Category: Opinion
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Tears Are Different
Scientifically, tears are divided into three different types, based on their origin. Both tears of grief and joy are psychic tears, triggered by extreme emotions, whether positive or negative. Basal tears are released continuously in tiny quantities (on average, 0.75 to 1.1 grams over a 24-hour period) to keep the cornea lubricated. Reflex tears are secreted in response…
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Stoicism is Against Positive Thinking
By keeping the very worst that can happen in our heads constantly, the Stoics tell us, we immunise ourselves from the dangers of too much so-called ‘positive thinking’, a product of the mind that believes a realistic accounting of the world can lead only to despair. Only by envisioning the bad can we truly appreciate…
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Hypereducated Poor
Much political rhetoric these days is devoted to the importance of broadening access to college—and there is plenty of evidence that it’s still better financially to have a degree than not—but in the postcrash world of 2014, a good education may not keep you from hovering near the poverty line. The number of people with…
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Language of the Future
That’s what indigenous languages tend to be like in one way or another. Languages “grow” in complexity the way that people pick up habits and cars pick up rust. One minute the way you mark a verb in the future tense is to use will: I will buy it. The next minute, an idiom kicks…
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We Run But Still Can’t Catch Up
The key is that a society undergoing acceleration gets caught in a feedback loop it cannot escape, whereby acceleration in production, circulation, and distribution (in Rosa’s terms, “technical acceleration”) drives social change. The institutions of society no longer guarantee stable life paths. If in classical modernity people could imagine their lives in intergenerational terms — say, the…
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Rent a Tiny Country or Village for a Night
For a cool $70,000 a night (for a minimum of two nights), you can hire the tiny country of Liechtenstein, which measures around 61.7 square miles and has just 35,000 inhabitants. According to the profile on Airbnb, Liechtenstein can accommodate between 450 and 900 people, has 500+ bedrooms and 500+ bathrooms. The cancellation policy is…
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Myth of Overpopulation
Today the reality is that the world is experiencing falling birth rates and rising life expectancy. Rapidly rising populations are a threat in the poorest countries, while low fertility is a threat to developed nations . The world population is getting much older: by 2050 the number of people over the age of 65 will…
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When Photos Become History
http://9gag.com/gag/aEGWw3O
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An Abstract Architect's Return to Build the Simple Houses
The 7 minutes documentary is about Lloyd Kahn an architect and writer of many books on different forms of buildings. Even though he is 80 years old but his energy, in all aspects of life, is still intact. His new and final endeavor is back to basics of building the simple houses. In this short…
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10 Reasons to be Happy For Our Planet
Global life expectancy has increased from 53 to 69 years since 1960 More women are involved in running the world 79% of people in the developing world now access to a mobile phone, vital for communication in the absence of landlines Though it mightseem hard to believe, the long term trend is of fewer people dying in armed…
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Around the World With no Backpack
The story chronicles the 21-day, ultra-minimal trip to Europe taken by Austin-based freelance writer Clara Bensen (ClaraBensen.com) and her date Jeff, whom she had recently met on OkCupid. Despite being in a relationship for less time than most of us go without getting a haircut, the two embarked — at Jeff’s suggestion — on a…
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NFL Players Say No to Domestic Violence
Nearly two dozen men of the NFL use their voices voices, their commitment, and, perhaps most significantly, a new and deeply stirring expression of their formidable power to say NO MORE to domestic violence and sexual assault.
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We Waste Half of the World Food
Food waste or food loss is food that is discarded or cannot be used. The causes of food waste or loss are numerous, and occur at the stages of production, processing, retailing and consumption. As of 2013, half of all food is wasted worldwide, according to the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME).Loss and wastage…
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An Entrepreneur Society
The modern world is in love with entrepreneurship. Starting your own business holds the same sort of prestigious position as, in previous ages, making a pilgrimage to Jerusalem or spearing multiple enemies in battle. However, what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur remains maddeningly elusive. Governments and public bodies do their best to encourage…
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Google’s Camel View of Desert
It’s given us robot cars and internet-enabled glasses — but when it came to creating a “Street View” of a desert, Google hit on a low-tech solution. It hired a camel. The beast has become the first animal to carry Google’s Trekker camera, which is typically hoisted by humans to capture 360-degree images of destinations…
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Face of the New Feminist
Emma Watson is the new woman of our society. She is powerful, articulate, independent, successful and above all as she clearly elaborated is not aggressive, isolated, anti-men and unattractive: “I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is…
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Nasa: It Was the Hottest August in 130 Years
The analysis comes from the Nasa space agency’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), but with a sign of caution from Nasa, who have stressed that individual months are not as important as yearly trends in highlighting changes in the climate. “The key issue for climate are the long-term trends, not individual months”, said Nasa-GISS…
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Sidewalk lane for Phone Addicts
Chongqing city, one of the five major cities in China has a designated lane for people who prefer to talk on the phone or play or even watch their favorite video clips while walking. The drivers of the town welcome the idea because the distraction that cell phone addicts were creating was real and dangerous.…
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When Potholes Are Funny
Every city in the world has potholes. Nobody likes them and they are annoying. They create accidents and simply give ugly face to every street. The two photographers Claudia Ficca and Davide Luciano tried to make fun of potholes through irony:
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Our Dying Planet
A biologist at Duke University, Stuart Pimm, recently published a research article in the journal Science, which claims — that in the past — before humans evolved, only one species went extinct each year per every 10 million years. However, after the emergence of humans, that extinction rate has exploded at a rate between…
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Iran among Top 10 Countries for Cosmetic Surgery
More than 23 million cosmetic and non-surgical procedures were performed in 2013, according to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Iran is among Top 10 countries for cosmetic surgery. The United States topped the international chart, with almost 4 million people going under the knife or needle, followed by Brazil with more than 2…
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Tree of 40 Fruit
Award-winning contemporary artist and Syracuse University art professor Sam Van Aken grew up on a family farm in Reading, Pennsylvania, but he spent his college years and much of his early career focused on art rather than agriculture. While Van Aken says that his work has always been “inspired by nature and our relationship to…
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Eid al-Fitr All Around the World
Eid al-Fitr and the end of Ramadan 2014 http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/07/eid-al-fitr-and-the-end-of-ramadan-2014/100781/
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Ultimate Dog Tease
ُDogs were with our ancestors and help them to survive all the way to here. They know us and trust us and vice versa. Here in this video it is clear that the root of relationship is deep. We can feel and anticipate hat they like and what bothers them.
