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The effect is that the class all contribute to the free selection of a number which the teacher had predicted in advance.
To set up this trick you need to firstly choose the target number and write this down as your "prediction"! This should be done before the class have arrived for their lesson. Your prediction can be sealed in an envelope or, for more of a showy reveal, written on the back of a picture hanging in the room.
For the purposes of this explanation the target number is 36.9. Easy for you to remember as it is normal human body temperature (you knew that didn't you)?
So the trick begins with you asking a student at random to choose a number between 1 and 100 which you have written on the board like this:
If the student offers a number which is larger than the target number you replace the bottom number with the student's number, otherwise you replace the top number.
Let's imagine the student offers the number 40. Your board should now look like this:
The next number you ask for has to be between 1 and 40 (the new top and bottom numbers).
Let's imagine the next five students you pick at random offer the numbers 20, 30, 35, 37.5 and 36.5. Your board should now look like this:
Can you see how by deciding to put the students' numbers in either the top or bottom rows you are zooming in on the target number? Eventually one of the students will offer the target number. You then white it in large digits spanning both rows. You say something like "I think that's enough to ensure many of you have contributed to selecting the class' chosen number". You then reveal your prediction and all are amazed!
This trick works best on the standard iPhone calculator though other calculators may have the same way of working and could also be used.
The effect is that pupils come up with random two and three digit numbers which you multiply together. Irrespective of what numbers they come up with the product will be the same as the number you had previously predicted.
To set up the trick you need to have previously chosen the large number as your prediction. This should be done before the class have arrived for their lesson. Your prediction can be sealed in an envelope or, for more of a showy reveal, written on the back of a picture hanging in the room.
The other essential part of the setup is to type your predicted number into the calculator then press the plus button, the zero button and the multiplication button … nothing else.
When the students call out their random two and three digit numbers you type them into the calculator pressing the multiplication button between each one. This should be done in full view of the students so that can see that you are not doing anything sneaky! After five or six numbers you press the equals sign and, as if by magic, the predicted number appears on the calculator screen. You then reveal your prediction and all are amazed!
How does it work? Well it involves the principle of the Order of Operations or BIDMAS. Let's imagine the students' numbers were 19, 345, 21, 999 and 456 and your prediction was 1,601,863.
The numbers entered into the calculator were:
1601863 + 0 x 19 x 345 x 21 x 999 x 456
The students didn't see the first two numbers entered as you did this before they arrived. The calculator performs the multiplications before the addition so the product of zero is added to your prediction. Magic!
The effect is that you can add up ten numbers in your head faster than anyone in the class can do it with a calculator.
A volunteer from the class is chosen to be the calculator operator. Another student, with good handwriting, is chosen as the Scribe, to write on the board.
You, the teacher, and the calculator operator stand with your backs to the board so you can't see the numbers being written.
The scribe is told to write down a one digit number then, underneath that, to write a second one digit number.
A third number, the sum of the first and second numbers, should now be written down.
A fourth number, the sum of the second and third numbers, should also be written down.
The scribe continues to write down numbers, each one being the sum of the previous two, until there are ten numbers in the list altogether.
At this point you and the calculator operator turn to face the board in a race to find the total.
The trick is that rather than attempt to add all of the numbers together you simply multiply the seventh number by 11. It will give you the total that will take the calculator operator more time to work out. The class will be amazed at your numeracy skills!
How does it work? There are two tricks involved. The first is the quick way of multiplying by eleven and the other is related to the fact that this is a Fibonacci type sequence.
Let the first and second numbers selected be x and y respectively. The ten terms of the sequence will be x, y, x+y, x+2y, 2x+3y, 3x+5y, 5x+8y, 8x+13y, 13x+21y and 21x+34y.
The sum of this sequence is 55x + 88y which is 11 times 5x+8y.
This trick appears to be mathematical but perhaps it is not!
Can you change this square into two using only a pencil? You are not allowed to come anywhere near the screen (or whiteboard).
The Trick: Carefully use the blunt end of a pencil to push up the lower eye lid of one eye and you will see double!
Each student is asked to think of a number between 2 and 9 inclusive (or ace, jack, queen or king). Whatever number they have chosen, there are four cards in their pack with that value. Students are asked to shuffle the pack while thinking about their cards.
Students are considered to have magical powers if two of their cards come
together in the pack (well there might be one card between them but for the
purposes of this exercise we will call that coming together).
Most students should find that this works for them ... so they have magic powers ... or have they?
The Trick: In fact this is an example where the odds are weighted in favour of a success ... can you estimate the probability from the results of this activity?
"There aren't many grey elephants living in Denmark are there?"
Virtually everyone in the room will have thought of Denmark as their country and as elephant as their animal. Is this magic?
Students can now investigate the probability of this happening. Having first satisfied themselves that everyone will arrive at the letter D independently of their starting number, how many countries are there starting with D?
How many animals beginning with E? Of all the animals beginning with E how likely is a person to choose elephant? Perhaps a survey might answer this question.
Students could now be asked to make up for themselves a similar trick (but not using Elephants from Denmark). Try out the tricks on some other students and teachers.
Finally a demonstration of tree diagrams can be used to explain the probabilities of these tricks working.
Update November 2014: The 96% and 85% on the tree diagram above were made-up figures for illustrative purposes only. We have now conducted our own survey to see what those figures should be. You can see the results on the Predictive Survey Results page.]
You can amaze your students by pretending to add up a whole column of
three digit numbers in a couple of seconds.
Ask three students to write three digits each on a piece of paper as if they are to be added and return the paper to you.
You write two more numbers below those. Choose your first number (which is the fourth one in the problem) so that the first number and fourth numbers add up to 999. Choose your next number so that it adds with the second number to give 999.
Give a student the paper and ask them to add up the numbers on a
calculator. Then the student could return the paper to you. Look at it
briefly as if you are adding the numbers in your head and announce the
The answer will be 2000 plus the third number minus 2 which you could compute very quickly once the student returns the paper.
This could be followed by a class discussion about how this trick works ... students practise with friends.
The Teacher writes a number on a large piece of paper. The students can
see this going on but can't see which number it is. The paper is the put in
an envelope or a box and put in a safe place in view of the students.
The Teacher then asks a student to think of a very large number. This number is written on the board in words.
"How many letters are in these words?" ... the answer is written underneath in words...."How many letters are in these words?" ... and so on repeating the process again and again till the list of numbers has reached the bottom of the board. The envelope is then opened to reveal the number FOUR which will be the last number written on the board.
"What if we start with a different number?" ... another student
volunteers a different starting number which eventually generates four
"Does this always happen?".. students try some of their own.
"Why does it always happen?"
"What about other languages?"
Students now do an investigation looking at the properties of the number words in different languages. They can use foreign language dictionaries or the internet as appropriate. They should produce a write up of their findings for their folders.
many calculations have short cuts or tricks associated with them which enable students to perform the calculations quickly in their heads.
