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As a result, the entire imaging room now looks like something...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:23:41 -0700

As a result, the entire imaging room now looks like something straight out of the imagination of Walt Disney himself, and the sedation rate has plummeted from 80 percent down to ten. Dietz apparently always gets choked up when he tells the story of his creative journey and its results, including the fact that he once saw a little girl finish her scan, go up to her mother and ask, “Mommy, can we come back (again) tomorrow?” That’s the thing about overcoming scary stuff — it strengthens us and makes us more fearless over time. Bandura called the result “self efficacy,” or as Kelley describes it, “These people who had lifelong fears… ended up having less anxiety about other things in their lives; they tried harder, they persevered longer and were more resilient in the face of failure.” (via Touch a snake & slap a pirate | onesmartpoptart)

Guslick told me that the entire thing took “several...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:05:53 -0700

Guslick told me that the entire thing took “several hours,” from the first shot at 6 p.m. to the last sometime after 9. Meaning that the reloading process took, at a minimum, several minutes. Part of the delay stems from removing the spent casing from the barrel. According to Guslick, the pair had to use a hex wrench to hammer out the used shell casings.

Two other things make the Liberator a bad weapon. The first is that the simple design leaves a lot of room for the gas created when the bullet is fired to escape. With less air pushing it down the barrel, the velocity of the bullet coming out of the barrel is, by Guslick’s estimate, about a “quarter of the energy” of a normal gun. There is also no way to aim the weapon effectively, in part because of the tedious process of disassembling the device required for to reload it. “A plastic derringer would probably be an excellent description of it,” Guslick said. “The whole design is basically intended to be, as far as we can tell, a proof of concept and not to be a gun.” (via No Assembly Transpired: What We Learned from Failing to 3D-Print a Gun - Philip Bump - The Atlantic Wire)

It is the painting known as Saturn Devouring One of His Sons, by...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:37:43 -0700

It is the painting known as Saturn Devouring One of His Sons, by Francisco Goya, an image that has been imprinted on my psyche since I first viewed it in college, in 1969. Critics have called his Saturn a symbol of evil, a Satan, a monster, and that is how I first saw him—like a huge, mad Richard Nixon, devouring the young men of America through the Vietnam War: a cannibal father, jealous of our freedoms, determined to destroy us, our ideals, our hopes. (via “The Mystery of Goya’s Saturn” by Jay Scott Morgan)

With the series – 82 prints inspired by the Peninsular War –...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:25:39 -0700

With the series – 82 prints inspired by the Peninsular War – Goya broke an ages-old, iconographical tradition. Dating back to Assyrian reliefs and Trajan’s column, war art had always previously been commissioned by the winner, in celebration of his triumph. To the victor, the spoils – and the commemorative art. Disasters Of War, however, was commissioned by no one. It was Goya’s private project, which he never even published in his lifetime. Unflinchingly he depicts mutilation, torture, rape and many other atrocities besides – performed, indiscriminately, by French and Spanish alike. This art wasn’t partisan, it was a grim observation of man’s potential inhumanity to man; of the true barbarities of war. (via How Disasters Of War made Goya a ‘modern’ artist | Art | Agenda | Phaidon)

A key difference between those books and this one however is...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:11:22 -0700

A key difference between those books and this one however is that the encyclopaedia was produced with the blessing of the soviet authorities, who valued the insight it provided into the criminal subculture within the camps. Drawings from the Gulag however was a secret work which Baldaev worked on in the days when the full horror of Stalin’s system had not yet been admitted to. It was a private defiance of forgetting from a man who had himself seen the cruelties of the system from both sides — for long before he became a prison guard his father had fallen victim to Stalin’s purges. Baldaev subsequently spent part of his childhood in an orphanage for ‘enemies of the people.’ (via Review: Drawings from the Gulag by Danzig Baldaev « The Dabbler)

“I am not dumb.” Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:37:00 -0700

“I am not dumb.”

Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan (by transformingArt)

There are only a few cuts; it’s mostly long master takes, which...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:17:08 -0700

There are only a few cuts; it’s mostly long master takes, which makes it easy to see how changes in the scene itself, rather than edits, re-direct viewers’ attention. It’s hypnotizing and slightly surreal to watch a scene along with the eyeballs of eleven other people. (via What 11 Pairs of Eyeballs Watching a Movie Looks Like | Mental Floss)

"No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:06:19 -0700

“No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don’t like work – no man does – but I like what is in the work, - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”

- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

improvesubway: 38. Car density It’s a real pain when you’re...

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:44:28 -0700

improvesubway:

38. Car density

It’s a real pain when you’re standing on the platform, and the car you always get on is full. So then you have to run to the next car, not knowing if it’s going to be full or not. And sometimes, you miss the train, causing even more tension & anger.

Live tracking, based on the weight of the cars, could determine this info. When you get to the platform, you can check the screen, and figure out where to stand. This results in better distribution of riders.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 12:39:47 -0700

A poll from Fidelity Investments earlier this week found 70% of...

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:24:32 -0700

A poll from Fidelity Investments earlier this week found 70% of graduates had at least some debt, and the average was $35,200. That figure is higher in part because it includes debt owed to family and credit-card balances. (via Number of the Week: Class of 2013, Most Indebted Ever - Real Time Economics - WSJ)

SCIENCE FINDS - INDUSTRY APPLIES - MAN CONFORMS (via Paleofuture...

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:21:04 -0700

SCIENCE FINDS - INDUSTRY APPLIES - MAN CONFORMS (via Paleofuture - Paleofuture Blog - Technology and Man’s Future (1972))

It was the sign that said the “Value of the Week” is...

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:49:11 -0700

It was the sign that said the “Value of the Week” is “Integrity” that caught my eye. (via Guantanamo: The Tour | Freedom of the Press Foundation)

Introduction to Bloomberg Video 1.avi (by Anthony Ng)

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:34:05 -0700

Introduction to Bloomberg Video 1.avi (by Anthony Ng)

Bloomberg is now charging $24,000 a year for a single terminal...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:23:42 -0700

Bloomberg is now charging $24,000 a year for a single terminal subscription.

The closely held company doesn’t publicize its prices, which are the most expensive among financial data providers. But we’ve got our hands on what Bloomberg has charged going back to 2001, when the company had about 160,000 terminal subscribers and still trailed its greatest rival, Thomson Reuters. It’s now the market leader, with 315,000 subscribers. (via This is how much a Bloomberg terminal costs - Quartz)

People with more education, who on average have higher incomes,...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:18:13 -0700

People with more education, who on average have higher incomes, are often able to take paid time off; but less-economically advantaged parents are more likely to have to take that time unpaid. During the post-birth period, then, the economic gap widens.

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Many less-advantaged parents can’t afford to take time off unpaid, so they keep working. But even this widens the gap because their salary is lower than the salary the richer person continues to receive during their paid time off of work. So the rich get paid more for staying home than the poor get for going to work. (via Parental Leave and Class Privilege)

the width of the average adult finger is about 11 millimeters...

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:41:51 -0700

the width of the average adult finger is about 11 millimeters (mm) wide, while a baby’s is 8 mm, and some basketball players have fingers wider than 19 mm (via Touch interaction design (Windows Store apps) (Windows))

(via Touch interaction design (Windows Store apps) (Windows))

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:38:58 -0700

(via Touch interaction design (Windows Store apps) (Windows))

(via Twitter / JLLLOW: This hurts to look at. RIP, …)

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:15:17 -0700

(via Twitter / JLLLOW: This hurts to look at. RIP, …)

"1. DIVs and SPANs are not buttons 2. If it navigates, it is a link. Use link markup with a valid..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:24:36 -0700

“1. DIVs and SPANs are not buttons
2. If it navigates, it is a link. Use link markup with a valid hypertext reference
3. If it triggers an action, it is a button. Use a BUTTON element
4. If you don’t like how a button looks, style it with CSS.”

- Links are not buttons. Neither are DIVs and SPANs | Karl Groves