Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Don't Panic, But There Are No More Airlines | LinkedIn

Don't Panic, But There Are No More Airlines | LinkedIn

Why Smart Travelers Aren't Afraid To Make Mistakes | LinkedIn

Why Smart Travelers Aren't Afraid To Make Mistakes | LinkedIn

Travelers, Here's Why You Should "Toss Out Your Itinerary" | LinkedIn

Travelers, Here's Why You Should "Toss Out Your Itinerary" | LinkedIn

These Ridiculous Luggage Policies Won't Fly | LinkedIn

These Ridiculous Luggage Policies Won't Fly | LinkedIn

Productivity Hacks: Avoid The Biggest Mistakes in Booking Flights | LinkedIn

Productivity Hacks: Avoid The Biggest Mistakes in Booking Flights | LinkedIn

17 Photos From the Frozen Ice Caves of Lake Superior - Esquire

17 Photos From the Frozen Ice Caves of Lake Superior - Esquire

Arnold Schwarzenegger Puts On Mustache, Surprises People At The Gym - Digg

Arnold Schwarzenegger Puts On Mustache, Surprises People At The Gym - Digg

China's Epic Offshore Wealth Revealed: How Chinese Oligarchs Quietly Parked Up To $4 Trillion In The Caribbean | Zero Hedge

China's Epic Offshore Wealth Revealed: How Chinese Oligarchs Quietly Parked Up To $4 Trillion In The Caribbean | Zero Hedge

Thursday, January 9, 2014

25 Reasons Norway Is The Greatest Place On Earth

25 Reasons Norway Is The Greatest Place On Earth

There's a law called "allemannsrett."
norway hiking
Allemannsrett literally translates to "all men's rights." It's a "freedom to roam" public rights law that allows the right of access to and passage through all uncultivated land. This means you can pitch a tent or hike through any land that is "utmark" (non-cultivated). Also, wild-berrying is permitted everywhere. This little rule is extra awesome because there tons of jaw-droppingly beautiful places to see in Norway and few barriers stopping you.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute — to kill snakes - U.S. News

Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute — to kill snakes - U.S. News

Hiking in a nuclear disaster zone | Liz Thomas: Adventure Hiking

Hiking in a nuclear disaster zone | Liz Thomas: Adventure Hiking

45 Life Lessons, written by a 90 year old

45 Life Lessons, written by a 90 year old Alex K.

45 Life Lessons, written by a 90 year old

45 Life Lessons, written by a 90 year old Alex K.

Here's How Walmart Could Pay Workers a Decent Wage Without Raising Prices | Mother Jones

Here's How Walmart Could Pay Workers a Decent Wage Without Raising Prices | Mother Jones

Grantland Channel on the coach who never punts - Grantland

Grantland Channel on the coach who never punts - Grantland

How Long Can You Reasonably Expect Your Hard Drive To Last? | Motherboard

How Long Can You Reasonably Expect Your Hard Drive To Last? | Motherboard

Bad taxidermy is the perfect mix of hilarious and terrifying | Death and Taxes

Bad taxidermy is the perfect mix of hilarious and terrifying | Death and Taxes

Uncensored Instagrams From North Korea Buck Brutal Trend of Secrecy | Raw File | Wired.com

Uncensored Instagrams From North Korea Buck Brutal Trend of Secrecy | Raw File | Wired.com

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: What’s Up With Your iPhone?

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: What’s Up With Your iPhone?

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

When We Lose Antibiotics, Here's Everything Else We'll Lose Too - Wired Science

When We Lose Antibiotics, Here's Everything Else We'll Lose Too - Wired Science

If we really lost antibiotics to advancing drug resistance — and trust me, we’re not far off — here’s what we would lose. Not just the ability to treat infectious disease; that’s obvious.
But also: The ability to treat cancer, and to transplant organs, because doing those successfully relies on suppressing the immune system and willingly making ourselves vulnerable to infection. Any treatment that relies on a permanent port into the bloodstream — for instance, kidney dialysis. Any major open-cavity surgery, on the heart, the lungs, the abdomen. Any surgery on a part of the body that already harbors a population of bacteria: the guts, the bladder, the genitals. Implantable devices: new hips, new knees, new heart valves. Cosmetic plastic surgery. Liposuction. Tattoos.
We’d lose the ability to treat people after traumatic accidents, as major as crashing your car and as minor as your kid falling out of a tree. We’d lose the safety of modern childbirth: Before the antibiotic era, 5 women died out of every 1,000 who gave birth. One out of every nine skin infections killed. Three out of every 10 people who got pneumonia died from it.
And we’d lose, as well, a good portion of our cheap modern food supply. Most of the meat we eat in the industrialized world is raised with the routine use of antibiotics, to fatten livestock and protect them from the conditions in which the animals are raised. Without the drugs that keep livestock healthy in concentrated agriculture, we’d lose the ability to raise them that way. Either animals would sicken, or farmers would have to change their raising practices, spending more money when their margins are thin. Either way, meat — and fish and seafood, also raised with abundant antibiotics in the fish farms of Asia — would become much more expensive.
And it wouldn’t be just meat. Antibiotics are used in plant agriculture as well, especially on fruit. Right now, a drug-resistant version of the bacterial disease fire blight is attacking American apple crops. There’s currently one drug left to fight it. And when major crops are lost, the local farm economy goes too.