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This morning somebody spilled their drink on my MacBook Pro. I ripped out the battery and flipped it upside down, but I could see chai tea dripping out from the keys, and I knew it was gone.
I spent the day in a pretty terrible mood. Like most of you, I cultivate what is basically a symbiotic relationship with my computer. It's my outboard brain; without it, I feel useless.
The announcement of Steve Jobs' death was made in the Apple store right before I walked in - the store employees were told over their headsets. I met with a Genius, he asked how I was. I told him, "I'm sad." He said, "me too."
A few things have brought tears to my eyes today. First, the photos above from Mike Matas, Jobs testing Photo Booth filters in 2005. Second is the now-ubiquitous photo on Apple.com, Steve looking back at you.
Part of the genius of Steve Jobs was this quality of being almost aggressively human. That's why I love those dumb Photo Booth faces so much - they show him having fun with the same tools that you and I use, enjoying them in the same way that we do. Steve made tools that he loved to use, and that meant that we would love using them.
The same is true of the company he made. Steve's beliefs are in Apple's bone marrow, and Apple is a company with aggressively human values. They're a progressive, egalitarian company that believes in making technology both available to and usable by everyone. This isn't just a business strategy for Apple, it's a philosophy. Jobs went around saying things like, "We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it."
This is part of the reason why Jobs' death stings for so many people. Wade Roush wrote, "To a degree achieved by no other company on Earth, Apple bakes its values into its products, and those values come directly from Jobs. So being an Apple customer meant, in some sense, bringing Jobs into your life."
I suspect that for most of the history of the personal computer, the optimal production strategy has been hyper-specialization. Reliable profits lie in doing one thing well. Make one great program. Make one great component. Steve Jobs had the foresight to see something greater was possible; a zen union of software and hardware, of how you use a tool and what it can do; what Frank Lloyd Wright called, "form and function joined in a spiritual union."
In their obituary of Jobs, the New York Times wrote:
Coming on the scene just as computing began to move beyond the walls of research laboratories and corporations in the 1970s, Mr. Jobs saw that computing was becoming personal — that it could do more than crunch numbers and solve scientific and business problems — and that it could even be a force for social and economic change. And at a time when hobbyist computers were boxy wooden affairs with metal chassis, he designed the Apple II as a sleek, low-slung plastic package intended for the den or the kitchen. He was offering not just products but a digital lifestyle.
He put much stock in the notion of "taste," a word he used frequently. It was a sensibility that shone in products that looked like works of art and delighted users. Great products, he said, were a triumph of taste, of "trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then trying to bring those things into what you are doing."
This is the kind of human insight that changes what the rest of us see as possible in the world. When we see this kind of solution, it delights us. It seems inevitable, as though it could not have been any other way. It makes Apple's product announcements feel like Christmas morning.
More than 20 years ago, Jobs was interviewed for a documentary on the computer. He said:
I think that one of the things that separates us from the high primates is that we're tool-builders. I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. Humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing of about a third of the way down the list - it was not too proud of a showing for the crown of creation. So that didn't look so good. But then someone at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. And a human on a bicycle blew the condor away, completely off the top of the charts. And that's what a computer is to me. It's the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with. It's a bicycle for our minds.
I haven't spent today angry or anxious about losing my Mac, but I've been sad, like I lost a friend. For me, that's a testament to how right Steve was about this relationship between people and their technology, and how good his company has become at making it possible.
Steve Jobs was a giant. His thinking changed the way that we understand and interact with the world around us. Steve once said, "We're here to put a dent in the universe," and I think it's fair to say that today it stands dented. Even if you don't use Apple products, your computer was built in response to design decisions made by Apple over the last thirty years.
President Obama wrote today, "There may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented." I would only add that there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that the next such giant is already probably among us, and is probably using a device Steve invented to change everything again.
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My favorite part of the night was when they played the song "The Road" and the dance floor erupted! It was the perfect cross between The Black Keys and The Red Hot Chilli Peppers. The very first line in the song has been burned in the back of my head, " I don't got no horse. I got no gun. I got no horizon, I'm just searching for the setting sun. " Not only is the music tasty as all hell, the lyrics are catchy and will have you singing along in no time.
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Most people never give much thought to their heart and arteries until something goes wrong. This is a testament to how seamlessly the heart and arteries function as part of your cardiovascular system. Every day the heart pumps 2,000 gallons of blood through blood vessels to carry critical oxygen and nutrients to all parts of the body and remove waste products. This all takes place while you are working, sleeping, shopping, exercising - during everything that you do.
