After all the boozing and barbecuing on America day off from labor, take a sec to look up. What you’ll hopefully see is A supernova burning bright more than 21 million light years away.
The type 1a supernova is actually an exploding White Dwarf that scientists discovered last in the Pinwheel Galaxy, and it’s the youngest of its kind ever to be discovered…
Continue reading… “Seeing a Supernova could be the best part of Labor Day Weekend”
Negotiation is worthless. Sales is everything.
I’m a pretty good salesman, but I’m the worst negotiator. If I say, “buy my car for $10,000” and someone says “$8,000,” I’d just shrug my shoulders and say “ok”. In fact, that happened.
Some people could be good at both. But I think it’s very hard. By definition. When you’re a salesman you want the other guy to say “yes.” When you’re a negotiator you have to be willing to say “no”, regardless of what the other side says.
So although they aren’t total opposites, the goals are completely different. But big picture:
Negotiation is worthless. Sales is everything…
Continue reading… “How to sell your company”
Scientists have identified the part of the brain responsible for controlling whether we conform to expectations and group pressure.
The researchers found they were able to control whether volunteers conformed to social pressure by using powerful electromagnetic pulses that changed the activity of a small part of the brain.
A sophomore at Burlington High School in Burlington, Mass checks out his iPad.
At western Connecticut’s suburban Brookfield High School, incoming freshman will soon be tossing out the heavy textbooks. They will soon be flipping electronic pages on a glossy iPad tablet computer.
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Great lies continue to be propagated
Futurist Thomas Frey: In early 2003 I had a conversation with Dee Hock, founder and former CEO of VISA. At the time we were interested in hiring him to be the keynote speaker at our upcoming Future of Money Summit, an event that would take place in November of that year.
Continue reading… “Eight False Promises of the Internet”
Las Vegas has seen its share of heavy construction equipment as it bulldozed its way through one giant casino project after another. But with the recession having gutted the construction industry, excavators and bulldozers near the Strip are being put to use as toys for thrill-seeking visitors. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Life-sized sandbox for thrill-seeking adults in Las Vegas”
A New Wooly Rhino Discovery.
A new paper published in the journal Science reveals the discovery of a primitive woolly rhino fossil in the Himalayas, which suggests some giant mammals first evolved in present-day Tibet before the beginning of the Ice Age. The extinction of Ice Age giants such as woolly mammoths and rhinos, giant sloths, and saber-tooth cats has been widely studied, but much less is known about where these giants came from, and how they acquired their adaptations for living in a cold environment…
Art, efficiency and water recycling.
Hyeona Yang and Joshua Noble, two students at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, built the “Raincatch.” It’s a suit that collects rainwater and filters it into drinking water…
Continue reading… “Raincoat turns rain into drinking water”
Opera TV Store offers a new option in the market.
Opera continues to show why it’s the little browser company that could, unveiling an HTML5 platform for bringing web browsing and apps to televisions and set top boxes at IFA 2011.
Though it’s not the household name Firefox and Google Chrome are when it comes to desktop browsers, Opera has a long history of big-time integration deals. It’s the only web browser for the Nintendo Wii and DS, and it was picked by Ford for in-dash browsing back in 2009.
With the Opera TV Store, the company is offering television and set-top box manufacturers an easy-to-integrate solution for delivering web apps and standards-compliant browsing to their customers. The system’s dashboard and speed dial pages are built using standard web code and displayed using the Opera browser engine…
Continue reading… “Opera TV Store brings HTML5-powered web apps, browsing to TVs and set top boxes”
Stress is an unpleasant fact of life. We all experience it for various reasons, and we all try to come up with ways of coping with it—some with more success than others. So what exactly is stress doing to your mind (and body) when you’re staring down a deadline? And what can you do to power through it?
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There’s nothing better than sitting on the beach, watching the surfers tear it up except for sitting on the beach and watching the surfers light it up.
Continue reading… “Flare surfing – the hottest thing on water”
It sounds like the answer to parents who are worried about lending their car to their precious teenage children.
Continue reading… “Ford’s MyKey electronic system will teenager-proof your car”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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