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Comment · 9 years ago
Europeana is an EU initiative to bring together digital collections of museums, archives, etc from around the EU and make them accessible, findable etc. While they try to encourage everyone to use CC it depends on the organisation that is putting the stuff online, their own rights to it (eg art is often loaned) and how it's put online (commercial photographer or similar might offer to put them for free online in order to be able to sell reuse licenses). So it's a mixed back but last time i checked most seemed to be free to use and share.
Comment · 9 years ago
If i can suggest a reframing:

Do you really want to spend your most productive, healthy and free/uncommitted years working too much just to have more time when your body is starting to weaken and many of your dreams start to become impossible?

Do you want to spend less time with your children for the chance to have more time for your grandchildren?

Comment · 9 years ago
Just that they have a name that will immediately be without any trust at any non -tech company. Basically mentioning "hacking" will make any non-technical CEO shiver and call the lawyers.
Comment · 9 years ago
What nonsense. It's out of patent. There's no cost anymore except production and distribution. It's not a matter of recovering costs anymore, it's an oligopoly fixing the prices.
Comment · 9 years ago
What stops you from trying?
Comment · 9 years ago
Just tell them. Most of them would be proud and happy to show you what good veg* cuisine looks like but they are worried to be judged and are feeling horribly guilty about the (largely false) sense that they constantly inconvenience others so want to do anything to avoid disappointing :-)
Comment · 9 years ago
Vegetarian for 12+ years. I happily eat quorn or other good veggie substitutes as long as they are healthy (ish) and taste good. Being vegetarian doesnt mean i have to give up on the good elements of the food industry/convenience. I'd probably also eat lab grown meat but I'm not sure as i didn't have a chance to try yet.

For me it's an ethical argument to be vegetarian, i still love the taste and smell of meat (but contrary to the cliché repeated in this thread have never lapsed) - why give up on it completely if i can get something similar that allows me to still enjoy a bbq or spaghetti Bolognese. Most veggie substitutes taste like crap though - but that's a matter of trial and error (my advice is to avoid any veggiemeat that's egg based, they all taste disgusting and probably come out of the horribly cruel egg mass production.)

I'd be vegan but with small kids, a non-veg partner and an area that's not very veggie friendly that will have to wait a bit longer.

Comment · 9 years ago
I'm wondering how good/bad the combination is (think"hot yoga"), or if too much stress on cells/heart is simply too much.
Comment · 9 years ago
Not sure you read the article, the last paragraph makes clear that they hope this will help people that are unable to exercise. I guess they are thinking of the elderly or similar.

Of course people will interpret it as they wish but this is interesting research, not "vaccines-cause-x" type of research. For those looking for excuses I'm sure they can find plenty of others already.

Comment · 9 years ago
Very interesting. Did these ideas bear fruit?
Comment · 9 years ago
How do you structure it? Do you have a palace ordered by months/dates with people placed in?
Comment · 9 years ago
Key ideas of the speech.

Some people remember transition phrases but that never seemed helpful for me.

In the end spend time remembering a few core ideas and practice the speech freely a few times.

I actually don't write speeches anymore - i just think of a rough structure and practice until i get through it in a way i like. Then refine beginning and ending, make sure the core ideas are clear to me - and it's in my head for a while. Means I'll never give the same speech twice, but it's also more fun for me as i learn new things/ideas while speaking :)

Comment · 9 years ago
Indeed but in a class on geography it can make the teachers life easier if the students can focus on the 3-7 applications you want to use throughout the year and those are 1 click away rather than a download+install procedure away. Not every class will want/need to teach computer maintenance.

If you want teachers & students to use tech it needs to be truly frictionless.

Comment · 9 years ago
Just to mention that you seem to be suffering from the consumer version of feature creep. Eg your number 4 is easily solved by simple metal inlays you can buy anywhere - or even make yourself.

Don't look for perfection by comparing the best of each. Sucks that none of them are perfect perfect for you but people have different needs/wants/tastes.

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