After Your Job Is Gone
Do you have a job? Do you like having a job? Then I have some bad news for you. The Guardian is worried “today’s technologies are going to remove people from economic activity completely.” Wrong tense: the right question is what is happening. It’s the same around the world. Think you’re safe because you don’t work in a factory? Retail? Retail now employs fewer people than it did in 1999. Even lawyers, financiers, and surgeons aren’t safe. Oh, you work in tech? It’s like the global economy has forked into two tracks: tech, which boomed right through the Great Recession, and just keeps booming on, and nobody can hire enough engineers…and everyone else. It’s happening right in the heart of Silicon Valley. Which is great for those of us in tech, right? I want to stress again that this is only the beginning — that as software eats the world, as Marc Andreessen put it, this two-track economy will grow ever more divergent around the planet. At least I hope so.
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Scolopendra gigantea
Scolopendra gigantea , also known as the Peruvian giant yellow-leg centipede or Amazonian giant centipede , is one of the largest representatives of the genus Scolopendra with a length up to 30 cm (12 in). [ 1 ] It can be found in various places of South America and the Caribbean, where it preys on a great variety of animals, including other sizable arthropods , amphibians , mammals and reptiles . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] These arthropods have surged in popularity among collectors of exotic pets. [ 4 ] They are known to be very aggressive and nervous. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Description [ edit ] Man holding Scolopendra gigantea The Peruvian giant centipede is among the largest species of centipedes which can regularly reach lengths of 26 cm (10 in) and can be up to 30 cm (12 in) or even more. [ 1 ] In common with other members of the genus Scolopendra , the body of this species has 21 or 23 well-marked sections with each section having one pair of legs. Habitat [ edit ] Distribution [ edit ] Venom [ edit ]
M3 the Wolverine
M3 the Wolverine There's a reason why Patrick Swayze and his rag-tag band of anti-Communist rebel suburban Russkie-blasting guerillas called themselves Wolverines, and it's not just because their high school intramural class-six-A women's volleyball team had the word emblazoned across their sports bras during competition play – it's because wolverines are some of the most serious, hardcore, face-obliterating badasses of the animal world. Ferocious, two-foot-tall killing machines capable of dismembering all who oppose them in a frenzied torrent of gnashing sharp pointy teeth and adorable malevolence and then trotting off into the snow-covered sub-zero wasteland like a pissed-off cartoon character. The semi-related North American, Arctic Circle cousins of the infamous Honey Badgers , Wolverines are the largest member of the weasel family, which, quite honestly, doesn't sound all that badass – it's like being a Mega Hamster or the World's Biggest Titmouse or something. This is a wolverine:
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How the Case for Austerity Has Crumbled by Paul Krugman
The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire by Neil Irwin Penguin, 430 pp., $29.95 Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Blyth Oxford University Press, 288 pp., $24.95 The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David A. PublicAffairs, 742 pp., $35.00 In normal times, an arithmetic mistake in an economics paper would be a complete nonevent as far as the wider world was concerned. Why? Indeed, Reinhart-Rogoff may have had more immediate influence on public debate than any previous paper in the history of economics. The real mystery, however, was why Reinhart-Rogoff was ever taken seriously, let alone canonized, in the first place. So why wasn’t there more caution? In the beginning was the bubble. All that was needed to collapse these houses of cards was some kind of adverse shock, and in the end the implosion of US subprime-based securities did the deed. Why is this a problem? So was a second Great Depression about to unfold?
Schizophrenic Brains Not Fooled by Optical Illusion | Wired Science
Schizophrenia sufferers aren’t fooled by an optical illusion known as the “hollow mask” that the rest of us fall for because connections between the sensory and conceptual areas of their brains might be on the fritz. In the hollow mask illusion, viewers perceive a concave face (like the back side of a hollow mask) as a normal convex face. The illusion exploits our brain’s strategy for making sense of the visual world: uniting what it actually sees — known as bottom-up processing — with what it expects to see based on prior experience — known as top-down processing. "Our top-down processing holds memories, like stock models," explains Danai Dima of Hannover Medical University, in Germany, co-author of a study in NeuroImage. "All the models in our head have a face coming out, so whenever we see a face, of course if has to come out." This powerful expectation overrides visual cues, like shadows and depth information, that indicate anything to the contrary. See Also: Image: Flickr/atöm
TIL that Gandalf from Lord of the Rings is the same 'being' as the ancient Balrog demon that he fought. : todayilearned
My sister is an American studying abroad in Istanbul, Turkey. Her message to me this morning. : self
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