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Researchers posit that 50% of our happiness set-point comes from genetics, while 10% is determined by our circumstances (like our job, marital status, wealth). “The other 40% is determined by our habitual thoughts, feelings, words and actions. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

Stress-Busting Moves from the Pros [LHJ] http://ff.im/17UrVX 90% of our thoughts about ourselves are negative, says Alice Domar, PhD, director of the Mind/Body Center for Women's Health at Harvard Medical School and author of Self-Nurture: Learning to Care for Yourself as Effectively as You Care for Everyone Else (Viking, 2000). - Mitchell Tsai

90% of our thoughts about ourselves are negative, says Alice Domar, PhD, director of the Mind/Body Center for Women's Health at Harvard Medical School and author of Self-Nurture: Learning to Care for Yourself as Effectively as You Care for Everyone Else (Viking, 2000). - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

Humans have 12,000-60,000 thoughts per day. As many as 98% are ones we had the day before. 80% of our thoughts are negative. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

"Happy for No Reason" by Marci Shimoff [Experience Life] Our happiness set-point - 50% genetics, 40% thoughts/feelings, 10% life circumstances. We have ~60,000 thoughts/day. 95% habitual ones (same as yesterday) and 80% negative. We need to “incline our mind to joy!” - One way we can do it is to “register the positive.” http://ff.im/17Umhv - Mitchell Tsai

We have at least 65,000 thoughts a day and 65% of them are negative. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

"Happy for No Reason" by Marci Shimoff [Experience Life] Our happiness set-point - 50% genetics, 40% thoughts/feelings, 10% life circumstances. We have ~60,000 thoughts/day. 95% habitual ones (same as yesterday) and 80% negative. We need to “incline our mind to joy!” - One way we can do it is to “register the positive.” http://ff.im/17Umhv - Mitchell Tsai

Our research (on 300+ women) found that women have 13 negative body thoughts daily—nearly one for every waking hour. And a disturbing number of women confess to having 35, 50 or even 100 hateful thoughts about their own shapes each day. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

"Happy for No Reason" by Marci Shimoff [Experience Life] Our happiness set-point - 50% genetics, 40% thoughts/feelings, 10% life circumstances. We have ~60,000 thoughts/day. 95% habitual ones (same as yesterday) and 80% negative. We need to “incline our mind to joy!” - One way we can do it is to “register the positive.” http://ff.im/17Umhv - Mitchell Tsai

Hurricane Sandy (Facebook photo album) https://www.facebook.com/media... - Mitchell Tsai

Nelson, who works at data visualisation company IDV Solutions has a track record visualising natural phenomena: check out his map of the world's earthquakes since 1898 and a map of the rise in US wildfires since 2001. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

How do Section 602(a)(1) of the Copyright Act, which prohibits the importation of a work without the authority of the copyright’s owner, and Section 109(a) of the Copyright Act, which allows the owner of a copy “lawfully made under this title” to sell or otherwise dispose of the copy without the copyright owner’s permission, apply to a copy that was made and legally acquired abroad and then imported into the United States? - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

Range today was 38.00-47.80 (605.55-622.00). 585.1 low in after-market after Q3 earnings. - Mitchell Tsai

I'm 70 years old. My husband, Tim, is 66. For most of our lives, each of us lived and worked in California. Today, our home is wherever we and our 30-inch suitcases are. In short, we're senior gypsies - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

Simply adding an extra dimension of time doesn’t solve everything, however. To produce equations that describe the world accurately, an additional dimension of space is needed as well, giving a total of four space dimensions. Then, the math with four space and two time dimensions reproduces the standard equations describing the basic particles and forces...Describing the 11 dimensions of M theory in the language of two-time physics would require adding one time dimension plus one space dimension, giving nature 11 space and two time dimensions. “The two-time version of M theory would have a total of 13 dimensions." - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

"Time, Space & Knowledge" - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

Consciousness goes in a great cycle or loop, according to the author's direct insight, from its source down through the levels into manifestation and then back to reconnect with unmanifest energy. So long as the reconnecting continues, the process stays open and free, and new forms can easily evolve. When, however, consciousness neglects to revisit its source, the forms of the past begin to weigh it down and evolution's options become increasingly restricted. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

Dr. Eben Alexander III has been an academic neurosurgeon for the last 25 years, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women's and the Children's Hospitals and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Over his academic career he authored or co-authored over 150 chapters and papers in peer reviewed journals, and made over 200 presentations at conferences and medical centers around the world. He thought he had a very good idea of how the brain generates consciousness, mind and spirit. ... In the predawn hours of November 10, 2008, he was driven into coma by a rare and mysterious bacterial meningitis-encephalitis of unknown cause. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

