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by andrewl 8y ago
I read an article about the Feldenkrais Method in Smithsonian magazine decades ago. I can't find it on the magazine's site, but the Feldenkrais Institute has a PDF reprint: http://feldenkraisinstitute.com/images&
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by andrewl 8y ago
The Online Etymology Dictionary is good for word histories as well: https://www.etymonline.com/
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Homeless Women Are the Sexual Assault Survivors No One Talks About(washingtonpost.com)
12 points by andrewl 8y ago|1 comments
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by andrewl 8y ago
For more examples of what this might have looked like, see the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where the statues on the pediment are painted in the old style: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pediment,_Philly_Art...
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by andrewl 8y ago
Use the great American resource of paranoia… He got that right.
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by andrewl 8y ago
A New Yorker article on American small talk is discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12031975
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The Dickensian Conditions of Life in a For-Profit Lockup(nytimes.com)
82 points by andrewl 8y ago|48 comments
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by andrewl 8y ago
Some of the sounds coming from the tank sounded to me like a vacuum cleaner. I guess a Vulcan would be overkill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydfddlcebSo
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by andrewl 8y ago
This reminds me of the brontotherium ( thunder beast ), a giant prehistoric mammal similar to a rhinoceros, but much larger. The Sioux sometimes found fossilized brontotherium bones after heavy rainstorms. They believed them to be the bones
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Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health(theatlantic.com)
2 points by andrewl 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 8y ago
I won't take any fluoroquinolone antibiotics. I had terrifying mental effects after one dose (not one course, one pill ) of Avelox (Moxifloxacin). Fortunately I had no permanent effects. I had a similar, but less severe, reaction to
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by andrewl 8y ago
The negative effects of Ciprofloxacin and other fluoroquinolone antibiotics was touched on in this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13273770
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by andrewl 8y ago
She also calls Nikita Khrushchev Nikolai Kruschev .
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What the Mystery of the Tick-Borne Meat Allergy Could Reveal(nytimes.com)
3 points by andrewl 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 8y ago
Sabine Fruhstuck, the professor interviewed, appears to be more than marginally informed: http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/sabine-fruhstuc... Her specialty area is listed as Modern Japanese Cultural St
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America is Sacrificing the Future(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by andrewl 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 8y ago
WordStar was the first word processor I used. I've lived in Vim for years now, but I still have WordStar manuals in the software museum section at the back of my bookcase. I haven't gotten them out in approximately forever: https
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by andrewl 8y ago
I recently emailed somebody a few quotes from Freeman Dyson on the PhD system, which I include below. I can track down the sources when I'm back in my office, although anybody can find them easily enough. Dyson is not obscure. “I’m ver
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by andrewl 8y ago
I have yet to see something from Dyson that wasn't worth reading, assuming I had the background to handle it.
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by andrewl 8y ago
The book Return of the Straight Dope (copyright 1994) has this question "Why do so many public buildings want you to use the revolving doors rather than the regular doors?" After a brief discussion about protecting against loss
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by andrewl 8y ago
The topic itself is important, but I thought a few statements were subtle attacks on the scientific community. Perhaps I'm too suspicious. But here are the statements, with my italics emphasizing the key parts: "In a time when exp
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by andrewl 8y ago
Bytematic, I'd be quite interested if you could track down the details on him and his research.
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by andrewl 8y ago
As usual, much of what Niklaus Wirth writes is over my head. But I agree with him that using the equal sign for assignment is an unfortunate choice. I remember being confused by it in my first programming class ages ago. I thought foo = 10
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Don’t Fear the Robots: Why Automation Doesn’t Mean the End of Work(rooseveltinstitute.org)
35 points by andrewl 8y ago|63 comments
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China Hacked Navy Contractor and Secured Highly Sensitive Submarine Warfare Data(washingtonpost.com)
19 points by andrewl 8y ago|8 comments
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by andrewl 8y ago
I agree. I would not mourn if ticks were eradicated. Off the top of my head the only ecological role I can think of for them is as food for tick-eating birds. But I don't think there are any birds that subsist exclusively on ticks, s
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by andrewl 8y ago
This site is focused on denying anthropogenic climate change: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Up_With_That ? The man who runs it is a former television meteorologist. The Wikipedia page on him says he attended elect
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The Idea That Women Are Cyclical Cuckolders Bites the Dust(economist.com)
15 points by andrewl 8y ago|2 comments
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by andrewl 8y ago
I'd never heard the term WEIRD people, who are from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic countries. Interesting.
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The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s(history.com)
330 points by andrewl 8y ago|230 comments

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