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2014 should be a time for change. Both parties have abandoned the American people, especially the unemployed, the working class, our active military, and our veterans. Obamacare, the government shutdown, inaction on unemployment, reducing veteran benefits and delaying care at the VA, and the generous welfare given to corporate "farms" instead of the family owned farm through the Farm Bill are just a few examples of the dysfunction. It is time we put party loyalty aside and join for a common cause by voting for Independent candidates for political office in 2014.
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This wristband from Jawbone tracks your daily activities and the quality of sleep that you are having. It also allows you to indicate your mood at the point of activity. This would help you to improve your lifestyle by improving your diet, sleep patterns and incorporate an active lifestyle
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For the first time, I would be moving into a new format with a short and concise written review on top of my video review for those who prefer to read an written review.
For starters, I would be reviewing the Jawbone UP activity tracker wristband. Jawbone is one of the first companies that has released a wristband type of product for activity trackers. The wristband format is a convenient way to attach the activity tracker to your body. This is because you can wear the device like a wrist watch and it would do it's job silently without you even noticing it after a while. It is not a clip-on device whereby you have to worry about it dropping off from your shirt during the middle of the day.
No doubts, Fitbit has released their version of wristband activity tracker (Fitbit Flex), but the Jawbone UP wristband is the one that you can get your hands on if you cannot wait for it. This device would monitor your sleep patterns, your food intake, your exercise regime and your mood during the different activities. From the 2-3 weeks of usage, it would start to recommend you to add activities that would make you in a better mood if you are down on your mood for the day. This device aims to allow you to live a better and healthier lifestyle with all the information gathered. Without further a do, let us dive into the details of the review.
In the review package includes the wristband itself, the USB charging cable and the user's manual. The Jawbone up Wristband has to be charge via the USB cable as the only connection is a normal male 3.5mm headset connector. Battery life is rated at 10 days by Jawbone, in my actual usage, it came out to an impressive 8-9 days
This is the main user interface that you would see after you have installed the UP application on your Apple or Android devices. The application only supports Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich, ICS) and above and iOS 5.1 and above. In other words, it would work with iPod Touch (3rd generation and above), iPhone 3GS and above, iPad and the mini version. As for the Google platform, it would work with the LG Nexus 4, Samsung Galaxy S2 and above, HTC Droid and above. Check the list of device compatible on their website
The application takes up quite a bit of space on your device (40MB). However after installation, you would understand the need for the application to be so bulky in memory usage. In the application, there is detailed information on the calories that specific food add to your daily intake. It also has tips that tell you ways to improve your mood for the day.
As you can see in the screenshot, it would indicate the number of steps that you have taken and the total amount of sleep that you have taken for the night. It would also show the meals that you have taken. With the progress show in terms of a status bar and the how close you are to your daily goal in terms of percentage. The activity feed would show the recent activities allowing you to scroll through them and see what you have done for the day. It takes a page from the Facebook newsfeed manner for this interface.
This awesome activity tracker deserves an Editor Choice Rating from ChewOnTech.com. It is the only product out there in the market that is so convenient. Using the 3.5mm headset jack of your devices to sync the data. It also tells you tips to perk up your mood and to warn you if you are not hitting your targeted goal.


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Another trend is the emergence of tools to support data governance. The risk of this situation is that the existence of tools will drive a growing dependence on IT to take over data governance roles and responsibilities instead of sharing them among the different business units. When considering data governance tools, recognize that they're designed to automate just one small part of your governance activity. Most of the effort should go into defining data governance policies and processes to support those policies, and then integrating the associated procedures within the organization's accepted ways of doing things.


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Jon Huntsman's dropping out of the race for the GOP nomination was inevitable. Despite many pundits' assumptions as the election season began that Huntsman was a viable candidate with a good chance of challenging for his party's nomination, he has generally been at or near the bottom in all Gallup election measures for the entire election season.
Huntsman has generated support from no more than 3% of Republicans in Gallup's national GOP tracking since Dec. 1. His Positive Intensity Scores among Republicans were generally the worst of any candidate measured, often in negative territory, meaning that more Republicans felt strongly unfavorably toward him than felt strongly favorably. Only 21% of Republicans in our recent early January poll said Huntsman would be an acceptable nominee, the lowest of all candidates tested.
Huntsman was clearly seen by Americans as a moderate, and, in fact, his perceived ideology was closer to the the average American's self-perceived ideology than any of the other GOP candidates. That moderate image obviously didn't help him among Republicans, however, and it's likely that his work for Barack Obama as ambassador to China did not help him.
In other words, try as he might, Huntsman was simply not able to convince Republicans nationwide that he was a person they should support for their party's nomination. And this was not just apathy; as noted, Huntsman generated the most negative responses from Republicans of any candidate we measured.
