More people will travel to eat. They’re already flying to Copenhagen for the weekend just to eat at Noma, or to Lima specifically for Gaston Acurio’s new Peruvian cuisine, or to San Sebastian, Spain, for its 16 Michelin stars. In 2014 such foodie meccas will be joined by countries you might never have expected to be extolled for their eats: Scotland (whose restaurants now total 17 Michelin stars), Australia (here’s why), and even Georgia (the one in the Caucasus, renowned for outstanding organic food and 8,000 years of winemaking).
14 Travel Predictions for 2014 - The Daily Beast December 31, 2013
The original sound was a KW as in the Latin equivalents Quis, Quod, Quando, Ubi (for *Cubi) and Cur.
Hhhwhhy do people say their hhhwHhoo, hwHat, hwHen, hwHere, and hwHys like that? December 30, 2013
Every K became an H in all the Germanic languages around 500 BC. But the Norman French scribes who took over the writing of English after 1066 had never heard the combination HW and stared writing it WH instead. That was no help in keeping up the traditional pronunciation but had little immediate impact on a society where only the clergy were literate. However, the initial H was eventually lost in all the other Germanic languages except Icelandic and (at least in writing) Danish. I do not quite know when dropping the H began in English, but I would suppose sometime in the early 19th century. Neverthless, a century later, when I was growing up in the 1930s in Greater London, my teacher reproved any of us who mispelled whales or wheel or which with not knowing how to pronounce such words. In the 1960s the mark on a TV game show depended on whether Wine and Whine were pronounced the same and when the chairman appealed to the studio audience, the vast majority agreed that they were not homonyms. Nowadays, however, it is only in Northern England, Scotland and parts of North America where this H is still regularly pronounced.
Business acumen is keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a business situation in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.[1] The term "business acumen" can be broken down literally as a composite of its two component words: Business literacy is defined in SHRM's Business Literacy Glossary as "the knowledge and understanding of the financial, accounting, marketing and operational functions of an organization."[2] The Oxford English Dictionary defines acumen as "the ability to make good judgments and quick decisions".[3] Given these textbook definitions, a strictly literal definition would be "keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a business situation."
Business acumen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia December 29, 2013
Gill and Oberlander (2002), and later Mairesse et al. (2007),show that people with a neurotic personality tend to use con-crete words more frequently. Inspired by this, we explore ifpeople of a certain personality type tend to use terms withhigh specificity. The specificity of a term is a measure ofhow general or specific the referred concept is. For exam-ple,entityis a very general concept whereasball-point penis a very specific concept
personalityMK.pdf December 29, 2013
The five-factor or the big five model of personal-ity describes personality along the dimensions of extrover-sion vs. introversion (sociable, assertive vs. aloof, shy), neu-roticism vs. emotional stability (insecure, anxious vs. calm,unemotional), agreeability vs. disagreeability (friendly, co-operative vs. antagonistic, fault-finding), conscientiousnessvs. unconscientiousness (self-disciplined, organized vs. in-efficient, careless), openness to experience vs. convention-ality (intellectual, insightful vs. shallow, unimaginative)(Mairesse et al. 2007).
personalityMK.pdf December 29, 2013
The result allows users to search stories by emotion. “For example, retrieving the darkest of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, or finding snippets from the Sherlock Holmes series that build the highest sense of anticipation and suspense,” says Mohammad.
Text Analyser Reveals Emotional Temperature of Novels and Fairy Tales — The Physics arXiv Blog — Medium December 29, 2013
They examined the emotions associated with words in over 30,000 emails and analyzed the emotional differences between messages sent by men and women. It turns out that women use more cheerful words in emails than men, that men use more fear words, especially when communicating with other men, and that both men and women are far more likely to use anticipation words when emailing a member of the opposite sex.
Data Mining Reveals the Emotional Differences In Emails From Men and Women - Slashdot December 29, 2013
the new science of sentiment analysis. This relies on the creation of vast databases in which words are marked as either positive or negative and associated with one of the eight fundamental emotions: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger and anticipation.It is then a relatively simple matter to data mine a corpus of digital text to see which emotions dominate. A growing number of companies are using this kind of analysis to monitor the emotions associated with tweets about their products, for example.
Data Mining Reveals the Emotional Differences in Emails Written by Men and Women — The Physics arXiv Blog — Medium December 29, 2013
So McDonald's does indeed use a double fry method, but it's far from the traditional one. Rather than a slow low temperature fry for the first round, the fries get dunked into very hot oil for only 50 seconds (the second fry is then carried out at the actual location). In addition to this, the potatoes get a pre-fry blanching step in hot water.
