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Why Jews are Good at Math | Jewish children learn very early on about numbers and their properties It’s commonly accepted that Jews do well in math and science because there’s such a strong emphasis on learning within their tradition, as well as amongst Jewish families in general. But can good study habits and parental prompting account for the incredibly disproportionate share of awards (Nobel and others) that have been garnered by Jewish mathematicians and scientists?

Why would a people making up such a small percentage (~0.25%) of the global population earn 25%, or more, of the world’s top prizes in economics, physics, mathematics and medicine? To delve a little deeper into why this might be, we will explore how the structure of the religion may play a crucial role in embedding complex social, mathematical and dimensional associations into the Jewish psyche in very subtle ways.

Modes of mathematical unity in progressive dimensions(as embodied in the Hebrew teachings) The seventh is G-d’s day of rest. Www.gingell.com - a website dedicated to anything and everything Gingell. The National Archives released the 1940 US Census to the public on 2nd April 2012, after a mandatory 72-year waiting period. We have added the names of every Gingell to the family tree. Can you help identify some of the names listed? View details website news We are forever adding new branches to the family tree. View details family trees We have documented over 400 different branches of the Gingell family tree.

View details places You can find Gingells everywhere! View details public records Find transcriptions of various public records, including England and Wales census returns, index of births and electoral roll details. view details After a 92-year waiting period to protect the privacy of those enumerated, the 1921 Census of Canada is now available to view online. view details. The Lie of The Four Hour Work Week. The promise of a four hour workweek magically righting all wrongs in your life, is a lie. Not only is it highly implausible, but if you ever do achieve a four hour work week, you’ll probably want to get rid of it. Why is the Four Hour Workweek (4HWW for short) a lie? Well, there’s two reasons.

Number one, it’s come to the attention of quite a few people that Tim Ferriss really defines “work” as something you don’t want to do. Mandatory, unpleasant, tedious, repetitive tasks that you’d rather defer or delegate to someone else. This is quite a narrow definition of work. I would be more inclined to say Tim’s definition of work is more synonymous with a chore. So that’s the first reason. Since work is seen as such a must — something we must do to pay the bills and to survive — we don’t realize that it’s not required that we see work as something other than a chore. Work is sacred. Work is giving yourself. Seeing work as just something to do to get by is like slapping yourself in the face. Podcast: The New Man - Beyond the Macho Jerk and the New Age Wimp. In Part two of our discussion with Dr. sandor Gardos, we take a deeper look into everybody's favorite topic...sex.

Unfortunately, the sex life of most men is not where it could be. We're not talking about how to pick up women here, we're talking about something deeper. What is behind our sex drive and what is our sexual energy really? Men tend to look at sexual energy as frustration, something to be fixed,,,and as soon as posible. Men train themselves at a young age to relive sexual energy as fast as possible, not cultivating and using sexual energy to invigorate our lives. Women tend to see this sexual energy differently, even using different words to describe sexual feelings. Where men talk about "sexual frustration" women speak of the same pleasurable feelings as "juicy" or "alive. " Sandor encourages us to see this energy not as something to avoid, but something we should honor as our very life essence.

Why is Viagra the best selling drug in the country? More. Teoría - Music Theory Web - Espacio dedicado a la teoría musical. Tao Te Ching Decoded. Seekasong.com - Mp3 Search & Free Mp3 Downloads. Israeli bestseller breaks national taboo  : Information Clearing House - ICH. Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history. Harmony Line | Compose Music Online Software. Covering God, Life and Progressive Culture.

Home Page - Television Tropes & Idioms. Free guitar lessons - justinguitar.com - Learn how to play Guitar free here! Does ideology trump facts? Studies say it often does. We like to think that people will be well informed before making important decisions, such as who to vote for, but the truth is that's not always the case. Being uninformed is one thing, but having a population that's actively misinformed presents problems when it comes to participating in the national debate, or the democratic process.

