August 20, 2014 | 2 Comments
Honesty is saying what we know or suspect to be real, even when we don’t like the consequences. It is also much more. Because most deception is actually self deception, true honesty requires that we recognize our natural human penchant for fooling ourselves. In particular, honesty requires that we guard against self-serving biases: our tendency to seek confirmation for what we already believe while ignoring contradictory evidence; our tendency to put blame on others and take credit for ourselves; our tendency to think that what is good for us is good for the world and even to make the gods themselves in our own image. Honesty is a lifetime process of catching ourselves in falsehood and, however reluctantly, turning away from it. Our normal …
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June 24, 2014 | 0 Comments
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June 21, 2014 | 1 Comment
The San Fermin Festival in Pamplona starts every year at 12.00 on the 6th of July, and last until midnight on the 14th. The biggest day of the festival is on the 7th of July, when the statue of San Fermin is carried through the streets of the city. The most famous event during the week in the Running of the Bulls, the Running takes place on the 7th of July, and from than every morning at 8:00am during the week. Six bulls and six steers are released from their corrals, and are guided to the Bullfighting ring over a 825 metres long course through the narrow streets, in a mere 3 minutes. Hundreds of people run in front, and along side of the bulls. …
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June 20, 2014 | 0 Comments
A journalist I follow on Twitter recently asked me the best way to start to learn how to program. It’s a question I get asked a lot and, although it has been said before, here’s my advice for learning how to program: The most important thing, by far, is to find a project you are dedicated to completing. Pick something that will disappoint you or your employer if you don’t finish it. There are two reasons for this. First, you’ll learn best if you attach new knowledge to old. Seeing code though the lens of a problem you know how to solve is an invaluable way to understand it and remember it. Second, it will give you the momentum to scale the steeper parts of the …
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June 20, 2014 | 0 Comments
The House is expected to vote soon on the USA Freedom Act. If passed, the bill would impose several new restrictions for surveillance operations, including limits on the NSA’s ability to collect phone records of US citizens. The bill would also create a special office to advocate for the public in front of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Read Congress’ full summary here.) Both Republicans and Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have laudedthe bill as an important next step in checking the nation’s surveillance powers. But others have raised questions. How far would this bill really go to protect your privacy online? To answer all things online security, reporters Jeff Larson and Julia Angwin will be hosting a Reddit IAmA chat on Wednesday at 1 pm ET. In partnership …
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June 20, 2014 | 0 Comments
New York State is a state in the northeast of the USA and was one of the original 13 Colonies. When most people talk about New York State they just say Upstate New York. Although people forget that Upstate New York is home to amazing national and state parks that are quite stunning. There is also good skiing and some neat towns upstate that get overshadowed by the Big Apple on the coast. The largest city is New York City.Vivamus Sagittis Lacus New York covers 141,300 km2 and ranks as the 27th largest state by size. The Great Appalachian Valley dominates eastern New York, while Lake Champlain is the chief northern feature of the valley, which also includes the Hudson River flowing southward to the Atlantic Ocean. The rugged Adirondack Mountains, with vast …
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June 19, 2014 | 0 Comments
The Caribbean offers some of the finest sites in the world for scuba diving and snorkeling. The usually crystal clear warm water offers those travelers with an interest in the underwater world endless opportunities. The Caribbean extends in a broad arc of over 4000 km from the Bahamas in the north to Guyana and Suriname in the south. For the underwater adventurer, the Caribbean includes coral reefs, large and small sand barriers, mangroves, lagoons, and river estuaries in which to dive. Dive sites offer stretches of reef teeming with tropical fish and walls that drop from six to 6000 meters, wrecks and caves to explore, coral-clad pinnacles and underwater fumaroles that bubble volcanic gases, thousands of tropical fish and marine mammals such as sharks and …
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June 19, 2014 | 0 Comments
Most travelers go to the Galapagos Islands in order to experience the wildlife. There is stunning geology and natural features here although the strange and extremely timid animals truly captures people’s attention. Most of the animals here are considered megafauna. Megafuana is an animal being in a small environment devoid of major predators becoming larger, filling a different niche and becoming extremely specialized. The problem that megafuana face is that being extremely specialized they do not adjust to change well. In the past megafuana became extinct because of natural phenomena like volcanic eruptions, cooler periods or warming periods in the planets cycle. Sadly most megafuana in the last hundred years became extinct because of humans or domesticated animals gone feral. The Galapagos is one of …
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