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In this dissertation, I used data from almost two decades of behavioral observations of wild spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta), coupled with non-invasive techniques to measure steroid hormone concentrations from these same individuals, to investigate the behavioral endocrinology of this unique species. Female spotted hyenas are morphologically and behaviorally masculinized. These traits make this species particularly interesting subjects to investigate the interaction between hormones and behavior, and how this interaction is influenced by an individual's social or ecological environment.
Our lab has measured concentrations of androgens, glucocorticoids, and now, estrogens present in fecal samples collected from free-living, individually recognized hyenas. I first use these data to investigate both naturally occurring and anthropogenic influences on stress physiology in spotted hyenas. From our longitudinal study, I demonstrated that spotted hyenas are well adapted to variation in their natural ecology, including seasonal fluctuations in prey and rainfall. However, unpredictable events, such as sudden periods of instability in the social hierarchy, do influence spotted hyena stress physiology. Interestingly, adult male hyenas experienced an impact of increasing human disturbance on their stress physiology. This result was strengthened by a cross-sectional comparison that demonstrated that this population of hyenas, which is now exposed to high levels of human disturbance, had elevated stress hormone concentrations when compared to hyenas exposed to relatively low levels of human disturbance.
I next evaluated behavior likely to be mediated by steroid hormones in this species, focusing on aggressive behavior. Using careful behavioral rate calculations that controlled for variation in opportunity to behave aggressively, I showed that rates of aggression emitted by adult females toward all conspecifics are higher than those emitted by adult males, which is opposite mammalian norms. While rates of intrasexual aggression did not differ significantly between the two sexes, the quality of this aggression did, and attacks among females were of higher-intensity than those seen among males. My results also demonstrated that rates of aggression emitted by females as adults were positively correlated with variation in their prenatal androgen exposure, supporting the organizational hypothesis of steroid hormone control of behavior.
Finally, we investigated two functional hypotheses to explain a particular type of aggression observed among adult female hyenas. Unprovoked aggression describes attacks between individuals that are not related to maternal defense or control of resources. My results suggest that females use unprovoked aggression to test existing rank relationships. However, we did not find evidence supporting the notion that aggression is preferentially directed at females to suppress their reproductive efforts.
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That picture was taken down at the training area at Eglin AFB.
Think you could call that a double s#!t situation, one guy craps his pants, the other has the crap beaten out of him! :thumbsup:
EOD guys have always had a weird sense of humor. :biggrin:
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mech to elec fuel pump
I have a 1985 OMC 3.0 Liter in my boat. I have had fuel issues with it for the last 3 years. The engine was rebuilt when I bought the boat 3 yrs. ago. The previous owner told me that the boat had problems and he was just tired of it so he bought a different boat. I purchased the boat for a really good price and rebuilt the engine. After burning a hole in one of the pistons the first year I had it I haven't really messed with it. I am back at it now. I figure the piston got roached due to running lean. So I replaced the piston and paid a little more attention to the engine while on the water. The engine was still running lean so I replaced the fuel pump. The engine still runs lean. I replaced all of the fuel lines and had the carb rebuilt. The engine still ran lean and the last time it was on the water I had to be towed in (broke down on the water f'n sucks ***). I pulled the fuel line off the carb and rolled the engine over, and fuel drizzled out of the line, it was a constant drizzle. I changed the fuel pump back to the original one that was on it and it is doing the same thing. Is there a chance when the engine was rebuilt the lobe on the cam isn't large enough to properly pump the pump? My main question is I would like to set up an electric fuel pump but need to do it correctly and make it Marine safe. I would like it to be set up on an oil pressure switch but also am wondering if something else needs to be installed while going from mech to elec pumps. Is there a pressure switch that would shut the pump off? If someone could give me some advice on this or at least point me in the right direction it would be nice.
Sorry for the long post
I just installed an electric pump on my gen 6 502 and did a ton of research. This is what I learned:
1. install a pressure regulator with a gague on it as close to the carb as possible. If you are running a carburetor you only need 5 or 6 PSI at the carb
2. use a gerotor style pump like the holley HLY-12-125. do not use a vane style pump because most of the vane style pumps (like the holley blue, red, black etc) are not made for continuous duty and they crap out all the time
4. wire the pump using a relay (very important!!)
5. a dead head configuration is fine for a carb setup (no fuel return line needed)
Hope this helps get you started
Very important, make sure whatever fuel pump you buy it is rated for marine use.
all fuel hoses must be double clamped and fuel filter must be installed between pump and carb. brass ball valve at filter inlet helps when changing filter. you have changed the filter right?
ok, here is the scoop.
I went to the auto parts this past afternoon, well yesterday afternoon i guess but anyways i bought a carter electric fuel pump. It is a solenoid style pump part number P74019.
