My life outside of studying law

I have many interests that I like to explore outside of law: politics, art, culture, languages, history, etc. So I make this page to help me document my findings but feel free to follow me and enjoy these findings.

dabnotu:

Workers from all over the Detroit area are on strike – we demand $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation.

Our employers – thriving corporations like McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC, Dollar Tree, Little Caesar’s, Domino’s, Long John Silver’s and others – are making billions, but pay us poverty wages and violate our right to join together to make a better future for ourselves and our families. Most of us make just $7.40 or a little more an hour! And that’s just not enough to support our families, or to get basic needs like food, health care, rent and transportation, without relying on public assistance.

We’re standing up and saying it has to stop. Say you’re with us by adding your name…

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dabnotu:

Workers from all over the Detroit area are on strike – we demand $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation.

Our employers – thriving corporations like McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC, Dollar Tree, Little Caesar’s, Domino’s, Long John Silver’s and others – are making billions, but pay us poverty wages and violate our right to join together to make a better future for ourselves and our families. Most of us make just $7.40 or a little more an hour! And that’s just not enough to support our families, or to get basic needs like food, health care, rent and transportation, without relying on public assistance.

We’re standing up and saying it has to stop. Say you’re with us by adding your name…

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centuriespast: Presentation of the Virgin in the TempleGospel Lectionary, in LatinAustria, Salzburg, Abbey of St. Peter, ca. 1050 This book of readings for the Mass is one of three important eleventh-century Salzburg manuscripts in the Morgan that illustrate the transition from Ottonian to Romanesque styles. The book opens with two presentations: the book to St. Peter and Joachim and Anna Present the Virgin in the Temple. The latter, an early example of an apocryphal subject in a Western liturgical book, comes from the Infancy Gospel ascribed to James. The nude thorn extractors on the columns recall the Roman statue of Spinario, then regarded as an image of Priapus; the women at the bases recall the barren women who embraced Simeon Stylites’s column for fertility. Such details allude to Anna’s miraculous conception of the Virgin, for she remained barren well into old age. The Morgan Library

centuriespast:

Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple
Gospel Lectionary, in Latin
Austria, Salzburg, Abbey of St. Peter, ca. 1050

This book of readings for the Mass is one of three important eleventh-century Salzburg manuscripts in the Morgan that illustrate the transition from Ottonian to Romanesque styles. The book opens with two presentations: the book to St. Peter and Joachim and Anna Present the Virgin in the Temple. The latter, an early example of an apocryphal subject in a Western liturgical book, comes from the Infancy Gospel ascribed to James. The nude thorn extractors on the columns recall the Roman statue of Spinario, then regarded as an image of Priapus; the women at the bases recall the barren women who embraced Simeon Stylites’s column for fertility. Such details allude to Anna’s miraculous conception of the Virgin, for she remained barren well into old age.

The Morgan Library

balkan-thug: Pomak wedding celebration by Linus Moran on Flickr. Pomak wedding celebration in Ribnovo, Bulgaria. Pomaks are Bulgarian Muslims. The ritual of painting the Brides face is unique to these people only from Ribnovo. Picture credit: Linus Moran

balkan-thug:

Pomak wedding celebration by Linus Moran on Flickr.

Pomak wedding celebration in Ribnovo, Bulgaria. Pomaks are Bulgarian Muslims.

The ritual of painting the Brides face is unique to these people only from Ribnovo.

Picture credit: Linus Moran

neurosciencestuff: I first met Henry Molaison more than half a century ago, during the spring of my third year in graduate school. I have tried to resurrect the details of my interactions with him that week, but human memory does not allow such excursions. The explicit minutiae of unique episodes fade as time passes, making it impossible for us to vividly re-experience the details of events in the distant past. What I do know is that I was very excited to have the opportunity to study such a rare case as Henry, and I had spent months preparing. Looking back at the results of all the tests he did that week, it was clear even then that the consequences of the operation carried out on him in 1957 – an experimental procedure to cure his epilepsy – had been catastrophic. Henry was left in a permanent state of amnesia, unable to retain any new information. At the time of Henry’s operation, little was known about how memory processes worked. The extensive damage to the inner part of the temporal lobes on both sides of Henry’s brain made him a vital case study for memory researchers then and now. As the years passed, his fame grew and eventually spread to countries outside North America – and all that time Henry was stuck in the same moment. From time to time, I would tell him how important and well known he was, and he would smile sheepishly, as the praise was already slipping out of his consciousness. In his lifetime he was known as HM; only after his death, in 2008, was his identity revealed to the world. Henry Molaison: The incredible story of the man with no memory

neurosciencestuff:

I first met Henry Molaison more than half a century ago, during the spring of my third year in graduate school. I have tried to resurrect the details of my interactions with him that week, but human memory does not allow such excursions. The explicit minutiae of unique episodes fade as time passes, making it impossible for us to vividly re-experience the details of events in the distant past. What I do know is that I was very excited to have the opportunity to study such a rare case as Henry, and I had spent months preparing. Looking back at the results of all the tests he did that week, it was clear even then that the consequences of the operation carried out on him in 1957 – an experimental procedure to cure his epilepsy – had been catastrophic. Henry was left in a permanent state of amnesia, unable to retain any new information.

At the time of Henry’s operation, little was known about how memory processes worked. The extensive damage to the inner part of the temporal lobes on both sides of Henry’s brain made him a vital case study for memory researchers then and now. As the years passed, his fame grew and eventually spread to countries outside North America – and all that time Henry was stuck in the same moment. From time to time, I would tell him how important and well known he was, and he would smile sheepishly, as the praise was already slipping out of his consciousness. In his lifetime he was known as HM; only after his death, in 2008, was his identity revealed to the world.

Henry Molaison: The incredible story of the man with no memory

iluvsouthernafrica:

Namibians wearing Vellies (Shoes)

“Velskoen, pronounced “fell-skoon” and known colloquially as “vellies,” are the ancestor of the modern-day desert boot. Vellies were first made in the 1600s, inspired by the footwear of the Khoikhoi tribe and crafted using raw materials. Later, our vellies were adapted by British travellers, packaged and renamed to be what we now know as desert boots.

(Brother Vellies) are made in the coastal town of Swakopmund, Namibia. There, a small group of eight Damara gentlemen assemble every shoe by hand, turning out just 20 pairs an afternoon.

…Vellies are made of vegetable-dyed Kudu leather. The Namibian government mandates the culling of these large native antelope to control their population. Kudu skin yields amazingly durable leather and suede that ages exceptionally well. Because these hides are taken from wild animals they often show scars or other “imperfections” that domesticated hides do not.” 

(via thepeacefulterrorist)