The 'Busy' Trap. Anxiety: We worry. A gallery of contributors count the ways. If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It’s become the default response when you ask anyone how they’re doing: “Busy!” “So busy.” “Crazy busy.” It’s not as if any of us wants to live like this; it’s something we collectively force one another to do.
Notice it isn’t generally people pulling back-to-back shifts in the I.C.U. or commuting by bus to three minimum-wage jobs who tell you how busy they are; what those people are is not busy but tired. Brecht Vandenbroucke Even children are busy now, scheduled down to the half-hour with classes and extracurricular activities. The present hysteria is not a necessary or inevitable condition of life; it’s something we’ve chosen, if only by our acquiescence to it. Our frantic days are really just a hedge against emptiness. I am not busy. Here I am largely unmolested by obligations. Flash mob in the Copenhagen Metro. Copenhagen Phil playing Peer Gynt.
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10 Shocking Secrets of Flight Attendants. By Heather Poole Heather Poole has worked for a major carrier for more than 15 years and is the author of Cruising Attitude: Tales of Crashpads, Crew Drama, and Crazy Passengers at 35,000 Feet. We begged Poole to reveal 10 workplace secrets. (In return, we promised to buy her something nice from SkyMall.) You know all that preflight time where we’re cramming bags into overhead bins? None of that shows up in our paychecks. Flight attendants get paid for “flight hours only.” Airlines aren’t completely heartless, though. Competition is fierce: When Delta announced 1,000 openings in 2010, it received over 100,000 applications. All that competition means that most applicants who score interviews have college degrees—I know doctors and lawyers who’ve made the career switch. But you don’t need a law degree to get your foot in the jetway door.
The 4 percent who do get a callback interview really need to weigh the pros and cons of the job. See Also: 10 Hotel Secrets from Behind the Front Desk. Josh Derock on Mill Avenue. Progeria. Progeria (pronunciation: /proʊˈdʒɪəriə/[1][2]) (Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome,[3][4] HGPS, progeria syndrome[4]) is an extremely rare genetic disorder wherein symptoms resembling aspects of aging are manifested at a very early age. Progeria is one of several progeroid syndromes. The word progeria comes from the Greek words "pro" (πρό), meaning "before" or "premature", and "gēras" (γῆρας), meaning "old age". The disorder has a very low incidence rate, occurring in an estimated 1 per 8 million live births.[5] Those born with progeria typically live to their mid teens to early twenties.[6][7] It is a genetic condition that occurs as a new mutation, and is rarely inherited, as patients usually do not live to reproduce.
Although the term progeria applies strictly speaking to all diseases characterized by premature aging symptoms, and is often used as such, it is often applied specifically in reference to Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS). Signs and symptoms[edit] Cause[edit] 5 Logical Fallacies That Make You Wrong More Than You Think. The Internet has introduced a golden age of ill-informed arguments. You can't post a video of an adorable kitten without a raging debate about pet issues spawning in the comment section. These days, everyone is a pundit. But with all those different perspectives on important issues flying around, you'd think we'd be getting smarter and more informed. Unfortunately, the very wiring of our brains ensures that all these lively debates only make us dumber and more narrow-minded.
For instance ... #5. We're Not Programmed to Seek "Truth," We're Programmed to "Win" Think about the last time you ran into a coworker or family member spouting some easily disproven conspiracy theory -- somebody who still thinks Obama's birth certificate is a fake or that Dick Cheney arranged 9/11 to cover up his theft of $2.3 trillion from the government. That has literally never happened in the history of human conversation. Getty"OK, so Dick Cheney doesn't have a third arm. The Science: You do this, too. . #4. . #3. Tips from your local black guy. Ep. 1 - Wicker Park Visitors... : chicago. Become a Google power searcher. You may already be familiar with some shortcuts for Google Search, like using the search box as a calculator or finding local movie showtimes by typing [movies] and your zip code. But there are many more tips, tricks and tactics you can use to find exactly what you’re looking for, when you most need it.
