A study of the data from the Framingham Heart Study leads researchers to believe that loneliness spreads through social networks like a virus. The tendency to be a loner may be less of a character trait and more of a “state such as hunger”.
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Socks, stockings, and hose in the Middle Ages. Fashion (and warmth) was just as complicated then as it is now.
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Only a (relatively) few understood and used the Internet in 1993. I certainly don’t miss reading ascii text on a dark background!
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A recording artist shares his royalty payment with us. In doing so, we get a peek into how record companies work with musical artists. (via Metafilter)
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6 Mental Illness Myths Hollywood Wants You to Believe. Mainly because they make plot construction really easy, if a bit trite. (via Gorilla Mask)
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A 3-minute documentary about the Beatles made 1,000 years in the future. After this, you have to wonder our history documentaries are any more accurate.
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The New Shapes of Garden Produce. The next time someone finds a gourd or a root shaped like a human, you’ll know how they did it.
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Wow have computers come a long way.
Funny how most people in the video type with just their pointer fingers. I can’t remember if Mavis Beacon was out then.
posted by Christina on 12-3-2009 at 8:23 am
I use three fingers on each hand, but still have to look at the keyboard.
posted by Miss Cellania on 12-3-2009 at 8:55 am
That was a wonderful video about the Internet. The Internet is a perfect example of spontaneous order; one that no man could have organized and envisaged.
The liberation he speaks of is exactly what has made it what it is today. As a decentralized means of communication promoting the sending and receiving of data and messages by billions of individuals, the Internet has significantly moved the balance of control toward sovereign individuals. Even in its primitive days, the Internet, with its flow of information, functioned as an important role in securing the undoing of the government of the Soviet Union. It has since then stimulated monumental liberation socially, politically, and economically in every corner of the world.
posted by Lisa on 12-3-2009 at 9:00 am
Good post, Lisa.
posted by Briley on 12-3-2009 at 4:29 pm
Yes, Lisa. The internet makes so much possible due to the freedom on it. If one desires, one can be a teacher, a student, a musician, a writer, an entrepreneur, an employee, an activist.
posted by Karen on 12-3-2009 at 9:11 pm