From the tank I have a fuel filter then the pump then another filter before the regulator then to the carb. Is this correct? Do I need the second filter? There is no filter in the carb inlet. I plan on wiring the pump with a 10 amp inline fuse also wired up to an oil pressure switch that carter recommends. The pump came with a wiring diagram so I am set on the wiring. I am just curious if this is correct. The pump is rated from like 5.5 to 9 psi at 30 gph or something like that. Will the pump shut itself off when pressure is built? Will it turn on and off constantly when at an idle or low throttle if pressure is met by the regulator? The engine is a 1985 OMC 3.0 Liter, If I understand correctly this is the same engine as the 2.5 iron duke. I am curious if anyone would know what to set my fuel pressure at or at least a starting point? Or even a minimum and a maximum then I can play with it from there?
You did check all the hoses from the tank to the pump, before you condemned the pump, didn't you? Now might be a good time to make sure you have good hose, that can withstand having a little alcohol mixed with the gas.
The fuel pressure sounds high to me. Remember, on a boat, if you put excess gas in the carb, and is spills. you are adding gas fumes that stay in the bilge, waiting for a spark, from the starter to explode.
Before radically changing the fuel system on a boat, make sure you are doing the right thing. Cars rarely blow up from a little gas spill. Boats do, way too often.
Are you vapor locking? The fuel lines aren't getting too close to heat sources?
when I put the new mechanical pump on I changed all of the lines going from the tank to the carb, I even tried running out of an outboard boat tank. The fuel pumps pump but it is just a constant basically drizzle from the hose. I am curious if the lobe on the cam is to small and just doesn't pump the pump correctly.
I'd check the push rod length to a new one as a start.
As for the electric pump, you want it lower than the fuel tank if possible or as near to this as practical.
A pump like you have is tolerant of dirt and etc., but running a pre-pump filter wouldn't hurt.
The regulator should also be near the carb, and set to about 5psi.
That said, I do not pretend to know what the CG regs are on such things- I'd have to advise that you bone up on the regs before doing anything.
I just put on an electric fuel pump, (bosch), because my fuel pump pushrod and cam lobe wore off. I put a hacksaw blade in front of the pushrod and held it up and had the wife hit the key. almost no movement. So, I put the inline pump on after a filter, and a clear filter ahead of the carb. Well, I was only getting a drizzle, also. I ran hose from the frame to the carb. Well, the hose doesn't fit as nice as the steel line did by the front of the engine. The hose was touching the water pump. I moved the line totally away from the engine, and hanging off tghe air filter, so far. Looks stupid, but it appears to be the fix. Oh well.
i have no fuel pump pushrod and the cam is only like 4 yrs old. if that. I mounted the fuel pump closer to the carb than the tank, there is maybe a total of 4 feet of line between my tank and carb. I mount the pump up on the engine because I would like to keep the pump from being submerged in water if I can. Is it really bad to have it closer to the carb than the tank running such a short amount of line. I guess my thought was that these fuel pumps are designed to push fuel like 15 or so ft. to the front of a vehicle.
I was working on an old '84 suburban. The fuel lines were spliced about halfway to the front. I mounted it there, but I also knew that when I pushed fuel up there with a little air pressure, it would have siphoned there all day; so I was tentatively ok with that.
ok, I had the boat in the water today with the electric fuel pump installed. The fuel pump is mounted close to the tank with about 16 inches of line running from the tank to the pump. The engine runs with the electric pump it would not run at all with the mechanical pump. When I got it out on the water I was running through the no wake zone and it was running good. When I got out of the no wake zone I opened it up to wot and she fell on her face after maybe 50 yds if that far. I flipped the engine cover back and a buddy was driving the boat. At wot the fuel pressure drops down to like 2.5 pounds. Should it maintain a 5-7 psi flow? Do I need a bigger fuel pump? After I would throttle the boat down for a minute or so she would take off again at wot for about 50 yds again. I can "troll" all day long I can do probably 15 mph all day long but I cant open it up because it runs out of gas
That's what happened to me, basically. If I hit the highway and accelerated, I fell flat. I would always start up again. Could barely accelerate. My hose just touched the engine and it was enough to vaporize the gas. My fuel is as far away from anything on the engine as I could make it: It seems to have straightened out. Or do you have some crud in your gas tank?
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Man charged with robbing Palm Desert bank
1st Bank at 73000 Hwy. 111 robbed on Sat. April 19th
PALM DESERT, Calif. - A La Quinta man has been arrested after police charged him with robbing a 1st Bank in Palm Desert over the weekend at 73000 Highway 111.
Authorities caught up to 28-year-old Joshua Franklin Wehe five days after the robbery occurred.
