Heracleion, Lost Egyptian City Revealed After 1,200 Years Under Sea.
That last shot of the stone stela coming out of the water. Wow. I was expecting it to be covered with sediments and other sea life stuff, but no! It’s pristine looking!
Tracks
Taistealai Treasures: Tracking System for China Post Register Air Mail ,EMS ,eBay ePacket,Hong Kong Post
For those of us foreigners who have always wanted to track pacakges to and from China/Asia, here is a useful site to help you.
track-chinapost.com
When schools announce that their school uniform will have a new design, students usually anticipate better-looking, better-designed uniforms. But after a school in Hebei Province distributed their new uniforms to high school students, students found their 70 RMB new outfits embarrassing, largely because they were almost see-through. The school told a reporter from a local newspaper that the design was intended for coolness and ventilation.
However, students felt differently, as they told the reporter:
”It’s too awkward. After I put it on, my roommates laugh at me, saying that they can see my undergarments,” said sophomore Xiao Li. She took off the uniform to take a closer look, and found the fabric light and thin.
Another sophomore, told the reporter that, after putting the uniform, the outlines of the undergarments are very clear, stating that black, red, and patterns show through clearly. And, the guys have their own problems.
“Many guys feel uneasy wearing it as well, because you can see the lines of the underwear, especially after working out. It is utterly embarrassing. A guy was ridiculed for wearing red underwear, as everyone saw it clearly. He took it off immediately after he went back to the dorm.”
Several other students the reporter interviewed expressed the same uneasiness, the main concern being the high visibility of underwear. Some girls have resorted to wearing a t-shirt under the uniform.
tedx:
A TEDx at 21,000 feet: For the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s first ascent of the tallest mountain peak, TEDx’ers Nate Mook and Eiso Vaandrager brought TEDx to Mt. Everest — TEDxEverest — bringing talks to an audience of international climbers, local sherpas, and good friends at Everest’s Advanced Basecamp.
Above, Nate and Eiso hold flags for the TEDx communities represented at TEDxEverest.
but written Korean uses absolutely no Chinese characters. I wonder how trustworthy this source is.
as someone who speaks a few of the languages on these charts, they’re pretty true about difficulty of language acquisition. they really need to brush up on other stuff, like korean NOT using chinese characters anymore.
Time needed to become proficient in Chinese/Japanese/Arabic/Korean: 1.69 years
Hahahahahahaha…you wish it only took 1.69 years
(Source: languageek)
未必 wèibì Not really
Long Shadow/Vision
What if somebody gets Novice Novice thoBloody Secret. Not to bad?
Night Knife? My tongue hurts.
fallen eye )))
Eye Eye.
None of these are as bad as Ancient Eagle.
It just sounds like Foghorn Leghorn trying to kill people, except he’s half dead.
Do You Speak Video Game in Chinese?
As the first country in the world to classify internet addiction as an official disorder, China has an astonishingly large population of gamers. Whether it’s popular online games or casual games, gamers flock to digital worlds to either escape or just have fun. It is important to note that these games are in Chinese and even a dedicated expat gamer probably would not be familiar with game-related words.
As the author from Ninchanese noted:
“One of the first things that struck me when I got to China is how popular online gaming is, as well as playing in arcades and internet cafés. World of Warcraft is particularly big over there. There’s even an (unofficial) World of Warcraft-themed amusement park in China!
Turns out, that’s all I knew about gaming in China. After researching a bit, I learned that the Chinese government hasn’t allowed foreign video game consoles to be sold in China since 2000 (but you can still buy them on the black market)! Maybe that’s one of the reasons why online gaming is so big in China. To give you an idea, this market was worth a record breaking $9.7 billion in 2012 ( a 35.1 increase from 2011!).”
The writer then introduced some video games vocabulary, starting with hardware:
游戏机 : Yóuxì jī = video game console
手柄 : Shǒubǐng = game pad
卡匣 : kǎ xiá = cartridge
光碟 : guāng dié = optical disc
记忆卡 : jì yì kǎ = memory card
Followed by Chinese vocab for some old school items that will surely bring back memories!
What’d you bring me? What’d you bring me?
I have literally had this exact reaction.
十二生肖 The 12 Symbolic Animals - 北语的汉语教程
The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA.
That is almost 1 million times the surface of the sun!!
(Source: hightechscience.org)
Laurie Penny’s Saudade
There are more of us than you think, kicking off our high-heeled shoes to run and being told not so fast
The best minds of my generation consumed by craving, furious half naked starving-
Who ripped tights and dripping make up smoked alone in bedsits bare mattresses waiting for transfiguration.
Who ran half dressed out of department stores yelling that we didn’t want to be good and beautiful
Who glowing high and hopeful were the last to leave the gig our skin crackling with lust and sweat and pure music
Who wrote poetry on each other’s arms and cared more about fucking than being fuckable
Who worked until our backs stiffened and our limbs sang with the memory of misbehaviour that was what it was to be a woman
Who dared to dance until dawn and were drugged and raped by men in clean T-shirts and woke up scared and sore to be told it was our fault
Who swallowed bosses’ patronizing side-eyes stole away from violent broken boys in the middle of the night and vowed never again to try to fix the world one man at a time
Who slammed down the tray of drinks and tore off our aprons and aching smiles and went scowling out into the streets looking for change
Who stripped in dark rooms for strangers’ anodyne dollars because we wanted education and were told we were traitors
Who sat faces upturned to the glow of the network searching searching for strangers who would call us pretty
Who bared our breasts to hidden cameras and fought and fought and fought to be human
Who waited in grim hallways with synth-pop crackling over the speaker system for the doctor to call us clutching fistfuls of pamphlets calling us sluts whores murderers
Who crossed continents alone with knapsacks full of books bare limbs clear-eyed vision running running from the homes that held our mothers down
Who filled notebooks with gibberish philosophy and scraps of stories and cameras to prove we were there keeping our novels and the name of out children close to our hearts
Who were told all our lives that we were too loud too tisky too fat too ugly too scruffy too selfish too much too and refused to take up less space refused to be still refused refused refused to be tame
Who would never be still. Who would never shut up. Who were punished for it and spat and snarled and they shook the bars of our cages until they snapped and they called us wild and crazy and we laughed with mouths open hearts open hands open and would never not ever be tame.
