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Thursday, 12 December 2019
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
These inflatable slides deploy in under 4 seconds for quick evacuation from buildings via Slide To Safety— Interesting Engineering (@IntEngineering) December 11, 2019
Via: @SlideToSafety#engineering pic.twitter.com/WWlsiN0VDW
MAKKOX IN ENGLISH!!! - mAtTEO rENZI
#I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE
MAKKOX - Horse Head street, 7 - Pom Town - Papua Nuova Guinea (the house with the palm tree, you can't be wrong :)
Il Foglio
I have the author's permission
to devastate his work.
if someone feel the urge to help
is welcome (very)...
I have the author's permission
to devastate his work.
if someone feel the urge to help
is welcome (very)...
this I translated myself all alone without help
YOU VEGETARIAN... you will end up eating stones... LOL
... Are plants sentient? We know they sense their environments to a significant degree; like animals, they can "see" light, as a New Scientist feature explains. They “live in a very tactile world,” have a sense of smell, respond to sound, and use taste to “sense danger and drought and even to recognize relatives.” We’ve previously highlighted research here on how trees talk to each other with chemical signals and form social bonds and families. The idea sets the imagination running and might even cause a little paranoia. What are they saying? Are they talking about us?...
http://www.openculture.com/2019/12/plants-emit-high-pitched-sounds-when-stressed.html
http://www.openculture.com/2019/12/plants-emit-high-pitched-sounds-when-stressed.html
MOEBIUS
Pascal Blais- THE INCAL from TONIC DNA on Vimeo.
Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, was a comic book artist who combined blinding speed with boundless imagination. He shaped the look of Alien, Empire Strikes Back and The Fifth Element. He reimagined the Silver Surfer for Stan Lee. And he is an acknowledged influence on everyone from Japanese animating great Hayao Miyazaki to sci-fi writer William Gibson.
In 1996, the Mexican newspaper La Jornada published a lecture given by Moebius called “Breve manual para historietistas” – a brief manual for cartoonists – which consists of 18 tips for aspiring artists. If your Spanish isn’t up to snuff – mine certainly isn’t – then there are a couple translations out there.... KEEP READING IN THE ORIGINAL SITE HERE
Why everyone is called nguyen- go with VIETNAM (14) - CLAUDIO'S TRIP
Just arrived in the ancient capital of Vietnam that is called Huè, I buy a T-shirt for my friend Elena who, being from Naples, and being a frequent user of the exclamation uè, will certainly appreciate. Vietnamese is a strange language. It used to use Chinese ideograms, a legacy of Chinese domination. But little by little, thanks to the work of a Jesuit missionary, Alexander de Rhodes, during the French domination, switched to Latin letters that had the advantage of representing the actual pronunciation. The Vietnamese added a series of accents, apostrophes, coupons and various markers to vary the tones. The result is that we Italians listen to words that we do not understand but sometimes we believe to understand. The forbidden words are monosyllabic. So there are no accents like ours that make words slippery, squishy, truncated and flat. So for Vietnamese it is difficult, when they learn Italian, do not miss it. Luna, our guide, speaks Italian well but does not get an accent. Dice “ètnia” e “andàvamo” e “passeggiàno” e noi, che siamo ipocriti ma cafoni, facciamo finta di non ridere ma ridiamo dentro.
Huè, I was just saying. The Nguyen dynasty, thirteen emperors who ruled Vietnam from 1802 to 1945, chose it as the capital and fortified it with walls and moats. Because, let’s face it, the Vietnamese were fighting hard, and all they did was beat the crap out of each other, as well as fighting the enemies outside. The emperors of the various dynasties also changed the names of those who called themselves like the previous kings and renamed them with their own. The Nguyens were no less: they killed more Ho who could and gave many privileges to those who called themselves Nguyen or who decided to take their last name. So if at that time you met a friend named Ho and said hello to him, “Good morning Mr Ho”, he replied, “Mr Ho tell your sister, my name is Mr Nguyen”. Then the French added that, wanting to make a census, they decided that they called themselves Nguyen all those who were so poor that they did not even have the surname. That’s how the Nguyens grew out of all proportion and today they are about 40 million and represent the fourth most common surname in the world. How do they distinguish one from the other? Simple. They give themselves another name, called middle name, which stands between the surname and the first name. Something like this has happened in my original village, in Luserna, where all are called nicolussi, but they have also given themselves another name. One year the town council of luserna was composed of twenty nicolussi. And think of the casino of the class appeal: “nicolussi”“Presente”“nicolussi”; “Presente”; “nicolussi”; “””; ”Presente””“”””“”””””” “nicolussi is absent lady teacher” And think of the radio chronicle of a game if the Luserna was a football team. “nicolussi passes the nicolussi ball
But weren’t we talking about Huè? So, we visit the beautiful citadel. An hour and a half between temples and pagodas and buddha and monuments. And then the afternoon visit of the tomb of the Emperor Tu Duc. To see it written so seems easy. But our guide, Luna, pronounces it td and every time it seems to have hiccups with that accent on“d”. Tu Duc built the tomb before he died. And it was so beautiful that he decided to live there. It was practically a royal palace. We now know where Berlusconi was inspired. Tu Duc broke relations with European countries and being devoted to Confucius persecuted Christians killing many missionaries. It was his mistake that gave impetus to French colonization. On the stele of his tomb Tu Duc made the Vietnamese people write his apologies for not being able to defend him.
