- Skeptic: Bonobos, Left & Right Primate Politics Heats Up Again as Liberals & Conservatives Spindoctor Science by Frans de Waa
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.
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in Public bookmarks - Summer Readings Prof. Michael B. McElroy (last updated, December 2005)
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
in Public bookmarks - That's 2 shillings and sixpence in old money | MetaFilter
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.
in Public bookmarks - The Long Tail - Why the future of business is selling less of more
Wired editor Anderson declares the death of "common culture"—and insists that it's for the best. Why don't we all watch the same TV shows, like we used to? Because not long ago, "we had fewer alternatives to compete for our screen attention," he writes. Smash hits have existed largely because of scarcity: with a finite number of bookstore shelves and theaters and Wal-Mart CD racks, "it's only sensible to fill them with the titles that will sell best." Today, Web sites and online retailers offer seemingly infinite inventory, and the result is the "shattering of the mainstream into a zillion different cultural shards." These "countless niches" are market opportunities for those who cast a wide net and de-emphasize the
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in Public bookmarks - The Long Wave
in Public bookmarks - The once and future e-book on reading in the digital age - Ars Technica By John Siracusa |
A veteran of a former turning of the e-book wheel looks at the past, present, and future of reading books on things that are not books. I was pitched headfirst into the world of e-books in 2002 when I took a job with Palm Digital Media. The company, originally called Peanut Press, was founded in 1998 with a simple plan: publish books in electronic form. As it turns out, that simple plan leads directly into a technological, economic, and political hornet's nest. But thanks to some good initial decisions (more on those later), little Peanut Press did pretty well for itself in those first few years, eventually having a legitimate claim to its self-declared title of "the world's largest e-book store."
in Public bookmarks - The Six-Stroke Engine
extra water injection and exhaust cycles
in Public bookmarks - the Tree of Life Web Project: Movies of Jumping Spider Courtship
Jumping spiders have excellent vision, and their intraspecific communication therefore has a heavy visual component. Males dance before females, displaying contrasting or brightly colored ornaments. Presumably this courtship dance is a basis by which females choose mates. One of the most diverse and elaborately-ornamented genera of jumping spiders is the genus Habronattus, occurring primarily in North America. If you want to find our more information about the genus Habronattus, go to its branch page in the Tree of Life. Here are some Quicktime movies of courtship dances of various species. The small squares in the grid on which the spiders are standing are 1 millimeter square. Touch on the picture of the spider to see the movie. If you want to see more pic
in Public bookmarks - USATODAY.com Honda brings small-jet dynamo to market Updated 9/26/2006
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Honda (HMC), the Japanese giant that has given the USA motorcycles, cars, lawn mowers and weed whackers, puts its newest product on sale starting next month: a little $3 million business jet.
in Public bookmarks - WaPo: Rough Week, But America's Era Goes On By Niall Ferguson Sunday, September 21, 2008; B01
Does Wall Street's meltdown presage the end of the American century? Many commentators have warned that the past week's financial mayhem signaled a major political setback for the United States as well as an economic one. "Why should the rest of the world ever again take seriously the American free-market model after this debacle?" a leading British journalist asked me last Thursday. This crisis, he argued, was to economics what the Iraq war was to U.S. foreign policy: a fatal blow to the credibility of American claims to global primacy.
in Public bookmarks - WAYGATE
SCIENCE, SPECULATION, SECULARISM
in Public bookmarks - When Lions, Buffaloes and Crocodiles Attack—At the Same Time
in Public bookmarks - Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before
This website contains a large collection of maps (and associated information) that we are in the process of generating. Each map relates to a particular subject. Click on the 'Thumbnail Index' which gives thumbnail previews of the maps, 'Map Categories' which is classified to see the choice, or a new option 'A-Z Map Index', and view a map and associated information. There is also a Site Map and Help page. Coverage The maps and data files cover 200 territories, mainly United Nation Member States plus a few others to include at least 99.95% of the world's population. For a map identifying them see the labelled territory map, and for a cartogram giving them all equal prominence see Appendix A (Areas Included). Further details about their names are given in Tec
in Public bookmarks by 8 users - A Low Impact Woodland Home
You are looking at pictures of our family home in Wales. It was built by myself and my father in law with help from passers by and visiting friends. 4 months after starting we were moved in and cosy. I estimate 1000-1500 man hours and £3000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour).
in Public bookmarks by 18 users - BBC: Snow leopard fitted with GPS tag
For the first time, a team has fitted a snow leopard with a Global Positioning System (GPS) collar to track the secretive creature's movements. The 35kg (75lb) female was captured on the Purdum Mali ridge in Pakistan. Thanks to their solitary nature, the steep, rocky terrain they inhabit, and their twilight activity, snow leopards are extremely difficult to study, says Ashley Spearing, who is about to join the research team out in the Chitral Gol National Park in the Pakistan-Afghanistan borders.
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in Public bookmarks - CNET News.com: 'Second Life' faces threat to its virtual economy
Groups of Second Life content creators were gathering digitally Tuesday to protest the dissemination of a program they worry could badly damage the virtual world's nascent economy. The controversy gathered steam Monday when Linden Lab, which publishes Second Life, posted a blog alerting residents of the virtual world to the existence of a program or bot called CopyBot, which allows someone to copy any object in Second Life. That includes goods such as clothing that people purchase for their in-world avatars, and even the virtual PCs that computer giant Dell announced Tuesday it is going to sell in the digital world.
in Public bookmarks - Discussion traditional bows in contemporary warfare (photo intensive) - Archery - Primitive Bows - Bowmaking/Archery Discussion
I noticed a photoseries from Kenia, Africa. I don't know the exact details, but it is stated that in the beginning of March, members of the Kalenjin and Kisii-tribe were fighting for land. This happened in the Olmelil valley, western Kenia. Twenty deaths are reported. The reason why I am posting this, is of course because of the bows and arrows, which are clearly visible in the photos. I am amazed by the size of both arrows and bows. I just wanted to share these photos about traditional bws still being used by tribes for warfare. Discussion is welcom
in Public bookmarks - gladwell dot com - the pima paradox
The Pima are famous now--famous for being fatter than any other group in the world, with the exception only of the Nauru islanders of the West Pacific. Among those over thirty- five on the reservation, the rate of diabetes, the disease most closely associated with obesity, is fifty per cent, eight times the national average and a figure unmatched in medical history. It is not unheard of in Sacaton for adults to weigh five hundred pounds, for teen-agers to be suffering from diabetes, or for relatively young men and women to be already disabled by the disease--to be blind, to have lost a limb, to be confined to a wheelchair, or to be dependent on kidney dialysis.
in Public bookmarks - IBM Extends Moore's Law to the Third Dimension
An IBM scientist holds a thinned wafer of silicon computer circuits, which is ready for bonding to another circuit wafer, where IBM's advanced "through-silicon via" process will connect the wafers together by etching thousands of holes through each layer and filling them with metal to create 3-D integrated stacked chips. The IBM breakthrough can shorten wire lengths inside chips up to 1000 times and allow for hundreds more pathways for data to flow among different functions on a chip. This technique will extend Moore's Law beyond its expected limits, paving the way for a new breed of smaller, faster and lower power chips. Credit: IBM IBM today announced a breakthrough chip-stacking technology in a manufacturing environment that paves the way for three-dimen
PhysOrg news: IBM Extends Moore's Law to the Third Dimension
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