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More Sex Talk from the Love Scientist - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/more-sex-talk-from-the-love-scientistDoris Day and Rod Taylor face off in a scene from the 1965 movie Do Not Disturb.Photo by Camerique/Getty Images Last month in my Nautilus interview with love scientist Helen Fisher, we had a good time parrying over the value of viewing sex and romance in the pixels of a brain scan. Usually, she says, her friends and acquaintances, as well as journalists, want to talk about “the basics.” Just the other day, she says, “I spent a good deal of time with a person who is deeply attached to one woman and madly in love with another. He’s married to the first one, and was asking me how to solve their personal love problems. Those are the kinds of things people always ask me.” So Fisher, a biological anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Kinsey Institute, and the chief scientific (...)
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The Slower, Gentler Version of IVF - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/the-slower-gentler-version-of-ivfMicroscope image showing selection of an embryo for IVFScience Photo Library - ZEPHYR via Getty Images For women who have trouble conceiving, being told they’ll need assistance is often accompanied with a sense of dread: what they hoped would be a natural, quick, and inexpensive process (what’s cheaper than natural conception?) can change into a costly, drawn-out, and emotionally painful journey.In vitro fertilization (IVF) has of course emerged as a common and effective option for couples having fertility problems, but it can cause problems. For example, younger women undergoing IVF are in danger of Ovarian Hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS), where their ovaries get swollen and painful due to the hormones they take during the process, causing nausea, sickness, and potentially (...)
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On the Joy of Killing #arabs and Muslims: From Fiction to Reality
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/joy-killing-arabs-and-muslims-fiction-realityThe Grand Entry Western Store advertises ’Chris Kyle’ hats for sale on their street sign February 11, 2015 in Stephenville, Texas. AFP/Brandon Wade/Getty Images The Grand Entry Western Store advertises ’Chris Kyle’ hats for sale on their street sign February 11, 2015 in Stephenville, Texas. AFP/Brandon Wade/Getty Images
“American Sniper” has become the second highest grossing R-rated film of all time on the domestic US film market. The financial and critical success of the film shows how startlingly normal it has become to dehumanize and vilify Arabs and Muslims in American fiction. This ultimately seeps into reality, as it did in the cold-blooded execution of three Arab Muslim students in their homes by a white atheist (...)
#Opinion #American_Sniper #Articles #Chapel_Hill #Islam #USA
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Introducing #Good30 : A Campaign for Happiness
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#Tony_Ward Printemps-été 2015 - #Prêt-à-porter
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#Alena_Akhmadullina Printemps-été 2015 - #Prêt-à-porter
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Ma Ya Printemps-été 2015 - #Prêt-à-porter
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Why is #Saudi_Arabia flooding the #Oil market?
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/why-saudi-arabia-flooding-oil-marketAn Iraqi oil worker works at Al-Doura oil refinery. (Photo: Getty Images-Oleg Nikishin) An Iraqi oil worker works at Al-Doura oil refinery. (Photo: Getty Images-Oleg Nikishin)
Oil prices declined sharply in the past few weeks, with Brent crude dropping to a two-year low as Saudi Arabia continued to slash its oil prices, raising many questions about Saudi Arabia’s policy towards its depletable wealth.
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Nous les femmes // Collection Lean In – Getty Images
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Palestinian teen returns home to US after being beaten by Israeli police
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/20775Fifteen-year-old #Tareq_Abu_Khudair speaks to the media after his arrival home, having spent nine days under house in Jerusalem, on July 16, 2014 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images - Tim Boyles)
A Palestinian-American teenager who was detained in #Israel and beaten by police returned home to Florida on Wednesday, eager to seek medical care and put behind him a summer trip that drew renewed world attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Tareq Abu Khudair called his attack by masked police “the scariest thing that has happened to me,” and told reporters he believes his story drew outrage largely because he was a US citizen. read (...)
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Israel uses photo of Korean missiles in scare tweet about Hezbollah threat
▻http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/.premium-1.592653Mais le Ha’aretz lui-même n’est pas en reste, avec son « however » qui implique que ce qui lui précède ne souffre pas de discussion,
The photo, which appears to be from AFP/Getty Images, was used on an IDF Spokesperson tweet marking 14 years since the army withdrew from Lebanon. “#Israel troops left #Lebanon 14yrs ago. Now #Hezbollah terrorists have rearmed, w/100,000 missiles pointed at #Israel,” it read. However, the tweet did not mention that the photo is illustrative only.
