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A society where the rich are extraordinarily rich and the poor are very poor, or one where the rich are merely very well off but even those on the lowest incomes also enjoy a decent standard of living? emmineb Fri, 18 Nov 2022 13:37:24 GMT https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2019/09/the-rise-of-phantom-FDI-in-tax-havens-damgaard.htm According to official statistics, Luxembourg, a country of 600,000 people, hosts as much foreign direct investment (FDI) as the United States and much more than China. Luxembourg’s $4 trillion in FDI comes out to $6.6 million a person. FDI of this size hardly reflects brick-and-mortar investments in the minuscule Luxembourg economy. So is something amiss with official statistics or is something else at play? emmineb Tue, 18 Jan 2022 16:18:44 GMT https://www.ubu.com/index.html Film & Video Sound Dance Papers Historical Visual Poetry Conceptual Comics Conceptual Writing Contemporary Aspen Magazine Outsiders /ubu Editions 365 Days Project Ethnopoetics Electronic Music Resources UbuWeb Top Tens Twitter About Duchamp is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb emmineb Tue, 28 Dec 2021 10:33:31 GMT https://aeon.co/essays/not-all-early-human-societies-were-small-scale-egalitarian-bands When the anthropologist Irven DeVore suggested in 1962 to then-graduate student Richard Lee that they study hunter-gatherers, neither expected to transform the modern understanding of human nature. A baboon expert, DeVore mostly wanted to expand his research to human groups. Lee was searching for a dissertation project. Being interested in human evolution, they decided not to study peoples in the Americas or Australia, as was the norm in hunter-gatherer studies. Instead, they looked for a site that was, in Lee’s words, ‘close to the actual faunal and floral environment occupied by early man’. So, they headed to Africa – specifically, to the Kalahari. emmineb Thu, 21 Oct 2021 17:43:53 GMT https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/crash/etc/russia.html Memo to Sherry Jones from Andrew Meier/Moscow, 2/2/99 [Meier works in Time's Moscow bureau and is the author of "Russia in the Red,"Harper's, June 1999. Sherry Jones is the producer of FRONTLINE 's documentary, "The Crash."] emmineb Fri, 25 Jun 2021 11:49:20 GMT https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/04/see-how-your-citys-climate-might-change-by-2070-feature/ emmineb Sat, 18 Apr 2020 18:28:03 GMT http://www.hisutton.com/Covert_Shores_Articles.html emmineb Thu, 01 Aug 2019 15:06:09 GMT https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3625266/ Unconscious neural activity has been repeatedly shown to precede and potentially even influence subsequent free decisions. However, to date, such findings have been mostly restricted to simple motor choices, and despite considerable debate, there is no evidence that the outcome of more complex free decisions can be predicted from prior brain signals. Here, we show that the outcome of a free decision to either add or subtract numbers can already be decoded from neural activity in medial prefrontal and parietal cortex 4 s before the participant reports they are consciously making their choice. emmineb Wed, 31 Jul 2019 07:41:17 GMT http://www.rwaag.org/daily3 Set II - The Role of Women in the Art of Ancient Greece emmineb Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:30:18 GMT https://thenextsystem.org/learn/collections/new-systems-possibilities-and-proposals We at the Next System Project want to help dispel the wrongheaded idea that “there is no alternative.” To that end, we have been gathering some of the most interesting and important proposals for political-economic alternatives – in effect, descriptions of new systems. Some are more detailed than others, but each seeks to envision something very different from today’s political economy. emmineb Sat, 27 Jan 2018 06:55:33 GMT https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/january-february-march-2018/how-to-fix-facebook-before-it-fixes-us/ An early investor explains why the social media platform’s business model is such a threat—and what to do about it. by Roger McNamee In early 2006, I got a call from Chris Kelly, then the chief privacy officer at Facebook, asking if I would be willing to meet with his boss, Mark Zuckerberg. I had been a technology investor for more than two decades, but the meeting was unlike any I had ever had. Mark was only twenty-two. emmineb Sun, 07 Jan 2018 22:48:50 GMT http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/pages/2018-global-economic-outlook-as-good-as-it-gets.html Their global outlook (available below) predicts 4% GDP growth next year, a forecast notably above consensus expectations and supported by still-easy financial conditions and fiscal policy. Stubbornly low core inflation should also tick up in advanced economies as their labor markets continue to strengthen and the drag from low commodity and import prices unwinds. They look for the Fed to lean against this strength by tightening considerably more than what's priced by the market, attempting to prevent a bigger economic overheating and recession down the road. emmineb Sun, 07 Jan 2018 08:18:39 GMT https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.cnas.org/documents/CNASReport-CarrierAirWing-151016.pdf Over the past 20 years naval aviation in the United States has undergone a dramatic change in focus and capabilities, and not for the better. Its historical and traditional focus on long-range capabilities and the deep strike mission has been overtaken by a concentration on lower maintenance costs and higher aircraft sortie generation rates. American power and permissive environments were assumed following the end of the Cold War, but the rise of new powers, including China and its pursuit of anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) strategies and capabilities to include the carrier-killing 1,000 nautical mile (nm) range Dong Feng-21 anti-ship ballistic missile, now threatens to push the Navy back beyond the range of its carrier air wings. emmineb Thu, 26 Oct 2017 10:47:36 GMT https://thediplomat.com/2014/11/everything-you-know-about-clausewitz-is-wrong/ As Mark Twain reputedly quipped, it’s not so much what we know that gets us in trouble; it’s what we know that just ain’t so. How much of what we know about martial ventures is wrong? In the naval sphere, for instance, it’s common knowledge that Alfred Thayer Mahan instructs commanders never to divide the fleet. Except he doesn’t. Once upon a time, it turns out, historians took to quoting other historians quoting Mahan to that effect. Over time the quotation — in reality, someone’s bowdlerized version of his ideas about concentrating naval strength — took on an air of authenticity and authority. “Never divide the fleet” endured as a truism despite its flimsy provenance. And it drowned out Mahan’s real ideas through constant repetition. emmineb Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:59:10 GMT https://www.nap.edu/catalog/11630/out-of-thin-air-dinosaurs-birds-and-earths-ancient-atmosphere is but a slice of a forever-changing entity and is greatly different from the atmosphere at most times in Earth’s history. It is currently suited to us mammals—hence the high diversity of mammals alive today|Two not-so-ancient versions, in astrobiological timescales, of our “Earth-like atmosphere” very nearly wiped out our furry ancestors some 250 mil.yrs ago and then tried again some 200 mil.yrs ago. If a small premammal named Thrinaxodon, whose delicate skulls have been collected in lowest Triassic strata, had not survived, what would life on Earth be like now? Perhaps we would have a diverse and unbelievably beautiful world of birds, in the air, on the ground, diving deeply into the sea, and perhaps they would be the dominant animals on Earth. emmineb Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:52:09 GMT https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/120843 Abstract: As authoritarian leaders rise to power, they require the backing of a group of well-connected, well-organized supporters, who together control a large pool of resources. Every new leader necessarily begins his tenure surrounded by politically powerful kingmakers. Dependent leaders aim to keep these supporters happy by sharing the spoils of office, and they often fall victim to coups when key supporters decide to align their resources behind someone new. An independent leader, by contrast, purges his own inner circle to ensure that the “kingmakers” are too weak to remove him from power. Intra-regime purges are a dangerous gamble, but those leaders who survive the short-term repercussions of betraying their supporters gain a more secure hold on emmineb Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:31:42 GMT http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p208511/html/cover.xhtml?referer=202&page=0# 1. Meeting the predator 2. Dry season (Yegge) in the stone country 3. The wisdom of the balanced rock: The parallel universe and the prey perspective Second section 4. A wombat wake: In memoriam Birubi 5. ‘Babe’: The tale of the speaking meat Third section 6. Animals and ecology: Towards a better integration 7. Tasteless: Towards a food-based approach to death