All eyes are now on the South Carolina primary scheduled for this coming Saturday. (I say "all eyes," but it is reasonable to hypothesize that the Romney campaign staff's eyes are already focused on the general election.) There are two debates scheduled this week -- on Fox News and CNN -- that would, in theory, give Palmetto State voters a chance to appraise the candidates and shift their preferences as a result.
Romney is ahead in most South Carolina polls. There was one South Carolina poll released by Reuters/Ipsos over the weekend that showed Romney with a 21-percentage-point lead over his nearest competitor, way out of line with other polling. A close look at Reuter's release of this poll finds this statement of methodology buried way down in their story: "The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online from January 10-13 with a sample of 995 South Carolina registered voters. It included 398 Republicans and 380 Democrats." No further methodological details were mentioned in the release, and if they have been made public elsewhere I'm not familiar with them. This description of an "online" poll tells us very little about how this poll was done, and without any details, it is impossible to assess the basis on which those that conducted the poll expect us to judge how representative it is. Generally speaking, online polls are less representative than polls based on statistical sampling procedures intended to give all members of the population an equal or known probability of being selected.
Rick Santorum generated some news over the weekend by virtue of his receiving the endorsement of conservative Christian leaders meeting near beautiful Brenham, Texas, the "Birthplace of Texas".
How much will it matter? Gallup analysis of 2009-2010 data in South Carolina show that 46% of Republicans/leaners in South Carolina attend church weekly. We don't ask an "evangelical" question on our daily tracking, but church attendance provides a good surrogate. South Carolina is the seventh most religious state in the union, behind Utah, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Gallup analysis of weekly GOP tracking for last week shows that 18% of highly religious Republicans (i.e., those who attend religious services weekly) support Santorum, compared to 14% of all Republicans for the Jan. 9-15 time period. Still, even among weekly church attenders, Romney beats Santorum by 17 percentage points.
These are national data, so we'll have to wait and see what impact, if any, the endorsement has on South Carolina Republicans. It may not matter. History shows the winner in the national polls after New Hampshire on the GOP side goes on to win the nomination. So, even if Romney loses South Carolina, he would remain the favorite to win the nomination.
Romney has climbed to a 23-point lead in the five full days of interviewing after New Hampshire. This is ties him for the highest support of any candidate in any Gallup poll of Republicans during this entire campaign. Romney certainly appears to be consolidating supporting nationally.
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Jon Huntsman's dropping out of the race for the GOP nomination was inevitable. Despite many pundits' assumptions as the election season began that Huntsman was a viable candidate with a good chance of challenging for his party's nomination, he has generally been at or near the bottom in all Gallup election measures for the entire election season.
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I would like to participate in the Gallup polls, but I am unable to find a link allowing me to participate.


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Have you ever met a war you didn't love?
— Bill Maher to the neoconservative Bill Kristol (a group of folks that I don't take kindly to).
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Despite the New York Times article that is going viral, the article is only telling you half the story. The Times article starts out with this misleading introductory paragraph:
"Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel plans to shrink the United States Army to its smallest force since before the World War II buildup and eliminate an entire class of Air Force attack jets in a new spending proposal that officials describe as the first Pentagon budget to aggressively push the military off the war footing adopted after the terror attacks of 2001."
The misnomer arises when defining the United States Army. In World War II, the Pentagon did not have Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) capabilities. UAV's will continue to be purchased by the military. To get a full understanding, one must go back to the "government shutdown" in 2013 (also a misnomer). With the threat of another possible sequestration, a deal had to be reached between Barack Obama and Congress. This deal was met in December of 2013. Within this deal was cuts to military spending, but not as radical as some might think.
The budget for the Pentagon is roughly over $500 billion if you include the money for Afghanistan & Iraq (which are considered separate from the Pentagon budget). This bodes well for very many defense contractors (many of which are in the top 5 of federal government contractors). Northrop Grumman build's the drone called the Global Hawk. The Air Force was set to retire this drone fleet due to operating costs, but was forced to keep them.
This provides evidence of things to come. After President Obama signed into law the new budget, the Department of Defense released the "Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap". Here is some revealing information:
Here we see that budgets don't seem to be falling for unmanned aerial vehicles. In fact, in the long term, they are growing significantly when looking at the aggregate.
Unfortunately this only talks about budget. However, drones are becoming very, very economical regardless of the kind that the Air Force was desperately trying to get rid of.
If we are to define the United States Army purely based on the amount of living human beings, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is being completely honest. If not, he may need to make way for a younger generation that is informed enough to know that drones don't just spy anymore, they kill.
Popular wisdom often praises those who get involved in politics, who vote in democratic elections, fight for a cause they believe in, and try to make the world a better place. We tend to assume that such individuals are moved by high ideals and that, when they change the world, it is usually for the better.
