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Egomaniacs are on the rise, especially within the leadership ranks of companies across the world, which is detrimental to good business outcomes. The ego is one of the biggest barriers to people working together effectively. When people get caught up in their egos, it erodes their effectiveness. 2 Signs That Instantly Identify Someone With Bad Leadership Skills | Inc.co

Our GitHub repo recently received 10,000 stars on GitHub. It hit number one on HackerNews, GitHub Trending, and received 20,000 upvotes on Reddit. This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for a while and with our repo blowing up I figured this would be as good a time as any to write it. How We Write Full Stack JavaScript Apps – Elie Steinbock – Medium

There's something a little gimmicky about celebrating distance purely for distance's sake Last year, speaking to Outside, ultrarunner Rickey Gates made the following observation while reflecting on Mount Marathon, the brief but notoriously brutal mountain race in Seward, Alaska: “There’s a grea A Fast Mile Is More Impressive Than a Slow Marathon | Outside Online

Since its inception, the stock market has been one of the most powerful and consistent sources of wealth creation available. Although stocks see more volatility than other assets, they have also averaged a real return of 6.7% per year between 1925 and 2014, compared to just 2.7% for bonds and 0. Infographic: How Long it Took Billionaires to Earn Their First $1 Million

Evolutionary biologist Daniel E. Lieberman caused an international stir nearly a decade ago when he published a paper showing that running in cushioned sneakers encourages people to hit the ground harder than running barefoot. Going Barefoot Is Good for the Sole - Scientific American

Libraries are treasure troves of stories and resources that are both widely used and collecting dust. Just by showing up, getting a library card, and checking out books (or movies, or TV shows, or internet hotspots), you are supporting your local library. Hipster Summer Reading List 2019

Earlier this year we embarked on a small ferry boat. The day was a stormy one, making conditions perfect for recording white noise in the natural world. We have finally reached our destination: Cape Clear, a small island along the Irish coast. Irish Coast • Ocean Waves, Wind and Rain Noise Generator

Welcome to the Museum Of Obsolete Media, the home for current and obsolete physical media formats, including audio, video, film and data storage. The Museum now covers over 430 formats, to assist with their identification and preservation. Museum of Obsolete Media

My poor daughter. She’s happy and healthy, and has loving parents and a stable home. But, she also has a dad who scours scholarly articles to find the modern consensus on best practices in raising kids. Want to Raise Successful Kids? Science Says Do These 5 Things Every Day | I

Hoogleraar en oud-Denker des Vaderlands René ten Bos is filosoof, en geen managementcoach. Over leiderschap heeft hij dan ook een anti-psychologische opvatting. “Ik geloof niet dat leiderschap gezocht moet worden in specifieke eigenschappen van mensen. René ten Bos doorbreekt de leiderschapsobsessie - Management Impact

This website replays the Apollo 11 mission as it happened, 50 years ago. It consists entirely of historical material, all timed to Ground Elapsed Time--the master mission clock. Apollo 11 in Real-time

Design is a process of divergence and convergence. We receive a project brief, a set of constraints, and set about exploring all the ways to satisfy them. Declarative Design Tools | Jon Gold’s blog

Now a ridiculous book! Spurious charts Fascinating factoids Commentary in the footnotes Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Indie Bound More? Check out the book! Spurious charts Fascinating factoids Commentary in the footnotes Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Indie Bound Other spurious things The old version of this Spurious Correlations

This is a guest post by Aanchal Malhotra, a Graduate Research Assistant at Boston University and former Cloudflare intern on the Cryptography team. Cloudflare has always been a leader in deploying secure versions of insecure Internet protocols and making them available for free for anyone to use. Introducing time.cloudflare.com

Meer aandacht voor de patiënt die weet dat hij niet meer te genezen is. De nieuwe campagne van VWS “Ik heb te horen gekregen dat ik doodga. Maar tot die tijd leef ik,” wil met deze campagne meer aandacht besteden aan de palliatieve zorg. Een hele mooie campagne. Winst — Palliatieve zorg

The marshmallow test is one of the most famous pieces of social-science research: Put a marshmallow in front of a child, tell her that she can have a second one if she can go 15 minutes without eating the first one, and then leave the room. Why Rich Kids Are So Good at the Marshmallow Test - The Atlantic - Pocket

Gone are the days of turning stones into spears. With the advent of new technologies, we’ve learned to develop tools that not only make living faster and easier every day, but also improve the future of humanity as a whole. A Visual History of the Largest Companies by Market Cap (1999-Today)

This site requires Cookies to be enabled to function. Please ensure Cookies are turned on and then re-visit the desired page. Global impact of rotavirus vaccine introduction on rotavirus hospitalisatio

A paper posted online last month has disproved a 53-year-old conjecture about the best way to assign colors to the nodes of a network. The paper shows, in a mere three pages, that there are better ways to color certain networks than many mathematicians had supposed possible. Mathematician Disproves Hedetniemi’s Graph Theory Conjecture | Quanta Magaz

Neck strain and bone spurs are certainly possible from poor posture, but some experts doubt that cellphones are the only culprit. About the Idea That You’re Growing Horns From Looking Down at Your Phone …

You find a lost wallet. Do you return it? Do you think other people would return it? It is a bit of a hassle. "Missing" Wallets with More Cash Are More Likely to Be Returned - Scientifi

Science etc. is a series of shorter visual stories exploring the unexpected aspects of scientific research and their implications. A chronicle of the anti-vaccination movement

At a glance, it may seem like the world’s biggest technology companies have a lot in common. Infographic: The World's 100 Most Valuable Brands in 2019

