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- Is This The World’s First Military Memorial?
- The Power Of Gratitude And Handwritten Notes
- Beware Terrible Charts
- Pants That Let Women Pee and Poop Outside
| Is This The World’s First Military Memorial? Posted: 27 Jun 2021 05:16 AM PDT
A site in Syria has led archaeologists to hypothesize that it may be the world's first military memorial. The site, known as the White Monument, contained partial skeletons of adults and teens buried with ammo or animals needed for battle. The monument, experts propose, likely held soldiers, who were buried with co-combatants, as Smithsonian details: Such a massive memorial for battle-dead suggests the town had a standing army: "people who identify as soldiers, as opposed to people who go out and fight in the offseason or when someone's attacking," says Stephanie Selover, an archaeologist at the University of Washington who studies ancient warfare in nearby Anatolia, but was not involved in the study. "The possibility of standing armies that are so controlled and centralized you're even able to make a monument… There's nothing else like this," in the Early Bronze Age, she adds. The monument would have served as a conspicuous reminder that leaders had the means to maintain and memorialize an army—a message that would have been received by locals as well as outside foreigners. "Burying these people in the sort of function that they would have had in a military is really a statement of power at that point, both locally and externally, because this thing was really visible for miles," says University of Toronto archaeologist Anne Porter, lead author of the Antiquity study. Image credit: the Euphrates Salvage Project  |
| The Power Of Gratitude And Handwritten Notes Posted: 27 Jun 2021 05:15 AM PDT
People have varying ways of coping during the pandemic (may I remind you that there's still a pandemic so please stay safe out there), from playing games to watching tv shows and movies to taking up hobbies, all are valid and are a great way to deal with anxiety and stress. Another good method has popped up: gratitude. While an additional dose of kindness in any situation is always welcome, a rise in thanking people for their efforts is evident. Shondaland's Gina Hamadey shares her experience of how showing gratitude made her life slightly better: That heart-slowing sensation was real, even if I didn't know it at the time.A 2017 studyby the Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul examined the effects of gratitude and resentment on mental well-being, using heart rate as one indicator. The average heart rate was significantly lower while the participants were spending four minutes thinking grateful thoughts about their mothers, compared with spending those four minutes focused on moments or people who made them angry. Each month of my gratitude year was dedicated to a different group of recipients, such as friends, family members, parenting helpers, career mentors, and favorite authors. The eight notes I wrote to my mother-in-law throughout the year changed the dynamic of our relationship: I became more aware of how much she does for our family, and she was touched by how much I noticed. Among the many gratitude benefits, I experienced was a heightened sense of resilience. Writing the notes not only offered me a short-term feeling of calm, it made it easier to channel positive emotions in general. "Sitting with any feeling, whether positive, neutral, or negative, has the potential to rewire our neural connections due to our neuroplastic brains," explainsBret Stetka, author of A History of the Human Brain. "When we use any brain network—whether for riding a bike or playing a guitar—those neuronal connections are strengthened and more easily called upon. Expressing gratitude and sitting with your positive feelings towards others bolsters these networks, making it easier for the brain to access that warmth." Image credit: Gina Hamadey |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2021 09:30 PM PDT
Charts and graphs can be wonderful for breaking down information and showing trends over time, but only if they are constructed in a way that people can understand. On TV, the viewer only has a short period of time to grab that information, but when you take a screenshot, you see that there are many things wrong with this graph. Mefite Stark takes a stab at listing them.
Someone else mentioned that the x-axis is labeled in alphabetical order. Andy Baio took the information and made a much better chart.
This is far from unique, though, as many media outlets rely on their graphics departments (or maybe an intern) to make charts instead of data scientists. You can go down the rabbit hole and see plenty of confusing or misleading information in charts here, here, and here. In fact, there are so many ways to make a bad chart that several sites are dedicated to explaining and shaming them. See more terrible charts archived at Bad Visualizations, WTF Visualizations, and the subreddit Data Is Ugly. -via Metafilter |
| Pants That Let Women Pee and Poop Outside Posted: 26 Jun 2021 08:05 AM PDT
Chickfly pants are designed for women who want to enjoy the great outdoors without the need to pull down their pants every few hours to void their bladder and/or bowels. Claire Barber, a writer for Outside magazine, wrote about her practical tests of this invention: I hung in a climbing harness and let my friend and belayer laugh as I awkwardly grabbed at my crotch and attempted to pee midair. I squatted in various locations, including beside dirt roads and in a snowy canyon. [...] Once you've practiced using the fly, the process is the same as any time you pee outdoors—find a comfortable place, squat, and go—but takes half the time. And the major win here is for privacy. You don't need to pull the pants all the way down to go, and if you're opening them from the front, your back and sides will be fully covered. When you're done, the stretchy fabric springs back into place so you never feel exposed for long. Granted, you're still peeing outside, so privacy is relative, but you avoid the hassle of hoisting your pants back up and mooning other outdoor patrons. -via TYWKIWDBI | Photo: Chickfly |
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