Friday, January 8, 2016
Thursday, January 7, 2016
Wow!
I hope this video works. If not, check this young lady out at the link below. What she does is amazing!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BAEvFjqgUMR/
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
A Smart Lady
From The Root -
Tuskegee University Scientist Wins $1,100,000 Cancer Research Grant
Hadiyah-Nicole Green, an assistant professor at the university, won the grant to develop a cancer treatment.
Hadiyah-Nicole Green YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT
Hadiyah-Nicole Green is in a league of her own.
She was the second African-American woman to receive a doctorate in physics from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. And today she's an assistant professor at Tuskegee University and stands as one of fewer than 100 black female physicists in the U.S.—in a field that is still dominated by white men.
And now Green has added another notch to her belt: She is the winner of a $1.1 million grant to develop a cancer treatment involving lasers and nanoparticles, AL.com reports.
After losing her aunt and uncle—who raised Green after the passing of her parents—to cancer, she took a particular interest in research. And Green subsequently decided to use her background in lasers and optics to explore treatments for cancer.
In the interview with AL.com, Green described how she felt after learning that she'd won the prestigious award. "I was completely overwhelmed with joy, with thanksgiving, humbled at the opportunity that a group of my peers thought that my work was worthy for such a grant," she said. "This is a huge door opening. It outlines a path to take this treatment to clinical trial."
http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2016/01/tuskegee_university_scientist_wins_1_100_000_cancer_research_grant.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content%26
Brain Boosters or Brain Farts
From Vox -
Americans are hooked on brain-boosting apps. Your father or grandmother might buy programs like Lumosity in the hopes that its appealing marketing claims will be realized: Just a few minutes of puzzle solving each day will make you smarter, boost your memory, and stave off conditions like dementia and Alzheimer's. Altogether, consumers now spend $1 billion every year on brain games.
The problem with these programs: They're a load of hooey. For years, researchers have looked into brain games and found that they simply don't have the real-world benefits they purport to.
Now the federal government's starting to crack down. On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission announced that Lumos Labs, the developer of the "brain training" program Lumosity, will pay out $2 million to settle deceptive advertising charges. (Read the complaint here.)
http://www.vox.com/2016/1/6/10724096/science-brain-games-lumosity
About That Fire
From The National -
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| The Address Hotel in Dubai. The name is ironic because there are no street addresses in this country. |
The companies that made and installed the exterior panels on The Address Downtown Dubai hotel say that most of the towers built in the city prior to 2012 used non-fire-rated exterior cladding.
The disclosure comes as investigators probe the causes of the spectacular blaze which was beamed across millions of TV screens worldwide on New Year’s Eve.
An investigation by The National into the origins and specification of the exterior panels used on the building raises serious questions over the fire safety of hundreds of buildings.
The fire has again shone the spotlight on aluminium composite panels which have been used to cover high rise buildings countrywide and have been linked to several high-rise fires in the UAE and overseas.
Fire consultants interviewed by The National this week have also raised questions over the quality of some fire testing undertaken on buildings in the emirate prior to the introduction of new building codes in 2012.
Officials at the company that made the composite panels used on the tower as well as the company that installed them say that most of the buildings constructed during the city’s property boom years did not use fire-rated panels.
It has huge implications for insurers underwriting such buildings as well as owners associations, property developers and the people living in them.
It also poses a challenge for building owners seeking to mitigate fire risk while avoiding the massive costs associated with replacing often highly flammable exterior cladding.
For more go to:
http://www.thenational.ae/business/property/most-dubai-towers-built-before-2012-have-non-fire-rated-exterior-panels
Double Standard Hypocrisy
Eugene Robinson from the Washington Post writes:
What do you think the response would be if a bunch of black people, filled with rage and armed to the teeth, took over a federal government installation and defied officials to kick them out? I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t be wait-and-see.
Probably more like point-and-shoot.
Or what if the occupiers were Mexican American? They wouldn’t be described with the semi-legitimizing term “militia,” harking to the days of the patriots. And if the gun-toting citizens happened to be Muslim, heaven forbid, there would be wall-to-wall cable news coverage of the “terrorist assault.” I can hear Donald Trump braying for blood.
Not to worry, however, because the extremists who seized the remote Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Oregon on Saturday are white. As such, they are permitted to engage in a “standoff” with authorities who keep their distance lest there be needless loss of life.
Such courtesy was not extended to Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old Cleveland boy who was playing with a toy gun in a park on Nov. 22, 2014. Within seconds of arriving on the scene, police officer Timothy Loehmann shot the boy, who died the next day. Prosecutors led a grand jury investigation and announced last month that Loehmann would face no charges. A “perfect storm of human error” was blamed, and apparently storms cannot be held accountable.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-oregon-standoff-and-the-dividing-lines-of-race-ethnicity-and-religion/2016/01/04/312364c8-b325-11e5-a76a-0b5145e8679a_story.html?wpisrc=nl_rainbow
Monday, January 4, 2016
How Close Do You Live to Your Mom?
