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sneakers and leadership connection

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:09:16 GMT

clipped by: aphrael202

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Got a passion for buying sneakers? It could be a good sign, with a poll finding that people who buy three pairs of sneakers or more a year are far more likely to be a leadership type that other people.

Mindset Media, a media company that examines personality traits of different consumers, found that people who buy more than three pairs of sneakers a year are 61 percent more likely to have the qualities of a modern leader.

These qualities were defined as having ideas and vision, and a style with others that is both inclusive and decisive.

The survey of 7,500 people, using market research group Nielsen's online panel, found multi-sneaker buyers were 50 percent more likely to be very assertive and 47 percent more likely to be spontaneous.

"What is interesting is that these personality traits held true across the board, regardless of age, income, or gender."

Number Spiral

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:31:56 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.numberspiral.com

1. Introduction

Number spirals are very simple. To make one, we just write the non-negative integers on a ribbon and roll it up with zero at the center.

The trick is to arrange the spiral so all the perfect squares (1, 4, 9, 16, etc.) line up in a row on the right side:

If we continue winding for a while and zoom out a bit, the result looks like this:

If we zoom out even further and remove everything except the dots that indicate the locations of integers, we get the next illustration. It shows 2026 dots:

Let's try making the primes darker than the non-primes:

The primes seem to cluster along certain curves. Let's zoom out even further to get a better look. The following number spiral shows all the primes that occur within the first 46,656 non-negative integers. (For clarity, non-primes have been left out.)

On the next few pages of this website, we'll investigate these patterns and try to make sense out of them

Quantum theory in the retirement community.

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:30:03 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: bethe.cornell.edu

Three Lectures by Hans Bethe

IN 1999, legendary theoretical physicist Hans Bethe delivered three lectures on quantum theory to his neighbors at the Kendal of Ithaca retirement community (near Cornell University). Given by Professor Bethe at age 93, the lectures are presented here as QuickTime videos synchronized with slides of his talking points and archival material.

	Introduction 12 minutes
	Large Video (28 MB) Small Video (5 MB) Audio Only (3 MB)

	Lecture 1 49 minutes
	Large Video (102 MB) Small Video (12 MB) Audio Only (4 MB)

	Lecture 2 43 minutes
	Large Video (88 MB) Small Video (11 MB) Audio Only (4 MB)

	Lecture 3 49 minutes
	Large Video (102 MB) Small Video (12 MB) Audio Only (4 MB)

	Appreciation 20 minutes
	Large Video (46 MB) Small Video (8 MB) Audio Only (4 MB)

ntended for an audience of Professor Bethe's neighbors at Kendal, the lectures hold appeal for experts and non-experts alike.

Daily Telegraph's 101 Most Useful Websites

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:29:45 GMT

clipped by: carrerinyes

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

The 101 most useful websites

Last Updated: 12:01am BST 30/03/2008

13 Whatsonwhen
www.whatsonwhen.com

Events, attractions, openings and exhibitions from around the world. Enter a location and dates and the site will show listings.

16 Rotten Tomatoes
www.rottentomatoes.com

15 The Internet Movie Database
www.imdb.com

18 Good Reads
www.goodreads.com

Expand your reading. Catalogue your books online and others make recommendations based on what you seem to enjoy.

20 Football365
www.football365.com

22 Beijing Olympics
en.beijing2008.cn

23 Radio Locator
www.radio-locator.com

24 Live Plasma
www.liveplasma.com

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

2 Anonymouse
www.anonymouse.org

Surf the web without disclosing who or where you are.

3 iLounge
www.ilounge.com

Hints, tips and troubleshooting for your iPod and associated software.

4 Only2Clicks
www.only2clicks.com

If you use just a few websites, this lets you create a home page that has links to them all. Simple, free and practical.

5 Zoho
www.zoho.com

6 Backpack
www.backpackit.com

9 Pando
www.pando.com

Can Chronic Insomnia Kill?

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:59:01 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: www.edstrong.blog-city.com

The celebrated Swedish physician Axel Munthe, who had more success treating the insomnia of his patients than he did his own, wrote in his 1929 bestseller, "The Story of San Michele":

"Insomnia does not kill its man unless he kills himself -- sleeplessness is the most common cause of suicide. But it kills his joie de vivre, it saps his strength, it sucks the blood from his brain and from his heart like a vampire."

"At least if I died, I'd get some rest," one insomniac said.

We've been taught to see insomnia as secondary to, as resulting from, depression, neurosis or other sorts of psychopathology. But there is increasing evidence that it may work the other way around:

Insomnia may be the cause and not the consequence of a person's emotional instability. Insomnia is now known to be a risk factor for depression, alcoholism and suicide.

on a growing list of conditions, including ulcers and migraines, that were once attributed to neurosis but are now known to have neurobiological bases.

Tags: insomnia, neurobiolgy, mental health