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"A British anthropologist is setting out on a year-long stay with a small community in Greenland in an ambitious attempt to document its dying language and traditions. Stephen Pax Leonard will live with the Inughuit in north-west Greenland, the world's most northernmost people, and record their conversations and story-telling traditions to try and preserve their language. The Inughuit, who speak Inuktun, a "pure" Inuit dialect, are under increasing political and climactic pressure to move south, says Leonard. "They have around 10 to 15 years left in their present location, then climate change and politics will force them to move south and they will be assimilated into a different culture, into a broader community, and their way of life will be lost," Leonard told CNN." - Lit

"Their devotion was perhaps most evident in what they gave up to carry out their mission: Dr. Thomas L. Grams, 51, left a thriving dental practice; Dr. Karen Woo, 36, walked away from a surgeon’s salary; Cheryl Beckett, 32, had no time for courtship or marriage....One of two Afghans killed, Ahmed Jawed, 24, a cook, had been excitedly considering what to do with the $20 a day in overtime he would earn on the trip. Mr. Jawed was the main breadwinner for his wife, three children and extended family, and was known in his neighborhood for the collection of 500 audiotapes he would break out for weddings or parties. The second Afghan victim, Mahram Ali, 51, supported two disabled sons on his salary of $150 a month. Mr. Jawed’s brother Abdul Bagin said of the killers: “They were infidels; not human, not Muslims. They killed my brother without any judgment, without any trial, without talking to him.”Mr. Bagin saw the body in the morgue in Kabul and said there was a single bullet wound, which forensic personnel told him was fired at close range, through the heart." - Lit

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#3 - Dream is Collapsing (But thanks for sharing that too! I just need to buy this when I go home.) - Ciaoenrico

"After decades when nothing much seemed to be happening, when this progressive brain disease seemed untreatable and when its diagnosis could be confirmed only at autopsy, the field has suddenly woken up. Alzheimer’s, medical experts now agree, starts a decade or more before people have symptoms. And by the time there are symptoms, it may be too late to save the brain.... Researchers are finding simple and accurate ways to detect Alzheimer’s long before there are definite symptoms. In addition to spinal fluid tests they also have new PET scans of the brain that show the telltale amyloid plaques that are a unique feature of the disease. And they are testing hundreds of new drugs that, they hope, might change the course of the relentless brain cell death that robs people of their memories and abilities to think and reason. “This is what everyone is looking for, the bull’s-eye of perfect predictive accuracy,” Dr. Steven DeKosky, dean of the University of Virginia medical school, who is not connected to the new research, said about the spinal tap study." - Lit

“I see no necessary disjunction between having no free will (those arguments seem watertight) and assuming moral responsibility for myself. The point is ownership. I own my past, my beginnings, my perceptions. And just as I will make myself responsible if my dog or child bites someone, or my car rolls backwards down a hill and causes damage, so I take on full accountability for the little ship of my being, even if I do not have control of its course. It is this sense of being the possessor of a consciousness that makes us feel responsible for it.” - novelist Ian McEwan. - Lit

A decent read, can't say I agree with the argument 100 percent... - Lit

thanks - Lit

"A middle-of-the-night landslide buried hundreds of homes and flooded hundreds more in a remote mountainous region of northern China’s Gansu Province early Sunday, leaving 127 people dead and 2,000 more missing, officials said Sunday evening...The slide appeared to be the worst in a string of weather-related events that have struck China in a summer marked by torrential rain and insufferable heat. The government said on Aug. 4 that floods had hit 28 provinces so far this year, killing 1,072 and leaving 619 missing. The waters have wrecked 1.1 million homes and caused damages totaling 209.6 billion renminbi, or about $31 billion. A July 27 slide triggered by heavy rain buried at least 21 people in Sichuan province. While floods have largely plagued the north, much of southern China has limped through its worst drought in decades, forcing the government to import and burn vast stocks of coal to supplement dwindling hydroelectric power. Sunday’s landslide struck a rural area on the Sichuan border, which is about one-third ethnic Tibetan, including many farmers and herders. Officials said the slide hit about midnight in Zhouqu, a city of about 40,000 people bounded on both sides by steep mountains and bisected by the Bailong River, which runs lengthwise through the narrow valley." - Lit

