June 16, 2013
Mohenjo
Technical
a rather curious dichotomy, amazon, animal welfare, anthropomorphise, business, climate, compassion fatigue, dehumanise, dichotomy, Environment, fatigue, gaming, Health, huffington post, huffingtonpost, human rights abuses, human-rights, humans anthropomorphise, humans dehumanise, mental-health, politics, religion, research, Science, Science News, society, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video, videogames
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Two things humans often do: We anthropomorphise, and we dehumanise. Which is, if you think about it, a rather curious dichotomy: when we anthropomorphise, we ascribe human characteristics to inhuman beings, and when we dehumanise, we do the opposite, denying the full and equal humanity of other members of our own species. The classic example of this is someone who invests deeply in animal welfare, but doesn’t care about human rights abuses. Obviously, it’s possible to feel passionate about both, and there’s also the issue of compassion fatigue: There’s only so much we can care about before we reach a sort of emotional event horizon and start to shut down.
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Foz Meadows, YA urban fantasy writer, author of the novels Solace and Grief and The Key to Starveldt.
Foz is also a prolific blogger, writing about feminism, pop culture, politics and more both at her own place Shattersnipe: Malcontent & Rainbows and over at The Huffington Post. Foz’s posts constantly blow our minds away so we just had to invite her over for this year’s Smugglivus.
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June 16, 2013
Mohenjo
Technical
aids epidemic, amazon, broadcast documentaries, business, challenger deep, coastal living magazine, David Gallo, David Gallo's 'Underwater Astonishments', Environment, herman melville, Hotels, huffingtonpost, Jim Cameron, mapped 100 percent of the Moon and Mars, mapped less than 10 percent of the ocean, mapping ocean, Ocean Science, Pacific's Challenger Deep, prairie dog burrows, research, rovers to Mars, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
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We’ve mapped less than 10 percent of the ocean with the resolution we’ve mapped 100 percent of the Moon and Mars, and yet when we send rovers to Mars what’s the first sign of life they probe for? Water. David Gallo’s ‘Underwater Astonishments’ reminds us of how little we know about our own blue marble planet and the 97 percent of its livable habitat that is saltwater. Remember that we air-breathing terrestrials only inhabit about 300 feet of space from prairie dog burrows to the tops of the trees where birds nest. Above that is only heaven and space. Hundreds of people have now gone into space, calling it “the last frontier,” but last year Jim Cameron became only the third human being ever to reach the lowest point on our planet, seven miles down in the Pacific’s Challenger Deep.
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David Helvarg is Executive Director of Blue Frontier Campaign (www.bluefront.org) and the author of five books: Blue Frontier, The War Against the Greens, 50 Ways to Save the Ocean, Rescue Warriors and Saved by the Sea. He is editor of the Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide, organizer of several ‘Blue Vision’ Summits for ocean activists, and winner of Coastal Living Magazine’s 2005 Leadership Award and the 2007 Herman Melville Literary Award. Helvarg worked as a war correspondent in Northern Ireland and Central America, covered a range of issues from military science to the AIDS epidemic, and reported from every continent including Antarctica. An award-winning journalist, he produced more than 40 broadcast documentaries for PBS, The Discovery Channel, and others. His print work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, LA Times, Smithsonian, Popular Science, Sierra, and The Nation. He’s done radio work for Marketplace, AP radio, and Pacifica. He has led workshops for journalists in Poland, Turkey, Tunisia, Slovakia and Washington DC. He is a licensed Private Investigator, body-surfer and scuba diver.
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June 15, 2013
Mohenjo
Arts
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“Stamford is going to just flood artists”
The streets of downtown Stamford will transform into one large art exhibit this weekend for the City’s first ever Artwalk. The free event, created by the Stamford Downtown Special Services District, will showcase more than 90 artists in shops, restaurants, and galleries downtown.
Stamford DSSD President Sandy Goldstein says, “We want to make sure that people recognize the downtown as an art venue.”
Patrons can visit over 35 venues on the Artwalk route, where they will run into live music, performances, and special activities a long the way.
Artwalk curator Valerie Cooper says, “It’s just a wonderful conglomerate of diversity, culture, of different nationalities, and my vision was to put something together that reflected exactly what Stamford sort of stands for.”
The Old Town Hall Museum and UConn’s campus art gallery are just two of six participating galleries that will feature special exhibits for the event.
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Artwalk curator Valerie Cooper
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June 15, 2013
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Business
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“Fox & Friends” says 15-year-old Madison Robinson has sold over $1 million worth of flip flops. Her Fish Flops are already
sold in Nordstrom, a place Madison never imagined her shoes would be. KRIV says Nordstrom sells the shoes in 60 stores across the country. Daily Mail says the money Madison has already earned is going towards her college tuition. She plans to study business in college and grow her Fish Flops empire. The shoes sell for $25 a pair.
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June 14, 2013
Mohenjo
Medical
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A 10-year-old girl whose efforts to qualify for an organ donation spurred public debate over how organs are allocated underwent a successful double-lung transplant on Wednesday, the girl’s family said.
Sarah Murnaghan, who suffers from severe cystic fibrosis, received new lungs from an adult donor at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, spokeswoman Tracy Simon said.
The Murnaghan family said it was “thrilled” to share the news that Sarah was out of surgery.
