"I think I have already demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that the Quechua people are a lost Nostratic tribe. Note that the semantic matches are impeccable and the similarity of the words is quite obvious to any open-minded observer. Indeed, the matches are much better than many of those in the LWED. The quality of examples 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9, in particular, is guaranteed by the fact that they represent statistically certified ultraconserved Eurasiatic vocabulary (Pagel et al. 2013). The famous items ‘mother’, ‘bark’, and ‘worm’ are among them. In many Eurasiatic languages the words for ‘bark’ and ‘skin’ are the same or look related (6, 7). This seems to be true of Quechua as well, but just in order to probe every possibility, I can offer an alternative etymology of qara ‘skin’ (8, from a different Eurasiatic root), in which case its homophony with qara ‘bark’ must be accidental. A nice match either way."
- Maitani
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A simplified 3D imaging system that does not require a conventional camera has been developed by researchers in the UK. The computational imaging technique uses information from single-pixel detectors to create an image, can be used over a range of wavelengths and is cheaper than other 3D methods. The researchers claim that, in addition to taking images, their system could be used as a detector in oil and gas exploration as well as in medical and biological imaging systems.
- Halil
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new technique involves using nothing more than a light projector, four single-pixel detectors and a computational imaging technique known as "ghost imaging." Computational ghost imaging creates images using "intelligent illumination". The object to be imaged is lit with a specific, known light pattern (such as a speckle pattern) and the reflected light is detected by a single-pixel...
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- Halil
"A coyote puppy suffered what would have been a deadly encounter with a cholla cactus on Tuesday. Thankfully, three good Samaritans came to its rescue and their story is now going viral."
- Kristin
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"The pup then crawled onto the nearby Pebblebrook Golf Course, with Maxwell trailing behind and calling for help. A golf course maintenance worker, Jose Soto, and assistant superintendent Shawn Bordine came to the puppy's aid, the news site reports. According to CBS Atlanta, the pair used pliers to remove the cholla cactus spines, which AZ Central reports were embedded at least a...
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- Kristin
"The puppy's mother hovered close by the whole while but miraculously didn't interfere while the men were treating him. "She knew what was going on,” Maxwell told a local ABC affiliate, "They were trying to save her baby." The coyote was soon reunited with his mother and four siblings thanks to Soto and Bordine, who ABC reports also rescued a young hawk last year when it fell from its nest."
- Kristin
"As the guitarist strums and softly sings a lullaby in Spanish, tiny Augustin Morales stops squirming in his hospital crib and closes his eyes. This is therapy in a newborn intensive care unit, and research suggests that music may help those born way too soon adapt to life outside the womb. Some tiny preemies are too small and fragile to be held and comforted by human touch, and many are often fussy and show other signs of stress. Other common complications include immature lungs, eye disease, problems with sucking, and sleeping and alertness difficulties. Recent studies and anecdotal reports suggest the vibrations and soothing rhythms of music, especially performed live in the hospital, might benefit preemies and other sick babies. Many insurers won't pay for music therapy because of doubts that it results in any lasting medical improvement. Some doctors say the music works best at relieving babies' stress and helping parents bond with infants too sick to go home. But amid beeping...
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- Anne Bouey
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"Some families request rock music or other high-tempo songs, but Klinger always slows the beat to make it easier on tender ears. "A lot of times families become afraid of interacting with their children because they are so sick and so frail, and music provides them something that they can still do," Klinger said, who works full time as a music therapist but her services are provided for...
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- Anne Bouey
"Loewy led a study published last month in the journal Pediatrics, involving 11 U.S. hospitals. Therapists in the study played special small drums to mimic womb sounds and timed the rhythm to match the infants' heartbeats. The music appeared to slow the infants' heartbeats, calm their breathing, and improve sucking and sleeping, Loewy said. Soozie Cotter-Schaufele, a music therapist at...
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- Anne Bouey
So, what we need is a huge playlist of appropriate songs and a whole lot of musicians willing to volunteer some of their time and talents to play in newborn intensive care units, till the insurance companies get a clue.
