Don't Start a Sentence if You Don't Know How It Ends. Maybe if you posted them in English and Spanish? Then threaten to set them on fire if they fail to comply. Heh I feel like the first statement when I listen to voicemails at work. Some people ramble for like ten or twenty secods, when that's about half as long as the entire message should be. You could also have a third sign, which says "Please follow the signs. It's kind of a big deal. " You would then have that refrigerator-sized thug from those Priceline Negotiator commercials standing there, cracking his knuckles when someone comes in and reads the sign. Spanish is my native (hence the signs's) language, english is lifehacker's.
. #1: "Si a los 15 segundos aún no se de que me hablas, dejaré de atenderte desde ese momento" #2: "Si no tienes nada que decir, no me lo digas a mi. Altucher: How To Be The Luckiest Person Alive. James Altucher’s new book How To Be The Luckiest Person Alive looks at the Physical, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual aspects of his life as an investor. Like most of James’ writing, this one is funny, personal and insightful, with a decent amount of “lifehacking” thrown in for good measure. Although its a fun book to read, many Amazon reviewers said they found it inspiring. James describes how to develop a “lucky attitude.” Reviews: “Why do I like James Altucher so much? Is it his brutal honesty? Sample chapter after the jump . . . I told my dad, “I’m a lucky guy.” Luck was all about rolling the dice. But now I’m different. But that’s a big improvement. My ONLY Three Goals in Life A) I want to be happy. That’s it.
There’s been at least ten times in my life that everything seemed so low I felt like I would never achieve the above three things and the world would be better off without me. When I look back at these times now I realize there was a common thread. Wake up by 4-5am every day. How I Became a Master of Memory | Memory, Emotions, & Decisions. Could it really be said that my working memory was twice as good as it had been when I started my training? I wish I could say it was. But the truth is, it wasn’t. When asked to recall the order of, say, a series of random inkblots or color swatches, or the clearance to the doorway to my parent’s cellar, I was no better than average.
Any kind of information that couldn’t be neatly converted into an image and dropped into a memory palace was just as hard for me to retain as it had always been. I’d upgraded my memory’s software, but my hardware seemed to have remained fundamentally unchanged. And yet, clearly I had changed. When I started on this journey, I didn’t know where it would lead, or how thoroughly it would take over my life, or how it would eventually alter me. I confess that I never got good enough at filling memory palaces on the fly to feel comfortable throwing out my Dictaphone and notebook.
So why bother investing in one’s memory in an age of externalized memories?
Researchers Turn Cloned Human Embryo into Working Stem Cell Line. Potentially big stem cell news out of the New York Stem Cell Foundation Laboratory today in Nature, though in our experience it's always good to temper one's expectations when it comes to these sorts of things. After all, we've thought we cracked the code on embryonic stem cell cloning technology more than once, only to find this kind of biology is much more difficult and complex than originally thought.
Nonetheless, researchers have reprogrammed an adult human egg to an embryonic state and used it to create a self-reproducing embryonic stem cell line. And that's a big deal. But it's not the holy grail of stem cell research. So here's where we're at: Scientists are trying to take an unfertilized egg, swap out the single set of chromosomes in the egg for the two sets of chromosomes in a patient's adult cells, and initiate a process wherein the egg develops per the instructions of the new DNA.
Usually, this process fails. [Nature] Editing Human Stem Cell Genes Could Let Patients Grow Their Own Cures. For the first time, scientists using a combination of gene-editing technologies have corrected mutations in a patient's own induced stem cells. The breakthrough could pave the way toward reprogramming a person's own cells to cure genetic diseases, rather than using transplanted organs and drug therapies. Researchers led by two institutions in the UK corrected a mutation in cells derived from a patient with a metabolic liver disease. Stem cells — embryonic ones and induced pluripotent ones — can turn into any type of cell, so they hold promise for treating a host of disorders.