Bien évidemment l’invasion israélienne précède et motive la création du Hezbollah.
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Ni le tweet, ni la photo ne sont plus là…
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AFP/Getty Images Ah, ah, ah !Indeed, according to the photo caption published by the French news agency AFP, the missiles depicted are mounted on a Korean War memorial in Seoul.
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Michelle Obama gets a taste of Tibet in China
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First lady Michelle Obama receives a Tibetan scarf as she arrives at a Tibetan restaurant for lunch in Chengdu in southwest China’s Sichuan province on March 26, 2014.
(Photo : Andy Wong AFP/Getty Images)Among all the superlatives and breathless praise visitors lavish on Tibet, few involve its largely forgettable food. In a tough climate, on the roof of the world, most meals comprise tsampa, a tasteless dough made from roasted barley flour and yak butter.
But Michelle Obama, accompanied by her mother and daughters, was not only promoting a little-known cuisine Wednesday lunchtime with her controversial choice of a Tibetan restaurant as the final stop of the first ever solo trip to China by a U.S. First Lady.
L’auteur semble ne pas trop apprécier la gastronomie tibétaine…
Rien à dire pour le gouvernement chinois, tout se passe sous sa bienveillante égide…The state-owned restaurant, opened last year, sits inside a hotel founded in 1956 by the Chinese government of Tibet. “I have a deep feeling towards Tibet, I am half Tibetan,” said Shi. “I like Tibetan food, especially butter tea. I am glad Michelle also likes it.”
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Tweets or street talk?... Let’s preserve our freedom
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/tweets-or-street-talk-let%E2%80%99s-preserve-our-freedomA sign is posted on the exterior of the #Twitter headquarters on February 5, 2014 in San Francisco, California. (Photo: Getty Images/AFP-Justin Sullivan) A sign is posted on the exterior of the Twitter headquarters on February 5, 2014 in San Francisco, California. (Photo: Getty Images/AFP-Justin Sullivan)
The Court of Publications in Beirut, presided by Judge #Roukouz_Rizk, sentenced on Wednesday Lebanese citizen Jean Elias Assi to two months in jail, and fined him fees and expenses for libel against the president on Twitter.
Pierre Abisaab
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#Opinion #Articles #Jean_Assi #Lebanon #Media_Laws #Michel_Suleiman
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Report: #US to supply #Iraq with spy #drones
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/report-us-supply-iraq-spy-dronesA ScanEagle drone sits on the deck of the USS Ponce, on December 6, 2013 in Manama, Bahrain. (Photo: AFP / Getty Images - Mark Wilson) A ScanEagle drone sits on the deck of the USS Ponce, on December 6, 2013 in Manama, Bahrain. (Photo: AFP / Getty Images - Mark Wilson)
The United States is sending Iraq dozens of missiles and surveillance drones to help it combat a recent surge in #al-Qaeda-backed violence, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The weapons include a shipment of 75 Hellfire missiles purchased by Iraq, which Washington delivered to the country last week, the newspaper said. read (...)
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#G4S: From Israeli Settlements to Lebanese Banks
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/g4s-israeli-settlements-lebanese-banksA stranded traveler looks for his carry-on bag with the help of Los Angeles Airport Police officer which he left behind at the screeners during the shooting a day after a shooting that killed one Transportation Security Administration worker and injured several others at Los Angeles International Airport November 2, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: AFP - Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images) A stranded traveler looks for his carry-on bag with the (...)
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Palestinian held without trial takes case to Israel’s supreme court | World news | theguardian.com
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/18/palestinian-held-without-trial-israeli-courtPalestinian held without trial takes case to Israel’s supreme court
Israel says Samir al-Baraq is an al-Qaida biological weapons expert who was planning attacks when he was arrestedShare 21
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theguardian.com, Monday 18 November 2013 09.13 GMTAdministrative detention
A Palestinian protester during 2012 demonstrations near Ramallah against the practice of ’administrative detention’. Photograph: Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty ImagesIsrael’s supreme court is set to rule on the continued detention of a Palestinian man accused of being an al-Qaida member who has been held in an Israeli jail without charge or trial for more than three years.
