- The spark of the cognitive revolution | Mind Hacks 2.0 Feed • by vaughanbell
- …fascinating article on Otto Selz, a little known pioneer of the cognitive revolution who was decades ahead of the rest of psychology, before being captured and killed by the Nazis.
- > history science biography
- Scientists discover switch that turns white fat brown
- Scientists have discovered a biological switch that gives energy-storing white fat the characteristics of energy-burning brown fat.
- …the change is due to the activation of a nerve and biochemical pathway that begins in the hypothalamus, an area of the brain involved in energy balance… the hypothalamic-adipocyte axis…
- > science
- The Speed Of Wildfire | Strange Snapshot of the Day | Life’s Little Mysteries
- Texas is in the grips of the worst wildfire outbreak on record. …After combustion occurs and a fire begins to burn, there are several factors that determine how the fire spreads. These three factors include fuel, weather and topography.
- > video
- Five years of Kiva lending and borrowing | FlowingData * by Nathan Yau
- Kiva, the microfinance site, lets you give small loans to people around the world to help them get their small business up and running. This animated map shows how 620,000 funded 615,000 borrowers, from the start of Kiva in 2005 up until now.
- > infographics
- New Documents Uncover Libya, CIA Relationship | News One
- The CIA worked closely with Moammar Gadhafi’s intelligence services in the rendition of terror suspects to Libya for interrogation, according to documents seen Saturday by the AP, cooperation that could spark tensions between Washington and Libya’s new rulers.
- MLK: Remembering His Advice Column for Ebony
- …was just making a name for himself when Ebony magazine asked him to pen a monthly advice column. Titled “Advice for Living,” King’s column ran between 1957 and 1958…
- A Map of San Francisco, in 13,000 Photos – The Bay Citizen
- …Old SF, a Web site that has placed around 13,000 of the library’s photos on a Google map, with a slider that lets users change the time period of the viewable images.
- > photography history
- Our Work » Upcoming Prop. 8 Hearing on Standing – Your Questions Answered | American Foundation for Equal Rights
- On September 6, the California Supreme Court addressed the issue of standing in the Prop. 8 case. It is unclear whether the proponents of Prop. 8 are able to appeal the historic District Court decision that ruled Prop. 8 unconstitutional. …
- At issue is a procedural matter that is relatively technical and obscure, but the Court’s ruling will significantly influence the next step our case takes.
- There are several potential outcomes of the oral argument…
- > marriage_equality california
- Interactive U.S. Constitution Games
- …four interactive sections (Framers, Constitution, Timeline, and Bill of Rights) in which students can listen to and read about the creation of the U.S. government. Each section has a narrated introduction before students explore further information on their own. The fifth section is an interactive, Jeopardy-style game about the content in the previous four sections.
- New Netflix Restriction: One Stream Per Customer | The Consumerist • by Ben Popken
- It’s always been an unenforced Netflix policy that you should only watch the number of concurrent streams as the number of DVDs in your package. But in the past they didn’t do anything to prevent it besides a sporadic pop-up warning. Now an error message will appear if you try to watch more than your designated number of streams and you won’t be able to watch more than you’re allowed.
- Marden, Orison Swett | Quotes of the Day
- “Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark…”
- [STAMP IT WITH YOUR MANHOOD. -L]
- Whose Line Is It Anyway? The Complete Improv Series Now Free Online | Open Culture • by Dan Colman
- The improv/comedy series Whose Line Is It Anyway? aired on British television for a good decade, from 1988 to 1998. Then it made its way to America and enjoyed an eight-season run. …
- On Having The Gaelic. | languagehat.com
- Having finished Master and Commander (see here and here), my wife and I have moved on to the second in the series, Post Captain, and have come to a passage that I want to share for obvious reasons. Stephen Maturin, Captain Aubrey’s friend and ship’s surgeon, is speaking to the lieutenant of Marines, a Scotsman named Macdonald…
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