6/30/09
Samuel Johnsoni auhinna võitis Philip Hoare'i Leviathan
2009. aasta Samuel Johnsoni auhinna on võitnud Philip Hoare oma vaaladest kõneleva, loodusloolise, kirjanduskriitilise, majandusteadusliku ja eluloolise raamatuga Leviathan.Alates 1999. aastast väljaantavat Samuel Johnsoni auhinda peetakse maailma üheks olulisemaks ja mainekamaks päriselulooraamatute auhinnaks, millega kaasneb muuhulgas £20,000 suurune rahaline priis.
Zhüriid juhtinud ajakirjanik Jacob Weisberg avaldas võitjat avalikustades arvamust, et Hoare zhanriteülene, kirjanduslikult kõrgel tasemel ja lihtsalt imeilus teos muutub peagi moodsaks klassikaks, mida hinnatakse ja loetakse veel kaua.2008. aastal võitis Samuel Johnsoni auhinna Kate Summerscale raamatuga The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Or The Murder at Road Hill House.
Newsweeki 100 parimat raamatut
Newsweek on üsna huvitava metodoloogia abil välja valinud kõigi aegade 100 kõige olulisemat raamatut.Declaring the best book ever written is tricky business. Who's to say what the best is? We went one step further: we crunched the numbers from 10 top books lists (Modern Library, the New York Public Library, St. John's College reading list, Oprah's, and more) to come up with The Top 100 Books of All Time. It's a list of lists — a meta-list. Let the debate begin.
Intelligentselt käituvad mikroobid
Michael Marshall tutvustab New Scientistis juhtumeid, kus tavaliselt lihtsuse ja tõhususe poolest imetletud mikroobid näitavad üles näiliselt intelligentset käitumist.But many bacteria and protists also exhibit behaviour that looks remarkably intelligent. This behaviour isn't the result of conscious thought – the sort you find in humans and other complex animals – because single-celled organisms don't have nervous systems, let alone brains. A better explanation is that they're "biological computers" with internal machinery that can process information.
vaata veelGeorge R. R. Martin tuleb Eestisse
13. juulil tuleb Eestisse ühepäevasele kiirvisiidile tänapäeva fantaasiakirjanduse elav jumalus George R. R. Martin.Pärast aukülalisena Soome ulmefännide aastakokkutulekul Finncon osalemist Eestit väisav Martin kohtub üheskoos ta Jää ja tule laulu saaga eestindaja Mario Kivistikuga praeguste plaanide kohaselt algusega kell 17 Viru Keskuse Rahva
Raamatu ruumes ka lugejatega ning kõigil huvilistel on seega võimalus Martini raamatutesse kirjaniku autogramm lunida.Kirjastuse Varrak teatel teevad nad kõik enesest oleneva, et hiljemalt 13. juuli hommikuks jõuaks müügilettidele ka praegu trükikojas olev juba mainitud sarja kuuluva romaani Kuningate heitlus II osa.
Unetu öö luuletus 1
On surm ja kurjus sarnased
neis mõlemas on sees
üks
hambaidnäitav
napp ja üksik
õelaltkõlav
neis mõlemas on sees
üks
hambaidnäitav
napp ja üksik
õelaltkõlav
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vaata veelVanadus polegi nii hirmus?
Robert Roy Britt vahendab LiveScience'is uuringut, millest ilmneb, et märkimisväärne hulk meie vanadusega seotud hirmudest ei pruugi suure tõenäosusega sellesama vanaduse saabudes tegelikult materialiseeruda.Adults age 18 to 64 were asked what they expect will happen when they get old. Those 65 and older were asked what actually has happened to them. The results (18-64 / 65 and older):
Suffer memory loss (57 percent think they'll suffer it / 25 percent do)
Not be able to drive: 45 percent / 14 percent
Suffer a serious illness: 42 percent / 21 percent
Not be sexually active: 34 percent / 21 percent
Suffer memory loss (57 percent think they'll suffer it / 25 percent do)
Not be able to drive: 45 percent / 14 percent
Suffer a serious illness: 42 percent / 21 percent
Not be sexually active: 34 percent / 21 percent
6/29/09
Toyota mõttejõul liikuv ratastool
John Brandon tutvustab Popular Science'i veebilehel Toyota uudset ajuaktiivsuse abil liigutatavat ratastooli.
