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30 Best Quotes in Pictures of the Week – May 05th to May 12th. 1. ”Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour…..” – Albert Einstein 2. ”When you can’t smoke” – Rory Sutherland 3. ”Death does not concern us…” – Epicurus 4. ”I think it’s better to have ideas.” – Chris Rock 5. ”You gotta be able to smile…”

30 Best Quotes in Pictures of the Week – May 05th to May 12th

There Will Never Be a Cure for Cancer. Us vs.

There Will Never Be a Cure for Cancer

Cancer By Alex Daley and Doug Hornig That sounds like a pretty gloomy forecast, doesn't it? It isn't, though, not really. Because the key word in that sentence is "a. " In common parlance, "cancer" is understood as any kind of abnormal cell proliferation over which the body fails to exert control. Thus, when fighting cancer at the biological level, you have to treat nearly every cancer differently… and very carefully. Mayer-Bernadette_Experiments. How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method. 201 Ways to Arouse Your Creativity. Arouse your creativity Electric flesh-arrows … traversing the body.

201 Ways to Arouse Your Creativity

Western Philosophy. Help us to Transcribe Papyri. The Cult of Minecraft: Chain World. By Alec Meer on March 15th, 2011 at 5:32 pm.

The Cult of Minecraft: Chain World

You could play Minecraft right now, very, very easily. What you couldn’t play at all easily is a very special – unique, even – version of Minecraft known as Chain World. A game you could, even if you had the chance, play only once. A game only a very few people will ever play, and a game no-one who hasn’t played it will ever be told the details of. Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a Religion—Not a Holy War. The USB memory stick contained the sole copy of a videogame unlike any created before.

Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a Religion—Not a Holy War

Photo: Jason Pietra Jason Rohrer is known as much for his eccentric lifestyle as for the brilliant, unusual games he designs. He lives mostly off the grid in the desert town of Las Cruces, New Mexico. He doesn’t own a car or believe in vaccination. The 33-year-old works out of a home office, typing code in a duct-taped chair.

On the morning of February 24, Rohrer took a break from coding and pedaled to the local Best Buy. The stick would soon hold a videogame unlike any other ever created. Rohrer unveiled Chain World at the 2011 Game Design Challenge, held on March 4 at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The challenge is the one place where people from the two sides of the industry meet every year to battle as equals. Challenge organizer Zimmerman decided that this year’s theme would be Bigger Than Jesus: games as religion. Wikipedia.

The Limits of Understanding. This statement is false. Think about it, and it makes your head hurt. Gene-centered view of evolution. The gene-centered view of evolution, gene selection theory, or selfish gene theory holds that adaptive evolution occurs through the differential survival of competing genes, increasing the frequency of those alleles whose phenotypic effects successfully promote their own propagation, with gene defined as "not just one single physical bit of DNA [but] all replicas of a particular bit of DNA distributed throughout the world".[1] The proponents of this viewpoint argue that, since heritable information is passed from generation to generation almost exclusively by genetic material, natural selection and evolution are best considered from the perspective of genes.

This is in contrast to the organism-centered viewpoint adopted historically by biologists. Proponents of the gene-centered viewpoint argue that it permits understanding of diverse phenomena such as altruism and intragenomic conflict that are otherwise difficult to explain from an organism-focused perspective. Overview[edit] 5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness. Much of the brain is still mysterious to modern science, possibly because modern science itself is using brains to analyze it.

5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness

There are probably secrets the brain simply doesn't want us to know. But by no means should that stop us from tinkering around in there, using somewhat questionable and possibly dangerous techniques to make our brains do what we want. We can't vouch for any of these, either their effectiveness or safety. All we can say is that they sound awesome, since apparently you can make your brain... #5. How to Make Hair Bows out of Gum Wrappers: 6 steps (with video) The Ultimate Learn And Resource Center.

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How to Use the Rule of 72. Edit Article Exponential growthEstimating exponential decayDoubling Time Chart Edited by DifuWu, Garshepp, Flickety, Daniel and 10 others The rule of 72 is a handy rule used in finance to estimate quickly the number of years it takes to double a sum of capital given an annual interest rate, or to estimate the annual interest rate it takes to double a sum of money over a given number of years.

How to Use the Rule of 72

The rule states that interest percentage times the number of years it takes to double a principal amount of money is approximately equal to 72. The Rule of 72 is applicable in exponential growth (as in compound interest) or in exponential decay. Ad Steps Method 1 of 2: Exponential growth. The History of Sexuality. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Portrait of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (/ˈpjɔːtər ɪˈliɪtʃ tʃɪˈkɒfski/; Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский;[a 1] tr.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Chaykovsky; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893),[a 2] often anglicised as Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky /ˈpiːtər .../, was a Russian composer whose works included symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets, chamber music, and a choral setting of the Russian Orthodox Divine Liturgy. Some of these are among the most popular theatrical music in the classical repertoire. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally, which he bolstered with appearances as a guest conductor later in his career in Europe and the United States. One of these appearances was at the inaugural concert of Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1891. While his music has remained popular among audiences, critical opinions were initially mixed. Life[edit] Childhood[edit] The Night of Enitharmon's Joy. "She is triple, according to mythology: a girl and a boy hide their heads behind her back.

The Night of Enitharmon's Joy

Her left hand lies on a book of magic; her left foot is extended. She is attended by a thistle-eating ass, the mournful owl of false wisdom, the head of a crocodile (blood-thirsty hypocrisy), and a cat-headed bat. How to Tie a Boom Hitch: 5 steps (with video) The Science of Word Recognition. About fonts > ClearType The Science of Word Recognition or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bouma Kevin LarsonAdvanced Reading Technology, Microsoft CorporationJuly 2004 Introduction Evidence from the last 20 years of work in cognitive psychology indicate that we use the letters within a word to recognize a word.

This paper is written from the perspective of a reading psychologist. The goal of this paper is to review the history of why psychologists moved from a word shape model of word recognition to a letter recognition model, and to help others to come to the same conclusion. I will start by describing three major categories of word recognition models: the word shape model, and serial and parallel models of letter recognition. Model #1: Word Shape The word recognition model that says words are recognized as complete units is the oldest model in the psychological literature, and is likely much older than the psychological literature. Brain read. Grand Unified Theory. A Grand Unified Theory (GUT) is a model in particle physics in which at high energy, the three gauge interactions of the Standard Model which define the electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions, are merged into one single interaction characterized by one larger gauge symmetry and thus one unified coupling constant.

Nikola Tesla. Cum au îngropat elitele României manelele. O poveste cu cocalari. Nu o să mă pierd în consideraţii teoretice (ce sunt, de unde vin manelele etc), ci o să intru ceva mai abrupt în subiect, vorbind direct despre specificul lor tematic. In raport cu muzica lăutărească, (proto)manelele istorice sau etnopop-ul de la sfârşitul comunismului , diferenţa specifică a genului e circumscrisă de valoarea lui de folclor al tranziţiei.