Saturday, December 15, 2012
The Lasting Memory of the Hawthorne Effect
The Lasting Memory of the Hawthorne Effect:
A lengthy look at a controversial study aimed at increasing worker productivity.
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A lengthy look at a controversial study aimed at increasing worker productivity.
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Friday, December 14, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
More Than Human: Tim Flach’s Striking Portraits of Animals
More Than Human: Tim Flach’s Striking Portraits of Animals:
Sentient beings like you’ve never seen them before.
“Erasing the awe-inspiring variety of sentient life impoverishes all our lives,” historian Joanna Bourke wrote in her poignant meditation on what it means to be human. And yet our relationship with animals and our understanding of their inner lives remains inadequate at best.
In 2010, photographer Tim Flach gave us his extraordinary dog portraits. This year, he’s back with More Than Human (UK; public library) — a collection of striking, expressive portraits of our non-human fellow beings, captured with equal parts tenderness and aesthetic elegance.
Despite the sciency sterility of his words, perhaps Darwin was ultimately right in a broader philosophical sense when he reflected in The Descent of Man:
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Sentient beings like you’ve never seen them before.
“Erasing the awe-inspiring variety of sentient life impoverishes all our lives,” historian Joanna Bourke wrote in her poignant meditation on what it means to be human. And yet our relationship with animals and our understanding of their inner lives remains inadequate at best.In 2010, photographer Tim Flach gave us his extraordinary dog portraits. This year, he’s back with More Than Human (UK; public library) — a collection of striking, expressive portraits of our non-human fellow beings, captured with equal parts tenderness and aesthetic elegance.
Despite the sciency sterility of his words, perhaps Darwin was ultimately right in a broader philosophical sense when he reflected in The Descent of Man:
The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, is certainly one of degree and not of kind. We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention, curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.See more of Flach’s breathtaking work on his site and treat yourself to the full glory of More Than Human, for the screen hardly does it justice.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
12/10/12 PHD comic: 'The Fingerprint of Stars'
12/10/12 PHD comic: 'The Fingerprint of Stars':
| Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham | www.phdcomics.com | |
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title: "The Fingerprint of Stars" - originally published 12/10/2012 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE! | ||
Monday, December 10, 2012
Yoko Ono's Cover of Katy Perry's 'Firework' Is the Best Thing Ever
Yoko Ono's Cover of Katy Perry's 'Firework' Is the Best Thing Ever:
I am not being hyperbolic when I say that Yoko Ono's performance of Katy Perry's "Firework" is my favorite thing in the entire world. Such spirit! Such whimsy! Maybe if we beg enough, she'll cover the entire Katy Perry catalog. More »
US Air Force readies X37-B space plane for a third classified flight
US Air Force readies X37-B space plane for a third classified flight: 
The mysterious X37-B plane is headed back to space tomorrow for a third mission, though we're still no closer to knowing exactly what the United States Air Force is using the aircraft for. Yet again the cargo being carried inside the unmanned Orbital Test Vehicle during OTV-3 is heavily classified. The Air Force is touting one aspect of the mission however, and that's reusability. The X37-B plane being readied for OTV-3 was the same one used in the inaugural 224-day OTV-1 flight in 2010. Officials say repurposing the aircraft in this manner demonstrates "a reliable, reusable, unmanned space test platform for the United States Air Force."
OTV-2 returned in June after an extensive 469-day mission — 200 days longer than originally...
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The mysterious X37-B plane is headed back to space tomorrow for a third mission, though we're still no closer to knowing exactly what the United States Air Force is using the aircraft for. Yet again the cargo being carried inside the unmanned Orbital Test Vehicle during OTV-3 is heavily classified. The Air Force is touting one aspect of the mission however, and that's reusability. The X37-B plane being readied for OTV-3 was the same one used in the inaugural 224-day OTV-1 flight in 2010. Officials say repurposing the aircraft in this manner demonstrates "a reliable, reusable, unmanned space test platform for the United States Air Force."
OTV-2 returned in June after an extensive 469-day mission — 200 days longer than originally...
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