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18 Five-Minute Decluttering Tips to Start Conquering Your Mess

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:40:27 GMT

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“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” - Albert Einstein

Designate a spot for incoming papers

Start clearing a starting zone

Clear off a counter

Pick a shelf

Schedule a decluttering weekend

Pick up 5 things, and find places for them

Spend a few minutes visualizing the room

Create a “maybe” box

Put a load in your car for charity

Create a 30-day list

Teach your kids where things belong

Set up some simple folders

Learn to file quickly

Pull out some clothes you don’t wear

Clear out your medicine cabinet

Pull everything out of a drawer

Learn to love the uncluttered look

Have a conversation with your SO or roommate

“We don’t need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.” - Donald Horban

Bet you didn't know....

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:48:00 GMT

clipped by: Deepti

Clip Source: www.theatlantic.com

Keith Richards is evacuated from suburban London to escape German buzz bombs, 1944

Joan of Arc begins to hear voices, 1424

Marie Antoinette is packed off to be married to the heir to the throne of France, 1770. She is stripped naked and carefully inspected at the French border

Allen Stewart Konigsberg changes his name to Woody Allen. He sees his first Bergman film, Summer With Monika, 1952

Kurt Cobain leaves home and finds work as a hotel cleaner but is fired for sleeping in the rooms, 1984

Zsa Zsa Gabor is chosen to be Miss Hungary, 1936

Joan of Arc is burned at the stake, 1431

Clyde Barrow meets Bonnie Parker, 1930

Anne Boleyn marries Henry VIII, 1533

Adolf Hitler grows his famous mustache, 1919

Einstein completes his General Theoryof Relativity, 1915

Marilyn Monroe dies in her Brentwood, California, home of an overdose of barbiturates, 1962

Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car accident in Paris, 1997

Coco Chanel introduces Chanel No. 5 perfume, 1921

Columbus sails the ocean blue, 1492

Tags: history, events, figures, years

BIG BANG OR BIG BOUNCE ?

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:50:05 GMT

clipped by: klippety
clipper's remarks: The Genesis of The Universe may just be different after all

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

Big Bang or Big Bounce?: New Theory on the Universe's Birth

Einstein’s general theory of relativity says that the universe began with the big bang singularity, a moment when all the matter we see was concentrated at a single point of infinite density. But the theory does not capture the fine, quantum structure of spacetime, which limits how tightly matter can be concentrated and how strong gravity can become. To figure out what really happened, physicists need a quantum theory of gravity.

According to one candidate for such a theory, loop quantum gravity, space is subdivided into “atoms” of volume and has a finite capacity to store matter and energy, thereby preventing true singularities from existing.

If so, time may have extended before the bang. The prebang universe may have undergone a catastrophic implosion that reached a point of maximum density and then reversed. In short, a big crunch may have led to a big bounce and then to the big bang.

Forget black holes, could the LHC trigger a “Bose supernova”?

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:29:00 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: Nobody is exactly sure how these explosions proceed which is a tad worrying for the following reason: some clever clogs has pointed out that superfluid helium is a BEC and that the LHC is swimming in 700,000 litres of the stuff. Not only that but the entire thing is bathed in some of the most powerful magnetic fields on the planet.

If not for anything else, the LHC has become a modern doom spelling myth. The universe is about to punish us for prying on its privacy...
These modern myths are truly fascinating.

After Bose Nova? Bose Supernova!

Clip Source: arxivblog.com

The fellas at CERN have gone to great lengths to reassure us all that they won’t destroy the planet (who says physicists are cold hearted?).

The worry was that the collision of particles at the LHC’s high energies could create a black hole that would swallow the planet. We appear to be safe on that score but it turns out there’s another way in which some people think the LHC could cause a major explosion.

The worry this time is about Bose Einstein Condensates, lumps of matter so cold that their constituents occupy the lowest possible quantum state.

Physicists have been fiddling with BECs since the early 1990s and have become quite good at manipulating them with magnetic fields.

But get this: in 2001, Elizabeth Donley and buddies at JILA in Boulder, Colorado, caused a BEC to explode by switching the forces like. These explosions have since become known as Bose supernovas.

Tags: lhc, physics, bose condensates

mms

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:58:46 GMT

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Clip Source: www.appleinsider.com

Text messaging email addresses for US carriers

The Xs should be replaced with your friend's 10 digit mobile phone number:

Alltel = xxxxxxxxxx@message.alltel.com
Amp’d Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@vtext.com
AT&T = xxxxxxxxxx@mms.att.net
Boost Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@myboostmobile.com
Cingular (AT&T) = xxxxxxxxxx@mms.mycingular.com
Einstein PCS = xxxxxxxxxx@einsteinmms.com
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Sprint = xxxxxxxxxx@messaging.sprintpcs.com or xxxxxxxxxx@pm.sprint.com
T-Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@tmomail.net
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Verizon Wireless = xxxxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com
Virgin Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@vmobl.com

Angel or Demon: Could the LHC Trigger a Bose Supernova?

