What you must know about writing a will - Money It still remains a myth that planning a will is for high net-worth individuals or those who have good amount of wealth that they can leave behind for their loved ones. Have you ever thought about writing a will—a legal declaration by which a person names one or more persons to manage his/her estate and provides for the transfer of his/her property at death? Most of the readers may think that it is of no relevance to them. It still remains a myth that planning a will is for high net-worth individuals (HNI) or those who have good amount of wealth that they can leave behind for their loved ones. The fact is that one needn’t be rich to make a will because any possession like furniture, insurance policies and personal jewellery can form a part of one’s will. Another myth is the concept of preparing a will at an older age. Richa Kapre, director-investments, Altamount Capital, says, “Any person at any age can make a will with just two persons who can witness the same to authenticate it.
The worth of an individual Google search is truly a wonderful indicator of where an individual or society stands today. I recently Googled “worth of an individual’ quote” , searching for different parameters for measuring a man. Of the 10 results that were returned on the first page, only three were talking of measuring the individual in non-monetary terms and one was a lesson plan for third graders! If it’s symptomatic of the times we live in that Martin Luther King Jr’s famous quote “the worth of an individual does not lie in the measure of his intellect, his origin or his social position…”? barely makes it on to the first page of a specific Net search, then we need to take another look at our times. It is probably superfluous to state that the IT industry is driven entirely by people. It’s quite simple. The undue emphasis on processes rather than people in the IT industry is a skewed one today. The closest people-dependent example I can think of, is an army.
Dopamine release in human brain tracked at microsecond timescale reveals decision-making A research team led by investigators at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute has demonstrated the first rapid measurements of dopamine release in a human brain and provided preliminary evidence that the neurotransmitter can be tracked in its movement between brain cells while a subject expresses decision-making behavior. "In an experiment where we measured dopamine release while a subject made investment decisions in a stock market trading game, we showed that dopamine tracks changes in the value of the market," said Read Montague, director of the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and professor of physics in the College of Science at Virginia Tech. The research was published on Aug. 4, 2011, in the Public Library of Science journal, PLoS ONE, in the article "Sub-Second Dopamine Detection in Human Striatum," by Kishida; Stefan G.
10 Words You Might Think Came from Science (But Are Really From Science Fiction ) Well, I imagine the same could be said about a lot of these. Karel Čapek gave us "robot" in 1920, and from that point forward, I'd wager we would've hit "robotics" sooner or later with or without Asimov and those glorious mutton chops of his, unless someone more popular than Čapek jumped in and started popularizing a different term like "automata" or "androids" before "robotics" could really take off... off the top of my head... geneticulture (tangenting off horticulture, which has applied techniques of genetic manipulating on a macroscopic level) high space, far space (changing from the analogy of the ocean over to altitude aspects) and for the last probably something NASA tech-sounding, like G-less. I disagree with Gas Giant being reductionism. Androids are a specific class of robots. @Spaceknight I can see your point about Gas Giant not being reductionism. As for 'geneticulture' I'm not sure that it coveys the same usage as genetic engineering. As to G-less.
RT @jackerhack: New crowdsourced project to map Indian PIN codes. Please retweet map your postoffice. Discussion: h ... Measuring The Google Effect on People's Memory - Can You Google Where You Left Your Car Keys? Over the recent Independence Day weekend the family and I were driving down a coastal Maine road enjoying a delightful conversation when the inevitable happened - no one could remember the name of the actress who played the lead in Dr. Zhivago. "I'll google it!" offered my daughter, taking out her brand new iPhone 4. Too late! Well, it turns out that I was onto something. Betsy Sparrow, assistant professor at Columbia University is setting out to prove that all of this googling, binging, dogpiling and yahooing around the internet is impacting how we remember things. The abstract for Sparrow's report, published on-line this week at Science Magazine titled, "Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips" is this: The advent of the Internet, with sophisticated algorithmic search engines, has made accessing information as easy as lifting a finger. From the Science Magazine report: Now, where was I? This is a fascinating and vital area of study.
Firefox & You There are two ways to stay secure using Firefox. OK, I know we just told you there are six, but they're split into two camps: three things that Firefox does for you, and three things you can do to protect yourself. So we did some simple security math (and checked our work) to bring you six great tools and tips! First, here's how Firefox has your back: Instant Website ID Easily see which sites you can trust and which you might need to be suspicious of with a color-coded system. Anti-Phishing & Anti-Malware Trojan horses, spyware, fraudulent sites — these are all real online concerns, but Firefox helps warn you when you're in danger. Anti-Virus Integration If your computer gets a virus, it's not something a little lie-down and a bowl of chicken soup is going to fix (liquids and computers generally don't mix well). And now, a look at how you can have your own back: Plugin Check Plugins like Flash, Quicktime and Java can make your computer vulnerable if not up to date. Secure Passwords
Facial monitoring: The all-telling eye We know what you’re thinking IMAGINE browsing a website when a saucy ad for lingerie catches your eye. You don't click on it, merely smile and go to another page. Yet it follows you, putting up more racy pictures, perhaps even the offer of a discount. Uses for this technology would not, of course, be confined to advertising. Advertising firms already film how people react to ads, usually in an artificial setting. Some consumer-research companies also employ goggle-mounted cameras to track eye movements so they can be sure what their subjects are looking at. This work is now moving online. One of the companies doing such work, Realeyes, which is based in London, has been developing a system that combines eye-spying webcams with emotional analysis. At present the system is being used on purpose-built websites with, for instance, online research groups testing the effect of various display ads. As similar gimmicks become widespread, privacy concerns will invariably mount.
Twitter, Facebook take the lead in blogosphere as blog searches fall by half - The Economic Times Ameya Chumbhale, ET Bureau Nov 17, 2011, 05.53am IST MUMBAI: Blogging is old hat. A prominent trend-tracking tool shows that blog searches around the globe have halved, while micro-blogging platforms Twitter and Facebook have grown, suggesting a seminal shift in online communication. Google Insights, which tracks search terms on Google search engine worldwide, shows a 50% decline for blogs in 2010. On the other hand, micro-blogging sites Twitter and Facebook logged exponential rise in users. While the number of blogs on the Internet, as tracked by BlogPulse, rose just 21% from 126 million in 2009 to 152 million in 2010, the Tweets on Twitter were up 160% over the same period, according to Internet monitoring website pingdom.com. A comparative figure for Facebook was not available, but the social networking site showed a 74% rise in users during the period. Celebrities such as Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, and even the more regular Ramgopal Verma haven't blogged for over six months now.