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Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 Hour Rule for deliberate practice is wrong: Genes for music, IQ, drawing ability, and other skills. Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud/Reuters A decade ago, Magnus Carlsen, who at the time was only 13 years old, created a sensation in the chess world when he defeated former world champion Anatoly Karpov at a chess tournament in Reykjavik, Iceland, and the next day played then-top-rated Garry Kasparov—who is widely regarded as the best chess player of all time—to a draw.

Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 Hour Rule for deliberate practice is wrong: Genes for music, IQ, drawing ability, and other skills.

Carlsen’s subsequent rise to chess stardom was meteoric: grandmaster status later in 2004; a share of first place in the Norwegian Chess Championship in 2006; youngest player ever to reach World No. 1 in 2010; and highest-rated player in history in 2012. What explains this sort of spectacular success? What makes someone rise to the top in music, games, sports, business, or science? This question is the subject of one of psychology’s oldest debates. Colorado teen birthrate drops 40% Women have many choices when it comes to avoiding pregnancy.

Colorado teen birthrate drops 40%

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 99% of sexually active women from 2006 to 2010 used at least one contraceptive method at some point. Here's a look at a variety of birth control methods and how they each work. An intrauterine device, or IUD, is a T-shaped flexible device that's inserted by a doctor into a woman's uterus. The devices blocks sperm and changes the lining of the uterus, which may keep a fertilized egg from attaching.

Carl Bass: I’d happily sacrifice all of Autodesk patents if the rest of software would follow. By Sarah Lacy On October 13, 2014 I don’t know if you’ve been following our sponsored monthly podcasts – er, Pandocasts– with Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk.

Carl Bass: I’d happily sacrifice all of Autodesk patents if the rest of software would follow

We’ve made fun of Oracle’s presence at Maker Faire. NSA’s “Core Secrets” suggests agents inside firms in US, abroad. The U.S.

NSA’s “Core Secrets” suggests agents inside firms in US, abroad

National Security Agency has worked with companies to weaken encryption products at the same time it infiltrated firms to gain access to sensitive systems, according to a purportedly leaked classified document outlined in an article on The Intercept. The document, allegedly leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, appears to be a highly classified summary intended for a very small group of vetted national security officials according to details included in The Intercept article, which was published this weekend.

The document outlines six programs at the core of the NSA's mission, collected under the name Sentry Eagle. The Intercept claims the document states "The facts contained in [the Sentry Eagle] program constitute a combination of the greatest number of highly sensitive facts related to NSA/CSS’s overall cryptologic mission. " ‘A Diamond is Forever’ and Other Fairy Tales: The Relationship between Wedding Expenses and Marriage Duration by Andrew M. Francis, Hugo M. Mialon. Andrew M.

‘A Diamond is Forever’ and Other Fairy Tales: The Relationship between Wedding Expenses and Marriage Duration by Andrew M. Francis, Hugo M. Mialon

Francis Emory University - Department of Economics. What monkeys and the Queen taught me about inequality. When travelling in impoverished regions in galling luxury, as I have done, you have to undergo some high-wire ethical arithmetic to legitimise your position.

What monkeys and the Queen taught me about inequality

If you can’t geographically separate yourself from poverty, then you have to do it ideologically. You have to believe inequality is OK. The Scablands: A scarred landscape as strange as fiction. EASTERN WASHINGTON—Traveling from the verdant, mossy coastal belt of the Pacific Northwest, one could be forgiven for feeling that the defining characteristic of Eastern Washington is its dryness.

The Scablands: A scarred landscape as strange as fiction

It's a land seemingly starved of rain in the shadow of the Cascade Mountains. But the dry landscape known as the “Scablands” actually tells a story about excess—excess of water, water that was torrential and sudden. The Scablands are essentially wounds, still unhealed by time and erosion. Tesla’s latest earth-shattering, life-changing, epoch-defining announcement is coming. Here’s what to look for. “D” probably stands for driverless.

Tesla’s latest earth-shattering, life-changing, epoch-defining announcement is coming. Here’s what to look for

Or dual-motor. “Something else” could be either of those—or actually something else completely. Nobody knows for sure, but all will be revealed in a few hours. Bionic arm restores sense of feeling. 8 October 2014Last updated at 21:56 ET By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website Igor Spetic and his new prosthetic hand Advances in bionic hands have restored a sense of touch to two patients for more than a year, report US scientists.

