People who keep their minds open are more goal-directed and more motivated #FB

The Willpower Paradox: Scientific American

"Here is how Senay tested this notion. He had a group of volunteers work on a series of anagrams—changing the word “sauce” to “cause,” for example, or “when” to “hewn.” But before starting this task, half the volunteers were told to contemplate whether they would work on anagrams, while the others simply thought about the fact that they would be doing anagrams in a few minutes. The difference is subtle, but the former were basically putting their mind into wondering mode, while the latter were asserting themselves and their will. It is the difference between “Will I do this?” and “I will do this.”

The results were provocative. People with wondering minds completed significantly more anagrams than did those with willful minds. In other words, the people who kept their minds open were more goal-directed and more motivated than those who declared their objective to themselves.

These findings are counterintuitive. Think about it. Why would asserting one’s intentions undermine rather than advance a stated goal? Perhaps, Senay hypothesized, it is because questions by their nature speak to possibility and freedom of choice. Meditating on them might enhance feelings of autonomy and intrinsic motivation, creating a mind-set that promotes success."

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Third-base coaching position carries greater prestige… and it's more 'white'

Baseball’s Praised Diversity Is Stranded at First Base - NYTimes.com

Among baseball’s 30 teams, only 23 percent of the third-base coaches are members of minorities, compared with 67 percent of its first-base coaches. The disparity has existed for decades but it is now about twice as large as it was in 1990, based on an analysis by The New York Times.

The question is why.

It is more than a mysterious quirk: the third-base coaching position carries greater prestige, the pay is better and the position is often a steppingstone to a managerial job.

NYTimes.com - Full article


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Incorrect Opinions on Energy Efficiency

Survey Probes Americans' Incorrect Opinions on Energy Efficiency
Scientific American

"The researchers started their survey with a simple open-ended question: What's the single most-effective thing you can do to conserve energy? More than 40 percent of the respondents said one of three things: Turn off lights, drive less or change the thermostat.

Less than 10 percent identified what experts generally agree are the most effective measures - insulate the house or use more efficient appliances or cars."

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Taxonomy of social networking data — Bruce Schneier — #social

Crypto-Gram: August 15, 2010
— Bruce Schneier

«Below is my taxonomy of social networking data, which I first presented at the Internet Governance Forum meeting last November, and again -- revised -- at an OECD workshop on the role of Internet intermediaries in June.

1. Service data is the data you give to a social networking site in order to use it. Such data might include your legal name, your age, and your credit-card number.

2. Disclosed data is what you post on your own pages: blog entries, photographs, messages, comments, and so on.

3. Entrusted data is what you post on other people's pages. It's basically the same stuff as disclosed data, but the difference is that you don't have control over the data once you post it -- another user does.

4. Incidental data is what other people post about you: a paragraph about you that someone else writes, a picture of you that someone else takes and posts. Again, it's basically the same stuff as disclosed data, but the difference is that you don't have control over it, and you didn't create it in the first place.

5. Behavioral data is data the site collects about your habits by recording what you do and who you do it with. It might include games you play, topics you write about, news articles you access (and what that says about your political leanings), and so on.

6. Derived data is data about you that is derived from all the other data. For example, if 80 percent of your friends self-identify as gay, you're likely gay yourself.»



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Rapid cloud development using Google App Engine for the Cycle Hire Widget Android application

"The development team at LFT were able to quickly come up-to-speed on learning a new programming language and development environment in order to build and launch the App Engine backend service for their Android mobile app to the world in less than one week. The executive summary:

• Attended 1-hour Thursday night presentation on Google App Engine (Jul 22)

• Started to learn Python and App Engine on Saturday afternoon

• Launched live service Wednesday, announcing their Android app with an App Engine backend (Jul 28)"

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Google Books Determines That There Are 129,864,880 Books In The World (For Now)
Article from CrunchGear


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Chiste: 23% de los accidentes de tránsito son provocados por el consumo de alcohol... (sigue)

Un reciente estudio realizado por el Área de control y estadística de
La Secretaría de Seguridad Pública, afirma que el 23% de los accidentes de
tránsito, si leíste muy bien: el 23 % son provocados por el consumo de alcohol.

Esto significa que el otro 77% de los accidentes son causados por hijos de la
chingada que toman agua, jugos, refrescos de dieta y de sabor, horchatitas,
jamaiquitas, cafecitos y todas esas pendejadas!!!

Por lo tanto, ¡¡¡ cuídate de los pinches abstemios !!!

ATENTAMENTE:
ALGUIEN que se preocupa UN CHINGO por ti....!




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The next time I'm dreaming, I want to remember I'm dreaming

Descriptions of "lucid dreaming" —dreams in which you know you're dreaming— date back at least to Aristotle. Most people can recall at least one lucid dream, and perhaps one in 10 has them regularly. A half century ago some researchers still insisted that lucid dreaming is a contradiction in terms; if we are aware we are dreaming, we must be at least semiawake.

Scientific American article


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Ten key indicators show global warming "undeniable": Scientific American

Scientific American: Ten key indicators show global warming "undeniable"


-- Higher temperatures over land

-- Higher temperatures over oceans

-- Higher ocean heat content

-- Higher near-surface air temperatures (temperatures in the troposphere, where Earth's weather occurs)

-- Higher humidity

-- Higher sea surface temperatures

-- Higher sea levels

-- Less sea ice

-- Less snow cover

-- Shrinking glaciers

Scientific American: Ten key indicators show global warming "undeniable"

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How Can You Control Your Dreams?: Scientific American #inception

SciAm: http://bit.ly/9P2VRU

"That we can control our own dreams is quite true and really much more so than people seem to know or realize. The details of how to do it are very different depending on whether you're trying to induce lucid dreams, whether you're trying to dream about particular content or whether you're trying to dream a solution to a particular personal or objective problem. "

http://bit.ly/9P2VRU


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