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🔗 Let there be blue-depleted light: in-patient dark therapy, circadian rhythms and length of stay
Scott, J., Langsrud, K., Goulding, I., & Kallestad, H. (2021). Let there be blue-depleted light: In-patient dark therapy, circadian rhythms and length of stay. BJPsych Advances, 27(2), 73-84. doi:10.1192/bja.2020.47
Light is the most important environmental influence (zeitgeber) on the synchronization of the circadian system in humans. Excess light exposure during the evening and night-time affects secretion of the hormone melatonin, which in turn modifies the temporal organization of circadian rhythms, including the sleep–wake cycle. As sleep disturbances are prominent in critically ill medical and psychiatric patients, researchers began to examine the impact of light exposure on clinical outcomes and length of hospitalization. In psychiatric inpatients, exposure to bright morning light or use of blue blocking glasses have proved useful interventions for mood …
🔗 Palestine Poster Project Archives
The Liberation Graphics Collection of Palestine Posters
🔗 TIRAZAIN
Tirazain is a digital archive and library with the aim to digitally document, preserve and reclaim Palestinian embroidery.
🔗 occupied.land
Open street view but for occupation.
🔗 OpenNotes
OpenNotes is an international movement advocating for greater transparency in healthcare. Through research and education, we identify and disseminate best practices for sharing medical information with patients and their care partners.
🔗 Bike Nation: How Cycling Can Save the World Peter Walker
"Paul Steely White believes it is high time cycling infrastructure becomes viewed 'not as an optional amenity that is open to local veto, but really as a necessary public safety improvement that we now make in these modern times'
He argues persuasively: 'It would be akin in the time of cholera to saying, "We've got this engineering approach that involves separating our water from our sewage, and it involves digging up the street — what do you think about this? Are you okay with this?"
There's a way to design streets now that kill many fewer people and are much fairer, more equitable, and more efficient, and we're just going to do it, dammit.'"
🔗 Danny Yee's Book Reviews
Over 1500 book reviews, covering all kinds of books — fiction and nonfiction, with a broad range of genre and subject.
🔗 Text-Based Email
A step by step guide for setting up Gmail with a text-based email client called aerc.
🔗 Mastodon.py
Mastodon is an ActivityPub-based Twitter-like federated social network node. It has an API that allows you to interact with its every aspect. This is a simple Python wrapper for that API, provided as a single Python module.
Mastodon.py aims to implement the complete public Mastodon API. As of this time, it is feature complete for Mastodon version 3.5.5. The Mastodon compatible API layers of various other pieces of software as well as forks, while not an official target, should also be basically compatible, and Mastodon.py does make some allowances for behaviour that isn’t strictly like that of Mastodon, and attempts to support extensions to the API.
🔗 Overpass Turbo
A web-based data filtering tool for OpenStreetMap.
🔗 How to Develop Black & White Film at Home With Coffee
A step-by-step guide to Caffenol, the genius process substituting chemicals like ammonia and formaldehyde with instant coffee
🔗 How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet
Wired retracted the article.
Google likely alters queries billions of times a day in trillions of different variations. Here’s how it works. Say you search for “children’s clothing.” Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for “NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,” making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different query that just happens to generate more money for the company, and will generate results you weren’t searching for at all. It’s not possible for you to opt out of the substitution. If you don’t get the results you want, and you try to refine your query, you are wasting your time. This is a twisted shopping mall you can’t escape.
🔗 Refugees - Brian Bilston
They have no need of our help
So do not tell me
These haggard faces could belong to you or me
Should life have dealt a different hand
We need to see them for who they really are
Chancers and scroungers
Layabouts and loungers
With bombs up their sleeves
Cut-throats and thieves
They are not
Welcome here
We should make them
Go back to where they came from
They cannot
Share our food
Share our homes
Share our countries
Instead let us
Build a wall to keep them out
It is not okay to say
These are people just like us
A place should only belong to those who are born there
Do not be so stupid to think that
The world can be looked at another way …
🔗 Palestine Open Maps
Explore, search and download historical maps and spatial data on Palestine
🔗 BFI: The Greatest Films of All Time
🔗 Mentophobia
Mentophobia or mentaphobia is a concept described by Donald Griffin, an American zoologist and the founder of cognitive ethology, to denote strong resistance from scientists to the idea that animals, other than humans, are conscious.[1][2] Griffin argued that there is a taboo "against scientific consideration of private, conscious, mental experiences" that leads to the minimization of the significance of the consciousness of non-human animals, as well as human consciousness and asserted that this presents a significant barrier to scientific progress.[3]
Mentophobia has been likened to Frans de Waal's concept of anthropodenial:[1] "a blindness to the humanlike characteristics of other animals, or the animal-like characteristics of ourselves".
🔗 Install /e/OS on a Samsung Galaxy S10 - “beyond1lte”
🔗 Cannabis condemned: the proscription of Indian hemp
''Aims'' To find out how cannabis came to be subject to international narcotics legislation.
''Method'' Examination of the records of the 1925 League of Nations’ Second Opium Conference, of the 1894 Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission and other contemporary documents.
''Findings'' Although cannabis (Indian hemp) was not on the agenda of the Second Opium Conference, a claim by the Egyptian delegation that it was as dangerous as opium, and should therefore be subject to the same international controls, was supported by several other countries. No formal evidence was produced and conference delegates had not been briefed about cannabis. The only objections came from Britain and other colonial powers. They did not dispute the claim that cannabis was comparable to opium, but they did want to avoid …
🔗 AI crap
What will happen to AI is boring old capitalism. Its staying power will come in the form of replacing competent, expensive humans with crappy, cheap robots. LLMs are a pretty good advance over Markov chains, and stable diffusion can generate images which are only somewhat uncanny with sufficient manipulation of the prompt. Mediocre programmers will use GitHub Copilot to write trivial code and boilerplate for them (trivial code is tautologically uninteresting), and ML will probably remain useful for writing cover letters for you. Self-driving cars might show up Any Day Now™, which is going to be great for sci-fi enthusiasts and technocrats, but much worse in every respect than, say, building more trains.
🔗 العلاج السلوكي المعرفي: مقدمة قصيرة جدًّا
هذه الترجمة العربية صادرة ومتاحة مجانًا بموجب اتفاق قانوني بين مؤسسة هنداوي ودار نشر جامعة أكسفورد..
🔗 information for practice
To help social service professionals throughout the world conveniently maintain an awareness of news regarding the profession and emerging scholarship.
!! Goals
- identify and deliver a selection of the highest quality available in each category
- regularly deliver an interesting mix of new information
- create a more global sense of the profession for users from all locales
- serve as an introductory socialization force for students
🔗 مكتبة سبيل
مكتبة سبيل هي مشاع معرفي فلسطيني مبني على التشارك في الموارد والعمل. تهدف مكتبة سبيل لتعميم المعرفة حول فلسطين ونضالها. بإمكانكم تصفح المواد المتوفرة في المكتبة والبحث داخل نصوصها، كما وإضافة مواد جديدة. المزيد في القائمة على أعلى اليمين.
(old url: https://sabil.ethz.ch/s/ar/page/welcome)
🔗 PIXEL AE - Arabic/English Pixel Font
A pixel font that supports both English and Arabic. Made due to the frustration of not finding a solid Arabic pixel font option during a previous game dev project.