Who was Daisy Ashford?

A girl who wrote a novel at age 9. The interesting bit is this, the publishers published her work without editing her spellings, grammar and punctuation.

Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:

"Daisy Ashford, full name Margaret Mary Julia Ashford (later Devlin) (7 April 1881 – 15 January 1972) was an English writer who is most famous for writing The Young Visiters, a novella concerning the upper class society of late 19th century England, when she was just nine years old. The novella was published in 1919, preserving her juvenile spelling and punctuation. She wrote the title as "Viseters" in her manuscript, but it was published as "Visiters".^[1]"

Source: Daisy Ashford

The Secret History of the Nursery Rhyme - http://www.rhymes.org.uk

http://www.rhymes.org.uk/nursery-rhyme.htm

"Many of the origins of the humble nursery rhyme are believed to be associated with, or reflect, actual events in history! The secret meanings of the Nursery Rhyme have been lost in the passing of time. A nursery rhyme was often used to parody the royal and political events and people of the day. The humble Rhyme was used as a seemingly innocent vehicle to quickly spread subversive messages! "

FASCINATING PIECE OF INFORMATION ABOUT LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

http://ask.yahoo.com/20020605.html

"The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 18 million books, 2.5 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.5 million maps, and 54 million manuscripts."

"They were sure the child would be dead before they could get back" - Never at rest: a biography of Isaac Newton By Richard S. Westfall

What does hand gesture tell us?

http://changingminds.org/techniques/body/parts_body_language/hands_body_language.htm

"Greeting

Hands are often used in greetings. The most common form of greeting is shaking hands, of which there are many different forms. Opening the palm shows that there is no concealed weapon. This is significant in greeting, salutes, waves etc.

This is one of the few times we are allowed to touch the other person and it may get used to send various signals.

Dominance is shown with hand on top, strength, prolonged holding ('I decide when to let go') and holding the person with the other hand.

Affection is shown with speed and duration of shake, touching with the other hand and enthusiastic smiles. The similarity between dominant and affection handshakes leads to tricky situations where a dominant person pretends to be friendly.

Submission is shown with a floppy hand, palm up and which is sometimes clammy and with a quick withdrawal."

Suicide was the eighth leading cause of death for all Americans (up from ninth in 1996) and the third leading cause of death for young people aged 15-24.

http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/calltoaction/fact1.htm

ANTISEXUAL MOVEMENT

Source: Antisexualism

The antisexual movement promotes antisexualism as a way of life. Antisexuals are not always asexual, although they say it is not impossible to become asexual and they seek asexuality, but the reasons for their antisexuality are often based on their reasoning or morals. A few of the claims some antisexuals make include:

• Sexuality can complicate relationships (as when people are hostile towards each other because they are sexually attracted to the same person).
• Sex may hinder one's spiritual development.
• Sexual desire can cause people to place primitive instinct ahead of intellect (people across the world continue to have unsafe casual sex despite their awareness of the dangers of STDs, for example).
• Sexuality asserts itself in the human mind by releasing neurochemicals comparable to addictive drugs into the brain.
• Sexual desire can cause people to lie and cheat in the pursuit of sexual relationships.
• Sexuality can lead to discrimination, based on perceptions of sexual immorality and intolerance of certain sexual preferences.
• Sexual desires could be false assumptions that are foisted on you by society, hence you may need to look at how your sexuality is ideologically and institutionally constructed.
• Sexuality, which is usually based on notion of physical attractiveness, encourages and justifies obliviousness to the unfairness of discrimination against people who are deemed unattractive by others.
• There is no difference between consent and coercion; sex is a means of oppression.
• There is a link between unrestricted reproduction, resource depletion and environmental decay. This is a position ideologically connected to deep ecology, antinatalism and Malthusianism.
• Mother-roles are a construct used to subjugate women, hence they may oppose procreation. This argument chimes with certain feminist and queer theories (lesbian, pro-celibacy and Green feminism), but not others.
• Male dominated families can be harmful entity for society, which is similar to the theory of Marx and Engels that male dominated family structures which reduce females to objects of reproduction and household chores are more a form of 'prostitution' than one of ethical family values. Some Marxists have advocated the abolition of the family and communal living.
• Sexual behavior evolved for human reproduction. If life is more a burden than a joy, one does a service to would-be offspring by not having them.
• Technological advances render sex obsolete.