According to police, the suspect handed one of the bank tellers a note demanding money just before noon on Saturday, April 19. He then escaped in a vehicle with an unknown amount of cash.
Authorities said he didn't have a weapon and nobody was hurt during the incident. Officers conducted a search in the area but were unable to initially locate the suspect.
Officers took Wehe into custody on Thursday, April 24. He was booked into the Riverside County Jail in Indio on one count of bank robbery. His bail has been set at $30,000.
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Arshavin desperate for resolution to Spurs saga
Zenit St Petersburg forward Andrei Arshavin has revealed his frustration at the delay over his proposed move to Tottenham - and hopes his 'whining' will convince bosses to let him leave.
The UEFA Cup holders have rejected formal bids from Barcelona and Tottenham for Arshavin, whose inspirational performances led Russia to the Euro 2008 semi-finals.
Zenit have raised Arshavin's price tag to a reported 27 million euros, with the 27-year-old now fearing he has been priced out of the market.
'This price tag has frightened everybody off,' Arshavin told Sport Express. 'Only Tottenham have dared continue negotiations. But as it stands nothing has developed.
'My desire to leave is still as strong, but there is nothing more to do now other than hope for a miracle. I understand perfectly well that if I don't move on now, I probably never will.
'I'm just hoping that one fine morning the bosses at Gazprom will wake up in a good mood and say: 'We've had enough of Arshavin's whining - let's let him go'.'
With the prospect of his dream move to Barcelona over for now after the Catalans signed Alexander Hleb, Arshavin has turned his attention to the English Premier League and reiterated his desire to work with Spurs coach Juande Ramos.
'When Tottenham made their offer I was sceptical at first,' Arshavin continued. 'But after Ramos called me personally and told me that that they were selling Robbie Keane and that he wanted me in his side, the situation changed.
'When a coach shows an interest in you, especially such a renowned and strong coach, then that is already half of the success of any move. I also like the way Tottenham play, so I agreed in principle to join.
'A short while later a representative from Spurs arrived to discuss my personal terms and contract. The discussion didn't take long and we agreed on everything quickly. Only then did my asking price go up.
'Tottenham have a decent squad with (Luka) Modric, (Dimitar) Berbatov and other players, and the club is fully capable of fighting for a place in the Champions League.
'The main thing is to try my strengths in a league like the English Premier League and play against the likes of Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal on a regular basis rather than once every five years.'
Despite the breakdown in negotiations, Zenit coach Dick Advocaat believes the club have not heard the last from Tottenham and is confident the deal can be resurrected.
The Dutchman told Rossiskaya Gazeta: 'I am sure Tottenham will be back to make another, more suitable offer for Arshavin's transfer. There is no set time period or deadline for this. Zenit are doing everything in the correct way.
'If Tottenham can sell Robbie Keane to Liverpool for 25 million euros then in my opinion they should pay good money for Arshavin.'
Arshavin is currently preparing to fly to Kazan for Zenit's crucial Premier Liga match against league leaders Rubin tomorrow despite reports in the English press that the player is 'on strike'.
Arshavin, along with fellow Russian internationals Alexander Anyukov, Roman Shirokov and Konstantin Zyryanov, was rested in midweek for Zenit's cup defeat to Sibir Novosibirsk.
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Behind-the-Scenes At Aldo's Headquarters
Erica Lam | Posted 10.23.2012 | Style
Read More: Globo, Montreal, Little Burgundy, Locale, Aldo Shoes, Call It Spring, Style Spy, Fashion, Feet First, Canada, Aldo, Style News
Look in your shoe closet. There's a very good chance a pair of Aldo Shoes sits in them. Or you might have a pair of shoes from one of Aldo Group's brands: Little Burgundy, Call It Spring, or GLOBO. I recently visited the head office of the Aldo Group in Montreal, getting a sneak peek into just where the "shoe magic" happens.


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. Biologic is an example of both the process and the aesthetic sensibility of Entanglement.Working in design and fabrication, often the question which comes up is "Why create this particular thing? What story will it tell after we have informed it?" Will this thing we design continue to adapt and change beyond our designer/creator intent because the form of the design interacts/adopts/adjusts to its purpose? How quickly is that change applied, or is the form static and is it interpretation over time which will compose the form's aesthetic? Of all the writing here, I am most intrigued by this last statement which is the process and the aesthetic- and how we as designers and fabricators may begin a process to see it evolve and find relative place in the tangle.
And our process of creation is very different.One of the issues hinted at here and very critical at present is the issue of authorship. Where does any given idea come from? Who is responsible for it and how should they be recompensed? How can we even begin to work that out?