Today, we’ve opened registration for Power Searching with Google, a free, online, community-based course showcasing these techniques and how you can use them to solve everyday problems. Our course is aimed at empowering you to find what you need faster, no matter how you currently use search. For example, did you know that you can search for and read pages written in languages you’ve never even studied? Lessons will be released daily starting on July 10, 2012, and you can take them according to your own schedule during a two-week window, alongside a worldwide community. Visit the course homepage to learn more. Supporting entrepreneurship in France at Le Camping. Entrepreneurs all around the world are building technologies that empower their communities and address both local and global audiences. Last week, a team of Googlers from 10 countries gathered in Paris to spend time with entrepreneurs and startups at Le Camping, an accelerator program that’s part of Silicon Sentier, an association focused on supporting promising digital projects in the Ile de France region.
We celebrated the results of the first two seasons of the program and welcomed the new startups for season three. Le Camping’s program selects 12 new startups each season (one season lasts six months). They “camp” in what used to be the facilities of the French Stock Exchange, symbolizing the bridge between the old and the new economy. During this time, the “campers” are coached by 60 mentors, mostly entrepreneurs but also engineers. We’ve already seen great success from the program. This is just one of our efforts to support entrepreneurs in France. Using large-scale brain simulations for machine learning and A.I. You probably use machine learning technology dozens of times a day without knowing it—it’s a way of training computers on real-world data, and it enables high-quality speech recognition, practical computer vision, email spam blocking and even self-driving cars. But it’s far from perfect—you’ve probably chuckled at poorly transcribed text, a bad translation or a misidentified image.
We believe machine learning could be far more accurate, and that smarter computers could make everyday tasks much easier. So our research team has been working on some new approaches to large-scale machine learning. Today’s machine learning technology takes significant work to adapt to new uses. For example, say we’re trying to build a system that can distinguish between pictures of cars and motorcycles.
Fortunately, recent research on self-taught learning (PDF) and deep learning suggests we might be able to rely instead on unlabeled data—such as random images fetched off the web or out of YouTube videos. Launching Google +1 Recommendations Across the Web. UPDATE (7/9/12): After a few productive weeks in platform preview, we're rolling out +1 recommendations to all users today. Thanks for your feedback at Google I/O, in the discussion forums, and on our Google+ page.
We're always eager to hear from you -- so keep it coming. Working on +1, we often hear people say they want to see more of what their friends recommend. Likewise, when we talk to site owners, they ask us to help them show more relevant content to their users. Today, we are rolling out a new feature of the +1 button in platform preview: when users hover over a +1 button, they will see recommendations for other great content on your site.
For example, when I go the the Chrome Web Store and look at +1 recommendations on the Gmail app, I see related apps and recommendations from friends. To keep these recommendations more relevant and on-topic, they will always refer to pages on the same domain or subdomain as the +1 button. Join the conversation on Google+. The playground is open. (Cross-posted on the Official Android Blog) Last year at Google I/O, we talked about momentum, mobile and more. This year, we’re picking up right where we left off. More than 400 million Android devices have now been activated—up from 100 million last June. And twelve new Android devices are activated every every second—that’s more than 1 million a day.
Jelly Bean: simple, beautiful and beyond smart Jelly Bean builds on top of Ice Cream Sandwich. We’ve redesigned search from the ground up in Jelly Bean, with a new user interface and faster, more natural Voice Search. Today’s smart devices still rely on you to do pretty much everything—that is, until now. Starting in mid-July, we’ll start rolling out over-the-air updates to Galaxy Nexus, Motorola Xoom and Nexus S, and we’ll also release Jelly Bean to open source. Google Play: more entertainmentGoogle Play is your digital entertainment destination, with more than 600,000 apps and games plus music, movies and books. Chrome for Android out of Beta! +1. For our international readers, this post is also available in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish (Latin America, Spain). - Ed.