emmineb Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:19:55 GMT https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/09/kremlin-hall-of-mirrors-military-information-psychology emmineb Tue, 17 Oct 2017 08:21:00 GMT http://www.artofthetitle.com/ film intro emmineb Tue, 15 Aug 2017 02:09:09 GMT http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~infocom/The%20Website/dirt.html emmineb Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:32:28 GMT https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/ emmineb Tue, 01 Aug 2017 15:46:33 GMT https://arxiv.org/pdf/0902.4274.pdf These notes discuss several topics in neoclassical economics and alternatives, with an aim of reviewing fundamental issues in modeling economic markets. I start with a brief, non-rigorous summary of the basic Arrow-Debreu model of general equilibrium, as well as its extensions to include time and contingency. I then argue that symmetries due to similarly endowed individuals and similar products are generically broken by the constraints of scarcity, leading to the existence of multiple equilibria. This is followed by an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the model generally. Several of the weaknesses are concerned with the treatments of time and contingency. To address these we discuss a class of agent based models. Another set of issues has to do emmineb Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:59:25 GMT https://fas.org/pub-reports/frances-choice-for-naval-nuclear-propulsion-why-low-enriched-uranium-was-chosen/ Why Low-Enriched Uranium Was Chosen | emmineb Mon, 17 Jul 2017 17:54:47 GMT https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge-index emmineb Thu, 13 Jul 2017 06:52:09 GMT http://members.tip.net.au/~davidjw/ traveller emmineb Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:37:38 GMT https://thepointmag.com/2017/politics/final-fantasy-neoreactionary-politics-liberal-imagination emmineb Mon, 10 Jul 2017 12:04:53 GMT https://www.frstrategie.org/ emmineb Mon, 19 Jun 2017 23:33:58 GMT http://www.vesselofinterest.com/ наблюдаемое судно emmineb Sun, 18 Jun 2017 20:41:23 GMT http://johnmckay.blogspot.se/2012/02/monsters-of-islandia.html map iceland medieval emmineb Tue, 13 Jun 2017 03:49:26 GMT https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/on-legal-advice-mass-murder-being-triggered-into-insomnia-and-somewhere-in-there-my-ex.39168/ Sufficient Velocity emmineb Sat, 10 Jun 2017 08:51:03 GMT http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/444/html Social Media as Carrier Wave for Millenarian Contagion | Berger | Perspectives on Terrorism emmineb Tue, 23 May 2017 22:39:30 GMT http://www.clim-past.net/7/487/2011/ Abstract. To understand the three-dimensional ocean circulation patterns that have occurred in past continental geometries, it is crucial to study the role of the present-day continental geometry and surface (wind stress and buoyancy) forcing on the present-day global ocean circulation. This circulation, often referred to as the Conveyor state, is characterised by an Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) with a deep water formation at northern latitudes and the absence of such a deep water formation in the North Pacific. emmineb Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:32:21 GMT http://www.cracked.com/article_19468_5-logical-fallacies-that-make-you-wrong-more-than-you-think.html emmineb Sat, 11 Mar 2017 04:07:57 GMT https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19980237460.pdf Abstract The Propulsive Small Expendable Deployer System (ProSEDS) space experiment will demonstrate the use of an electrodynamic tether propulsion system. The flight experiment is a precursor to the more ambitious electrodynamic tether upper stage demonstration mission which will be capable of orbit raising, lowering and inclination changing—all using electrodynamic thrust. ProSEDS, which is planned to fly in 2000, will use the flight-proven Small Expendable Deployer System (SEDS) to deploy a tether (5-km bare wire plus 15-km spectra) from a Delta II upper stage to achieve ∼0.4N drag thrust, thus deorbiting the stage. The experiment will use a predominantly ‘bare’ tether for current collection in lieu of the endmass collector and insulated tether emmineb Thu, 23 Feb 2017 06:17:24 GMT http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1168&context=curej The Causes and Effects of the Decline of Personal Relationships in the U.S. House of Representatives - viewcontent.cgi emmineb Sat, 18 Feb 2017 11:47:18 GMT http://www.dannen.com/decision/index.html Documents on the decision to use the atomic bomb are reproduced here in full-text form (transcribed by Gene