- April Russo
"Here's a pic of Jimi Hendrix playing what appears to be an Acoustic Black Widow. On closer inspection you can see this guitar is a semi-hollowbody and was likely made by Bartell of California, who were the first manufacturers of Black Widows for Acoustic. Unfortunately, it's impossible to tell if the guitar is branded Acoustic or Bartell. Reportedly, Jimi also had a similar fretless guitar which was stolen. A 2nd fretless unit was being built for him when he died and this instrument may be the one that was owned by Frank Zappa. These would've also been Bartells since the 1st production change didn't occur until 1971 or 1972."
- Joe Silence
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Klamath River Overlook. The first time I went there it was so foggy you couldn't see anything, but the weather was much better this time. It's a short drive off of 101 between Eureka and Crescent City, just north of the bridge over Klamath River.
I love that area -- haven't been for a long time. I stayed at the hostel near there twice, and had such a great time hiking in Redwood National Forest.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
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If you turn left just before the river, you'll end up on the road you can see in the photo. That's a good one too. For this view though you'll want to turn left a little bit after the river, on Requa Road.
- Amit Patel
I love this area; I try to visit at least once a year. I usually stay in McKinleyville.
- Amit Patel
I haven't been there since the '80s but I loved that part of CA. We were bike riding from Brookings, OR to LA and it was a helluva way to see it.
- Spidra Webster
One of my favorite places in the world. If Arcata isn't too far off your route, you have to go for a soak in the hot tubs here: http://cafemokkaarcata.com/
- Meg V. Meg
I love hot tub recommendations!!! *furiously notes down*
- Spidra Webster
"The so-called Howell torpedo was discovered by bottlenose dolphins being trained by the Navy to find undersea objects, including mines, that not even billion-dollar technology can detect."
- SteVe C
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Only 50 were made between 1870 and 1889 by a Rhode Island company before a rival copied and surpassed the Howell's capability. Until recently only one Howell torpedo was known to exist, on display at the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, Wash. Now a second has been discovered, not far from the Hotel del Coronado. Meant to be launched from above the water or submerged torpedo tubes, the...
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- SteVe C
Followed only by "Wife might comment on it" and "Waif might laugh at it"
- Pete #TeamMonique
Me mudder is a luddite, Uli. But someone might "tell" her about it. Your scenarios are a given part of my daily life, Pete. They mock me constantly. Though I do make it easy.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
And yet you get to share your life with them. Seems a fair swap :)
- Pete #TeamMonique
I'm sure my mom is happy to tell Barry's mom what's up with little Moto.
- Steele Lawman
TELL HER I'M EATING ALL MY VEGETABLES, MAMA LAWSON!
- MoTO #TeamMonique
I always figure if it would mortify my grandmother, I probably shouldn't do it. That doesn't always stop me, but it's a little something to think about.
- Katy S
"At Ford and elsewhere, a common response to the brutal intensification of work was absenteeism and high quit rates: in 1913, Ford's daily absentee rate was 10 percent, while annual turnover exceeded 350 percent. To reduce turnover, which was costly to the company, Ford doubled the daily wages of his most valued employees, to five dollars a day. This strategy was successful in stabilizing the labor force and reducing operating costs"
- MoTO #TeamMonique
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I just spent an hour looking for my smartphone, which I had used shortly before that time to authenticate my google login. I never left the main level of my home, didn't leave it in the kitchen, the bedroom, the living room (which I had only passed thru anyway.) Nowhere to be found. Finally called it via Google Voice...
I could hear it ringing, but it was always "behind" me, no matter which direction I turned. I felt my pockets one last time... not in the front pockets of my cargo shorts, not in the back pockets... what the...? Then I reached way way down the back of my leg, practically to my knee back. There it was! Haven't worn these cargo shorts since last summer, and didn't realize/remember that the pockets go THAT far down. Doh!
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
The real kicker is that had I not just used my phone to authenticate my Google login, I wouldn't have been able to use Google voice to call myself!
