When you pay too much attention to boundaries, you don’t see the big picture.
Professor Robert Sapolsky – Stanford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA (@ 16:52)
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Rescuing drowning children: How to know when someone is in trouble in the water
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Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you all right?” If they can answer at all—they probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parents—children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.
Via Rescuing drowning children: How to know when someone is in trouble in the water. – Slate Magazine.
Please let this not be an April Fools joke…
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Seven federal departments and agencies, from Environment Canada to the National Research Council of Canada, have been told Suzanne Legault’s office plans to act on complaints about “the systematic efforts by the Government of Canada to obstruct the right of the media – and through them, the Canadian public – to timely access to government scientists.”
Via Information commissioner to investigate ‘muzzling’ of federal scientists.
Democracy is increasingly becoming a hyperbole in Canada…
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The committee report represents a case of policy laundering with recommendations to ratify treaties that were not even discussed at committee. Yet should Canada reach agreement on CETA or the TPP, the committee report will presumably be used by the government to short-circuit further review on those treaties or to simply claim support for ratification on the basis on a committee recommendation that was secretly fabricated behind closed doors without any witness raising the issue during the public hearings.
Quoting Scott’s “The No UI debate is rubbish”
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The best UI is what’s best for the person and situation I’m designing for. That’s all. Who cares what’s best in the abstract? No one hires you to design abstractions, and if they did, your business card should say “Platonic Theorist” not “Designer”.
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