#Walter Langer

[themarvellousmichaelbryant]

The Playbill for Five Finger Exercise when it played in Boston in October 1960.

[politicaldilfs]

North Dakota Governor DILFs

Fred G. Aandahl, George A. Sinner, Arthur A. Link, Norman Brunsdale, Arthur G. Sorlie, Jack Dalrymple, Ed Schafer, Doug Burgum, Allen I. Olson, John Moses, L. B. Hanna, Lynn Frazier, Ole H. Olson, John Hoeven, Walter Welford, William L. Guy, William Langer

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Bahnhof St. Niklaus VS der Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB) por Walter Ruetsch Por Flickr: Das schon vor langer Zeit geplante private Treffen der Fotografen von Bahnbilder.de fand leider bei sehr schlechtem Wetter im Wallis statt. Da Streckenaufnahmen der Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB) bei strömendem Regen in der herrlichen Bergwelt nicht möglich waren, belagerten wir für einige Zeit den Bahnhof St. Niklaus VS für Standaufnahmen von verschiedenen Zügen. Impressionen vom 7. Mai 2024.

[flesh-is-the-fever]

"...never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it." – Walter C. Langer

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Mirror Image ... "Walter Langer, 80+ years ago, writing about a man “the world has come to know … for his insatiable greed for power, his ruthlessness, cruelty and utter lack-of feeling, his contempt for established institutions and his lack of moral restraints”.

hitler/trump — not just a cheap shot

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Mirror Image ... "Walter Langer, 80+ years ago, writing about a man “the world has come to know … for his insatiable greed for power, his ruthlessness, cruelty and utter lack-of feeling, his contempt for established institutions and his lack of moral restraints”.

hitler/trump — not just a cheap shot

[jcmarchi]

Nancy Kanwisher, Robert Langer, and Sara Seager named Kavli Prize Laureates

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Nancy Kanwisher, Robert Langer, and Sara Seager named Kavli Prize Laureates

MIT faculty members Nancy Kanwisher, Robert Langer, and Sara Seager are among eight researchers worldwide to receive this year’s Kavli Prizes.

A partnership among the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, and the Kavli Foundation, the Kavli Prizes are awarded every two years to “honor scientists for breakthroughs in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience that transform our understanding of the big, the small and the complex.” The laureates in each field will share $1 million.

Understanding recognition of faces

Nancy Kanwisher, the Walter A Rosenblith Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and McGovern Institute for Brain Research investigator, has been awarded the 2024 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience with Doris Tsao, professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley, and Winrich Freiwald, the Denise A. and Eugene W. Chinery Professor at the Rockefeller University.

Kanwisher, Tsao, and Freiwald discovered a specialized system within the brain to recognize faces. Their discoveries have provided basic principles of neural organization and made the starting point for further research on how the processing of visual information is integrated with other cognitive functions.

Kanwisher was the first to prove that a specific area in the human neocortex is dedicated to recognizing faces, now called the fusiform face area. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, she found individual differences in the location of this area and devised an analysis technique to effectively localize specialized functional regions in the brain. This technique is now widely used and applied to domains beyond the face recognition system. 

Integrating nanomaterials for biomedical advances

Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor, has been awarded the 2024 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience with Paul Alivisatos, president of the University of Chicago and John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Chemistry, and Chad Mirkin, professor of chemistry at Northwestern University.

Langer, Alivisatos, and Mirkin each revolutionized the field of nanomedicine by demonstrating how engineering at the nano scale can advance biomedical research and application. Their discoveries contributed foundationally to the development of therapeutics, vaccines, bioimaging, and diagnostics.

Langer was the first to develop nanoengineered materials that enabled the controlled release, or regular flow, of drug molecules. This capability has had an immense impact for the treatment of a range of diseases, such as aggressive brain cancer, prostate cancer, and schizophrenia. His work also showed that tiny particles, containing protein antigens, can be used in vaccination, and was instrumental in the development of the delivery of messenger RNA vaccines. 

Searching for life beyond Earth

Sara Seager, the Class of 1941 Professor of Planetary Sciences in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and a professor in the departments of Physics and of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has been awarded the 2024 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics along with David Charbonneau, the Fred Kavli Professor of Astrophysics at Harvard University.

Seager and Charbonneau are recognized for discoveries of exoplanets and the characterization of their atmospheres. They pioneered methods for the detection of atomic species in planetary atmospheres and the measurement of their thermal infrared emission, setting the stage for finding the molecular fingerprints of atmospheres around both giant and rocky planets. Their contributions have been key to the enormous progress seen in the last 20 years in the exploration of myriad exoplanets. 

