A New View Of Gravity - Science News

A New View Of Gravity - Science News: "What can you say? It’s just the way things work. All masses attract each other. Maybe to bright middle schoolers you could explain that spacetime is warped by mass. Or, to high schoolers, you could say that without gravity, the laws of physics would differ for people moving at changing velocities. Yet all those increasingly sophisticated answers merely invite another “Why.” As Sir Isaac Newton himself replied in response to similar questions, “hypotheses non fingo.” Which roughly translates as “I don’t have a clue.”"

Atheists Outdo Some Believers in Survey on Religion - NYTimes.com

Atheists Outdo Some Believers in Survey on Religion - NYTimes.com: "Those who scored the highest were atheists and agnostics, as well as two religious minorities: Jews and Mormons."

YouTube - Aquafect Glass Flowers & Laminar Jumpers

YouTube - Aquafect Glass Flowers & Laminar Jumpers: "Colorful laminar water streams jumping into a blown glass flower water feature."

YouTube - David Grady: The Conference Call

YouTube - David Grady: The Conference Call: "David Grady: The Conference Call" Effective meetings

Five Portland Companies Using the Web in New Ways - EnzymePDX

Five Portland Companies Using the Web in New Ways - EnzymePDX

Humanity's digital output: One zettabyte - Mail & Guardian Online: The smart news source

Humanity's digital output: One zettabyte - Mail & Guardian Online: The smart news source: "A zettabyte, incidentally, is roughly half a million times the entire collections of all the academic libraries in the United States."

Approaching the Zettabyte Era� [Visual Networking Index] - Cisco Systems

Approaching the Zettabyte Era� [Visual Networking Index] - Cisco Systems: "'Approaching the Zettabyte Era' is part of the Cisco Visual Networking Index, an ongoing initiative to track and forecast the impact of visual networking applications. This paper presents some of the key findings of Cisco's global IP traffic forecast and explores the implications of IP traffic growth for service providers. For a more detailed look at the forecast and the methodology behind it, please see the paper 'Cisco Visual Networking Index - Forecast and Methodology 2007-2012.'"

Guest Column: Michigan doesn't have to be left dangling in the wind - Opinion - Heritage

Guest Column: Michigan doesn't have to be left dangling in the wind - Opinion - Heritage: "Consumers Energy last month chose Vestas-American Wind Technology Inc. of Portland, Ore., to supply 56 wind turbine generators for its first wind energy park to open in Mason County in 2012.

That's great news for Portland.

Next time, those parts should be made right here in Washtenaw County. And"

Video: Wheelchair Phenom Nails First Double Backflip | Playbook

Video: Wheelchair Phenom Nails First Double Backflip | Playbook: "Video: Wheelchair Phenom Nails First Double Backflip
By Erik Malinowski September 7, 2010 �|� 1:31 pm �|� Categories: Equipment, Fitness, Technique


Double backflips look pretty amazing when done on a bike, but in a wheelchair? Well, that’s never been done before — until now."

Bogleheads :: View topic - After Tax 401K Rollover to Roth IRA, Continued

Bogleheads :: View topic - After Tax 401K Rollover to Roth IRA, Continued: "After Tax 401K Rollover to Roth IRA, Continued"

How being a dick probably saved my life : Pharyngula

How being a dick probably saved my life : Pharyngula: "you know this is one of the warning signs of heart disease. You'd have to be incredibly stupid to ignore this and hope it goes away…until a heart attack comes along to blow your heart up. Jerk. This isn't even a choice."

Practical Process Improvement - About PPI

Practical Process Improvement - About PPI: "PPI teams employ The Eight Step Method�.



What tools are used within The Eight Step Method?

The Eight Step Method incorporates Basic and Statistical Tools. All of the tools are simple and powerful and within the grasp of all enterprise employees. In PPI we avoid complex arithmetic models and focus on practical, easy methods and tools to analyze data."

John Kotter | Chief Innovation Officer, Kotter International | Big Think

John Kotter | Chief Innovation Officer, Kotter International | Big Think: "John Kotter is the Chief Innovation Officer at Kotter International and the author of 15 books about management and change in business. His bestseller 'Leading Change,' outlined an actionable, 8-step process for implementing successful transformations. In 2001, BusinessWeek magazine rated Kotter the #1 'leadership guru' in America"

Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself | Video on TED.com

Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself | Video on TED.com: "After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone, but Derek Sivers says it's better to keep goals secret. He presents research stretching as far back as the 1920s to show why people who talk about their ambitions may be less likely to achieve them."