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What are you reading right now?

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:04:37 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: Clippers, what books are you reading right now? What was the last book you read?

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Laughter is the best medicine

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:52:32 GMT

clipped by: willhelm

Clip Source: www.nature.com

When stressed out, the body constricts blood vessels, elevates the production of potentially damaging stress hormones, and raises blood pressure. Short periods of stress are normal and not dangerous, but over long periods of time stress weakens the immune system and makes heart problems more likely.

In 2005 researchers found that laughing lowers blood pressure, but the biochemical mechanism within the body remained unclear. Now Lee Berk at Loma Linda University in California and his colleagues have revealed part of the answer.

Back in 2006, Berk and his colleagues found that merely anticipating laughter boosted the production of mood-elevating hormones called β-endorphins and the immunity-enhancing human growth hormone by 27% and 87%, respectively. This led the team to wonder whether the link between lowered blood pressure and laughter could be the result of laughter somehow interfering with the production of stress hormones.

Beautiful eyes

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:37:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sorry, some of the pictures didn't come through and I'm too lazy to reclip.

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bicolor eye (heterochromia)

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Tags: eyes, physiology, anatomy

ClipMarks commits to deactivating hostile commenters

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:23:36 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Bravo! "You must treat others who are on the site with respect and civility if you want to remain on it." When a person who is unwilling to abide by the EULA, or who habitually crosses the line between vigorous debate of an issue and putting down the clipper who raised it, users go into hiding. Please, CM, enforce the boundary - dump abusers.

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I’ve had it

it seems to only take a few exceptions for a powerful, disruptive friction to grow that interferes with the positive nature and flow of the site. Not only that, but it is literally exhausting. Deciding whether to fight back or simply ignore mean spirited, antagonistic comments is not an enjoyable or productive way to spend your time. I want to be very clear. I am not suggesting that people should agree with other or that they even have to be friendly towards each other. But you must treat others who are on the site with respect and civility if you want to remain on it. Otherwise, I will deactivate your account.

Clipmarks.com will be a place where people can share information, ideas and opinions in a civilized, respectful way.

Tags: clipmarks, internet, web

Copy Editing America

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:06:56 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: I applaud this man. I think he hits the nail on the head when he said that mistakes breed mistakes.

I realize that a language is an evolving entity, but it still irks me when a word gets added to the dictionary (thus legitimizing it) because it becomes overused incorrectly.

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Some of the littlest things are big to Jeff Deck, who is traveling the country in search of mistakes.

This 28-year-old Dartmouth graduate is crossing America searching for and correcting typographical errors in public places.

"The apostrophe shows up when it's not wanted and is never there when you need it," he said as he walked along Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, finding plenty of typos wherever he looked.

"I've always been aware of typos wherever I go," he said dryly. "I figured that it was a national problem."

It's all documented on his Web site for The Typo Eradication Assistance League (Teal).

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He said it is partly a failure of education but also that people have stopped caring about spelling.

And, he said, mistakes breed mistakes. When someone sees "strawberry's" in print, they think it's correct.

"We try not to be jerks about it," he said.

It's just really about going after the errors themselves."

Tags: language, ediitng, mistakes, spelling, grammar, punctuation

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:13:26 GMT

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The Passion Of The Wolf Within Me

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Herman Hesse, by Andy Warhol

Jung’s typology also promotes Nietzsche’s concept of the Übermensch, the man who is naturally superior to all other men.

Treatise On The Steppenwolf, explains that every man has two equally true natures, one spiritual, high, and human, and the other low, base, and animalistic, and that they are often in combat. Haller becomes increasinly desperate and unhinged, isolated from society and incapable of interacting with the real world. He feels his genius has made him a hedonistic monster, an individualistic wolf among follower sheep.

He dreams about Goethe and obsesses over Mozart, declaring him the perfect genius for his skills combining musical order and chaos, creating what Haller calls the The Golden Thread connecting works with immortal artistic merit throughout time. Haller meets a pleasure-seeking younger woman named Hermie, and witnesses the joy with which she experiences life, and it inspires him to keep living

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HESSE

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Birds

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:57:30 GMT

clipped by: vickybaranwal

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Tags: birds, pics, beautiful

Art of the Doomed.

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:42:06 GMT

clipped by: mickfinn
clipper's remarks: Many of the artists of these clipped works perished in the camps of the Nazis.

Clip Source: www.english.uiuc.edu

The Sowers by Thomas Hart Benton, 1942

Threesome (1944), by Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944)

Children as well as adults documented events of the Holocaust through art

Laufen (undated), by Josef Nassy (1904-1976), a Black expatriate of Jewish descent
who was one of 2,000 internees with American passports held prisoner in
Germany during WWII

1942. Esther Lurie

described here new deportees arriving
in the ghetto

Unable to Work by David Olère

Inability to work was often an immediate death sentence

By Felix Nussbaum. Born in 1904, he died at Auschwitz in 1944

The Food of the Dead for the Living

Jews in the Hospital, by Aldo Carpi, 1945

"Forced Labor - Building a Tunnel" by David Olere, 1945.
Given severely limited food rations, prisoners
were exploited in hard labor, such as the digging
of a tunnel, depicted here in watercolor and
charcoal. Those unable to work were killed.
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Kommando, by Fernand Van Horen

a Belgian survivor

Normal Life in Flossenburg

Gassing

"Zyclon B cans"

Arrival of a Convoy

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Great Train Journeys of the World

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:35:04 GMT

clipped by: mickfinn

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Switzerland: The Bernina Express

This takes you over the highest rail summit in the Alps – 7,405 feet up

Canada: Rocky Mountaineer Vacations

South Africa: Rovos Rail

Now regarded as superior to the Blue Train for quality and service

Observation cars allow unrivalled views across the bush

Russia: Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express

The world’s longest train journey at nearly 6,000 miles

provides comfort unknown since Tsarist times

South East Asia: Eastern & Oriental Express

1,262-mile journey from Bangkok to Singapore

North America: California Zephyr

The Amtrak trip on the California Zephyr runs through the heart of the Rocky Mountains

Great Britain: Northern Belle

The Flying Scotsman used to be the way to see the Scottish Highlands. Now there's another – the Northern Belle

Europe: Venice Simplon-Orient-Express

Japan: The Shinkansen

The Bullet Train, as it is better known, is closer to a rocket than a train

On the Tokyo to Kyoto Bullet Train trip, the adrenaline rush is the train itself

Tags: trains and travelling

Russian Bombers Intercepted Off Alaska's Coast

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:33:11 GMT

clipped by: Rustee

Clip Source: www.militarytimes.com

More and more American and Canadian fighter jets are scrambling and intercepting Russian bombers flying off the Alaskan coast, exacerbating tensions between the former Cold War foes.

There have been 16 such intercepts since July, Pacific Air Forces Commander Gen. Howie Chandler told the Anchorage Daily News on March 27. That compares with just one in 2005, and none in the previous 10 years, Chandler said.

The most recent incident occurred March 25, when two F-15s from Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, scrambled to intercept two Russian Tu-95 Bear heavy bombers.

The bomber patrols also raise the possibility that a routine encounter between Russian bombers and American fighters could escalate beyond the intentions of either side

But the flip side is that the bomber patrols encourage the U.S. military to be more vigilant

Tags: military, russia, air force