Interesting article on the detrimental effects (especially to women) of cardio and the fitness industry sustained myths relating to fat loss through cardio.
Dogged pursuit of austerity benefits…guess who? »
As Radhika Balakrishnan, executive director for Rutgers’ Center for Women’s Global Leadership, pointed out on Thursday’s All In, the financial sector is doing better than ever under austerity.
“What we’re seeing is the financialization of the economy,” she said. “The economy is run by finance capital. It is not manufacturing, not working class unionized jobs that actually give people money to be able to buy things, but it’s finance capital. And profit is at an all-time high.”
This suggests another, even greater, factor driving austerity: Finance capital is not only insulated from the consequences, but stands to reap massive rewards. In Europe, for example, the ECB is using austerity to pressure the Greek government into removing labor market controls and break the country’s labor unions. They also demanded that the country institute a six-day work week. Such “reforms” open the door for international companies to provide low-wage, precarious jobs to the Greek people and extract substantial profits from their labor.
In the United States, austerity has resulted in mass public sector firings, to the detriment of public sector unions. The public sector is, of course, the last real citadel for organized labor in the United States, and by launching a prolonged assault on that citadel, the American right has successfully chipped away at what remains of the country’s organized left wing. In the place of public services and public employment, state and local governments have been forced to turn to private investment. No more so has this process been more extreme than in Michigan, where non-elected Emergency Managers have launched an orgy of privatization, sometimes going so far as to put entire school districts in private hands.
From the perspective of the financial industry and major private investors, austerity has in fact been a rousing success.
Emphasis mine.
I’ve long thought that the goal of the austerity movement isn’t balancing budgets or reducing deficits, but giving the wealthy and powerful an ongoing excuse to practice disaster capitalism. I think I may be right.
Financial domination is a capitalists tool for controlling the masses… Austerity is just another tool in the tool box. The rich get ever richer, the gap increases, the 1% become the 1% of the 1%.
DEEP CUT The Kennecott Copper Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah sits quiet after a landslide on April 11, 2013. The mine owner has suspended operations inside one of the world’s deepest open pits as geologists assess a landslide the company says it anticipated for months. (Photo: Ravell Call / The Deseret News via AP / NBC News)
Holy shit.
Big slide! Fortunately I think they have the gear to effectively clean up the aftermath!
These vegetated surfaces don’t just look pretty. They have other benefits as well, including cooling city blocks, reducing loud noises, and improving a building’s energy efficiency.What’s more, a recent modeling study shows that green walls can potentially reduce large amounts of air pollution in what’s called a “street canyon,” or the corridor between tall buildings.
For the study, Thomas Pugh, a biogeochemist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, and his colleagues created a computer model of a green wall with generic vegetation in a Western European city. Then they recorded chemical reactions based on a variety of factors, such as wind speed and building placement.
The simulation revealed a clear pattern: A green wall in a street canyon trapped or absorbed large amounts of nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter—both pollutants harmful to people, said Pugh. Compared with reducing emissions from cars, little attention has been focused on how to trap or take up more of the pollutants, added Pugh, whose study was published last year in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
That’s why the green-wall study is “putting forward an alternative solution that might allow [governments] to improve air quality in these problem hot spots,” he said.Compared with reducing emissions from cars, little attention has been focused on how to trap or take up more of the pollutants, added Pugh, whose study was published last year in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
That’s why the green-wall study is “putting forward an alternative solution that might allow [governments] to improve air quality in these problem hot spots,” he said.want
Wonderful design and a super idea for cleaning up the city environment.
(via Allen Lim Demonstrates Why You Shouldn’t Drink Your Calories, UPDATED - Bike Rumor)
Good demonstration of proper hydration.
(via The Timber Trail | Nga Haerenga, The New Zealand Cycle Trail)
This is amazing and it is wonderful to see such an intelligent development and reuse of existing trails.
(via Japan Successfully Taps ‘Flammable Ice’ as an Energy Source for the First Time)
Imagine the potential if the carbon once burnt was sequestered somehow?
Imagine the potential for disaster…
Einstein’s search for general relativity spanned eight years, 1907-1915. Some periods were quiet and some were more intense. The moments when the great transition occurred, came sometime between the late summer of 1912, when Einstein moved from Prague to Zurich, and early 1913. If we could choose one time at which to look over Einstein’s shoulder and watch him work on general relativity, it would be this time.
And that is just what we can do. For, found among his papers when Einstein died in 1955 was a small, brown notebook containing his private calculations from just this time. This is the Zurich notebook.
Fascinating!
The Super Supercapacitor | Brian Golden Davis (by Focus Forward Films)
The super capacitor is the way of the future. Being able to build a SuperCap that is also non-toxic, easily recycled, cheap, and made from an abundant resource - that would be nirvana.
