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by b_emery 11y ago
Good summary of a 'hack' of human nature: >A well-maintained physique is a great business card. Ideas and intelligence are what matters, but if you have a well-maintained physique, it's better. People are always more willi
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There is no other way than to read and write a lot. And it will take years but don't let that stop you. Focus on the process. A favorite book on this subject is 'on writing' by stephen king. One thing he describes that is imp
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It took me a while to realize that as a scientist I am a professional writer. Ironic considering that I originally got into science (studying physics) because I hated writing. Now I try to frame it like writing code. If I can just find a wa
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My thoughts exactly, except more fleshed out and well worded!
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You are likely correct, it may not be in the top 100 for humanity . It would be great for me personally though ...
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The thought has recently occurred to me that we should all be working on the "aging problem", until it's solved, and then spending all our extra time on other pursuits.
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One of the best web multimedia presentations I've seen - perhaps as good as 'Snow Fall'.
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The Fjord – Surfer Magazine(surfermag.com)
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> “Authors still create journals in prose-style — do we really need to produce all that text?” I used to think that the answer was no, but recently I've become convinced that the answer is yes, we really do need to produce all that
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Ideally the lit review is less a review and more of an outline of the current state of knowledge and, most importantly, where the gaps are (that this paper fills!). In practice you're often correct though, the lit review is more "
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NASA Image Shows Ground Motion from First Nepal Quake(blogs.agu.org)
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Undersea Volcano Explodes as Scientists Watch(scientificamerican.com)
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The question is, what is the cargo ship carrying? There must be more to this story.
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Iran Takes Control of Cargo Ship; U.S. Sends Destroyer(nytimes.com)
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by b_emery 12y ago
I had a similar setup at one point, and solved the social problem by taking a language class (I was living in a foreign country at the time). The point is I was in a group, and conversation was a built-in part of the interaction. Including
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> know the idea is that by engaging with more people, one acquires empathy for more people and becomes a broader, more mature person. I'm not sure where you get that conclusion, but the source doesn't really matter - I think i
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by b_emery 12y ago
Which begs the question, what percent of the variation distinguishes the 'expert' from the non-expert?
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From near the bottom: "Some further studies failed to reproduce the original experiment's results, but in at least one of these studies[12] both caged and "park" rats showed a decreased preference for morphine, suggesti
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Map of significant wave height in feet for the Atlantic: https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/wxmap_cgi/cgi-bin/wxmap_single.cg... tldr: Not a good day for boating
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I'm guessing this is the answer (apologies if I missed it in the article): "In absolute terms, U.S. spending on R&D far exceeds that of any other country: in current dollars, the United States spent $401.6 billion in 2009, mor
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I read that quote as his wife saying that she didn't want him to give up and die. She wanted him to fight the cancer rather than obtain a "profound acceptance" of it.
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by b_emery 12y ago
For years I subscribed to the Berkeley Wellness letter ( http://www.berkeleywellness.com/ ). While not a scientific publication, it is written by MD's for the public, with the goal of taking the latest results and puttin
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by b_emery 12y ago
This from wikipedia is where it started to click for me: "In the 18th century Euler studied the rotational motion of a rigid body and discovered the importance of the principal axes. Lagrange realized that the principal axes are the ei
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Thanks, I am the unaware!
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translation: "I'm Charlie"
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The wikipedia page reads like a Clancy novel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_8969 Intense situation. It's remarkable that in the end there were so few casualties.
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The Lesson of the Sony Hack: We Should All Jump to the Erasable Internet(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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I mostly use spotlight for navigation via keyboard commands. Cmd + space bar gets spotlight and then type what you're looking for. It's not perfect but it's on every mac and it really minimized the need for a mouse. The only
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http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~markhil/science64_strong_inference...
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My instinct is that these articles are both right. Yes, your emotions and impulses are more difficult to control when you're tired and hungry (WSJ article) and yes, with effort you can still control them (stanford article). Much of p

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