I dunno. Sea otters got hunted almost to the point of extinction for their pelts.
Hey, you should still use it in a story. I'd read it.
I find the general tone of responses to this article to be simultaneously interesting, annoying, and disheartening, in that folks here will tolerate an article full of physics/chemistry/biology/robotics jargon, but can't deal with a paragraph or two of someone speaking to well-established concepts within the humanities and social sciences. I mean, hell, I regularly have to look up terms and concepts from io9 articles to get an understanding of some new scientific discovery or breakthrough, and I'm happy to do it. Do readers of io9 not have the same respect for people trying to do deep work on social and cultural matters that they do for people working on science and technology? What a depressing thought.
That's what I was wondering too. Would it be like wiping out every single insect in a field, both harmful and beneficial for a crop? Would it hinder the transmission of biological data beneficial and even critical to the functioning of a human body?
I wouldn't characterize Hitchens as particularly good in his later years. He unapologetically reveled in the bloodbath that was the Iraq War, and never admitted being mistaken about WMDs. It seemed that for the last decade of his life he was much more interested in coming up with creative and vindictive ways to kill Muslim people than with taking apart popular icons of virtue. Glenn Greenwald has a really interesting piece on all this, and the idea of what makes for a "consequential" death in general, at Salon.
Actually, who they're mourning is their Dear Leader; the Great Leader was his dad.
/pedantry
But the uses to which characters are put in different contexts actually often speak against the idea that US culture is simply taking over the world. People put their own sets of meanings onto characters, and it's not unusual to see familiar US characters acting decidedly "out of character" in some other country. That said, I think this ad campaign is aimed at a wealthier audience than the average Moçambican, what with the English text and its being tied to a fashion week and all.
What's weird to me is that the ad copy is in English, rather than Portuguese. I wonder if the campaign is more targeting foreigners coming in from places like South Africa for the fashion week?
So, will this place feature in the Michael Winterbottom sequel, Code 47?
And we shouldn't really have to do this to have a secure Web experience. This stuff is all supposed to make our lives easier, right?
Would that it were true. I mean, luckily Michelle Bachman has been a rather ineffectual legislator. But there are real moves to cut funds from the NSF and NIH. Especially around fields that are unpopular with conservative Christians. And there have been real, and successful, moves to shove anti-science teachings into school textbooks. So it is quite dangerous to simply sit back and rely on politicians to not do what they say. Especially the special species of extreme nut that seems to have taken over the Republican leadership these days.
I had physics at my public high school, and my school was far from being considered a "good" school.
Ever read or see The Mouse That Roared? It's actual true history.
But once you get on the other side of the Cascades, maybe it's another story?
Here's another sense: the one that kicks in when you hold your breath along time and tells you rather painfully to "breathe, dammit!"
By that logic, hearing should also be classified under "touch", since it is triggered by rapidly varying pressure (vibrations) in the air or water or whatever other gaseous or liquid atmosphere you're hanging out in.
Oh, it's going somewhere. You just might have to fight a kraken when you get there.
Edward finds friendship, guidance and love amongst chaos and despair, when all else seems to be lost in a world robbed of its humanity.
You know, I could do without all this touchy-feely copy that film and book marketers feel like they need to tack on to, I dunno, I guess "humanize" something like a zombie movie? Do they think they're going to somehow pull in the feel-good family demographic? Or maybe trick some folks into thinking it's some sort of romantic date night movie?
You know, I could do without all this touchy-feely copy that film and book marketers feel like they need to tack on to, I dunno, I guess "humanize" something like a zombie movie? Do they think they're going to somehow pull in the feel-good family demographic? Or maybe trick some folks into thinking it's some sort of romantic date night movie?
I wonder what the footage would have been like if the gorilla was a desperado?
What, you mean having parked cars' headlamps all turning on as a pedestrian walks by, horror-movie style? And then the engines start revving by themselves, and then...
