The Odd (And Effective) Routines of Famous Minds like Beethoven, Maya Angelou, and Francis Bacon. Cyber Sherlocks face new Cicada mystery. After a 12-month hiatus, Cicada 3301 - a complex collection of anonymously set puzzles, without apparent purpose, that have nevertheless held thousands of amateur web sleuths rapt - has made a reappearance.
The first set of puzzles, identified by images of the insect, appeared on January 5 2012. A message left anonymously on the notorious website 4Chan simply read: "We are looking for highly intelligent individuals. Inside the Brain: A Journey Through Time. 1st Fully Bionic Man Walks, Talks and Breathes. He walks, he talks and he has a beating heart, but he's not human — he's the world's first fully bionic man.
Like Frankenstein's monster, cobbled together from a hodgepodge of body parts, the bionic man is an amalgam of the most advanced human prostheses — from robotic limbs to artificial organs to a blood-pumping circulatory system. The creature "comes to life" in "The Incredible Bionic Man," premiering Sunday (Oct. 20) on the Smithsonian Channel at 9 p.m. EDT/8 p.m. CDT. [Watch Video of the Bionic Man] Million-dollar man Roboticists Rich Walker and Matthew Godden of Shadow Robot Co. in England led the assembly of the bionic man from prosthetic body parts and artificial organs donated by laboratories around the world. "Our job was to take the delivery of a large collection of body parts — organs, limbs, eyes, heads — and over a frantic six weeks, turn those parts into a bionic man," Walker told LiveScience during an interview.
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Though condoms and male circumcision work to prevent HIV, about 1000 South Africans are still infected every day, said Papathanasopoulos. You Are What You Read: 14 Thought Leaders Share Their Bookshelves. Photo: Ozyman The following is a guest post by Shane Snow, a frequent contributor to Wired and Fast Company.
It includes photographs of some fun bookshelves, including yours truly (Tim Ferriss). CLICK ALL IMAGES TO ENLARGE. Enter Shane. The_dimka: codex seraphinianus. In the late 70s italian architect, illustrator and industrial designer luigi serafini made a book, an encyclopedia of unknown, parallel world. it’s about 360-380 pages. it is written in an unknown language, using an unknown alphabet. it took him 30 month to complete that masterpiece that many might call “the strangest book on earth”. codex seraphinianus is divided to 11 chapters and two parts - first one is about nature and the second one is about people.btw five hundred years ago there was another book somewhat like that - voynich manuscript. take a look at some pages (click on image to see a bigger version)
Facebook Study On Language And Personality. A group of University of Pennsylvania researchers who analyzed Facebook status updates of 75,000 volunteers have found an entirely different way to analyze human personality, according to a new study published in PLOS One.
The volunteers completed a common personality questionnaire through a Facebook application and made their Facebook status updates available so that researchers could find linguistic patterns in their posts. Drawing from more than 700 million words, phrases, and topics, the researchers built computer models that predicted the individuals’ age, gender, and their responses on the personality questionnaires with surprising accuracy. Every Second on the Internet. Smart Questions That Will Super Charge Your Life.
One of the most effective ways to achieve success is to ask yourself the right questions. When we ask ourselves a question, we always come up with an answer. Ask yourself “Why does this always happen to me,” and you’ll get an answer. Wait but why: Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy. Say hi to Lucy.
6 Successors to the Elevator Pitch. Five whale carcasses wash up in Ghana, investigation to be launched. Speculation has circulated widely in local media that Ghana's offshore oil installations are to blame, but an environment group and Ghana's Fisheries Commission said there was no available evidence to support such theories.
The fisheries commission is "sending a team to investigate what is going on because it's not normal", Emmanuel Ohene Marfo, a regional officer with the commission, told AFP. He confirmed that five whale carcasses had been spotted on various beaches since Friday. The Friends of the Nation environmental group said in a statement that 16 whales had died in Ghanaian waters since 2009, an unprecedented amount, and called for a formal investigation.
Ghana began oil production off its western coast in December of 2010, but Friends of the Nation Executive Director Donkris Movuta said the timing could be just a coincidence. Why Education is a Powerful Content Marketing Strategy: 17 Examples. I just finished reading this Richard Branson post about following your passions in life. In it, he restates this magnificent quote from Nelson Mandela: Trends every South African HR professional needs to know about in 2013. At the end of January, Knowledge Resources held a Seminar focusing on the HR and Labour Market Trends for 2013.
I’ve summarized some of the most important points raised at the conference and I know you will find them beneficial… South Africa’s Socio-Political EnvironmentPresentation by Justice Malala, Political Analyst. Social evolution: The ritual animal. Lifeispixels/Getty Images Members of large, stable groups such as religions, tribes and nations typically reinforce their commitment with routine rituals such as Buddhist prayers in Thailand.
By July 2011, when Brian McQuinn made the 18-hour boat trip from Malta to the Libyan port of Misrata, the bloody uprising against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi had already been under way for five months. How to Handle Tears at Work - Video. Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology.
Read the Full Text (PDF, HTML) Some students seem to breeze through their school years, whereas others struggle, putting them at risk for getting lost in our educational system and not reaching their full potential. Parents and teachers want to help students succeed, but there is little guidance on which learning techniques are the most effective for improving educational outcomes. This leads students to implement studying strategies that are often ineffective, resulting in minimal gains in performance. What then are the best strategies to help struggling students learn? Fortunately for students, parents, and teachers, psychological scientists have developed and evaluated the effectiveness of a wide range of learning techniques meant to enhance academic performance. Can You Learn Everything “On The Job”? Earlier this month, officials from the University of Wisconsin announced the school’s plans for a “flexible degree” program, which would allow students to enroll when it suits them, study online at their own pace — and gain academic credit for knowledge they’ve acquired outside the classroom.
Implicit Learning: Researchers Uncover How to Learn Without Trying. It’s rare that a computer science lab brings us a scenario worthy of a spy novel, but that’s what happened earlier this month when Hristo Bojinov, a researcher at Stanford University, divulged his latest project. Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques.
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