http://www.netvouz.com/emmineb?feed=rss&page=tagcloud&pg=24 emmineb's bookmarks on Netvouz http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/07-08-08.html#feature However, it is interesting that so many people wish to deny the undeniable relationship between humans and chimps, and at the same time cannot seem to help finding political meanings in primate behavior that supports either a liberal or conservative agenda. On so simple a question — how much sex and violence do chimpanzees and bonobos exhibit — rides so much political angst about human nature and culture. Fortunately the facts can help sort through the fiction, and Frans de Waal is just the scientist to be our guide. emmineb Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:30:15 GMT http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/2007/06/27/sokushinbutsu-the-self-mummified-monks-of-japan/ For three years the priests would eat a special diet consisting only of nuts and seeds, while taking part in a regimen of rigorous physical activity that stripped them of their body fat. They then ate only bark and roots for another three years and began drinking a poisonous tea made from the sap of the Urushi tree, normally used to lacquer bowls. emmineb Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:10:28 GMT http://docs.google.com/TeamPresent?docid=ddp4zq7n_0cdjsr4fn&skipauth=true&pli=1 emmineb Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:38:45 GMT http://legacy.ncsu.edu/classes/ec348001/SummerReading2005.htm The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade, by Pietra Rivoli ||The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life by Paul Seabright ||Freakonomics by Steven Levitt ||Stephen Dubner: The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki ||Paul Blustein: The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF + And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of America. ||William Easterly's The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics ||Russell Roberts's The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism + The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance emmineb Sat, 07 Oct 2006 07:36:58 GMT http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/2006/09/comic-strip-artists-kit-redux.html Comic Strip Artist's Kit (Redux) learn how to sketch draw emmineb Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:58:05 GMT http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/search/label/Hitchcock Character Introductions emmineb Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:38:26 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.metafilter.com/mefi/52622 Ever wondered what old amounts of money would be worth today? Or what you could buy with your current salary if you went back 200, 400, or 600 years? Now you can find out with a tool that converts English currency from 1270 onwards into today's prices. Based on Treasury records, it tells you that Mr Darcy's £10,000 a year would now be worth nearly £350,000, or that your house would only have to be worth the equivalent of £500 now to qualify for the vote after 1832. emmineb Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:58:31 GMT http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html emmineb Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:33:17 GMT http://agonist.org/ian_welsh/20061009/the_art_of_measurement I want to talk a bit about management measurement. I’ve spent a number of years now in a good sized multinational, and I’ve watched management trying to gain control through measurement. And mostly I’ve watched as they’ve gained the wrong sort of control; as they’ve crystallized behaviour in ways that lose more from employees than they gain. emmineb Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:07:06 GMT