve messed around with lots of home-recording technology — for music and for my Wired podcasts — and this guy’s right. (Thanks to Andrew Hearst for this one!) <a href="
Combat Studies Institute Click Here to Request Hard Copies of Publications New Releases (Back to Top) Command Contemporary Operations Counterinsurgency/Stability Operations Doctrine, Policy & Technology Fort Leavenworth Units Staff Ride Guides Revolutionary War Lewis and Clark Civil War Indian Wars The Spanish-American War World War I World War II Korean War Vietnam War Israeli Conflicts Lebanon Afghanistan Iraq CSI Symposiums BUILDYOURMEMORY.COM / A mnemonics and memory improvement resource Online Library: Fiore dei Liberi c1409 Fiore dei Liberi : "Flos Duellatorum", 1410 Online Presentation of Flos Duellatorum The notion of the Masters, Remedy Masters, Countra-Masters and Countra-contra-Masters often confuse the uninitiated to Fiore's treatise. This initial apparent complexity achieves clarity once the reader understands both the foundations of the plays presented, and the symbolism with respect to the individuals wearing a crown, crown and garter, garter and no-garter. The AEMMA's training program as described in The Art of Longsword Combat - Book #1 was heavily influenced by the work of Liberi, however, the book is now dated and archived. The Treatise A. This presentation is comprised of digitally scanned pages of the Pisani-Dossi treatise in the sequence as found in the 1902 publication. The book was presented to David M. As more of the book is digitized, these will be added to this presentation. B. Prologue 1. abrazare - grappling 2. 3. 4. spada longa - longsword 5. spada longa in arme - armoured longsword 7.
Seed: Who Wants to Be a Cognitive Neuroscientist Millionaire? Ogi correctly answers the $250,000 question. Courtesy of Valleycrest Productions. Boston University’s doctoral program in cognitive neuroscience prepares students for a career in brain modeling, robot design, or biomedical engineering—or for winning cash on the television quiz show Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?. Researchers in my department, Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS), seek to understand the brain’s mechanisms, including three cognitive systems that happen to be essential for a profitable performance on Millionaire: learning, memory, and decision-making. I went to New York, where I passed a multiple-choice audition test. The first technique I drew upon was priming. I used priming on my $16,000 question: “This past spring, which country first published inflammatory cartoons of the prophet Mohammed?” I used priming even more explicitly on my $50,000 question: “Which of the following acronyms represents an organization that does not include the word ‘Association?’” “That’s right!”
Richard Meinertzhagen Background and youth[edit] Meinertzhagen was born into a wealthy, socially connected British family. Richard's father, Daniel Meinertzhagen VI, was head of the Frederick Huth & Co merchant-bank dynasty, which had an international reputation, second in importance only to the Rothschilds.[3] His mother was Georgina Potter, sister of Beatrice Webb, a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Meinertzhagen's surname derives from the town Meinerzhagen in Germany, the home of an ancestor.[4] On his mother's side (the wealthy Potter family), he was of English descent. Among his relations were "many of Britain’s titled, rich and influential personages." Although he had his doubts, he was a distant descendant of Philip III of Spain.[5] Meinertzhagen's passion for bird-watching began as a child. Military career[edit] Africa[edit] Meinertzhagen was assigned as a staff officer with the King's African Rifles (KAR). Sinai Desert and the 'Haversack Ruse'[edit] France and beyond[edit] Character[edit]
Psychology Today: The Girl With a Boy's Brain "Don't step on that—it's not a rug!" warns Kiriana Cowansage. It's a 9,000-piece puzzle of the astrological heavens, half completed, which she's putting together on the floor of her brightly colored studio apartment in Manhattan's West Village. Kiriana, a 24-year-old graduate student, is enamored of details. She's also easily absorbed: A week earlier, she worked on the puzzle for 10 straight hours, without pausing for so much as a sip of water. A clothing maven, she's fashionably put together in chunky jewelry and a black minidress with billowing sleeves. Such perplexing contradictions are the hallmarks of Asperger's Syndrome (AS), with which Kiriana was diagnosed when she was 19. Kiriana fits the AS profile quite neatly. Other experts attribute some of the gender gap to the widespread misdiagnosis of girls. When she was 4, Kiriana became infatuated with dinosaurs. In school, Kiriana barely spoke at all.
5 Strange Sports that are Gaining Popularity When most Americans think of sports, they think of baseball, football, basketball, etc. But what about those people in countries around the world who have never heard of these sports? What do they do for sporting entertainment? We’ve uncovered five decidedly different international sports involving, in no particular order, a camel, a wife, a broomstick, boxing chess players and an ironing board. While only one of these strange sports is on the record for involving alcohol, we would not be surprised if a brewski or two led to the development of some of these other eccentric events. 5. Camel racing during the 2009 Camel Cup in Alice Springs, Australia; Toby Hudson On your mark, get set — go get a camel. If you think camel racing is cool, check out its sister sport of camel wrestling, which is particularly big in Turkey. 4. A team competes in the World Wife Carrying Championship in Finland; Steve Jurvetson 3. Quidditch players compete in British Columbia, Canada; André Gaudin 2. 1.
Cognitive Daily: What can you remember in a glimpse? The text below will bring up an animation. Just look at it once — no cheating! A picture will flash for about a quarter of a second, followed by a color pattern for a quarter second. Then the screen will go blank for about one second, and four objects will appear. Use the poll below to indicate which object (#1, 2, 3, or 4) appeared in the picture. Click here to view the animation! I’ll let you know which answer was correct at the end of the post, but this test approximates the procedure of an experiment conducted by Kristine Liu and Yuhong Jiang, designed to measure the capacity of visual working memory. Previous studies have had conflicting results, with some indicating we can remember a large number of details of a briefly presented scene, and others suggesting that we don’t notice differences between scenes even when we look at them for several seconds (see this Cognitive Daily article for one example). So were we able to replicate their experiment?
Airmen make black pudding from their own blood The Telegraph is reporting a story about a couple airmen based in FFB (just west of Munich) who decided to try their hand at making authentic blood sausage (a.k.a. black pudding). So far, so good. They followed -- to the letter -- the instructions on the recipe handed down by one of the pair's grandmothers which called for extremely fresh blood. The 25- and 29-year-olds, being German, did what any good, logical-thinking German would do and tapped the freshest supply they had available: themselves. They were only found out because, realising they'd run out of base ingredients a bit too quickly, they began recruiting their comrades, one of whom -- again in typically German fashion -- went to ask a superior officer if there was any problem in donating to the cause. You can read the original story over at the Münchner Merkur. woof.
Visual Cliff - Psychology experiment Infants develop an avoidance reaction to the appearance of depth by the age of 8 to 10 months, when they begin to crawl. This discovery was made on the surface of an apparatus called the visual cliff. The latter is a table divided into two halves, with its entire top covered by glass. One half of the top has a checkerboard pattern lying immediately underneath the glass; the other half is transparent and reveals a sharp drop of a metre or so, at the bottom of which is the same checkerboard pattern. The infant is placed on a board on the centre of the table. The mother stands across the table and tries to tempt her baby to cross the glass on either the shallow or the deep side. Infants younger than seven months will unhesitatingly crawl to the mother across the deep side, but infants older than eight months avoid the deep side and refuse to cross it. source: Encyclopedia Britannica