Other brainwave technology usually requires lengthy processing time, but the Toyota technology transmits in only 125 milliseconds -- a crucial factor allowing faster reaction time. The technology, developed by a Japanese company called Riken, adjusts to the individual user's commands for movements such as forward, left and right, and stop. In tests, Toyota says the commands are 95 percent accurate, which makes it the most accurate brainwave-driven controller in the world.
Rachel Loden - Miss October
If I have to be a playmate
In my time on earth
I want to be the girl
Of drifting leaves, cold cheeks
And passionate regrets.
I think Hef loves October best
Because although he cannot
Say so, he is this close
To death. December
In its stealth has hung
Long spikes of ice
Around his sagging ears, his
Sex. So in October
I'll be the centerfold of gay
Pretense, the girl who says
We're at our blondest
And most perilously beautiful
Right before we check out
Of the manse.
Soon all Hef's dreaming
Will be ash, his favorite pipe
And smoking jacket,
Last vial of Viagra
Safely under glass
At the Smithsonian.
When my shelf life here
Is done and all the damp
Boys stealing glimpses
At the newsstands
Are old men, I want them
To remember how many
Playmate-months
Are gone, how many rooms
Stand empty, shutters
Drawn, the last girls slipped
Away in bright October.
In my time on earth
I want to be the girl
Of drifting leaves, cold cheeks
And passionate regrets.
I think Hef loves October best
Because although he cannot
Say so, he is this close
To death. December
In its stealth has hung
Long spikes of ice
Around his sagging ears, his
Sex. So in October
I'll be the centerfold of gay
Pretense, the girl who says
We're at our blondest
And most perilously beautiful
Right before we check out
Of the manse.
Soon all Hef's dreaming
Will be ash, his favorite pipe
And smoking jacket,
Last vial of Viagra
Safely under glass
At the Smithsonian.
When my shelf life here
Is done and all the damp
Boys stealing glimpses
At the newsstands
Are old men, I want them
To remember how many
Playmate-months
Are gone, how many rooms
Stand empty, shutters
Drawn, the last girls slipped
Away in bright October.
vaata veelKaose piiril töötavast ajust
David Robson selgitab New Scientistis, kuidas inimaju töötab pidevalt kaose piiril ning mil moel võivad ajutised korratusse langemise tsüklid olla seotud geniaalsuse ja hullumeelsusega.Hovering on the edge of chaos provides brains with their amazing capacity to process information and rapidly adapt to our ever-changing environment, but what happens if we stray either side of the boundary? The most obvious assumption would be that all of us are a short step away from mental illness. Meyer-Lindenberg suggests that schizophrenia may be caused by parts of the brain straying away from the critical point. However, for now that is purely speculative.
Abiellumine põhjustab ülekaalulisust?
Bonnie Rochman tutvustab Time'is uurimistööd, mis näitab, et abiellunud ja ka vaid kokku elama kolinud inimesed muutuvad võrrelduna elukaaslast alles otsivate ea- ja sookaaslastega ülekaaluliseks oluliselt sagedamini, kuid meeste ja naiste kehakaalule näib kooselu samas aastate lõikes mõjuvat siiski üsna erinevalt.And in a twist sure to tick off all the ladies in the house, the study notes that unmarried women who have been living with their sweeties for five years or less run a 63% increased risk of obesity. What about unmarried men? On average, they have no increased risk during cohabitation.
"With women, we saw incremental risk after one year," says Penny Gordon-Larsen, one of the two nutrition epidemiologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) who conducted the study. "The longer she lived with a romantic partner, the more likely she was to keep putting on weight." Meanwhile, the risk of obesity among guys — married and unmarried — spikes only between the first and second years of living together.
"With women, we saw incremental risk after one year," says Penny Gordon-Larsen, one of the two nutrition epidemiologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) who conducted the study. "The longer she lived with a romantic partner, the more likely she was to keep putting on weight." Meanwhile, the risk of obesity among guys — married and unmarried — spikes only between the first and second years of living together.
vaata veelHaruki Murakami intervjuu
Yomiuri Shimbun on avaldanud Mariko Ozaki kaheosalise intervjuu (osa üks ja osa kaks) kirjanduse superstaari Haruki Murakamiga, jutuks peamiselt mehe värskeim raamat 1Q84, ent ka maailmaasjad laiemalt.A common state of mind among people in the contemporary world is that they become unsure about whether the world they see is actually real. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center came crashing down during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York in scenes that seemed to be unreal. As video footage of the towers collapsing were shown over and over again, some people might unwittingly and momentarily have felt they were straying into an odd world where no such towering buildings existed. They possibly think there could be a world where U.S. President George W. Bush was not reelected and the Iraq war did not break out.