The clear evidence of human ignorance and irrationality in the political arena poses a challenge to the popular wisdom. Lacking awareness of basic facts of their political systems, to say nothing of the more sophisticated knowledge that would be needed to reliably resolve controversial political issues, most citizens can do no more than guess when they enter the voting booth. Far from being a civic duty, the attempt to influence public policy through such arbitrary guesses is unjust and socially irresponsible. Nor have we any good reason to think political activists or political leaders to be any more reliable in arriving at correct positions on controversial issues; those who are most politically active are often the most ideologically biased, and may therefore be even less reliable than the average person at identifying political truths. In most cases, therefore, political activists and leaders act irresponsibly and unjustly when they attempt to impose their solutions to social problems on the rest of society.
— Mike Huemer in his praised essay, "In Praise of Passivity".
Putin says that America is becoming godless and morally bankrupt because the United States is adopting measures to allow same sex marriage.
Well, hell, I am one proud person to be morally bankrupt then,
This is hilarious. One of the biggest reasons why I am a libertarian.
So the U.S. has greater inequality than Nigeria. Does that fact indicate that the U.S. has a problem? On the contrary, it shows the silliness of caring about inequality *per se*. I would rather be a poor person in the U.S. than a poor person (or even a middle class person) in Nigeria. I'd rather have a random draw from the U.S. distribution than a random draw from the Nigerian distribution. Point being, what really matters is people's *absolute* well-being (at the bottom of the distribution and elsewhere), not their *relative* well-being. Pakistan is one of the most equal places on the map, but you couldn't get me to live there without putting a gun to my head. (And by the way, I don't think the U.S. income distribution is A-okay. I think it results partly from good things like innovation and partly from bad things like implicit government subsidies to the financial sector. But the inequality isn't bad in itself; it's just weakly correlated with some bad things, as well as some good things.)
So the U.S. has greater inequality than Nigeria. Does that fact indicate that the U.S. has a problem? On the contrary, it shows the silliness of caring about inequality *per se*. I would rather be a poor person in the U.S. than a poor person (or even a middle class person) in Nigeria. I'd rather have a random draw from the U.S. distribution than a random draw from the Nigerian distribution. Point being, what really matters is people's *absolute* well-being (at the bottom of the distribution and elsewhere), not their *relative* well-being. Pakistan is one of the most equal places on the map, but you couldn't get me to live there without putting a gun to my head.
(And by the way, I don't think the U.S. income distribution is A-okay. I think it results partly from good things like innovation and partly from bad things like implicit government subsidies to the financial sector. But the inequality isn't bad in itself; it's just weakly correlated with some bad things, as well as some good things.)
Glen Whitman - economist/screenwriter that graduated from NYU.
Here is the link he is referring to. Original post was back in Sept. 13. Here is a thought experiment to help people realize that they most likely care about absolute poverty rather than income inequality.
"The philosopher Robert Nozick once claimed that the most basic question of Political Philosophy is "Why not Anarchy?" Political philosophers pose this question often with the intent of demonstrating that there is indeed a good philosophical reason why governments should exist. Indeed, we often simply take for granted that the state and its vast coercive apparatus is morally justified. Similarly, we tend to think that anarchy is both a practically untenable and morally undesirable mode of social association. But governments claim not only power but authority over their citizens. And a few moments of reflection on the idea of authority suffices to see how curious an idea it is. To have authority is to have a right to create moral obligations in others simply by issuing commands, and a corresponding right to coerce compliance when others fail to obey one's commands. It seems a puzzling phenomenon: The government claim to be able to make it the case that you're morally required to do something simply in virtue of the fact that it has told you to do it. And they claim the moral right to imprison you for failing to do what they say.
In The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey (Palgrave Macmillan 2013), Michael Huemer explores this puzzling phenomenon, and defends the conclusion that in fact there is no such thing as political authority."
This is an interview by two philosophers (one from Vanderbilt, the other from the University of Iowa) with Michael Huemer (professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder) regarding his newest book The Problem of Political Authority.
Jacob Applebaum gave a talk on the NSA surveillance. He graduated from the University of Washington. He is a security specialist. He has since moved to Germany because he does not feel safe in the United States. He has been involved with Wikileaks, he is friends with both Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. This talk also includes what he released to Spiegel yesterday morning, in which it was released that the NSA will intercept shipments of technology (say, if you bought an external hard drive on Amazon), they will then put "bugs" in them. A lot of it is technology jargon, but you can get the idea of what is going on. Really, really recommend watching this. I don't post much about civil libertarian stuff, but I felt that this was especially important.
"We redacted all the names of agents and information about those names including their phone numbers and email addresses. I should say that I actually think that laws here are wrong because they are in favor of an oppressor who is criminal. So when we redact the names of people who are engaged in criminal activity including drone murder. We are actually NOT doing the right thing. But I believe we should comply with the law so that we can continue to publish."
