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Story Rush, a kindergarten teacher from Greenwood, Alaska, fires an M1919 Browning .30 caliber machine gun on the first night of the Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot and Trade Show
Amazing photo for the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards.
Where have all the scientific geniuses gone?
Where have all the scientific geniuses gone?
Do you sometimes think that we’ll never see a new Einstein or Newton? You might be right:
Today, according to Simonton, there just isn’t room to create new disciplines or overthrow the old ones. “It is difficult to imagine that scientists have overlooked some phenomenon worthy of its own discipline,” he writes. Furthermore, most scientific fields aren’t in the type of crisis that would enable paradigm shifts, according to Thomas Kuhn’s classic view of scientific revolutions. Simonton argues that instead of finding big new ideas, scientists currently work on the details in increasingly specialized and precise ways.
And to some extent, this argument is demonstrably correct. Science is becoming more and more specialized. The largest scientific fields are currently being split into smaller sub-disciplines: microbiology, astrophysics, neuroscience, and paleogeography, to name a few. Furthermore, researchers have more tools and the knowledge to hone in on increasingly precise issues and questions than they did a century—or even a decade—ago.
Where have all the scientific geniuses gone?
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Do you sometimes think that we’ll never see a new Einstein or Newton? You might be right:
Today, according to Simonton, there just isn’t room to create new disciplines or overthrow the old ones. “It is difficult to imagine that scientists have overlooked some phenomenon worthy of its own discipline,” he writes. Furthermore, most scientific fields aren’t in the type of crisis that would enable paradigm shifts, according to Thomas Kuhn’s classic view of scientific revolutions. Simonton argues that instead of finding big new ideas, scientists currently work on the details in increasingly specialized and precise ways.
And to some extent, this argument is demonstrably correct. Science is becoming more and more specialized. The largest scientific fields are currently being split into smaller sub-disciplines: microbiology, astrophysics, neuroscience, and paleogeography, to name a few. Furthermore, researchers have more tools and the knowledge to hone in on increasingly precise issues and questions than they did a century—or even a decade—ago.
When the US government kills its own citizens
A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be “senior operational leaders” of al-Qaida or “an associated force” – even if there is no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack the U.S.
The memo can be found here.
When the US government kills its own citizens
A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be “senior operational leaders” of al-Qaida or “an associated force” – even if there is no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack the U.S.
The memo can be found here.
Li Hongbo shows off his paper sculptures.
Li Hongbo shows off his paper sculptures.
Parikh is Facebook’s vice president of infrastructure engineering. He oversees the hardware and software that underpins the world’s most popular social network, and if that notification doesn’t appear within seconds, it’s his job to find out why. The trouble is that the Facebook infrastructure now spans four data centers in four separate parts of the world, tens of thousands of computer servers, and more software tools than you could list without taking a deep breath in the middle of it all. The cause of that missing notification is buried somewhere inside one of the largest operations on the net.
Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook, a profile of Jay Parikh who runs one of the most complex Internet infrastructure in the world.
Parikh is Facebook’s vice president of infrastructure engineering. He oversees the hardware and software that underpins the world’s most popular social network, and if that notification doesn’t appear within seconds, it’s his job to find out why. The trouble is that the Facebook infrastructure now spans four data centers in four separate parts of the world, tens of thousands of computer servers, and more software tools than you could list without taking a deep breath in the middle of it all. The cause of that missing notification is buried somewhere inside one of the largest operations on the net.
When I was younger, I promised myself never to reblog an image with big, bold, inspirational text laid on it. Today I break my promise because this is something that needs to be known about memory.
Read more about it.
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When I was younger, I promised myself never to reblog an image with big, bold, inspirational text laid on it. Today I break my promise because this is something that needs to be known about memory.
Read more about it.
The history of Coca-Cola and why we took cocaine out of it
When cocaine and alcohol meet inside a person, they create a third unique drug called cocaethylene. Cocaethylene works like cocaine, but with more euphoria.
So in 1863, when Parisian chemist Angelo Mariani combined coca and wine and started selling it, a butterfly did flap its wings. His Vin Marian became extremely popular. Jules Verne, Alexander Dumas, and Arthur Conan Doyle were among literary figures said to have used it, and the chief rabbi of France said, “Praise be to Mariani’s wine!”