The Burger Lab: How to Make Perfect Thin and Crisp French Fries | A Hamburger Today December 29, 2013
Aristotle further claims that, having expressed some of their emotions, the audience has a sense of relief that helps them handle daily living in calmer fashion. This is directly antithetical to Plato’s claim that drama and poetry could produce ill effects on viewers and readers, leading them to act more extremely. Aristotle instead contends that drama leads to a more rational mind since the extremes of emotion are tapped and felt in a safe setting. Many people have had the experience of having a good weep during a film or, more often, a good laugh. Individuals may look to plays, films and books as a means of safe expression of deep emotion.
What is Catharsis? (with picture) December 29, 2013
Whether or not this cleanses the soul, as Aristotle said, is a debatable point that sits at the heart of today’s arguments on whether watching violent television begets violent behavior. Platonic thought suggests that people have to be careful, since extreme emotional experiences might prompt extreme emotional living, including behaving in immoral or unethical ways. Aristotle instead argued that, through catharsis, people emerged purified and less likely to act extremely or immorally. It’s interesting to note that this debate, which is ancient, is still being fought on many levels in modern society
What is Catharsis? (with picture) December 29, 2013
پیش از همه باید گفت كه "هست" خود یك فعل مستقل است، از مصدر "هستن"، به معنی "وجود داشتن" و بنابراین، به تنهایی قابل استفاده است. ولی "است" فقط یك رابطه است در جملات اسنادی و اسناد دادن چیزی به چیزی دیگر را نشان میدهد.مثلا ما میگوییم "خدا هست" یعنی "خدا وجود دارد." و این جمله كامل است. فعل و فاعل خود را دارد. اما اگر بگوییم "خدا است." عبارت ناقص به نظر میآید و این پرسش را به میان میكشد كه خدا چه چیزی است؟ یا در كجا است؟ اینجا مثلا باید گفت "خدا كریم است." یا "خدا با ما است."
BBC Academy - صفحه اصلی - است یا هست؟ December 28, 2013
If someone asks you whether or not you believe that unicorns exist, do you say "I don't know" or do you say, "No. I don't believe in them"? What about elves? goblins? What if someone asked you if you believe there's a planet somewhere where everyone looks like Cookie Monster and sings Beach Boy songs? Would you say, "I don't know"?
(109) Since we can't know 100% of the knowledge of the universe, what are the grounds for atheism? - Quora December 28, 2013
I wouldn't.
But I haven't been everywhere in the universe. It's POSSIBLE such a planet exists. I just have absolutely no reason to believe it does.
But this film is NOT a story in any but the crudest sense of the word. It is an impression... an impression of a childhood - perhaps Malick's own childhood, which becomes, through Malick's poetry, an impression of childhood itself... of being tactile, of feeling the love of one's parents, of experiencing the arrival of a sibling, of learning to walk... of a thousand things that we take for granted, but are wonderful and shape us more than we can imagine. It is by far the most brilliant evocation of rural childhood that, as far as I can remember, the cinema has ever given us.
The Tree of Life Reviews & Ratings - IMDb December 28, 2013
This is a film of gesture and movement, of happiness and insecurity, of learning to love and learning to fear.
Visitors gather in the new 'Rain Room' installation at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Manhattan on May 15, 2013 in New York City. The 5,000 square-foot installation creates a field of falling water that stops in the area where people walk through, allowing them to remain dry. The piece, created by Random International, releases a 260-gallon per minute shower around visitors.
The 52 Most Breathtaking Photos From Around The World This Year December 28, 2013
او در همین مصاحبه در رابطه با انتخاب نام زوسک میگوید: «اینکه اسم زوسک انتخاب شد، بیشتر نظر الکس بود، زیرا میگفت کمپانیهایی که دوتا «اُ» دارند، مثل گوگل، فیسبوک و یاهو موفق ترند!!! میخواستیم حرف اول یا «س» باشد یا «ز» که حروفی سکسی تری هستند! همینطور کوتاه هم باشد و در هیچ زبانی معنی نداشته باشد. بعد از دو ماه همفکری به زوسک رسیدیم.»
شایان قاضیزاده؛ از دانشگاه شریف تا دوست یابی آنلاین | توانا تک December 28, 2013
“We measured ourselves before we got to HBS with our GMAT, our GPA, and job promotions,” said Modi. “And there certainly have been a number of quantifiable elements of our HBS experience: the number of cases, the number of job interviews, the number of stamps in our passport and the number of likes on that last post on Instagram.”