"(Prior theories of altruism)...Instead, it is likely that two other factors drive helping. The first is positive reputation. Most of us would not survive a week alone in the woods. We count on the cooperation of others, who we assume will provide us with everything from protection to food, so long as we pitch in. Behaving altruistically is a sure-fire sign that we have pitched in, and shows others that we are the type of person they should trust and help. In such a system, a good reputation is the most important currency we have, and there is evidence that people value that currency, acting altruistically more often in public than in private. Charities build on this value, publicizing donations and even providing reputation-boosting tokens like NPR bumper stickers and Livestrong bracelets..." - Lit

"If desiring a good reputation was the only psychological source of altruism, we may be tempted to agree that helping is impure. However, there is probably a more basic source powering altruism, one so ingrained that we could call it an "altruism instinct." Evidence for this comes from infants who act altruistically even though they likely don't understand the ins and outs of reputation building...." - Lit

"Neuroscientists are uncovering interesting correlations between religiosity, the tendency to feel anxiety and the function of serotonin in the brain." - Lit

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"By the time the movie arrives in theaters on Dec. 17, Walt Disney Studios will have spent three and a half years priming the audience pump. The most recent push came last week at Comic-Con International, the annual pop culture convention here. For the third year in a row, Disney teased fans with exclusive “Tron: Legacy” footage. No other movie has guest-starred here so often." - Lit

"The hands and fingers are very powerful transmitters of our emotional state...Touch matters, and how we touch is crucial to relationships." - Lit

I didn't realize there was so much behind palm verse fingertip touch. The Ventral thing is interesting too. After I eat dinner I'm usually painfully full (stupid stomach issues) so I get super protective of my stomach. Chris likes to put his hand on my tummy, but I don't let him. I guess I should. :) - Heather

"Sometimes words don't matter. You can learn more about what someone is up to by the way they move and the look on their face. It's body language." - Lit

J.N. (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...) lists many inside his book (starting on pg 235) http://www.amazon.com/What-Ev... ...just click on "Look Inside"...typing them out would be too difficult - Lit

Of course Amir :) - Lit

bildiğin gripin bu ya :D - rebeyin

ooh, I like.. esp. when the drums kicked in at the last part.... Thanks for sharing. - Logan Melzer

"Sussman discovered the llaretta in the Atacama Desert -- a relative of parsley that resembles a large green rock-- from a comment left on her blog after announcing she was going to Chile. Plants like llaretta or the welwitschia in Namibia live in extreme conditions, a common theme Sussman discovered while tracking her subjects down. 'They live where many other species couldn't even survive, let alone thrive.' " - Lit

Not a bad idea! - Lo

Beautiful. :) - Jenny

I enjoy his performance of the piece here. :) #Litello_wants_to_share - Lit

"Our addiction theories and policies are woefully outdated. Research shows that there are no demon drugs. Nor are addicts innately defective. Nature has supplied us all with the ability to become hooked—and we all engage in addictive behaviors to some degree." - Lit

"Pretty sure the headline makes it clear enough, but I'm gonna go ahead and slap a big ol' SPOILER ALERT on this one anyway, because some people are too busy to actually read headlines. But yes, for those who haven't seen "Inception" yet: First off, do so, because it's a blast and definitely a "worth seeing in the theaters" pic with all the collapsing cities-type effects and such. Secondly, avert your eye, because I wanna talk about that last scene." Click the article to read more... - Lit

"Last month was the warmest June on record worldwide, according to a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Warmer-than-average conditions were present across nearly all continents...according to the organization's State of the Climate report, released Friday." - Lit

"Oil stopped gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time in nearly three months, as BP began testing the cap atop its stricken well, a critical step toward sealing the well permanently...Oil stopped flowing at 2:25 p.m. local time, Mr. Wells said, when engineers closed the choke line, the final seal of the well. Engineers and scientists will now examine the results of the tests every six hours to determine the pressure levels." - Lit

Haha, I see... - Lit

Thanks Ebru :) - Lit

"Genetic Adjustments Illumination Magazine Gene therapy offers hope to kids with Muscular Dystrophy" - Lit

"Stencil Street Art is a project by Katrin Winkel and Andreas Gohr. It is a 23 collection of photographies depicting streetart created using the stencil technique (sometimes called pochoirs). Most of the images were taken in Berlin, Germany but the phenomen is seen and photographed around the world." - Lit

I have been meaning to take some pics of Banksy's work, before the councils remove them, some of them have been washed/removed now. - Halil

You should...I don't know which ones you have access to but his work is interesting....you should and post them maybe - Lit

I shall try my best. - Halil