Welcoming Olim This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again You know what's a complete waste of time, money, and effort? Eating. I mean, wouldn't you rather just ingest a tasteless form of sustenance for the rest of your life and never have to go through that tedious rigmarole of opening and eating a premade sandwich or feasting on a pile of fried delicacies ever again? Rob Rhinehart—a 24-year-old software engineer from Atlanta and, presumably, an impossibly busy man—thinks so. Rob found himself resenting the inordinate amount time it takes to fry an egg in the morning and decided something had to be done. Simplifying food as "nutrients required by the body to function" (which sounds totally bulimic, I know, but I promise it's not), Rob has come up with an odorless beige cocktail that he's named Soylent. VICE: Hi, Rob. What was the next step? So what’s in Soylent, exactly? And that tastes good? What are some of the benefits to the food-free lifestyle? How could Soylent affect the world's eating habits? That sounds ominous. Oh good.
The DIY Couturier • 21 Tips to Keep Your Shit Together When You're Depressed. A while ago, I penned a fairly angry response to something circulating on the internet – the 21 Habits of Happy People. It pissed me off beyond belief, that there was an inference that if you weren’t Happy, you simply weren’t doing the right things. I’ve had depression for as long as I can remember. So, this Cult of Happy article just set me off. It’s bad enough without people ramming Happy Tips at you through facebook. A friend of mine suggested that I write something from my point of view because, surprisingly, I manage to give an outwards impression of having my shit together. So, here it is. My 21 Tips on Keeping Your Shit Together During Depression 1) Know that you’re not alone. 2) Understand that the Happy People are usually acting out of some genuine (albeit misguided) concern for you, that it’s coming from a good place, even if the advice feels like you’re being blamed for your disease. 3) Enlist the help of a professional. 4) Understand that antidepressants will only do so much.
Solar System's Mysterious Rock Origin Puzzle Revealed | Solar System Chondrules Rocks melted in the early solar system after electrical currents spiked through the cloud of dust circling around the young sun, according to new research. The finding brings scientists a step closer to understanding the origin of the chondrules, or glass beads, that were some of the solar system's first solids. Because chondrules form far away from the sun, astronomers could not figure out how they heated to at least 2,420 degrees Fahrenheit (1,600 degrees Kelvin), since the surrounding environment is much colder, according to observations. More mysteriously, the rocks apparently cooled within an hour or two after forming, instead of freezing instantly into a crystal, which would be expected in space. "This was a puzzle, because quite a lot of material must have passed through this process," said Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, the chair of astrophysical sciences at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Bound by magnetism Quiz: How Well Do You Know Our Solar System?
8 Gmail Hacks That Will Change The Way You Use Email Whoa! Mini-Supernovas Discovered Astronomers have discovered a new kind of supernova, a star explosion so weak that scientists dubbed it a miniature stellar blast. Supernovas represent the deaths of stars, which collapse in powerful explosions. They generally are classified into two main types; the new class, called Type Iax, "is essentially a mini-supernova," said lead researcher Ryan Foley, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Supernovas are the most powerful stellar explosions known to science, visible all the way to the edge of the universe. In 2002, researchers began noticing that many supernovas appeared to be similar to regular Type Ia supernovas, but were distinctly fainter. "This really is a new kind of stellar explosion," Foley told SPACE.com. Binary stars The data the scientists gathered suggest that, like a Type Ia supernova, a Type Iax supernova comes from a binary star system containing a white dwarf and a companion star. Young star systems
The Ultimate Editing Checklist As we all know, content creation isn't as simple as just stringing together a few words and hitting "publish." At least all high-quality content creators know this. If you really think about it, the editorial process has quite a few steps -- from ideation, to concepting, to production, to proofreading, editing and copyediting. The problem is, it can be difficult to remember every little editing consideration you should be making. Download this free guide for even more writing and editing tips. Topic Selection Consider these high-level questions at the beginning stages of the editorial process. Can the angle be tweaked to be even more interesting? Article Structure & Formatting Optimizing the way the writer organizes their content and ideas is an important part of the editing process. Is this the right format for the content? Is the flow of the content logical? Are big chunks of text broken up with headers and paragraph breaks so it's easier on the eyes and readers can scan and skim?
