The New Trial of Socrates - ONASSIS CULTURAL CENTRE
In the spring of 399 B.C., Socrates confronted 500 Athenians, citizens, judges and jurors, in his trial initiated by the charges leveled at him by Meletus, Anytos and Lycon. The trial began with a reading of the formal charges: “Socrates is a doer of evil, and corrupter of the youth, and he does not believe in the gods of the state, and he believes in other new divinities of his own.” On May 2012, almost 2,500 years later, the trial of Socrates was repeated. This time Socrates was acquitted in a historical trial which was not a re-enactment but a modern perspective based on current legal framework supplemented with ancient Greek elements and comical theatrics. The Alexander S. Onassis Foundation found advocates for its venture, top American and European judges and lawyers, who all examined the trial material retrieved from ancient texts by Plato (Apology, Crito, Euthyphro, Phaedo), Xenophon (Memorabilia) and Aristophanes (The Clouds), as well as the corresponding Athenian law of that time.
Click to watch the New Trial of Socrates from the Onassis Cultural Centre Athens
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It’s Not Just You: ‘Old Person Smell’ Is Real
In a study published yesterday in PLoS One, researchers report that young people aged 20-30 are able to accurately guess when a scent comes from an elderly individual aged 75-95. While study participants were also able to determine when a smell was associated with someone in middle age or in their youth, they were much better at smelling old people than young people.
How did the scientists collect the smell samples in the first place? Scientific American explains, hilariously:
In their new study, Lundström and his colleagues sewed absorbent nursing pads into the armpits of T-shirts and asked volunteers of different ages to sleep in the shirts for five consecutive nights. The researchers divided the 44 volunteers into three groups: eight women and eight men between the ages of 20 and 30 (the young); the same number of men and women between 45 and 55 (middle-aged); and six women and six men between 75 and 95 (elderly). During the day, the volunteers stored the T-shirts in sealed plastic bags; avoided spicy foods, cigarettes and alcohol; and showered with odorless shampoo and soap.
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It’s Not Just You: ‘Old Person Smell’ Is Real
In a study published yesterday in PLoS One, researchers report that young people aged 20-30 are able to accurately guess when a scent comes from an elderly individual aged 75-95. While study participants were also able to determine when a smell was associated with someone in middle age or in their youth, they were much better at smelling old people than young people.
How did the scientists collect the smell samples in the first place? Scientific American explains, hilariously:
In their new study, Lundström and his colleagues sewed absorbent nursing pads into the armpits of T-shirts and asked volunteers of different ages to sleep in the shirts for five consecutive nights. The researchers divided the 44 volunteers into three groups: eight women and eight men between the ages of 20 and 30 (the young); the same number of men and women between 45 and 55 (middle-aged); and six women and six men between 75 and 95 (elderly). During the day, the volunteers stored the T-shirts in sealed plastic bags; avoided spicy foods, cigarettes and alcohol; and showered with odorless shampoo and soap.Read more. [Image: Blude/Flickr]
Source: The Atlantic
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The Man Who Broke Atlantic City - The Atlantic
Don Johnson won nearly $6 million playing blackjack in one night, single-handedly decimating the monthly revenue of Atlantic City’s Tropicana casino. Not long before that, he’d taken the Borgata for $5 million and Caesars for $4 million. Here’s how he did it.
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Europe Agrees: Greece Is the Laziest, Most Incompetent Nation in the EU
Greece is the hardest-working country in the EU! According to Greece. And only Greece.
According to Britain, Germany, Spain, Poland, and the Czech Republic, it’s the laziest country in Europe.
Meanwhile, Germany is the most respected EU country, according to the Pew Global report, European Unity on the Rocks. And Greece appears to be living in a bizarro universe where 78% of its respondents held negative views of Germany. Three in five Greeks said their country had Europe’s hardest working citizens. Half of the rest of the respondents from the other seven nations said Greece had the laziest workforce in Europe.
Read more. [Image: Pew Research Center]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4shgajQUr1qcokc4o1_500.png)
Europe Agrees: Greece Is the Laziest, Most Incompetent Nation in the EU
Greece is the hardest-working country in the EU! According to Greece. And only Greece.
According to Britain, Germany, Spain, Poland, and the Czech Republic, it’s the laziest country in Europe.
Meanwhile, Germany is the most respected EU country, according to the Pew Global report, European Unity on the Rocks. And Greece appears to be living in a bizarro universe where 78% of its respondents held negative views of Germany. Three in five Greeks said their country had Europe’s hardest working citizens. Half of the rest of the respondents from the other seven nations said Greece had the laziest workforce in Europe.
Read more. [Image: Pew Research Center]
Source: The Atlantic
Amazing video of 747 lifting in place in extreme wind conditions - 1080P HD (by CaptainHarlock999)
On May 23rd, 70 mph winds struck an aircraft boneyard in the Mojave desert, causing a decommissioned 747 to lift its nose off the ground repeatedly, as if preparing for take off
Source: youtube.com
The World’s Largest Wood Stockpile Is Absolutely Insane
On January 8, 2005, a huge cyclone as strong as a Category 1 hurricane hit Sweden and Denmark. Its name was Gudrun and it blew at sustained speeds of 78.3mph (126km/h) with wind gusts of 102.5mph (165km/h). It killed 22 people and struck down 75 million cubic meters of trees. How much is 75 million cubic meters of trees? I have no idea but, to give you an idea, you are looking at only one million cubic meter in this image. This is Byholma, the storage area created by the Swedish government to process all this mess. Back in 2005 it became the world’s largest timber storage and it’s still working today. Imagine 75 of these put together. It’s a staggering. (via Image cache News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Gizmodo)
Source: Gizmodo
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