er·go·nom·ics

er·go·nom·ics

: a science that deals with designing and arranging things so that people can use them easily and safely

: the parts or qualities of something's design that make it easy to use

Source :- Merriam Webster 

Not in the plan - Crimean tatars

The Tatars — a Muslim group that was deported en masse from Crimea by Stalin in 1944 and that for decades has waged a peaceful struggle for the right to return — have been coming back in droves since 1989.  Crimean Tatars account for 12.1 percent of the Crimean population of 2,033,700. They represent a highly mobilized and unified constituency that has consistently been pro-Ukrainian and opposed to pro-Russian separatism on the peninsula. Going back to the 1991 independence referendum, the narrow vote in favor of Ukrainian state independence in Crimea may have been thanks to the vote of the Crimean Tatars.  

Secession from Ukraine

Editorial Cartoons - Needle in a haystack

ScienceCasts: Genius Materials on the ISS

Real Challenge - find the horse !

Orwellian Doublespeak ( 1984)

A concept created by George Orwell , can be seen to be analogous to Doublethink and Newspeak .
Using doublethink , a person can hold 2 opposing ideas  and fully believing in both the  ideas . Newspeak is then the offical language used to express the ideas in  doublethink.  Doublespeak , therefore , can be described as evasive ,  ambigous  language intended to deceive or confuse . It possesses the following specific attributes

• misleads
• distorts reality
• pretends to communicate
• makes the bad seem good
• avoids or shifts responsibility
• makes the negative appear positive
• limits, conceals, corrupts, and prevents thought
• makes the unpleasant appear attractive or tolerable
• creates incongruity between reality and what is said or not said

Some examples of doublespeak 

• senior citizen ( old)
• Constructive severence ( laid off ; fired )
• negative patient care outcome ( patient died)
• mental activity at the margin ( insanity)
• non-performing assets ( bad loans , debts )
• pre-owned car  ( used car )
• Industrial action ( strike )
• enhanced interrogation ( torture)
• premptive strike  ( unprovoked attack )
• person of interest ( suspects in a crime)
• take down ( kill )
• ethnic cleansing  ( genocide)
• substance abuse  ( drug addiction ) 
• curvy ( fat )