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Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone

Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone

Chel Wolverton (@chelpixie) sur Twitter Top 10 Incredible Sound Illusions Weird Stuff Following the popularity of our optical illusions lists (20 Amazing Optical Illusions, and Another 10 Amazing Optical Illusions), we have put together an amazing array of sound illusions (auditory illusions). In these illusions, your mind is tricked in to thinking it is hearing something when, in fact, it is not. This illusion was discovered by Diana Deutsch, and is an example of our brains “grouping” similar notes together. There are several ways in which people perceive these sounds, but the most common is to group the high and low notes together. NOTE: Listen through stereo headphones, or stereo separated loudspeakers, best placed some distance apart. Some pieces of music consist of high-speed arpeggios or other repeating patterns, which change only subtly. Compare these recordings of Christian Sinding’s Frühlingsrauschen (“Rustle of Spring”). Shepherds Ascending Tones This recording is subtle.

Climb the staircase to self-transcendence: Jonathan Haidt at TED2012 Photo: James Duncan Davidason Author and UVA psychology professor Jonathan Haidt kicks off his TED2012 talk with a provocative question: “how many of you think of yourselves as religious?” Some people raise their hands, but not so many. Another question: “Do you think of yourselves as spiritual in any shape or form?” The majority of people in the room raises their hands. Haidt is making the case that one of the main reasons people feel they have some sort of spiritual life is the search for self-transcendence. Climbing a staircase to greater meaning has been used as such a concept a lot over the years. But awe can come from weird places too: for instance, War. So now the million-dollar question: is this so-called staircase a feature of our evolutionary design, or is it a bug? So what of free riders, those who’ll merrily come along to exploit the work of others? Haidt has at least a suggestion of an answer, presented in a special 3-minute video bonanza at the end of the talk. JH: No.

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.

13 Brands Using LinkedIn Company Page Features the Right Way Back in November, I set out to write a post to highlight businesses that were using LinkedIn's company page features effectively. Needless to say, I couldn't find enough examples to create a compelling post, so in my dismay, what I actually ended up writing was, "11 Reasons Your LinkedIn Company Page Sucks." What can I say? I was a little bitter and, frankly, slightly disappointed in the social media marketers of the world. Well, it's been several months now, and I wanted to give you LinkedIn marketers out there another chance. Blog RSS Feed Let's get a few low-hanging fruit features out of the way first. See the example above, which is a screenshot from Kuno Creative's company page. News Module The next low-hanging fruit feature you should enable on your LinkedIn company page is the news module. The option to enable news mentions to be displayed on your page is right below the option to add your blog's RSS feed while you're in edit mode of the Overview tab. Company Status Updates

11 Reasons Your LinkedIn Company Page Sucks Up until recently, the value of a LinkedIn Company Page was minimal. But ever since LinkedIn enabled company updates for pages , they've become monumentally more valuable for marketers. Upon investigation of various LinkedIn Company Pages, though, it turns out that very few companies are actually leveraging this awesome new feature. To be honest, it's very difficult to find many examples of companies using LinkedIn Company Pages to their fullest potential . This a huge missed opportunity for businesses, especially given that because many businesses aren't leveraging features likes company updates, the clutter on LinkedIn is significantly less dense than on other social networks like Facebook or Twitter. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

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