Toronto vs. Paris The 10 Types of Crappy Interviewees All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman. Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP Health | Feeling grumpy 'is good for you' In a bad mood? Don't worry - according to research, it's good for you. An Australian psychology expert who has been studying emotions has found being grumpy makes us think more clearly. In contrast to those annoying happy types, miserable people are better at decision-making and less gullible, his experiments showed. While cheerfulness fosters creativity, gloominess breeds attentiveness and careful thinking, Professor Joe Forgas told Australian Science Magazine. 'Eeyore days' The University of New South Wales researcher says a grumpy person can cope with more demanding situations than a happy one because of the way the brain "promotes information processing strategies". He asked volunteers to watch different films and dwell on positive or negative events in their life, designed to put them in either a good or bad mood. Next he asked them to take part in a series of tasks, including judging the truth of urban myths and providing eyewitness accounts of events. Halleluiah! Absolutely right. Ah!
Data brokers sell lists of rape victims, AIDS patients, privacy group finds - Dec. 18, 2013 The World Privacy Forum uncovered these lists, along with several others, while investigating how data brokers collect and sell consumer information. Marketers buy this data so they can target shoppers based on everything from their income to clothing size. Other lists the nonprofit found included the home addresses of police officers, a mailing list for domestic violence shelters (which are typically kept secret by law) and a list of people with addictive behaviors towards drug and alcohol. The mere existence of these lists highlights the need for increased government regulations, said World Privacy Forum executive director Pam Dixon. Related: What your zip code reveals about you "This is where I urge Congress to take action," she said Wednesday at a Senate committee hearing. Currently, data brokers are required by federal law to maintain the privacy of a consumer's data only if it is used for credit, employment, insurance or housing. Related: Find out what Big Data knows about you
The 6 Crappiest Interview Questions All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman. Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman. Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP Pourquoi Google s'intéresse tant à l'allongement de la vie Atlantico : Le géant du web Google a annoncé le lancement d'une nouvelle société : Calico. Cette entreprise sera en charge de s'attaquer au défi "de l'âge et des maladies associées". Pourquoi Google et son dirigeant Larry Page, s'intéressent-ils à cette question de l'allongement de vie ? Daniel Ichbiah : Larry Page par nature, est friand de défis insensés. La spécialité de Brin, c’était le "data mining". Pourtant, très vite, Page s’est donné d’autres défis de même envergure. Il en résulte toutefois que Page et Brin ont une sorte de foi dans le brassage d’immenses volumes de données. Du coup, aux USA, un nouveau marché a progressivement émergé : disposer de son génome sur soi, pourquoi pas dans son iPhone par exemple. Google étant spécialiste du "data mining", il va de soi que ce type de défi puisse intéresser Larry Page : stocker le génome de millions d’individus, et pourquoi pas – je suis sûr que cela lui plairait beaucoup – de la planète entière. Intéressé par cet auteur ? Je m'abonne
Loi de Godwin La loi de Godwin est une loi empirique énoncée en 1990 par Mike Godwin, d'abord relative au réseau Usenet, puis étendue à Internet : Dans un débat, atteindre le point de Godwin revient à signifier à son interlocuteur que son crédit est dorénavant compromis par sa vérification de la loi de Godwin. Par extension, du fait de la polysémie du mot « point » (signifiant à la fois « argument » et « point » en anglais), des « points de Godwin » sont parfois attribués à cet interlocuteur[1]. Au départ relative aux discussions sur des forums virtuels, la loi de Godwin peut s'appliquer à tout type de conversation ou débat ; l'un des interlocuteurs atteint le point de Godwin lorsqu’il en réfère au nazisme, à Hitler ou à la Shoah, pour disqualifier l’argumentation de son adversaire[2]. Concept[modifier | modifier le code] Ce procédé est fréquemment employé comme argument de combat politique[4],[5],[6],[7],[8]. Critique du concept et définition de sa nature réelle[modifier | modifier le code]
Don't know if it was intentional, but a good casting choice. Son remède contre le sida, les labos n'en veulent pas Doux dingue ou vrai inventeur ? Ce retraité de l'industrie pharmaceutique est convaincu d'avoir fait une découverte thérapeutique. Mais qui, selon lui, casserait le business des grands labos. Tout a commencé dans les années 1980. Revenons à sa molécule miracle, l'Amovir. Les traitements actuels du sida rapportent 70.000 euros par an et par patient, payés par la Sécu. Fin de l'histoire ? Etienne Gingembre The Only Way To Create Change Is By Leaving Your Comfort Zone How do we create change? How can we take the lives that we have and make them better? In theory, creating change is simple: figure out what changes you would like to make, figure out what actions to take in order to make those changes a reality and then carry out those actions. The problem is that most of the results that we want are much grander than any single action can accomplish. We don't want $100, we want a million. However, certain aspects of your life may simply be incompatible with the life that you want to live. Being the naturally lazy creatures that we are — always doing our best to make life more pleasurable (or, rather, what we believe would make our lives more pleasurable) — we prefer staying within our comfort zones. The only way for us to change our lives and to change them for good is to relocate our comfort zones. Unfortunately, changing our habits is not easy — for one simple reason: it's uncomfortable. Ideas, concepts or goals alone are not enough to motivate us.
Solar has won. Even if coal were free to burn, power stations couldn't compete | Giles Parkinson Last week, for the first time in memory, the wholesale price of electricity in Queensland fell into negative territory – in the middle of the day. For several days the price, normally around $40-$50 a megawatt hour, hovered in and around zero. Prices were deflated throughout the week, largely because of the influence of one of the newest, biggest power stations in the state – rooftop solar. “Negative pricing” moves, as they are known, are not uncommon. But they are only supposed to happen at night, when most of the population is mostly asleep, demand is down, and operators of coal fired generators are reluctant to switch off. That's not supposed to happen at lunchtime. The influx of rooftop solar has turned this model on its head. The impact has been so profound, and wholesale prices pushed down so low, that few coal generators in Australia made a profit last year. Tony Abbott, the prime minister, likes to say that Australia is a land of cheap energy and he’s half right.