John F. Kennedy: Of course, having on the market a rather large source of cheap labor depresses wages outside of that group, too – the wages of the white worker who has to compete. And when an employer can substitute a colored worker at a lower wage – and there are, as you pointed out, these hundreds of thousands looking for decent work – it affects the whole wage structure of an area, doesn't it?
Clarence Mitchell ( director of the Washington Bureau of the NAACP): I certainly think that is why the Southern picture is as it is today on the wage matters, that there is a constant threat that if the white people don't accept the low wages that are being paid to them, some Negroes will come in [to] work for a lower wage. Of course, you feel it then up in Connecticut and Massachusetts, because various enterprising people decide to take their plants out of your states and take them down to the areas of cheap labor.
Jacob Javits (then a U.S. Senator from New York): I point out to Senators from industrial states like my own that a minimum wage increase would also give industry in our states some measure of protection, as we have too long suffered from the unfair competition based on substandard wages and other labor conditions in effect in certain areas of the country – primarily in the South.


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This project is a RPG game for NintendoDS (initially). Some of its parts are C++ portable, wich can be used to export [if applicable] project to other plattforms.
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Vodovod is a single-player action puzzle game. You get a limited number of pipes on each level, and need to combine them to lead the water from the house at the top of the screen to the storage tank at the bottom. It is similar to the Windows games Pipe Mania and Pipe Dream.. Freeware download of Vodovod 1.10, size 1.10 Mb.
Lexterity is a crossword making board game, where you fill a grid with letters, based on crossword making rules. Single player logical word game, suitable for all ages.The game comes in two modes to make it more interesting. The same seven mode has elements of Arcade Scramble Game (Also released by Yoogi Games). You have to use the same seven. Free download of Lexterity 1, size 1.74 Mb.
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Java version of classic game. Up to 8 players in multiplayer mode, single player mode with AI opponents. Requires Java 1.1 or higher.
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adjective (burlier, burliest)
(Of a person) large and strong; heavily built: I saw a burly figure approaching a big, burly man
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strapping, well built, sturdy, sturdily built, powerfully built, broad-shouldered, brawny, strong, muscular, muscly, well muscled, athletic, thickset, big, hefty, bulky, robust, rugged, stocky, lusty, Herculean, vigorous
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technical mesomorphic
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Honour your calling. Everyone has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you. [Oprah]
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There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. [Charles D. Gill]
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text: UCSF's Dr. Robert Lustig was recently on the Colbert Report to debunk some common nutrition dogma: A calorie is a calorie (and it doesn't matter if those calories come from carrots or cheesecake). Here are just four examples that refute this idea (from Dr. Lustig's article in the Huffington Post): Fiber. You eat 160 calories in almonds, but you absorb only 130. The fiber in the almonds delays absorption of calories into the bloodstream, delivering those calories to the bacteria in your intestine, which chew them up. Because a calorie is not a calorie. Protein. When it comes to food, you have to put energy in to get energy out. You have to put twice as much energy in to metabolize protein as you do carbohydrate; this is called the thermic effect of food. So protein wastes more energy in its processing. Plus protein reduces hunger better than carbohydrate. Because a calorie is not a calorie. Fat. All fats release nine calories per gram when burned. But omega-3 fats are heart-healthy and will save your life, while trans fats clog your arteries, leading to a heart attack. Because a calorie is not a calorie. Sugar. This is the "big kahuna" of the "big lie." Sugar is not one chemical. It's two. Glucose is the energy of life. Every cell in every organism on the planet can burn glucose for energy. Glucose is mildly sweet, but not very interesting (think molasses). Fructose is an entirely different animal. Fructose is very sweet, the molecule we seek. Both burn at four calories per gram. If fructose were just like glucose, then sugar or high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) would be just like starch. But fructose is not glucose. Because a calorie is not a calorie. #Food #Science #health #nutrition #food science #weight loss #trans fats #robert lustig #calories #ucsf 837 notes, 1 year ago


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cookiesandcreamsmoothie said: Hi! I heard from someone that the MCAT questions during the summer are generally harder than ones from other times throughout the year. Can you clarify this for me? Thank you in advance! I hope this question isn't silly...
Hi again, cookiesandcreasmoothie! :)
Ohhh yeah. This isn't a silly question, I've heard this one too! I've taken the test twice at different times in the summer (once in June and once in August), and I thought both were of equal difficulty but in different areas.
I'm not going to debunk that adage because I don't really know myself. All I know is that the MCAT is always tough. I WILL say that, because most people take the test during the summer, the distribution/curve is often tougher than a curve during a non-summer test time.