From Stumbleupon -
How Close You Live To Your Mom Depends On Two Crucial Factors
When you were younger did you use to stare out your window thinking, "Ugh, I can't wait to grow up and get out the hell out of this town?" If you did, how far did your daydream take you? Did you imagine making a move across the country? To another state? Another country?
Turns outs, you might not have made it that far. According to a recent study, the typical American lives only 18 miles from their mom.
According to a recent article in The New York Times, depending how close (or far) you live from your parents depends on your income as well as where you grew up.
The data reveal a country of close-knit families, with members of multiple generations leaning on one another for financial and practical support. The trend will continue, social scientists say, as baby boomers need more care in old age, and the growing number of two-income families seek help with child care.The United States offers less government help for caregiving than many other rich countries. Instead, extended families are providing it, whether they never moved apart, or moved back closer when the need arose.
The biggest contributor to people's proximity to their parents is based on their education and income. Wealthier people can afford to pay for childcare services and therefore are more likely to move away. Most times, the move is based on a professional opportunity.
However, geography also plays an important factor.
Families live closest in the Northeast and the South, and farthest apart on the West Coast and in the Mountain States. Part of the reason is probably cultural — Western families have historically been the least rooted — but a large part is geographical: People live farther apart in rural areas.
So which are you?
Stereotypes
I hope that you're able to read this, but if not, please see link below.
Do you agree with this?
http://www.lifehack.org/353713/stereotypes-people-form-within-seconds-of-meeting-you?mid=20160104&ref=mail&uid=789627&feq=daily
Saturday, January 2, 2016
Friday, January 1, 2016
Kid Beats Orbitz & United
A 22 year old kid created an app (Skiplagged) that, according to CNN Money does the following:
Skiplagged helps travelers find cheap tickets through a strategy called "hidden city" ticketing.
The idea is that you buy an airline ticket that has a layover at your actual destination.
Say you want to fly from New York to San Francisco. You book a flight from New York to Portland with a layover in San Francisco and get off there, without bothering to take the last leg of the flight. Sometimes, that can save you money. Flying this way isn't always cheapest, but it often is.
The link to the article and the app are below.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/31/investing/aktarer-zaman-how-i-beat-united-airlines/index.html
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skiplagged-actually-cheap/id823443083?mt=8
Skiplagged helps travelers find cheap tickets through a strategy called "hidden city" ticketing.
The idea is that you buy an airline ticket that has a layover at your actual destination.
Say you want to fly from New York to San Francisco. You book a flight from New York to Portland with a layover in San Francisco and get off there, without bothering to take the last leg of the flight. Sometimes, that can save you money. Flying this way isn't always cheapest, but it often is.
The link to the article and the app are below.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/31/investing/aktarer-zaman-how-i-beat-united-airlines/index.html
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skiplagged-actually-cheap/id823443083?mt=8
A Genius in Our Midst
From Priceonomics -
The Inventor of Auto-Tune
An excerpt -
Auto-Tune — one of modern history’s most reviled inventions — was an act of mathematical genius.
The pitch correction software, which automatically calibrates out-of-tune singing to perfection, has been used on nearly every chart-topping album for the past 20 years. Along the way, it has been pilloried as the poster child of modern music’s mechanization. WhenTime Magazine declared it “one of the 50 worst inventions of the 20th century”, few came to its defense.
But often lost in this narrative is the story of the invention itself, and the soft-spoken savant who pioneered it. For inventor Andy Hildebrand, Auto-Tune was an incredibly complex product — the result of years of rigorous study, statistical computation, and the creation of algorithms previously deemed to be impossible.
Another -
Andy Hildebrand was, in his own words, “not a normal kid.”
A self-proclaimed bookworm, he was constantly derailed by life’s grand mysteries, and had trouble sitting still for prolonged periods of time. School was never an interest: when teachers grew weary of slapping him on the wrist with a ruler, they’d stick him in the back of the class, where he wouldn’t bother anybody. “That way,” he says, “I could just stare out of the window.”
After failing the first grade, Hilbrebrand’s academic performance slowly began to improve. Toward the end of grade school, the young delinquent started pulling C’s; in junior high, he made his first B; as a high school senior, he was scraping together occasional A’s. Driven by a newfound passion for science, Hildebrand “decided to start working [his] ass off” -- an endeavor that culminated with an electrical engineering PhD from the University of Illinois in 1976.
http://priceonomics.com/the-inventor-of-auto-tune/
Quote
An excerpt from The Huffington Post -
Seahawks' Richard Sherman: 'I See A Concussion Movie Every Sunday'
Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman has never been scared to call out the National Football League.
He's been outspoken about his teammates' wages (or lack thereof), he's mocked the NFL's media policies and he blogged about his own concussion, blasting the league for its response to injuries in football.
So perhaps it's no surprise that he gave the NFL a little elbow jab with his quote during a press conference on Wednesday, when he told a reporter (near the 7:15 mark of this video) that he wouldn't be seeing the controversial film "Concussion," which scratches the surface of the NFL's head-injury problem.
"I have not -- I see a concussion movie every Sunday for free," Sherman said with a grin. "Don’t need to go to the theater."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/seahawks-richard-sherman-i-see-a-concussion-movie-every-sunday_56858561e4b014efe0da6f4f
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