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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
American (Austrian-born) management writer (1909 - 2005) - The Quotations Page
Source: quotationspage.com
Found in Giessen, Germany in 1970. On the back is "Brieftauben werden im Traggestell vorgebracht." View full size.
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She bit her lip and turned her head a little and looked at me along her eyes. Then she lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theater curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (via liquidnight)
(via Fifty Years Ago Today, the First Communications Satellite was Launched into Space | Around The Mall)
A backup duplicate of the original Telstar satellite, housed in storage at the Air and Space Museum. Photo courtesy of the museum
Source: blogs.smithsonianmag.com
The researchers found that ravens often use their beaks like hands to make gestures, such as this male raven is doing as the bird shows two of its kin an object in its beak.
Image: Thomas Bugnyar
Ravens use their beaks and wings much like humans rely on our hands to make gestures, such as for pointing to an object, scientists now find.
This is the first time researchers have seen gestures used in this way in the wild by animals other than primates...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Officials at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada knew for two weeks about a virus infecting the drone “cockpits” there. But they kept the information about the infection to themselves—keeping the unit that’s supposed to serve as the Air Force’s cybersecurity specialists in the dark. The network defenders at the 24th Air Force learned of the virus by reading about it in Danger Room.
The virus, which records the keystrokes of remote pilots as their drones fly over places like Afghanistan, is now receiving attention at the highest levels; the four-star general who oversees the Air Force’s networks was briefed on the infection this morning. But for weeks, it stayed (you will pardon the expression) below the radar: a local problem that local network administrators were determined to fix on their own.
“It was not highlighted to us,” says a source involved with Air Force network operations. “When your article came out, it was like, ‘What is this?’”...
Source: Ars Technica
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Ernest Brooks
“Scene on the Ancre”
Constructing a new telegraph line during World War I.
Picardy, France, 1914-1918
[From the National Library of Scotland]