“Her doctors are very pleased with both her progress during the procedure and her prognosis for recovery,” the family said in a statement.
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June 13, 2013
Mohenjo
Science
amazon, Brain Controls Robot, brain waves, business, Electroencephalography, flying robot, huffingtonpost, journal of neural engineering, Mind Control, Mind Controlled Drone, Mind Controls Robot, Mind-Controlled Helicopter, Mind-Controlled Robot, motor cortex, research, Robot, Robot Mind, Robotics, Science, Science News, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, test flights, tiny electrical currents, travel, vacation, Video
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Imagine being able to control a flying robot with your mind.
Sounds like a flight of fancy, but researchers at the University of Minnesota have fashioned an electrode-studded cap that records brain waves and uses them to control a “quadcopter” via wi-fi. Results of the copter’s test flights were published in the June issue of the Journal of Neural Engineering.
How does it work? “It’s completely noninvasive. Nobody has to have a chip implanted in their brain to pick up the neuronal activity,” biomedical engineering student and one of the paper’s authors, Karl LaFleur, said in a written statement.
Thinking about moving a body part makes cells in an area of the brain called the motor cortex produce tiny electrical currents. The cap sends this information to a computer, which translates it into directions for the copter.
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June 12, 2013
Mohenjo
Crime
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Carbon monoxide poisoning is likely to blame for the recent death of an 11-year-old boy in a motel room and the deaths of a couple found inside the same motel room nearly two months ago, police said.
Emergency responders found carbon monoxide in the room where Jeffrey Williams of Rock Hill, S.C., died Saturday, Boone police said in a news release Monday. Investigators said a preliminary autopsy found the boy died of asphyxia, which happens when toxic gases cut off oxygen to the body. State medical examiners will conduct toxicology tests on samples taken from the boy’s body.
Jeffrey’s 49-year-old mother, Jeannie Williams, was rushed to a hospital and survived.
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June 12, 2013
Mohenjo
Crime
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Police investigating why a heavily armed gunman plotted a rampage that killed four people and wounded several others were focused Saturday on how the violence began: directed at his own family.
What started as domestic violence led to a chaotic street shooting spree and ended less than 15 minutes later in a college library where the gunman was killed Friday by police as students studying for finals ran for cover or hunkered down to avoid whizzing bullets.
Investigators were looking at family connections to find a motive because the killer’s father and brother were the first victims, an official briefed on the probe who requested anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly told The Associated Press.
The killer, who died a day shy of his 24th birthday, was connected to the home that went up in flames after the first shootings, said Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks. She refused to elaborate or name the suspect because a surviving family member was out of the country and couldn’t immediately be notified.
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Realtives of two victims who were killed during the Santa Monica College shootings are overcome with grief near the scene where an SUV crashed throught the wall of a parking lot across the street from the college June 7, 2013 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
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June 12, 2013
Mohenjo
Crime
amazon, aviation, business, cars, Crime, Crime News, current-events, Health, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, Minnesota, Minnesota Crime, Montia Marie Parker, Montia Marie Parker Minnesota Cheerleader, Montia Parker, Mug Shots, politics, research, Science, Science News, Slideshow, super-bowl, technology, Technology News, transportation, travel, vacation, Video
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A Minnesota high school cheerleader has been arrested after police say she prostituted a teammate who has a developmental cognitive delay.
Montia Marie Parker, an 18-year-old senior at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, was said to be popular among her classmates. Her future, however, is now on hold, pending the outcome of charges that were recently levied against her for sex trafficking and promoting prostitution.
“This particular situation is highly unusual for us. We’ve never had a situation like this before,” Chief Mark Raquet, of the Minnetonka Police Department, told The Huffington Post.
According to a copy of the criminal complaint provided to HuffPost by the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, the investigation into Parker began on March 9, when the parent of a 16-year-old girl contacted local police and told them she found disturbing text messages on her daughter’s phone.
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Montia Parker, a Minnesota high school cheerleader, has been charged with sex trafficking.
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June 9, 2013
Mohenjo
Human Interest
amazon, aviation, Beth Israel Medical Center, business, Business News, climate, current-events, Health, Hotels, huffingtonpost, huguette clark, Huguette Clark Beth Israel, Huguette Clark Fortune, Huguette Clark Hospital, Huguette Clark Hospital Donations, Huguette Clark Scandal, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, occupy-wall-street, politics, research, Science, Science News, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, transportation, travel, vacation, Video
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“Sharing is caring,” goes the old saying. But you may want to get a second opinion when the “caring” is done by a hospital, and the “sharing” is that same hospital scheming to siphon off part of your $300 million estate.
That’s the charge made in recently filed court documents involving Huguette Clark, a reclusive, extremely wealthy heiress who died in May 2011 at the age of 104 after having spent the last two decades of her life at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. Over the course of those 20 years, officials at the nonprofit hospital may have engaged in what The New York Times has termed “an all-out fundraising campaign” to extract donations from Clark.
Clark was originally admitted to the hospital in 1991 at the age of 85, after she was found emaciated and in poor health in her Fifth Avenue apartment. After receiving treatment for a skin cancer that had disfigured her face, reports the New York Post, she continued to stay in various rooms in the hospital, even though, court documents state, there was likely “no medical basis for keeping her.”
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