Pulse - Pulse - androidcentral. Loc: Woody Ln, Ixonia, WI 53036(N8192 Woody Ln) - Google Maps. Dolphins' 'sixth sense' detects electric fields - Science. The common Guiana dolphin has just divulged its sixth sense: the ability to sense electric fields. It is the first placental mammal known to pull off this trick, new research finds. The dolphin, which bears live young like other placental mammals, most likely uses its sixth sense to find prey in the murky coastal waters it inhabits. "Most of the animals which do this do this to find prey," said study researcher Wolf Hanke, of Rostock University in Rostock, Germany. "All of the dolphins' prey items, like crayfish, all of them generate electric fields to some degree. " The Guiana dolphin looks like the familiar bottlenose dolphin; it is only slightly smaller. It lives close to estuaries, inlets and other protected shallow waters off the north and eastern coasts of South America.
Electrifying the senses The researchers examined a Guiana dolphin that had died naturally at the Dolphinariumin Münster, Germany. It's possible other marine mammals also developed the ability, Hanke said. A $22 Billion Question for India - What to Do With a Treasure? How to Run Google's Chrome OS from a USB Drive. Easy to follow step-by-step guide to installing and running Google’s Chrome OS: the open source, lightweight, and secure operating system that’s optimized for the Internet. For those looking to run Google’s Chrome OS without having to purchase a new laptop or desktop PC this is the guide for you. Google may have introduced the Chrome OS a little over two years ago, but it wasn’t until just recently that consumers were able to purchase a device with it preinstalled. Last month Acer and Samsung released “Chromebooks” that range in price from $379 to $499.
So what’s so special about the Chrome OS? Same experience everywhere ” Your apps, documents, and settings are stored safely in the cloud.Uber fast boot timesAmazing Web appsDesigned to defend against the ongoing threat of malware and viruses.Easy to share with family and friends. To make a Chromebook of your own is fairly easy and involves just a few simple steps. (Updated December 5th, 2011) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. It’s that easy……. By Paul Davidson, USA TODAY Updated 7/13/2011 9:51 PM | Jobs in science, technology, engineering and math fields pay an average 26% more than other occupations and grew three times faster the past decade, according to a Commerce Department study to be released today. The Obama administration is citing the report partly to put numbers behind its push to invest more to increase jobs in so-called STEM fields. Many employers lament a dire shortage of highly skilled workers despite 9.2% unemployment.
From 2000 to 2010, STEM jobs grew 7.9% to 7.6 million, three times the rate of other fields, the study by Commerce's Economics and Statistics Administration says. They're expected to swell 17% from 2008 to 2018, vs. 9.8% for other jobs. The study is partly an effort to bolster the case for federal investments in training for these occupations even as Republicans in Congress seek big spending cuts to pare the massive U.S. deficit. For more information about reprints & permissions, visit our FAQ's. A metaphor to understand Google+ | Patrick Beja.
[Tip] Search The Android Web Market A Lot? Do It Straight From The Url Bar Like A Boss With This Handy Trick (Firefox, Chrome) | Android News, Reviews, Apps, Games, Phones, Tablets, Tips, Mods, Videos, Tutorials - Android Police. If you liked my speedy QR code tips before, you're going to love the tip I have for you today. Ever since the Android web Market was launched, I found myself loading the homepage just to make a search approximately 17 million times a day, give or take a few.
As you know, the web Market homepage is quite heavy, so loading it just to make a search, especially while tethering on a slow connection, was starting to get kind of annoying. In an effort to save both time and clicks (hello, Carpal Tunnel), I've created a much handier way of firing up a search with only a few strokes and without the need for any tools outside of Firefox or Chrome. What Here's how it works - I go to the url bar, type in ams, press Space, then the search term, and Enter.
The search is immediately performed. How Firefox Step 1 Create a Bookmark in Firefox by right clicking anywhere in the Bookmarks Toolbar or the Bookmarks dropdown (in Firefox 4, press Alt-B if you can't see the menu): Step 2 Final Result Chrome Step 1 Step 3. Photopic Sky Survey. Ly 1.2 improves performance | Logicly Blog. Update your install of Logicly to version 1.2 to take advantage of some performance improvements.
