Les enseignants - Les 10 professions les plus maltraitées par le public - Capital Malgré les quelques cas qui font la Une de la presse, les violences physiques contre les profs et autres conseils d'éducation sont relativement rares. Ils restent tout de même 6% à avoir fait l'objet de menaces ; 16% d'insultes, soit l'une des professions les plus à risque. Les enseignants de collèges et lycées sont le plus exposés (3 cas sur 4). This Is What The Changing Of The Seasons Looks Like From Space A NASA satellite captured these spectacular images of the arrival of fall foliage in Canada and the northeastern United States at the end of September. Fall officially began last week with the autumnal equinox, but these changing colors are still a welcome signal that hot summer days are finally giving way to cooler weather. Color change between June 16, 2014, and Sept. 27, 2014. When days shorten in autumn, trees slow and then stop their production of green-pigmented chlorophyll as they prepare to drop their leaves. As chlorophyll degrades, it allows other red, yellow and orange pigments to shine through. Want to get out there and see beautiful fall foliage before it fades?
5 Reasons Why We Need to Keep Social Media in Perspective (and How to Do This!) Social media has sure evolved since I was in high school fifteen years ago. Back then there was email, but there wasn’t the strong presence of online communities like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. My main experience was waiting for those high-pitched AOL dial-up noises to pass and having awkward chat room discussions with random strangers. Fast-forward to the present day and social media seems to be an integral part of our identities, facilitating our daily interactions, feeding us information, dominating a lot of our screen time and energy, entertaining us, inspiring us, and sometimes, frustrating the crap out of us. I try to see the light and dark in everything, and so I can appreciate the benefits and the harms of social media. I’m not here to judge social media or tell you that it is good or bad for humanity; that is really up to you to decide for yourself. No matter your usage of social media, please remember that it is only a TOOL. So what is going on here? Dr.
Seeing The Light But the team pushed past the limits by slowing the decay of tissue and preserving the integrity of the brain through sophisticated freezing techniques. They shocked Tiralosi’s heart again and again. Twenty minutes. Thirty minutes. Forty minutes. Before his release, Tiralosi met with Sam Parnia, a critical-care physician at Presbyterian well schooled in the extraordinary new ways of reanimating the dead even hours after their hearts have stopped. The encounter, Tiralosi said, transformed him completely because now he no longer feared death. Now at Stony Brook University and the author of the book Erasing Death, Parnia says Tiralosi helped him frame some essential questions and ideas about life, death, and consciousness: When is death final and irreversible? Before medical science dared to intervene, the line between life and death was sharp and clear: Death always followed cardiac arrest. Intimations of Immortality NDEs can have significant aftereffects. The Search for Proof
6 Facts About Aging Everyone Should Know -- But Doesn't Aging, they say, isn't for the weak. Here are some aging facts that we all should know and in many cases, don't: Sometimes, you will get floaters. Eye floaters are spots in your field of vision. Floaters are one of those minor, albeit annoying, health issues that comes with age. Floaters are not the big one. You may increase your panic level if your floaters increase in number, you lose your peripheral vision or you start seeing flashes of light. The "use it or lose it" mantra applies to many body parts, including your brain. Here's a crazy thought before you reach for the book of crossword puzzles: Could increased reliance on things like GPS systems and mobile phone address books mean less exercise for the part of your brain that helps you recall things or determine spacial orientation? Stroke symptoms are different in women than men. Knowing what to look for speeds up recognition of the problem. When it comes to strokes, speed is of the essence.
