Crisis of Faith in the Financial System
An interesting look into current money with ming dynasty’s paper money - http://pulse.me/s/55zGT
Italian American beast
Desmo head on a Harley. Why? Because he can.
A Room in the Roof:
An interesting showcase of how an attic space can be every bit as nice as a regular room.
Via Rafael Pinto.
A Blind Man Shocks Researchers with What He Sees
It is not uncommon for stroke patients to suffer brain damage, but the case of one patient was peculiar. This patient was, by his own account, completely blind. Two consecutive strokes had destroyed the visual cortex of his brain, and consequently, his ability to see. His first stroke had injured only one hemisphere of his visual cortex. About five weeks later, a second stroke damaged the other hemisphere. An assessment of his brain function revealed that after two strokes, the patient, who was in his 50s, was clinically blind.
Known as selective bilateral occipital damage, this patients’s unusual injury made him the subject of much interest while recovering at a hospital in Geneva. Researchers began examining him and discovered that despite his blindness, he had maintained the ability to detect emotion on a person’s face. He responded appropriately— with emotions such as joy, fear, and anger— to a variety of facial expressions. Observed activity in his amygdala— the part of the brain responsible for processing emotions— confirmed the curious results.
His rare condition is known as blindsight. Because his stroke damaged only his visual cortex, his eyes remain functional and as a result can still gather information from his environment. He simply lacks the visual cortex to process and interpret it. Sight has changed from a conscious to a largely subconscious experience. He no longer has a definitive picture of his surroundings, but he has retained an innate awareness of his position in the world. He is, to some degree, able to see without being aware that he is seeing.
Democracy explained!
The real reason MegaUpload was shut down?
In December of 2011, it was reported by Digital Music News that the creators of MegaUpload were rolling out plans for a new cloud based music service that had the potential to change the music industry.
Called Megabox, it would have created an alternative to record labels as a means for…
Liberty.: The Root of SOPA.
The new legislation certainly has its deep legal flaws (i.e. guilty by accidental association), but we need to realize that SOPA is only a consistent extension of intellectual property enforcement, nothing else.
SOPA is an increase in government power, so attempts to pin this on the free…
Human trafficking? From the video description this might happen in Malaysia. The language is Myanmar (based on comments too).
p/s: Sometimes I feel like delivering vigilante justice
Obamney 2012 LOL
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If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.
Lysander Spooner
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There will be a time and a place when Neely will tell his children — the oldest is now 10 — about Guantanamo. I will “give them all the information and let them make their own opinion … I’ll just tell them the truth … I will tell them that I have been part of it.”
Neely initially contacted Rasul via Facebook and then met with Ahmed and Rasul, the two former British detainees, in London almost two years ago.
Neely wanted to get in touch with them to say that he was sorry for the part he played in their detention at Guantanamo. “I was very nervous to meet them,” Neely said. He did not know what might happen. “I wasn’t sure if they would hate me, yell at me,” he added. “I can honestly say though when I left London I left with two more friends then I arrived with.”
Programming in reality