These are my links for May 19th 2012 through May 20th 2012:
- Humanity’s Best Friend: How Dogs May Have Helped Humans Beat the Neanderthals – Megan Garber – Technology – The Atlantic – "It could be, Shipman suggests, that dogs represented even more than companionate technologies to Paleolithic man. It could be that their cooperative proximity brought about its own effects on human evolution — in the same way that the domestication of cattle led to humans developing the ability to digest milk. Shipman points to the "cooperative eye hypothesis," which builds on the observation that, compared to other primates, humans have highly visible sclerae (whites of the eyes)."
- All You Happy Assholes Make Me Want To Kill Myself, Statistically Speaking | Motherboard – "More people commit suicide in locales that self-identify as “happy.” Like Utah, which is full of happy jerks being athletic and having great diets and a fulfilling spiritual life."
- Gil Scott-Heron – New York Is Killing Me (Chris Cunningham Remix) [Full 3 Screens HD]
– YouTube – Gil Scott Heron x Chris Cunningham > < full screen, lights off, sound up - Twitpic – Share photos and videos on Twitter – Get your eagle on: annual Awesome Saturday, NXG's back-garden microfestival, in full effect
- Experience: I’ve been to the quietest place on Earth | Life and style | The Guardian – "The presence of sound means things are working; it's business as usual – when sound is absent, that signals malfunction. On 9/11, despite being out of mobile phone reception, a huge number of hikers abandoned their walks. They hadn't heard about the terrorist attacks; they were just spooked by the lack of aeroplane noise and sensed something was wrong."