I think the Great Hanshin Earthquake in January 1995 and the Aum sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in March that year made many Japanese experience a sense of dissociation from reality before people of other countries. They asked themselves, "What we are here for?" My novels, except for "Norwegian Wood," do not represent what we call realism, but seem to have started being accepted the world over as works representing new realism--especially after 9/11.
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I think the Great Hanshin Earthquake in January 1995 and the Aum sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in March that year made many Japanese experience a sense of dissociation from reality before people of other countries. They asked themselves, "What we are here for?" My novels, except for "Norwegian Wood," do not represent what we call realism, but seem to have started being accepted the world over as works representing new realism--especially after 9/11.
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Arvutitöötlemata imefotod 2
WebUrbanist avaldab teise seti fotodest, mida vaadates on üsna raske uskuda, et neid ei ole arvutiga või mõnel muul moel töödeldud ning neil nähtav pärineb 100% elust enesest.Vaata veel:
Selgusid Locuse auhinna võitjad
Ulmeajakirja Locus alates 1971. aastast väljajagatava iga-aastase auhinna vääriliseks tunnistati seekord scifi-kategoorias Neal Stephenson raamatuga Anathem ning fantaasiakirjanduse seast krooniti parimaks Ursula K. Le Guini Lavinia. 
Parima debüüdina tõsteti esile Paul Melko romaani Singularity's Ring ja parimaks noorteraamatuks nimetati Neil Gaimani The Graveyard Book.
GMO-riis võitleb allergiate vastu
LiveScience tutvustab Jaapani teadlaste poolt loodud geenmuundatud riisisorti, mis vähendab või kaotab teatud tüüpi õietolmuallergiatega seotud terviseprobleeme ning on järjekordseks näiteks uue põlvkonna GMO-organismidest, mille eesmärgiks on parandada inimeste tervist.In laboratory studies, the researchers fed a steamed version of the transgenic rice and a non-transgenic version to a group of monkeys everyday for 26 weeks. At the end of the study period, the test animals did not show any health problems, in an initial demonstration that the allergy-fighting rice may be safe for consumption, the researchers say. More research will be needed to bring the rice to market.
6/27/09
David Bowie - Oh You Pretty Things
Wake up you sleepy head
Put on some clothes, shake up your bed
Put another log on the fire for me
I've made some breakfast and coffee
Look out my window what do I see
A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me
All the nightmares came today
And it looks as though theyre here to stay
What are we coming to
No room for me, no fun for you
I think about a world to come
Where the books were found by the golden ones
Written in pain, written in awe
By a puzzled man who questioned
What we were here for
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh you pretty things
Dont you know youre driving your
Mamas and papas insane
Oh you pretty things
Dont you know youre driving your
Mamas and papas insane
Let me make it plain
You gotta make way for the homo superior
Look at your children
See their faces in golden rays
Dont kid yourself they belong to you
They're the start of a coming race
The earth is a bitch
Weve finished our news
Homo sapiens have outgrown their use
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though theyre here to stay
Oh you pretty things
Dont you know youre driving your
Mamas and papas insane
Oh you pretty things
Dont you know youre driving your
Mamas and papas insane
Let me make it plain
You gotta make way for the homo superior
osta
Sunday Timesi 100 suveraamatut
Times Online on koostanud sajast raamatust koosneva lugemissoovituse käesolevaks suveks, kus sees nii trükisoojaseid või alles ilmuvaid teoseid kui ka juba mõnda aega raamatupoodides lesinud kirjatelliseid.
Eelajaloolised koopamaalijad olid naised
National Geographic vahendab Pennsylvania riikliku ülikooli arheoloogi Dean Snow uuringuid, mis näitavad, et kuulsad Pech Merle koopa kuni 25.000 aasta vanused seinamaalid on vähemalt osaliselt tehtud naiste poolt.Until recently, most scientists assumed these prehistoric handprints were male. But "even a superficial examination of published photos suggested to me that there were lots of female hands there," Pennsylvania State University archaeologist Dean Snow said of European cave art. By measuring and analyzing the Pech Merle hand stencils, Snow found that many were indeed female.
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