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Screaminmidget · 02-03-2012 12:22am

For all you into ye're photography...

http://mashable.com/2012/03/01/lytro-camera-gallery/

Conor108 · 05-03-2012 7:13pm

This blew my mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HcSTaTyUv0

Colm! · 07-03-2012 1:23am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc

EDIT: I've been pointed to this link that was posted as a critical response to the video above. If you have watched the video, this is also worth your time. Although I'm mostly supportive of the video and its ideas, there's also many negative points.

EDIT2: This article sums the whole thing up nicely.

Namlub · 07-03-2012 10:52pm

As Chris Blattman, a political scientist at Yale, writes on the topic of IC’s programming, “There’s also something inherently misleading, naive, maybe even dangerous, about the idea of rescuing children or saving of Africa. […] It hints uncomfortably of the White Man’s Burden. Worse, sometimes it does more than hint. The savior attitude is pervasive in advocacy, and it inevitably shapes programming. Usually misconceived programming.”

The Visible Children thing raises a lot of interesting points, but this just keeps jumping out at me as being hugely over-simplistic. The fact that this is an African issue doesn't automatically mean that it's a case of us white folk riding in to "save" these poor black people imo

jumpguy · 18-03-2012 6:22pm

Wasn't really sure where to post this, I always kinda just gave a cursory acknowledgement of the trouble in Syria - as many often do with these kinda things, especially when it's the Middle East - but this article really highlighted for me the absolutely disgusting and inhumane treatment of the protestors in Syria. These are surely some of the most heinous crimes against humanity in the last decade.

More than 8,000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising began a year ago, and many more injured . Fearing ill-treatment at official hospitals, demonstrators have sought help at underground clinics. One Damascus surgeon tells his story.

I was at home, looking out of the window, watching a demonstration, when I saw a car being driven very fast. Two men from the security forces leaned out and started shooting randomly at the demonstrators - shooting to kill.

The demonstrators were doing nothing, just shouting for freedom. There were a lot of dead and injured people on the ground.

The demonstrators ran inside a mosque, and some began shouting over the loud-speakers: "Stop killing us! We don't have guns, we are peaceful! We have injured men, we have to treat them!" They asked for doctors, nurses, medical supplies and blood bags.

I took some medical equipment and went to the mosque, using side streets to avoid snipers. Inside it was terrible. There were no medical supplies, not many doctors, too many injured people… People were dying in front of my eyes.

We asked them to go to the hospital, but they said: 'We can't - yesterday people were taken to the hospitals and now we don't know what has happened to them.' Their friends had told them that going to hospital is basically a death sentence. The security forces might arrest you, torture you, or even kill you.

My colleague was working at a military hospital in Damascus. He said a lot of injured people came in - some with only minor injuries - and all of them were killed.

I asked him, 'Are you sure about that?' He said, 'Yes I'm sure. All of them were dead.'

At the [civilian] government hospitals, they didn't kill anyone, but they were beating them. One of the injured men I treated myself had a fracture in his hip bone where he'd been shot, and I asked him: 'Why is this? A bullet does not make this kind of injury.'

He said someone in the security forces jumped on his leg at the hospital, and that's how it was broken. He managed to escape, and came to us.

There are two kinds of injuries that we treat - from bullets, and from torture or beating. The most dangerous ones are the injuries from gunfire. We can treat injuries to the legs, the hands, the shoulders. But a gunshot in the chest or abdomen - we can't do anything. The patients die.

We need morphine for those in acute pain, but we can't get it. Sometimes we try to get it smuggled in through, but it's risky. A lot of activists have been killed smuggling medicine.

Every few weeks, we hear that the security forces have come into a field hospital and taken all the supplies or arrested a doctor.

They have their own spies, even among us. You can't trust everyone - sometimes the man who is carrying an injured demonstrator to a field hospital is a spy.

One of our doctors was arrested and the security forces showed him a video where he was helping demonstrators in the field hospital. So the video was made by a spy, who pretended he was with us. He had also given information and details about our field hospital's location.

In the circumstances we are operating in, when we can't do anything for the patients, it's very disappointing.

We feel hopeless, because when you see that someone is dying between your hands, and the government hospital is just five minutes away from the location where you are… that hurts your heart. It hurts your humanity.

The only people who can get treated are those who support of the government. It's inhumane.