The Entire History Of Western Civilization... In 5 Minutes If you could compress 2,600 years of cultural history into one moment, it'd look something like this. The stunning visualization created by Maximilian Schich, an art historian at the University of Texas at Dallas, depicts the birth and death locations of history's most influential people. Schich's team pulled information from Freebase, a database of historical figures. The mapping starts in 600 B.C., around the dawn of the Roman Empire, and ends in 2012. The blue dots represent birth locations, and the red dots show death locations. Over time, as migration and population booms shift around the world, the map lights up in a web of red and blue. The graphic reveals "human mobility patterns and cultural attraction dynamics," according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The map is highly Eurocentric, with most of its 150,000 "notable individuals" hailing from Western countries. You can read more about the study behind the video here. h/t Nature
11 Things You Probably Didn't Know About The Beatles, Even If You're A Superfan If tomorrow never knows, then you definitely don't know these things. Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void of trivia. The Beatles' "Revolver" was released on this day, Aug. 5, way back in 1966. To celebrate the anniversary of this revolutionarily "weird" album, here are eleven super weird things about The Beatles. 1. Multiple people have claimed Beatles shows were known for their urine. The Beatles was a case of watching females in excelsis. 2. "Tune In," Mark Lewisohn's 3,000-page behemoth of a research anthology on The Beatles highlights the following quote from George Harrison: My first shag was in Hamburg, with Paul and John and Pete Best all watching. 3. In her book, "Instamatic Karma," and republished in The Daily Mail, John Lennon's former girlfriend, May Pang, recalled the moment that Lennon officially ended The Beatles: When John hung up the phone, he looked wistfully out the window. 4. Image above is of a different Greek island. 5. 6. Image: WikiCommons 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
Comment le yoga a conquis l'Occident Dans la tradition indienne, le yoga est une pratique religieuse ascétique qui suppose un grand effort sur soi. En se diffusant en Occident, il est devenu une technique de relaxation et un art du bien-être très prisé. La popularisation du yoga a tout d’abord débuté dans le contexte des années 1970, alors que la jeune génération contestataire se prend à rêver d’Orient. Certains font même « la Route » pour rejoindre la péninsule indienne et y découvrir ashrams, gurus, yoga et méditation ; d’autres encore s’initient au bouddhisme. En Europe et en Amérique du Nord, la pratique des arts martiaux et du yoga explose et ne cesse de se diffuser. L’Inde, « Orient mystique » ? Tout d’abord, l’attraction pour le yoga est liée à une certaine fascination que les Occidentaux sont susceptibles de nourrir pour une Inde idéalisée. Cette représentation de l’Inde comme altérité parfaite de notre société ne date pas d’aujourd’hui, bien au contraire. Le yoga aujourd’hui : une pratique avant tout (1) M. (1) D.
Vincent Brady | 2015 Calendars I'm happy to offer up 2015 calendars featuring a selection of the 360 degree Earth & Space images that I've created this past year. Calendars are 13.5x19 inches with glossy paper. Orders can be placed over at Lulu: Here's a look at the images included: Jökulsárlón, Iceland Delicate Arch, Utah Kirkjufell, Iceland Landscape Arch, Utah Monument Valley, Arizona Fireflies of Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri Natural Totem Poles of Monument Valley, Arizona Blood Moon at Arches, Utah Hvitserkur, Iceland Double Arch, Utah Skogafoss, Iceland Seljalandsfoss, Iceland Thanks for stopping by! What Makes Some of Us Own Our Mistakes, But Not Others wrangler/Shutterstock In any relationship, there are times that you don’t do the right thing. You brush off a colleague. If taking responsibility is done to help you change, then your beliefs about change should influence your tendency to take responsibility for your actions. In one study, the researchers looked at people in long-term relationships in which they were living with their partners. In a second study, the researchers manipulated people’s beliefs about change by having them read either a scientific article supporting the idea that personality remains relatively fixed, or one that supported the idea that it changes. Participants who read that personality can change were more likely to say that they would take responsibility for doing something wrong than those who read that personality remains relatively fixed. A third study used a similar methodology: Again, people’s beliefs about change were manipulated.
Cyril & Mélanie presents Demain le film Présentation détaillée du projet Un immense merci à tous ceux qui se mobilisent pour le projet, qui sont derrière nous, nous encouragent et nous témoignent à quel point ils pensent que ce film est nécessaire. Nous sommes bouleversés, émerveillés et profondément renforcés par toute cette énergie positive. Le 27 mai, nous avons lancé cette campagne parce que nous avions besoin de démarrer le tournage et compléter ce que nous espérions des partenaires cinéma et télévision. Et parce qu'il nous paraissait indispensable que ce film soit porté par un mouvement. Nous mesurons à quel point le sujet que nous essayons de porter (le changement de la société, l'écologie…) trouve un écho fort, dans un temps où nous voyons des crises toujours plus profondes secouer notre démocratie, notre économie, nos écosystèmes. Nous recevons beaucoup de questions à propos de la suite du financement, à savoir s’il est possible de continuer à donner. Cyril & Mélanie Nous repartons sur la route. Manger tous et sain ! J.
These 2 Dads Were Seriously Fed Up With Disney's 'Frozen,' So They Sang A Song About It Two dads have perfectly captured their love-hate relationship with Disney's super-hit "Frozen" in one hilarious Disney-inspired song. "I know that I will never," the two papas croon, "get these songs out of my head. 'Cause they'll be singing them forever, long after I am dead." It seems the clever video -- which culminates in an unexpected twist -- has struck a chord with "Frozen"-frustrated parents everywhere. Since being uploaded earlier this month, the clip -- featuring actors Ryan O'Quinn and Todd Wilkerson -- has racked up more than half a million views. "THIS. "So awesome, I feel the pain," quipped another.