A list of such tricks can be found here.
Here are a couple of examples:
Quick Square
Did you know that there is a quick way of squaring a two digit number which ends in 5?
Just multiply the first digit by that number plus one.... stick a 25 after your product and there's your answer .... simple ?
Q. What is 35 squared?
A. 3x4=12
.....now stick on the 25
...........the answer is 1225
Do you know why it works?
Times Eleven
The eleven times table has always been very easy to learn up to 9 x 11. Here's a way of multiplying large numbers by 11 too:
Q. What is 324 x 11 ?
A. Write down the first digit ... 3
.......Add the first and second digits ... 3 + 2 = 5
.......Add the second and third digits .. 2 + 4 = 6
.......Write down the last digit ........... 4
The answer is 3564.
Try it yourself ... multiply 543 by 11
Do you know why it works?
Does it work for all three digit numbers?
A large house plan made from 9 pieces of carpet (each 3m by 3m) is set out in the middle of a large room as shown:
A student is dressed to look like the murderer(!) and stands on the
carpet piece marked "Hall".
A teacher (acting as Sherlock Holmes) explains that the murderer will be tracked down in the house and arrested. Sherlock is blindfolded.
A second student throws the dice and states the number on the dice out loud. The murderer walks through that many doors on the plan of the house.
Sherlock says "I know the murderer is not in the kitchen (or name of other room) , so will someone please take away the kitchen"
A third student takes away the piece of carpet labelled "kitchen". the murder from now on cannot step on the area which was once the kitchen.
The process is repeated a number of times until Sherlock can say "I know that the murderer is in the ........... (name of room), you are under arrest.
"How does the trick work?"
Well if the murderer starts in the hall, four rooms are one door away (study, bathroom, dining room and conservatory). We shall call these rooms odd rooms.
The other rooms are two doors away. We'll call these rooms even rooms.
If the number on the dice is even, Sherlock knows that the murderer must have walked into an even room so can ask for one of the odd rooms to be removed.
The process continues. Sherlock uses the principles that:
Odd + odd = even
Even + even = even
Even + odd = odd
Odd + even = odd
... to keep track of the rooms the murderer can't be in. By process of elimination the correct room can be found (In practice Sherlock must reserve the right not to remove a room in certain cases)
This could be followed by whole group discussion about how the trick was performed (using student's own theories and words.
Students in pairs try to perform the trick using the a diagram and a counter to represent the murderer.
Acting as Sherlock requires a great mental effort keeping track of the rooms.
A number of items can be memorised in order by associating each item with
a place on a familiar journey.
For example 20 geometric shapes could be visualised at various places on the journey from bed to school each morning. The shapes could be visualised at places such as the bathroom, kitchen bus stop etc.
Students challenge each other to memorise the order and names of 20 shapes such as pyramid, sphere, octagon etc.
One technique for remembering a list of items in order is by associating each item with an item from the following children's rhyme:
One is bun
Two is shoe
Three is tree
Four is door
Five is hive
Six is sticks
Seven is heaven
Eight is gate
Nine is line
Ten is pen etc.
This activity could start by collecting from the students a list of ten
popular video films. Students are then asked to conjure up in their minds a
crazy image of the item from the list above involved in the action of the
Eg if the fifth film is The Sound of Music; a student might picture Julie Andrews being chased over the Austrian Mountains by a swarm of angry bees.
Working in pairs students could practice this technique by memorising ten items from a shopping list
Many mind reading tricks involve a "plant" in the audience secretly giving information to the mind reader. The way this information is given often involves mathematical codes or systems.
Nine objects are arranged in a 3 by 3 grid formation
While the magician isn't looking, the students are asked to choose an
object an concentrate on it. The magician can quickly identify the chosen
object by feeling the thought vibrations coming from it ... well not really.
One of the students has previously been asked to act as the "plant" giving
the magician a secret sign. Students are asked to work out some secret signs
which could correctly identify one of the nine objects.
One system could be that the plant and the magician agree to define each object in terms of its row and column (like a matrix). The plant uses the position of their head to indicate the row and arms to indicate the column.
Students are encouraged to invent similar (more complex) illusions.
(alternatively this trick could be performed using nine buckets placed upside down on the floor with an item being put under one while the magician isn't looking.)
"Black Magic" is a well known old party trick
in which a person apparently mind reads to find an object previously
selected by an audience. An accomplice helps by pointing to various objects
asking "is this it?". The mind reader always says no till after the
accomplice has pointed to a black object; the next object to be pointed out
will be the chosen object.
Students could devise similar mind reading tricks using number codes of other systems.
One person thinks of a number 1 - 20. They are asked which cards contain their number. The magician can work out the number by adding up the top left numbers on each of the selected cards.
How does it work? The numbers in the top left of each card are powers of two and any number can be expressed as a combination of powers of two. this can be shown to be the basis of the binary system.
This trick could be described by a teacher without showing the students a set of cards. Students challenged to make their own set of cards and extend for numbers greater than 20 (the trick works better the more numbers there are on each card). Students should practice performing this trick on each other using their own set of cards
Here's a more detailed Interactive version
The Online Psychic
Wouldn't it be impressive if you could instantly write down a 4x4 magic
square giving any total that a friend suggests. It can be done ... there's a
trick to it!
First you have to memorise the basic 4x4 magic square which gives a total of 34. (Memorising this could lead to some interesting multisensory work!)
Let's suppose your friend chooses the number 57. Firstly subtract 33 from
this giving 24.
Now replace the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 in the basic square with 24, 25, 26 and 27 in that order.
You now have a magic square with 57 as the sum of each column, each row, each diagonal and each 2 by 2 square within the larger square.
Why does this work? Look at the positions of the numbers 1 - 4. How are they significant?
See also the Magic Square Puzzle.
The effect is that a pupil comes up with a three digit number and you challenge them to perform a calculation on that number using a calculator. You are always able to find the answer faster than thay can work it out.
The calculation involves multiplying the three digit number by 7, then the product is multiplied by 11 and then 13.
While the pupil is busy pressing buttons on the calculator you write down the three digit number twice to produce a six digit number which is the correct answer.
Example: 619
619 x 7 x 11 x 13
= 619619
It works because 7x11x13 is 1001.
Ask a friend to hold an odd number of coins in one hand and an even number of coins in the other but not to let you see. You will be able to work out in which hand the odd number of coins is hidden.
Ask the friend to multiply the number of coins in their left hand by three and the number of coins in their right hand by four then add the two totals together.
If the sum of their totals is odd then the odd number of coins is in their left hand otherwise the odd number of coins is in their right hand.
For a clue to realising why this trick works see Mix and Math.