Sara, I’m with you in hospital, in the narroe rooms where you have put off your veil to count your ribs through your T-shirt, short hair and secrets and quiet defiance crying together that we don’t know how to be perfect-
Lara, I’m with you in mandatory art therapy, where we draw pictures of weeping cocks and are told we are not making progress-
Lila, I’m with you in a north London bathdroom, watchhing unreal maggots crawl in the cuts in your arms and listening to your girlfriend drunk and raging through the wall-
Andy, I’m with you in Bethnal Green where you love ambitious angry women with heart brain pen fingers tongue and you have a line from Nietzche tattooed over your cunt-
Adele, I’m with you in the student occupation, with your lipstick and cloche hat and teenage lisp drawling that there’s not enough fucking in this revolution and we must take action-
Kay, I’m with you on the night bus, half drunk and high dragging bright-eyed boys home to our bed, where we watch them worn out sleeping and whisper that we will never be married-
Katie, I’m with you in Zuccotti Park, where a broken heart is less important than a broken laptop is less important than a broken future and we watch the cops beating kids bloody on the pavement for daring to ask for more-
Tara, I’m with you in Islington where you have thrown all your pretty dresses out of the window and flushed your medication so you can write and write-
Alex, I’m with you and a bottle of Scotch at two in the morning when you tell me that no man will make us live for ever and we must seduce the city the country the world-
We are always hungry.
There are more of us than you think.
Laurie Penny’s Saudade, from Fifty Shades of Feminism (via mollycrabapple)
So good.
(via neil-gaiman)
别灰心，往往是最后一把钥匙才能打开锁。
Don’t be discouraged, it’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
I would like to take this opportunity to point out one thing. This is an example of a male-targeted, vaguely ‘sexist’ commercial campaign that is genuinely funny, and clever enough for women to “get the joke”. These commercials, despite claiming Old Spice was a product for “men” and not ladies, were met with mutual appreciation from men and women, because it is:
A: Not stupid or flat in its humor or message
B: Not degrading to women
C: Genuinely funny
On top of that, these commercials featured a man that was trying to, above all else, make women happy. He wasn’t trying to be a man because “ew being girly is dumb lol,” he was trying to be a man because “oh ladies I would love to impress you.” And even though both of those messages are somewhat traditional ways of viewing and reinforcing gender standards and expectations, that fine line between them makes a world of difference. Many of these pro-men campaigns are too insulting, or too small-minded, or simply not clever enough to make us “get the joke”. But this campaign has humor that appeals to both men and women at the same time, by neither degrading nor bashing either of them. Men can want to be like this man, and woman get to appreciate a man that is like this man. But at the same time, this campaign is too light-hearted and whimsical to hurt anyone’s feelings, so you can easily take it for the hilarious joke it is.
This campaign is not only funny, it’s clever, highly creative, intentionally over the top, and entertaining. Everything that Dr. Pepper’s agonizing “Why don’t women get the joke about our manly soda?” campaign is not.
Yes.
Yep.
The various physiological effects of space travel.
Space travel - not such an easy journey
Living and working in zero gravity affects all parts of your body, including muscular, skeletal and vestibular systems.A stomach-churning experience
One of the most common effects of microgravity is space motion sickness, caused when the brain and inner ear receive mixed signals. Between 40 to 50% of astronauts experience this.On Earth, we can tell which way is up and which way is down because gravity tells us so. Sensors in the inner ear feel this gravitational pull and send information to the brain about our body’s orientation.
In space there is no gravitational force telling the inner ear which way is ‘up’ and ‘down’. So while our eyes can certainly see a ceiling and floor in the spacecraft, our brains cannot register this. This causes nausea and dizziness. Fortunately, symptoms subside within the first few days of travel and common motion sickness medicine is just as effective in space.
Exercise, exercise, exercise
In zero gravity, muscles do not have to do as much to move around. If astronauts don’t work hard to counter this, they will face severe muscle loss. It’s exactly the same as lying in bed for months on end - if you tried to get up and move around afterwards, you’d find that your legs were very weak. The same applies to bones. Bones demineralise, losing calcium and strength in space. In effect, osteoporosis sets in.To reduce muscle and bone loss, astronauts have to exercise for two or more hours every day. Odd looking contraptions have been designed to make exercising in zero gravity effective.
Under the ray gun
The Earth’s magnetic field protects us from harmful radiation. We are still exposed to small amounts, for example when we go for medical x-rays. However, astronauts are exposed to 10 times as much radiation - and that’s just in low Earth orbit.In deep space, astronauts can be exposed to even higher doses. During solar storms, a single dose of radiation could be equivalent to several hundred chest x-rays. Therefore it’s essential that all spacecrafts have designated storm shelters because large amounts of radiation can cause severe damage by altering DNA in the genes.
Image: Aki Hoshide on a spacewalk. NASA.
