she hated you before you met.
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rePost::AICN::Nordling Reviews RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
In a way, RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES plays out like a story handed down in a world where the apes are already the dominant species. Much of the film feels like a bedtime story an ape parent would share with their child. I held off writing this review because after I saw it I was so completely satisfied and happy with the film that I thought I was just overly gushing. The film couldn’t be that good, could it? But as the next couple of days passed, the film still stands tall in my mind. It’s not that the expectations were low enough to be pleasantly surprised – no, this is a genuinely great science fiction film, and I think the filmmakers, and WETA, especially, deserve the benefit of the doubt. 20th Century Fox has nothing to worry about. I should have seen it coming – RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES stands tall and proud with the rest of the summer releases, and while many of those will be forgotten, RISE will be looked back fondly for years to come. Yes, it’s just that good.
Nordling, out.
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rePost::Matt Damon explains non-financial motivations and the education sector – Boing Boing
Go to the link to see the video!!
In this brief video, Matt Damon is quizzed by a reporter who claims that he’s a good actor because he knows he’d be fired if he did a bad job, while teachers, with job security, have no such incentive. He persuasively lambastes the reporter, arguing that the reasons people do things — especially “shitty salary” jobs like teaching (but also arts careers, which have a very low chance of succeeding) — are much more nuanced than a mere job-security-incentive “MBA” model would suggest.
It’s a very illuminating example of a clash of ideologies. Damon, after all, had no “rational” business becoming an actor, since he was almost entirely certain to fail. Now that he is a multi-millionaire, he has no “rational” reason to continue acting, because he’s assured of financial security forever. Clearly, Damon is someone whose lifelong incentives are not about “job security.” Rather, his motivations are vocational — he does this because it fulfills him.
via Matt Damon explains non-financial motivations and the education sector – Boing Boing.
rePost::Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? Part Four – NYTimes.com
Wished EEE had a more expansive view of research.
FERNANDO CORBATÓ: — which we did. That was our goal. And to form a nucleus of computer science at MIT. Until then, computer specialists had been sprinkled around in various groups and places.
ERROL MORRIS: And still no computer science department —
FERNANDO CORBATÓ: Most of the key leaders came out of the electrical engineering department. But electrical engineering at MIT was a peculiar department. It had a very, very broad view of what its charter was. It had everything, from biologists to material scientists — a rich tradition of being very spread out in its research directions. And so, most of the people that joined us, Project MAC, were part of electrical engineering, but not all. And Fano asked everyone to make their principal office in the same building where the computer was. This is turning into a longer story than I expected.
via Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? Part Four – NYTimes.com.
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Quote:: “Anong hinihintay mo isang malaking sign sa noo niya na nakalagay Date Tayo?.”
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Science::Why diets don't work? Starved brain cells eat themselves
Science please advance enough before I eat myself to death. I need a miracle drug. wink wink!!
Why Diets Don’t Work? Starved Brain Cells Eat Themselves
ScienceDaily (Aug. 2, 2011) — A report in the August issue of the Cell Press journal Cell Metabolism might help to explain why it’s so frustratingly difficult to stick to a diet. When we don’t eat, hunger-inducing neurons in the brain start eating bits of themselves. That act of self-cannibalism turns up a hunger signal to prompt eating.
“A pathway that is really important for every cell to turn over components in a kind of housekeeping process is also required to regulate appetite,” said Rajat Singh of Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
The cellular process uncovered in neurons of the brain’s hypothalamus is known as autophagy (literally self-eating.) Singh says the new findings in mice suggest that treatments aimed at blocking autophagy may prove useful as hunger-fighting weapons in the war against obesity.
The new evidence shows that lipids within the so-called agouti-related peptide (AgRP) neurons are mobilized following autophagy, generating free fatty acids. Those fatty acids in turn boost levels of AgRP, itself a hunger signal.
via Why diets don’t work? Starved brain cells eat themselves.
QOTD::“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous ……
“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; …..
…….but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous half-possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.” — Emerson
TED::Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” — Oscar Wilde
TED::Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb
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