There's a lovely little book by an artist called Daniel Spoerri, called 'The Topology of Chance'. It was published in the sixties*. In it he looks at the plate of food on the table in front of him and traces every particle - including plate and cutlery - further and further back. Where was the plate made? Where did the clay come from? How is clay made? etc. What's so nice about it is that you realise that everything, even the most mundane thing, has roots going back and back to the dawn of time; and that almost every natural process somehow impacted on its development. The more I think about the genesis of 'creative work' the more I recall that book. Tracing where any piece of art or science comes from is astonishingly complex and ultimately futile - because even if you could name all the threads in that tapestry you can't retrospectively assess the relative value of them. It's chaos theory worked backwards. All of us who make our living from some notion of 'ownership' of ideas - like copyrights, for example - are starting to recognise this dilemma. Indeed, one of the big challenges of Entanglement is how we pay for things and get paid for them. It isn't a trival question: I imagine that our solutions to that problem will entail some new kinds of thinking that may lead us to a whole body of new philosophical ideas - economics leading philosophy. Wouldn't be the first time (whispers Karl Marx).
A lovely example indeed here of how "zooming" in and out of problem spaces can give us different perspectives towards a resolution. If, for example, we stay within existing / prevalent consumerist/capitalist models, we may ask: "How do we ensure authors get a "ding!" at every sale?" Zooming up however, we may ask, for example, "Is that necessary if the author's living wage is covered by the state or some other institution? As long as no one is profiting beyond recovery of costs and re-investment…" And as Mr. Eno says, nothing prevents us from finding new models at either level. In fact, I think we must.
'What is an author?' by Michel Foucault might be of interest - a short and thoughtful piece on the history of the idea of authorship. http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Foucault-AuthorFunction.html Elsewhere he once suggested that as an experiment all books should be published anonymously for a year or two to see what happened. Interesting, but impossible under the present formation of commercial publishing. On the academic publishing front the open access movement is struggling against big capatalist beasts such as Elsevier to give birth to a new way to circulate ideas.
Brian, Kirby Ferguson produced a thoughtful and eloquent 4-part indie movie series that I think is related to what you mentioned above about the book, The Topology of Chance. This book is now on my list of things to read, but I wonder if Kirby knew of it when he made his series. Also related, three years ago I proposed a project for the Knight News Challenge that was inspired in part by Kirby's series but mostly by Harvard Law Professor William Fisher's CopyrightX course. I think there's a whole lot of room for social experiments to study what you wrote: "…how we pay for things and get paid for them." Flattr is one interesting alternative.
This also reminds me of the more pop-culture focused Connections TV series from the BBC. James Burke hosted and did a great job of telling the stories of contemporary objects that aren't as modern as they seem.
I agree that attribution / authorship is a muddled concept and always has been. It's interesting, even in low-tech formats, to compare the attribution models across media. In academia, citations in theory track the provenance of all key ideas and facts, whereas in recorded music, performance art, etc. there is no real analogue. Of course something approximating it is forced by the legal regimes around sampling in music, but nothing comparable exists for "conceptual sampling." I've always thought it would be cool if an artist could annotate a soundcloud-like player with the sources/references behind particular moments.
In which case, all things are derivative and there is nothing new. Sounds dull.
Luckily, with new tools we can actually trace back the particles of clay. Not just in a theory kind of way, but in a legitimate carbon dating, molecular marker kind of way. Which is, one could say, a very new and different way of creating information. The article speaks of a non human method of design. While this, like every single thing ever, comes from the base matter of the universe, using that as a metric for makes everything inconsequential. Fun for philosophy, but not great for designing houses, or music, or whatever.
What's even more interesting is that the copyright system can be seen to be a capitalist conclusion from this "all things are beholden to the source" mentality, which I believe you are pointing out. The solutions to these issues are probably not that new (even those most mundane things have roots), but are exposed in those "Gods of the Copy Book Headings" that Kipling spoke of.
This discussion is licensed under Creative Commons. It's not a new idea. It's called sharing. I learned that before I could walk. We've just spent a long being taught how to not do that.
So, maybe there is nothing new, but at this point, it is pretty different.
Such processes lend themselves to collaboration among multiple machines and multiple humans because the interfaces between the parts are fluid and adaptive. The final product is very much a collaborative effort of humans and machines, often with a superior result.What is needed is a science of collaboration that combines diverse sets of machines (eg ensemble theory, random forests), with diverse sets of humans. In contrast with the rhetoric of Singularity, one might call this Multiplicity.
"We can no longer see ourselves as separate from the natural world or our technology, but as a part of them, integrated, codependent, and entangled."