Pope Leo XIII reportedly carried a flask of it regularly and gave Mariani a medal.
Thereafter, some guy called John Stith Pemberton decided to make his own version of the Mariani wine and called it French Wine Coca. His Coca, however, became illegal, not because of the cocaine, but because of the alcohol. In Georgia a prohibition law was passed.
Pemberton took the wine out and replaced it with sugar syrup and in 1886, Coca-Cola was born. From 1886 to 1899, for thirteen years, Coca-Cola was very popular among “intellectual” white males. In 1899, Pemberton started selling Coca-Cola in glass bottles which made it accessible to a bigger market.
Remember, there was still cocaine inside it, just sugar syrup instead of wine. So why did they take cocaine away?
Middle-class whites worried that soft drinks were contributing to what they saw as exploding cocaine use among African-Americans. Southern newspapers reported that “negro cocaine fiends” were raping white women, the police powerless to stop them. By 1903, [then-manager of Coca-Cola Asa Griggs] Candler had bowed to white fears (and a wave of anti-narcotics legislation), removing the cocaine and adding more sugar and caffeine.
The history of Coca-Cola and why we took cocaine out of it
When cocaine and alcohol meet inside a person, they create a third unique drug called cocaethylene. Cocaethylene works like cocaine, but with more euphoria.
So in 1863, when Parisian chemist Angelo Mariani combined coca and wine and started selling it, a butterfly did flap its wings. His Vin Marian became extremely popular. Jules Verne, Alexander Dumas, and Arthur Conan Doyle were among literary figures said to have used it, and the chief rabbi of France said, “Praise be to Mariani’s wine!”
Pope Leo XIII reportedly carried a flask of it regularly and gave Mariani a medal.
Thereafter, some guy called John Stith Pemberton decided to make his own version of the Mariani wine and called it French Wine Coca. His Coca, however, became illegal, not because of the cocaine, but because of the alcohol. In Georgia a prohibition law was passed.
Pemberton took the wine out and replaced it with sugar syrup and in 1886, Coca-Cola was born. From 1886 to 1899, for thirteen years, Coca-Cola was very popular among “intellectual” white males. In 1899, Pemberton started selling Coca-Cola in glass bottles which made it accessible to a bigger market.
Remember, there was still cocaine inside it, just sugar syrup instead of wine. So why did they take cocaine away?
Middle-class whites worried that soft drinks were contributing to what they saw as exploding cocaine use among African-Americans. Southern newspapers reported that “negro cocaine fiends” were raping white women, the police powerless to stop them. By 1903, [then-manager of Coca-Cola Asa Griggs] Candler had bowed to white fears (and a wave of anti-narcotics legislation), removing the cocaine and adding more sugar and caffeine.
Bang With Friends: a Facebook app with a simple premise
Bang With Friends: a Facebook app with a simple premise
An app which connects to your Facebook account, pulls photos of your friends and displays them in a Pinterest-like wall. Push “bang” when you want to, well, “bang” this or that person. The person will never know you wanted to bang him/her except if he/she wants to bang you too.
Sheer genius.
Bang With Friends: a Facebook app with a simple premise
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An app which connects to your Facebook account, pulls photos of your friends and displays them in a Pinterest-like wall. Push “bang” when you want to, well, “bang” this or that person. The person will never know you wanted to bang him/her except if he/she wants to bang you too.
Sheer genius.
How to master your time
The secret to mastering your time is to systematically focus on importance and suppress urgency. Humans are pre-wired to focus on things which demand an immediate response, like alerts on their phones – and to postpone things which are most important, like going to the gym. You need to reverse that, which goes against your brain and most of human society.
A great post on a Quora blog that you should check out, because it’s called how to live a better life and it actually gives good advice.
How to master your time
abetterlife.quora.com/How-to-ma…
The secret to mastering your time is to systematically focus on importance and suppress urgency. Humans are pre-wired to focus on things which demand an immediate response, like alerts on their phones – and to postpone things which are most important, like going to the gym. You need to reverse that, which goes against your brain and most of human society.
A great post on a Quora blog that you should check out, because it’s called how to live a better life and it actually gives good advice.