Elusive 'Superman' Particle Found Changing Flavor Physicists at an underground laboratory have caught an ultra-rare particle in the act of reappearing. For only the third time, scientists have detected elementary particles called neutrinos in the act of changing from one type, called muon, to another, called tau, on the several-hundred-mile trip between two laboratories. "It proves that the muon neutrinos are some kind of Superman-type particle: They get into a phone booth somewhere in between and change into something else," said Pauline Gagnon, a particle physicist at Indiana University, who was not involved in the experiment. The new discovery bolsters the theory that the sneaky neutrinos oscillate from one type to another, which is why physicists detect fewer coming from the sun than predicted. Sun particles "Each square centimeter of your body is touched every second by 60 billion neutrinos from the sun," Ereditato told LiveScience. But for the last two decades, scientists have detected fewer neutrinos from the sun than they expected.
10 Frequently Asked Questions on Making a Will in Israel | Israel Notary 10 Frequently Asked Questions on Making a Will in Israel 1. Why Should I Bother Making a Will? Making a Will, which is usually a simple and relatively inexpensive document in , can be a very straightforward expedient for avoiding intra-family conflict, squabbles and misunderstandings amongst your heirs. A Will can thus deal clearly and straightforwardly with issues such as: 2. (a) I made Aliyah but still have assets abroad. Technically, yes, although on reaching the age of 120 your Israeli Will would then need to be probated in more than one jurisdiction, which can be a costly and bureaucratic procedure. As a general rule, a person who owns assets in different countries or jurisdictions is therefore advised to prepare a separate legal Will in each jurisdiction, in order to avoid unnecessary tax and other complications in the future. (b) If the vast majority of my assets have been moved to Israel, need I still make a separate Will abroad? 3. 4. (b) When ought an executor to be appointed? 5.
Is Fuel From Carbon Dioxide Too Good to Be True? It’s almost as impressive as pulling a rabbit out of a hat—except this presto chango trick is for real and has the potential to help combat the effects of global warming. Researchers at the University of Georgia have come up with a way to transform carbon dioxide trapped in the atmosphere into useful industrial products. Science Daily reports that the discovery could lead to the creation of biofuels made directly from the carbon dioxide. The work was supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy Electrofuels program of the Department of Energy. Adams, whose work was part of a collaborative project with the research group of Professor Bob Kelly at North Carolina State University, explains that the technology is similar to the process of photosynthesis in plants, but focuses on a microorganism called Pyrococcus furiosus. “Pyrococcus grows optimally in boiling water (100°C) but does not use carbon dioxide,” says Adams. Related Stories on TakePart: • Who Needs Superheroes?
Voleh – Volunteer Oleh Helpers IBM Takes Another Step Toward a Post-Human World (IBM) First there was Deep Blue, then Watson, and now... SyNAPSE? IBM (NYSE: IBM ) scientists revealed last week that they'd developed a nanofluidic circuit, which is a fancy term for a transistor which operates in ways that mimic the human brain. Let's back up and explain some of these terms in more detail. The nanofluidic circuit was described by bothThe Atlantic Wire: The new so-called nanofluidic circuit works a little bit like a network of streams. And by The New York Times' tech blog: The advantage of the new method is that it is both nonvolatile -- it requires only a small amount of electricity to change the materials from one state to another, and they then remain in that state -- and is potentially reversible, meaning that it could be used to build a device like a transistor. ..." Efficiency would be the key advancement here in terms of chip making. We are using tiny currents of ions of atoms generated by these electrical signals to change the state of matter of this oxide material.