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sissij

The Right Way to Fall - The New York Times - 1 views

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new york times psychology science

shared by sissij on 27 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • According to paratroopers, stunt professionals, physical therapists and martial arts instructors, there is indeed a “right way” to fall — and it can save you a lot of grief if you know how to do it.
  • The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality estimates that falls cause more than a third of injury-related emergency room visits, around 7.9 million a year.
  • Moreover, falling straight forward or backward raises the risk of damaging your spine and vital organs.
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  • You similarly don’t want to come crashing down on your knee so you break your kneecap or do that maneuver where you kind of pedal with your feet to catch yourself, which can lead to broken bones in your foot and ankle.
  • Paratroopers’ goal is to fall sideways in the direction the wind is carrying them — in no way resisting the momentum of the fall. When the balls of their feet barely reach the ground, they immediately distribute the impact in rapid sequence up through the calf to the thigh and buttocks.
  • Accept that you’re falling and go with it, round your body, and don’t stiffen and distribute the energy so you take the fall in the widest area possible,
  • Young children are arguably the best fallers because they have yet to develop fear or embarrassment, so they just tumble and roll without tensing up and trying to catch themselves.
  • sissij on 27 Jan 17
     
    There are techniques and science even in how you choose to fall. After reading this article, I sort of take the advice metaphorically. In the article, it said: "Accept that you're falling and go with it, round your body, and don't stiffen and distribute the energy so you take the fall in the widest area possible." I think it also applies to times when we meet some obstacles and fall in our life. We sometimes just have to accept the grieve and go with it. Although there are many novels depicting heroes going against their fall, as individuals in the reality, I think the better way to deal with our down point is to go with it and let it fade away. Always have your pain and grief at a high concentration will only lead to a broken heart. --Sissi (1/26/2017)
sissij

All the Ways Your Wi-Fi Router Can Spy on You - The Atlantic - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...497132

technology wi-fi science

shared by sissij on 26 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • But it can also be used to monitor humans—and in surprisingly detailed ways.
  • y analyzing the exact ways that a Wi-Fi signal is altered when a human moves through it, researchers can “see” what someone writes with their finger in the air, identify a particular person by the way that they walk, and even read a person’s lips with startling accuracy—in some cases even if a router isn’t in the same room as the person performing the actions.
  • Many researchers presented their Wi-Fi sensing technology as a way to preserve privacy while still capturing important data.
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  • Ali said the system only works in controlled environments, and with rigorous training. “So, it is not a big privacy concern for now, no worries there,” wrote Ali, a Ph.D. student at Michigan State University, in an email.
  • Routers could soon keep kids and older adults safe, log daily activities, or make a smart home run more smoothly—but, if invaded by a malicious hacker, they could also be turned into incredibly sophisticated hubs for monitoring and surveillance.
  • sissij on 26 Jan 17
     
    Everything has pros and cons. Gain always comes with loss. The development of new technology always comes with concerns. It reminded me of the scientific findings in quantum that leads to the invention of the atomic bombs. I think this wifi sensor technology can make our life much more convenient. Science enables us to see the world differently. --Sissi (1/25/2017)
bennetttony

Government 'tried to bury' its own frightening report on climate change - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...d-burying-report-a7540726.html

science environment

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  • bennetttony on 26 Jan 17
     
    The Government has been accused of trying to bury a major report about the potential dangers of global warming to Britain - including the doubling of the deaths during heatwaves, a "significant risk" to supplies of food and the prospect of infrastructure damage from flooding.
bennetttony

Google has banned 200 publishers in the three months since it passed a new policy again... - 0 views

www.recode.net/...vertisers-publishers-fake-news

technology social media bias

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  • bennetttony on 26 Jan 17
     
    The company routinely weeds out "bad ads." Now it weeds out more bad ad publishers, too.
sissij

Marchers Pour Into Washington to Pour Out Their Hearts - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ns-march-washington-trump.html

new york times social media language

shared by sissij on 25 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • No one seemed to mind. By the time the Women’s March on Washington officially began at 10 a.m., the protesters had arrived in a force so large that they surprised even themselves, spilling over the National Mall and the streets of the capital a day after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as president.
  • When he gave everybody a phone number to call Congress, the crowd repeated it back loudly, many smiling and nodding.
  • People were playful with their signs. There was “Cyborgs for Civility,” and “Women Geologists Rock.” Another said, “1933 Called. Don’t Answer.” A white sign in black marker read: “I know signs. I make the best signs. They’re terrific. Everyone agrees.”
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  • But there was also seriousness. Mary Robinson, 60, from a rural part of Northern Arizona, said she felt energized by the march, but the work ahead seemed hard.
  • “They are in rural America where there’s no jobs, no technology, and many people live on government subsidies. It’s not that they are ignorant or stupid, they are just uninformed.”
  • sissij on 25 Jan 17
     