Samir al-Baraq has demanded to be released from “administrative detention”, the system by which Israel keeps security suspects locked up without going through a normal judicial process. The Israeli authorities are seeking a further six-month extension to the detention order.
Israel says Baraq, a Palestinian born in Kuwait, is a biological weapons expert who was planning attacks against Israeli targets when he was arrested in July 2010 while attempting to enter the country from Jordan.
According to court documents, Baraq studied microbiology in Pakistan, underwent military training in Afghanistan and was recruited in 2001 to al-Qaida by Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is the group’s leader today. In 2003, he spent three months in Guantánamo Bay, the US high-security jail in Cuba, and later spent five years in prison in Jordan.
Previous petitions against his administrative detention orders have been unsuccessful. In July, when extending the order, a military tribunal said: “The respondent is a senior al-Qaida operative with personal and direct ties to current commanders of the organisation. There can be no disagreement about the danger posed by him, and that his release would ignite military activities of the Salafi Jihad against the state of Israel.”
However, Baraq’s lawyer, Mahmid Saleh, told Army Radio: “If he is such a senior terrorist, then why hasn’t he been prosecuted? There is no evidence against him.”
According to the Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, there were 135 Palestinian prisoners held on administrative detention orders in September 2013. There have been a series of hunger strikes by prisoners protesting over the orders.
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HowStuffWorks “Do you really stay conscious after being decapitated?”
▻http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/extrasensory-perceptions/lucid-decapitation1.htmDo you really stay conscious after being decapitated?
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A History of Head LossCutting the head from the body has long been used as a means of execution, whether extrajudicial or state-sanctioned. For example, in the Biblical Apocrypha, a widow named Judith famously cuts off the head of an Assyrian general named Holofernes, who had been laying siege to her town [source: Vatican]. Civilizations throughout history have used beheadings as a means of punishment. The Romans considered it a more honorable means of execution and decidedly less painful than crucifixion, which it used to execute non-citizens [source: Clark]. In Medieval Europe, beheading was used by the ruling class to dispatch nobles and peasants alike. Eventually, most of the world abandoned beheading as a form of capital punishment, viewing it as barbaric and inhumane. That said, judicial beheading is legal today in the Middle Eastern states of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Iran [source: Weinberg].
The factors that have always made beheading so brutal are the tools used in beheadings and the people who use those tools. The axe and the sword have always been the favored implements of beheading, but they can go blunt and are subject to the physical force exerted by the executioner. While in some cultures, like Saudi Arabia, executioners are highly trained in their jobs, some historical cultures allowed unskilled workers to act as headsmen, or executioners who performed beheadings. The result was that it often took a number of blows to the neck and spine to sever the head from the body, meaning a painful and torturous death.
The guillotine was introduced in the late 18th century as a humane alternative to beheading. Contrary to popular belief, the instrument doesn’t get its name from its inventor; in actuality, surgeon Antoine Louis invented the guillotine. The machine’s namesake, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, was a physician who called for a humane means of dispatching the convicted and championed the device that now bears his name. With the invention of the guillotine, executions could be carried out more efficiently and post-Revolutionary France officially adopted the contraption in 1792. This major increase in efficiency led to the Reign of Terror in France, in which more than 30,000 people suffered the guillotine in one year alone [source: McCannon]. France used the guillotine for state-sanctioned executions until it removed the last head in 1977.
The guillotine developed a dreaded reputation in France. The author Victor Hugo wrote, “One can have a certain indifference on the death penalty as long as one has not seen a guillotine with one’s own eyes” [source: Davies]. But almost from the beginning of its use, many sensed the guillotine worked almost too precisely.
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Melting Glaciers, Joe Raedle’s photographs from Greenland
▻http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2013/08/26/melting-glaciers-joe-raedles-photographs-from-greenland/6375“Climate change is here. We can deny it or we can study it and try to work on ways to understand it,” Getty photographer Joe Raedle explains.
Normally, Raedle can be found working in the center of conflicts like the 2011 revolution in Libya where he was captured and imprisoned for 4 days shortly before fellow photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros were killed there. However, Raedle was struck by the destruction caused by a different kind of disaster in 2012 when Hurricane Sandy hit the eastern U.S. coast. In the wake of the flooding and large-scale devastation caused by the storm, Raedle decided to pitch a story on climate change.
