America.
Another measure of intelligence: you can count neurons. The common octopus has about 130 million of them in its brain. A human has 100 billion. But this is where things get weird. Three-fifths of an octopus’s neurons are not in the brain; they’re in its arms.
I41, cephalopod overlords, welcome!
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NYT interactive: Jobs of the top 1 Percent
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Martin Luther King, Jr. — I’ve Been to the Mountaintop (April 3 1968)
Occupy the Dream.
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Now about injunctions: We have an injunction and we’re going into court tomorrow morning to fight this illegal, unconstitutional injunction. All we say to America is, “Be true to what you said on paper.” If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. Maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn’t committed themselves to that over there. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right. And so just as I say, we aren’t going to let dogs or water hoses turn us around, we aren’t going to let any injunction turn us around. We are going on.
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No matter where it leads
No matter what abuses it may bring
I’m going to tell the truth
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Civil Rights and Peace
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People using pseudonyms post the highest-quality comments says Disqus comments analysis
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“We are suggesting that morning people may never reach their true maximum performance because their brain [activity] is going one way and their spinal cord activity is going the other, so it’s offsetting,” said Collins. “In evening people, both brain and spinal cord are at maximum in the evening and they get maximum performance at night.”
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Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has signed into law a bill allowing employees to request overtime pay for work emails answered from home.
The legislation recognizes emails sent to employees by their employers as “direct orders.” Responding to those orders after work hours would therefore constitute overtime.
With the prevalence of smartphones and their role in conducting business, Brazil’s new law may set a precedent for other countries. Some companies, including Volkswagen, are preemptively reacting by announcing plans to stop sending emails to employees outside of regular business hours.
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![Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has signed into law a bill allowing employees to request overtime pay for work emails answered from home.
The legislation recognizes emails sent to employees by their employers as “direct orders.” Responding to those orders after work hours would therefore constitute overtime.
With the prevalence of smartphones and their role in conducting business, Brazil’s new law may set a precedent for other countries. Some companies, including Volkswagen, are preemptively reacting by announcing plans to stop sending emails to employees outside of regular business hours.
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These supposedly feminist filmmakers could have portrayed Thatcher as an ambitious woman who had to feel guilty about. Instead they chose to inject guilt where it did not belong. They obscured Thatcher’s public accomplishments in a fog of private angst. The portrait of dementia isn’t the problem. The way the film uses old age to punish a lifetime of accomplishment is.
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