Professor Forgas said: “Whereas positive mood seems to promote creativity, flexibility, co-operation and reliance on mental shortcuts, negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking, paying greater attention to the external world.” The study also found that sad people were better at stating their case through written arguments, which... - http://anaulin.tumblr.com/post...
A wearable conditioning device that detects if you’re smiling and provides pain feedback if you’re not. Frowning creates intense pain but a full smile leaves you pain free! - http://anaulin.tumblr.com/post...
You're developing that in your 20% or is it a declared company objective? Just so I can make up my mind about you, thanks :-)))
- Iván Rivera
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The iPhone doesn’t support garbage collection; it’s not fast enough. So iPhone apps tend to “leak memory,” or hang on to memory too long. Developers I’ve interviewed—even Apple Design Award winners—have mentioned to me that their iPhone apps are leaking memory almost constantly because they’re too lazy to be really anal about manual memory... - http://anaulin.tumblr.com/post...
So the actual interesting question is if happiness() depends on hairlength or hairlength'. Ana likes change so I'd guess hairlength' it is.
- Henner Zeller
Terry Tao has a proof that Rob's hair is infinitely long.
- j1m
Clearly this calls for some double-blind controlled studies.
- Jim Norris
The technical name for the new depression chamber was “vertical chamber apparatus,” though Harlow himself insisted on calling it the “pit of despair.” He had at first wanted to call it the “dungeon of despair,” and also used terms like “well of despair,” and “well of loneliness.” Blum writes that his colleagues tried to persuade him to not to use... - http://anaulin.tumblr.com/post...
If you’re a locked-in Verizon customer, this thing isn’t half bad. But in the world of smartphones, it’s another Android device that doesn’t advance the platform. I can’t believe I’ve even found three paragraphs to write about it. - http://anaulin.tumblr.com/post...
Western laziness is quite different. It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so there is no time at all to confront the real issues. This form of laziness lies in our failure to choose worthwhile applications for our energy. - http://anaulin.tumblr.com/post...
The goodwill captured inside these skeins is palpable—you hold it in your hands, notice the unfussy look of it, and you realize that your sweater, made from this stuff, is going to make the world a better place—FOR JEEPER’S SAKE GET BUSY! - http://anaulin.tumblr.com/post...
The two pilots of a Northwest Airlines jet that overshot a Minneapolis airport by 150 miles last week might have lost track of time partly because they were using laptops, a violation of company policy - http://anaulin.tumblr.com/post...
This reminds me of the 50s science fiction story where, during a long war, one of the problems is missiles carry guidance computers, and those computers are heavy, so they use up a lot of fuel. Our hero discovers that humans can perform these same calculations, a long-forgotten art from the age before computers. And then they realize that, since humans are much lighter than computers, they can gain advantage by teaching army men to do math, and launching them on death missions in the missiles.
- j1m
Bromide compounds, especially potassium bromide, were frequently used as sedatives in the 19th and early 20th century. This gave the word “bromide” its colloquial connotation of a boring cliché, a bit of conventional wisdom overused as a sedative. - http://anaulin.tumblr.com/post...
It’s why we knit, right? To take on horrible problems, fix them, and move on to the next one. It’s so much easier than real life. - http://anaulin.tumblr.com/post...
The LHC, they suggest, may be sabotaging itself from the future — twisting time to generate a series of scientific setbacks that will prevent the machine fulfilling its destiny. - http://anaulin.tumblr.com/post...