source:http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/hot-car-deaths-explained/
I have been studying the brain and memory since 1980, but I was baffled when a news reporter asked me in 2004 how parents can forget that their children are in the car with them. It seemed incomprehensible that parents could leave a child in a car and then go about their daily activities, as their child dies of hyperthermia in a car that reaches scorching temperatures.
resource: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/body-shaming-ads-banned-in-london_us_576020e8e4b071ec19ef39be
Ads that create body confidence issues will be banned from London Underground, London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced Monday.
Starting this month, Transport for London will not permit ads that promote an unrealistic or unhealthy body image, particularly among young people.
Khan, who has two two teenage daughters, said he is worried about ads that can cause women to be “ashamed of their bodies,” saying, “it is high time it came to an end.”
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3ur8wzzhBU&feature=youtu.be
Questions:
1. What's the application for IOT technology you expected in the future? Why? Improve your life? Save your time or money? Or others?
2. What is the impact of tecnology on your society in the past years? Pros and cons.
This title is not the original title of this article, but from another article posted by a Taiwanese bicycle traveler who met Satoru Yamada on his journey in Yukon. The article I post is an interview Yamada also made in Yukon, which just a brief introduction about him and his journey so far. If you’re interested in detail, please check here.
source: http://www.whitehorsestar.com/News/i-just-want-to-do-more-crazy-stuff
Photo by Vince Fedoroff
THE ADVENTURES ROLL ON – Skiing across the Bering Strait, from Alaska to Russia, is one of the goals Satoru Yamada has on his three-year global odyssey.
if you were facing the discrimination from the person who is full of himself and from the society?
Q1:
"Mississippi legislature introduce bill that would ban restaurant from serving the obese customers"
Sofia Mechetner, 14, leading Dior’s couture runway show this month.
It’s a “Cinderella story.” A “fairy tale.” A “total Cinderella moment.”
But is it?
“It’s not a fairy tale, it’s a cliché,” said Sara Ziff, the founder of the Model Alliance, discussing fashion’s favorite new narrative, that of a 14-year-old Israeli who went to Paris in search of a modeling career, met the designer Raf Simons in a Dior store and ended up opening the Dior couture showthis month. “It’s once again using girls to sell clothes to women.”
recource: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-27/greenspan-warns-crisis-imminent-he-urges-return-gold-standard
On Friday afternoon, after the shocking Brexit referendum, while being interviewed by CNBC Alan Greenspan stunned his hosts when he said that things are about as bad as he has ever seen.
"This is the worst period, I recall since I've been in public service. There's nothing like it, including the crisis — remember October 19th, 1987, when the Dow went down by a record amount 23 percent? That I thought was the bottom of all potential problems. This has a corrosive effect that will not go away. I'd love to find something positive to say."
Strangely enough, he was not refering to the British exodus but to America's own economic troubles.
Today, Greenspan was on Bloomberg Surveillance where in an extensive, 30 minutes interview he was urged to give his take on the British referendum outcome. According to Greenspan, David Cameron miscalculated and made a “terrible mistake” in holding a referendum. That decision led to a “terrible outcome in all respects,” Greenspan said. "It didn’t have to happen.” Greenspan then noted that as a result of Brexit, "we are in very early days a crisis which has got a way to go", and point to Scotland which he said will likely have another referendum on its own, predicting the vote would be successful, and Northern Ireland would “probably” go the same way.
Here are a podcast and a news article about basic income and the result of Swiss vote:
a) podcast
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/mincome/
b) news article
Swiss Voters Reject Guaranteed-Income Proposal
June 6, 20161:43 PM ET Richard Gonzales
A giant poster in Geneva reading "What would you do if your income was taken care of?" ahead of Switzerland's vote on a proposed "basic income" set the Guinness World Record for the largest poster ever printed.
A giant poster in Geneva reading "What would you do if your income was taken care of?" ahead of Switzerland's vote on a proposed "basic income" set the Guinness World Record for the largest poster ever printed.
Swiss voters over the weekend dealt a stern backslap to a ballot proposal that would have guaranteed a basic monthly income for all 8.1 million residents — regardless of their employment status — of that wealthy European nation.
The vote wasn't even close. Almost 77 percent of voters rejected the proposal that the government give every adult in Switzerland about $2,500 every month. (Children would have received a smaller subsidy of $650.)
Supporters had argued that the bold social experiment would help eradicate poverty and protect workers in an increasingly automated economy. Opponents said the measure, with an estimated price tag of more than $200 billion a year, was too costly and would lead to public spending cuts.
Virtually no one was surprised by the results. As The Wall Street Journal reports:
"The outcome was never in doubt, with the government, businesses and many trade unions lining up in opposition and recent polls suggesting the public was firmly against the idea."
USA Today quotes Alain Berset, the head of Switzerland's Federal Department of Home Affairs, as saying:
"The results demonstrate that voters are satisfied with the way our economy functions and don't think it needs to be revolutionized."
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Summer_Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics (Portuguese: Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016),[a] officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, and commonly known as Rio 2016, is a major international multi-sport event in the tradition of theOlympic Games due to take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Record numbers of countries are participating in a record number of sports. More than 10,500 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs), including first time entrants Kosovo and South Sudan, are scheduled to take part.[1] With 306 sets of medals, the games will feature 28 Olympic sports — including rugby sevens and golf, which were added by the International Olympic Committee in 2009. These sporting events will take place at 33 venues in the host city and at 5 venues in the cities of São Paulo (Brazil's largest city), Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Brasília (Brazil's capital), and Manaus.
These will be the first Summer Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Thomas Bach.[1] The host city of Rio de Janeiro was announced at the 121st IOC Session held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 October 2009. Rio will become the first South American city to host the Summer Olympics. These will be the first games to be held in a Portuguese-speaking country, the first to be held entirely during the host country's winter season (the 2000 games began on 15 September – five days before the Southern Hemisphere's vernal equinox), the first since 1968 to be held in Latin America, and the first since2000 (third overall) to be held in the Southern Hemisphere.[2]
On 26 June 2011 it was reported on AroundTheRings.com that Roderlei Generali, the COO of the Rio de Janeiro Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, resigned just one year after taking the job at ROOC. This comes just five months after CCO Flávio Pestana quit for personal reasons.[8] Pestana withdrew later during the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Renato Ciuchin was then appointed as COO.[9]