Finally, a trick that is guaranteed to impress everyone you show it to. A trick people will beg you to show them how it works. This trick is truly mathemagical.
As this is the last trick in our collection we will let you ponder over it and discover the method for yourself. It is simple mathematics and if you try it enough times, keeping a record of your results, the secret will become clear. Good luck!
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"On your calculator, multiply together ten random single-digit numbers. You can use the same number more than once. You should now have a fairly long number. Cover the first digit and add up all the other digits. Now you either have a single-digit number or a two-digit number. If you have a single-digit number, move to the next step. If you have a two-digit number, add those digits to make a single-digit number, then move to the next step. Subtract your number from 9. Now uncover the digit you've been covering. Ta-dah!"
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A character mod based on Satori Komeiji from Touhou Project.
Satori is a mind reading youkai. Her ability made her hated by humans and other youkai who fear their secrets being exposed, but made her loved by the animals who normally can't be understood. After knowing that her little sister is lost somewhere in the island she decided to look for her to bring her back home.
Character Abilities
-Hunger: 150
-Health: 100
-Sanity: 250
-Wendy's attack modifier
-Can read the thoughts of the creatures around her.
-Can tame pets by giving them food. Every pet has their specific taming item(s).
-The animals don't fear her but she is not liked by humanoid creatures such as pigmen.
-Has a high base sanity but loses it for hurting the animals who trust her.
-Has a sanity bonus while she is in caves.
Tameable Pets
-Rabbit: Gives a sanity boost. Can be picked up.
-Beefalo: Assists Satori in combat and protects her from any danger. Drops manure from time to time.
-Koalefant: Defensive pet. Prevents freezing in winter. Drops manure from time to time.
-Tallbird: Attack pet. Can be fed monster meat but doesn't like new pets.
Mod's Features
-Custom art, portraits and icons (including minimap and morgue ones).
-Custom character strings.
-Modified behaviour on several npcs.
-Custom strings on several npcs (thoughts).
-Custom battle AI for pets. They stop attacking their target if Satori runs away.
-Hunger system for pets. You need to feed them or they'll leave her.
-Custom sanity penalties.
-Modified intro.
-Custom music.
Art: Shia
Coding: Terri
Satori's strings: Wally
-Compatible with RoG but she doesn't have any special feature from the DLC yet.
-The mod is tested without any other mod activated. If you have a mod that changes behaviours/creatures prefabs it might not work well.
To do
-Add more "thoughts" to npcs.
-Add more tameable pets.
-Add Koishi (Satori's little sister) as an unlockable character.
-Rewrite/modify the game's ending.
What's New in Version 1.3 See changelog
- New pet Tallbird.
- Added compatibility with Reign of Giants.
- Smallbirds and Teenbirds behaviours improved.
- Satori's music added as a mod option.
- Fixed crash with mandrakes.
- Pigman's priorities modified

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Soil mechanics experiment makes clean sweep
The Mechanics of Granular Materials (MGM) experiment made its second space flight aboard the recent STS-89 mission, Jan. 22-31, 1998 (the first MGM flight was STS-79 in 1996). Three of the experiments run used quasi-static loads, which gradually compressed a column of sand contained in a latex sleeve. This built on fundamental studies started with the STS-79 mission. The other three test cells used cyclic loading and unloading which more closely resembles the vibrations experienced in soil during an earthquake. (Note that this has nothing to do plate tectonics, which happen deep underground, but with soil at or near the Earth's surface.)
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Scientists working on MGM said that the experiments went virtually without a hitch. The only problem was a pressure sensor that failed during the fourth run. A work around procedure had already been developed, so no science was lost. A quick inspection of the data cards used in the MGM experiments shows that a complete set of data was recorded for each experiment.
Following the landing, the six test cells were unloaded from Endeavour. They - plus two additional cells that were not flown or used - will be put through computer tomography (CT) scans at the facilities of EG&G Corp. at Kennedy Space Center. One of the flight test cells already was scanned before the flight."
"Follow-on experiments would allow the performance of tests with loosely-packed, saturated and undrained specimens, subjected to cyclic loading," said Dr. Nicholas C. Costes, the MGM Project Scientist and co-investigator at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. "This testing mode will more closely simulate soil behavior, especially during earthquakes. The specimens would have to be saturated in space. No additional hardware is anticipated at this time, only changes in the software. The experiments flown to date have been dry, medium-dense to dense, and drainage of the interstitial fluid [i.e., air between grains] was allowed to take place."
In the picture gallery below, each image links to a 576x678-pixel, 130K JPG image of the MGM test cells. These are snapshots taken after the samples were unloaded from shuttle Endeavour after landing. The top row of cells was processed through a series of five compression-relaxation cycles to extend on fundamental data collected on the first MGM mission (STS-79). The bottom row was processed through a series of compression cycles that more closely resemble the effects of an earthquake. While the bottom row was not as compressed as the top row, valuable data will be gathered from the CT scans and optical microscope examination of the sand, and from analyses of fluid pressures as the experiment was under way. (Photos by Ron Cantrell)
Author: Dave Dooling
Curator: Bryan Walls
NASA Official: John M. Horack


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"Start with a pop of color," Keysha Jillian, owner of Jillian's Designs in Tampa, Fla. told Reader's Digest in an interview. "Paint the front door—and the shutters, if you have them. If your mailbox sits out front, paint it, too. You'll protect them from the elements and create a fresh, new look for the cost of a gallon or two of paint."
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Regex has been the most popular and easiest way of writing validations. The only big problem with regex has been the cryptic syntax. Developers who are working on projects with complicated validation always refer some kind of cheat sheet to remember the syntaxes and commands.
In this article we will try to understand what regex is and how to remember those cryptic syntaxes easily.
FYI :- This article will use c# language to demonstrate regex implementation , so in case you are using other languages , syntaxes can change accordingly.
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Regex or regular expression helps us describe complex patterns in texts. Once you have described these patterns you can use them to do searching, replacing, extracting and modifying text data.
Below is a simple sample of regex. The first step is to import the namespace for regular expressions.
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
The next thing is to create the regex object with the pattern. The below pattern specifies to search for alphabets between a-z with 10 length.
Regex obj = new Regex("[a-z]{10}");
Finally search the pattern over the data to see if there are matches. In case the pattern is matching the 'IsMatch' will return true.
The best way to remember regex syntax is by remembering three things Bracket, caret and Dollars.
There are 3 types of brackets used in regular expression
Square brackets "["and Curly "{" brackets.
Square brackets specify the character which needs to be matched while curly brackets specify how many characters. "(" for grouping.
We will understand the same as we move ahead in this article.
Caret (^) and dollar sign ($) indicate the pattern to the beginning or end of the string being searched.The two anchors may be combined. For example, ^pqr$ matches only pqr. Any characters after or before it will make the pattern invalid.