Codependency, in a psychological framework, generally suggests an unhealthy behaviour exhibited by an individual, who gives of oneself to another, at the very expense of oneseself, to satiate an unhealthy fear of abandonment, or as another expression of emotional need, with origins in learned coping mechanisms and survival methods developed in dysfunctional childhood environments, to respond to unmet, fundamental, emotional needs
I can only wonder then, if the author chose this word 'codependent' advertanly, or inadvrtantly, to describe the human relationship to this new world of entangled nature and technology?
Where the lines of discipline, relationship, and even existential purpose are blurred, for what exactly is it that nature and technology depend upon each other to achieve?
It is argued by many of those who work in the field of psychology that the illness associated with codependncy can be overcome through self-healing, whether mediated or self-directed, using various tools for overcoming reactionary, subconscious, psychological responses.
A critical question for humans, in the early childhood of this new age, is how do we navigate, negotiate, and direct these entangled relationships of nature, technology, and the human experience, in ways that are functional for us, healthy for us, and which meet our fundamental needs?
We can no longer see ourselves as separate from the natural world or our technology, but as a part of them, integrated, codependent, and entangled.Particularly fascinating in light of the argument about the Apple v. FBI case that iPhones are more analagous to our minds than safes.
We are remaking ourselves, and we need to choose wisely what we are to become.Does this not presuppose choice? Two paragraphs up we had established that "functional intention is an artifact of the engineering process." Is there a conflict here? How much control and choice can we have in remaking ourselves? I'm curious!
Could this be a misleading juxtaposition? Reading this sentence brought to mind a caveat that entanglement also exists between our "constructions" and "forces of nature." For example, the impact of our modern economy and habits of consumption has had on climate. In particular, how we've intensified the scale and unpredictability of these forces of nature. Thoughts?
We continue to grasp at a reasonable means by which wealth can be distributed in an equitable fashion, not only so that each has the means of survival and opportunity that a wealthy and democratic society wishes to purvey, but the very meaning of wealth reflects its many forms. The concept presented here re-frames the economic argument for a sharing economy as a philosophical one, and does so rather well.
With the exception of the powdered wigs, the authors of the Constitution are little different (just fewer) than the authors of wikipedia: almost entirely white guys, mostly in their 20s.
(As much as I enjoyed Danny's article, and have been following his writing since Day One of The Media Lab, I am disappointed he plays PC politics here. I'm looking forward to the "Age of Entanglement" for at least that reason: less PC, more collaborative reality.)
I think you overstate your case. While it is true that the demographics of WIkipedia contributors are very different that of the general population, it would be difficult to argue that they are not a vastly more diverse and inclusive group than the authors of the US constitution. They do tend to be white and male, but the are many important contributors and leaders who are not, and it is not true that they are "mostly in their 20s".
Mr. Hills, your article is wonderfull!! The most natural in our world today is technology. This is our nature,
I totally appreciate your vision. I agree that the article is excellent.
Can we really say that technology is our nature? This makes me shutter to think: Is synth the new, natural form of music, casting aside the instruments that brought about the sounds?
The final blow to the Enlightenment will come when we build into our machines the power to learn, adapt, create and evolve.This is my concern. We are children playing with power tools – blithely unaware of the havoc we might wreak.
Chris, I like the poignant analogy but I think that your concern is everyone's concern. The question is whether or not we can build cultures and institutions that allow us to utilize "power tools" to engender flourishing, while simultaneously safe-guarding us against mailce and folly.
my concern is the our culture acceleration. the negative impact of power is mitigated by slowing down and retaining a committment to diligence. the current paradigm existentially forces this dangerous acceleration because we are all absolutely aware that if "i don't get it done first" somebody will sweep in tomorrow at take the cake.
I think competition can be allowed to persist so long as it is counterbalanced by institutions whose purpose it is to ensure that it does not give way to wrecklessness. For example, if the EPA was even close to as robust an organization as the FDA, fracking with chemical leakage would unlikely have ever made it to market. I share your concerns but see them less as a problem stemming from competition, and more as a political shortcoming resulting in an inability to appropriately regulate markets.
We began to build systems with emergent behaviors that were beyond our own understanding, creating the first crack in the foundation.Do you mind giving an example?
Machine learning algorithms that technology companies implement in their products (Google search etc) are beyond engineers' full comprehension.
There's no way to know how a neural net makes the associations it does (in a discrete, Enlightenment-closed system sense) as the probablisitic associations it derives happen at a layer hidden from the designer/engineer. It "just works" and gets more accurate as users feed it more data.
One of the more interesting real world implications of the what I describe is the EU antitrust cases against Facebook and Google.
In Google's case, no one can fully account for why Google search recommends their own products over others. It's quite possible the AI that makes interwoven through Google's products (it's about 1 billion lines of code) was recommending it's own apps and services as users fed it more data. The system logically concluded that since they're part of the same platform users would simply find it convenient. No one knows though. The neural net's inputs are too numerous (every Google user's uploads and searches etc) and varied to fully account for and it's physically impossible to fully visualize a neural net's hidden layer in a easy to understand way.
