Day: December 1, 2013

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A Map Of Winds All Over The World

Fernando Kaskais

Global Winds, Imaged in the GEOS-5 Nature Run William Putman/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Aeolus, is that you? This is a map of winds on Earth, created from a mathematical model made by NASA. Scientists ran a complete simulation using the model, representing the movement of winds and other atmospheric phenomena on Earth from May 2005 to May 2007. This image shows one snapshot from that two-year “Nature Run.” “The idea is to provide a high-resolution version of what the atmosphere looks like at any given time,” Bill Putnam, one of the creators of the model, tells Popular Science. You … Continue reading A Map Of Winds All Over The World

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Go Back to The Future to Make Better Decisions

Fernando Kaskais

When you are facing a difficult choice, take a moment and imagine yourself in a successful or failed outcome to gain some clarity, suggests Robert Sutton author of Scaling Up Excellence: Getting To More Without Settling For Less. Try going “back to the future.” Sometimes they call it a “pre-mortem”. Imagine it’s 2015 and we failed at rolling out our IT implementation. Just that simple sort of cognitive switch leads people to be much more realistic, and more fine-grained in the analysis of what they need to do. Or instead of thinking how nice (a vacation might be), imagine you’re … Continue reading Go Back to The Future to Make Better Decisions

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Avoid Caffeine Before Interviews for Better Composure

Fernando Kaskais

While you may need your caffeine fix on most occasions, avoid coffee or any other drink with it before your next interview. Your adrenaline doesn’t need that jolt, and it will likely harm it instead, says Desha Peacock, director of career development at Marlboro College in Marlboro, Avoid drinking caffeine before an interview to help prevent the ‘sweaty palm syndrome’. Caffeine is anxiety inducing and can make you seem too chatty. Lay off the coffee before you head in for an interview. The advice seems in line with what caffeine does to your brain. Instead, it might be best to … Continue reading Avoid Caffeine Before Interviews for Better Composure

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My First Big Mistake: Mortuary Assistant

Fernando Kaskais

Simon Winchester shares his humorous story about the time he worked as a mortuary assistant. The victim of the first big mistake I ever made was a gentleman to whom I had never been properly introduced (and whose name I still do not know) but who was possessed of three singular qualities: he was alone in a room with me, he was without his trousers, and he was very, very dead. Some context might be useful. It was the winter of 1962. I was eighteen years old and had taken a year off before going up to Oxford University. I … Continue reading My First Big Mistake: Mortuary Assistant

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Biotech Wants to Experiment on Aussies – GMO Cholera Vax

Fernando Kaskais

Many Australians were outraged last week to find out that the California-based company, PaxVax, had applied to the Australian government for a license to use 1000 Australian adults and children as guinea pigs to test its experimental, genetically modified, live bacterial cholera vaccine. In only a week, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator had received so many emails from troubled Aussie citizens that it added a post to its website assuring the public that it had not yet issued a license to the company. But if history is any indicator, the Aussie gene regulator will probably grant the license … Continue reading Biotech Wants to Experiment on Aussies – GMO Cholera Vax

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Why Canada banned pot (science had nothing to do with it)

Fernando Kaskais

These days some think a total repeal of Canada’s drug laws is inevitable. We look at how the drug laws put in 90 years ago were based on panic and racism as opposed to science or medicine Searching for the scientific origins of Canada’s marijuana prohibition is a quick exercise. There was no science used to justify the laws instituted 90 years ago, just a mess of panic, racism and accident that has metastasized over time. Today we are in an unlikely position. American jurisdictions have begun to craft new pot policies. But Canada lumbers on, even strengthening the legislation … Continue reading Why Canada banned pot (science had nothing to do with it)

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Fukushima? 5 Million Seabirds Estimated to Have Died on the Beaches of Australia and New Zealand

Fernando Kaskais

Reports are coming out that unusually high counts of dead seabirds are winding up on shores in Australia and New Zealand. All the birds that have been tested by vets so far were found to be starving and emaciated. One theory is insufficient predatory fish to herd baitfish inland for the birds to feed on, but as Youtuber Pinksapphiret2 asks at the end of her video report above, “Is it a lack of baitfish or is it radiation?” Or is the radiation ultimately causing the lack of baitfish? The video’s narrator is surely referring to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear … Continue reading Fukushima? 5 Million Seabirds Estimated to Have Died on the Beaches of Australia and New Zealand

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5 Men Rush to Save Dying Woman as Cop Chats on Phone

Fernando Kaskais

Give the officer some credit, folks. He did have a gun in case someone’s dog was nearby. A police officer stood by, chatting on his cellphone while the men rescued the 62-yr-old woman, who is now in critical condition. According to witnesses the woman was trapped in her vehicle for at least six minutes. Update: Unfortunately, the woman is now dead. Sudsbury Star reports: “Two sources have confirmed to The Sudbury Star that the 62-year-old woman rescued from her sport utility vehicle after it left Municipal Road 80 on Thursday near McCrea Heights and plunged into a marsh has died.” … Continue reading 5 Men Rush to Save Dying Woman as Cop Chats on Phone

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End of the autobahn? EU ponders compulsory speed limiters on cars

Fernando Kaskais

The European Commission is looking into the possibility of fitting all the cars in the EU with compulsory speed limiters. The idea is very unwelcome in Germany, home of the autobahn and high-performance car producers, RT’s Peter Oliver reports. The European Commission’s proposal would see both old and new cars in the 28-member states equipped with a device that automatically applies the brakes whenever a car exceeds a speed of around 115 kph. The idea is to increase highway safety. 30,000 people die every year on Europe’s roads. A decision on whether to move ahead with the idea is expected … Continue reading End of the autobahn? EU ponders compulsory speed limiters on cars

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A HELPFUL SUGGESTION FOR MY FORMER COLLEAGUES IN HOLLYWOOD! SANTA CLAUS VERSUS THE NAZIS!

Fernando Kaskais

Following the United Nations vote recognizing the state of Palestine, Netanyahu’s tantrum over the Iran P5+1 deal, followed by more pressure that Israel admit to their nuclear weapons. I predicted that Hollywood, ever eager to remind us all of how Israel and the Jews have suffered and deserve our unquestioning support as they shower white-hot flaming death onto the Palestinian children and steal more of their land, would immediately green-light a whole new batch of movies about Hitler, the Nazis, and so forth. As it turns out, I did not have to wait long for my prediction to come true. … Continue reading A HELPFUL SUGGESTION FOR MY FORMER COLLEAGUES IN HOLLYWOOD! SANTA CLAUS VERSUS THE NAZIS!