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
"Witnessing whales as they break water surfaces (aka breaching) is an enthralling experience in the wild. From a chin slap to a full-body aerial, this lunging behavior displays the impressive power and imposing size of these marine behemoths. Seasickness, extreme patience, luck, timing, balance — all factors in seizing moments to shoot exciting whale shots like the ones featured here. See more photos in the Whale Breaches gallery. Photos from Justin Hart, Lacewing!, EricOPhotos, evanffitzer, and Tom Clifton"
- John (bird whisperer)
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"Today we’re bringing you a roundup of some of the great Science Fiction, Fantasy and Dystopian classics available on the web. And what better way to get started than with Aldous Huxley reading a dramatized recording of his 1932 novel, Brave New World. The reading aired on the CBS Radio Workshop in 1956. You can listen to Part 1 here and Part 2 here."
- Brent Schaus
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"So I went to Bret Victor’s session, arriving about fifteen minutes after he’d begun. There was an animated fish on the screen, and a worm on a hook, and sometimes bubbles, and sometimes a little wheel (that I later learned was a timing element). Bret was demoing the most recent iteration of his Dynamic Pictures research. The idea, as I understand it (and my understanding of it is just beginning, so this is all memory, exploration, interpolation, and probably full of mistakes and gross oversimplifications), is that math is not only about language, as in an abstract set of symbols, either mathematical symbols or programming code. Instead, math is also about geometry, visual representation that can move and be acted upon directly through a UI that nevertheless asks the user to think abstractly about what’s happening “concretely” in the visual representation one is manipulating."
- Amit Patel
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"The session was mesmerizing and so … different … that I had a very strange sensation as I tried to take it in. I felt at the very edge of my zone of promixal development. That is, I could understand what Bret was saying as he was saying it, but that cognitive bubble was very small, so small that I found myself with no extra resources for deep metacognition. At the same time, I also...
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- Amit Patel
Much wisdom in this thread... SO WHAT IN THE HECK AM I DOING HERE?!!
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
It is the hidden wisdom that is now revealed by you. jkram, you're a very wise man :)
- mina_sydney
Dear, شیرسنگی دربدر ... With close-minded people no matter how many facts or ideas you put in front of them their minds will never change. They’re not open to changing old habits and to accept new ideas for positive change. “(Reminder - an educated person might not have a college degree or even have attended school!) Would be one who searches for excellence, one who does not take things...
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- mina_sydney
come certe "scene" che è possibile ammirare alla Specola di Firenze. Composte da abili tassidermisti. Con ossa provenienti da cadaveri differenti.
- evres
@evres, Lei ha assolutamente ragione, mi dispiace se ti ho fatto arrabbiare :(
- mina_sydney
"I say “steals” because looking at Zelda’s smile there appears to be a mutual acceptance of her choosing Nathan Fillion over Link. (I feel you, girl.) But “Nathan Fillion Stabs Link, Gathers a Swooning Zelda In His Manly, Manly Arm Before Spiriting Her Away In a Consensual Fashion to His Nerd Castle” is too long for a headline."
- Jessie
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Wife:"Why is it when I hear news about social media, I never hear anything about FriendFeed?" Me:"It's run by The Librarian Mafia. Very cerebral, very hush hush." Wife: <.< ... "then why do they let your short bus butt hang around?"
liu, represented by pekin fine arts, is known for his work which deals with conflicting relationships between nature and human society, generated by the rate of chinese urban development. in liu's imagery, these animals become an overwhelming part of daily life in the city.
- Tolgardo
(Picture is more or less unrelated.) Yes, it's a long list, but you should have seen the first draft that got away.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
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That's not too long a list and seem grounded. I also need to track my spending and actually live with a budget, though I'm notoriously bad with resolutions.
- Arlan K.
Interesting! Santa put ours together. ;-) We have the same one. What chalk are you using?
- Yvonne
from FFHound!
