"The Tyburn Angling Society has gained publicity in recent years for its proposal to restore the River Tyburn - which originates in Hampstead, before flowing through Regent's Park then into the Thames at Pimlico - as a prime fishing stream. The plans are ambitious to say the least. To come to full fruition, they would require destruction of billions of pounds worth of property including Buckingham Palace." BBC
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Heh
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Interesting
"Some sociological research has suggested that people simply get more liberal as they age, relative to their younger selves. This is measured, in this case, as an increase in “tolerance” — especially of “nontraditional” behaviors, family roles and the like."
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Wow, so beautiful. One of the few occasions I'm jealous of people living in the (to my South African sensibilities) practically polar regions up North. :)
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"According to the E.P.A.’s estimates, virtually all the greenhouse benefits — more than 90 percent — come from just a few materials: paper, cardboard and metals like the aluminum in soda cans. That’s because recycling one ton of metal or paper saves about three tons of carbon dioxide, a much bigger payoff than the other materials analyzed by the E.P.A. Recycling one ton of plastic saves only slightly more than one ton of carbon dioxide. A ton of food saves a little less than a ton. For glass, you have to recycle three tons in order to get about one ton of greenhouse benefits. Worst of all is yard waste: it takes 20 tons of it to save a single ton of carbon dioxide." NY Times
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OMG. "The only good Tory is a supposiTory" Dying.
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“Look, I get it, everyone has their kinks, but do you really have to work it all out in front of the entire community? If you get your rocks off by acting like a servant and crawling around with a tennis ball in your mouth, then fine. But there are kids out here, man. Jesus.” Onion
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Very well-deserved, from what I know
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Wowzers
“I always say to business people that if you invest in the ANC, you are wise. If you don’t invest in the ANC, your business is in danger. The TG [ANC treasurer general] is a nice and a handsome young man. When he knocks, open the doors. If he says we need something he will ask one thing only. If he says support the ANC, just write a blank cheque with the instruction that it should be six digits", said Zuma.
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"More than two-thirds of [ISIS] income is from extortion." Vox
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Here's one way of looking at things
"The entire Western world has been moving inexorably in a liberal direction for a couple of centuries. It's a tide that can't be turned back with half measures. Conservative parties in the rest of the world have mostly made their peace with this, and settle for simply slowing things down. American conservatives actually want to reverse the tide."
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Any comments on the accuracy of this?
"Unless you’ve used WeChat in China, it is hard to convey quite how antiquated and clunky it makes WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter feel (it performs the functions of all three, seamlessly)."
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Driverless cars are yesterday's news... on to driverless buses!
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"women have never had a history or culture of leisure. (Unless you were a nun, one researcher later told me.) That from the dawn of humanity, high status men, removed from the drudge work of life, have enjoyed long, uninterrupted hours of leisure. And in that time, they created art, philosophy, literature, they made scientific discoveries and sank into what psychologists call the peak human experience of flow.
Women aren't expected to flow... [W]omen around the globe felt that they didn't deserve leisure time. It felt too selfish. Instead, they felt they had to earn time to themselves by getting to the end of a very long To Do list. Which, let's face it, never ends." Daily Life
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Is hatred of hipsters an aspect of false consciousness?
"For even if creative and enjoyable lives are only accessible to the privileged, that’s not a damning fact about them so much as it is an indictment of a society that has so much wealth and yet only allows a select few to take advantage of it, while others are forced to waste their lives chained to their useless jobs and bloated mortgages."
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Giving parents extra money reduces family conflict and has significant benefits for childhood development (not massively surprising but, you know, all grist to the "give people free money" mill)
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:( :( :(
[tw: graphic images]
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The Los Angeles School District needs to grow the hell up. So what if a porno was shot at a school? There's no accusation that the film-makers damaged property, exposed students to graphic content, whatever. It's purely "Ooooh, porn is icky!"
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Why isn't this coming to market, I wonder?
"Forming on lava flows 600–1000 years old, the unnamed Dictyophora species was deemed a very intense aphrodisiac when smelled by women – despite, or maybe because, of its “fetid” smell. The pair put the claim to the test by asking volunteers ... to take a deep whiff, and recording their arousal levels. The results recorded in the Journal show a significant increase in arousal, with nearly half of the women experiencing spontaneous orgasms."
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"Federal Reserve economists Andrew Chang and Phillip Li set about researching how many of the results published in top economics journals could be replicated — repeating the study and finding the same results... Without the help of the authors, only a third of the results could be independently replicated by the researchers. Even with their help, only about half, or 49%, could." Business Insider
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On the symbolic economy of cycling:
"one way or another, cycling entailed personal negotiations with notions of femininity, whether accepting them, challenging them or accommodating them."