Dannen), and also as images. In most cases, the originals are in the U.S. National Archives. Other aspects of the decision are shown from accounts by the participants. emmineb Fri, 03 Feb 2017 17:56:46 GMT http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1765/20130508 In 1942, Walls described the concept of a ‘nocturnal bottleneck’ in placental mammals, where these species could survive only by avoiding daytime activity during times in which dinosaurs were the dominant taxon. Walls based this concept of a longer episode of nocturnality in early eutherian mammals by comparing the visual systems of reptiles, birds and all three extant taxa of the mammalian lineage, namely the monotremes, marsupials (now included in the metatherians) and placentals (included in the eutherians). This review describes emmineb Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:49:29 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2015-steve-bannon/ It’s nearing midnight as Steve Bannon pushes past the bluegrass band in his living room and through a crowd of Republican congressmen, political operatives, and a few stray Duck Dynasty cast members. He’s trying to make his way back to the SiriusXM Patriot radio show, broadcasting live from a cramped corner of the 14-room townhouse he occupies a stone’s throw from the Supreme Court. It’s late February, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference is in full swing, and Bannon, as usual, is the whirlwind at the center of the action. emmineb Mon, 30 Jan 2017 11:38:57 GMT http://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/0314policyforumff.pdf David Lazer,Ryan Kennedy,Gary King,Alessandro Vespignani Large errors in fl u prediction were largely avoidable, which offers lessons for the use of big data emmineb Fri, 27 Jan 2017 20:57:15 GMT http://economics.mit.edu/files/11563 David H. Autor Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 29, Number 3—Summer 2015—Pages 3–30 emmineb Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:00:10 GMT http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/02/09/murderous-manila-on-the-night-shift/ On the Night Shift | by James Fenton | The New York Review of Books emmineb Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:13:50 GMT http://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/documents/CDL-AD(2002)023rev-e.aspx Council of Europe CDL-AD(2002)023rev-e Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters: Guidelines and Explanatory Report - Adopted by the Venice Commission at its 52nd session (Venice, 18-19 October 2002) in English emmineb Mon, 02 Jan 2017 11:43:53 GMT http://gizmodo.com/this-deep-sea-fisherman-posts-his-discoveries-on-twitte-1790323479 The English-language site Moscow Times posted a handful of the photos, but I’ve found even more on Fedortsov’s Twitter. The fisherman is reportedly based in Murmansk, which is a real place in Russia, and not another planet where Hell has opened up and set demons free to roam the land and the seas. emmineb Wed, 21 Dec 2016 04:49:40 GMT http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer/drbob/TheAuthoritarians.pdf emmineb Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:47:44 GMT http://pressthink.org/2010/11/the-view-from-nowhere-questions-and-answers/ "American journalism is dumber than most journalists, who often share my sense of absurdity about these practices. A major reason we have a practice less intelligent than its practitioners is the prestige that the View from Nowhere still claims..." emmineb Thu, 08 Dec 2016 09:08:52 GMT http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.se/2012/05/democracys-arc.html emmineb Tue, 06 Dec 2016 04:53:46 GMT https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gVURJ7HRvUNMYQRQ4kpDfWKNm_rx_XgE-PeRKsgctTU/pub As a preface to this (not so) little essay, I’d like to put a disclaimer that I am a) no great authority in writing, with only one major story to my name, b) frequently exhausted and rarely coherent when writing things of this nature and c) not necessarily entirely capable of following my own advice at all times, or indeed at any times. So... yeah, take this in the spirit that it’s meant. I’m fairly sure it’s sound advice - it seems to have worked for me, at least - but it is largely just what I’ve thrown together from my own reading and from the experience of writing Game Theory. I make no promises that it is sensibly conveyed, or that it is the objectively optimal perfect magical secret grimoire of writing kung-fu skills passed down through the emmineb Fri, 02 Dec 2016 22:38:52 GMT http://futurewarstories.blogspot.se/ emmineb Sat, 05 Nov 2016 21:32:14 GMT