Now once you know the above three syntaxes you are ready to write any validation in the world. For instance the below validation shows how the above three entities fit together.
So now using the above 3 commands let's implement some regex validation.
We need to just tweak the first validation with adding a comma and defining the minimum and maximum length inside curly brackets.
Now butting the whole thing together.
In the previous question the regex validator will only validate first 3 characters of the invoice number if it is in small letters. If you put capital letters it will show as invalid. To ensure that the first 3 letters are case insensitive we need to use ^[a-zA-Z]{3} for character validation.
Below is how the complete regex validation looks like.
. [a-z]{1,15}
. (com|org)$
Let check for DD. First DD has a range of 1-29 ( feb) , 1-30 (small months) , 1-31 (long month) .
So for DD 1-9 or 01-09
This allow user to enter value between 1 to 9 or 01 to 09.
Now also adding DD check of 10 to 19
This allows user to enter the value between 01 to 19.
Now adding to above DD check of 20 to 29
This allows user to enter the value between 01 to 29.
Now adding to above DD check of 30 to 31
Finally user can enter value between 01 to 31.
Now for seperator it can be a / , -
[/ . -]
This allows user to seperate date by defining seperator.
Now same applying for MM
This allow user to enter month value between 01 to 12.
Then for a YY
allow user enter the year value between 1900 to 2099.
^([1-9]|0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[0-1])[- / .]([1-9]|0[1-9]|1[0-2])[- / .](1[9][0-9][0-9]|2[0][0-9][0-9])$ for "DD/MM/YYYY"
To get MM/DD/YYYY use the following regex pattern.
^([1-9]|0[1-9]|1[0-2])[- / .]([1-9]|0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[0-1])[- / .](1[9][0-9][0-9]|2[0][0-9][0-9])$
And finally to get YYYY/MM/DD use the following regex pattern.
^(1[9][0-9][0-9]|2[0][0-9][0-9])[- / .]([1-9]|0[1-9]|1[0-2])[- / .]([1-9]|0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[0-1])$
You can also use the below common shortcut commands to shorten your regex validation.
Great concise cheat sheet http://www.dijksterhuis.org/csharp-regular-expression-operator-cheat-sheet/
The time taken to evaluate a regex expression is directly proportional to the complexity and the number of characters of the regular expression. In simple words if you have many characters it would take more time for parsing.
This typical behavior of regex parsing can be exploited by hackers to hang your site forever by making a DOS attack. Below is a nice facebook .NET regex video which demonstrates how regex DOS attack looks like.
To overcome this problem in .NET 4.5 they have introduced regex timeout feature, you can read about the same from here
By putting a timeout you can overcome the regex DOS attack.
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Using lasers and nanoparticles, scientists at Rice University have discovered a new technique for singling out individual diseased cells and destroying them with tiny explosions. The scientists used lasers to make "nanobubbles" by zapping gold nanoparticles inside cells. In tests on cancer cells, they found they could tune the lasers to create either small, bright bubbles that were visible but harmless or large bubbles that burst the cells.
"Single-cell targeting is one of the most touted advantages of nanomedicine, and our approach delivers on that promise with a localized effect inside an individual cell," said Rice physicist Dmitri Lapotko, the lead researcher on the project. "The idea is to spot and treat unhealthy cells early, before a disease progresses to the point of making people extremely ill."
The research is available online in the journal Nanotechnology.
Nanobubbles are created when gold nanoparticles are struck by short laser pulses. The short-lived bubbles are very bright and can be made smaller or larger by varying the power of the laser. Because they are visible under a microscope, nanobubbles can be used to either diagnose sick cells or to track the explosions that are destroying them.
In laboratory studies published last year, Lapotko and colleagues at the Laboratory for Laser Cytotechnologies at the A.V. Lykov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute in Minsk, Belarus, applied nanobubbles to arterial plaque. They found that they could blast right through the deposits that block arteries.
"The bubbles work like a jackhammer," Lapotko said.
In the current study, Lapotko and Rice colleague Jason Hafner, associate professor of physics and astronomy and of chemistry, tested the approach on leukemia cells and cells from head and neck cancers. They attached antibodies to the nanoparticles so they would target only the cancer cells, and they found the technique was effective at locating and killing the cancer cells.
Lapotko said the nanobubble technology could be used for "theranostics," a single process that combines diagnosis and therapy. In addition, because the cell-bursting nanobubbles also show up on microscopes in real time, Lapotko said the technique can be use for post-therapeutic assessment, or what physicians often refer to as "guidance."
Hafner said, "The mechanical and optical properties of the bubbles offer unique advantages in localizing the biomedical applications to the individual cell level, or perhaps even to work within cells."
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Stained glass panel from the cloister of the Abbey of Mariawald depicting Esau giving up his Birthright. German, 1521. Museum No. C.120-1945
LONDON.- The V&A's new Medieval and Renaissance Galleries opened, housing one of the world's most remarkable collections of treasures from the period, including the Becket Casket, Gothic altarpieces and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. There will also be an outstanding collection of Renaissance sculpture by Italian masters such as Donatello and Giambologna.
Ten galleries, occupying an entire wing of the Museum, will for the first time present the collections in continuous displays to tell the story of European art and design from the fall of the Roman Empire to the end of the Renaissance period. The V&A is redisplaying more than 1800 objects from the period AD300 to 1600.
The £30 million Medieval and Renaissance Galleries are the biggest project the V&A has undertaken since the British Galleries opened in 2001. They have been generously funded by a £9.75m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) as well as private donations. Their opening marks the end of the First Phase of the V&A's Future Plan.
Architects MUMA have designed the new galleries, reconfiguring existing museum spaces and constructing a new day-lit gallery from a previously unused area, using nine metre long glass beams to connect the façades.
The V&A is creating beautiful and innovative new displays which place objects within their original social and cultural context. In a gallery of religious artworks, light will filter through translucent onyx window screens, suggesting the use of such windows in medieval churches. Dramatic sculptures by Giambologna and others will stand in a gallery exploring the Renaissance City, next to trees and water evoking a courtyard and garden.
The new galleries will make connections between the medieval and Renaissance periods with objects from both northern and southern Europe. The displays will be chronological and each gallery will have its own narrative highlighting themes, stories, historical figures and important patrons, such as the Emperor Charlemagne and the Medici family.
The V&A has the greatest collection of Italian Renaissance sculpture outside Italy, including an exceptional group of sculptures by Donatello, the most gifted and innovative sculptor of his age. An entire gallery will be devoted to the work of this 15th-century sculptor, along with work by his contemporaries and followers.
Displays will explore Renaissance ideas and beliefs, including the influence of antiquity. Luca della Robbia's 12 glazed terracotta ceiling roundels from Piero de' Medici's study of 1450-56 will be displayed to evoke the setting and space of the original study of the powerful Florentine patron.
