Enter an Archive of 6,000 Historical Children's Books, All Digitized and Free to Read Online. We can learn much about how a historical period viewed the abilities of its children by studying its children's literature.
Occupying a space somewhere between the purely didactic and the nonsensical, most children’s books published in the past few hundred years have attempted to find a line between the two poles, seeking a balance between entertainment and instruction. However, that line seems to move closer to one pole or another depending on the prevailing cultural sentiments of the time. And the very fact that children’s books were hardly published at all before the early 18th century tells us a lot about when and how modern ideas of childhood as a separate category of existence began. “By the end of the 18th century,” writes Newcastle University professor M.O. Grenby, “children’s literature was a flourishing, separate and secure part of the publishing industry in Britain.” Why This Paleolithic Burial Site is So Strange (and so Important) - SAPIENS.
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It’s the most befuddling, illogically sprawling, and—to a growing sea of competitors—flat-out terrifying company in the world. It sells soap and produces televised soap operas. It sells complex computing horsepower to the U.S. government and will dispatch a courier to deliver cold medicine on Christmas Eve. Can a Man Responsible for $5 Trillion Convince You He’s Not Powerful? By Erik Schatzker| April 18, 2017 From Is $5.1 trillion enough?
Not if you’re Larry Fink. The man who built BlackRock Inc. and helped popularize exchange-traded funds now has ambitions to turn the world’s largest asset manager into something more like Google. It’s all about Aladdin, the pioneering software his company developed to analyze investments. Theconversation. The world is obsessed with fad diets and weight loss, yet few of us know how a kilogram of fat actually vanishes off the scales.
Even the 150 doctors, dietitians and personal trainers we surveyed shared this surprising gap in their health literacy. The most common misconception by far, was that fat is converted to energy. The problem with this theory is that it violates the law of conservation of matter, which all chemical reactions obey. Some respondents thought fat turns into muscle, which is impossible, and others assumed it escapes via the colon. Only three of our respondents gave the right answer, which means 98% of the health professionals in our survey could not explain how weight loss works.
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In the beginning was the word For centuries, we have been telling ourselves a simple story about the origins of social inequality. Systems of Intelligence: Is this the VC meta-thesis we’ve been looking for? Here’s the full post: This weekend, I saw a tweet by Semil Shah that pointed me at a recent blog post by Jerry Chen, a partner at Greylock.
In the post, Jerry lays out a thesis that “Systems of Intelligence” are the next defensible business model — and provides the beginning of a framework for thinking about (1) why this transition is happening and (2) what to make of it. Like Semil, I love Jerry’s post, and I highly encourage everyone to read it. For women of color, work-life balance is a different kind of problem. World's tallest timber tower proposed for Tokyo. Japanese timber company Sumitomo Forestry has revealed plans for the world's tallest wooden building in Tokyo, a 350-metre skyscraper that would also be the country's highest.
Sumitomo Forestry is proposing the 70-storey hybrid timber skyscraper to mark the company's 350th anniversary in 2041. Named W350, the ambitious tower would be almost four times higher than the world's current tallest timber building – the 18-storey Brock Commons Student Residence in Vancouver, Canada. At 350 metres, the skyscraper designed by Sumitomo's Tsukuba Research Laboratory in collaboration with Tokyo practice Nikken Sekkei, would also become Japan's tallest building. Timber is expected to make up 90 per cent of the hybrid structure, with 185,000 cubic metres of wood planned to be used in its construction. The building would use a "braced tube structure" with columns and beams made from steel and timber, supplemented by additional diagonal steel braces.
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Y stands for Youth, the so-called Generation Y, as well as for questioning the structural positioning and everyday struggles of youth and the cultural practices young people develop: Why?! Project Y is dedicated to exploring the agency of youth in its manifold expressions. Our mission is to create a grounded understanding of the actual life worlds of youth and actual possibilities of youthful agency. Our mission is to debunk myths surrounding youth, to break free from thinking in boxes, and to build conceptual bridges to allow for innovation. We believe that knowledge is not just power, knowledge is agency. The One-Man-Band has been Perfected in the Wintergatan Marble Machine - CADENAS PARTsolutionsCADENAS PARTsolutions. Martin Molin Proves All You Need is Imagination with His Beautifully Complex Music Machine Martin Molin is a musician as well as an imaginative inventor, deft fabricator and an ingenious mathematician.
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In sum, Pinker is widely regarded as a brilliant, accomplished man. Why futurist Mark Pesce wants you to buy 15 minutes of his time on the blockchain. Raising the bar with data. Taxes sur l’acier et l’aluminium : l’annonce de Donald Trump provoque de vives réactions. Roundup Of Machine Learning Forecasts And Market Estimates, 2018. When Boris Yeltsin went grocery shopping in Clear Lake - The Texican. The Singular Pursuit of Comrade Bezos – Member Feature Stories. SHAKA PONK - Palabra Mi Amor (feat. Bertrand Cantat) [OFFICIAL VIDEO] Three charts on: who is the typical investor in the Australian property market? Contrary to the image a property investor might conjure up - a wealthy full-time property speculator - most residential investors in Australia don’t actually rely on it as their primary source of income. In reality, Australia’s residential investment market is dominated by people who, having bought their own home, have moved onto buying an investment property.
These small-scale investors own 83% of all investment properties. Previous research shows that real estate investors tend to be married, wealthy males with high income and full-time employment. Blockchain start-ups urge RBA to start eAUD experiments. Blockchain developers have urged the Reserve Bank to start experimenting with digital-dollar technologies rather than just observing them. RBA governor Philip Lowe said the central bank was reluctant to issue a new form of digital banknote - the eAUD - for use in retail markets given the arrival in February of the 'new payments platform'.
But it remained an "open question" whether a digital Australian dollar could be used in private payment systems, although a convincing case had not yet been made out, he said. "My working hypothesis here is that such a case could develop, although we need to work through a range of complex operational and policy questions," Dr Lowe told the Australian Payment Summit. Agriculture blockchain startup AgriDigital raises $5.5m in Square Peg led round. Square Peg Capital has invested in Australian blockchain start-up, AgriDigital, in a $5.5 million Series A funding round it said would help expansion plans into North America.
AgriDigital has built a private blockchain for supply chain finance. It has over 1300 users and more than 1.6 million tonnes of grain has been transacted over the cloud-based system since its first deal in December 2016, involving $360 million in grower payments. Square Peg Capital partner Tony Holt said the firm was attracted to AgriDigital because of the leadership team, and the company's solution for simplifying supply chains, which he described as "really complex, distributed and with multiple participants, which means there is huge room for improvement".
Climat : ne rien faire coutera bien plus cher que la transition écologique ! Les chiffres ne mentent pas. Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours. Chiens et chats, un business au poil. Les maîtres dépensent de plus en plus pour leurs animaux de compagnie. Nourriture, soins et assurance représentent un pactole mondial de plus de 90 milliards d’euros. Au Salon de l’agriculture, qui a ouvert ses portes le samedi 24 février, le public se presse non seulement pour admirer les vaches, mais également pour découvrir les prouesses des braques d’Auvergne, épagneuls bretons et autres bichons frisés, tous en lice pour décrocher la médaille d’or du concours agricole canin. Et il vient en masse pour suivre aussi la sélection féline du meilleur représentant de la race abyssin, british shorthair ou persan. Lui aussi dûment médaillé. « Les concours portent sur une sélection morphologique pour déterminer l’animal le plus proche du standard de sa race ou sur une sélection comportementale pour les chiens de travail ou de compagnie.
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