[ BBC.CO.UK ] - TOHOKU'S MYSTERIOUS DONOR LEFT DONATION IN THE TOILET - "US$130,000 left in toilet for quake victims"

"I am all alone. Please let the people of Tohoku use it."

Source:
bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2011/09/110930_witn_donation.shtml

Around 40%+ of the World Population Lives in CIPB

They are all bordering neighbours. I have no idea why would somebody mess with these nations especially considering the fact that they are 40% of the world.

This exact population figure is around 43% which is huge especially taking into account that these are only 4 countries out 195 countries (recognized by UN).

Source: geography.about.com
Image URL: http://i.imgur.com/evvcZ.jpg

zefrank on 10-10-06

WoW read this about Isaac Asimov - the famous science fiction writer, Personal Life

1. Who is Asimov?
2. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards.
3. Asimov was afraid of flying,^[19] only doing so twice in his entire life (once in the course of his work at the Naval Air Experimental Station, and once returning home from the army base in Oahu in 1946)^[19] 
4. He seldom traveled great distances, partly because his aversion to flying complicated the logistics of long-distance travel. 
5. This phobia influenced several of his fiction works, such as the Wendell Urth mystery stories and the Robot novels featuring Elijah Baley. 
6. In his later years, he found he enjoyed traveling on cruise ships, and on several occasions he became part of the cruises' "entertainment", giving science-themed talks on ships such as the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2.
7. Asimov was an able public speaker and was a frequent fixture at science fiction conventions, where he was friendly and approachable.
8. He patiently answered tens of thousands of questions and other mail with postcards, and was pleased to give autographs. He was of medium height, stocky, with mutton chop whiskers and a distinct Brooklyn accent. His physical dexterity was very poor. 
9. He never learned to swim or ride a bicycle; however, he did learn to drive a car after he moved to Boston. In his humor book Asimov Laughs Again, he describes Boston driving as "anarchy on wheels".^{[20] Source: Wikipedia}

^{Youtube Videos as seen on youtubefav.blogspot.com}, in which he accurately predicted about the future.

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GENDER IMBALANCE; THINK ABOUT THIS

Statistical Ratio of male and female is 1:1 in the world:

Gender imbalance may arise as a consequence of various factors ranging from war casualties to intentional gender control and deliberate gendercide.

Source: Wikipedia

WHAT IS A POLAR NIGHT?

Source: Wikipedia


The polar night occurs when the night lasts for more than 24 hours. This only occurs inside the polar circles. The opposite phenomenon, when the sun stays above the horizon for a long time is called the polar day, or midnight sun.
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IP ADDRESSES WILL EXHAUST WITHIN A YEAR - NEWS FROM CNN

Source: CNN


In a recent statement on YouTube, internet luminary and Google exec Vinton Cerf makes a similar prediction.
"We are at a cusp, I think, in the IP address space for internet," he said, noting that, if nothing changes, a "black market" for these internet addresses may develop.
So what should we do about this numbers shortage?
Well, make more numbers for starters.
Our current system for assigning IP addresses, which look like a series of four numbers with periods between them, can only handle 32 bits of data.
But, to accommodate the sprawling nature of the Web, internet researchers are working on a new version of the system -- called IPv6, for "version six" -- which would allow many more IP addresses, with each holding 128 bits of info.
On The Atlantic's website, Alexis Madrigal writes that the situation is somewhat similar to what phone companies faced in the 1980s and 1990s: We ran out of new phone numbers, so we had to add digits.
"The problem is essentially the same: you only have so many unique slots, and those slots eventually run out as phone numbers proliferate," he writes.
But the current situation has proven more technically complicated than that.

PIRATE ISP, SUPPORTING "thepiratebay.org"

Source: Torrent Freak

Gustav Nipe, student of economics, long-standing Pirate Party member and CEO of Pirate ISP told TorrentFreak that Pirate ISP is based on the hacker ontology. “If you see something and you think it’s broken you build a patch and fix it. With that as a reference point we are launching an ISP. This is one way to tackle the big brother society.”

EU SPENDING A LOT ( £5.4 BILLION ) ON SCIENTIC RESEARCH

Source: BBC

The EU has announced 6.4bn euros (£5.4bn) of funding for scientific research and innovation next year - a 12% increase on this year's allocation.

The programme is aimed at creating more than 165,000 jobs and developing "a more competitive and greener Europe", the European Commission says.

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