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🔗 Packrati.us = Twitter + Delicious

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Let the packrat keep track of the URLs you share. You don't want to post them in multiple places. Just tweet the URLs that interest you, and Ratius T. Packrat will add them to your delicious.com bookmarks for you. He'll use any hashtags you include as tags for your bookmark and include the full text of the tweet in the bookmark comments.

🔗 Nothing to fear but wifi and fluoride - Andrew Potter - Macleans.ca

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These cases have three things in common. First, they are all fears directed at technologies or policies with a clear public benefit. Second, the worry is always about some invisible or undetectable feature of our micro-environment, the alleged negative effects conjured out of radio waves, parts-per-billion, and statistical anomalies. And finally, the strong public resistance to these activities takes place not despite official statements that they are completely safe, but in many cases because of those assurances.

🔗 VJPsych - Home

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The Video Journal of Psychiatry is an on-line psychiatry resource dedicated to supporting Lifelong Learning and Continuing Medical Education for psychiatrists in Ireland. All material is contributed by international psychiatry experts, both practitioner and researcher.

🔗 The Solitary Life: Chilean Miners, Spacemen in Moscow and 20,000 American Prisoners « Prison Photography

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First, after months or years of complete isolation, many prisoners “begin to lose the ability to initiate behavior of any kind—to organize their own lives around activity and purpose. Chronic apathy, lethargy, depression, and despair often result. . . . In extreme cases, prisoners may literally stop behaving” (Haney). [They] become essentially catatonic.

🔗 allAfrica.com: Sudan: Egypt is Not Just Looking for Water! (Page 1 of 2)

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Nevertheless we are all aware that Egypt is not alone in these expansionist policies towards sub Saharan African, meant to pass through the land of south Sudan. Our oral and written histories have countless records on Egypt's role in the slave trade and raids that ravaged the whole area. This will remain a hot issue in our relationships and the Egyptian leadership must prepare itself to give apologies and must rightly pay compensations to the relatives of the victims. However it seems that our people are meant to pass through yet difficult times and hurdles before we make our rightful presence felt along the Nile. If Egypt is suffering from collective amnesia, we are not.

🔗 Readability

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🔗 OpenRefine

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OpenRefine is a powerful free, open source tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.

(Originally Google Refine)

🔗 Mathematics of War

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Quantitative analysis of conflict is a relatively new discipline that combines data collection, statistical analysis and modeling to understand war and inform political strategy. Our research group brings together an interdisciplinary group of physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists and political economists to use numbers and theoretical models to understand war.

🔗 The epidemiology and prevention of suicide by hanging: a systematic review — Int J Epidemiol

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Results Only a small proportion (around 10%) of hanging suicides occur in the controlled environments of hospitals, prisons, and police custody; the remainder occur in the community. The most commonly used ligatures (rope, belts, flex) and ligature points (beams, banisters, hooks, door knobs, and trees) are widely available; thus prevention strategies focused around restriction of access to means of hanging are of limited value. Around 50% of hanging suicides are not fully suspended—ligature points below head level are commonly used. Case fatality following attempted suicide by hanging is around 70%; the majority (80–90%) of those who reach hospital alive survive.