I'm going to put this question to those out there reading or taking the MCAT: what do you think about this pretty famous theory, true or not?
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Feeling really blessed tonight.
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I'm kind of excited to go back to school.
I miss my friends.
Today is one of those days where I wish I had a car and I could just leave for a few hours…. My family is driving me insane.
Emma-"Hey Mom!!!! Maggie is trying to suck my boob up with the vacuum.
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Yup, this is my break.
Why is My Eastern telling me that I only have 92 credits and that I have met all of Eastern's core requirements; both of which are incorrect. What?!?!?!?!?!! Ain't nobody got time for this.
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Deleuze and the New Humanities in Hong Kong
I will be speaking in Hong Kong in June and addressing Deleuze and digital culture. However, my argument is that instead of the usual suspect of starting with the Control Societies-text, Deleuze affords an understanding of the materialities of technological and scientific culture in many other ways too. As part of the geophysical materiality, we can talk about desire's investment as an infrastructural issue of power – not ideology, just desire but that is infrastructurally effective.
Recursions: a new book series in media & cultural theory
We are proud to announce the launch of a new book series titled Recursions: Theories of Media, Materiality and Cultural Techniques. Placed with Amsterdam University Press, a publisher known for its strong track-record in film and media studies, the series will publish fresh, exciting and important books in media theory. This includes both translations and other volumes that address the core themes outlined below. I am very excited about this project and working with my co-editors Anna Tuschling and Geoffrey Winthrop-Young. We have already some significant projects lined up for 2015 and more forthcoming that we will announce in the coming weeks and months. We are supported by a very strong international advisory board. Get in touch if you want to learn more but first read below for more information!
New Series Announcement
The new book series Recursions: Theories of Media, Materiality, and Cultural Techniques provides a platform for cutting- edge research in the field of media culture studies with a particular focus on the cultural impact of media technology and the materialities of communication. The series aims to be an internationally significant and exciting opening into emerging ideas in media theory ranging from media materialism and hardware-oriented studies to ecology, the post-human, the study of cultural techniques, and recent contributions to media archaeology.
The series revolves around key themes:
- The material underpinning of media theory
- New advances in media archaeology and media philosophy
- Studies in cultural techniques
These themes resonate with some of the most interesting debates in international media studies, where non-representational thought, the technicity of knowledge formations and new materialities expressed through biological and technological developments are changing the vocabularies of cultural theory. The series is also interested in the mediatic conditions of such theoretical ideas and developing them as media theory.
Forthcoming 2015
- Sybille Krämer – Medium, Messenger, Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy.
- Claus Pias – Computer Game Worlds.
Editorial Board
- Jussi Parikka (University of Southampton)
- Anna Tuschling (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
- Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (University of British Columbia)
Advisory Board:
- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Brown University, US)
- Geert Lovink (Hogeschool van Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- John Durham Peters (University of Iowa, US)
- Thomas Y. Levin (Princeton University, US)
- Marie-Luise Angerer (University of Arts Cologne, Germany)
- Eva Horn (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Markus Krajewski (University of Basel, Switzerland)
- Erick Felinto (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- Adalberto Müller (Federal University of Niterói, UFF, Rio de Janeiro)
- Eivind Røssaak (National Library of Norway)
- Steven Connor (Cambridge University, UK)
- Peter Krapp (UC Irvine, US)
- Antje Pfannkuchen (Dickinson College, PA, US)
- John Armitage (Winchester School of Art, UK)
- Till Heilmann (University of Siegen, Germany)
- Isabell Otto (University of Konstanz, Germany)
- Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (University of Bochum, Germany)
- Sean Cubitt (Goldsmiths College, London, UK)
- Claus Pias (Leuphana University, Germany)
- Stefan Rieger (University of Bochum, Germany)
- Andrew Murphie (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
- Axel Fliethmann (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)
- Yuji Nawata (Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan)
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Proposals for monographs or edited volumes should kindly follow the standard AUP Proposal Form (http://en.aup.nl/en/service/authors) and should also include the envisaged table of contents, an overview of the volume and abstracts of the proposed chapters or articles.
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If you are interested in publishing a book with us please contact Jeroen Sondervan, Senior Commissioning Editor for Film & Media Studies at firstname.lastname@example.com or one of the series editors.
More information about Amsterdam University Press.
Medya Jeolojisi
"Medya Jeolojisi", a Turkish translation of my "Geology of Media"-piece is now available on Birikim online. A big thanks to translators Ezgi Akdağ & Aycan Katıtaş! The short text offers an alternative account of media materiality, and it was originally published in The Atlantic. (Also a Swedish translation is expected).