A year ago we started a small project called Google+—to bring friends and family closer together, and to inspire new connections through meaningful conversation. Today more than 250 million people have upgraded to Google+, and we want to give thanks. To you. It's your support and your voice that give the service soul, and we’re grateful. We figure the best way to show our appreciation is to keep listening and making improvements, so today we're rolling out two major updates in response to your feedback: Google+ for tablets, and Google+ Events. Google+ for tablets: putting mobile first, on lots more devices Back in May we introduced new versions of Google+ for Android and iOS phones. Of course, our tablet app isn’t just bigger, like our mobile app isn’t just smaller. Selected screenshots from today’s tablet release. Google+ Events in Google Calendar. Posted by Michelle Chen, Software Engineer Today at Google I/O, we announced Google+ Events, a new way to create, capture and share public and private events.
Google+ Events are seamlessly integrated with Google Calendar to simplify the planning process, so you’ll always know when you have something coming up. When creating a Google+ event, you can check your Google Calendar to make sure you pick the best time to party. Google+ events also sync to your mobile device's calendar, so you can have them handy when you are on the go. In week and day views in Calendar, you’ll recognize Google+ Events by the event owner's profile picture. Clicking ‘View on Google+’ takes you to the event page, where you can exchange comments with other guests, view photos, and more.
Introducing Chrome for iPhone and iPad! Android 4.1 Jelly Bean coming in July with Project Butter UI, Google Now, richer notifications. The next major upgrade to Android will be version 4.1 Jelly Bean, it has been announced at Google I/O today. Project Butter is the major new innovation in Android 4.1, focused on making the entire UI "fast, fluid and smooth. " That includes triple buffering in the graphics pipeline, to ensure consistent frame rates with interface animations. Google's I/O demo showed two Galaxy Nexus devices side by side, one running Ice Cream Sandwich and the other on Jelly Bean, with the latter offering a significantly higher frame rate when navigating the Android UI.
Google Now is a big addition from the Android team, introducing a sort of self-aware quality to Android phones — automatically updating you on your favorite sports teams in real time, learning your commute route and checking traffic, and also providing public transit information when it senses you're close to a transport station. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean emulator in pictures Previous Next View full Gallery. Live from Google I/O 2012, day one. Google I/O 2012: everything you need to know. NOISIA - Devil May Cry Soundtrack Sample. 11 Months, 3000 pictures and a lot of coffee. 11 Months, 3000 pictures and a lot of coffee. I wish I had this much patience when rebuilding engines. : videos. Terrestrial Planet Surfaces Compared to Earth's. Live from Google I/O 2012, day two. Wasted years instrument change.
Offline document editing and Drive for iOS. 17 Things We've Loved in Web Design This Year. The world of Web design is constantly evolving and endlessly growing, and that’s exactly why it’s worth taking a step by and looking at how far we’ve come. Of course, designers and developers are never going to be purely serious (as you’ll see below), and that adds to the awesomeness of the Web. Here’s a list of 20 things we’ve loved in 2012 so far, the useful, the funny and everything in-between: 1. Placekitten Let’s start this list of light, where on a naturally calm Friday, we discovered this jQuery Plugin that allows you to turn any HTML element into a kitten. According to the official GitHub page, the plugin lets you turn literally any HTML element into a kitten, this includes paragraphs, headers, tables, images, etc. . ➤ Placekitten 2. Out of all the Web design fads to emerge since the glossy days when Web 2.0 was cool, scrolling (parallax) websites have emerged as a surprisingly powerful and useful trend.
. ➤ Parallax websites with Scrollorama 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Home › Todd Walden. 7 Things I Wish I Knew Before the First Round. “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming…” – Theodore Roosevelt The first time you raise funding for your startup is like the first time you fall in love. Finally, someone has validated that cool idea of yours by giving you money.
The world is smiling. The sun is shining and there are happy unicorns on giant rainbows. You’re gonna change the world. You’re gonna be the next Mark Zuckerberg. You’re gonna be this guy. Well, sorry to break it to you, but you’re actually just getting started. So what should you do now that you’ve raised that elusive funding round? 1 – You’re in sick baby mode A startup is like a sick baby. Yes, you should most definitely take a moment to celebrate your funding.
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