How to Build Self-Discipline Discipline is freedom. You may disagree with this statement, and if you do you are certainly not alone. For many people discipline is a dirty word that is equated with the absence of freedom. In fact the opposite is true. Self-discipline involves acting according to what you think instead of how you feel in the moment. Work on an idea or project after the initial rush of enthusiasm has faded awayGo to the gym when all you want to do is lie on the couch and watch TVWake early to work on yourselfSay “no” when tempted to break your dietOnly check your email a few of times per day at particular times In the past self-discipline has been a weakness of mine, and as a result today I find myself lacking the ability to do a number of things which I would like – e.g. to play the guitar. If you struggle with self-discipline, the good news is that it can be developed. 1. Discipline means behaving according to what you have decided is best, regardless of how you feel in the moment. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Must-Have Photography Apps for Your Android or iPhone It’s no secret: Phone photography is becoming a big deal. Nearly everyone with a smartphone has a camera on them at all times, and even professional photographers are having a hard time resisting the likes of Instagram and Hipstamatic. I’ll take a look at those two apps along with some others out there to help take your phone photography skills to the next level. Instagram (Android & iPhone) Making photo sharing cool credit Instagram for picking up the ball after Flickr fumbled it many years ago. It’s not just the filters and the ability to turn crappy cell phone pictures into something decent looking. Pixlromatic (Android & iPhone) When I found this app, it changed the editing process for all my phone photos. Gas Works Park in Seattle transformed using Pixlromatic. If you want to play around with it before downloading, there’s even a web-based version. Hipstamatic (iPhone) Buyer beware: There’s no post-processing with Hipstamatic. Camera+ (iPhone) Camera Zoom FX (Android)
15 Awesome Chemistry GIFs You don’t need to watch Breaking Bad to know that chemistry is pretty awesome. Below, we explore our favorite 15 chemistry GIFs and the science behind them (when we could figure it out): Melting Metal With Magnets The Science: The copper wire has a significant amount of AC electricity running through it, causing it to act like a really strong electromagnet. Orange LED Light In Liquid Nitrogen The Science: When an LED is immersed in liquid nitrogen, the electrons lose a lot of thermal energy, even when the light isn’t turned on. Awesome Chemistry GIFs: Heating Mercury Thiocyanate Hydrogen Peroxide Catalyzed By Potassium Iodide
“Smart Cards” in a Surveillance Society: The Implanted Radio-Frequency Identification Chip If incorporating personal details into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip implanted into a passport or driver’s license may sound like a “smart” alternative to endless lines at the airport and intrusive questioning by securocrats, think again. Since the late 1990s, corporate grifters have touted the “benefits” of the devilish transmitters as a “convenient” and “cheap” way to tag individual commodities, one that would “revolutionize” inventory management and theft prevention. Indeed, everything from paper towels to shoes, pets to underwear have been “tagged” with the chips. “Savings” would be “passed on” to the consumer. Call it the Wal-Martization of everyday life. RFID tags are small computer chips connected to miniature antennae that can be fixed to or implanted within physical objects, including human beings. While there are beneficial uses of RFID, some attributes of the technology could be deployed in ways that threaten privacy and civil liberties: RFID under the skin
42 Positive Affirmations for Entrepreneurs Affirmations, huh? Once a skeptic, now a believer. A few years ago, I was a serious corporate gal who would poke fun at anything that could not be proven for a fact. Affirmations were the last thing I could take seriously, and yet, funny enough, affirmations and the subsequent changes in mindset and thinking created the conditions for my transition from corporate to entrepreneurship. Positive affirmations were the seeds that enabled me to land my dream company and online businesses and partnership with my husband. Specifically, I can attribute the following to learning and using positive affirmations in my life: Healing from my past mistakes.Accepting myself for who I am.Forgiving myself for past failures.Letting go of a 12-years success career that was all wrong for me.Learning to start over in a new direction.Believing in my own eventual success.Discovering my life purpose in the process.Overcoming my fears to move in the direction of my dreams. Well, here’s the thing. Got it? Um.
Creative Window Seat Ideas Redesign your window to create a cozy corner to curl up in the sun. What would you wish for? For the second part here 23 Epic Science Gifs to Blow Your Mind All these beautiful science gifs, and I can think of is to make bad semen and boner jokes. Some of these best epic science gifs that have proven success in many different science 3D-printed microscopic cages confine bacteria in tiny zoos for the study of infections A magnet falling through a copper pipe Black hole consumes a star Blowing a bubble into a CD Camera Stabilizing Tech Used in Spoon for Parknson's Controlling sand with sound waves Droplet Suspended by Sound Waves Electricity Tree Explosive pods launch seeds up to 20ft Holding Space Shuttle Tiles at 2200 Degrees Mind Blowing Bridge Demolition Paintball Mona Lisa Pervious concrete absorbs water Propeller Clock Removing Tattoo with Laser Scent of a sharpie marker traps ants by disrupting their pheromone trails Slow Motion Bubble Pop The Atlas moth does not have a mouth and only lives a couple of weeks The Photonic Fence uses lasers to neutralze mosquitos Volcano Viewed from the Interenational Space Station Voyager approaching Jupiter in 1979.
puter breakthrough: Code of life becomes data bank Data could be stored in DNA for years. Photo: Phil Carrick Scientists in Britain on Wednesday announced a breakthrough in the quest to turn DNA into a revolutionary form of data storage. A speck of man-made DNA can hold mountains of data that can be freeze-dried, shipped and stored, potentially for thousands of years, they said. The contents are "read" by sequencing the DNA — as is routinely done today, in genetic fingerprinting and so on — and turning it back into computer code. "We already know that DNA is a robust way to store information because we can extract it from bones of woolly mammoths, which date back tens of thousands of years, and make sense of it," said Nick Goldman of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Cambridge. Advertisement "It's also incredibly small, dense and does not need any power for storage, so shipping and keeping it is easy." The letter sequence comprises the genome, or the chemical blueprint for making and sustaining life.
