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Musical roller-coaster!
'My kind of music' reveals a lot about who we really are, in a way that that goes beyond vanity. Does sound affects us in more ways than we know?
A] 4 ways sound affects us:
Do open-plan offices reduce productivity; does noise repel customers? Why are marching bands popular in schools/ colleges before sports meets? Why are we calmed by the sounds of waves lapping or birds chirping? Why does silence make people uncomfortable after some time? Don't we instinctively choose music to turn-on a date or drown out irksome people. Can sound be used by individuals and businesses to create a more conducive environment? A fascinating TED talk by @juliantreasure explores the many ways sounds enhances productivity and destroys calm. What I find particularly interesting is that we often work with irritating sounds, masking them with louder music, but our senses detect the conflict even when we don't recognise it.What's your favourite mood-altering music?
B] 'How to lead'
Lets play a small game: Imagine yourself conducting an orchestra, before you watch this video.
Itay Talgam shares footage of 6 great orchestra conductors and how they lead with non-verbal signals - with amusing, and more often spectacular results. This amusing and thought provoking talk is a surprising exploration of leadership styles.The 'business' question it left me with: Do we treat employees as instruments or partners in growth?
These talks also brought home vividly that we can't mask what makes us all human - the ability to laugh and to choose, being happy.
Absolutely Beautiful Pictures of Weimaraners
I've probably said this before, but I'm a total sucker for dogs.
How to write a blog using Google Wave Robot for Posterous
Note: If you have problem with inputing the password, change your browser to Firefox. Currently, Google Wave has a lot of bugs with webkit browser.
Using Google Wave? And have a Posterous account? Now you can write your posterous blog in Google Wave now!
The Google Wave Robot for Posterous is built using Posterous API and Google Wave Robot Python Library. I will explain here how to use it.
1.In Google Wave, add posterous-robot@appspot.com in your contact.
2.Start a new Wave, and add posterous-robot@appspot.com as a participant.
3.There will be a form in the wave. Click "Done" and fill out the form using your Posterous account. Click "Login to Posterous".
4.Now you can post through Google Wave Robot for Posterous. Start a new wave and add the robot like in step 2. Edit the root wavlet's title and body.
5.Click "Done" and your post will be sent. You will get a post.ly url for your new post. Congratulations!
The Saddest Dog In the World
Is this dog really sad, or is this his normal look? Either way, I can't stop staring at the adorable pup.
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Armadillo Aerospace lunar lander qualification video
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Saturday morning diversion: the million dollar hole in one
A little Saturday morning diversion. The best part of the video is watching the celebration. -----
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Hubble telescope images show universe in more detail than ever before | Mail Online
First awesome pictures from refurbished Hubble telescope
Space has never looked more beautiful.
These stunning images - taken by the rejuvenated Hubble space telescope - have captured the jewel-bright colours of colliding galaxies, exploding stars and glowing nebulae.
They are Hubble's first deep space photos since its repair mission in May and are sharper than any images taken before by the orbiting satellite.
This celestial object - NGC 6302 - looks like a delicate butterfly but is far from serene: What resemble dainty butterfly wings are actually boiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit
The new views include colourful far-flung galaxies, a densely packed star cluster and a butterfly-shaped nebula - the eruption of gas from a dying star.
Hubble's new suite of instruments, installed during five space walks, are more sensitive and allow it to see everything from ultraviolet light all the way to near-infrared light.
'This marks a new beginning for Hubble,' said Ed Weiler, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.
'The telescope has been given an extreme makeover and is now significantly more powerful than ever - well equipped to last far into the next decade.'
Stars bursting to life in chaotic Carina Nebula: These two images of a huge pillar of star birth demonstrate how observations taken in visible and in infrared light by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal dramatically different views
Closer to home: The planet, Jupiter. Its volume is equal to 1,317 Earths. Hubble snapped the impact zone after a collision with a possible comet. It is the dark blemish at the bottom
Since Hubble was launched in 1990, its images have become some of the most iconic in the history of photography. Nasa says the telescope-should keep working until at least 2014, when it will be replaced by a more powerful observatory to be called the James Webb Space Telescope.
The latest images show the Butterfly Nebula, an extraordinary cluster of gas released from a dying star which lies in our Milky Way galaxy around 3,800 light years away.
Stephan's Quintet: A clash among members of a famous galaxy quintet reveals an assortment of stars across a wide colour range, from young, blue stars to aging, red stars. Stephan’s Quintet, also known as Hickson Compact Group 92, as the name implies, is a group of five galaxies
Omega Centauri: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this view of a colourful assortment of 100,000 stars residing in the crowded core of a giant star cluster. The image reveals a small region inside the globular cluster Omega Centauri, which boasts nearly 10 million stars
The butterfly stretches for two light years - about half the distance between the Sun and our nearest star Alpha Centuri.
The wings of the butterfly are rolling waves of gas heated to more than 36,000F. The gas is tearing across space at 600,000 mph - fast enough to travel from the Earth to the Moon in 24 minutes.
Hubble has also captured the Carina Nebula - a pillar of gas and dust - and a group of five galaxies called Stephan's Quintet which were first spotted in 1877.
Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 6217: This image is the first of a celestial object taken with the newly repaired Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope
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