There are nine different types, but which is yours?
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This quiz is based on the theory of multiple intelligences as proposed by Howard Gardner is his 1983 book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, and the updates in his 2000 book Intelligence Reframed. However, this quiz is intended for entertainment purposes only.
Here’s what some classic books would be renamed if unhappy Amazon reviewers got their way.
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Which is odd.
It’s the only fair way to do the comparison, really.
But planets have atmospheres, and even though Pluto is only a dwarf planet right now, it's no different.
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Who's tiny now, eh? Ok fine, it's still Pluto. But look how far its atmosphere stretches.
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The "outer limit" of Pluto's atmosphere is very difficult to define, although we know that it is very far from the surface. If one defines it similar to the way we define the exobase of Earth's atmosphere, then Pluto's atmosphere has an outer limit of at least seven times Pluto's radius above it surface. This means that the volume of Pluto's atmosphere is over 350 times the volume of Pluto itself! This illustrates what a strange and wonderful new kind of world we are about to visit and explore.
And this is a conservative estimate: Pluto's atmosphere could actually be even bigger than it's shown in the image above. We'll have to wait for New Horizons to get there later this year to find out for sure.
“Mort” or “Reaper Man”? “Pyramids” or “Small Gods”? WHICH IS THE BEST?
I don't want to talk much about the books published after 2007, the year of Sir Terry's diagnosis with a form of Alzheimer's. They shouldn't be characterised as part of the Discworld canon: In the case of Raising Steam and Snuff, they are almost unrecognisable as Pratchett books. The dialogue is baggy and expository – especially in Raising Steam – and the characters have the right names but behave nothing like the people we know from the earlier books. The earlier two are more Pratchett-like, but still, it seems a shame to start a celebration of the Discworld by focusing on them. I'm really sorry, Sir Terry. I feel awful writing this.
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Pratchett does good feminism. His female characters are flawed, interesting, varied, fully realised human beings: look at Nanny Ogg and especially Granny Weatherwax for proof. His books are shot through with wry anger at men forcing women into preassigned roles. But normally he weaves it in: The plot device in this book (set in an obscure country torn by religious war) makes it explicit, and therefore clunky.
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The most damning thing I can say about this book, in which the Witches head to Discworld Transylvania, is that it has entirely failed to stick in my memory. It has good lines (Vetinari describing the up-and-coming nations of the Hub as the "werewolf economies") and some good satire of Hammer Horror vampire films and the like, but it is not one of the greats.
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Some of Pratchett's political beliefs shine through in his books, of course. But in this one, in which Vimes is trying to prevent a resurgence of ancient violence between dwarfs and trolls, he's a bit heavy-handed with it. There's a "War! What is it good for?" message and a we're-all-the-same-under-the-skin message which is so front-and-centre that it gets in the way of the plot. Also, this is another later-period Vimes novel, with all the Vimes-worship that entails. The early Vimes, who hated the privilege of the rich, would have been infuriated by the Thud! Vimes shutting down several city streets just so he could get home in time to read his infant son a bedtime story. But Pratchett holds this up as something to be applauded, which feels weird.
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What if they upload my nudes to Facebook?!?!?!
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The Kurdish forces the U.S. relies on in Iraq fear the very Iraqis the U.S. needs them to save.
Smoke rises near the Kurdish front in Kirkuk after an ISIS attack.
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KIRKUK, Iraq — A Kurdish soldier wheeled a pickup past some buildings smashed in a recent ISIS advance and cast a wary glance at an Arab village down the road.
The frontline was a few miles away, a long canal that cuts through the oil-producing city of Kirkuk. Kurdish forces were dug in on one side and ISIS on the other. But the militants across the water weren't the only enemy the Kurds thought they faced as they braced for another assault. They saw a threat from within their own territory too — in the Sunni Arab villages they considered bastions of enemy support. "They're all the same," the soldier said. "They all support ISIS. And when they get the chance, they will shoot us in the back."
Kirkuk has been one of the toughest battlegrounds for ethnic Kurdish forces, known as the peshmerga, in their U.S.-backed war with ISIS. A mixed Kurdish and Arab city 150 miles north of Baghdad, it shares the conflict's ethnic and sectarian fault lines and underlines the difficulties the peshmerga face in Arab areas outside their comfort zone — an issue of growing importance as the U.S. promotes a plan to have its Iraqi allies launch an offensive to take the city of Mosul, deep in ISIS' Sunni Arab stronghold. "The peshmerga have never moved outside of their own territory," said Christopher Harmer of the Institute for the Study of War. "If they aren't trusting the relatively minor number of Sunni [Arab] villages they have in their sphere of influence now, how they going to roll an armed convoy into Mosul?"
The wreckage along the road in Kirkuk came from a surprise attack southwest of the city on Jan. 30, when ISIS crossed the canal under cover of fog and wreaked havoc until the peshmerga drove them back with the help of U.S. airstrikes. Kurdish soldiers said men from the handful of Arab villages in the area had joined the fight on ISIS' side. These claims couldn't be independently verified. But they showed the intense suspicion many Kurds harbor after more than six months of war. "They stabbed us in the back," said Kemal Kirkuki, who oversees peshmerga forces in the area.