The elegant Santa Chiara Chapel is the only example of Florentine Renaissance church architecture to be seen outside Italy. Another large-scale and imposing architectural feature will be the choir screen from the Cathedral of St John at 's-Hertogenbosch (1610–13) in the Netherlands, one of the largest objects on show.
Masterpieces of medieval craftsmanship will include the largest and most splendid of the enamel caskets dedicated to St Thomas Becket (about 1180) and the elaborate Gloucester Candlestick (1104-15). The Symmachi Panel, one of the finest surviving ivories from the Late Antique period in Rome, dated around 400, will show the influence of the later Roman Empire on medieval art. Another rare and exceptional object, the Lorsch Gospels Cover, is one of the largest and grandest ivory medieval book covers to have survived from the Court of Charlemagne in around 800. An 11th-century statuette of the Virgin and Child is the only Byzantine ivory figure to be carved entirely in the round.
Luxury goods such as the gold and enamelled Mérode Cup (1400-1420) from the lavish court of Burgundy will illustrate the theme of noble living, focussing on scenes of ostentatious display related to hunting, dining and courtship.
Many highlights will come from the V&A's internationally significant collections of textiles. The magnificent Boar and Bear Hunt is one of the so-called Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, the only great hunting tapestries to have survived from the 15th century. On display will be the Troy Tapestry which epitomises in its depiction of the Trojan wars luxury tapestry production in the Netherlands.
A major programme of conservation work is being undertaken to prepare objects for display in the new galleries, providing curators and conservators with an opportunity to study objects in more detail and often bringing to light new information about their history and function.
Mark Jones, Director of the V&A, said: 'For the first time, these new galleries present the V&A's medieval and Renaissance treasures as continuous displays telling the story of European art and design from the year 300 to 1600. We hope that the new displays, featuring some of the most beautiful and historic objects from our collections, will inspire all our visitors.'
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Did General Pittard ever once consider that? Or the fact these men and women put others first the day they signed up to serve in the Army? He may be frustrated they are still committing suicide in rising numbers and attempted suicides have gone up as well, but he needs to look at what they are DOING WRONG and stop blaming the soldiers!
The rates have gone up because they did not get what they needed to heal including enough dwell time without being sent back too soon and sent back on medication for PTSD caused by where they were already sent!
General's blog post reignites Army suicide debate
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Maj. Gen. Dana Pittard commands Fort Bliss, one the nation's largest Army bases, so his blunt comments about suicide has raised eyebrows throughout the military.
"The remarks may reflect Pittard's own frustration and emotional exhaustion after a grim few months at Fort Bliss. A total of 14 soldiers from the post were killed in traffic accidents and training mishaps between October and December of last year, along with several suicides. Pittard himself had just come from a memorial service for a soldier who killed himself in front of his twin 6-year-old daughters."
"I have now come to the conclusion that suicide is an absolutely selfish act," he wrote on his official blog recently. "I am personally fed up with soldiers who are choosing to take their own lives so that others can clean up their mess. Be an adult, act like an adult, and deal with your real-life problems like the rest of us."
The posting was subsequently scrubbed from the Fort Bliss website, but the comments are adding new fuel to a contentious debate about whether the record numbers of troops who are taking their own lives are acting out of weakness and selfishness or because of legitimate cases of depression and other psychological traumas.
Pittard is expected to formally retract his comments later this week, but suicide-prevention experts believe that Pittard's blog posting has already conveyed precisely the wrong message to emotionally-fragile troops.
"Soldiers who are thinking about suicide can't do what the general says: They can't suck it up, they can't let it go, they can't just move on," said Barbara Van Dahlen, the founder of Give an Hour, an organization that matches troops with civilian mental-health providers. "They're not acting out of selfishness; they're acting because they believe they've become a burden to their loved ones and can only relieve that burden by taking their own lives."
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Lance Armstrong stripped of seven Tour de France titles
(CNN) -- His reputation is in tatters, the cycling victories that made him a legend are wiped away, and the sponsors that gave him enormous wealth have fled faster than a downhill race to a finish line. But that's only the beginning.
Lance Armstrong is also being asked to pay back millions of dollars. And the term "Armstrong era" is now apparently a moniker for widespread cheating.
The epic downfall of cycling's star, once an idolized icon of millions around the globe, stands out in the history of professional sports.
His latest and biggest plunge came Monday when the International Cycling Union stripped the 41-year-old of his seven Tour de France titles.
"Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling," said the union's president, Pat McQuaid, announcing that Armstrong is also banned from the sport.
The decision followed this month's finding by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that there is "overwhelming" evidence Armstrong was involved as a professional cyclist in "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program." Armstrong has steadfastly maintained his innocence.
McQuaid said he was "sickened" by the report.
But he emphasized, "Cycling has a future."
In a statement, the union wrote, "Today's young riders do not deserve to be branded or tarnished by the past or to pay the price for the Armstrong era."
The group, which officially goes by its French name Union Cycliste Internationale, or UCI, is the cycling's world governing body.
Following the union's announcement, the French Cycling Federation said it was reissuing its call for Armstrong to return 2.95 million euros -- nearly $4 million -- that he collected for winning the tours.
And $4 million might be a trifle compared to what SCA Promotions wants back.
The Texas insurance company covered bonuses that Armstrong was promised if he won the Tour de France. In 2002, it paid him $1.5 million; in 2003, $3 million, according to a Texas Monthly article that SCA posted on its website.
But after his 2005 victory, SCA withheld a promised $5 million bonus, citing reports that Armstrong had doped. He fought back in court and won. SCA had to pay not only the $5 million but also attorneys' costs and fees, bringing the total that year to $7.5 million.
So the company could seek as much as $12 million back. In a statement Monday, SCA said it was "considering all legal options to pursue a return of the funds paid by SCA to Mr. Armstrong."
Meanwhile, one of the sponsors that hadn't yet given up on Armstrong dropped out Monday.
He was once "a symbol of possibility," Oakley -- which has outfitted him in sunglasses and other gear -- said in a statement, adding that it looks "forward with hope to athletes and teams of the future who will rekindle that inspiration by racing clean, fair and honest."
Heavyweights such as Nike, RadioShack and Anheuser-Busch have already fled team Lance, though, like Oakley, they've vowed to continue supporting the Lance Armstrong Foundation, which fights cancer through a program widely known as Livestrong.
Armstrong does get to keep one prized possession from his Tour de France days. The Amaury Sport Organisation, which runs the 21-day tour, told CNN it will not ask him to return the yellow jerseys he won.
Armstrong did not comment Monday. At an event Sunday, he did not refer to the controversy directly but said it's been "an interesting and at times very difficult few weeks."
"People ask me a lot how are you doing," he told participants in his foundation's annual Ride for the Roses in Austin, Texas. "And I tell them I've been better, but I've also been worse."
