10feb2017

http://observer.com/2017/02/pc-culture-has-created-an-epidemic-of-entitlement-and-it-needs-to-end/
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep41952

06dec2014

touch, decoded?
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-12-scientists-principal-protein-sensor.html

07nov2014

you want to blow your mind? ;-) how about 0-60mph in 2.95secs automatic, 3.2 secs stick shift for ~ $80k!
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-corvette-is-faster-than-hellcat-ferrari-mclaren-2014-11-07

http://www.dnaindia.com/health/report-why-people-forget-details-but-maintain-emotional-reaction-post-traumatic-events-2032555
This may help to understand why in pathological situations of post-traumatic stress disorders, the uncontrolled emotional response linked to the negative event is generated without knowing what causes it.
As explained by Lluis Fuentemilla, project coordinator, the study helps explain how the processing of fearful memories can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder and also opens the door to the investigation of new therapeutic strategies for these disorders because the implicit memory trace in a fearful context does not loose over time and can be detected through electrodermal measures.

run the sewer through the playground?

“If I had to describe my 16 years of corporate work with one phrase, it would be ‘pretending to add value.’ … The key to career advancement is appearing valuable despite all hard evidence to the contrary. … If you add any actual value to your company today, your career is probably not moving in the right direction. Real work is for people at the bottom who plan to stay there.”
Other office workers have presented similar accounts. In The Living Dead, David Bolchover rues “the dominance of image over reality, of obfuscation over clarity, of politics over performance,” and in City Slackers, Steve McKevitt, a disillusioned “business and communications expert,” gloomily declares: “In a society where presentation is everything, it’s no longer about what you do, it’s about how you look like you’re doing it.”
The simulation, the glossing over, the loss of meaning, the jargon, the games, the office politics, the crises, the boredom, the despair, and the sense of unreality—these are ingredients that often reappear in popular accounts of working life. The risk when they only appear in popular culture is that we begin regarding them as metaphors or exaggerations that may well apply to our own jobs but not to work in general. But what would happen if we started taking these “unserious” accounts of working life more seriously?
ref: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/11/the-art-of-not-working-at-work/382121/

yet to read
http://www.capitalberg.com/researchers-reveals-that-quantum-mechanics-could-base-on-string-field-theory-can-lay/21131/
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/532166/with-100-million-entrepreneur-sees-path-to-disrupt-medical-imaging/
http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/why-our-galaxys-black-hole-didnt-eat-that-mystery-object-141104.htm

01nov2014

emotions & their duration
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2815719/Feeling-sad-FIVE-DAYS-shift-mood-Sadness-lasts-240-times-longer-emotions-study-claims.html

First, you scratch, and that causes a sensation of pain. Then you make more serotonin to control the pain. But serotonin does more than only inhibit pain. Our new finding shows that it also makes itch worse by activating GRPR neurons through 5HT1A receptors.
http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2014/10/itch-scratch-more-serotonin

orphan stars?!
http://fxcnews.com/hubble-spots-galactic-horror-show-in-space/15602/

If a central bank wants to buy assets, markets make assets available.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2014/11/01/has-the-bank-of-japan-started-another-round-of-central-bank-wargames/

12sep2014

high protein diet likely to keep bp in check
http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/high-protein-diets-keep-blood-pressure-in-check-114091200249_1.html

for the 1st time, blood group type AB liked with higher likelihood of memory loss later in life
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/UK/Blood-group-linked-to-memory-in-later-life/articleshow/42283374.cms

03aug2014

interesting yet unsurprising deduction
http://www.hngn.com/articles/37814/20140801/humans-developed-more-feminine-faces-when-they-started-using-tools.htm

07mar2014

boredom is a luxury. -- me.

why rejection is painful?
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-squeaky-wheel/201307/ten-surprising-facts-about-rejection

27feb2014

Dalai Lama's take on the Q, "what is the meaning of life?"
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2014/02/dalai_lama_at_a_santa_fe_ski_resort_tells_waitress_the_meaning_of_life.html

a number hard to visualize, let alone measure. 25 trillionths of a second!
http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/physicists-discover-quantum-droplet-in-semiconductor/

an interesting find
http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/13145/20140226/lowering-anxiety-levels-in-the-brain-lowering-ph-levels-may-reduce-anxiety.htm

09feb2014

2 to 3 days worth of work could bring in $50k a day. impressive!
hxxp://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/08/flappy-bird-dong-nguyen-deleting

getting closer to understanding hunger pangs, one neuron at a time
http://www.sciencecodex.com/study_provides_surprising_new_clue_to_the_roots_of_hunger-127545

02feb2014

electron tomography microscope?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24974-first-glimpse-of-how-hiv-swamps-the-guts-immune-cells.html

29dec2013

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.” — Socrates. (an interesting quote!?, possibly a case of sour grapes? ;-) )

something new i came across today, RAAS (renin angiotensin aldosterone system)
article: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/evolutionary-mismatch/article5512897.ece

"to see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." -- George Orwell (i like the it and the sound of it)

26may2010

flying 7100 miles in 9 days - nonStop and that too over featureless oceans. a new benchmark for endurance. that's 'bar-tailed godwit'. read http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/science/25migrate.html?pagewanted=all

08may2010

a discussion on bendford's law, http://www.technologyreview.in/blog/arxiv/25155/

nasa detects signs of life on earth, http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-05/nasa-satellite-discovers-life-earth-which-could-help-it-find-life-elsewhere

brown fat, http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6455AO20100506

14dec2009

why u might want to know abt "telomere," chk out, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8411329.stm