In the beginning I was counting the number of people who I wasn't able to save, but I'm not counting them anymore. It is written in your brain, in your head… The memories, the images, the blood, the shouting.

It is very dangerous. In the beginning we were afraid to work. But we need to know inside ourselves, in our hearts, that we are human. Our role, as doctors, is to treat the injured, whoever they are.

If a doctor is caught treating demonstrators, they might arrest him or even kill him. Two days ago a doctor in Homs was murdered with a knife through his neck. And five days ago, another doctor was also murdered with a knife, along with his wife and three children.

So far I believe 54 medical staff have been killed, including nurses, doctors and medical students.

What motivates me? My honour, my duty as a doctor.

When we graduated from medical school we took the Hippocratic oath. And the way that I was raised, my religion, everything. I'm part of the human race, and I need to honour this oath, as a doctor and as a human."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17398886

FredBaby! · 23-03-2012 12:34am

This one goes out to all you 90's kidz out there...

http://splitsider.com/2012/03/mark-mothersbaugh-on-rugrats/

flyswatter · 25-03-2012 6:26pm

Experts admitted surprise at the findings because so many other studies have linked red meat to physical health risks.
The team made the link after a study of 1000 Australian women.
Professor Felice Jacka, who led the research by Deakin University, Victoria, said: "We had originally thought that red meat might not be good for mental health but it turns out that it actually may be quite important.
"When we looked at women consuming less than the recommended amount of red meat in our study, we found that they were twice as likely to have a diagnosed depressive or anxiety disorder as those consuming the recommended amount.
"Even when we took into account the overall healthiness of the women's diets, as well as other factors such as their socioeconomic status, physical activity levels, smoking, weight and age, the relationship between low red meat intake and mental health remained.

"Interestingly, there was no relationship between other forms of protein, such as chicken, pork, fish or plant-based proteins, and mental health. Vegetarianism was not the explanation either. Only nineteen women in the study were vegetarians, and the results were the same when they were excluded from the study analyses."
Professor Jacka, an expert in psychiatric health, believed the diet of the sheep and cattle was relevant.
"We know that red meat in Australia is a healthy product as it contains high levels of nutrients, including the Omega-3 fatty acids that are important to mental and physical health," she said.
"This is because cattle and sheep in Australia are largely grass fed. In many other countries, the cattle are kept in feedlots and fed grains, rather than grass. This results in a much less healthy meat with more saturated fat and fewer healthy fats."
But eating too much red meat could be as bad for mental health as not eating enough.The Australian government recommends eating 65 -100g of lean, red meat three to four times a week.
"We found that regularly eating more than the recommended amount of red meat was also related to increased depression and anxiety," Professor Jacka added. "We already know that the overall quality of your diet is important to mental health. But it seems that eating a moderate amount of lean red meat, which is roughly three to four small, palm-sized serves a week, may also be important."
The results of the study are published in the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.The Department of Health recommends consuming no more than 70g of red meat a day - the equivalent of a Big Mac burger.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9158235/Red-meat-halves-risk-of-depression.html

Conor108 · 29-03-2012 4:55pm

wow

Jamie Starr · 29-03-2012 11:57pm

Conor108 wrote: »

wow

"One technical issue with the Google car yet to be ironed out is that it often forgets its destination, then begins following every movement of other drivers on the road as well as taking you towards updates and privacy agreements you have no interest in."

JamJamJamJam · 04-04-2012 12:11am

Google Art Project

An art project. By Google. Quite.

Jackobyte · 09-04-2012 12:17am

The Old Man and the Sea from Marcel Schindler on Vimeo deserves a watch. It's pretty damn cool.

cheesefiend · 10-04-2012 4:12pm

I most certainly did not cry while watching this!

jefreywithonef · 12-04-2012 2:04am

Drawception.

Drawception is a free browser-based game that combines the telephone game/chinese whispers with drawing (like Eat Poop You Cat and BPT). Anyone can play! Here's how it works:

1) A player begins a game with a short phrase - for example, "A cow jumping over the moon"
2) A randomly chosen player then draws that phrase (within 10 minutes using simple tools)
3) Another random player describes the new drawing
4) Yet another player draws the new description
5) Steps 3 and 4 repeat until 12 unique players have participated
When completed, the descriptions and drawings are stitched together and everyone can view the often unexpected and hilarious results!

marko93 · 12-04-2012 2:59am

cheesefiend wrote: »

I most certainly did not cry while watching this!