The short piece is a good teaser trailer to the forthcoming book(s): The Anthrobscene (forthcoming 2014) and Geology of Media (expected Spring 2015).
Photochemical Smog as New Media
Perhaps photochemical smog is the only true new visual media of post World War II technological culture. It represents the high achievements in science and technology, combined with (synthetic) chemistry and sunlight. It modulates the light like advanced visual media should and embeds us in its augmented reality as we suck it into our lungs.
It encapsulates the mediatic cities of Los Angeles and Beijing, as encompassing surely as Hollywood's machinery. Just like the material basis of technical media of more conventional kind – such as photography and film – it is chemical based. It is media the same as any photochemical process is about how light gets absorbed on our planet's atoms and molecules.
But it's new media, particular to the modern industrial age and the chemical reactions of more recent history. It feeds of industrial pollution and modern transport. It is about the screen as well – how the sunlight is offered this massive living chemical molecular screen on which to project its energetic images. A molecular aesthetics of an ecology of a dying planet.
Cultural Techniques-special issue
Our book-length special issue on Cultural Techniques (Kulturtechniken) is out. Co-edited by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Ilinca Iurascu and myself, the special edition in Theory, Culture & Society is a significant introduction to the term that stems from German academic discussions in cultural and media studies. One could say it offers a significant variation on themes familiar from postwar German humanities' focus on media, technologies and epistemo-ontological questions of culture in a post-representational and post-textual mode.
By way of some significant translations as well as new articles the issue pitches a way to understand cultural reality through its techniques. The usual definition is from Thomas Macho:
"Cultural techniques – such as writing, reading, painting, counting,
making music – are always older than the concepts that are generated
from them. People wrote long before they conceptualized writing
or alphabets; millennia passed before pictures and statues gave
rise to the concept of the image; and until today, people sing or
make music without knowing anything about tones or musical notation
systems. Counting, too, is older than the notion of numbers. To
be sure, most cultures counted or performed certain mathematical
operations; but they did not necessarily derive from this a concept
of number." (Macho, 2003: 179)
But as the issue demonstrates, there is more in this mix. The multiplicity of positions and inplications is well articulated in Winthrop-Young's Introduction to the issue. He articulates how not only in Macho, but in different ways in Cornelia Vismann's and Bernhard Siegert's work the constitutive role of cultural techniques functions. In fact, could say that this is the German media theory version of the hominization-thesis: how we become humans; how agency is constituted by cultural techniques which allow us to occupy subject positions. Space, enclosures and passages between them is one way to understand the idea:
"Thus the difference between human beings and animals is one that
could not be thought without the mediation of a cultural technique.
In this not only tools and weapons . . . play an essential role; so, too,
does the invention of the door, whose first form was presumably the
gate [Gatter] . . . The door appears much more as a medium of coevolutionary
domestication of animals and human beings." (Siegert, 2012: 8)
Key here is the way in which cultural techniques process distinctions with material and aesthetic means. In Winthrop-Young's lucid words, "Procedural chains and connecting techniques give rise to notions and objects that are then endowed with essentialized identities.Underneath our ontological distinctions (if not even our own evolution) are constitutive, media-dependent ontic operations that need to be teased out by means of techno-material deconstruction." The implications for a range of recent years of theory-debates are intriguing; it refers to the fact how we need to address practices of theory and techniques of theory as part of the work of concepts and philosophy of contemporary culture. Besides it also shows some early ideas that resonate with a post-textual approach to cultural analysis (for instance in Sybille Krämer and Horst Bredekamp's article).
I was asked to produce a short video abstract of my own contribution. In addition, find below the table of contents.
Special Issue: Cultural Techniques
Edited by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Ilinca Iurascu and
Jussi Parikka
Cultural Techniques: Preliminary Remarks by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young
Culture, Technology, Cultural Techniques – Moving Beyond Text by Sybille Krämer and Horst Bredekamp
Second-Order Animals: Cultural Techniques of Identity and Identification by Thomas Macho
Cultural Techniques: Or the End of the Intellectual Postwar Era in German Media Theory by Bernhard Siegert
After Kittler: On the Cultural Techniques of Recent German Media Theory by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
Cultural Techniques and Sovereignty by Cornelia Vismann
The Power of Small Gestures: On the Cultural Technique of Service by Markus Krajewski
Zootechnologies: Swarming as a Cultural Technique by Sebastian Vehlken
From Media History to Zeitkritik by Wolfgang Ernst
Afterword: Cultural Techniques and Media Studies by Jussi Parikka
Review Article
Files, Lists, and the Material History of the Law by Liam Cole Young
New Publications
Amodern-journal has a massive special issue on Network Archaeology out now. I was also interviewed for the collection that followed up on the Miami University last year's conference of the same theme.