http://www.kotus.fi/sv/publikationer/sprakspalter/reuters_rutor/1992/finlandssvenska_i_norden Institutet för de inhemska språken emmineb Sun, 12 Jun 2016 19:57:39 GMT http://www.geocurrents.info/ The Geography Blog Of Current Events emmineb Tue, 24 May 2016 12:53:39 GMT http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK219165/ The Medical Implications of Nuclear War - NCBI Bookshelf We have developed the tools for calculating the deaths and injuries due to blast, thermal effects, and local fallout from hypothetical nuclear attacks on the United States. This is the first time that the capability to do such consequence calculations has existed outside the (mostly classified) government domain. We have used this capability to explore the sensitivities of the consequences of a nuclear attack to various assumptions. The first was the sensitivity to the types of targets involved. We examined three different hypothetical ''limited" nuclear attacks on the United States, each involving a 1-megaton (Mt) airburst over approximately 100 targets of three different types: The city centers emmineb Wed, 16 Mar 2016 06:08:23 GMT http://www.armystudyguide.com/content/EIB/EIB_Information/about-the-eib.shtml emmineb Fri, 11 Dec 2015 21:57:20 GMT https://irrussianality.wordpress.com/ Russia, the West, and the world emmineb Wed, 07 Oct 2015 12:03:52 GMT https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist257/start.html emmineb Sun, 06 Sep 2015 04:58:41 GMT http://web.mit.edu/ssp/publications/working_papers/wp04-1.pdf SSP Working Paper June 2004 Marc DeVore Marc DeVore is a doctoral candidate in the MIT Political Science Department. wp 04-1 The Airborne Illusion: Institutions and the Evolution of Postwar Airborne Forces SSP Working Paper June 2004 Marc DeVore Marc DeVore is a doctoral candidate in the MIT Political Science Department. wp 04-1 The Airborne Illusion: Institutions and the Evolution of Postwar Airborne Forces emmineb Fri, 05 Jun 2015 14:54:02 GMT http://www.comw.org/rma/fulltext/victory.html What the Gulf War Tells Us About the Future of Conflict - The RMA Debate emmineb Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:53:25 GMT http://www.acscdg.com/ Measure distances on maps. Quick start: A course is the shortest line between two points. Move the map cursor to the desired start point and click there; or use the find box. Then, move to the next point and click again; or use the find box again. Continue choosing points until done. Pan and zoom the map if necessary to find each point. A circle is a line around a point. Choose the circle's center by clicking on the map; or use the find box. Move the cursor away from the center the desired distance, and click again; or, use the find box. emmineb Thu, 23 Apr 2015 22:35:29 GMT http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/04/saudi-arabia-really-targeting-price-war.html By Arthur Berman, a petroleum geologist with 36 years of oil and gas industry experience. He is an expert on U.S. shale plays and is currently consulting for several E&P companies and capital groups in the energy sector. Berman is an associate editor of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, and was a managing editor and frequent contributor to theoildrum.com. He is a Director of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil, and has served on the boards of directors of The Houston Geological Society and The Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists. Originally published at OilPrice emmineb Wed, 22 Apr 2015 06:19:04 GMT http://wayback.archive.org/web/20120105095107/http://www.eisf.eu/resources/library/hostage_negotiation.pdf Abstract Crisis (hostage) negotiation has been described as the most significant development in law enforcement and police psychology over the past several decades. This paper reviews three primary components of crisis negotiation: (1) the incorporation of crisis management and intervention in current broad-spectrum approaches to crisis negot emmineb Wed, 25 Feb 2015 23:14:52 GMT http://www.ointres.se/udes.htm UDES XX20 emmineb Sun, 22 Feb 2015 11:40:25 GMT http://navyleag.customer.netspace.net.au/fc_07vtl.htm The concept of producing a practical, winged, aircraft able to use aerodynamic lift for flight, yet capable of Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) has fascinated designers since the dawn of powered flight. Whilst helicopters have achieved it, their fixed wing cousins have not, to anything like the same degree. emmineb Sat, 26 Apr 2014 14:00:20 GMT http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/10/16/canadian-flag-designs-photos_n_4109726.html Canada became a country in 1867 but didn't actually get its own