Kanwisher, Langer, and Seager bring the number of all-time MIT faculty recipients of the Kavli Prize to eight. Prior winners include Rainer Weiss in astrophysics (2016), Alan Guth in astrophysics (2014), Mildred Dresselhaus in nanoscience (2012), Ann Graybiel in neuroscience (2012), and Jane Luu in astrophysics (2012).

[liesmyteachertoldme]

The “Big Lie” of COVID

The “Big Lie” is commonly associated with Nazi propaganda in 1930s Germany, but its use in propaganda has a far longer history to deceive entire nations. If you are going to lie, make it such a big lie that no one will believe it is a lie. This sounds counter-intuitive to the degree of being unbelievable, but it is an approach which is used because it works, especially when it is repeated so often that no-one will believe it cannot be true.

In the US Office of Strategic Services psychological profile of Adolf Hitler by Walter C. Langer, Langer wrote, summarising Adolf Hitler’s primary rules, these included:

“….. never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.”

[andylanger]

BIOGRAPHY:

Andy Langer is a journalist, moderator, emcee, television reporter and podcaster. He's a Writer At Large at Texas Monthly, where he’s written about music for the magazine since 1997. He also hosted the magazine’s National Podcast Of Texas, an interview-based podcast spotlighting Texas newsmakers, entertainers, authors, legends and rising stars, from Nolan Ryan to Brooklyn Decker, Tanya Tucker to Senator Ted Cruz, Admiral William McRaven to Dan Rather. And by way of Texas Monthly’s partnership with The New York Times, Langer was the music columnist for the paper’s “Texas Pages.” In June, Langer was named “Best Music Journalist” by Austin Chronicle readers in the paper’s annual Best Of Austin poll. It’s an honor he’s won six times.

Langer can also be heard weekday afternoons on Austin City Limits Radio (97.1 KGSR Austin), a station he helped transition from the legendary KGSR to its current brand-sharing agreement with the longest running music television show in history, PBS’ Austin City Limits. And from 2002-2016 he was a contributing editor and the music columnist at Esquire- a run that included anchoring eight special music issues, four music/fashion packages and a rare Q&A with Apple’s Steve Jobs (later documented in Walter Isaacson’s Jobs biography). For six years, Langer also hosted the magazine’s Esquire Minute for Sirius/XM. Langer’s print work has also appeared in the pages of Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Bon Appetit, Southern Living and Billboard. He also hosted the Sirius/XM music variety show, The Armadillo Radio Hour, and was as a weekly contributor to NPR's Bryant Park Project. In March of 2021, his interview with American icon Willie Nelson served as South By Southwest’s keynote address. Langer graduated from the University Of Texas at Austin’s School Of Journalism and cut his teeth at the Daily Texan. He lives in Austin.

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Mode-ontwerper Van Beirendonck is een Antwerpse Papoea

Walter van Beirendonck (1957, Brecht), wereldberoemd Belgisch mode-ontwerper, komt uit een dorp bij Antwerpen. Het cyclisch terugkerende rooms-katholieke carnaval kan in zijn jeugd dus nooit ver weg zijn geweest. Mijn eerste indruk bij het zien van Van Beirendoncks werk: een grote carnavaleske verkleedpartij. En als je wat langer kijkt, doemen ook beelden op van de schilderijen van James Ensor…

[that-bluesybitch]

psychoanalyst walter langer wrote: people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

[nokzeit]

Neues Königspaar beim SSV Dielbach

Neues Königspaar beim SSV Dielbach

Oberschützenmeister Werner Ihrig (4.v.li.) ehrt die Majestäten und den Gewinner der Ehrenscheibe. (Foto: privat) Oberdielbach. (cs) Nach langer Coronapause durften die Schützenschwestern und -brüder des SSV Dielbach wieder ihren Kameradschaftsabend im Schützenhaus in Oberdielbach feiern. Der Vorsitzende Oberschützenmeister (OSM) Werner Ihrig begrüßte besonders die Ehrenmitglieder Walter Braun…

[themarvellousmichaelbryant]

Today’s eBay find! A copy of the text of Five Finger Exercise from 1958 featuring this lovely front cover photo of Michael Bryant and Brian Bedford.

[quotesofcriminalminds]

People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.

Walter Langer

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People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.

Walter Langer (via JJ in CM 6x18 “Laren” end quote) 

[ascolta-la-voce-del-silenzio]

"La gente crede più a una grossa menzogna che a una piccola. E se viene ripetuta abbastanza spesso la gente prima o poi ci crede."

- Walter Langer