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- How Will You Measure Your Life? (2010) https://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life 8 comments
- As A Formerly Incarcerated Addict, I’m Overjoyed About Oregon’s New Drug Law — This life-altering decriminalization measure will hand addicts a life preserver in the form of treatment and no jail. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oregon-decriminalize-drug-law_n_5fac42e9c5b6cae940423816 45 comments politics
- The radioactive half-life of samarium-146 has been measured to the highest accuracy and precision so far. With a half-life of 92 million years, samarium-146 is ideally suited for dating events that occurred early in the history of the solar system. https://physicsworld.com/a/half-life-measurement-of-samarium-146-could-help-reveal-secrets-of-the-early-solar-system/ 27 comments science
- For female service members, online harassment is a fact of life. For DoD, it’s not worth measuring https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2022/04/nowhere-safe-to-hide-what-online-harassment-is-doing-to-service-members-and-the-military/ 2 comments navy
- COVID vaccination of children age 5-11 cut Omicron hospitalizations by 68%. Of children ages 5-11 hospitalized with COVID-19, 92 percent were unvaccinated. Sixteen percent were critically ill, needing life support measures such as intubation. Of these, 90 percent were unvaccinated. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2202826 21 comments science
- Made to Measure is an experiment that asks if you can reconstruct a person based solely on their digital data trail. Can you build a doppelganger of a person you don’t even know? Record, recreate, and replay the life of someone and their personality in detail? https://www.madetomeasure.online/en/ 6 comments internetisbeautiful
- Quantifying signs of life in the depths of Enceladus’ ocean. This work tries to quantify the probability that biological methanogenesis might explain the measurements made by Cassini of Enceladus’ plume. https://astrobites.org/2021/06/15/bayesian-enceladus-plume/ 6 comments space
- ‘Life support’ measures could buy Great Barrier Reef another two decades, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/29/life-support-measures-could-buy-great-barrier-reef-another-two-decades-study-finds 11 comments worldnews
- Scientists developed a DNA voltmeter exposes a cell’s electric inner life, by measuring the voltage differences between the insides and the outsides of membrane-wrapped structures called organelles, which are found in the cells of animals and other organisms. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03079-6 3 comments science
- By measuring iron isotopes, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have shown that our planet originally formed much faster than previously thought. This finding provides new insights on both planetary formation and the likelihood of water and life elsewhere in the universe. https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2020/02/the-earth-formed-much-faster-than-previously-thought/ 5 comments science
- Scotland wellbeing measure fall powered by education and life expectancy hit https://www.bigissue.com/latest/scotland-wellbeing-measure-fall-powered-by-education-and-life-expectancy-hit/ 8 comments europe
- Yale researchers track the birth of memories. Scientists measured brain activity in the hippocampus of newborn rats and found at the beginning of third week of postnatal life there was no evidence of neural activity that would allow the animal to link sequential events either in time or space. https://news.yale.edu/2019/01/10/yale-researchers-track-birth-memories 9 comments science
- People who experience cognitive decline in later life are at a higher risk of experiencing depression, according to new research. The study in the journal Psychological Science examined fluid intelligence, a measure of a person’s adaptive reasoning and problem-solving skills. https://www.psypost.org/2018/11/study-intelligence-predicts-change-in-depressive-symptoms-in-later-life-52569 13 comments science
- Major adverse events in life, such as divorce, miscarriage or death of a family member or friend, can measurably accelerate aging in brains of older men. A single adverse event caused the brain to appear physiologically older by approximately one-third of a year than the person's chronological age. http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/negative_fateful_life_events_and_the_brains_of_middle_aged_men 10 comments science
- Microsoft & Qualcomm unveil "Always Connected" PCs with built-in LTE, and battery life measured in days. https://venturebeat.com/2017/12/05/microsoft-and-qualcomm-unveil-always-connected-pcs-with-built-in-lte-and-battery-life-measured-in-days/ 12 comments technology
- Grades and achievement tests are generally better predictors of life outcomes than “pure” measures of intelligence like IQ test http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/11/07/1601135113 14 comments science
- Ancient air trapped in rock salt for 813 million years is changing the timeline of atmospheric changes and life on Earth. Geologists say that oxygenation on Earth occurred 300 million years earlier than previously concluded from indirect measurements. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160822174234.htm 174 comments science
- New ARM-powered chip aims for battery life measured in decades | Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/new-arm-powered-chip-aims-for-battery-life-measured-in-decades/ 24 comments hardware
- New ARM-powered chip aims for battery life measured in decades http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/new-arm-powered-chip-aims-for-battery-life-measured-in-decades/ 24 comments technology
- Physicists have measured the half-life of iron-60 with an accuracy sufficient to support its use as a chronometer for cosmic processes. http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/physrevlett.114.041101 5 comments science
- Not only did ND voters reject the "Life begins at Conception" measure, they voted out the sponsors of the bill too. http://www.inforum.com/content/nd-voters-reject-right-life-measure-1 110 comments politics
- North Dakota "Life Begins at Conception" Amendment, Measure 1 (2014) http://ballotpedia.org/north_dakota_%22life_begins_at_conception%22_amendment,_measure_1_(2014) 11 comments politics
- Development: Time to leave GDP behind - "GDP is dangerously inadequate as a measure of quality of life" http://www.nature.com/news/development-time-to-leave-gdp-behind-1.14499 29 comments science