I'd always imagined learning to make tiny, perfect tortellini from an aging native of Bologna or mastering pillowy agnolotti through a long apprenticeship in an obscure Piedmontese village. How to Make the Perfect Stuffed Pasta - Saveur - Pocket

The kiss between Bella Hadid and Miquela Sousa, part of a Calvin Klein commercial last month, struck many viewers as unrealistic, even offensive. Ms. These Influencers Aren’t Flesh and Blood, Yet Millions Follow Them - The Ne

SAN FRANCISCO — In 1998, Google paid $1,700 a month to rent its first office — half a home, including the garage, in Silicon Valley. What a deal. Google Pledges to Invest $1 Billion to Ease Bay Area Housing Crisis - The N

Paleontologists have discovered the remains of an ancient Loch Ness Monster look-alike in freezing Antarctica. And just like the legendary Nessie, it wasn't the runt of the litter. Ancient 'Loch Ness Monster' from Antarctica Breaks a Record for Body Size

Kilo by Light LightDownload the track now! After 50 years of pointing and clicking, we are celebrating the nearing end of the computer cursor with an ever-changing music video where all our cursors can be seen together for one last time. Do Not Touch

Spending time in natural environments can benefit health and well-being, but exposure-response relationships are under-researched. We examined associations between recreational nature contact in the last seven days and self-reported health and well-being. Spending at least 120 minutes a week in nature is associated with good heal

Vaporized vitamins probably aren’t improving your health. Several companies are selling vaporizers that let you inhale vitamins, essential oils, and herbal supplements. But is this trend safe… or even needed? Vaping Vitamins

This visualization is created and maintained by Ian Webster. See more of my work at ianww.com or email me at ian@dinosaurpictures.org. Plate tectonic and paleogeographic maps by C.R. Scotese, PALEOMAP Project. For more information visit: https://www.earthbyte. Ancient Earth globe

First things first: Getting up early is not a prerequisite for success. Even though The Wall Street Journal says that 4 a.m. may be the most productive time of the day, the most successful people wake and work whenever the (heck) they decide works best for them. How to Turn Yourself Into a Morning Person, Backed By Science | Inc.com

Today sucked. You felt tense, stressed, and sulky. Want tomorrow to be different? Want to be in a better mood the whole day? It's easy: Work out early, for about 20 minutes, before you start your day. The 20-Minute Morning Routine Guaranteed to Make Your Day Better | Inc.com

As much as we like PPAs, they’re complicated to arrange, which is why we’ve also begun to partner with utility companies. In four U.S. states, we’ve helped design programs that enable businesses to buy renewable energy through their power provider. 100 percent renewable energy, for the second year in a row

TL;DR This analysis has been poisoning my life for over a year. Here are some nice charts. Now I can move on. I’ve been working on this project for way too long. I think I wrote the first line of code on it in November 2017. Well, it is February 2019 now, so… Yeah. Where are the places with the best (and the worst) weather in the United St

The ultimate limit of human endurance has been worked out by scientists analysing a 3,000 mile run, the Tour de France and other elite events. They showed the cap was 2.5 times the body's resting metabolic rate, or 4,000 calories a day for an average person. Ultimate limit of human endurance found - BBC News

When quantum mechanics was first developed a century ago as a theory for understanding the atomic-scale world, one of its key concepts was so radical, bold and counter-intuitive that it passed into popular language: the “quantum leap. Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time | Quanta Magazin

Ik hoor vaak mensen klagen over visitekaartjes. Dat ze van papier zijn, dat de hartvormige altijd gaan ezelsoren, dat je ’s avonds al niet meer weet van wie ze waren, en dat je altijd de verkeerde bewaard hebt. Ik snap dat nooit. Ik vind visitekaartjes heerlijk. Hoe meer er op je visitekaartje staat hoe minder je voorstelt - NRC

General Motors has announced that it will be testing Michelin's new generation of airless wheel technology, with the view of introducing it on the company's passenger vehicles as early as 2024. GM wants to take the air out of tyres | Stuff.co.nz

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The finding was part of a wider study which also discovered 10,000-year-old human remains in another site in Siberia are genetically related to Native Americans – the first time such close genetic links have been discovered outside of the US. DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of anci

Yale researchers have found a way to catch and save Schrödinger's famous cat, the symbol of quantum superposition and unpredictability. Physicists can predict the jumps of Schrodinger's cat (and finally save it)

"Noncoding" Mutations May Play Unexpected Key Role in Autism - Scientific A

These days, planes, trains, and automobiles can deliver us to any destination we can name. But how often can we say we know the origins of those names? Infographic: Visualizing the World's 100 Biggest Islands

Scan BigQuery for sensitive data using Cloud DLP | Google Cloud Blog

Google's AI subsidiary Deep Mind has built its reputation building systems that learn to play games by playing each other, starting with little more than the rules and what constitutes a win. Quake III Arena is the latest game to see AI top humans | Ars Technica

The Teachable Machine allows you to quickly and interactively train a computer vision system to recognize objects simply by offering up examples to a camera and pressing one of four buttons to select the classification. As in previous Teachable Machine incarnations (Creative Lab, and Tensorflow. Teachable Machine | Coral

Predicting the end of civilisation 11 minutes Civilisation peaked in 1940 and will collapse by 2040: the data-based predi

“Do you believe in magic?” Google asked attendees of its annual developer conference this May, playing the seminal Lovin’ Spoonful tune as an introduction. 'A white-collar sweatshop': Google Assistant contractors allege wage theft

PARADIGM SHIFT is an overused term. Properly, it refers to a radical change of perspective on a topic, such as the move from the physics of Newton to the physics of Einstein, or the introduction of plate tectonics into geology. Such things are rare. More evidence that autism is linked to gut bacteria - Autism-spectrum disor