flag until 1965. For nearly 100 years after Confederation (with a few Union Jack interludes), Canada flew the Red Ensign, a design based on the flag used by British naval vessels and Canada's Coat of Arms. But by the middle of the century, nobody much liked the flag, or what it said about Canadian sovereignty. Lester B. Pearson, then serving as prime minister, led the charge for a new flag and kicked off the official debate in 1964 with his very own design. emmineb Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:43:34 GMT http://www.nci.org/i/ib32897c.htm Beware False Claims About "Reactor-Grade" Plutonium! The nuclear industry and other advocates of using warhead plutonium in "mixed-oxide" (MOX) plutonium-uranium fuel often claim that the MOX option would make plutonium unusable in weapons. Such claims are inaccurate and irresponsible. Using warhead plutonium in MOX fuel neither "burns it up" nor renders it unusable in nuclear weapons. In fact, reactor-grade plutonium is even more desirable than weapon-grade in crude bomb designs that might be used by terrorists because reactor-grade makes initiation of the nuclear chain reaction easier. emmineb Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:42:12 GMT http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yB&topic_id=1 The record for incremental reform in the cognitive style of PowerPoint is not promising. In the many release versions of PP, the intellectual level has not been raised. New releases have drifted toward ingrown self-parody, featuring ever more elaborated PP Phluff and presenter therapy. These changes have made the new version different from the previous version, but not smarter. There are no incentives for meaningful change in a monopoly product with an 86% gross profit margin, only incentives to make it different, somehow, from the previous release. PP competes only with itself. emmineb Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:22:30 GMT http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/new_nuclear_weapons/loyieldearthpenwpnrpt.html Fig. 1 Diagrams like this one give the false impression that a low-yield earth penetrating nuclear weapon would "limit collateral damage" and therefore be relatively safe to use. In fact, because of the large amount of radioactive dirt thrown out in the explosion, the hypothetical 5-kiloton weapon discussed in the accompanying article would produce a large area of lethal fallout. (Philadelphia Inquirer/ Cynthia Greer, 16 October 2000.) emmineb Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:26:13 GMT http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/academics-in-new-move-begin-to-work-with-wikipedia/31523 The Chronicle of Higher Education emmineb Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:09:51 GMT http://www.spacedex.com/perseids/ emmineb Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:16:13 GMT http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/01/110801fa_fact_lane?currentPage=all The New Yorker emmineb Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:39:48 GMT http://www.francesoir.fr/loisirs/musique/heritieres-d-amy-winehouse-121878.html France Soir emmineb Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:01:14 GMT http://www.sacklunch.net/Latin/H/hodiemihicrastibi.html Definition of hodie mihi, cras tibi emmineb Mon, 01 Aug 2011 03:17:05 GMT http://sig.ville.gouv.fr/Atlas/ZUS/ emmineb Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:07:15 GMT http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/07/rundle-a-moral-and-operational-disaster-for-news-corp/ Back in the day, the analogue and offline day, when a plenitude of images did not circulate, one of the most vital jobs in the newspaper industry was that of the “picture-snatcher”?—?the reporter, often a cub/cadet, who would accompany a senior colleague to the house of a grieving widow whose family member had just been trampled by a horse/died of dropsy/ etc, and, while the bereaved was being engaged in conversation, snatch a picture of the decedent from the mantelpiece, and then sprint back to the office with it. emmineb Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:06:15 GMT http://www.3quarksdaily.com/ emmineb Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:59:47 GMT http://www.courrierinternational.com Courrier international est un hebdo d’actualité, publié à Paris. Il donne à lire, chaque semaine, le meilleur de la presse mondiale, traduite en français. Depuis sa création en novembre '90, CI a 1 300 journaux différents, depuis le New York Times jusqu’au Quotidien des Maldives, ou 25 000 journalistes cités. Grâce à l’apport de la “plus grande rédaction du monde”, Courrier