Asked how many residents of the villages in question he believed to be ISIS supporters, Kirkuki replied, "most of them." He expressed deep reservations about the idea of the peshmerga pushing beyond Iraq's Kurdish region. "We might get rid of the ISIS occupation," he said. "But we'll never get rid of the ISIS mentality, because it's inside them."
Most of Iraq's Sunni Arabs do not, in fact, support ISIS. Those who resist the group have fallen victim to it, and many who live under its control feel they have no choice. ISIS has been keen to exploit Iraq's ethnic and religious divides. Sunni Arabs were targeted by the hardline sectarian policies of the Shiite-dominated government that followed the U.S. occupation, and many remain deeply suspicious of the Iraqi authorities and security forces. Since ISIS took over Mosul this summer, powerful Shiite militia working alongside the Iraqi military have been accused of carrying out executions and other human rights abuses against Sunnis.
Jordan Perry, an analyst at the Verisk Maplecroft research firm in London, called the participation of these Shiite militia — which are backed by Iran and reportedly work with Iranian military advisors on the ground — in a Mosul offensive "inevitable."
"They will play a significant role," he said. "It's a real difficulty — but that's where the manpower is."
Many Sunni Arabs are wary of the Kurdish forces too. In a report published on Thursday, Human Rights Watch accused them of destroying dozens of Sunni Arab homes in areas reclaimed from ISIS since the summer and preventing many Sunni Arab residents from returning home.
U.S. officials have said the centerpiece for the plan to retake Mosul will be the Iraqi military. The U.S. is reportedly working to ready five Iraqi brigades, which will be complemented by another three from the peshmerga as part of a mixed force numbering between 20,000 and 25,000 troops. U.S. officials have said that the offensive could begin as early as the spring. It would be the signature battle for the U.S. and its allies in their war on ISIS — challenging the group at the heart of the caliphate it declared after its shock offensive in Iraq this June.
Yet it's unclear that the Iraqi military — which was routed by ISIS in Mosul this summer and has lost control of much of Anbar province for more than a year — is ready to shoulder such a heavy load. And so far the peshmerga, as well as the Shiite militia, have been the "two most successful fighting forces against ISIS in Iraq," said Michael Knights, an Iraq expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
"The Kurds will be holding down ISIS in certain fronts and doing small advances here and there [...] and some exploiting into Mosul city to get some of the old Kurdish neighborhoods back, but not much more than that," Knights said. "What probably hasn't been factored in [to the U.S. plans] is that of the security forces in Iraq, one of them, the Kurds, is almost as far as it's ever going to go."
Everything seems so much… clearer now.
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The new ‘Tinder Plus’ service will charge 3x more if you’re older than 28.
Although the app will remain free, the option to make unlimited right-swipes will no longer be available unless users sign up to Tinder Plus. The new service will also hide ads, which are being introduced later this month.
According to Tech Crunch, the paid version will be available for under $10 in the US.
LINK: If You’re Over 30 And Single, You Should Be Using Tinder
We are made of starstuff. Tumblr’s body comparative movement is an exquisite and empowering thing.
“He just wanted a high-five!”
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This is the end now, honest.
Are you black cabs and Michael Caine, or cupcakes and Coupling?
“I’ll have the Filet-O-Fish, please.”
And they just stare at you until you finish and walk out shamefully.
And you have to reject them and seem randomly harsh.
They'll either be nice and ignore it, or just raise their eyebrow at you.
And then silently praying that no one heard.
Someone has claimed the rarely seen shark is “beautiful”. What do you think?
The 1.26-metre-long shark was caught in a net by a trawler off Gabo Island in January, Sky News reported.
It was held at the Wharf Aquarium in Merimbula before being taken to the museum.
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Mark McGrouther, the fish collection manager at the museum, told Agence France-Presse: "I suspect because it has got soft, flabby musculature, it doesn't need much energy ... so it will swim slowly over the bottom just using its snout like a metal detector.
"It will be sweeping over the bottom and when it detects a small fish, or a crab or a squid it will shoot those jaws out 'wham' and capture whatever it is.
"It will spear it with those sharp pointed teeth and then just wolf it down whole."
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Has someone ever mistaken you for being someone’s mother?
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Destined for greatness, or just one season as a Housewife?
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We get it, you're a dentist.
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He didn't keep you, though. You and Slade broke up, Jo.
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Words can be hard to find when someone is waiting for results or is about to start serious medication. What’s the best way to help those you love?
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Here are all the best quotes from his lecture at the Oxford Guild. h/t The Tab.
When I get my stream of consciousness going that's when I give the best, illest quotes.
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I approach creativity like a sport, where if I have a drawing I react just like a jock: LOOK AT THE FUCKING DRAWING RIGHT THERE YEAH!