    This Saturday I went to Philadelphia and there were a lot of police cars blocking the roads and I was wondering why they were doing that. Now I know that there was a protest going on. The presidency of Trump is surely not celebrated by many people in this region. And after reading this article, I think there is a new attitude in protest. I really like the scene described in this article that people are actually being playful with their sign. I think this new attitude is a new spice in protest and add on new possibilities of protest. If we are always being serious about everything then the world would seem so stressful. How about take a step back, reduce the tension and look at the issue more playfully. I think the best protest is not shouting slogans angrily. I think both side should leave some space and respect to each other. --Sissi (1/24/2017)
bennetttony

Cathars and Cathar Beliefs in the Languedoc - 0 views

www.cathar.info

religion

shared by bennetttony on 24 Jan 17 - Cached
  • bennetttony on 24 Jan 17
     
    An interesting medieval European religion I found out about called Cathar. Apparently, it was a splinter off of Christianity and they held beliefs like gender equality and they tolerated homosexuality. People so long ago accepted things that we are still fighting for today.
bennetttony

Why and How Does Consciousness Seem the Way it Seems? - 0 views

ase.tufts.edu/...whyhowconsciousness.pdf

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  • bennetttony on 24 Jan 17
     
    Interesting article that explores consciousness and how we perceive it.
sissij

Earning a Degree, and Her Daughters' Admiration - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...cases-fund-college-degree.html

new york times education psychology

shared by sissij on 23 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • Now Ms. Hopewell, 37, is ebullient, and full of smiles, hugs and laughs. After spending the last three and a half years studying forensic psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Midtown, it was official: She was a college graduate, the first in her family.
  • “But at the end of the day I know it’s beneficial for my family and I want bigger and better things, and I have to do it.”
  • I want to leave a legacy for my kids when I leave this earth, and living paycheck to paycheck is not going to get it.
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  • The straight-A student said she hoped to study neuroscience at Harvard one day.
  • She hopes they see from her experiences that education is the best way to avoid repeating her struggles.
  • “This experience showed me that I’m raising well-rounded young ladies who can adapt to any situation and make the best of it,” Ms. Hopewell said. “Their capabilities are endless.”
  • sissij on 23 Jan 17
     
    This article is very inspiring. This is an example of how education can get someone to a higher and better place. Education is something that's worth investing. I really like one thing that she said: "I want to leave a legacy for my kids when I leave this earth, and living paycheck to paycheck is not going to get it." Although for many of us here, attending to college is a must-to-do thing, for many other people, attending colleges a dream, an ultimate goal. Many of us go to college and just waste another four years there. But for Ms. Hopewell, the college education polished her and made her a complete new person. I just think it's interesting that why we get completely different outcomes from having college education?  I think it's because we never put much effort in getting a college education as Ms. Hopewell did, so the force effect doesn't give us the pride of commitment. --Sissi (1/23/2017)
sissij

A Scar on the Chinese Soul - The New York Times - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...-scar-on-the-chinese-soul.html

new york times language social media

shared by sissij on 19 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • It “is that the Chinese, without direct orders, were so cruel to each other.”
  • Cultural Revolution trauma differs from that related to other horrific events, like the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide, studies have noted, in part because in China, people were persecuted not for “unalterable” characteristics such as ethnicity and race, but for having the wrong frame of mind.
  • neither joining the Red Guards nor believing in Maoism protected someone from suffering long-term trauma.
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  • The blurry distinction between perpetrators and victims makes collective healing by confronting the past a thorny project.
  • The idea that life experiences could cause inheritable genetic changes has been identified among children of Holocaust survivors, who have been shown to have an increased likelihood of stress-related illnesses.
  • The possibility of epigenetic inheritance has been raised by Chinese academics regarding the Cultural Revolution, but to research the topic would most certainly invite state punishment.
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      sissij on 19 Jan 17
       
      I think this article is a little bit exaggerating. Nobody is perfect, even the Mao that saved China from the hand of the Japanese. The title "a scar on the Chinese soul" is just too heavy. It is only showing one perspective of the event and it can be misleading to the general population America. From a media course I took during the winter break, it shows that there are cultural elements influencing the media inevitably. For America, the key words are "freedom", "supremacy", "heroism", "democracy"... I can see those elements influencing the view of the author in this article. And he is not the only one. There is a book called "Street of Eternal Happiness". It is also talking about Chinese suffering. There is confirmation bias in whom the author is interviewing and what data he is using in support to his argument. --Sissi (1/19/2017)
sissij

