Notre cerveau est génial (et nous ne le savons pas) On sait que c’est l’entité la plus complexe de l’univers connu. Mais les découvertes se multiplient et font exploser tous les schémas. Notre cerveau est bien plus élastique que prévu, ses neurones peuvent même repousser. Et il fonctionne en wifi, relié aux cerveaux des autres. Combiner ces deux approches révolutionnaires, c’est admettre que l’Homo sapiens peut modifier lui-même sa structure – et donc que le monde n’est pas forcément fichu ! 1, un cerveau plastique qui peut voir avec la peau L’idée de plasticité corticale et neuronale ne figure dans aucun programme de médecine avant les années 1990 : les premiers qui en parlent sont ridiculisés, tels Paul Bach-y-Rita et son frère George, deux médecins hors norme qui, à la fin des années 1960, réussissent à sauver leur père, un professeur de tango paralysé par un accident vasculaire cérébral (AVC) et que les neurologues disaient condamné. 2, des trillons de milliards de réseaux neuronaux De nouveaux neurones ?
10 good reasons to implement Scrum There are many good reasons to work with Scrum. The 10 most important are listed here. 1. Competitiveness The requirements of the market change invariably faster and only the ones who are flexible and contemporary can react Time to Market and stay competitive and create themselves a competitive advantage. 2. Scrum allows the incremental development of features. 3. Transparency plays a great deal on various levels of Scrum. 4. Testing is an integrative component of Scrum at every sprint. 5. Regular releases establish the condition to recognize problems on time and react promptly. 6. The period of a project is usually fixed. 7. Scrum is not afraid of changes. 8. Scrum involves all the participants of the project. 9. In opposition to the widespread perspective, Scrum is very good for the development of complex systems and extensive or as the case may be long projects. 10. For more information feel free to contact us.
Pets Share Owners' Diseases When Janet Riordan returned home from a European vacation in January, she expected a storm of tail wagging and barking from her 7-year-old golden retriever, Reggie. The moment she saw him, she knew something was wrong. “He came to me in my arms and appeared to be sobbing. A veterinarian confirmed her fears: Reggie had an aggressive form of lymphoma, a cancer of the white blood cells. Riordan knew the toll that lymphoma could take. “It was devastating,” Riordan said. Pet owners share their homes, their exercise habits and sometimes even their food with their four-legged companions. Now researchers are examining the role that pollutants and other environmental factors play in these dual diseases. “Because our pets share our environments, they are exposed to many of the same pollutants as us,” said Melissa Paoloni, a veterinary oncologist at the National Cancer Institute in Maryland. Scientific research is beginning to reveal some links between their environment and their health.
Being a Great Leader Means You Go First A leader will help your organization steer through tough times; a good leader will have a plan in place already to react quickly to change; a great leader will have course corrected long ago so that you will never know what dangers were in your path. Part of being a great leader is setting your organization on a new course well before anyone else can see it. For this reason, great leaders are often denounced and attacked for taking that first step. Many aspire to be great leaders as we see the spoils after the fact – the corner office, a book deal, corporate perks, power, money, etc. What few understand is that being a great leader means having to stand completely alone with your beliefs. Off all leaders, there are few great leaders. See Around Corners Great leaders see the path before anyone else. How do you replicate that? Know your history. Do the Right Thing Great leaders make the right choice, even when it is not the popular choice. Unwavering
23. Civilisations du cerveau gauche Lucien Israël dans son livre "Cerveau droit, cerveau gauche : cultures et civilisations" fait la distinction entre civilisations basées sur des critères de cerveau droit et, essentiellement aujourd’hui, la civilisation occidentale, fondée sur le mariage, très hémisphère gauche, du génie Grec et de la culture judéo-chrétienne. D’autres civilisations se sont, au cours de l’Histoire, développées selon les puissants préceptes du cerveau gauche, des sumériens, aux égyptiens, en passant par les mayas, de la Chine de Confucius à l’Inde des yogis. Dans les sociétés traditionnelles, l’emprise des dieux, des ancêtres, de la magie est encore déterminante alors que la logique, la raison ou la critique ne sont que secondaires. Ce sont des sociétés qui vivent au rythme de l’hémisphère droit, où l’hémisphère gauche n’est pas encore dominant. Savoir associer les deux L’exemple du Japon A cet égard la culture japonaise offre des particularités très intéressantes.