Bionic arm restores sense of feeling

The men can now delicately pluck the stalks out of cherries. History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places. FracFocus Chemical Disclosure Registry. Kids.gov: The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal for Kids. Chicago from high above. UOdiR5u.jpg (JPEG Image, 1002 × 670 pixels) Alibaba Could Buy Yahoo for Free.

Here is a dumb trade: Alibaba acquires Yahoo for a mix of cash and stock.

Alibaba Could Buy Yahoo for Free

Specifically, 0.39 Alibaba shares and $7.25 in cash per Yahoo share. By my math, that's worth about $42 per Yahoo share, about an 8 percent premium to the current price. That's it. Common “Debt Traps” That Keep You Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck. Paper Towels vs. Hand Dryers (and Which is Actually More Hygienic) Carbon map – which countries are responsible for climate change? How our botched understanding of 'science' ruins everything. cNLoTtd.gif (GIF Image, 499 × 352 pixels) 5850032167_51b0436772_o.jpg (JPEG Image, 2000 × 1330 pixels) - Scaled (51%)

Out in the Open: The Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job. Wanna be a programmer? That shouldn’t be too hard. You can sign-up for an iterative online tutorial at a site like Codecademy or Treehouse. Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation. This Man Has 100 Orgasms A Day. Beyond Angkor: How lasers revealed a lost city. Deep in the Cambodian jungle lie the remains of a vast medieval city, which was hidden for centuries.

New archaeological techniques are now revealing its secrets - including an elaborate network of temples and boulevards, and sophisticated engineering. In April 1858 a young French explorer, Henri Mouhot, sailed from London to south-east Asia. Meet the man who built the awesome online attendance system for India’s government officials. Ram Sewak Sharma is a silver-haired, straight-talking bureaucrat who spent much of the last five years working out of an office near New Delhi’s Connaught Place. Next door to him sat Nandan Nilekani, the former Infosys CEO. Together, the two men built the world’s largest biometric identification programme, Aadhaar. Nilekani was chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) till he left to join politics, while Sharma served as director general and mission director. Now, 59-year old Sharma is building an attendance system for India’s central government employees that is inexpensive, publicly available on the internet—and potentially, a simple tool that could revolutionise governance in the country.

Judith Meyer's answer to Are Germans proud to be German? Marc Hoag's answer to Why doesn't the U.S. have freeways, like the German Autobahn, with no general speed limit? Antikythera wreck yields new treasures. PlexiDrone - Control a Swarm & Capture Stunning Aerial Film! CsYpxzU. Jackie Chan sharing about his first experience working with Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon. 10 Most Reliable Ways to Fund a Startup. One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” I always answer that there isn’t any magic, and contrary to popular myth, nobody is waiting in the wings to throw money at you just because you have a new and exciting business idea.

On the other hand, there are many additional creative options available for starting a business that you might not find when buying a car, home or other major consumer item. If you have the urge to be an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think seriously about each of these, before you zero in on one or two, and get totally discouraged if those don’t work for you. Related: Entrepreneurship Is a High-Stakes Game. Know Your Odds Going In. U.S. Stocks Rally After Fed Minutes - WSJ. The Voice of a Generation. Don't like trucks? Online.wsj. The Underground Secret Battlestation Workspace. Justices Will Decide Whether Workers Must Endure Unpaid Inconvenience. Employees pack copies of the new book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for shipment in July 2007 at an Amazon fulfillment center in Fernley, Nev. Workers at the center filed a suit in 2013, seeking compensation for time spent in a mandatory security line after their shifts. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption. Newyorker.

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Walter Mischel, The Marshallow Test, and Self-Control. QpZ2TZb. Drop in jobless claims points to labor market strength. How a massive avalanche changed B.C.’s backcountry culture — and shattered one guide’s life. Lyft Office Tour - Business Insider. A Troubled American Moment. 5kbRzGY. How A One-Word Email To 29,000 UCL Students Led To The Funniest Reply-All Thread Ever.

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Facebook’s dual-minded approach to identity shows the risk of trying to be all things to all people. To Raise, Love, and Lose a Black Child. Quartz coins “the Venmo Line”: Reminding us that the under-30 crowd lives in a totally different digital world. The Lies of Adolf Eichmann.