That is amazing.

jefreywithonef · 12-04-2012 5:12am

I've spent a silly amount of time chortling at Drawception creations.

http://drawception.com/viewgame/jC7s4eHc7Q/batman-and-spiderman-save-an-old-lady/
http://drawception.com/viewgame/8MWfq2K9Mh/antoine-dodson/
http://drawception.com/viewgame/wHMnzZPWaQ/the-most-disgusting-thing-in-the-universe/
http://drawception.com/viewgame/Dysk4wdkcM/harry-potter-kiss-ginny-weasley/

Jamie Starr · 12-04-2012 11:30am

jefreywithonef wrote: »

I've spent a silly amount of time chortling at Drawception creations.

http://drawception.com/viewgame/jC7s4eHc7Q/batman-and-spiderman-save-an-old-lady/
http://drawception.com/viewgame/8MWfq2K9Mh/antoine-dodson/
http://drawception.com/viewgame/wHMnzZPWaQ/the-most-disgusting-thing-in-the-universe/
http://drawception.com/viewgame/Dysk4wdkcM/harry-potter-kiss-ginny-weasley/[/QUOTE]

Why, WHY WHY did you show me this. I will never do work again.

QueenOfLeon · 12-04-2012 3:38pm

jefreywithonef wrote: »

Drawception.

I spent about 3 hours on that last night. And now I'm checking in to see if all my games have finished yet. WHYYY DID YOU DO THIS TO MEEEE :eek:

TheRealSquishy · 13-04-2012 4:51pm

jefreywithonef wrote: »

I've spent a silly amount of time chortling at Drawception creations.

http://drawception.com/viewgame/jC7s4eHc7Q/batman-and-spiderman-save-an-old-lady/
http://drawception.com/viewgame/8MWfq2K9Mh/antoine-dodson/
http://drawception.com/viewgame/wHMnzZPWaQ/the-most-disgusting-thing-in-the-universe/
http://drawception.com/viewgame/Dysk4wdkcM/harry-potter-kiss-ginny-weasley/

I hate you. Drawception games played=about a million, Essays done=0. Damn you

QueenOfLeon · 13-04-2012 5:26pm

TheRealSquishy wrote: »

I hate you. Drawception games played=about a million, Essays done=0. Damn you

And its made me realise I am a terrible, terrible artist...:(

Davidius · 14-04-2012 12:04am

I too would like to express my dissatisfaction at being presented with this around this near-critical point of the year.

Fortunately it has led me to realise I have psychic powers:

jefreywithonef · 14-04-2012 1:26pm

A game in which I drew the final picture is now number one on Hottest Games \o/

http://drawception.com/viewgame/KCGbMFytwR/a-man-has-a-tapeworm/

JamJamJamJam · 14-04-2012 3:02pm

jefreywithonef wrote: »

A game in which I drew the final picture is now number one on Hottest Games \o/

http://drawception.com/viewgame/KCGbMFytwR/a-man-has-a-tapeworm/

Weird! I just upvoted that drawing :P

I drew the 6th panel in 'Shrek and Buzz Lightyear have a Lovechild', which is fifth or sixth hottest

Cherry Blossom Girl · 15-04-2012 10:56am

I recently came across this fantastic video called "The Asylum" on Vimeo:

http://vimeo.com/40005142

Anyway it's made using time lapse photography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-lapse_photography) which makes it even more amazing, I think.

Colm! · 06-05-2012 12:06am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwmtkFPYXsg

...this is cool. Steve Burns, who was in the children's TV show "Blue's Clues" tells the story of his run-in with a Playboy model.

Palytoxin · 06-05-2012 7:44am

http://scaleofuniverse.com

Fergus_ · 12-05-2012 11:09pm

http://www.redbubble.com/

jumpguy · 13-05-2012 11:25am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salute
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7674157.stm

Can't believe I've only heard about this now!

Palytoxin · 15-05-2012 3:26pm

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/4thYJO/:+ao6V$j_:SMHzPgdj/360vr.com/2011/06/22-discovery-flight-deck-opf_6236/index.html/
So. Many. Buttons.!