A.I. would be an example of this, no? Much like the discovery of nuclear power. During testing and implementation, the consequences were not fully known. It was a milestone as well as a productive and destructive power.
"Thus, within this monument to Enlightenment thinking, we sowed the seeds of its demise."
- Danny Hillis
All enlightened people just go into 3D and are in greed of having material golds and etheric power. And what church provides.
Think of the canonical image of collaboration during the Enlightenment: fifty-five white men in powdered wigs sitting in a Philadelphia room, writing the rules of the American Constitution. Contrast that with an image of the global collaboration that constructed the Wikipedia, an interconnected document that is too large and too rapidly changing for any single contributor to even read.Reading this makes me think of a Global Constitution, i.e. a collaboratively constructed set of rules.
I think that brings about the excellent point: things become too large for any single contributor to even read, which brings about Design as Participation.
To paraphrase Henry Rollins, "I don't think we can do it, but I think you can do it."
Let's not think of a Global Constitution as the order, but rather your participation here, and my participation here, and another's participation elsewhere as the new order.
progress in the Age of Entanglement is synthetic and comes from putting things together."You have constructed your own little machine, ready when needed to be plugged into other collective machines." - D&G (from 1000 Plateus)
In doing so, we will give them the power to surpass us, to shape the world and themselves in ways that we never could have imagined.I'm getting a type of post-humanist vibe from this. Maybe we could suprass "the human" (so to speak) instead of us being "left behind".
In the last age, the Age of Enlightenment, we learned that nature followed laws. By understanding these laws, we could predict and manipulate. We invented science.Science predates the Age of Enlightenment…
The scientific revolution began towards the end of the Renaissance period, yet I would argue that science as we know it today is a product of the Enlightenment, when the great scientific academies and societies were formed and began to dominate the intellectual discourse.
Simulated biological processes do not understand the system in the same sense that a human designer does.Yet, luckily, the end result may be understood by a designer to a large extent (e.g. organs in a body). Maybe the best fusion will be achieved when we learn to contribute our designer's understanding to an evolving system in real time. Rather than passively watching it.
The relation to parts to function is more complex in a biological systems than in an engineered systems, but I agree that they sometimes have have parts with understandable function, for example the heart pumping blood. These doesn't happen always, but it happens enough to require an explanation. Why should evolution make parts with narrow functions, when it can also make integrated functions that emerge holistically, like the immune the system? I think the answer has something to do with what is easy to evolve. I think the same modularity that makes organs understandable also makes it easier for them to evolve under natural selection.
An interesting piece but is there any evidence that humans have ever NOT been intimately intertwined with their creations? If not the rest of the article falls rather flat on its face. One only has to look at the artefacts in the recent celtic exhibition at the British Museum to recognise the degree of physical and emotional investment in objects produced several thousand years ago.


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Kim Kardashian, Kanye West Spend Easter Weekend Together in Paris, Shop For Baby Clothes: Picture
Back to basics! Kim Kardashian and boyfriend Kanye West kept things casual during a stroll through Paris on Tuesday, April 2 as they took in the sights and sounds of the City of Lights.
Kardashian, who stepped out in three different maternity outfits in one day just last week, kept herself (and her growing baby bump!) amply covered up in an all-black ensemble that only showed a hint of lace.
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The Kim and Kourtney Take Miami star opted for black stretch pants with a white stripe down the length of her leg in place of her usual leather-and lace skirts, and kept her arms similarly covered up in a loose black cardigan.
She topped off her look with a pair of simple, black pointy-toed pumps.
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West, 35, similarly kept his look casually chic in a grey hood, black pants and an oversized black jacket.
The pair spent Saturday, March 30, racing around the city in a black porsche, a source tells Us Weekly.
"It's a really sports, powerful car, and Kim was loving it," the source said. "She might be pregnant and preparing to settle down, but she was determined to act like a sporty girl-about-town."
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Two days later, the parents-to-be ditched their flashy ride for some calmer activities, shopping at Bonpoint, a French children's store on Monday, April 1.
Kardashian has been getting her share of criticism for her fashion choices in recent weeks, but the reality star said in a recent interview that she refuses to cave in to pressure from naysayers, even when times get tough.
"Kourtney warned me when you become a mom and become pregnant, there will be this whole new group of critics that will criticize me for everything you do," she said on Good Morning America on March 26. "If I wear one color clothes, I'm in this kind of mood. Or if I wear heels, they're harmful."
But the truth, she revealed in her interview, is that dressing down -- and wearing flats -- actually physically "hurts" her.
