Welcome to Sulia. Global News: Appstore for Android. Popurls | the genuine news aggregator for the latest web buzz. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. Technology | Top Tips News. All the programs. In The News. Conscious Life News. Conscious Life News. BBC - Homepage. Richard Gorman Explains Globalization’s Impact on Business. The impact of globalization on the business world is incalculable, and much of this impact can be directly linked to the advent of the Internet, said Richard Gorman, a successful Internet entrepreneur. The World Wide Web has made it easier and easier for companies to make smooth transitions into global markets.
For business leaders that know how to harness its power, globalization can mean the difference between stasis and dynamic international success. “The advent of the Internet has made the world flat,” Richard Gorman said. “Through social media and online technologies, countries can easily interact with one another and work in other markets. Harnessing Globalization While the Internet makes it easy for businesses to expand their reach internationally, it does not necessarily deliver new, global customers directly to a business’ front door.
“Try a small experiment this year,” Pofeldt wrote. Using Globalization Advantageously Richard Gorman agreed with the Elaine Pofeldt’s assessment. 5 Things You Should Know About Putin's Incursion Into Crimea. Information for the World's Business Leaders - Forbes.com. World Observer Online — Independent World News on topics including Business and Finance, Health and Lifestyle, Society and Culture and Sport. The Mammoth Cometh. Photo The first time Ben Novak saw a passenger pigeon, he fell to his knees and remained in that position, speechless, for 20 minutes. He was 16. At 13, Novak vowed to devote his life to resurrecting extinct animals. At 14, he saw a photograph of a passenger pigeon in an Audubon Society book and “fell in love.”
Continue reading the main story In the decade since, Novak has visited 339 passenger pigeons — at the Burke Museum in Seattle, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, the American Museum of Natural History in New York and Harvard’s Ornithology Department, which has 145 specimens, including eight pigeon corpses preserved in jars of ethanol, 31 eggs and a partly albino pigeon. The fact that we can pinpoint the death of the last known passenger pigeon is one of many peculiarities that distinguish the species. The species’ incredible abundance was an enticement to mass slaughter. Continue reading the main story Brand became obsessed with the idea.
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Rezistența la schimbare “Animalul din noi” este cel care declanșează atacurile de anxietate atât de frecvente în epoca modernă, deși nu trăim sub amenințarea foamei și cu atât mai puțin a fiarelor sălbatice care ne-ar putea sfâșia. Neuroplasticitatea, calea evoluției personale Dacă vrei, poți! Foto: Bigthink.com. Bloomberg - Business, Financial & Economic News, Stock Quotes. News - Latest Canada, World, Entertainment and Business News.
Kids with seizures use pot as treatment. By NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The doctors were out of ideas to help 5-year-old Charlotte Figi. Suffering from a rare genetic disorder, she had as many as 300 grand mal seizures a week, used a wheelchair, went into repeated cardiac arrest and could barely speak. As a last resort, her mother began calling medical marijuana shops. Two years later, Charlotte is largely seizure-free and able to walk, talk and feed herself after taking oil infused with a special pot strain. Her recovery has inspired both a name for the strain of marijuana she takes that is bred not to make users high — Charlotte's Web — and an influx of families with seizure-stricken children to Colorado from states that ban the drug. [READ: Marijuana Legalization Increasingly Popular in Colorado, But Smoking Pot Isn't] Doctors warn there is no proof that Charlotte's Web is effective, or even safe.
"We don't have any peer-reviewed, published literature to support it," Dr. NationofChange | Progressive Journalism for Positive Action. Businessweek - Business News, Stock market & Financial Advice. World news video | euronews the latest world news online | breaking world news video. 'Tenth planet' is bigger than Pluto - space. Daily Globe » Breaking News And Viral Stories. DT | Technology News, Product Reviews and More | Digital Trends. Jade Rabbit rover 'declared dead' 13 February 2014Last updated at 01:16 ET The Jade Rabbit lunar rover landed on the moon on 15 December China's first lunar rover could potentially be saved, despite experiencing mechanical problems, state media report.
