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Brown Tape Art

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:22:55 GMT

clipped by: willhelm

Who says ya can’t make something cool with translucent brown tape. Mixed media artist Mark Khaisman layers several pieces of tape on Plexiglas panels to create these mesmerizing rustic illuminations with textures much like a knife painting with broad wide strokes. Very cool, time lapse like retro, and mysterious… I’ll have to make some myself. (I love tape).

dogs.....just beautiful.

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:21:03 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: sad story but what a dog.....

too bad 25 yr old Jake couldn't have hung on another day, seems he had a lot of people (and animals) that loved him

Clip Source: edition.cnn.com

Loyal dog guards owner for weeks after death

GREELEY, Colorado (AP) -- A dog stood guard over her owner's body for up to six weeks after the man committed suicide on the remote northeastern Colorado plains, authorities said.

The body of 25-year-old Jake Baysinger of La Salle, Colorado, was found Sunday on the Pawnee National Grasslands about 75 miles northeast of Denver, Colorado. Cash, his German shepherd, was found beside him, thin and dehydrated but still alive. The dog had apparently survived by eating mice and rabbits, authorities said.

Sara Baysinger of La Salle, Colorado, and her 2-year-old son, Lane, reunite with their German shepherd, Cash.

The Weld County coroner ruled Baysinger's death a suicide. The cause of death wasn't immediately determined but authorities found a gun nearby, the coroner's office said Tuesday.

Tags: suicide, dogs, loyalty, love

Future 'Top 10' Hot Careers in 2012

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:14:56 GMT

clipped by: Mohir
clipper's remarks: 5) Simulation Engineering
By 2012, an increase in processing power and rich data will make simulations more realistic, and user-friendly. Simulation engineers will be working on bringing us closer to “Star Trek’s” Holodecks—the ultimate total immersion simulation. Simulations will be in every industry and every engineering field,

6) Boomer Caregiving
7) Genetic Counseling
8) Brain Analysts
9) Space Tourism
10) Roboticists

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

In our information-rich society there is an ever increasing demand for workers in the fields of computers, health care, science and space technology—much of it driven by the demands of the retiring baby boomers. If you like to plan ahead, here is sampling of some of the jobs that will be hot in the next several years and beyond.

1) Organic food Industry

By 2010, organic food and beverage will represent about 10 percent of the total market — a tenfold increase from 1998

2) Computational Biology

There is a growing need to combine computer science, biology and math to make sense of research data in massive quantities,

3) Parallel Programming

By 2012, computers will jump from core duo processors to multi-core processors — as many as 80 processors per machin

4) Data Technology

Data technologists build structures—real and virtual—that turn the pile of data into something meaningful and beautiful,

Tags: future, work, jobs

Why Bogart's Kiss Is Your Kiss, His Soda Your Soda

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:23:16 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: Mirror neurons help explain how we connect to each others' emotions.

Clip Source: discovermagazine.com

Within the brains of humans, apes, and monkeys is a small set of neurons that simulate in real time the actions of others. When you see Humphrey Bogart lock lips with Ingrid Bergman, the same brain cells fire as when you kiss your honey. When you hear your coworker crack open a soda, in your brain it’s as if you’d opened the can yourself.

Since their discovery in monkeys less than two decades ago, mirror neurons have been called into service to explain just about everything that makes us human—from empathy and language to politics and pornography. Are these cells really the be-all and end-all of human nature? In one of the first books on the subject, neuroscientist Marco Iacoboni clearly explains what we do know (and how) and what we don’t know (or can’t). Want to learn what mirror neurons have to do with Super Bowl commercials, violent video games, autism, addiction, and even free will? This is your book. Watching someone else read

Clip Source: www.amazon.ca

Vigorous Exercise Like Running Linked To Longer Life And Less Disability In Old Age

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:28:38 GMT

clipped by: Fast T friend
clipper's remarks: # The differences in disability and longevity between the runner group and the control group continued to diverge at the end of the study, as the participants approached their 80th birthday.

Clip Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com

US scientists comparing middle aged and older regular runners with healthy equivalents for more than 20 years found that vigorous regular exercise was linked to longer life and less disability in old age.

At the start of the study (baseline), the runners were leaner, and less likely to be smokers than the controls.

At baseline, the runners ran an average of 4 hours a week. After 21 years, they were running an average of 76 minutes a week.

The mean disability score was higher for the controls than the runners at all stages of the study and went up with age in both groups, but on average, for runners the onset of disability started later.

Runners had a significantly lower risk of having a disability score of 0.5.

19 years into the study, 15 per cent of the runners and 34 per cent of the controls had died, and after adjusting for possible confounders, runners showed a greater chance of living longer.

Tags: longevity, aging, health, sport, running