"You know what, they actually hurt my back," she said of why she doesn't wear flats. "I love high heels … Whatever makes me feel good, I want to wear. And I love wearing heels. I'm trying the flats, but we'll see."
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It's one of the latest ways big business claims to be curbing global warming: More than 750 utilities across the country now offer customers the chance to pay a premium on their electricity bills to generate "green power." But it turns out that, in many cases, most of the money goes for marketing costs, and little can be traced to the generation of additional renewable energy.
Lisa Baker of Atlanta jumped at the opportunity last summer to protect the environment when Georgia Power invited consumers to pay extra to "help bring more renewable power to Georgia." Paying the minimum annual premium of $54 "is equivalent to planting 125 trees or not driving 2,000 miles," the utility, a unit of giant Southern Co. (SO), boasts on its Web site. Baker, a 33-year-old freelance writer, joined more than 4,000 other customers who signed up for the Green Energy program. "I wanted [the utility] to know there's a market for renewable power," she says.
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Georgia Power says the 60% figure has now dropped to only 15% of overall costs. The company adds that much of the rest goes to purchases from a local landfill that generates methane from decomposing garbage.
But buying gas-powered electricity from the landfill doesn't appear to achieve any additional environmental benefit: The renewable gas-from-trash is now actually less expensive than conventional sources like coal. "Any utility would use the landfill gas [without customers' green premium]. It's a no-brainer," says Smith.
Georgia Power counters that electricity generated by landfill methane was more expensive than other power when the program began in 2006. In addition, the company says it aims to reduce the green premium by as much as 22%.
More than 600,000 U.S. households have signed up for utility-sponsored programs claiming that they reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. That's nearly double the figure from 2004, according to the federally funded National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo.
But given their eagerness for environmental bragging rights, many of the power companies are strangely reluctant to explain with specificity how extra payments from consumers produce green energy that wouldn't be generated otherwise.
In July the Florida Public Service Commission pulled the plug on Florida Power & Light's green energy program after an audit found that more than half of the premiums collected went to marketing and administration instead of renewable energy purchases. The program, known as Sunshine Energy, had more than 38,000 participants paying an additional $9.75 a month. In a regulatory hearing in July, Public Service Commissioner Nathan Skop described the program as "all about PR and of little substance."
Florida Power & Light staunchly defends the program, arguing that billboards, newspaper ads, and bill inserts were needed to alert consumers. The utility says that the rest of the money went to new solar-power installations and the purchase of renewable energy credits. RECs are certificates indicating that a green power developer, such as a wind farm, has generated environmentally friendly energy. Purchasers of RECs take credit for funding the clean power. Florida Power & Light won't disclose, however, most of the sources that supplied RECs to its Sunshine Energy program, citing confidentiality obligations.
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fedor is now open to the ufc
fedor is now open to the ufc
I think the loss means there is a much better chance of Fedor now signing with the UFC, but under the UFC's terms.
That loss really does take away some of the drawing power of Brock Vs Fedor - but I would still pay to watch.
yeah he wont get the pass deal with a title shot first fight thats for sure
I think his first fight will be with Brock.
That's if Brock beats JDS and Cain.
Who else are they going to match Brock against?
But M1 can now forget to any thoughts of an joint M1/UFC event.
Brock's still got a worse record and less experience in MMA.
Plus I reckon if Fedor actually trains seriously, it's an easy bag and tag in the UFC dominance for him... But that's like saying B J Penn stops his "Atkins with carbs" diet lolol
Surely Fedor vs Couture would be a good choice? Then give the winner a title shot.
You know how the UFC love giving Randy a title shot.
Would be cool to see that happen, but I reckon Fedor would wreck Randy. Fedor only has 1 more fight left on his contract with Strikeforce and then he'll have to renegotiate. I reckon they're just trying to give themselves more leverage for negotiation. I can't see them and the UFC ever seeing eye to eye. I'm sure Dana recently said that the lucrative offer they gave was completely off the table and that if Fedor wants to come to the UFC, he'll offer $20,000 to show, $20,000 to win, which is a ridiculous insult. Can't find where he said it but hopefully someone else will have read it too.
Good idea, Fedor Vs Randy. Fedor should beat Randy and then fights Brock.
I would not risk Fedor against JDS, Cain or Carwin as a set up match for a shot a Brock.
Love him or hate him, Brock is the man at the moment. More people pay to watch Brock fight then watch Fedor fight for free. This is not a comment about who is the better fighter. It's about $$$ and I don't think Fedor's camp gets this.
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For many, this was the match that came too early. With both teams considered favorites to take the UEFA Champions League title home, Bayern Munich and Juventus was set to be the premier match of the quarter finals.
Both Bayern and Juventus fans were nervous before the massive clash, and for good reason. Both teams have a midfield of the highest caliber, dynamic defenses, and coaches who are considered tactical geniuses.
