Just How Risky Is Entrepreneurship, Really? Posted on Harvard Business Review: January 30, 2012 8:40 AM There are two views on entrepreneurship in America: the first (largely feigned), that it is a pure virtue like freedom of speech or religion, and the second (real) attitude that it is largely a game for the naïve.
Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Michael Dell make fine fodder for commencement speeches, but when parents and career counselors thrust graduates into the job market, the default isn’t entrepreneurship, it’s corporate serfdom. Study proves plausibility of new pathway to lifes chemical building blocks. For decades, chemists considered a chemical pathway known as the formose reaction the only route for producing sugars essential for life to begin, but more recent research has called into question the plausibility of such thinking.
Now a group from The Scripps Research Institute has proven an alternative pathway to those sugars called the glyoxylate scenario, which may push the field of pre-life chemistry past the formose reaction hurdle. The team is reporting the results of their highly successful experiments online ahead of print in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Design Lessons From India's Poorest Neighborhoods. "Jugaad" is a Hindi term referring to the ingenuity of citizens living in resource-constrained environments, a concept from which New Yorkers might derive some enlightenment.
Enter Jugaad Urbanism: Resourceful Strategies for Indian Cities, an exhibition created with the help of curator Kanu Agrawal that opens at New York's Center for Architecture next week. The exhibition is "design by the people, for the people, of Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and Pune," says Agrawal, and showcases everyday innovations of slum-dwelling residents and the designers and architects who work around them. Agrawal, a Delhi native, studied at New Delhi's School of Planning and Architecture and worked with the acclaimed Achyut P. Kanvinde, and later completed his Master's in Environmental Design from the Yale School of Architecture. Kanvinde was one of the first to bring modern design to India.
Since New York shows draw a global audience, Agrawal expects the exhibition to resonate with diverse groups. Nightmare Vagina Trend: Luxury Merkins Made of Fur. How to See Yourself As Others See You. Edit Article Edited by bbyrd009, IngeborgK, Teresa, Flickety and 18 others It is common, and commendable, to be curious about how others see you in general, or in specific situations.
The more insight you have in this area, the less time you are apt to lie awake at night, wondering. And even when you may have acted differently in a specific situation, upon review, this insight generally provides the best answer for moving forward. It is quite possible to see yourself exactly as other people see you; however, this takes courage, and the development of some insight.
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. " Ad Steps 1Understand that other people are your mirror. 6Continue seeing yourself as others see you throughout life. Tips. New Study: Smart People More Likely to Use Drugs. I have a feeling they won’t be mentioning this in DARE class.
A new British study finds children with high IQs are more likely to use drugs as adults than people who score low on IQ tests as children. The data come from the 1970 British Cohort Study, which has been following thousands of people over decades. The kids' IQs were tested at the ages of 5, 10 and 16. The study also asked about drug use and looked at education and other socioeconomic factors. Then when participants turned 30, they were asked whether they had used drugs such as marijuana, cocaine and heroin in the past year.Researchers discovered men with high childhood IQs were up to two times more likely to use illegal drugs than their lower-scoring counterparts. Artificial pancreas could be holy grail for Type 1 diabetics. A trial patient for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's Artificial Pancreas Project tests the device.
With Type 1 diabetics, the pancreas makes very little or no insulinArtificial pancreas mimics the glucose regulating function of a healthy pancreasDevice has not yet been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Once Upon a Crime Mystery Bookstore: Uptown's cozy little corner of murder, lies, and espionage. November 23, 2011. What makes you dizzy when you spin?"
The 5 Greatest Things Ever Accomplished While High. Cracked.com's new book is now on sale.
What follows is one of the classic articles that appear in the book, along with 18 new articles that you can't read anywhere else. Any dreadlocked white guys finding this article after Googling "Drugs Rule" should know that we've given this list about drugs a rule. To make the cut, an accomplishment has to be considered great by people who could pass a field sobriety test.
So no Grateful Dead music. We're sure someone somewhere has enjoyed the Dead perfectly sober, just as there are probably non-Christians who listen to Christian Rock. In fact, because we're masochists, we gave ourselves a strict no music policy, leaving us with ... well, not a whole lot actually. Francis Crick Discovers DNA Thanks to LSD The Accomplishment: For the few Cracked readers not versed in the history of human genetics, Francis Crick is the closest that field gets to a rock star, which is pretty fucking close as it turns out.
Above: Science? The Drug: LSD. Drugs? Cocaine.