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Bruce A. McHenry

Swimming for Fitness
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...
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Araz Inguilizian Awesome Bruce. So happy for you - must be feeling good for sure.
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Anne Stone Swimming is where it's at. Lalanne did it--didn't hurt him any!
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Bruce A. McHenry Anne, But Jack did not make 100, did he?
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Bruce A. McHenry via Ann Tulintseff
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

#1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation | Project Censored
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Sources: After Downing Street, July 6, 2007 Title: “Is the United States Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month? Or Is It More?” Author: Michael
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Barry Kort World-wide, state-sponsored military and political violence claims some 2 million lives a year. The Holocaust was not a one-off event in the middle of the 20th Century. An estimated 200 million people lost their lives to state-sponsored violence in the 20th Century.
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Bruce A. McHenry ‎... to determine whether the military estimates or the independent surveys are most accurate. Americans seem not to care. That indifference is really very troubling.
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Bruce A. McHenry via Peter Rothman
‎"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

The Net Hijacks the Subconscious Mind | AdAge China: Viewpoint - Advertising Age
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The internet has been an amazing revolution in opening the access to knowledge, but its design fundamentally distracts and interrupts our thinking.
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Bruce A. McHenry The most pernicious form of multi-tasking is surely listening to multiple conversations simultaneously. A form of controlling them was devised by Atty Mullins when he was a MS student at the Media Lab, just before me. His left behind, sti...
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Shane Hartman Even multi-tasking in the form of listening to music may, at best, have no effect and in many cases, degrades cognitive performance http://library.wcsu.edu/dspace/bitstream/0/456/1/harmon.pdf
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Bruce A. McHenry Shane,

That study of comparing test taking ability while listening to rock or classical music showed little effect. Most people are well able to tune out audio sources at will, as when taking a test. A more interesting study would have th...
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Bruce A. McHenry My trials were compounded by the fantastic sounding notion that there was some spooky interaction at a distance between the radio source and myself. If that someday proves to be one of the mechanisms of psyops, well, I will not be surprise...
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Shane Hartman Well some of the worst code I ever wrote was written to U2. It resulted in a failing the gold build.
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Bruce A. McHenry Which code was that? What was the gold build?

Hands down, the worst code I ever wrote was at the Media Lab over a mostly sleepless weekend. I was aiming for a ambitious re-write to impress Pattie Maes but changed too much at once and totally f***ed it up. I was using version control but it was a let down having to demo the old stuff. I don't think I ever did get around to that rewrite.
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Gregg Blanchard In plain old english, consider interacting with a house full of children, for 40 years, give or take a minute or two.
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Shane Hartman ‎@Gregg Argggggghhhhhhhhhhh (runs away real fast)
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Anne Stone Depends on your brain. I always did math better when I could listen to rock music. Different people have different levels of tolerance for noise across the Corpus. Females have so much more noise across the Corpus Callosum that they're supposed to be better at distraction. Or maybe it's just a myth to help us recover from the kid syndrome! ;)
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Laura Kelleher Neal I dislike multi-tasking. But listening to music while working, that works.
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Bruce A. McHenry via Ann Tulintseff
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

Activist Post: Insanity Rampant in the District of Criminals: now they want to tax us per mile
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Bruce A. McHenry ‎... but it would depend on reporting locations in real time.

This would be difficult if not impossible to make anonymous. There are big trade-offs, to be sure. Having the traces would make it much more difficult to perpetrate burglaries...
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Mark Crispin It's the socialist wet dream of complete control over the "lumpen proletariat". For their own good you know.
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Bruce A. McHenry Yeah, Mark, but Brin points out that it would be different if the hoi polloi have the same access to the traces as the politburo.
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Bruce A. McHenry Of course, it would make it very hard for alpha breeders who now operate clandestinely to keep up appearances. Society could use a whole new set of mores as well.
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Bruce A. McHenry I, for one, would be glad for a whole new set of mores. When it gets hot, I find the fashion restrictions to be wholly illiberal.

I'm not saying fuck the kids but I do not deny that would happen. BFD?!?
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Bruce A. McHenry via Ann Tulintseff
‎"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"

Cell phone towers may be ultimate cause of honeybee population collapse
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Cell phone towers may be ultimate cause of honeybee population collapse
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Bruce A. McHenry Natural News being prone to ringing the fire alarm, here is the link to the actual research that I would recommend: http://www.kokopelli.asso.fr/documentation/favre.pdf
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Bruce A. McHenry Regardless of whether this is true, we should hurry up and dis-empower the mobile providers whose key assets are now those powerful cell phone towers.

Instead, we will build a mobile infrastructure with much lower power, local transmitters ...
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Anne Stone Very interesting!
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Bruce A. McHenry
‎"... 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."

Unchecked Executive War Power Could Slip Through the House :
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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.
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Bruce A. McHenry ‎"... 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...
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Bruce A. McHenry
Dogs and humans have remarkably plastic genomes. Unlike most other animals, there is great variety within a single species.