Though in the past he has often tweeted angry responses against those who accused him of doping, Armstrong has remained uncharacteristically quiet in recent days.
His attorneys did not immediately respond to CNN's requests for comment Monday, and the foundation said it would not make a statement.
Armstrong's story -- that of an outspoken cancer survivor who tamed the grueling three-week race more than any other cyclist before or since -- had made him a household name. But allegations of doping long dogged his career.
Then came the USADA finding.
The agency announced it would ban Armstrong from the sport for life and strip him of his results dating from 1998. The decision wiped out 14 years of his career. McQuaid said Monday the cycling union would not appeal USADA's decision.
McQuaid, speaking at a news conference, said he does not believe cycling will ever be free from doping, because "I don't think in any aspect of society there are no cheats. I do believe that doping can be hugely reduced."
The keys are education programs and how teams are structured, he said.
Monday's news conference turned somewhat contentious as reporters asked whether the cycling union had looked the other way for years despite growing allegations of widespread doping in the sport. Armstrong had made two donations to the union for anti-doping technology.
McQuaid insisted his organization never ignored the concerns raised about possible doping. And he wrote off any suggestion that Armstrong's contributions had led the organization to make any decision on the issue.
"The UCI has tested Lance Armstrong 218 times. If Lance Armstrong was able to beat the system, then the responsibility for addressing that rests not only with the UCI but also with" the anti-doping agencies that accepted the results, the cycling union said in its statement.
The International Olympic Committee also is reviewing the evidence and could revoke Armstrong's bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Games.
The cycling union will meet later this week to discuss whether to award the seven Tour de France titles -- from 1999 to 2005 -- to another rider.
The group's announcement Monday leaves Greg LeMond as the only American to win the tour. He did so in 1986, 1989 and 1990.
U.S. cyclist Floyd Landis was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France victory in 2010.
In the past, Armstrong has argued that he took more than 500 drug tests and never failed. In its 202-page report, the USADA said it had tested Armstrong less than 60 times and the International Cycling Union conducted about 215 tests.
"Thus the number of actual controls on Mr. Armstrong over the years appears to have been considerably fewer than the number claimed by Armstrong and his lawyers," the USADA said.
The agency didn't say that Armstrong ever failed one of those tests, but his former teammates testified as to how they beat tests or avoided the test administrators altogether. Several riders also said team officials seemed to know when random drug tests were coming, the report said.
Armstrong stepped down last week as chairman of his foundation but said he will continue to be involved. Some of the foundation's donors are furious over the scandal and want their money back.
"We will not be deterred," Armstrong said Friday night at the organization's 15th anniversary celebration in Austin. "We will move forward."
CNN's Ed Payne, Jason Morris, and Arthur Brice contributed to this report.


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Orange fused glass poppy with wall mounting for indoors. A mixture of transparent and semi-transparent streaky orange glass has been used.
Handmade by me without moulds. Measuring approx. 32cm wide and come with a clear glass fixing on the back which requires a screw fixing on the wall.
The contours and colours change depending on the backing and light source and the inner stamen have orange tips which also reflect light.
A labour of love - a lot of time and effort goes into these.
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Prince Xizor worked with MandalMotors to ensure that the StarViper-class attack platform would be one of the most formidable fighters in the galaxy. The StarViper Expansion Pack for X-Wing™ features one pre-painted StarViper miniature, sculpted at 1/270 scale and brought to life as a potent, well-balanced ship that can quickly destroy opposing ships even while evading enemy fire. Naturally, the expansion also allows you to field Prince Xizor in his custom StarViper, the Virago, which makes use of various system upgrades and illicit technology.


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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Carolyn Jung, What Are You Reading?
Knives at Dawn (Free Press) by Andrew Friedman.
This is like a culinary David vs. Goliath. It tells the story of what Timothy Hollingsworth, now chef de cuisine of the French Laundry, survived as he competed for the United States in the 2009 Bocuse d'Or, the Olympics of cooking. Going against other chefs, who not only had competed before but had years to practice for this grueling, stressful event, the young Hollingsworth was the decided underdog as he worked to complete his elaborate show platters with help from his even younger and even less experienced assistant, Adina Guest, a commis at the French Laundry. It's a page-turner, filled with suspense, hilarity (see how the gregarious Daniel Boulud always manages to take control of a bad situation), and how-could-you moments, such as when Hollingsworth decides to use a brand-new knife on the first day of the competition. You come away with even more respect for chefs like these who work so hard to be at the top of their game day in and day out.
Medium Raw (Ecco) by Anthony Bourdain.
I've been a fan of Bourdain's since his Kitchen Confidential days, and was lucky enough to interview him over lunch a few years ago as passersby yelled, "Love your show!" and a shy server came up to him to ask him for his autograph. This book can be a little too all-over-the-place at times, as if he were writing in a stream of consciousness between takes of his popular No Reservations show. But what we've come to love in Bourdain – the snarky, cursing, no-holds-barred curmudgeon of the kitchen – is still evident in full force. Who else could so aptly describe Chef David Chang as sounding like a "Tourette's-afflicted Marine?" Or so wonderfully capture how a seemingly thankless job as the fish cutter at Le Bernardin can become elevated to one of utmost respect and sheer awe in the hands of the dedicated, hard-working Justo Thomas, who has not only been doing that job for six years, but doing it like no one else ever has. I love reading Bourdain for his laugh-out-loud sarcastic zingers, but also for the unexpected peeks into the recesses of the restaurant world that nobody else focuses on.
Hungry (Berkeley Books) by Sheila and Lisa Himmel.
Normally, a book chronicling the travails of anorexia and bulimia would probably not make my list of top summer reads. But this book is different, because it is the gripping, true story of a restaurant critic whose daughter developed anorexia during her college years. Imagine the irony of getting to eat at some of the best restaurants as part of your job, only to come home to a daughter who was wasting away before your eyes because she refused to eat. Full disclosure: I worked with Sheila Himmel at the Food section of the San Jose Mercury News, when she first wrote a front-page story about her daughter's plight, which later led to the development of this book. "Hungry'' is a brave look at a frightening eating disorder, and a reminder that food is not merely all glamorous and hip as it's so often portrayed in society these days, but a topic that can spur great anxiety, fear, and pain for many.
Thank you for participating, Carolyn. Check back to see who answers the question next time and what other books are recommended.