The projects you all are sharing with me are getting bigger and bigger, and I’m happy to say that the bar just got pushed a little further. Keep creating those impressive circuits, everyone. In addition to performance improvements, a couple other nice additions and some bug fixes made it into this release: Improved the editing surface rendering performance. That means more gates, so make those projects bigger!
Your installation of Logicly should ask to update automatically from time to time, and you will receive 1.2 in the next cycle. If you don’t already have a Logicly license, please offer your support and purchase Logicly, staring at $29 for one user. StudyBlue now lets you turn your Evernote work into flashcardsTNW Apps. Today, Evernote and StudyBlue announced an integration which allows students to easily convert their Evernote study materials into digital flashcards on StudyBlue — just in time for exam season. The integration allows students to sync their Evernote and StudyBlue accounts seamlessly, allowing students to copy and paste key concepts from their Evernote materials onto digital flashcards for review in StudyBlue.
StudyBlue also offers free apps for Android, iPhone and iPod Touch devices that allow students to study digital flashcards when and where it fits their schedule. “I love that I can take my class notes in Evernote and then copy and paste them into flashcards for focused studying. I’m looking forward to putting it to use for finals – the idea of re-writing 450 flashcards in the next two weeks freaks me out.” – Lisa, Grad Student Get started with using Evernote and StudyBlue together to improve your studying habits right here. IO Day 1 Podcast | Android Central. Platonic solids. There are five Platonic (regular) solids: tetrahedron, 4 triangular sideshexahedron (i.e. cube), 6 square sidesoctahedron, 8 triangular sidesdodecahedron, 12 pentagonal sidesicosahedron, 20 triangular sides Each face of a Platonic solid must be a regular polygon and each face must be congruent.
Also, the solid must be convex and the number of faces that come together at each vertex must be the same. You can prove that the list above is complete by using Euler’s formula: That is, the number of vertices minus the number of edges plus the number of faces equals 2. Suppose you have a regular solid with F faces and each face has n sides. Suppose that k faces come together at each vertex. Putting these values in to Euler’s formula and doing a little algebra shows that (2n – nk + 2k) F = 4k. In particular, 2n – nk + 2k > 0. If n = 3, the condition 2n – nk + 2k > 0 reduces to 6 – k > 0, and so k could be 3, 4, or 5. If n = 4, the positivity condition reduces to 8 – 2k > 0. Related links: Charts: Who Pays Teachers Most For their Time? A Better Way to Teach Math.
Quickly Edit Google Calendar Events. Belief Blog. By Richard Allen Greene, CNN Organized religion will all but vanish eventually from nine Western-style democracies, a team of mathematicians predict in a new paper based on census data stretching back 100 years. It won't die out completely, but "religion will be driven toward extinction" in countries including Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands, they say. It will also wither away in Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland and Switzerland, they anticipate. They can't make a prediction about the United States because the U.S. census doesn't ask about religion, lead author Daniel Abrams told CNN. But nine other countries provide enough data for detailed mathematical modeling, he said.
"If you look at the data, 'unaffiliated' is the fastest-growing group" in those countries, he said. "We start with two big assumptions based on sociology," he explained. "People are more likely to switch to groups with more members," he said. The paper, by Abrams, Wiener and Haley A. Noteleaf Gives Meetings a Personality Using Google Calendar and LinkedIn. Sometimes meetings may seem like obligatory places to be at a certain time. They start bright and early in the morning, and end so late that sleep isn’t possible. How many meetings did you really go to in that time period, or is it one big blur? Most of my memories have been made through currently existing coffee stains, and carbonated disasters.
Noteleaf is designed to help people remember WHO they’re meeting with. It detects information entered in Google Calendar, and sends it via text message prior to the event. The text message contains a link to a page with meeting information, and other tidbits about the person from LinkedIn if available. Getting lost isn’t a problem either. I think it’s a great way to personalize meetings, but it doesn’t have an iPhone, Android, or Blackberry app at the moment.
