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How Can We Cope in a World of Rapid Change? > The Good News: July/August 2010 Do you feel bombarded with change from every direction? Do you feel stressed, overworked, with too little time to appreciate and enjoy life? Do you find it difficult to keep up with everything you need to do? If so, you're not alone. Our rapidly changing world is rapidly stressing us out. What can you do to cope? Fool's mate "Fool's mate" is sometimes used to mean Scholar's mate. Fool's Mate, also known as the "Two-Move Checkmate", is the quickest possible checkmate in chess. A prime example consists of the moves: 1. f3 e5

Astronomers find evidence of 'cosmic climate change' A team of astronomers has found evidence that the universe may have gone through a warming trend early in its history. They measured the temperature of the gas that lies in between galaxies, and found a clear indication that it had increased steadily over the period from when the universe was one tenth to one quarter of its current age. This cosmic climate change is most likely caused by the huge amount of energy output from young, active galaxies during this epoch. The researchers publish their results in a forthcoming paper in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. "Early in the history of the universe, the vast majority of matter was not in stars or galaxies," University of Cambridge astronomer George Becker explains.

Symmetry: from Galois to the discovery of the Monster and Moonshine Winter’s Tale, Royal Ballet, ROH, Covent Garden, April 2014 April 11, 2014 For Christopher Wheeldon to take on Shakespeare is a bold move. The words are of huge importance, but so they are in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, which Wheeldon successfully produced as a ballet three years ago, and when he expressed an interest in tackling the Bard at that time, Nicholas Hytner suggested Winter’s Tale Bird/Fish Deaths: "'Fireworks' - Are You Kidding Me?" "'Fireworks' - Are You Kidding Me?" by Mitch Battros "Since the highly published occurrence of 3,000 to 5,000 blackbirds falling to their death on January 1st 2011, more bird and fish mass suicides have occurred. Just yesterday, a new report telling of millions of dead fish surfaced in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay.

2011 Press Releases - Trade growth to ease in 2011 but despite 2010 record surge, crisis hangover persists - Press/628 “The figures show how trade has helped the world escape recession in 2010,” WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy said. “However, the hangover from the financial crisis is still with us. High unemployment in developed economies and sharp belt-tightening in Europe will keep fuelling protectionist pressures. WTO Members must continue to be vigilant and resist these pressures and to work toward opening markets rather than closing them. “Stability” should be the name of the game for 2011”. The 14.5% rise was the largest annual figure in the present data series which began in 1950 and was buoyed by a 3.6% recovery in global output.

The Wagnerian Method When physicist John Smith spent the night in his garden with the score to Götterdämmerung, the final opera in Richard Wagner’s four-part, 15-hour epic, Der Ring des Nibelungen, he wasn’t interested in its account of the apocalyptic struggle of Norse gods for control of the world. Smith was concerned with a struggle of a different sort—one between the opera’s words and music that might elucidate the controversial German composer’s peculiar vision for the future of art. On Smith’s mind was an age-old difficulty all soprano singers face: They mispronounce lyrics when singing powerfully in the top half of their range. 47 Mind-Blowing Psychology-Proven Facts You Should Know About Yourself I’ve decided to start a series called 100 Things You Should Know about People. As in: 100 things you should know if you are going to design an effective and persuasive website, web application or software application. Or maybe just 100 things that everyone should know about humans!

Did fireworks scare thousands of birds to death? - CTV News Wildlife experts say New Year's Eve fireworks probably scared thousands of blackbirds, sending them into a frenzy, causing them to drop dead from the sky onto a small Arkansas town. Autopsies began Monday in laboratories in Arkansas, Georgia and Wisconsin, according to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, which is heading up the investigation. The tests showed lightning was probably not to blame and poisoning was ruled out early on. For now, investigators are saying the fireworks are the probable cause but they may never have the exact answer.

The Dialectics of Change and the Folly of Activism from the Neck Up By Edward-Yemil Rosario People often ask me to talk about solutions. I believe that most of the time people are genuinely interested in what I have to say. However, sometimes I suspect the question is a passive/ aggressive way to dismiss my observations, mistakenly thinking that because I can adequately articulate what is, that I have lost sight of what can be. I am deeply steeped in theory and scholarly pursuits, but I am also a doer — I am an activist by profession. Activism is a way of engaging the mind/ body in the service of change.