fihu recommended Kommentar: Wende ohne Bauern from faz.net:

Junge Bauern verlassen die Agrarfakultäten der Universitäten als spezialisierte Betriebsmanager. Sie lieben große Traktoren, steuern Melk-Roboter mit dem iPhone und wollen so viel verdienen, dass sie ja nicht leben müssen wie die Bauern, die Grüne verherrlichen.

fihu recommended Dwarf Fortress: And in the Game from superlevel.de:

Wie vom Donner gerührt, den fransenbartumflorten Mund debil offen, die Kappe aus Höhlenspinnenseide tief in die fliehende Stirn verrutscht und wie üblich mit nur einer Socke stand Udib, Sohn des mächtigen Schmiedes Datan Likotzes, von dessen Heldentaten und unrühmlichen Ende bei einem Magmaunfall vor fünfzehn Jahren die Reliefs in der geschäftigen Eingangshalle der Festung Kunde gaben, die endlos scheinende Zeitspanne von hundert Atemzügen reglos da, die offen gestanden übelst riechende Yakhaut über den stämmigen Schultern, und sah die Hand Gottes.

fihu recommended Kleine Erinnerung: Warum es eine ganz dumme Idee ist, nicht an "Superviren" zu forschen from scilogs.de:

Diese Viren sind da draußen, sie scheren sich nicht um Moratorien und sie brauchen auch keine Hilfe von irgendwelchen Terroristen, um Millionenstädte in die Hölle auf Erden zu verwandeln. Das

fihu recommended The E-Reader Revolution: Over Just as It Has Begun? from online.wsj.com:

One problem is that some users who bought e-readers see no particular urgency to buy another. Julie Curtis, a substance-abuse counselor in Stow, Ohio, says she is devoted to her two-year-old Kindle. "It works fine, I really have no reason to get a new one," she says. "If I did ever want to upgrade, it would probably be to a tablet, like the Kindle Fire," she adds.

fihu recommended Ability to sit and rise from the floor is closely correlated with all-cause mortality risk  from escardio.org:

If a middle-aged or older man or woman can sit and rise from the floor using just one hand - or even better without the help of a hand - they are not only in the higher quartile of musculo-skeletal fitness but their survival prognosis is probably better than that of those unable to do so.

fihu recommended Better Than Human from wired.com:

First, it can look around and indicate where it is looking by shifting the cartoon eyes on its head. It can perceive humans working near it and avoid injuring them.

fihu recommended Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy from m.guardian.co.uk:

These documents also show these federal agencies functioning as a de facto intelligence arm of Wall Street and Corporate America."

fihu recommended „Eine Frau Ihres Aussehens“: Eine Begegnung mit Thilo Sarrazin from carta.info:

„Die Menschenrechte sollten in Deutschland nur für Deutsche gelten. Für Migranten sollten die Gesetzt ihres Herkunftslandes gültig sein.“

fihu recommended In the Flesh: The Embedded Dangers of Untested Stem Cell Cosmetics from scientificamerican.com:

In fact, some recent evidence suggests that the cytokines released by mesenchymal stem cells can trigger tumors by accelerating the growth of dormant cancer cells. Personal Cell Sciences does not pick and choose among the cytokines exuded by its customers' stem cells—instead, it dumps them all into its skin care products.

fihu recommended Bizarre Insights From Big Data from bits.blogs.nytimes.com:

A few years ago I was speaking with the founder of an African mobile phone company, called CellTel. He told me that his company realized that they could predict the location of impending massacres in the Congo, because there were spikes in the sale of prepaid phone cards.

fihu recommended The Web We Lost from dashes.com:

To the credit of today's social networks, they've brought in hundreds of millions of new participants to these networks, and they've certainly made a small number of people rich. But they haven't shown the web itself the respect and care it deserves, as a medium which has enabled them to succeed. And they've now narrowed the possibilites of the web for an entire generation of users who don't realize how much more innovative and meaningful their experience could be

fihu recommended They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside from wired.com:

Schaefer opened it. Inside was a note that read, “Something for those long Swedish winter nights.” It was paper-clipped to 100 or so photocopied pages filled with a handwritten script that made no sense to her whatsoever

fihu recommended 140 Character Hitchhike from medium.com:

He didn’t look like a murderer.

fihu recommended Hallo Paris! from hermsfarm.de:

Hat man aaaaallerdings eine Partnerin oder einen Partner die/der dazu neigt, sich über Dinge aufzuregen, könnte so ein Paris Urlaub zum schlimmsten Urlaub überhaupt werden.

fihu recommended an article from vowe.net:

Fashionistas hatten schon ein Fixie und ein Hollandrad und fanden dann beide doch zu mühsam.