Monthly Archives: maj 2011

Now I want lawyer here!

30 måndag Maj 2011

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Vikingapolisen vid 3:12! Dialekten 2:43! Kebab-brorsan! Att en av killarna ser ut som Fredrik Federley! Det är så mycket som är bra med denna video. Ha på undertexterna. Vill man fördjupa sig finns tråd på Flashback.

Edit: Notera att kebab-brorsan tagit av sig jackan och sedan stjäl Blodansiktets eller Federleys mobil vid 3:50.

”Population genetics reveals shared ancestries”

29 söndag Maj 2011

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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-05/hms-pgr052411.php

”While the researchers detected no African genetic signatures in Northern European populations, they found a distinct presence of African ancestry in Southern European, Middle Eastern and Jewish populations. Modern southern European groups can attribute about 1 to 3 percent of their genetic signature to African ancestry, with the intermingling of populations dating back 55 generations, on average—that is, to roughly 1,600 years ago. Middle Eastern groups have inherited about 4 to 15 percent, with the mixing of populations dating back roughly 32 generations. A diverse array of Jewish populations can date their Sub-Saharan African ancestry back roughly 72 generations, on average, accounting for 3 to 5 percent of their genetic makeup today.”

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”Chinese Prisoners Forced to Play Online Games”

26 torsdag Maj 2011

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/25/china-prisoners-internet-gaming-scam

”Welcome to chain gangs 2.0. Prisoners in Chinese labor camps toil away by day, digging ditches and breaking rocks—and by night, they’re forced to play online games like World Of Warcraft, where they mine virtual gold that prison guards sell for actual cash, the Guardian reports.”

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Länkdump fredag

20 fredag Maj 2011

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The active ingredient in marijuana cuts tumor growth in common lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread, say researchers at Harvard University who tested the chemical in both lab and mouse studies.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070417193338.htm

Four times more jobs have gone to migrants than British-born workers in the last year, official figures revealed yesterday.

A record four million jobs in Britain are now carried out by people born abroad.

Over the last year, an average of 915 immigrants a day obtained a job compared to 211 people born in the UK.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1388542/UK-immigration-4-times-jobs-migrants-foreign-born-workers-hit-4m.html

Known as Göbekli Tepe (pronounced Guh-behk-LEE TEH-peh), the site is vaguely reminiscent of Stonehenge, except that Göbekli Tepe was built much earlier and is made not from roughly hewn blocks but from cleanly carved limestone pillars splashed with bas-reliefs of animals—a cavalcade of gazelles, snakes, foxes, scorpions, and ferocious wild boars. The assemblage was built some 11,600 years ago, seven millennia before the Great Pyramid of Giza. It contains the oldest known temple. Indeed, Göbekli Tepe is the oldest known example of monumental architecture—the first structure human beings put together that was bigger and more complicated than a hut. When these pillars were erected, so far as we know, nothing of comparable scale existed in the world.

At the time of Göbekli Tepe’s construction much of the human race lived in small nomadic bands that survived by foraging for plants and hunting wild animals. Construction of the site would have required more people coming together in one place than had likely occurred before. Amazingly, the temple’s builders were able to cut, shape, and transport 16-ton stones hundreds of feet despite having no wheels or beasts of burden. The pilgrims who came to Göbekli Tepe lived in a world without writing, metal, or pottery; to those approaching the temple from below, its pillars must have loomed overhead like rigid giants, the animals on the stones shivering in the firelight—emissaries from a spiritual world that the human mind may have only begun to envision.

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Bewilderingly, the people at Göbekli Tepe got steadily worse at temple building. The earliest rings are the biggest and most sophisticated, technically and artistically.

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As important as what the researchers found was what they did not find: any sign of habitation. Hundreds of people must have been required to carve and erect the pillars, but the site had no water source—the nearest stream was about three miles away. Those workers would have needed homes, but excavations have uncovered no sign of walls, hearths, or houses—no other buildings that Schmidt has interpreted as domestic. They would have had to be fed, but there is also no trace of agriculture.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/06/gobekli-tepe/mann-text

The heavens declare the glory of God

17 tisdag Maj 2011

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Running through life at a frantic pace, living in the ‘now’, we often remain ignorant of those natural phenomena that take place over longer time scales (especially with the majority of our lives now also spent indoors). ”The wheels of the cosmos turn too slowly for humans to watch”, says José Francisco Salgado in the trailer to his upcoming feature Sidereal Motion. ”Until now.” With the advent of digital cameras, the art of time-lapse photography has risen to new heights. Through the lens of these artists we can see what the world might look like to a consciousness that perceives things over long time-scales: vehicles and people swarming like ants or insects, clouds that move like oceans and rivers, and the billions of fixed stars in deep space that sweep into view as our planet revolves throughout the night, a real-life Total Perspective Vortex.

Here’s ten exquisite time-lapse videos that have made my jaw drop to the floor, listed in no particular order. Make sure you select the HD and full-screen options if possible!

http://dailygrail.com/Lists/2011/5/Ten-Amazing-Timelapse-Videos

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