- A new paper in Psychological Science explores the influence of early academic prowess (as measured by the SAT at age 13) to later life success. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201305/does-early-academic-prowess-predict-later-success 7 comments cogsci
- Indigenous tribes say effects of climate change already felt in Amazon rainforest. These shifts, measured against celestial timing used by indigenous groups, are affecting traditional ways of life that date back thousands of years. http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0430-amazon-tribes-climate-change.html 35 comments science
- The Republican-controlled Arkansas state Senate approved a measure on Monday to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy except in the case of rape, incest or to save the mother's life. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/18/us-abortion-arkansas-idusbre91h0s220130218?feedtype=rss&feedname=politicsnews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+reuters%2Fpoliticsnews+%28reuters+politics+news%29 7 comments politics
- Bill Moyers: We’d All Be Packing Heat If the NRA Had Its Way -- Even life and death are measured by profit margins, so the organization's cure for gun violence shouldn't surprise. http://www.alternet.org/bill-moyers-wed-all-be-packing-heat-if-nra-had-its-way?paging=off 4 comments politics
- The Life of Greece's One Percent - The Greek economy has been tanking for years now as the country struggles to balance its budget by imposing deep austerity measures. But the country's richest residents haven't noticed. Many aren't taxed at all http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-crisis-has-yet-to-hit-the-wealthiest-greeks-a-866693.html 14 comments europe
- UK Prime Minister unveils 'happiness index'. David Cameron launches the "happiness index" as he announces that the Government would measure people's quality of life http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/prime-minister-unveils-happiness-index-2143950.html 6 comments worldnews
- On this day in 1915, T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" was first published. (Source of the quotes "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" and "Till human voices wake us, and we drown.") http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/06/i-have-measured-out-my-life-with-coffee.html 11 comments books
- In a quiz measuring knowledge of the Bible, world religions and what the Constitution says about religion in public life atheists and agnostics scored higher than evangelicals and Catholics. http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/28/dont-know-much-about-religion-youre-not-alone-study-finds/?hpt=c1 20 comments politics
- New cyber-monitoring measures have been quietly introduced New Zealand giving police and SIS the power to monitor all aspects of someone's online life. Now all mobile calls, texts, email, internet surfing, online shopping, chatting and social networking can be monitored anywhere in New Zealand. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3203448/nzs-cyber-spies-win-new-powers 4 comments worldnews
- Don't freak out, but a single factor for intelligence, called g, can be measured with IQ tests and does predict success in life. Get over your fears. http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/reingold/courses/intelligence/cache/1198gottfred.html?submitter=amerika.org 13 comments reddit.com
- The citizens of Denmark have scored higher than any other Western country on measures of life satisfaction, and scientists think they know why http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/science/09find.html?ex=1325998800&en=2bf6a633f2e9eee8&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss 56 comments reddit.com
- Just 3 months in prison leads to reduced self-control, measured as increased risk taking and reduced attentional performance. This is a significant finding, as released prisoners may be less capable of living a lawful life than they were prior to their imprisonment. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00069/full 1757 comments science
- Scottish Independence: Corporate giants Standard Life and BP issue Yes vote warnings. BP says independence could threaten investment in North Sea oil, while Standard Life is putting in place 'precautionary measures' that may involve transferring savings south of the border. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/scottish-independence/scottish-independence-corporate-giants-standard-life-and-bp-issue-yes-vote-warnings-9724017.html 55 comments worldnews
- Moore's Law and the Origin of Life. "As life has evolved, its complexity has increased exponentially, just like Moore’s law. Now geneticists have extrapolated this trend backwards and found that by this measure, life is older than the Earth itself." http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513781/moores-law-and-the-origin-of-life/ 349 comments science
- Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence is a litmus test for an individual’s capacity to affirm life. Your reaction to the prospect of living every single moment of your life over and over again in sequence is, for Nietzsche, a crucial measure of your ability to become who you truly are. https://philosophybreak.com/articles/eternal-recurrence-what-did-nietzsche-really-mean/ 244 comments philosophy
- Life span gap continues to widen between rich and poor -- "The poor are losing ground not only in income, but also in increasing how long they live, the most basic measure of well-being." http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/headlines/20160212-life-span-gap-continues-to-widen-between-rich-and-poor.ece 32 comments politics
- Behind Manchin’s Opposition, a Long History of Fighting Climate Measures | Senator Joe Manchin III noted climate policy when he said he would vote against the Build Back Better Act. In his life and career, West Virginia coal has loomed large. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/us/politics/manchin-climate-change-coal.html?amp%3Bsmid=url-share&unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqohlSlUZAybIRp8_qRmHmfnE2_s5j3n1LCmTDD1GzuEcH4XF8EfEY6VuItA01jDdRMNENPVnYs1O-dJlHh4nTRi08NzDkY4ZIi4xpMW9Um5vg8qXBvVl-m_gKzS0dLY6leHl5FeMbja5W63d0nIiIAx1sNAyIwHRrH8MwKfGEuV30sAvnqtyQ8AnGkpTIXWCrPLqCB1hON6ZbRm66gU-W-9RWT67jsfLovtbM10UUQSaOSs5tWUs69pcO8cVPLL9KnMjfMn9h7YSDA94PSBYOpfEGdtjTS4BOUPMZvc 4 comments climate