Rational Team Concert for Scrum Projects : SCRUM como metodología Metodología Ágil: Scrum 1. Introducción 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. “Tanto Scrum como Programación Extrema (XP) requieren que los equipos completen algún tipo de producto potencialmente liberable al final de cada iteración. Este enfoque en entregar código funcional cada poco tiempo significa que los equipos Scrum y XP no tienen tiempo para teorías. En Scrum se realizan entregas parciales y regulares del producto final, priorizadas por el beneficio que aportan al receptor del proyecto. Scrum también se utiliza para resolver situaciones en que no se está entregando al cliente lo que necesita, cuando las entregas se alargan demasiado, los costes se disparan o la calidad no es aceptable, cuando se necesita capacidad de reacción ante la competencia, cuando la moral de los equipos es baja y la rotación alta, cuando es necesario identificar y solucionar ineficiencias sistemáticamente o cuando se quiere trabajar utilizando un proceso especializado en el desarrollo de producto. 1. 2. Inspección y adaptación 1.
Gender bias: ethical implications of an empirical finding. | Doing Good Science By now, you may have seen the recently published study by Ross-Macusin et al. in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences entitled “Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students”, or the nice discussion by Ilana Yurkiewicz of why these findings matter. Briefly, the study involved having science faculty from research-focused universities rate materials from potential student candidates for a lab manager position. The researchers attached names to the application materials — some of them male names, some of them female names — at random, and examined how the ratings of the materials correlated with the names that were attached to them. What they found was that the same application materials got a higher ranking (i.e., a judgment that the applicant would be more qualified for the job) when the attached name was male than when it was female. Moreover, both male and female faculty ranked the same application more highly when attached to a male name.
Create The Next Angry Birds Or Instagram Using Only A Web Browser Do you have a terrific app concept in your head, but don’t know how to explain it, let alone create it? Fluid UI might have the tool for you. Mobile Mockups lets you design apps using only a Web browser. Featuring drag and drop technology, Mobile Mockups offers an easy and effective way to design iPhone, iPad, and Android apps in minutes. To get started, you’ll be asked to setup an account on the Fluid UI website. Now the fun begins. Using the site’s live editor, you can select objects to include on your design. Adding new objects is as easy as dragging them into your virtual device and then positioning them accordingly. Don’t like how your mockup looks? It really works! According to Fluid UI’s Ian Hannigan, their goal was to create an easy and inexpensive tool for users to validate their app ideas and designs during the early stages without barriers. Indeed they got this right. I especially like the tool’s export capabilities, which makes sharing your designs a breeze.
Comment notre cerveau détermine quand un visage est réellement un visage ? Nos cerveaux (droit et gauche) sont faits pour trouver des visages. En fait, ils sont si performants pour capter les visages humains que parfois nous en apercevons dans un fatras de roches, un nuage dans le ciel, ou dans certains cratères de la Lune ou de Mars… Mais une autre chose étonnante au sujet de notre cerveau, c’est que nous ne nous trompons jamais réellement en pensant que c’est une vraie personne qui nous regarde. Nous pourrions faire un deuxième focus, mais les cerveaux les plus normaux peuvent faire la différence entre un homme et un lavabo du premier coup. Les neuroscientifiques de l’Institut de technologie du Massachusetts (MIT) ont voulu étudier comment le cerveau décide exactement de ce qui est et n’est pas un visage. Pawan Sinha, professeur de sciences cognitives et du cerveau au MIT et ses élèves, ont créé un cortège d’images allant de celles ne ressemblant en rien aux visages à d’authentiques visages. Ci-dessous : le visage de Mars.
Top 10 Issues Implementing Agile (Okay, 14) | Kelly's Contemplation February 28, 2011 by rkelly976 I really hope you have enjoyed this 3 part series focused on Agile concepts for the ‘traditional’ waterfall project managers. I truly hope this has opened your eyes to the world of Agile and that you enjoyed the first two posts by Derek and Peter. Without delay, I want to get into to the last installment and guest contribution by Mark Levison. Mark brings over 20 years of experience to this post and is now a Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile Coach. Let’s get to it and don’t forget to share your thoughts, experiences, and questions. I’ve been practicing and coaching Agile in one guise or another for nearly a decade. Mindset change – when you catch yourself in the trap of saying “this is just like what we’re already doing except…” you’ve missed the key point. While I’ve made it sound difficult and challenging (and it is), nonetheless the journey can be among the most rewarding a software development team can make. Like this: Like Loading...