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The Blind Barber of New York
Jeff Laub has been exposed everywhere. From vanity fair magazine to GQ to Ask men, from photo report to videos that made by different sites for his famous “Blind Barber” shop. He likes his job and has a style and really engages with his cool costumers, a successful combination for trendy Brooklyn shop. Here he…
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The Forgotten History Of Human Zoos
Recently while surfing internet I saw a report on London’s Human Zoo That took a place almost 9 years age. Caged and barely clothed, eight men and women monkeyed around for the crowds in an exhibit labeled “Humans” at the London Zoo. In the meantime through searching human zoo, accidentally I have been introduced to…
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How to Make Fun of Football
Even though all the world likes football but still hundreds of millions of people see football as a show of all the fake falls, crying in pain, complaining and and even biting:
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Feeling Good beeing Old
The oldest Americans feel the most comfortable with their physical appearance, according to a Gallup poll. Some 66% of those aged at least 65 said they are satisfied with the way they looked, while only 61% of people aged between 18 and 34 said they feel good about their physical appearance. Middle aged people are…
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Tax on Childlessness in Soviet era
It seems the ideological governments no matter left or right have tendency to decide what is best for their people be it with the force. Tax on childlessness in Russia originally passed and enforced from 1941-1990, the tax affected most childless men from 25 to 50 years of age, and most childless married women from…
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Suicide Epidemic in the Middle Age
There’s an even bigger reason to fear the burden of suicide in the new millennium: it’s a charge being led by people in middle age. In America in the last decade, the suicide rate has declined among teens and people in their early 20s, and it’s also down or stable for the elderly. Almost the…
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A Tokyo Travel Agency Takes Your Stuffed Animals on Vacation
In Tokyo, a travel agency takes stuffed toys on package tours and even provides the holiday photo shot for them too. There are many different tours inside and outside japan including mystery tour that will never know where you’ll be going till the last minute. It will be a day tour. The expense ranging from 35…
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How I learnt to survive like an 11th-century farmer
The transition from hunter-gatherer to farmer has always fascinated me. The ability to plant, cultivate and harvest crops stands alongside the emergence of self-awareness, control of fire, the wheel, and the development of mathematics and written language as one of humanity’s transformational events. We became something different once we began to farm. I have found…
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Life of Japan's Modern Sumo Wrestler
Paolo Patrizi’s take on the life of Sumo in Japan http://www.paolopatrizi.com
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The Best World Cup Goals ● 1970-2010
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The Female Writers of Love Stories
I guess we all, at some point in our lives, have come across an erotic fiction. Books with sizzling sex scenes and sexy gorgeous characters, making our blood, run faster through our veins. At times so realistic, we might have felt as if we were the actual characters being obsessed with the sexual acts. We…
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Scenes of World War II, Then and Now
Here are some picture taken 70 years ago on the D-Day Allied invasion of Europe in World War II and photos of the same spot spot after 70 years. Scenes From D-Day, Then and Now http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/06/scenes-from-d-day-then-and-now/100752 (Galerie Bilderwelt, 1944/Peter Macdiarmid, 2014/Getty Images)
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Being Amoung lions
“If I had the opportunity to come back to life after dying, I would do it all the same”, says Kevin Richardson, an animal behaviorist and wildlife conservation advocate, from the deep heart of Africa.” He’s been called the lion whisperer, and Kevin Richardson, uses love, understanding and trust, instead of chains and sticks, to…
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Restaurant That Booked for the Next 10 Years
It is magnificent to see one’s dreams being realized even by others. All through my adult life, I’ve had the dream of owning a home-based restaurant serving healthy food, made from scratch with all organic, natural and unprocessed ingredients, to those with an appreciation for delicate gourmet taste. So imagine my delight, when I heard…
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Italians Watching Their Team Get Eliminated
Here are some pictures of a neighborhood in Venice watching their national Football team getting eliminated by Uruguay in World Cup 2014: …. …
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Wedding in Venice
I got lucky on my first day of staying in Venice when I witnessed part of an Italian Wedding Ceremony. The groom and the bride suddenly started to run in St Marco’s square and when they got to the middle they stated to dance. dancing. They were accompanied by a handful of wedding guests with…
