“Lucky Tiger Gets the Gals”, c.1955
via Retronaut by Chris
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Source: Get Lucky Tiger [it appears that the product was still available in 2010 – but the ads had become more believable]
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Communism is dead. of course. So why are prominent intellectuals trying – successfully – to transform a blood-stained movement into a beautiful idea?... more
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To Our Minds, Honesty Comes in Shades of Gray
via Big Think by Orion Jones
Social psychologist Dan Ariely has conducted a number of experiments that illuminate our concept of honesty and demonstrate its fascinating limits. While economists and politicians have long taken for granted that being honest is the result of cost-benefit .calculations, such that harsher punishments would deter people from committing crime, we now understand that there is an internal moral compass which obeys more complex rules.
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How Close is the Turing Test to Being Beaten?
via Big Think by Nick Clairmont
Alan Turing was an English computer scientist, linguist, philosopher and code breaker widely credited as being the “father of artificial intelligence (AI)” and inventing the computer. 100 years after the birth of Alan Turing, we take stock of his most interesting idea, The Turing Test.
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
When it comes to making big bucks on the black market, drugs, firearms, and money laundering are sure things. Almost as lucrative: stolen art...more
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The Auschwitz Volunteer by Witold Pilecki is reviewed by Timothy Snyder in The New York Times
One man volunteered for Auschwitz, and now we have his story.
In September 1940 the 39-year-old Polish cavalry officer Witold Pilecki deliberately walked into a German round-up in Warsaw, and was sent by train to the new German camp. His astounding choice was made within, and for, Poland’s anti-Nazi underground.
Read the full review here.
An amazing story!
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The Kodak Girl: 1909
via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive - Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
February 17, 1909. “No. 28 – The Kodak Girl”
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
“What is time?” Augustine asked in his Confessions. Fifteen hundred years later, we’re still confused. So what makes us tick? Biology and culture... more
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Learn the sign language of physics, male genitalia
via Boing Boing by Maggie Koerth-Baker
A couple of years ago, Scientific American’s Ferris Jabr wrote a really fascinating story about the sign language of science. Along the way, he touched on an issue I’d never thought of before. Turns out, a lot of technical, scientific terms haven’t made their way into official sign language vocabulary. At the same time, these words are often far too long to bother fingerspelling. The solution: Translators at scientific conferences invent signs, often on the fly.
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and, by coincidence,
In a tweet, mjrobbins linked to a poster that provides everything you need to know to talk about a man’s naughty bits in (I think) British Sign Language.
See the poster (NSFW, probably)
Read the rest of the story about the new sign language physics vocabulary at New Scientist
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Behind the scenes of The Wizard of Oz, 1939
via Retronaut by Chris
Source: Museum of Cinema / Library of Congress
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