Visual evidence that movies are getting worse. Moki takes a page out of the OkCupid social media playbook and analyzes movie ratings over the past two decades. They looked at the 20 most popular movies for each year, and then plotted them by "polarization," or rather, standard deviation, or in other words, movies that had a wider spread of ratings were more polarizing than those where reviewers came to a consensus. Here's their reasoning: The key, we think, is to look for movies that some love and some hate, which is the likely profile of a bad movie that's "safely" manufactured for an existing fanbase. In other words, movies that are polarizing. Does that really make a movie bad though? From the polarization perspective, however, the results are pretty clear. [Moki | Thanks, Dominic] Actually Going to Class? How 20th-Century. - Technology. By Jeffrey R. Young Washington The first question many undergraduates ask professors on the first day of class is whether they really have to show up.
The way they phrase it is a bit more subtle, says Dekunle Somade, a senior at the University of Maryland at College Park. What his fellow students actually ask is: "Will reruns of lectures be available after class, or at least the full set of PowerPoint slides? " Mr. Somade told me recently that "the general idea is that if I don't have to come to class, I don't want to come to class—and technology is giving students more and more reason not to come. " That leads to a big question: Why even have a traditional college course?
That was the provocative notion posed here recently by Randy Bass, executive director of Georgetown University's Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, during the annual meeting of the Educause Learning Initiative. Mr. Courses won't go away completely, Mr. "Like Bruce Willis at the end of The Sixth Sense," Mr. Free e-book lending on Open Library (video) eLearning 2011. ITC 2011 Awards for Excellence in eLearning The following award recipients were reviewed and chosen by panels of judges that were comprised of members of the ITC board of directors, past award winners, attendees at ITC’s annual leadership academy, and other ITC members. The judges spent a great deal of time reviewing the courses and materials the nominees shared with ITC. They held all of the winners to the high, best-practice standards exemplified by previous ITC award winners. The recipients are indeed exemplary members of our community. Lifetime Achievement AwardJohn R.
Outstanding eLearning ProgramSinclair Community College Outstanding Distance Learning FacultyDominique Charlotteaux, Associate Professor of Education and Psychology, Broward CollegeJoan Doolittle, Professor, Psychology Department, Anne Arundel Community CollegeCathy House, Professor of Computer Information Technology, Truckee Meadows Community College Outstanding Student ServicesBucks County Community College. Brain function linked to birth size in groundbreaking new study | Science Blog. Scientists have discovered the first evidence linking brain function variations between the left and right sides of the brain to size at birth and the weight of the placenta. The finding could shed new light on the causes of mental health problems in later life. The research, conducted at the University of Southampton and the Medical Research Council (MRC) Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit at Southampton General Hospital, reveals that children who were born small, with relatively large placentas, showed more activity on the right side of their brains than the left.
It is this pattern of brain activity that has been linked with mood disorders such as depression. The study adds to a growing body of evidence showing that adverse environments experienced by fetuses during pregnancy (indicated by smaller birth size and larger placental size) can cause long-term changes in the function of the brain. The research by Dr Jones and colleagues, has been published in the online science journal, PLoS ONE. Quote: USA "Never Led The World" In Education. Quote: USA "Never Led The World" In Education. Data in a physical context. We've seen this sort of thing before, but it doesn't ever seem to get old. Peter Ørntoft takes some data and puts it into physical context: The project deals with data from a list of the social related interests of the Danish people.
The list is the result of an opinion poll from a major consultancy company in Denmark. I have used the context of specific opinion polls within each interest to shape and design diagrams. The graphics above and below show Danish opinion on whether it's ethical to wear religious symbols in public professions. What do you think - does it lend to better understanding, or at the very least, make you care more?
[Behance via Chart Porn] Scientists Try to Duplicate Clam Glue and Bacterial Biofilm. Many clams glue themselves onto a solid surface like a rock or coral reef to keep from being tossed about by the surf. The "glue" sets when wet and is extremely strong, partly because tiny fibers enable the glue to self-heal. Similarly, scientists have discovered that a form of bacteria produces an amazingly water-repellent substance called biofilm that "greatly surpass[es] the repellency of Teflon.
"1 If man-made materials similar to this clam adhesive and biofilm could be produced, they would have wide-ranging applications. And that's exactly what some scientists have been attempting. Researchers investigated the super-strong glue bond of mussels, a type of clam that inhabits turbulent intertidal zones. The glue doesn't set while it is being manufactured inside specialized glands—a situation that would cause a lethal mess—because it sets when its level of acidity changes. References Epstein, A. . * Mr. Minimalist google calendar. Pulse - Algorithms Take Control of Wall Street | Magazine.
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