A beaded pin of two newlyweds is seen on a dinner plate on July 20, 2013 in Qeqertaq, Greenland. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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Stories Of A Wounded Land | Reportage by Getty Images
►http://www.reportagebygettyimages.com/features/stories-of-a-wounded-land/#Conséquences désastreuses de l’agriculture intensive en Argentine. Article de Silvinia Heguy et photos d’Alvaro Ybarra Zavala.
Fumigations in the agricultural fields of Argentina are being denounced as the cause of the increasing number of children born with malformations, and the number of cases of cancer in the neighbouring rural populations. In the past ten years, the agricultural border has been extended practically as far as the front doors of people’s homes, and entire villages are being exposed to agrochemicals, supplies of which are necessary for intensive farming of crops to produce high yields, and are which being used without the control of the state. These are the stories of families who survive as best they can, under the effects of what they call “poisons. (...)
Argentina is one of the agricultural powerhouses of the world. After the United States and Brazil it is the world’s third largest producer of soybeans. This year it will produce 55 million tons. To do so, local environmental groups estimate that 300 million litres of agrochemicals are being sprayed over the soy fields. This affects 12 million people of Argentina’s overall population of 40 million, who are in contact with this poison in their homes, schools, water supplies, workplaces, on their playing fields, throughout their daily lives. -
Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary tells MPs idea of new hub airport is ’insane’ | Business | guardian.co.uk
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New runways should instead be built at Stansted and Gatwick as well as Heathrow, transport select committee hears
Michael O’Leary said the argument for creating a new hub airport was driven by high-fare airlines and operators seeking to shunt passengers through Heathrow, pictured. Photograph: Getty Images
The idea of a new hub airport should be dropped and three runways built immediately at airports in south-east England, according to the chief executive of Ryanair, Michael O’Leary.
O’Leary told MPs on the transport select committee that the argument for expanding only one central hub was driven by high-fare airlines and operators seeking to shunt passengers through Heathrow, and that new runways should be built at Stansted and Gatwick as well as Heathrow.
“London has the benefit of multiple airports, it has the infrastructure in place – get on and build three more runways,” he said.
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Bottled Water Giant #Nestlé Censors Critical Documentary | Common Dreams
►http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/17-3Pressure from bottled-water giant Nestlé Waters #Canada bullied a Canadian city into cancelling a screening of “Tapped,” an award-winning documentary critical of the buying and selling of clean drinking water as a commodity.
Bottles are seen on a production line on July 19, 2010 in Vittel, at the mineral water bottling plant of Nestlé Waters Supply Company. (Photo: Jean-Christophe Verhaegen, AFP/Getty Images.) Water activist Maude Barlow, chairperson of the Council of Canadians, planned to attend Monday’s screening of “Tapped” in Guelph, Ontario, but discovered that the event had been cancelled after Nestlé’s director of corporate affairs expressed “disappointment” that the city was a co-sponsor of the screening. Nestlé questioned efforts by the city “to position itself as a business-friendly place to invest.”
Barlow called Nestle’s letter “bullying,” and said in a radio interview Monday, “It really does matter who is going to make decisions around access to water in the future. Is it going to be a handful of corporations? Is it going to be service utilities? Is it going to be bottled water companies? Is it going to be water traders? Or is it going to be democratically-elected governments looking after water on behalf of their people?”
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On Monday, Tapped was screened at the University of Guelph before more than 350 people, according to Calzavara — far more than were originally expected before the controversy.
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Migration Russie Caucase nord Cosaques
Russian to Use Cossacks Against North Caucasus Migrants - NYTimes.com
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Russian Governor Signs Up Cossacks to Police Migrants
By ELLEN BARRY
Published : August 3, 2012MOSCOW — The governor of Russia’s Krasnodar region, which will host the Winter Olympics in 2014, has enlisted the area’s Cossacks as an auxiliary police force, urging them to prevent darker-skinned Muslims from the North Caucasus from moving there.
Alexander Aleshkin/Epsilon, via Getty ImagesThe governor, Aleksandr Tkachev, in a speech to law enforcement officers on Thursday, announced that as of September, 1,000 Cossacks would be paid from the budget to maintain public order. In the speech, he said the Cossacks — whose paramilitary forces served the czars — could take measures beyond what the police were allowed.