They can come with unwanted mutations, however. For one thing, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) would contain the same genetic defects as the rest of a patient's body, so you'd have to remove those defects before you could treat a person with his or her own cells. The team took skin cells from a patient and turned them into iPS cells. [via BBC] MAGNIFICENT time lapse: Landscapes, Volume 2. How to Quickly Figure Out the Day of the Week Any Date Falls On. Here's how I figure out which date is a specific number of days away from another. If the two dates fall within the same month, it's just simple math, but if the two dates are in different months, it's not as straightforward.
The basic trick is to convert the later date into a number that makes it easy to do math with the earlier month's date. Example 1: 10 days after July 25 There are 31 days in July, so 35 - 31 = 4 (August 4) Example 2: 16 days before May 5 There are 30 days in April, so 30 + 5 = 35 35 - 16 = 19 (April 19) This can also be done with ranges spanning multiple months by adding the numbers of any months that end in the middle of the range. Example 3: 100 days after September 12 There are 30 days in September; 31 in October; & 30 in November, so 112 - 30 - 31 - 30 = 21 (December 21) If you need a trick to remember how many days are in a given month, you can use your knuckles. #tips. 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies | PsyBlog. Ten of the most influential social psychology experiments explain why we sometimes do dumb or irrational things.
“I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures.Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?” –Philip Zimbardo Like famous social psychologist Professor Philip Zimbardo (author of The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil), I’m also obsessed with why we do dumb or irrational things. The answer quite often is because of other people — something social psychologists have comprehensively shown. Each of the 10 brilliant social psychology experiments below tells a unique, insightful story relevant to all our lives, every day. Click the link in each social psychology experiment to get the full description and explanation of each phenomenon. 1. The halo effect is a finding from a famous social psychology experiment. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 10 Practical Uses For Psychological Research in Everyday Life |
People love to give each other advice. The web is full to bursting with all types of pseudo-psychological advice about life. The problem is, how much of this is based on real scientific evidence? Well, here on PsyBlog we’ve got the scientific evidence. So here’s my top 10 list of what you can learn practically from the psychological research discussed here recently. 1. How to detect liesLies are extremely difficult to detect.
Research shows the average person barely does any better than chance. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. The Ten Most Revealing Psych Experiments. Psychology is the study of the human mind and mental processes in relation to human behaviors - human nature. Due to its subject matter, psychology is not considered a 'hard' science, even though psychologists do experiment and publish their findings in respected journals. Some of the experiments psychologists have conducted over the years reveal things about the way we humans think and behave that we might not want to embrace, but which can at least help keep us humble. That's something. 1. 'Lord of the Flies': Social Identity Theory The Robbers Cave Experiment is a classic social psychology experiment conducted with two groups of 11-year old boys at a state park in Oklahoma, and demonstrates just how easily an exclusive group identity is adopted and how quickly the group can degenerate into prejudice and antagonism toward outsiders.
Researcher Muzafer Sherif actually conducted a series of 3 experiments. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Turns out that it's all about framing. Human Stem Cells Created Using Cloning Technique. Researchers said Wednesday they used a cloning technique to create human embryos that were close genetic copies of the people from which they were derived—a potentially significant breakthrough in the quest to develop patient-specific stem cells to treat serious diseases. Scientists involved in the experiment, which was published in the journal Nature, created 13 early-stage human embryos that were partial genetic clones of diabetic patients.
The copies were not identical, as each embryo carried three sets of chromosomes—an extra set. That means they were abnormal and wouldn't have been viable if implanted in a womb and carried to term. If the technique is ever to become a viable treatment, the researchers would have to eliminate the extra set of chromosomes and effectively create an embryonic human clone. Nevertheless, the experiment marks the closest scientists have come to cloning humans as a route to developing medical treatments. WSJ Newsletter Notes on the News Sign up Check Your Inbox. Discovery Suggests a New Avenue for Advancing Stem Cell Research | 80beats.