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:29:28 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: More press sensationalism chasing loose ideas.

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

You would be excused for getting the wrong impression from the above heading. We know that the Large Hadron Collider probably won’t suck us into an impromptu black hole, but new thoughts have suggested that the LHC could trigger a Bose supernova.

However, these supernovas have nothing to do with speakers that may be inhabiting your lounge room or car – though the idea for a fictional story is tantalizing – but rather with Bose Einstein Condensates.

Bose Einstein Condensate’s are matter that has become so cold, that their constituents occupy the lowest possible quantum state. Physicists have been experimenting with Bose Einstein Condensate, or BEC’s, since the early 1990’s, and have subsequently become quite adept at manipulating them in controlled conditions.

However in 2001, Elizabeth Donley and colleagues at JILA at the University of Colorado, Boulder, managed to cause a BEC to explode. These explosions, since labeled Bose supernovas, are a mystery to scientists,

Tags: science fiction

Catching the Bug of Synchronicity - by Paul Levy

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:39:15 GMT

clipped by: arifsali
clipper's remarks: Jung’s discovery of synchronicity was in a sense the parallel in the realm of psychology to Einstein’s discovery of the law of relativity in physics.

Clip Source: www.awakeninthedream.com

Synchronicities are those moments of “meaningful coincidence” when the boundary dissolves between the inner and the outer. At the synchronistic moment, just like a dream, our internal, subjective state appears, as if materialized in, as and through the outside world. Touching the heart of our being, synchronicities are moments in time in which there is a fissure in the fabric of what we have taken for reality and there is a bleed through from a higher dimension outside of time. Synchronicities are expressions of the dreamlike nature of reality, as they are moments in time when the timeless, dreamlike nature of the universe shines forth its radiance and openly reveals itself to us, offering us an open doorway to lucidity.

Synchronicity was one of Jung’s most profound yet least understood discoveries, in part because it cannot be appreciated until we personally step into and experience the synchronistic realm for ourselves.

Tags: psychology

Research Quotes

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:14:53 GMT

clipped by: SmoothChris

Clip Source: thinkexist.com

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

Interpretations of Famous People by Ray, Sign and Life Emphasis

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:00:44 GMT

clipped by: bakancs
clipper's remarks: Alphabetical List of Famous Individuals
Names in Bold have Astro-Rayological Interpretations
all [392 individuals] to have horoscope, biographies, quotes and photos

Clip Source: www.makara.us

Astro-Rayology

Interpretations of Famous People by Ray, Sign and Life Emphasis

Makara.us home

to all Astrological Interpretations by Michael D. Robbins

to other commentary and projects by Michael D. Robbins

Updated May 2008

Alphabetical List of Famous Individuals

Names in Bold have Astro-Rayological Interpretations
all [392 individuals] to have horoscope, biographies, quotes and photos

Johann Sebastian Bach
Sir Francis Bacon
Roger Bacon
Joan Baez
Alice Bailey
Karl Barth
Bela Bartok
Clara Barton
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Ludwig von Beethoven
Alexander Graham Bell
Vincenzo Bellini
Cyrano de Bergerac
Hector Berlioz
Sarah Bernhardt
Leonard Bernstein
Annie Besant
Osama Bin Laden
Otto von Bismarck
Tony Blair
William Blake
Helena P. Blavatsky
Robert Bly
Niels Bohr
Simon Bolivar

Augustus Caesar
Julius Caesar
Cagliostro (

Carlos Casteneda
Fidel Castro

Amelia Earhart
Mary Baker Eddy
Thomas Alva Edison
Albert Einstein
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth II
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Desideius Erasmus

How A Catholic Priest Gave Us The Primeval Atom Theory

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:37:13 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Returning to Belgium in 1925, where he worked at the Catholic University of Leuven as a part-time lecturer, his big break came two years later in 1927 when he proposed his theory of an expanding Universe to explain the movement of the galaxies, published in the Annals of the Scientific Society of Brussels.

Lemaitre was still pretty hazy about how the process of expansion could have begun. Like many scientists, he was still committed to the idea of a static Universe of unchanging size...

Einstein, though interested, was largely dismissive, telling Lemaitre that, "Your calculations are good, but your physics is terrible". Einstein was also a little suspicious of the religious implications of these ideas. He declined to describe himself as an atheist (or a theist, or a pantheist) and liked to use the vocabulary of religion, most famously in his misguided rejection of much of quantum physics, "God does not play dice!"