Scenes From Harvard’s Super Rich MBAs | Poets and Quants - Part 2 December 27, 2013
The logic of conversation as it plays out across the Internet, however—the into-the-ether observations and the never-ending feeds and the many, many selfies—is fundamentally different, favoring showmanship over exchange, flows over ebbs. The Internet is always on. And it’s always judging you, watching you, goading you. “That’s not conversation,” Turkle says. She wants us to reclaim the permission to be, when we want and need to be, dull.
Saving the Lost Art of Conversation - Megan Garber - The Atlantic December 27, 2013
As we chat, it becomes clear that Turkle is not just not boring—she’s an exceptionally skilled conversationalist. After tea, we take a walk around her Back Bay neighborhood. Throughout our conversation, she occasionally touches my forearm. She speaks deliberately, pausing often. She laughs easily and heartily, a sign more of her warmth than of my wit. She has at her disposal what the best conversationalists have: a wealth of experience to draw from.
Saving the Lost Art of Conversation - Megan Garber - The Atlantic December 26, 2013
موقعی که در کلاس "خانواده دیجیتال" در دانشگاه شهید مطهری برای خانواده ها گفتم چگونه می شه در کمتر از پنج دقیقه با خرید یک "وی پی ان" قدرتمند مانند "کریو" و پرداخت هزینه ای کمتر از یک ساندویج (سه هزار تومان) برای مدت یک ماه از اینترنت بدون فیلترینگ استفاده کرد، دهن ها همه وا مونده بود.
Seyyed Mahdi - موقعی که در کلاس "خانواده دیجیتال" در دانشگاه شهید... December 26, 2013
Although deriving from romantic tradition which emphasized the emotions of apprehension, horror and terror, and awe, the hardboiled fiction deviates from the tradition in the detective's cynical attitude towards those emotions. The attitude is conveyed through the detective's self-talk describing to the reader (or—in the film—to the viewer) what he is doing and feeling. The genre's typical protagonist was a detective, who daily witnesses the violence of organized crime that flourished during Prohibition, while dealing with a legal system that had become as corrupt as the organized crime itself.[1] Rendered cynical by this cycle of violence, the detectives of hardboiled fiction are classic antiheros.
Hardboiled - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia December 26, 2013
نکتۀ بسیار جالب این که در میانۀ قرن نوزدهم میلادی، حکمای ایران، به گفتۀ گوبینو، بسیار علاقمند بودند نکاتی را از فلسفۀ هگل و اسپینوزا بدانند. اما گوبینو به سراغ آثار آن دو فیلسوف نمیرود. زیرا معتقد بود که آنان افکار آسیایی دارند و نمیتوانند عنصر تازهای وارد ایران کنند. میگفت: ایرانیان مردمانی نیستند که در روش تجربی زیادهروی کنند و زیادهروی آنان را در استقراء (یعنی از قضایای جزئی به نتیجۀ کلی رسیدن)، نمیتوان از میان برد. بنابراین، نباید انتظار داشت که از ضابطۀ «میاندیشم پس هستم» دکارت به شیوۀ اروپاییان، استفادهای مناسب و میانهروانه بکنند.
دکارت در ایران Descartes en Iran - RFI December 26, 2013
Melodrama films are a subgenre of drama films characterised by a plot that appeals to the heightened emotions of the audience. They generally depend on stereotyped character development, interaction, and highly emotional themes. Melodramatic films tend to use plots that often deal with crises of human emotion, failed romance or friendship, strained familial situations, tragedy, illness, neuroses, or emotional and physical hardship. Victims, couples, virtuous and heroic characters or suffering protagonists (usually heroines) in melodramas are presented with tremendous social pressures, threats, repression, fears, improbable events or difficulties with friends, community, work, lovers, or family. The melodramatic format allows the character to work through their difficulties or surmount the problems with resolute endurance, sacrificial acts, and steadfast bravery. Film critics sometimes use the term pejoratively to connote an unrealistic, pathos-filled, campy tale of romance or domestic situations with stereotypical characters (often including a central female character) that would directly appeal to feminine audiences."
Melodrama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia December 26, 2013
Anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eye happens to look down the yawning abyss becomes dizzy. But what is the reason for this? It is just as much in his own eye as in the abyss, for suppose he had not looked down. Hence, anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, which emerges when the spirit wants to posit the synthesis and freedom looks down into its own possibility, laying hold of finiteness to support itself. Freedom succumbs to dizziness. Further than this, psychology cannot and will not go. In that very moment everything is changed, and freedom, when it again rises, sees that it is guilty.