The Stem-Cell Revolution Is Coming - Slowly - The New York Times - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...hinya-yamanaka-stem-cells.html

new york times science social media

shared by sissij on 17 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • In 2001, President George W. Bush issued an executive order banning federal funding for new sources of stem cells developed from preimplantation human embryos. The action stalled research and discouraged scientists.
  • re-energized the field by devising a technique to “reprogram” any adult cell, such as a skin cell, and coax it back to its earliest “pluripotent” stage. From there it can become any type of cell, from a heart muscle cell to a neuron.
  • But it’s a double-edged sword. After multiple cell cycles, the chances of mutations increases.
  • sissij on 17 Jan 17
     
    In Biology, we learned that the study for stem cells has been halted because of the ethic issues on whether embryos should be count as human life. Now, there is this new technique that can induce skin cello its earliest "pluripotent" stage. With this technique,the study of stem cells and continue and flourish to benefit patients who need to have new cells that aren't mutated. It's surprised to see that how fast science is progressing. The science wielder at school might not be the science up to date.--Sissi (1/17/2017)
oliviaodon

Yes, It's Your Parents' Fault - The New York Times - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...es-its-your-parents-fault.html

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      oliviaodon on 16 Jan 17
       
      An interesting article about the attachment theory influenced by evolution.
maxwellokolo

Beijing's smog: A tale of two cities - 0 views

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  • maxwellokolo on 16 Jan 17
     
    Next, it's time to start making breakfast. She's already made sure all the groceries come from an organic farm. She'll wash her produce with tap water filtered through a separate treatment system under her sink. But that water isn't for drinking -- there's imported bottled water for that.
maxwellokolo

Ultra-rare galaxy could be 'one of a kind' - 0 views

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  • maxwellokolo on 16 Jan 17
     
    A few years ago, it caught the attention of researcher Patrick Treuthardt as he analyzed a span of galaxies. At first, he thought it was a small, fairly common elliptical galaxy that happened to be more circular than usual. But a closer look revealed that he had stumbled across something incredibly rare.
maxwellokolo

Lemons teach about breast cancer - 0 views

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  • maxwellokolo on 16 Jan 17
     
    "Had I not seen that photo, I would have assumed that it was an indentation from the underwire of my bra," Chieze, 38, a nursing student at West Hills College in Lemoore, California, told CNN. Within five days of noticing the indentation, she was told she had breast cancer.
maxwellokolo

What could happen to birth control under Trump? - 0 views

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  • maxwellokolo on 16 Jan 17
     
    Tweets and Facebook posts about getting intrauterine devices, or IUDs, swept social media Wednesday as women warned each other that their access to birth control might dwindle once the President-elect takes office next year.
sandrine_h

Does nonpartisan journalism have a future? - 0 views

theconversation.com/journalism-have-a-future-70384

shared by sandrine_h on 16 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • Media outlets make decisions about how to position themselves within a market and how to signal to news consumers what kinds outlets they are in ideological terms. But they also interact strategically with politicians, who use journalists’ ideological leanings and accusations of leanings to undermine the credibility of even the most valid criticisms.
  • While Republican politicians have decried liberal media bias for decades, none has done so as vehemently as Trump, who polarizes the media in a way that may not leave an escape.
  • These media outlets, though, muddy the signals: A nonpartisan journalist strives to levy valid criticism, but a partisan journalist will always criticize the opposing party. Thus a weakly informed voter will have a difficult time distinguishing between, say, a valid accusation from a nonpartisan journalist that a Republican is lying and partisan bias from a left-wing journalist who fails to acknowledge that bias.
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  • Unfortunately, then, the nonpartisan press is essentially stuck, at least until Donald Trump is out of office. While there is no longer a “he said, she said” campaign, the fact that Trump is not only the president but the head of the Republican Party makes his statements informal positions of the Republican Party. For the press to attack those statements as lies is to place themselves in opposition to the Republican Party, making them de facto Democratic partisans. Because Trump is an entertainer rather than a policymaker, it is difficult for the press to even interview him as a normal political figure since he does not respond to facts in conventional ways. Each time he lies, any media outlet that aspires to objectivity must decide whether to point it out – which would make it indistinguishable from the Democratic-aligned press – or to allow the lie to go unremarked, thereby remaining complicit in the lie, tacitly aiding the Republican Party. Neither is likely to inform anyone in any meaningful way, which renders the model of the neutral press nearly inoperable.
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