Other new publications include a piece from last year. The first version of this paper on dust (Dust and Exhaustion: The Labor of Media Materialism) was given as a keynote for the Canadian Communication Association annual conference in 2012 at Wilfrid Laurier University. Some smaller variations came out in Depletion Design as well as in Artnodes-magazine. This is however a rather long stand-alone piece which narrates through "dust" themes of non-human materialism, digital culture, work and exhaustion: it picks up on themes of exhaustion and nanoparticles, as much as the metal and mining aspects which contribute to the scale in which we can expand our ideas concerning materiality of media culture. Below the first beats of the text.
"Each particle of dust carries with it a unique vision of matter, movement, collectivity, interaction, affect, differentiation, composition and infinite darkness" — Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia
I. Dust — The Non-Thing
There is something poetic about dust. It is the stuff of fairy tales, stories of deserted places; of attics and dunes, of places from so long ago they seem to have never existed. Dusty books — the time of the archive that layers slowly on shelves and manuscripts. Marcel Duchamp's 1920s Large Glass was a compilation of dust. In a way, he allowed dust to do the work: a temporal, slow compiling by the non-human particles as a work of art installed at the museum, "a purposeful inactivity." [1] Dust can transform, even if it can itself easily escape any grip. It is amorphous, even metamorphic, in the manner Steven Connor describes. [2] There is also a lot of it. It can be done and dusted, removed from sight and forgotten — in need of no further attention. Nanoparticles are everywhere and form societies unseen and unheard of, yet they conglomerate on a scale unimaginable to human beings. We are a minority. They have their say on human things, and cover what we leave behind intentionally or by accident — obsolescent technologies, wrecks, monuments — which remind us not only of these things themselves but of the gradual sedimentation of dust. Dust marks the temporality of matter, a processual materiality of piling up, sedimenting, and — through its own million-year process — transformations of solids to ephemeral and back. It swarms and overwhelms, exhausts and clouds. "Breathe as deeply as you will, dust will never be depleted." [3]
There is something poetic and sometimes even romantic about lack of breath. Lung diseases are after all a sign of the delicate soul, and have a long cultural history. Tuberculosis features in a vast range of examples from a Puccini opera to Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924). The pale tuberculotic body feeds towards the mythical airiness of lungs, blocked by the disease. It is as if tuberculosis releases the body from matter: "TB is disintegration, febrilization, dematerialization; it is a disease of liquids — the body turning to phlegm and mucus and sputum and, finally, blood — and of air, of the need for better air." [4] But the lung-diseased body is easily exhausted, lacking in air, gasping for it. It is a tired body, and tiredness is one key trajectory we should be following as well: a laboring body.
This is a text about dust as well as exhaustion: about non-human particles as well as labor. It takes small things like dust as one vector for its argument, and as a vehicle in the manner of which we sometimes think through objects. Dust is, however, not quite an object, not in the intuitive sense that objects are supposed to be easily graspable. It does not fit the hand, even if it covers vast terrains. It is more environmental and better characterized as a milieu. Well, almost a milieu: we rarely count it among things that matter, but what if we did? What if we followed dust as a trajectory for theory — theory that is concerned with materiality and media? What if dust is one way to do "dirt research": a mode of inquiry that crosses institutions and disciplines, and forces us to think of questions of design as enveloped in a complex ecology of economy, environment, work, and skill. Dirt brings noise, as Ned Rossiter reminds us, and dirt research can be understood "as a transversal mode of knowledge production [that] necessarily encounters conflict of various kinds: geocultural, social, political and epistemological."[5]
New Materialisms – Round Four
Look at this range of topics and exciting themes: Movement, Aesthetics, Ontology at the University of Turku (my alma mater!).
We started the New Materialisms-events in Cambridge, at Anglia Ruskin and they are going strong: the events are extremely well attended and raise a lot of interest. I still remember a job interview I had in 2007 when one of the members of the interview panel asked me: " So what's the difference of this new materialism to the old materialism of Marx..?"
Over the past years, we have had a range of good responses to that question, while also reminding that in the midst of the current enthusiasm for the non-human, it was already in the first years of 1990s that Rosi Braidotti coined the term "neo-materialism" – a Spinozian version of monism of intensities, becomings and feminism.
There is sometimes a bit of an amnesiac tendency in philosophy discussions. One troubling phenomenon that Braidotti recently pointed towards was the writing out of feminist theory out of discussions concerning materiality and the non-human. Hence, let's remind that even "new" materialism itself has longer roots, and the more recent discussions are rather late-comers when reminded that the term was used by Braidotti herself in the early 1990s in her Patterns of Dissonance and systematically ever since (see more in New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies) . It is not reducible to her, but we need to compose our theoretical genealogies carefully.