Kierkegaard on Anxiety & Creativity | Brain Pickings December 26, 2013
توی کرمان اسم یحیی یه اسم خاص نیست، اینجا گویا به صورت عمومی به خلافکار جماعت میگن یحیی، بگن طرف یحیاست یعنی حواست رو جمع کن.
Sadraa Mohaqeq - توی کرمان اسم یحیی یه اسم خاص نیست، اینجا گویا... December 26, 2013
هدف حوزههای علمیه آشکارا و به طور رسمی حفظ اصول و آموزههای خاصی اعلام میشود، و اگر تغییری در آن اصول و آموزهها رخ دهد، ناخواسته و بر خلاف هدف اعلامشدهی حوزه و فقیهان است. چنین فضایی جامعه فقیهان و حوزههای علمیه را مبدل به جامعهای ایدئولوژیک میسازد که مرزبانهای یک ایدئولوژی خاص اند، و نه جامعه متخصصان. چنین جامعه ایدئولوژیکی هر چه که باشد با جامعه متخصصان (مثلاً ریاضیدانان یا پزشکان) اساساً متفاوت است.
وبلاگ ها - BBC فارسی - آیا متون دینی تفسیر 'قطعی' دارند؟ December 26, 2013
این سخن گرچه لزوماً به نسبیگرایی (relativism) در فهم متون نمیانجامد اما به معنای نسبتگرایی (relationism) در فرایند فهم متون است. یعنی گرچه لزوماً به این ایده که هر تفسیری از متن رواست، و هیچ تفسیر نامعتبری یا تفسیر معتبرتری از متن وجود ندارد، نمیانجامد اما به این معنا هست که معنای متن تافته جدابافتهای نیست که با دیگر پارههای همان متن و نیز با بافتار و سیاقی که متن در آن شکل گرفته و نیز با بافتار و سیاق مخاطب متن، هیچ کاری نداشته باشد. هر فهمی از هر متنی نسبتی دارد با همهی این امور و نه صرفاً با معنای لغوی مفردات آن متن. اگر این موضع تفسیرشناختی (هرمنوتیکی) قابل دفاع باشد، آنگاه هیچ متنی، نص نیست.
وبلاگ ها - BBC فارسی - آیا متون دینی تفسیر 'قطعی' دارند؟ December 26, 2013
در اصول فقه استوار است که بر اساسِ آن متون دینی از نظر معنا به دو دسته تقسیم میشود: ۱- متونی که تنها یک معنا از آن به ذهن میرسد و احتمال معنایی دیگر از آن منتفی است (ما لا یحتمل سوی معنی واحد) که به آن «نصّ» گفته میشود ۲- متونی که اینگونه نیستند یعنی غیر نصّ اند (ظاهر یا مجمل یا مؤوّل اند) و ممکن است چند معنا از آن به ذهن بیاید. قائلان به نص مندی متون دینی، تمام یا حتی اکثر متون دینی را نصّ، به این معنای خاص، نمیدانند اما برخی از احکام فقهی، مثل حکم قصاص، را از این دست میدانند و بیشتر در امور فقهی، مانند قطع ید سارق، تازیانه زدن به فرد مرتکب زنا، حرمت شراب و قمار، تازیانه زدن شارب خمر و مانند آن ادعای نص میشود.
وبلاگ ها - BBC فارسی - آیا متون دینی تفسیر 'قطعی' دارند؟ December 26, 2013
وقتی اصول اسلامی به این افراد روشنفکرنما گوشزد میشود، در مقابل میگویند از کدام اسلام حرف میزنید زیرا اسلام قرائتهای گوناگون دارد، این در حالی است که اسلام واقعی چیزی جز آنچه که حضرت امام(ره) از آن با نام «اسلام ناب محمدی(ص)» یاد میکردند، نیست […] و متخصصان حوزوی و مراجع تقلید کارشناسان واقعی آن هستند. نسبی گرایی در عالم فهم و شناخت، پاسخهای قانع کننده و متقنی دارد
وبلاگ ها - BBC فارسی - آیا متون دینی تفسیر 'قطعی' دارند؟ December 26, 2013
منتقدان قرائتپذیری متون دینی میگویند پارهای از متون دینی از جنس نصّ اند و متون دینیای که از جنس نصّ اند، تفسیر قطعی و تغییرناپذیر دارند. پس این متون یک بار برای همیشه معنای خود را آشکار کردهاند (معنای قطعی دارند) و قرائتپذیر نیستند. معتقدان به نظریهی قرائتپذیری متون دینی اما همهی متون را بی هیچ استثناء قرائتپذیر میدانند.
Yaser Mirdamadi - در این مقاله، کوشیدهام ۵ استدلالِ صادق لاریجانی... December 26, 2013