international suit l’actualité mondiale, cherche à l’anticiper, et offre à ses lecteurs, par la confrontation des points de vue, une ouverture pertinente sur la complexité du monde. emmineb Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:31:05 GMT http://www.gutenberg.org/files/780/780-h/780-h.htm#2HCH0003 The Project Gutenberg EBook of The War in the Air, by Herbert George Wells This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The War in the Air Author: Herbert George Wells Release Date: August 10, 2008 [EBook #780] Last Updated: June 2, 2010 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WAR IN THE AIR *** Produced by An Anonymous Volunteer, Janet Blenkinship, and David Widger emmineb Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:19:35 GMT http://www.vintagekartan.se/ Vintagekartan.se är en ny sajt där du kan recensera secondhandbutiker och vintageaffärer i hela Sverige. Du kan göra sajten bättre genom att recensera de ställen du själv besökt. 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"Our memory device is soft and pliable, and functions extremely well in wet environments – similar to the human brain," one of the researchers, Michael Dickey, said when announcing the breakthrough. To construct the circuits, the team used a liquid alloy of gallium and indium, set in water-based gels. "We've created a memory device with the physical properties of Jell-O," says Dickey. emmineb Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:44:24 GMT http://www.brixpicks.com/category/movies Hi! Welcome to the newly designed Brix Picks. Now I'll be updating daily rather than weekly with my favorite things that I hope you'll enjoy. The latest picks are located below, but you can browse the archives all the way back to 2005. Got a tip or suggestion? I’d love to hear it! You can reach me at brixpicks at gmail dot com emmineb Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:05:18 GMT http://ip-check.info/?lang=en START TEST! Please click here to start the full anonymity test IP check and see all results. START TEST! 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Dueweke, This handbook provides information regarding tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of anti-coalition militia (ACM) forces operating against Afghan military and coalition forces in Afghanistan. The term ACM is used in a generic sense, except in cases where it is important to denote capabilities or procedures of specific elements such as Taliban, al-Qaida, or other forces operating in Afghanistan emmineb Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:47:04 GMT http://www.flavinscorner.com/scibadly3.htm Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) worked for thirty-two years at the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and taught logic for five years at the Department of Mathematics at the Johns Hopkins University. Both positions came to an end due to budget cutbacks and Peirce spent the last twenty-five years of his life struggling to support himself. At mid-life, Peirce began to publish on ‘Pragmatism’ (Peirce 1905; Peirce 1931-1958; vol. 5), by suggesting that “...all the followers of science are animated by a cheerful hope that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain solution to each question to which they apply it (Peirce 1878; p. 299).” In support of science as constructing hypotheses, deriving consequences from these emmineb Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:37:37 GMT http://technosociology.org/ emmineb Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:06:43 GMT http://cryptome.org/ [wikipedia:] Cryptome is a website hosted in the United States since 1996 by independent scholars[1] and architects John Young and Deborah Natsios[2] that functions as a repository for information about freedom of speech, cryptography, spying, and surveillance. According to the site: Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance—open, secret and classified documents—but not limited to those.