The moon rover had "awoken" from its scheduled dormancy and "stands a chance of being saved", a spokesperson quoted by news agency Xinhua said. The Jade Rabbit suffered a serious mechanical problem in January. Its deployment on 15 December was the first successful landing on the Moon since 1976. The lunar rover was expected to operate for about three months. 'Sticky lunar dust' Earlier reports in Chinese media had suggested that Jade Rabbit, or Yutu in Chinese, had been declared dead on the surface of the moon.
In a report entitled "loss of lunar rover", the China News Service said that the rover "could not be restored to full function on Monday as expected" and was "mourned" by Chinese social media users. The Jade Rabbit rover took a photo of China's Chang'e-3 probe on the moon. S.C. creationist lawmaker blocks school evolution standards ‘to teach both sides' By David EdwardsWednesday, February 12, 2014 10:31 EDT South Carolina state Sen. Mike Fair (R) said this week that he insisted that the state’s Education Oversight Committee not approve new standards for teaching evolution to give students a chance to “draw their own conclusions” about creationism. On Monday, the committee adopted new science standards, but a clause with the phrase “natural selection” was left out after Fair argued students should be learning other theories, The Post and Courier reported.
“Biological evolution occurs primarily when natural selection acts on the genetic variation in a population and changes the distribution of traits in that population over multiple generations,” the proposed South Carolina Academic Standards and Performance Indicators for Science would have said. “Natural selection is a direct reference to Darwinism,” Fair insisted. According to The Post and Courier, Fair said schools should “teach the controversy.” (h/t: Friendly Atheist) David Edwards. Guy builds a *real* space cannon to (cheaply) send satellites into orbit... from his backyard. Sending objects into space doesn’t always have to be an expensive and complex task conducted exclusively by filthy rich entrepreneurs or governments. Sometimes all you need is a determined Canadian engineer, a backyard, and a Kickstarter campaign – at least that’s what Richard Graf is hoping.
Graf built a huge, powerful “gun” in his backyard that’s capable of shooting small payloads on a suborbital trajectory. Now he’s trying to use crowdfunding to make the project a reality, which is a smart move considering that the Internet generally enjoys funding ridiculously cool projects like this. The gun, dubbed the Starfire Space Cannon, has a 45-foot barrel that will shoot small objects off the planet via a dart-shaped bullet. The ultimate goal is for the cannon to cheaply send small objects like tiny ‘cubesat’ satellites into orbit. While far less expensive than hitching a ride on SpaceX’s Grasshopper, the Starfire Space Cannon project will still cost some money. h/t to Hack a Day. The Most Badass Pop Culture Lego Sets You Won't Find in Stores. Breaking Bad's super meth lab. (Expand the gallery to fullscreen for the full experience.) s via Citizen Brick You can't tell say that Breaking Bad isn't perfect for a Lego playset: It's got a self-contained environment, distinctive (and easily simplifiable) characters, and a lot of cool scientific equipment and gadgets that seem custom made for Lego.
Luckily, Citizen Brick has made this awesome custom Superlab playset, complete with carefully non-trademarked epithets. Unfortunately, it's a) $500 and b) sold out. But yet, somewhere out there, tiny plastic men are hard at work cooking their tiny plastic meth. A police call box. Chris McVeigh Normally Chris McVeigh's Lego fun involves playing with individual characters and props (the things he does with Stormtroopers are pretty stellar).
The cast of Mad Men. Adam Cadwell The Normandy SR2 from Mass Effect 2. Ben Caulkins When it comes to ship builds, Ben Caulkins is a master. Modular testing chamber from Portal 2. via Lego Cuusoo Dr. Imagine Rigney. Bill Nye Ken Ham Debate Summed Up In Two Very Telling Answers. Amid Epic Drought, South America's Largest City Is Running Out Of Water. By Emily Atkin "Amid Epic Drought, South America’s Largest City Is Running Out Of Water" In this May 9, 2009 photo, farmer Nelci de Fatima Goncalves pulls a cow across a cracked field caused by a drought in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. CREDIT: AP Photo/Vagner Guarezi If it doesn’t rain in Sao Paulo, Brazil in the next 45 days, the system that provides half the city’s drinking water will run dry. Sao Paulo is South America’s largest city, and is currently experiencing its worst drought in 50 years.