Bayern Munich started off the game with a flourish however, stunning the Italians as Andrea Pirlo lost possession and saw Austrian left-back David Alaba score before there was even one minute up on the clock (off a slight deflection of Arturo Vidal, much to the delight of Munich fans everywhere.)
A shocked Juventus responded with a measure of control over the game for a short period of time. With Toni Kroos taking on the challenge of marking Andrea Pirlo, the Italian side managed to keep a tempo and compete with Bayern Munich in the midfield.
However, in the sixteenth minute, Toni Kroos suffered a muscle tear injury that will see the influential midfielder out for Bayern for possibly eight weeks. (Six if he and Bayern are lucky.)
With Kroos's injury, Arjen Robben made his way onto the pitch and Thomas Mueller took up the #10 role. The injury and substitution, while a vital blow to Bayern's season, proved change the tide of the game into a rather one sided affair with the Bavarians in almost complete control for the rest of the game.
With Kroos no longer able to mark the almost always influential Pirlo, the task fell on Mario Mandzukic. The Croat was able to exercise his influence over the game much like he did when Italy faced Croatia in the Euro 2012 competition by harassing Pirlo and disrupting the flow of the Italians game.
It was a tactical masterstroke from Jupp Heynckes to utilize Mandzukic in the way he did, and it could be argued that for once a striker was man of the match without scoring a goal or getting an assist. With Mandzukic hounding Andrea Pirlo, Juventus's midfield lost their typical dynamic fashion and fell apart, constantly losing possession to players like Schweinsteiger and Gustavo.
The introduction of Arjen Robben also proved to be a difference maker for the Bavarians, as the Dutchman tormented Federico Peluso all night long. Even though Robben didn't score, he managed to keep Bayern's game in Juventus's half with his signature runs down the right flank.
Then, in the 63rd minutes, Thomas Mueller confirmed his class by scoring a second goal for the Bavarians and put the result to rest.
From then on, the Italians pressed forward in attack by adding on Paul Pogba and Sebastian Giovinco, but Bayern's defensive rocks Philipp Lahm and Dante held firm.
As always when German and Italian teams square off, there was questionable play involved, and referee Mark Clattenburg had a poor game. Arturo Vidal was lucky not to be sent off in the first half not only for a very cynical tackle on Franck Ribery, but for a myriad of other challenges. In turn, Franck Ribery was lucky not to get a red card for an ankle stomp on Vidal.
There will be claims of missed penalties from both sides, and there has also been some question that Thomas Mueller's goal was offside, but nobody can question that the result was a fair one. Bayern Munich were comprehensively the better team, both in attack, defense and tactics. Heynckes managed to get everything right down to his substitutions and line-up, even including the massive Belgian Daniel Van Buyten to help keep Juventus corner kicks quiet.
Bayern Munich and Juventus are set to meet again on Wednesday, April 10th in Turin. Juventus will most likely change their tactics and will likely be a much more difficult side for the Munich to take down, especially in Italy. But with a two goal lead, it's difficult to see the Bavarians not marching onward to the semi-finals.


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SUBMITTED: Saturday, January 25, 2014POSTED: Saturday, January 25, 2014
JOHN the INSIDER call 18777186631 for lowmilageparts.com and call 18888222839 for carmonkeys.com same person answers. His name is NICK and he is a D***. So you can try to repair your reputation. Im not a competitor im a unsatisfied customer. they claimed to be using a new system to charge your account. I wonder how many other people have go caught in this SCAM. DO NOT DO BUISNESS WITH THEM!!!!
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I am not really sure what is this complain about. It's very chaotic and incomprehensible. There are no specifics to any order information or any type of part that was ordered.
I simply suspect that this is some kind of campaign to discredit competition. This person mention two companies that are separate and says that was charge twice. Anybody who purchased things on the Internet knows that any charge can be disputed with credit card bank. So this double charge is really not believable.
Phones are open from 8AM to 5PM and during this time anybody can call. Occasionally someone can be put on hold but only for a minute or two. We always work with our customers and try to solve any issues, either warranty or customer support.
In summary review above is not believable, it's not real.
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He can imagine Davina clocking off at the end of another twelve hour weekend shift
and climbing into something electrically purple with lowered suspension and bright blue
diodes fixed to fake air scoops on the bonnet. The boy will be called Craig. Dave feels bad
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Receipts. Instructions. "Through the door, turn left and follow the corridor. You?re
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While taking part in the Leveson Inquiry into press regulation, my middle names were made public knowledge. Now people are laughing at me and calling me silly names - like Mungo. It's detracting from my new persona as an authoritative chap going about important business. How can I be taken seriously again?
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