[3] Cryptome hosted documents, consisting of over 54,000 files,[4] include suppressed photographs of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, lists of people believed to be MI6 agents emmineb Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:31:49 GMT http://ftalphaville.ft.com/ emmineb Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:22:45 GMT http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/ naked capitalism emmineb Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:21:37 GMT http://www.johannorberg.net/ I am Johan Norberg, a Swedish freelance writer and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. This is my blog, where I share my latest thoughts and explain my arguments for classical liberalism, free markets and globalisation. emmineb Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:15:42 GMT http://www.wikihow.com/Be-Creative emmineb Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:10:20 GMT http://www.alltomlinser.se/Default.asp?sAction=Search&sText=focus%20dailies Sveriges Billigaste Linser På Nätet! emmineb Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:58:49 GMT http://www.speedtest.net/ http://www.speedtest.net/ emmineb Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:16:04 GMT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWUeBSoEnRk&feature=player_embedded Weapon-free atomic power. see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor#Very-high-temperature_reactor_.28VHTR.29 Fission reactors by moderator Water Pressurized (PWR) · Boiling (BWR) · Supercritical (SCWR) · Heavy (PHWR · CANDU · SGHWR) Carbon Pebble bed (PBMR) · Very high temperature (VHTR) · UHTREX · RBMK · Magnox · AGR FLiBe Molten salt (MSR) None (Fast) Breeder (FBR) · Liquid-metal-cooled (LMFR) · Integral (IFR) · Traveling Wave (TWR) · SSTAR Generation IV by coolant: (Gas (GFR) · Lead (LFR) · Sodium (SFR)) emmineb Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:23:13 GMT http://www.tenwordwiki.com/Front_Page Front Page InfoInfo TalkTalk Search: Ten Word Wiki is an Encyclopedia for the ADD generation. We describe everything in ten words exactly. Here's the Index Some random things. Here's the [WWW]Facebook group and [WWW]Twitter account Oh and if you like this sort of stuff then you can catch us doing more of the same over at [WWW]http://www.GiftedKid.co.uk TWW is a MSI production, please contact us at tenwordwiki@gmail.com emmineb Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:08:59 GMT http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_colapinto?printable=true The Pirahã, Everett wrote, have no numbers, no fixed color terms, no perfect tense, no deep memory, no tradition of art or drawing, and no words for “all,” “each,” “every,” “most,” or “few”—terms of quantification believed by some linguists to be among the common building blocks of human cognition. Everett’s most explosive claim, however, was that Pirahã displays no evidence of recursion, a linguistic operation that consists of inserting one phrase inside another of the same type, as when a speaker combines discrete thoughts (“the man is walking down the street,” “the man is wearing a top hat”) into a single sentence (“The man who is wearing a top hat is walking down the street”). Noam Chomsky, emmineb Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:05:09 GMT http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/ "For anyone with influence on energy policy, whether in government, business or a campaign group, this book should be compulsory reading." Tony Juniper Former Executive Director, Friends of the Earth "At last a book that comprehensively reveals the true facts about sustainable energy in a form that is both highly readable and entertaining." Robert Sansom EDF Energy "The Freakonomics of conservation, climate and energy." Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net "...a tour de force..." The Economist "... a cold blast of reality ... a must-read analysis..." Science magazine "...this year's must-read book..." The Guardian emmineb Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:31:01 GMT http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/buzz/dinoscience.html Disclaimer: This is a gross generalization of what science is about; science is actually much more complex than how it is described here, but this will give you a basic background if you need it. 1) Science is a human endeavor. Scientists are all human, with the typical faults and foibles that non-scientists have. Sociology, politics, psychology, and similar aspects of human nature all have a profound influence on how science is conducted. emmineb Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:05:53 GMT http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24748/?a=f The study of social networks has thrown up more than a few surprises over the years. It's easy to imagine that because the links that form between various individuals in a society are not governed by any overarching rules, they must have a random structure. So the discovery in the 1980s that social networks are very different came as something of a surprise. In a social network, most nodes are not linked to each other but can easily be reached by a small number of steps. This is the so-called small worlds network. emmineb Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:42:57 GMT