"[cycling] can offer a certain bourgeois distinction to those whose identities are not threatened by the possibility of poverty."
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Heh
>>><<<
Interesting
"Some sociological research has suggested that people simply get more liberal as they age, relative to their younger selves. This is measured, in this case, as an increase in “tolerance” — especially of “nontraditional” behaviors, family roles and the like."
>>><<<
Wow, so beautiful. One of the few occasions I'm jealous of people living in the (to my South African sensibilities) practically polar regions up North. :)
>>><<<
"According to the E.P.A.’s estimates, virtually all the greenhouse benefits — more than 90 percent — come from just a few materials: paper, cardboard and metals like the aluminum in soda cans. That’s because recycling one ton of metal or paper saves about three tons of carbon dioxide, a much bigger payoff than the other materials analyzed by the E.P.A. Recycling one ton of plastic saves only slightly more than one ton of carbon dioxide. A ton of food saves a little less than a ton. For glass, you have to recycle three tons in order to get about one ton of greenhouse benefits. Worst of all is yard waste: it takes 20 tons of it to save a single ton of carbon dioxide." NY Times
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OMG. "The only good Tory is a supposiTory" Dying.
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“Look, I get it, everyone has their kinks, but do you really have to work it all out in front of the entire community? If you get your rocks off by acting like a servant and crawling around with a tennis ball in your mouth, then fine. But there are kids out here, man. Jesus.” Onion
>>><<<
Very well-deserved, from what I know
>>><<<
Wowzers
“I always say to business people that if you invest in the ANC, you are wise. If you don’t invest in the ANC, your business is in danger. The TG [ANC treasurer general] is a nice and a handsome young man. When he knocks, open the doors. If he says we need something he will ask one thing only. If he says support the ANC, just write a blank cheque with the instruction that it should be six digits", said Zuma.
>>><<<
"More than two-thirds of [ISIS] income is from extortion." Vox
>>><<<
Here's one way of looking at things
"The entire Western world has been moving inexorably in a liberal direction for a couple of centuries. It's a tide that can't be turned back with half measures. Conservative parties in the rest of the world have mostly made their peace with this, and settle for simply slowing things down. American conservatives actually want to reverse the tide."
>>><<<
Any comments on the accuracy of this?
"Unless you’ve used WeChat in China, it is hard to convey quite how antiquated and clunky it makes WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter feel (it performs the functions of all three, seamlessly)."
>>><<<
Driverless cars are yesterday's news... on to driverless buses!
>>><<<
"women have never had a history or culture of leisure. (Unless you were a nun, one researcher later told me.) That from the dawn of humanity, high status men, removed from the drudge work of life, have enjoyed long, uninterrupted hours of leisure. And in that time, they created art, philosophy, literature, they made scientific discoveries and sank into what psychologists call the peak human experience of flow.
Women aren't expected to flow... [W]omen around the globe felt that they didn't deserve leisure time. It felt too selfish. Instead, they felt they had to earn time to themselves by getting to the end of a very long To Do list. Which, let's face it, never ends." Daily Life
>>><<<
Is hatred of hipsters an aspect of false consciousness?
"For even if creative and enjoyable lives are only accessible to the privileged, that’s not a damning fact about them so much as it is an indictment of a society that has so much wealth and yet only allows a select few to take advantage of it, while others are forced to waste their lives chained to their useless jobs and bloated mortgages."
>>><<<
Giving parents extra money reduces family conflict and has significant benefits for childhood development (not massively surprising but, you know, all grist to the "give people free money" mill)
>>><<<
:( :( :(
[tw: graphic images]
>>><<<
The Los Angeles School District needs to grow the hell up. So what if a porno was shot at a school? There's no accusation that the film-makers damaged property, exposed students to graphic content, whatever. It's purely "Ooooh, porn is icky!"
>>><<<
Why isn't this coming to market, I wonder?
"Forming on lava flows 600–1000 years old, the unnamed Dictyophora species was deemed a very intense aphrodisiac when smelled by women – despite, or maybe because, of its “fetid” smell. The pair put the claim to the test by asking volunteers ... to take a deep whiff, and recording their arousal levels. The results recorded in the Journal show a significant increase in arousal, with nearly half of the women experiencing spontaneous orgasms."
>>><<<
"Federal Reserve economists Andrew Chang and Phillip Li set about researching how many of the results published in top economics journals could be replicated — repeating the study and finding the same results... Without the help of the authors, only a third of the results could be independently replicated by the researchers. Even with their help, only about half, or 49%, could." Business Insider
>>><<<
On the symbolic economy of cycling:
"one way or another, cycling entailed personal negotiations with notions of femininity, whether accepting them, challenging them or accommodating them."
"[cycling] can offer a certain bourgeois distinction to those whose identities are not threatened by the possibility of poverty."
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