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The Physics of physicality

the man of twists and turns — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 01:07:59 -0800

WIRED has been running a fascinating series: Olympic Physics: Can Runners Benefit From Drafting?, Scoring the Decathlon, New [Swimming] Platform Is No Chip Off The Old Block Air Density And Bob Beamon's Crazy-Awesome Long Jump, How The Hammer Throw Is Like A Particle Accelerator and is also Exciting and Artisitc The Social Psychology of Relay Racing

Both the 4×100-meter relay and the 4×400-meter relay require speed, endurance and great depth of talent on the team. But the relays also are a fascinating laboratory for social science, bringing to two of the field’s most interesting observations to the fore: the Köhler effect, and the social-loafing effect.

Modern penthathlon gets 'more modern' with frikkin' lasers. With the end of the Games, The US Team won 46 gold medals,' the most in a non-boycotted game since 1904.' With so many golds, What if US female Olympians were their own country? There are also 30 other questions remaining.There is: The Olympics most painful moments, in GIFs(Mashable, slideshow). And for the distance, a detailed analysis of the Women's Marathon. And a look at The Ancient Roots of Iran's Wrestling and Weightlifting Olympic Dominance. Usian Bolt adds to his legend with straight 100m and 200m wins. Finally, an Olympics Cartoon review(slideshow) The Olympics wasn't always about sport, in fact, 'In the modern Olympics’ early days, painters, sculptors, writers and musicians battled for gold, silver and bronze'

What kind of PRI will rule Mexico?

the man of twists and turns — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:53:45 -0800

With the election of Pena Nieto to the presidency, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ends a twelve-year absence from the seat. Mexico's New Political Map After July 1(video). CSMonitor reports: 'Five Key Takeaways as PRI heads back to presidency.' The PRI is not totally popular, especially with the Yo Soy 132 protest/movement. (autoplay video, with ad) The James A. Baker Institute asks: A New Anti-Drug Strategy in Mexico?. Reason opines: 'Drug War Foes, Don't Expect Much From Mexico's New President. The Drug War in Mexico has recieved an inordinate amount of attention in American media as of late, with the New Yorker (LETTER FROM MEXICO: THE KINGPINS - The fight for Guadalajara), Slate and Longform (The Longform Guide to Mayhem in Mexico: Corruption, murder, and the drug business south of the border), and the New York Times (How A Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions) all getting in on the action. Where do those billions go? Western banks, says The Guardian, and DailyKos chiming in with Wells Fargo as an example. Laundering extends far beyond financial firms, into many businesses. Yesterday on Metafilter: How does the US electoral system compare to Mexicos?. Previously on AskMe Yo soy 132, why 132?

Top Ten books of famous authors

the man of twists and turns — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:42:31 -0800

Top Ten Favorite Books from authors: Stephen King's 10 favorite books. David Foster Wallace's 10 favorite books. Sue Monk Kidd's 10 favorite books via the CS Monitor.

How perform newspapers without paper?

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:06:32 -0800

The Christian Science Monitor is a well-reputed newspaper. In October 2008 it announced that it would con vert its daily printed report to a weekly edition, and decided to focus primarily on its web site. Traffic rise, money don't. Only the paper edition is economically successful: A year after the change, Yemma said monthly unique users are up 64% to 5.3 million, with monthly page views up 87% to 14.5 million, as of March 2010. He also said the circulation for the paid weekly print edition is up from 43,000 at its launch to 77,000 today. "That is a 79% growth and we are getting great reader reaction to it," Yemma said. He said overall revenue for the Monitor since the switch to Web-only has been higher than expected, $4.3 million. But one drawback, the online ad revenue has been lower than expected, Yemma admitted. The Web ad revenue had been expected to come in at about $870,000 for the past 12 months, but is only at $490,000. So, is web only the future of newspapers? CSMonitor's editor John Yemma say so: Even though print still makes the bulk of the money? In fact, that's true of the moment. And it's certainly true with most newspapers. But it's clear that the future is digital. That doesn't mean that you won't have print. It just means that you either lower the frequency of print -- which is what we did -- or you do what the Globe and the Houston Chronicle and others have done, which is to decrease your print footprint... down into your core readership areas, so that your supply chain and distribution chain is much cheaper. And then you raise your subscription rates -- which all of the big companies have done. So that's an attempt to keep print viable. But you're talking about a generational transition. Anybody who's under 30 is a digital native and they don't have the print habit. They might like an occasional New Yorker or Wired that they buy at Barnes and Noble, but subscriptions -- not so much. So it's clear where the future is going, and that's to some sort of a digital model. And so you have to have a multi-platform strategy, which every news organization to some extent has. But the question is where you put the emphasis in that multi-platform strategy. Our emphasis is on Web-first, because we think we're building for the future in doing that -- but we're still producing a very strong print product, and it's doubled in circulation since we launched last April.

Jill Carroll update

raaka — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:00:30 -0800

CSMonitor's Jill Carroll update As there isn't really much news about Jill Carroll, this blog has become mainly about the issues surrounding the Carroll abduction. What is Islam's perspective on foreigners? How does rampant kidnapping effect journalists? The last 'update' is about a poster of Carroll hung from Rome's city hall. Which makes me think two things: there isn't much news about Carroll's situation; why in the hell hasn't a US city hung a poster of Carroll?

The Smoking Gun

condour75 — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 00:02:01 -0800

Remember that whole drone "cover-up"? Here's the plane. The prototype of Iraq's smoking gun WMD threat. Constructed of balsa wood and duct tape, it says Allahu Akbar (God is great) on the side. And, well, they were probably half right. While it's not really a gun, it probably does smoke -- it uses lawn-mower-style two-stroke engines. Washington Post story here.

Is it all about oil?

Postroad — Wed, 16 Oct 2002 04:49:37 -0800

Is it all about oil? Iraq war protesters insist a war wil be about oil. Others say no. Here the writer argues that it is both--it is not all about oil but we will control the oil should we take control.

They just wont let it lie.

Fat Buddha — Sat, 02 Mar 2002 14:25:33 -0800

They just wont let it lie. What posses these people to keep fighting against overwhelming odds.I can see what they are against but for the life of me I cannot see what they are for.Couple of points near the bottom of the piece are interesting.IHave I been asleep or has the killing of innocents on 23 January been underreported.Does the fact that small raids have led to arrest interrogation and subsequent release answer my own question? I am perplexed,are there any good guys?

Bixby23 — Tue, 04 Dec 2001 02:45:15 -0800

Want to escape CNN's round-the-clock war coverage? Don't head for the theater. Faster than Lee Marvin could say "Dirty Dozen," Hollywood is rounding up its good-looking troops, rallying the editing rooms, and launching a war-time celluloid offensive. Groovy. And just when I'd started getting bored with the real deal...

Saudis in the worst squeeze play yet.

mmarcos — Sun, 28 Oct 2001 15:53:34 -0800

Saudis in the worst squeeze play yet. SA is in a triangulation of criticism from Afghanistan, from within the country, and from Washington. The fall of this Muslim regime, a US ally, with a horrible human rights record and repressive culture, the largest supplier of oil in the world, and huge supplier of contract business for the US, is not something to take lightly. Catch-22.