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Thanks for letting me share these favorite books with your audience, Lisa. I hope they find them as inspiring and enlightening as I did.ReplyDelete
Great to see Carolyn's selection!ReplyDelete
Love all of Anthony Bourdain books, I am taking turn to read his latest one with my husband. I just love him so much. Are you going to interview him as well? That will be super cool!ReplyDelete
Elra: I'd love to interview Bourdain! Unfortunately, I haven't figured out a way of contacting him.ReplyDelete
Carolyn is brilliant isn't she! Great to see what she is reading too. I just finished Medium Raw last month and loved it.ReplyDelete
i had no idea that carolyn had achieved so much. no wonder i adore her so. :)ReplyDelete
I adore carolyn's blog and I had NO IDEA she was so accomplished. God I'm so honored that she reads my blog now...crazy stuff.ReplyDelete
Lisa - I have to repeat myself, you are brilliant to have come up with this series.ReplyDelete
Carolyn - What a great selection of reads. Having following some of the travails of the competition through the papers here. Knives at Dawn is on my must read list. Can't wait to check it out.
I have not heard of hungry before, but it indeed sounds interesting.
And the booklist grows . . . Thanks, Carolyn, for letting us peek at your bookshelf. Knives at Dawn demonstrates that cooking isn't for the weak and Bourdain is always a great read. As for Hungry, it sounds like a very compelling story.ReplyDelete


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Gourmet Food at Virginia B&Bs2018-01-31 15:26:29
We all know that "bed and breakfast" is synonymous with good food, but did you know that the morning meal is not the only dining option at some of our member inns? Not only can you feast offsite at nearby restaurants, but a few of our B&Bs actually double as both a place of lodging and a gourmet eatery:
With a name like The Ashby Inn & Restaurant, you know that this Paris, VA B&B is as much about their food as they are about their lodging. Indulge in such menu items as octopus Carpaccio, miso-glazed black cod, and pistachio & agave baklava. Whether you're looking for breakfast, lunch, dinner, brunch, or a specific dietary restriction, The Ashby Inn and Restaurant is at your service.[caption id="attachment_7598" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Ashby Inn and Restaurant[/caption] The Inn at Willow Grove's Executive Chef Jason Daniels brings farm-to-table food to their Vintage Restaurant in Orange, VA. Feast on Gourmet Tapas Wednesdays or "Three on Thursday" Chef's Tastings with everything from Hunter-style chicken and red wine linguine to seared duck breast and pepper-crusted butternut squash. Stay tuned for their winter menu, which will be released on December 4. [caption id="attachment_7715" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The Inn at Willow Grove[/caption] The Hope and Glory Inn in Irvington, VA features the incredible cuisine of Chef Anne Kirkmyer, and their Dining Hall has been named the #1 restaurant in the city. If you plan to visit the Glory and Glory's restaurant, be sure to make a reservation well in advance, as they stay full and busy! [caption id="attachment_7697" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The Hope and Glory Inn[/caption] At The Boxwood Inn in Newport News, VA, "Dinnertainment" is a popular meal among guests. Each menu is specific to the dinner theme, which options like "Murder Mystery Evening," "Showstoppers," "Scottish Evening," and "Those Fabulous Fifties." Along with the deliciously themed food, the entertainment is fantastic as well. For more information about reservations at the inn's Dinnertainment, call 757-888-8854. [caption id="attachment_7631" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The Boxwood Inn[/caption] By Tara Stoll


text: The ocean covers more than two thirds of our planet. Even so, we know more about the surface of the moon than about the depths of the seas. This, in spite of the fact that mankind's future lies in the world's seas. They will determine the climate of tomorrow across the entire globe – and are already suffering from the advance of global warming. New raw materials and energy sources can be found on the seafloor – how can we exploit them? Many marine organisms may harbour the secrets to cures for diseases – if they are still around tomorrow.


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19-Jul-2004 -- During our trip we resolved not to disclose any details of how we got to this Confluence. Instead, we wish to extend a challenge to other Confluence hunters to revisit this particular point. We furthermore undertake to present the next successful visitor with a crate of good Namibian Tafel Lager.
We left Epupa Falls at 11:00 and reached the small village Etanga at about 16:00. The Confluence is a mere 15 km as the crow flies away from Etanga. Once again it was a race against the setting sun. Reaching the Confluence in time can be attributed to a massive amount of luck! The clue: There is a small track leading to an abandoned village that is a mere 1.9 km from the Confluence.
The drive to the Confluence was one of the most beautiful drives done on this trip. Many Springbuck were seen, together with Steenbuck, Duiker and Damara Dik-Dik. The road to the Confluence contained many obstacles. Steep rocky mountain passes and deep dry river donga's threatened to prevent us from obtaining our goal, but these were all successfully conquered in good time, whilst listening to old tracks such as 'Who wants to live forever?' by Queen, and 'Forever young' by Alphaville.
We reached 18S 13E as the sun was setting in the West, following an exhausting run over rocky ground and through dense Mopane bush, to cover the remaining 1.2 km we could not reach by vehicle.
The GPS-assisted backtrack turned out to be an amazing night drive. A brief lapse in concentration resulted in a near disastrous drive into a dry river, containing lots of thick sand, most probably inhabited by many scorpions and snakes. This resulted in us getting stuck for the first time on this adventurous trip. However, quick thinking and speedy action saw us leave the riverbed without a problem.
Another very special moment followed when suddenly, in the lights of the Isuzu, the unmistakable shape of an Aardvark appeared. We were stunned at the sight of this rarely observed, nocturnal mammal. These amazing incidents are going to keep us continuously looking for new Confluences. The sighting of the Aardvark was worth enough reason to only reach the campsite at Opuwo after 21:00...


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There's been a lot of talk that Audi has replaced BMW for the car of choice for America's douchebags. This BMW M3 provides evidence to the contrary.
Our tipster tells us "Of course the lot was full with no other spots." Of course.
This parking job isn't as brazen as the BMW that parallel parked over two handicapped spaces or the BMW driver who expected a twelve-wheeled dump truck to back up for her, but it's pretty bad.
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London: Printed and sold by G. Nicholson, Poughnill, near Ludlow. Sold also, in London, by H. D. Symonds, Paternoster row; Champante & Whitrow, Aldgate; R. Bickerstaff; T. Conder, Bucklersbury; Lackington, Allen, & Co., Finsbury-Square; and all other, ca. 1795. Only edition. Wraps. Approx. 4 by 6 inches. 27, (i)pp. Binding..... More


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Friday, September 30, 2011
1983 - Jim Shooter's entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe
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I know he is a controversial figure with all of his editorial decisions, but I still miss the continuity through most Marvel books during the Eighties, which I believed was, in good part, thanks to him. I also love how he portrays Doctor Doom, one of my favorite villains.ReplyDelete
I may be wrong, but, based on how he comes across in his blog, I think Jim Shooter was more sinned against than sinning. He wasn't perfect, doubtless he made mistakes, but who hasn't? He always seems quite affable and approachable to me.ReplyDelete
- EstebanOctober 1, 2011 at 5:54 AM
Shooter had to deal with some big egos in regards to the creative talent at the House of Ideas. I give his tenure as EIC the highest marks in the history of the company, regardless of what his temperament or editorial style may have been.ReplyDelete
Well Shooter left Marvel almost a quarter of century ago. I think that controversy aside, he managed Marvel to produce some of its greatest material of al time. Some of his higlight include: 1) Fran Miller s Run on Daredevil: The one that defined the character forever, and was the influence for Bendis and Brubaker. 2) John Byrne s Fantastic Four: Great stories, imagination, he gave the title a freshness and Inovation it lost since issue 100 or so, 3) Thor By Simonson: one of the most acclaimed runs on this character. This are classics, and Shooter was an important part of them , along with other titles, so in my opinion he did a great job.ReplyDelete


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Rare Risk and Overreactions
Everyone had a reaction to the horrific events of the Virginia Tech shootings. Some of those reactions were rational. Others were not.