If the findings of some political scientists are right, attempting to correct misinformation might do nothing more than reinforce the false belief. This sort of misinformation isn't hypothetical; in 2003 a study found that viewers of Fox News were significantly more misinformed about the Iraq war, with far greater percentages of viewers erroneously believing that Iraq possessed WMDs or that there was a credible link between the 9/11 attack and Saddam Hussein than those who got their news from other outlets like NPR and PBS. This has led to the rise of websites like FactCheck and SourceWatch. These findings, if true, have worrying implications. Seed: The Shape of Music. Zaha Hadid/Swarovski Crystal Palace Collection Roughly 2,500 years ago, Pythagoras observed that objects, such as the anvils he purportedly studied, produced harmonious sounds while vibrating at frequencies in simple whole-number ratios.

More complex ratios gave rise to more dissonant sounds, which indicated that human beings were unconsciously sensitive to mathematical relationships inherent in nature. By showing that the world could be described mathematically, Pythagoras not only provided an important inspiration for physics, but he also discovered a particular affinity between mathematics and music—one that Gottfried Leibniz was to invoke centuries later when he described music as the “unknowing exercise of our mathematical faculties.” For a thousand years, Western musicians have endeavored to satisfy two fundamental constraints in their compositions. The first is that melodies should, in general, move by short distances. What You'll Wish You'd Known. January 2005 (I wrote this talk for a high school. I never actually gave it, because the school authorities vetoed the plan to invite me.) When I said I was speaking at a high school, my friends were curious.

What will you say to high school students? So I asked them, what do you wish someone had told you in high school? Their answers were remarkably similar. So I'm going to tell you what we all wish someone had told us. I'll start by telling you something you don't have to know in high school: what you want to do with your life. If I were back in high school and someone asked about my plans, I'd say that my first priority was to learn what the options were. It might seem that nothing would be easier than deciding what you like, but it turns out to be hard, partly because it's hard to get an accurate picture of most jobs. But there are other jobs you can't learn about, because no one is doing them yet.

What they really mean is, don't get demoralized. Which is an uncomfortable thought. Now. Five personality dimensions and their influence on information behaviour. Jannica Heinström Department of Social and Political Sciences/Information Studies Åbo Akademi University Tavastgatan 13 FIN-20500 Åbo Finland Abstract This article emphasize the importance of considering psychological mechanisms for a thorough understanding of users of information services. The focal point is the relation between personality and information seeking which is explored through a quantitative analysis of 305 university students' personality traits and information habits. It is shown that information behaviour could be connected to all the personality dimensions tested in the study - neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, competitiveness and conscientiousness. Introduction During the last decades we have seen a growing demand on the capacity to handle information. Information seeking has often been compared to a rational problem-solving process, where a gap in knowledge triggers a conscious search for information.

Personality Personality theories. Interactive webRadio. Quotationsdot.info - Quotations by topic, by author and quote search. Secrets of Meeting, Attracting, and Dating Women - Tips, Advice, and Free Articles. Trends in Japan | Web Japan. Internet Sacred Text Archive Home. How Thinking Goes Wrong. How Thinking Goes WrongTwenty-five Fallacies That Lead Us to Believe Weird Thingsby Michael Shermerfrom his 1997 book "Why People Believe Weird Things"(used by kind permission of the author; all rights reserved) In 1994 NBC began airing a New Age program called The Other Side that explored claims of the paranormal, various mysteries and miracles, and assorted "weird" things.

I appeared numerous times as the token skeptic -- the "other side" of The Other Side, if you will. On most talk shows, a "balanced" program is a half-dozen to a dozen believers and one lone skeptic as the voice of reason or opposition. The Other Side was no different, even though the executive producer, many of the program producers, and even the host were skeptical of most of the beliefs they were covering. Another program was on astrology. In my opinion, most believers in miracles, monsters, and mysteries are not hoaxers, flimflam artists, or lunatics. Hume's Maxim Problems in Scientific Thinking 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.