Palytoxin · 17-05-2012 9:10pm

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1VZMou/:Rrha0BDZ:Xl0BUM!8/www.doctorhugo.org/illusions/illusion2.html/

Lawliet · 18-05-2012 12:00am

JamJamJamJam · 18-05-2012 3:19am

Lawliet wrote: »

(Big fat video)

*makes conscious decision to be less judgemental*

Luno · 21-05-2012 11:32am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCYZZPwJr_c

JamJamJamJam · 23-05-2012 2:33am

"During Sunday’s Jerusalem Day events, a Palestinian boy, perhaps 10 years old, was chased down an East Jerusalem street by a very angry officer of the Border Police. The boy tripped and fell, then picked himself up just as the Border Police officer reached him and tried to grab him. But a 22 year-old female Israeli activist prevented the boy’s arrest by throwing herself between the two, allowing the Palestinian boy to flee.

Jerusalem Day is meant to be a celebration of the city’s ‘reunification’ following Israel’s victory in the 1967 war. In practice, it is a day for Israeli nationalists, draped in flags, dancing in circles, singing and chanting (including the popular Israeli nationalist chant, ‘death to Arabs’) as they march through the streets of East Jerusalem and the Old City. Many of the Jewish demonstrators are bused in from right-wing yeshivas in Israel and the West Bank

This year, an Orthodox Jewish man grabbed the Palestinian flag from the hands of a 10 year-old boy and refused to return it. The boy, enraged, tried to prise it out of the Jewish man’s hands. A Border Police officer, seeing the struggle between a 10 year-old Palestinian boy and a fully grown Jewish man, chased the Palestinian boy rather than ordering the Jewish man to return the flag. Someone made a montage of the incident and posted it on Facebook, with commentary. Note the expression of rage in the Border Police officer’s eyes, as seen in the second photo.

In the end the boy got away, due to the intervention of a 22 year-old Israeli activist from Jerusalem named Sahar Vardi, who threw herself in front of the Border Police officer just as he was about to grab the child. Photojournalist Haim Schwarczenberg caught the incident."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QEF_A41hflg

Palytoxin · 26-05-2012 10:46am

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2v3Ued/egotvonline.com/2012/03/13/25-everyday-objects-under-an-electron-microscope/
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2MLwzK/:DkrAr$Qd:TbjJ5iuQ/www.ptable.com/
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1YnQSn/www.futilitycloset.com/2010/04/23/the-black-hole

Jamie Starr · 29-05-2012 6:58pm

So I've a bit of an interest in things like coral reefs, bioluminescent fish and that lark, and here's one really interesting type of ocean dweller, called salp. They drift along the sea in these amazing chains/colonies, and are just incredibly cool, because their structure represents a very primitive kind of nervous system, a bit like a precursor to vertebral animals. Mainly though, I like how amazing they look!

Screaminmidget · 01-06-2012 2:14am

Saw this on facebook and said id share it here.

The old saying, "the burden of proof is on the person making the claim", sounds very good in theory. In practice, this doesn't always work, and it can actually be very difficult to place the burden of proof.

For example, consider the well-worn debate about the existence of God. Atheists will say that the burden of proof lies with the believers, who are claiming that God exists. Believers will say that the burden of proof lies with the athiests, who are claiming that God does not exist. How do you identify the real claim which warrants the burden of proof. Well, you might argue that the affirmative claim is real, and the negative "claim" is not a claim at all, but a critical challenge to the affirmative claim. This rule applies well to the God debate, but what about another example?

Imagine, in some bizzare alternate reality, that it's the year 1012AD and two scientists, Einstein and Newton, have a dispute. Newton woke up that morning with some fabulous velocity/acceleration equations. He hasn't had time to gather evidence yet, but is convinced in his mind that are correct. Einstein, meanwhile, was struck by lightning the previous night and blessed with the knowledge of General Relativity. And there they are, with two opposing ideas. Now where is the burden of proof? Both of them are making claims, and both claims are affirmative.

Myself, Finlay and Alex got into a discussion about burdens of proof. Finlay's theory was that a "neutral case" should be identified, and the burden of proof lies with the opposition to that case. A valiant attempt, but as Alex points out, there are many situations where there is no neutral case. My Einstein-Newton example displays that. Alex's argument is that the burden of proof is an unworkable concept that has no place in debating.

So, having pondered this on-and-off for the last couple of days, I think I can see a solution. You see, the problem lies with having a binary view of disputes. Either a claim is true or it is false. What we need is a third, neutral state. If there is no affirmative or negative support for a claim, or equal amounts of both, then the fact is, we don't know. And that's okay. People often seem afraid to admit that something is unknown. It's so dissatisfying, so disorderly. They feel a lot better if they can conclude that something is true or false, so they push it in one direction or the other so that they can move on and be happy and merry.