But as the drought has dragged on, the executive secretary of non-profit water association Consorcio PCJ told Bloomberg News on Tuesday that Sao Paulo’s largest water system — the Cantareira — is currently at less than a quarter of capacity. If it doesn’t rain before late March, all of the system’s water will be dried up. “I would have already shut off the tap” to consumers on a controlled basis, PCJ Consortium project manager Jose Cezar Saad told Reuters. Fiery black hole debate creates cosmological Wild West - space - 05 February 2014. Bids to solve the black hole firewall paradox are producing a free-for-all in theoretical physics – cue time reversal, walls of ice and bouncing stars TAKE what you know about black holes and throw it out. Last week famed physicist Stephen Hawking caused an uproar with his assertion that black holes do not exist – at least not as we've defined them for the past 40 years.
Rather than letting nothing, not even light, escape their grasp, Hawking says that this "point of no return" is a fallacy, and black holes will sometimes let trapped light back out. His idea is a proposed solution to the firewall paradox. The paradox has it that if black holes are as we think, they must be surrounded by rings of fire, though that would violate general relativity. Hawking's notion does away with a key part of a black hole – its event horizon. The pillars of theoretical physics – quantum mechanics and general relativity – are in a stand-off. The firewall paradox Bouncing star Stringy fuzzball Time machine. Star Wars planets migrate into position around stellar pairs. The giant planet Kepler-34b orbits round two stars. Now that’s just greedy. Image: David A. Aguilar Planetary science is beginning to catch up with science fiction. Since the launch of the Kepler space telescope in 2009, a deluge of planets outside of our solar system has been found, with many oddball, exotic worlds among them.
One of Kepler’s most exciting discoveries was proving the existence of circumbinary planets: planets that orbit two stars, which are themselves bound together by gravity in an often-tight orbital dance. Luke Skywalker’s home planet of Tatooine – invented by George Lucas' for the Star Wars series – was envisioned to exist in this kind of binary system. In the beginning Planetary scientists are in general agreement that planets form inside a thin, gaseous disk surrounding nascent stars. Giant planet accumulating its atmosphere. Further out from the central star, water and other compounds “freeze out” and become part of the solid component.
Double trouble. You are Here! Curiosity's 1st Photo of Home Planet Earth from Mars. (Before It's News) You are here! As an Evening Star in the Martian Sky This evening-sky view taken by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity shows the Earth and Earth’s moon as seen on Jan. 31, 2014, or Sol 529 shortly after sunset at the Dingo Gap. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMU 18 months into her mission to discover a habitable zone on the Red Planet, NASA’s Curiosity rover has at last looked back to the inhabited zone of all humanity and snapped the 1st image of all 7 Billion Earthlings on the Home Planet.
“Look Back in Wonder… My first picture of Earth from the surface of Mars,” tweeted Curiosity. You are there! © Ken Kremer for Universe Today, 2014. Post tags: Curiosity Rover, Dingo Gap, Earth, Gale crater, habitable zone, Mars, Mars Rovers, Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity Rover, Moon, Search for Life, You are there Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh. Europe's 12 most impressive metro stations.
One of Naples' co-called Metro Art Stations, this 2012 stop was designed around themes of water and light. Enormous dome lights, bathing the platforms in haunting blue, red and yellow shades, make this otherwise ordinary little station roar. Shall we dance? Looking more like a ballroom than a metro station, this baroque-style stop was inspired by a wartime speech of Stalin's. A welcome leftover from Lisbon's 1998 world expo, which celebrated 500 years of Portuguese inventions. London Underground might be the world's oldest metro but this station has to be one of the most futuristic-looking. The austere design opened days before the new millennium. Stockholm's central station gets stranger the further you descend, until you reach the cave-like platform level, with its abstract floral designs.
Like a reminder of the things whizzing around beneath your feet, Zbigniew Peter Pininski's design suggests a subway car that went off the rails. It's hard to stand out in a city as beautiful as Paris. 1. Mashable.