From Scratch

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
curiositycounts: A map of whisky flavors Literally every one of these would be delicious.

curiositycounts:

A map of whisky flavors

Literally every one of these would be delicious.

discoverynews: Artificial Intestines Near Reality Science has given us working artificial hearts, hips, limbs and bladders, and even a trachea.But no one has successfully created an artificial intestine, until now. A team of researchers has created a tiny one in the lab made from collagen and stem cells. They plan to scale the tube up within three years so it can be tested in human trials. read more

discoverynews:

Artificial Intestines Near Reality

Science has given us working artificial hearts, hips, limbs and bladders, and even a trachea.

But no one has successfully created an artificial intestine, until now. A team of researchers has created a tiny one in the lab made from collagen and stem cells. They plan to scale the tube up within three years so it can be tested in human trials.

read more

(via scinerds)

inothernews: Something extraordinary is happening in Communist China: the people are rising up against their government.  Above, residents protest in the southern China village of Wuhan.  From the New York Times: A long-running dispute between farmers and local officials in southern China exploded into open rebellion this week after villagers chased away government leaders, set up roadblocks and began arming themselves with homemade weapons, residents said. The conflict in Wukan, a coastal settlement of 20,000 people near the country’s industrial heartland in Guangdong Province, escalated Monday after residents learned that one of the representatives they had selected to negotiate with the local Communist Party had died in police custody. The authorities say a heart attack killed the 42-year-old man, but relatives say his body bore signs of torture. Residents set up blockades to keep out the police and prevent more arrests. Some residents said armed riot police officers were blocking shipments of food and water into the village in an attempt to suppress the uprising. Spasms of social turmoil in China have become increasingly common, a reflection of the widening income gap and deepening unhappiness with official corruption and an unresponsive legal system. But the clashes in Wukan, which first erupted in September, are unusual for their longevity — and for the brazenness of the villagers as they call attention to their frustrations. History has shown that Chinese leaders won’t stand for rebellion. I can’t help but be afraid for these brave souls. (Photo: AFP-Getty via the New York Times)

inothernews:

Something extraordinary is happening in Communist China: the people are rising up against their government.  Above, residents protest in the southern China village of Wuhan.  From the New York Times:

A long-running dispute between farmers and local officials in southern China exploded into open rebellion this week after villagers chased away government leaders, set up roadblocks and began arming themselves with homemade weapons, residents said.

The conflict in Wukan, a coastal settlement of 20,000 people near the country’s industrial heartland in Guangdong Province, escalated Monday after residents learned that one of the representatives they had selected to negotiate with the local Communist Party had died in police custody. The authorities say a heart attack killed the 42-year-old man, but relatives say his body bore signs of torture.

Residents set up blockades to keep out the police and prevent more arrests. Some residents said armed riot police officers were blocking shipments of food and water into the village in an attempt to suppress the uprising.

Spasms of social turmoil in China have become increasingly common, a reflection of the widening income gap and deepening unhappiness with official corruption and an unresponsive legal system. But the clashes in Wukan, which first erupted in September, are unusual for their longevity — and for the brazenness of the villagers as they call attention to their frustrations.

History has shown that Chinese leaders won’t stand for rebellion.

I can’t help but be afraid for these brave souls.

(Photo: AFP-Getty via the New York Times)

(via starshiprangerlauren)

Please please PLEASE read this article. Please. Click on the picture! “For now, the aesthetic of protest, the embodiment in living engagement of the values to be defended, appears sufficient. People begin to create and reveal the social relations they wish to initiate. It is rehearsal for a new society. As the great Soviet psychologist and linguist Vygotsky maintained, learning occurs through the development of “a zone of proximal development,” a foretelling of the condition that one is enjoined to enact. It is as though the mother speaks to the infant though she knows it cannot yet understand her, but her voice is essential, and, in time, it will elicit from the child its own speech, as experiments in democracy will elicit from the latent desire of the protesters the demand for a new form of social arrangement in which they can begin to see themselves in each other as the more fully realized beings they wish to become.” - Richard Lichtman

Please please PLEASE read this article. Please. Click on the picture!

“For now, the aesthetic of protest, the embodiment in living engagement of the values to be defended, appears sufficient. People begin to create and reveal the social relations they wish to initiate. It is rehearsal for a new society. As the great Soviet psychologist and linguist Vygotsky maintained, learning occurs through the development of “a zone of proximal development,” a foretelling of the condition that one is enjoined to enact. It is as though the mother speaks to the infant though she knows it cannot yet understand her, but her voice is essential, and, in time, it will elicit from the child its own speech, as experiments in democracy will elicit from the latent desire of the protesters the demand for a new form of social arrangement in which they can begin to see themselves in each other as the more fully realized beings they wish to become.”

- Richard Lichtman

I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.

—Edith Wharton, a letter to Mary Berenson (via seenecdoche)

(via hardboundbookhound)