I started swimming a mile a day last week and sometimes do timed 250 yard sprints. My first one was 3'58 which after a few days dropped to 3'53. Then the lifeguard suggested reaching at far forward as possible before starting the downstroke...
This report of the death toll in Iraq - approaching that in Cambodia under Pol Pot - is apparently survey based and appears to corroborate the survey reported in Lancet that surfaced briefly in 2006. These surveys are pretty simple to do but they have not been undertaken by the military or the major American news outlets. They would only need to take very small samples to determine whether the US military estimates
"What about multi-tasking? Isn't this the new superhuman-internet-enabled trait? Study after study shows that multi-tasking is a myth for the vast majority of the population. Multi-tasking fractures thinking, divides focus and even creates a multi-tasking hangover that prevents concentrated work for up to 15 minutes. Multi-tasking also helps highlight how the internet pushes users towards completing processes rather
However, time-of-day pricing could be used to eliminate traffic jams as we know them. When highways fill beyond capacity, the flow breaks down and throughput declines by as much as 50%. That harms everyone and should be prevented.
On demand ridesharing also has tremendous potential to bust up congestion (AND HELP TO RECREATE A LOST SOCIAL COHESION BY PROVIDING MANY NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONAL INTERACTION) but it
"Honeybees possess magnetite crystals in their fat body cells and they present magnetic remanence (Gould et al. 1978; Keim et al. 2002). These magnetite structures are active parts of the magnetoreception system in honeybees (Hsu and Li 1994; Hsu et al. 2007). Honeybees can be trained to respond to very small changes in the constant local geomagnetic field intensity"
"... the proposed authorization of a worldwide war goes much further, however, allowing war wherever there are terrorism suspects in any country around the world without an expiration date, geographical boundaries or connection to the 9/11 attacks or any other specific harm or threat to the United States."
Tucked inside the National Defense Authorization Act, being marked up by the House Armed Services Committee this week, is a hugely important provision that hasn’t been getting a lot of attention — a brand new authorization for a worldwide war.
The world's tallest man met one of the world's smallest men last week as part of an event organized by the Guinness World Records. Adding another superlative to the encounter was its location, Forum Istanbul, Europe's largest mall.