But there’s a mystery. Where’s his body? Moon shows us a vast area where he might be. But not the exact spot. Because a vice that the dynasties had, Luna tells us, was to desecrate the tombs and make the bodies of those who had preceded them disappear. So Tu Duc ordered to hire 50 diggers, bury the body in a place known only to them, and then eventually kill them all 50. What people these Vietnamese.
Tuesday, 10 December 2019
The Golden Bough
Frazer attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture.[2] His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought.[2]
Frazer's thesis was developed in relation to J. M. W. Turner's painting of The Golden Bough, a sacred grove where a certain tree grew day and night. It was a transfigured landscape in a dream-like vision of the woodland lake of Nemi, "Diana's Mirror", where religious ceremonies and the "fulfillment of vows" of priests and kings were held.[3]
The king was the incarnation of a dying and reviving god, a solar deity who underwent a mystic marriage to a goddess of the Earth. He died at the harvest and was reincarnated in the spring. Frazer claims that this legend of rebirth is central to almost all of the world's mythologies.
Frazer based his thesis on the pre-Roman priest-king at the fane of Nemi, who was ritually murdered by his successor:
When I first put pen to paper to write The Golden Bough I had no conception of the magnitude of the voyage on which I was embarking; I thought only to explain a single rule of an ancient Italian priesthood. (Aftermath, p. vi)
Mind Blowing 😲 pic.twitter.com/jbGxZ364kK— Physics & Astronomy Zone🔭 (@ZonePhysics) December 10, 2019
dead of plastic ship (LOL)
Students Invent Bacteria That Eat Plastic From The Oceans And Turn It Into Waterhttps://t.co/u7zm743KqS— Physics & Astronomy Zone🔭 (@ZonePhysics) December 9, 2019
Monday, 9 December 2019
#ICYMI The rare bloom you've never seen and may never see again 🌸 pic.twitter.com/IuJzeLo7Gg— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) December 9, 2019
Rafflesia is a genus of parasitic flowering plants. It contains approximately 28 species
Saving the Harvest😍 pic.twitter.com/hXGNK9GjI9— Physics & Astronomy Zone🔭 (@ZonePhysics) December 9, 2019
To laugh at himself - LUCA SOFRI - Wittgenstein
December 9th, 2019
Luca Sofri
WITTGENSTEIN
Yesterday I saw a lot of this video, of people who show that they support slogans and opinions of the LEGA and of Salvini without having the slightest idea of what they mean, those slogans and opinions. It goes around much and with satisfaction among the detractors of Salvini, of course, that perhaps with reason they could tell of knowing it longer than their opponents, and they laughed at their pretentious indecency.
italian
But to me it seems that the video suggests conclusions much less comforting, for those who think themselves progressive, or anti-Salvinian.
Little or no informed voters have always existed, and what the video shows is that today they vote for Salvini and support what he says regardless: Having the consensus of those who do not know what they are talking about and those who do not follow the political issues carefully is a decisive element of success in politics, and has always counted for everyone. The video tells that today leaders can make this thing like Salvini and Meloni, and they don’t know how to do it anymore. And when I say others naturally I think of the leaders of other parties (some of whom even lash out at their own failure), and especially the leaders of the PD: But we must not feel absolved and complacent, all of us supporters of progressive ideas that we are not able to convey, pass, tell, even to our neighbours on the landing. Those people show not a right-wing limit, but a success. On the left there is a total disarmament of ideas and projects, in these years: good times when at least fossil, aged and anachronistic leaders in left-wing parties opposed renewal projects, good or bad. At least there were renewal projects, inside and outside parties. Now nobody knows what fish to catch (yes, the allusion is wanted), not even among those who blame the PD, and you end up laughing at the people who once knew how to convince and now convince them someone else. Uninformed people are majorities, if you do not work on information: this is the first failure– manageable– of a progressive democracy and culture. The second is in that video: of which Salvini will be rejoicing, he with good reasons.
https://www.wittgenstein.it/2019/12/09/ridere-di-se/
translated with http://www.reverso.net/
Yesterday I saw a lot of this video, of people who show that they support slogans and opinions of the LEGA and of Salvini without having the slightest idea of what they mean, those slogans and opinions. It goes around much and with satisfaction among the detractors of Salvini, of course, that perhaps with reason they could tell of knowing it longer than their opponents, and they laughed at their pretentious indecency.
italian
But to me it seems that the video suggests conclusions much less comforting, for those who think themselves progressive, or anti-Salvinian.
Little or no informed voters have always existed, and what the video shows is that today they vote for Salvini and support what he says regardless: Having the consensus of those who do not know what they are talking about and those who do not follow the political issues carefully is a decisive element of success in politics, and has always counted for everyone. The video tells that today leaders can make this thing like Salvini and Meloni, and they don’t know how to do it anymore. And when I say others naturally I think of the leaders of other parties (some of whom even lash out at their own failure), and especially the leaders of the PD: But we must not feel absolved and complacent, all of us supporters of progressive ideas that we are not able to convey, pass, tell, even to our neighbours on the landing. Those people show not a right-wing limit, but a success. On the left there is a total disarmament of ideas and projects, in these years: good times when at least fossil, aged and anachronistic leaders in left-wing parties opposed renewal projects, good or bad. At least there were renewal projects, inside and outside parties. Now nobody knows what fish to catch (yes, the allusion is wanted), not even among those who blame the PD, and you end up laughing at the people who once knew how to convince and now convince them someone else. Uninformed people are majorities, if you do not work on information: this is the first failure– manageable– of a progressive democracy and culture. The second is in that video: of which Salvini will be rejoicing, he with good reasons.
https://www.wittgenstein.it/2019/12/09/ridere-di-se/
translated with http://www.reverso.net/
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