A high school student was suspended for customizing a first-person shooter game with a map of his school. A contractor was fired from his government job for talking about a gun, and then visited by the police when he created a comic about the incident. A dean at Yale banned realistic stage weapons from the university theaters—a policy that was reversed within a day. And some teachers terrorized a sixth-grade class by staging a fake gunman attack, without telling them that it was a drill.
These things all happened, even though shootings like this are incredibly rare; even though—for all the press—less than one percent (.pdf) of homicides and suicides of children ages 5 to 19 occur in schools. In fact, these overreactions occurred, not despite these facts, but because of them.
The Virginia Tech massacre is precisely the sort of event we humans tend to overreact to. Our brains aren't very good at probability and risk analysis, especially when it comes to rare occurrences. We tend to exaggerate spectacular, strange and rare events, and downplay ordinary, familiar and common ones. There's a lot of research in the psychological community about how the brain responds to risk—some of it I have already written about—but the gist is this: Our brains are much better at processing the simple risks we've had to deal with throughout most of our species' existence, and much poorer at evaluating the complex risks society forces us to face today.
Novelty plus dread equals overreaction.
We can see the effects of this all the time. We fear being murdered, kidnapped, raped and assaulted by strangers, when it's far more likely that the perpetrator of such offenses is a relative or a friend. We worry about airplane crashes and rampaging shooters instead of automobile crashes and domestic violence—both far more common.
In the United States, dogs, snakes, bees and pigs each kill more people per year (.pdf) than sharks. In fact, dogs kill more humans than any animal except for other humans. Sharks are more dangerous than dogs, yes, but we're far more likely to encounter dogs than sharks.
Our greatest recent overreaction to a rare event was our response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11. I remember then-Attorney General John Ashcroft giving a speech in Minnesota—where I live—in 2003, and claiming that the fact there were no new terrorist attacks since 9/11 was proof that his policies were working. I thought: "There were no terrorist attacks in the two years preceding 9/11, and you didn't have any policies. What does that prove?"
What it proves is that terrorist attacks are very rare, and maybe our reaction wasn't worth the enormous expense, loss of liberty, attacks on our Constitution and damage to our credibility on the world stage. Still, overreacting was the natural thing for us to do. Yes, it's security theater, but it makes us feel safer.
People tend to base risk analysis more on personal story than on data, despite the old joke that "the plural of anecdote is not data." If a friend gets mugged in a foreign country, that story is more likely to affect how safe you feel traveling to that country than abstract crime statistics.
We give storytellers we have a relationship with more credibility than strangers, and stories that are close to us more weight than stories from foreign lands. In other words, proximity of relationship affects our risk assessment. And who is everyone's major storyteller these days? Television. (Nassim Nicholas Taleb's great book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, discusses this.)
Consider the reaction to another event from last month: professional baseball player Josh Hancock got drunk and died in a car crash. As a result, several baseball teams are banning alcohol in their clubhouses after games. Aside from this being a ridiculous reaction to an incredibly rare event (2,430 baseball games per season, 35 people per clubhouse, two clubhouses per game. And how often has this happened?), it makes no sense as a solution. Hancock didn't get drunk in the clubhouse; he got drunk at a bar. But Major League Baseball needs to be seen as doing something, even if that something doesn't make sense—even if that something actually increases risk by forcing players to drink at bars instead of at the clubhouse, where there's more control over the practice.
I tell people that if it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." It's when something isn't in the news, when it's so common that it's no longer news—car crashes, domestic violence—that you should start worrying.
But that's not the way we think. Psychologist Scott Plous said it well in The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making: "In very general terms: (1) The more available an event is, the more frequent or probable it will seem; (2) the more vivid a piece of information is, the more easily recalled and convincing it will be; and (3) the more salient something is, the more likely it will be to appear causal."
So, when faced with a very available and highly vivid event like 9/11 or the Virginia Tech shootings, we overreact. And when faced with all the salient related events, we assume causality. We pass the Patriot Act. We think if we give guns out to students, or maybe make it harder for students to get guns, we'll have solved the problem. We don't let our children go to playgrounds unsupervised. We stay out of the ocean because we read about a shark attack somewhere.
It's our brains again. We need to "do something," even if that something doesn't make sense; even if it is ineffective. And we need to do something directly related to the details of the actual event. So instead of implementing effective, but more general, security measures to reduce the risk of terrorism, we ban box cutters on airplanes. And we look back on the Virginia Tech massacre with 20-20 hindsight and recriminate ourselves about the things we should have done.
Lastly, our brains need to find someone or something to blame. (Jon Stewart has an excellent bit on the Virginia Tech scapegoat search, and media coverage in general.) But sometimes there is no scapegoat to be found; sometimes we did everything right, but just got unlucky. We simply can't prevent a lone nutcase from shooting people at random; there's no security measure that would work.
As circular as it sounds, rare events are rare primarily because they don't occur very often, and not because of any preventive security measures. And implementing security measures to make these rare events even rarer is like the joke about the guy who stomps around his house to keep the elephants away.
"Elephants? There are no elephants in this neighborhood," says a neighbor.
"See how well it works!"
If you want to do something that makes security sense, figure out what's common among a bunch of rare events, and concentrate your countermeasures there. Focus on the general risk of terrorism, and not the specific threat of airplane bombings using liquid explosives. Focus on the general risk of troubled young adults, and not the specific threat of a lone gunman wandering around a college campus. Ignore the movie-plot threats, and concentrate on the real risks.
This essay originally appeared on Wired.com, my 42nd essay on that site.
EDITED TO ADD (6/5): Archiloque has translated this essay into French.
EDITED TO ADD (6/14): The British academic risk researcher Prof. John Adams wrote an insightful essay on this topic called "What Kills You Matters—Not Numbers."


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Honu cruises by into the blue
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With a flick of its tail it was gone, not sharp enough but i still like it!
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Porupine fish eyeying you up
Kauai Slipper Lobster
The devil is in the detail, hard to see but what amazing patterns!
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