Yvonne, Santa also got her the easel accessory kit that came with some paint and a dry erase marker and some chalk. So, uh, Melissa and Doug chalk, I guess?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Oh! Santa must have run out of those. We got everything in separate packs. =)
- Yvonne
from FFHound!
"The Cassiterides, meaning Tin Islands (from the Greek word for tin: Κασσίτερος/Kassiteros), are an ancient geographical name of islands that were regarded as situated somewhere near the west coasts of Europe.[1] The traditional assumption, ignoring Strabo, is that Cassiterides refer to Great Britain, based on the significant tin deposits in Cornwall.[2]"
- Maitani
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"Herodotus (430 BC) had only vaguely heard of the Cassiterides, "from which we are said to have our tin," but did not discount the islands as legendary.[3] Later writers — Posidonius, Diodorus Siculus,[4] Strabo[5] and others — call them smallish islands off ("some way off," Strabo says) the northwest coast of the Iberian Peninsula, which contained tin mines or, according to Strabo, tin...
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- Maitani
A map from back when Europe was Scandinavia free :)
- Eivind
Would you be okay with this as neighbors front yard? I could actually do this with our front yard project we have about the same wasted space.
- SteVe C
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Slightly afraid the fence is too prisony/ isolating from neighbors
- SteVe C
That first picture is what we had planned in our first house, before we realized the garage was crumbling apart.
- Anika
SteVe, as someone who was initially skeptical that i could live in a house with a 8 foot stucco wall around, I have to say it is actually incredibly liberating. I like the idea of the windows in this fence, it could work for or against you though. But in my yard I suddenly have immense privacy and freedom that you don't always have with low fences or no fence. We don't have curtains or...
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- Rachel Lea Fox
Thanks Rachel that's what I was hoping as a best case outcome. Since 25% of our property is currently the lawn on front yard I am leaning towards enclosing it in some way to add essentially another outdoor room especially being in So Cal. The debate has come down to the type of fencing, open, short, tall, complete. So when I saw this idea yesterday it was a new direction to think of.
- SteVe C
If I didn't live remote and without neighbors I would want this as my back yard privacy oasis. Block parties are to mingle with your neighbors, not when you want to hang out in your yard.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
Love this look/concept. Can't WAIT to see how you execute.
- SAM
SteVe, if you are up there visiting Anne or anyone and you want to see what we have I'm happy to show you. This design for a wall would be prettier than my wall, but the wood would take more maintenance. I think it would be worth it though!
- Rachel Lea Fox
SAM or others, any ideas on the type of wood? Oh yes Rachel I would love that if we don't get up there I'll send my spy Anne. :) Rachel subscribe to me so I can DM you and because I am fricking riveting.
- SteVe C
Okay, that is the weirdest thing. You are the second person in the last few months who i know was subscribed too and now I'm not. :( Fixed.
- Rachel Lea Fox
And also Anne has been here before, so she might already have feedback, but is always welcome here. She can come visit the kittens too, with or without you. :)
- Rachel Lea Fox
High end: Teak or Iroko (wouldn't that be fun). Lower-end: Cedar or anything you can get better boards in quantity.
- SAM
from iPhone
This looks like a great idea for your front yard, Steve. Would it meet city codes? Rachel and Kevin's walled yard is a very special secluded area; it really feels like their own private space for relaxing, entertaining, and Halloween decorating!! Perhaps Rachel can give you a link to their Halloween photos which may give you a glimpse of their wall.
- Anne Bouey
Yeah Anne that's the hard part of front yard work dealing with city. I think my argument if they give any gruff is "look my house is purple don't you think covering some of it with a pretty wood is an improvement in your narrow minded eyes?" Actually a few peeps have block walls out front so I think we'll be okay but I will have to do the whole annoying permit thing. Annoying only in that I build stronger than code anyway so you ain't doing me any favors other than slowing me down.
- SteVe C
"Squee! The cuteness! It burns! @CuteOverload tweeted this pic of a micro piglet wearing grippy dot socks and a sweater vest. If that doesn't make your day a bit better, I don't know what would."
- Kristin
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