My view is that, by default, everything is unknown. So, we can boil down a claim into the statement that "Fact X is true" or "Fact X is false". If Moira trots into the bar and says "God exists", and Brent runs in behind her and says "No way, God doesn't exist, that's ridiculous!", then I propose that it's not a case of "Moira vs Brent". Both of them have made claims, and both have to be considered in isolation. The fact that they made contradictory claims at the same time is irrelevant. The burden of proof is on Moira to prove that God exists, and separately, the burden of proof is on Brent to prove that he doesn't. Until one of the claims is supported, we will default to "We don't know if God exists".

So, anyone want to question my thinking, or present a flaw or an example of where it would fail? By all means, sound off.

Lawliet · 04-06-2012 4:06pm

http://gizmodo.com/5914666/when-you-swallow-35mm-film-beautiful-things-happen/

SarahBeep! · 05-06-2012 1:18am

Davidius · 05-06-2012 2:54am

That's very unfair, you can't really say either situation is worse. How many people have lived a worn-torn life of poverty and have had to sit around waiting for Shogun 2 to load or had to get up at 6am for a single lecture? If you haven't then who are you to say which is worse? Checkmate.

EuropeanSon · 05-06-2012 7:36pm

Lawliet wrote: »

What an annoying pile of whiny cliched sh.ite. I want those 3 minutes of my life back now.

Insect Overlord · 05-06-2012 9:25pm

EuropeanSon wrote: »

What an annoying pile of whiny cliched sh.ite. I want those 3 minutes of my life back now.

She's hot though. :pac:

Lawliet · 05-06-2012 9:30pm

EuropeanSon wrote: »

What an annoying pile of whiny cliched sh.ite. I want those 3 minutes of my life back now.

Save the trolling for the youtube comments.

EuropeanSon · 05-06-2012 11:28pm

Lawliet wrote: »

EuropeanSon wrote: »

What an annoying pile of whiny cliched sh.ite. I want those 3 minutes of my life back now.

Save the trolling for the youtube comments.

Very judgemental of you.
I simply find it abhorrent when people blatantly misrepresent reality for what appears to be the sole purpose of appearing non judgemental and super nice, which is what the girl in the video is doing. No doubt legions of unhealthy people will be empowered by her message to continue costing the healthcare system (and thus everyone else) a bomb and slowly killing themselves with their unhealthy lifestyles.

Lawliet · 05-06-2012 11:57pm

EuropeanSon wrote: »

Very judgemental of you.

...And immediately any valid point you might possibly raise is undermined by that opening.

You're obviously just trying to start an argument, and this isn't a thread for discussing other people's lifestyle choices.

Conor108 · 06-06-2012 4:35pm

EuropeanSon wrote: »

What an annoying pile of whiny cliched sh.ite. I want those 3 minutes of my life back now.

Lawliet wrote: »

Save the trolling for the youtube comments.

EuropeanSon wrote: »

Very judgemental of you.
I simply find it abhorrent when people blatantly misrepresent reality for what appears to be the sole purpose of appearing non judgemental and super nice..............

Lawliet wrote: »

...And immediately any valid point you might possibly raise is undermined by that opening.....

Insect Overlord · 06-06-2012 4:58pm

^
Could be an opportunity for a new thread there.

It's been a while since we've had a good C&H debate.

EuropeanSon · 06-06-2012 5:03pm

Lawliet wrote: »

...And immediately any valid point you might possibly raise is undermined by that opening.

You're obviously just trying to start an argument, and this isn't a thread for discussing other people's lifestyle choices.

And you continue in the same vein with your response... Again, very mature. Should I refrain from presenting an opinion on your presumptions and the validity of them in future?

Aoibheann · 06-06-2012 8:47pm

Please keep this thread on-topic, everyone, thank you!

cloud493 · 07-06-2012 11:05pm

Insect Overlord wrote: »

She's hot though. :pac:

I'd let her..... roll my fat :pac:

blobcat · 09-06-2012 12:05am

Anyone heard of Mars One Project?

http://mars-one.com/en/

They're sending people to Mars in 2023. It's a one way journey. They're picking the astronauts via some sort of reality show thing. We'll be able to watch them up there on webcam.

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