This Is What Happens When A Kid Leaves Traditional Education Logan Laplante is a 13 year-old boy who was taken out of the education system to be home schooled instead. Not only was he home schooled, but Logan had the ability to tailor his education to his interests and also his style of learning, something traditional education does not offer. As Logan has mentioned, when he grows up he wants to be happy and healthy. At a TEDx talk in 2013, he discussed how hacking his education is helping him achieve that goal. Logan’s story can be seen in a similar light as Jacob Barnett‘s story who was first put in Special Ed by his school until he was pulled out of standard education and is now seen as an incredibly intelligent young person who is on track to winning a Nobel Prize one day. I also recently did a TEDx talk in 2014 about my story of leaving college for good. More on Education & Homeschooling Currently about 3.8% of children ages 5 – 17 are home schooled in the US. Does Education Kill Creativity? Sources: Learn To Use Your Thoughts To Reverse Aging!
5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness Much of the brain is still mysterious to modern science, possibly because modern science itself is using brains to analyze it. There are probably secrets the brain simply doesn't want us to know. But by no means should that stop us from tinkering around in there, using somewhat questionable and possibly dangerous techniques to make our brains do what we want. We can't vouch for any of these, either their effectiveness or safety. All we can say is that they sound awesome, since apparently you can make your brain... #5. So you just picked up the night shift at your local McDonald's, you have class every morning at 8am and you have no idea how you're going to make it through the day without looking like a guy straight out of Dawn of the Dead, minus the blood... hopefully. "SLEEEEEEEEEP... uh... What if we told you there was a way to sleep for little more than two hours a day, and still feel more refreshed than taking a 12-hour siesta on a bed made entirely out of baby kitten fur? Holy Shit!
Lost pyramids spotted by space scientists - Technology & science - Science Seventeen lost pyramids are believed to have been found in Egypt by a team of space archaeologists from Alabama, according to a report. Sarah Parcak and her team at a NASA-sponsored laboratory at the University of Alabama at Birmingham made the discoveries using a satellite survey, and also found more than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements in infrared images that show up buildings underground, BBC News reported. The BBC said that two of the suspected pyramids had been confirmed by initial excavations. "We were very intensely doing this research for over a year. She said it was likely that more buildings would be found. "These are just the sites [close to] the surface. "It just shows us how easy it is to underestimate both the size and scale of past human settlements," she added. She said the techniques she used were "an important tool" in working out where to focus excavations on the ground. "It gives us a much bigger perspective on archaeological sites.
The 30 Best Films of the Decade 10. Big Fish Painting the 1980s in black and white, Tim Burton made his mark on this decade by discovering primary colors. 9. Most quotable movie of the decade number two, and the movie that was the precursor to the Judd Apatow/Adam McKay takeover of great comedy that followed. 8. It’s a fortunate thing in this art form that audiences often get to see a genius at his best. 7. Despite art being completely subjective, you are wrong if you don’t like this film. 6. Back in 2000, back in the 1970s, Cameron Crowe took us all on a journey across the country in a bus. 5. He was a simple oil man. 4. You can’t argue with the facts. 3. There are two types of people in this world – and I don’t use that cliche lightly: those who have never curled up in a weeping, inconsolable ball on the floor and those who have seen Dear Zachary. 2. I double dog dare you to say anything negative about this film. 1. Admit it. For more of our picks of the aughts, head over to our Decade in Review homepage.
Physicists May Have Evidence Universe Is A Computer Simulation Physicists say they may have evidence that the universe is a computer simulation. How? They made a computer simulation of the universe. And it looks sort of like us. A long-proposed thought experiment, put forward by both philosophers and popular culture, points out that any civilisation of sufficient size and intelligence would eventually create a simulation universe if such a thing were possible. And since there would therefore be many more simulations (within simulations, within simulations) than real universes, it is therefore more likely than not that our world is artificial. Now a team of researchers at the University of Bonn in Germany led by Silas Beane say they have evidence this may be true. In a paper named ‘Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation’, they point out that current simulations of the universe - which do exist, but which are extremely weak and small - naturally put limits on physical laws. But the basic impression is an intriguing one.
The Ultimate Student Resource List It’s back to school time, yet again. In the spirit of the season, I decided to gather together the best tools, websites, and advice I know of to help make you a more effective and relaxed student this semester. Since I know you’re broke, it’s all free! 10 Free Applications Every Student Needs Unless you have money coming out of your ears, you probably won’t want to shell out the cash you’ll need to get Office, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, EndNote, and so on — even with your student discount. OpenOffice.org: A top-quality, full-featured office productivity suite — word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software, graphics editor, database, the works! 11 Online Tools Students Should Check Out Or 20, depending on how you count. Email: GmailRegister for a solid, plain-jane email address from Gmail, something like FirstnameLastname@gmail.com. 15 Websites for Students (Aside from Lifehack) 30 Pieces of Advice for Students from Lifehack.org 7 Online Research Resources