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The 22 Best TED Talks for Fitness, Health, and Happiness Inspiration

The 22 Best TED Talks for Fitness, Health, and Happiness Inspiration
If you have access to the Internet, you’ve likely seen one: We’re talking about TED Talks. These live-recorded videos are inspirational life lessons from experts in fields from architecture to cardiology and everywhere in between brought (for free) to Internet audiences by TED, a non-profit dedicated to “Ideas Worth Spreading.” There are now thousands of “Talks” on the site — mid-sized videos each with its own “ah-ha!” message or insight. But with so much inspiring to be had, where do you even start looking for innovative talks on fitness, health, and happiness? To help curate this free, digital resource, Greatist selected 22 Ted Talks that offer something simple and motivating to apply to everyday life. Fitness 1. Using his knowledge of evolution, anthropologist and author Christopher McDougall explains the surprising ways that running helped early humans run their world. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. John Wooden knows what it means to win. 7. Health 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Happiness 15. 16. 17. 18.

typing lessons This is keybr.com, a web application that will help you teach touch typing. Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. A person possessing touch typing skills will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory. It can improve any individual's typing speed and accuracy dramatically. This is a short tutorial that will explain how does this application work. You can use the left and right arrow keys to navigate through these slides. This tutorial is based on these few principles: No boring, repetitive exercises. Initially it starts generating words from a small subset of the most frequent letters of the alphabet. When you are typing these words, keybr measures time to type a key for every letter in that subset. Once you familiarize yourself with the current subset of letters, the algorithm expands it, including more and more letters to it. So at any time, you will by typing the letters you are least familiar with. This is the text board. ? ? ? ? ?

Beginner DJ Tutorials - Beatmatching Tutorials & Other Tips If you are a beginner DJ you are probably looking for DJ tutorials to learn how to DJ and beatmatch. In addition to writing DJ tutorials I also want to provide you with other good sources for DJ tips and information. In this post I will share with you some good resources for a beginner DJ. In Depth Beatmatching Tutorial – An excellent and very detailed tutorial on how to beatmatch from Funk Fader at DJforums.com. How to Scratch – This video is basically a beginner’s guide to learning how to scratch records. DJ Tutor – This website has a variety of information about learning how to DJ for beginners and moderately experienced DJs. How to DJ: A Mixing Tutorial – This description is taken directly from the site: “A basic tutorial for the beginner DJ which covers the fundamental concepts behind mixing two records on a pair of turntables.” Learn to DJ with Final Scratch – A detailed guide about how to DJ with Final Scratch. There you have it, a few tutorials from other websites.

Interesting Words Based on the Wiktionary Word of the Day Archive. Some editing of the list to remove ones that would be too easy in question form, and some editing of the descriptions to make them shorter or fit the questions better. Usually made of marble or glass. Should be capitalized for the first inhabitants of Australia Especially as a symptom of mental illness. Frequently spelled abulia. From Latin-later Shakespeare included it to refer to moderation in sex (Tempest) From the Irish: ícuisle - O pulse (of my heart) As in the lemon of a used car you bought To facilitate its passing through eyelet holes. Especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work Masculine personification of Nemesis. Composed of a silicate of alumina and soda. An early chemical apparatus, consisting of two retorts connected by a tube, used to purify substances by distillation. Especially snow covered mountains To heal or solve a problem Accompanied by excommunication Pertaining to snakes or serpents. E.g. E.g.

Top 10 Philosophical One Liners Miscellaneous Philosophy is no more or less than the search for wisdom. It deals with all manner of problems which everyone faces in their lives, and by thought and logic attempts to solve them. You cannot step in the same river twice. Heraclitus of Ephesus, also known as the Weeping Philosopher and Heraclitus the Obscure, has left us only a few philosophical sentences. Death need not concern us because when we exist death does not, and when death exists we do not. Epicurus and Epicureanism, has suffered for many years from a misapprehension about what his philosophy teaches. God is dead. Poor Friedrich Nietzsche has suffered from misconceptions quite as much as Epicurus. Man is the measure of all things. This is the most famous saying of Protagoras, though it is in fact, only the first portion of his statement. A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. The unexamined life is not worth living.

Web Style Sheets A CSS file can be created and edited “by hand,” i.e., with a text editor, but you can also write a program in ECMAscript, Java or some other language, that manipulates a style sheet. This is in fact so common, that there are software libraries of useful functions available. To help in porting such program & libraries to different computer platforms, W3C has developed a specification called CSS-DOM, that defines a set of functions that all such libraries must provide. The CSS Document Object Model is an API (Abstract Programming Interface) for manipulating CSS (and to a certain extent also other style languages) from within a program. An API is the specification of a software library. There are several CSS-DOM libraries available, for different platforms. SAC (Simple API for CSS) is a complement to the CSS-DOM. The CSS-DOM is a W3C Recommendation.

SCHOPENHAUER'S 38 STRATAGEMS, OR 38 WAYS TO WIN AN ARGUMENT Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), was a brilliant German philosopher. These 38 Stratagems are excerpts from "The Art of Controversy", first translated into English and published in 1896. Carry your opponent's proposition beyond its natural limits; exaggerate it. (abstracted from the book:Numerical Lists You Never Knew or Once Knew and Probably Forget, by: John Boswell and Dan Starer) HTML 5 <link> Tag The HTML <link> tag is used for defining a link to an external document. It is placed in in the <head> section of the document. The <link> tag is commonly used for linking to an external style sheet. Despite its name ("link"), the link tag is not used for creating a hyperlink to another HTML document. If you need to link to another HTML document, use the HTML <a> tag. Example This example references styles an external style sheet. Attributes HTML tags can contain one or more attributes. There are 3 kinds of attributes that you can add to your HTML tags: Element-specific, global, and event handler content attributes. The attributes that you can add to this tag are listed below. Element-Specific Attributes The following table shows the attributes that are specific to this tag/element. Global Attributes The following attributes are standard across all HTML 5 tags. For a full explanation of these attributes, see HTML 5 global attributes. Event Handler Content Attributes Enjoy this page?

.NET Framework and Architecture This article will help your in understanding .NET and .NET architecture. The .NET Framework is a new and revolutionary platform created by Microsoft for developing applications. Definition: A programming infrastructure created by Microsoft for building, deploying, and running applications and services that use .NET technologies, such as desktop applications and Web services. You can use a utility of a language in another language (It uses Class Language Integration). .NET Framework includes no restriction on the type of applications that are possible. The .NET Framework allows the creation of Windows applications, Web applications, Web services, and lot more. The .NET Framework has been designed so that it can be used from any language, including C#, C++, Visual Basic, JScript, and even older languages such as COBOL. All websites are example of web application. They are desktop application. Communication through computers through some system. It doesn't use web-based server. 1) Managed Code

Simple animation to explain complex principles 1, aircraft radial engine 2, oval Regulation 3, sewing machines 4, Malta Cross movement - second hand movement used to control the clock 5, auto change file mechanism 6, auto constant velocity universal joint 6.gif 7, gun ammunition loading system 8 rotary engine - an internal combustion engine, the heat rather than the piston movement into rotary movement # Via World Of Technology. 1, inline engine - it's cylinders lined up side by side 2, V-type engine - cylinder arranged at an angle of two plane 3, boxer engine - cylinder engine arranged in two planes relative

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