British physicist, Fred Hoyle coined the Big Bang term

Clip Source: www.americanchronicle.com

In addition to discovering these galaxies, Hubble also discovered something significant about them. Just as the pitch of a siren on an emergency vehicle changes as it drives past us - because the length of the sound waves change as they become more distant according to the Doppler effect - so too the light from distant objects can tell us whether they are moving closer or drifting away.

Together with Milton L. Humason, Hubble showed that the galaxies were moving further away from us

But, unknown to either of them, Hubble was actually beaten to the basic idea of Hubble’s Law by a Belgian priest, Fr. Georges Lemaitre. Lemaitre trained as a Jesuit priest, served in the Belgian Army during the remorseless slaughter of World War One, and then became a student of astronomy and mathematics. He studied in Cambridge in England, then in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the Harvard Observatory and finally the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Tags: hubble, einstein, hoyle, fr. georges lemaitre, hawkings

The Free Information Society - Historical Audio plus

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:41:46 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman
clipper's remarks: I have clipped just a few historical audio clips but the site contains all types of media on many subjects

Clip Source: www.freeinfosociety.com

Armstrong, Neil: One Small Step For Man

Battle of Midway: Eyewitness Account

Castro, Fidel: Cuban Revolution

Churchill, Winston: Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat

Cleveland, Grover: Political Independence

Death of John F. Kennedy Announcement

Edison, Thomas: Message to the American People

Einstein, Albert: Nuclear Weapons

Gandhi, Mahatma: Soldier of Peace

Goebbels, Joseph: Total War

Harding, Warren: Nationalism and Americanism

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald: Berlin Address

Lennon, John: Jesus Comment

Mandela, Nelson: Freedom For All

McCarthy, Joseph: Traitors Are Not Gentlemen

Nixon and Khrushchev: The Kitchen Debate

Pearl Harbor Attack: CBS Announcement

Reagan, Ronald: Evil Empire

Thatcher, Margaret: Falkland Islands

Clip Source: www.freeinfosociety.com

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Electronic Circuit Schematics

Electronics

Funny Stuff and Memes

History

Maps

Miscellaneous

Movie and Television Quotes

Clip Source: www.freeinfosociety.com

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Creativity still a mystery

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:38:24 GMT

clipped by: bjkeltz
clipper's remarks: just because we write does not mean we process only verbally. Very interesting 4 page article on some of the greatest thinkers over 100 years (including Einstein).

Clip Source: www.creativity-portal.com

Chilean novelist Isabel Allende, too, plans her books “in a very organic way. Books don’t happen in my mind, they happen somewhere in my belly… I don’t know what I’m going to write about because it has not yet made the trip from the belly to the mind. It is somewhere hidden in a very somber and secret place where I don’t have any access yet. It is something that I’ve been feeling but which has no shape, no name, no tone, and no voice.” (16)

Tags: creativity, empathy, emotion, great thinkers

Success in life

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:18:32 GMT

clipped by: joturtle

Clip Source: quotes4all.net

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

SIZE MATTERS- CERTAIN AREAS

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:57:11 GMT

clipped by: klippety
clipper's remarks: Your brain and the capacity for problem solving depends to a certain degree on the size in specific areas.....

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

High-Aptitude Minds: The Neurological Roots of Genius

Researchers are finding clues to the basis of brilliance in the brain

Smarter brains tend to be bigger—at least in certain locations. Researchers have fingered parts of the parietal and frontal lobes as well as a structure called the anterior cingulate as important for superior cognition.

Some studies suggest that the brains of brighter people use less energy to solve certain problems than those of people with lower aptitudes do. But under certain circumstances, scientists have also observed higher neuronal power consumption in individuals with superior mental capacities.

People often overestimate the importance of intellectual ability. Practice and perseverance contribute more to accomplishment than being smart does.

Within hours of his demise in 1955, Albert Einstein’s brain was salvaged, sliced into 240 pieces and stored in jars for safekeeping.

Most studies show that smarter brains are typically bigger—at least in certain locations

Long-lost Einstein telescope restored

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:16:23 GMT

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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

JERUSALEM - Albert Einstein's long-lost telescope, forgotten for decades in a Jerusalem storage shed, goes on display this week after three years and $10,000 spent restoring the relic.

The old reflecting telescope is cumbersome by modern standards, but a demonstration for The Associated Press showed it still works well enough to see five of Jupiter's moons and stripes on the surface of the huge planet.

The legendary physicist who famously theorized relations among energy, speed and mass received the telescope in 1954, the year before he died. It was a gift from a friend named Zvi Gizeri, who probably made it himself, said officials at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem where the public will be able to view the telescope starting Thursday.

Einstein, who was a co-founder of the Hebrew University, willed his records to the school. There were rumors through the years that he also left a telescope, but it took modern sleuthing and some luck to find it.

Tags: einstein, telescope