World's Tallest Man, Sultan Kosen, Meets One Of The World's Shortest, He Pingping (PICTURES)
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• Bruce A. McHenry

  Swimming for Fitness

  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...

  00:57 · · Like · · Share

  • Anne Stone and Shannon Clarke like this.
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      Araz Inguilizian Awesome Bruce. So happy for you - must be feeling good for sure.

      03:44 · Unlike · 1 person
    • 

      Anne Stone Swimming is where it's at. Lalanne did it--didn't hurt him any!

      07:11 · Like
    • 

      Bruce A. McHenry Anne, But Jack did not make 100, did he?

      09:17 · Like
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  • "Oh, Craig. Are you getting..." on Craig Newmark's Wall.

    · See Friendship
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  • "Roger that, Gary. It's all..." on Reichart Von Wolfsheild's link.

  • Bruce likes Human swimming.

• RECENT ACTIVITY
  • "Jim is probably more fit than he..." on James Cherry's photo.

• 

  Bruce A. McHenry via Ann Tulintseff

  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

  #1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation | Project Censored

  www.projectcensored.org

  Sources: After Downing Street, July 6, 2007 Title: “Is the United States Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month? Or Is It More?” Author: Michael

  Yesterday at 23:05 · · Like · · Share

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      Barry Kort World-wide, state-sponsored military and political violence claims some 2 million lives a year. The Holocaust was not a one-off event in the middle of the 20th Century. An estimated 200 million people lost their lives to state-sponsored violence in the 20th Century.

      04:40 · Unlike · 2 people
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      Bruce A. McHenry ‎... to determine whether the military estimates or the independent surveys are most accurate. Americans seem not to care. That indifference is really very troubling.

      09:09 · Like
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  • • "Bring back Glass-Steagall too." on Ann Tulintseff's link.

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  Bruce A. McHenry via Peter Rothman

  ‎"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

  The Net Hijacks the Subconscious Mind | AdAge China: Viewpoint - Advertising Age

  adage.com

  The internet has been an amazing revolution in opening the access to knowledge, but its design fundamentally distracts and interrupts our thinking.

  Wednesday at 4:42pm · · Like · · Share

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      Anne Stone Depends on your brain. I always did math better when I could listen to rock music. Different people have different levels of tolerance for noise across the Corpus. Females have so much more noise across the Corpus Callosum that they're supposed to be better at distraction. Or maybe it's just a myth to help us recover from the kid syndrome! ;)

      Yesterday at 7:25am · Unlike · 1 person
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      Laura Kelleher Neal I dislike multi-tasking. But listening to music while working, that works.

      Yesterday at 20:31 · Unlike · 1 person
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  Bruce A. McHenry via Ann Tulintseff

  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

  Activist Post: Insanity Rampant in the District of Criminals: now they want to tax us per mile

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      Bruce A. McHenry Of course, it would make it very hard for alpha breeders who now operate clandestinely to keep up appearances. Society could use a whole new set of mores as well.

      Wednesday at 6:15pm · Like
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      Bruce A. McHenry I, for one, would be glad for a whole new set of mores. When it gets hot, I find the fashion restrictions to be wholly illiberal.
      
      I'm not saying fuck the kids but I do not deny that would happen. BFD?!?

      09:49 · Like
• 

  Bruce A. McHenry via Ann Tulintseff

  ‎"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"

  Cell phone towers may be ultimate cause of honeybee population collapse

  www.naturalnews.com

  Cell phone towers may be ultimate cause of honeybee population collapse

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      Bruce A. McHenry Natural News being prone to ringing the fire alarm, here is the link to the actual research that I would recommend: http://www.kokopelli.asso.fr/documentation/favre.pdf

      Wednesday at 10:14am · Like · 1 person
    • 

      Bruce A. McHenry

      Regardless of whether this is true, we should hurry up and dis-empower the mobile providers whose key assets are now those powerful cell phone towers.
      
      Instead, we will build a mobile infrastructure with much lower power, local transmitters ...See More

      Wednesday at 11:26am · Like
    • 

      Anne Stone Very interesting!

      Yesterday at 7:26am · Like
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• 

  Bruce A. McHenry

  ‎"... 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."

  Unchecked Executive War Power Could Slip Through the House :

  theintelhub.com

  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.

  Wednesday at 9:49am · · Like · · Share

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      Bruce A. McHenry

      ‎"... 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...See More

      Wednesday at 9:59am · Like
• 

  Bruce A. McHenry

  Dogs and humans have remarkably plastic genomes. Unlike most other animals, there is great variety within a single species.

  World's Tallest Man, Sultan Kosen, Meets One Of The World's Shortest, He Pingping (PICTURES)

  www.huffingtonpost.com

  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.

  May 16 at 10:38pm · · Like · · Share

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