I am absolutely convinced that very rich conscious experience can occur outside of our brain and body. I had always believed (before my coma) purely in the reductionist materialist world view that flatly denies that mind/consciousness can exist without the brain, and I am now certain that that is not true. I have been working non-stop to come up with an explanation that is consistent... more... - Mitchell Tsai

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Those cynical parents won't get in, though. This scam made them too rich. - Eivind

(1) Words of Affirmation (2) Acts of Service (3) Affection (4) Quality Time (5) Gifts -- My preference is "Quality Time" - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

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Laura Maria Caterina Bassi was a child prodigy. She was educated in mathematics, philosophy, anatomy, natural history, and languages by Dr. Gaetano Tacconi, a professor at the college of medicine. At the age of 21, she engaged in a public debate with five philosophers. Basgi went on to receive her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Bologna in 1733.(Alic, 1986, p. 136). - Mitchell Tsai

Occasionally, however, we do hear of a very young child who demonstrates unusual command of the language and a penchant for creating prose. One such child is Alicia Witt. While her writing cannot be classified as that of an adult professional, it is so unusual by dial or sheer quantity and fluency that it must be noted as prodigious. By her parents' account, Witt produced her first... more... - Mitchell Tsai

Ruth Elke Lawrence-Naimark (Hebrew: רות אלקה לורנס-נאימרק‎, born 2 August 1971) is an Associate Professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology. Outside academia, she is best known for being a child prodigy in mathematics. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

In any event, Ben-Naim advocates replacing entropy by information, a term that has become widely used in many branches of science. This type of logic, however, is highly illogical: information is not a fundamental quantity, whereas "energy", or its derivatives, "heat", "temperature", or "work", are. The idea of reducing thermodynamics down to information, to note, is similar to Greek mathematician Constantin Carathéodory’s 1909 efforts, in his Axiomatic Formulation of Thermodynamics, to reduce the second law down to a purely mathematical basis using a geometrical approach. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

For thermodynamicists, the 1948 use of the term "entropy" to model information in signals has been, in a general sense, an irritation. - Mitchell Tsai

There are some, for instance, who believe that “information” will soon replace the Clausius version of “entropy”. The essential mistake in this statement is that the "driving force" of natural processes is free energy or affinity, which are functions of enthalpy and entropy, not informational changes. - Mitchell Tsai

Hilary Whitehall Putnam (born July 31, 1926) is an American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist, who has been a central figure in analytic philosophy since the 1960s, especially in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science. He is known for his willingness to apply an equal degree of scrutiny to his own philosophical positions as to those of others, subjecting each position to rigorous analysis until he exposes its flaws. As a result, he has acquired a reputation for frequently changing his own position. Putnam is currently Cogan University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

With over 3,400 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

Vandervert provided extensive argument that, in the prodigy, the transition from visual-spatial working memory to other forms of thought (language, art, mathematics) is accelerated by the unique emotional disposition of the prodigy and the cognitive functions of the cerebellum. According to Vandervert, in the emotion-driven prodigy (commonly observed as a "rage to master") the cerebellum accelerates the streamlining of the efficiencies of working memory in its manipulation and decomposition/re-composition of visual-spatial content into language acquisition and into linguistic, mathematical, and artistic precocity. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

Essentially, Vandervert has argued that when a child is confronted with a challenging new situation, visual-spatial working memory and speech-related and other notational system-related working memory are decomposed and re-composed (fractionated) by the cerebellum and then blended in the cerebral cortex in an attempt to deal with the new situation. In child prodigies, Vandervert... more... - Mitchell Tsai

Saul Aaron Kripke (born November 13, 1940) is an American philosopher and logician. He is a professor emeritus at Princeton and teaches as a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. Since the 1960s Kripke has been a central figure in a number of fields related to mathematical logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology, and set theory. Much of his work remains unpublished or exists only as tape-recordings and privately circulated manuscripts. Kripke was the recipient of the 2001 Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. A recent poll conducted among philosophers ranked Kripke among the top ten most important philosophers of the past 200 years. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

Charles Louis Fefferman (born April 18, 1949 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American mathematician at Princeton University. His primary field of research is mathematical analysis. A child prodigy, Fefferman entered college by the age of eleven and had written his first scientific paper by the age of 15 in German. After receiving his bachelor's degrees in physics and mathematics at the age of 17 from the University of Maryland and a PhD in mathematics at 20 from Princeton University under Elias Stein, Fefferman received full professorship at the University of Chicago at the age of 22. This made him the youngest full professor ever appointed in the United States. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

Yeah! I happen to think of String Theory, if I have to, as Sudoku for Metaphysicians. - Laughlin's major thesis is that `Reductionism', the highly successful paradigm of 20th-century physics, is approaching the end of its usefulness. Physicists, including die-hard reductionists, have realized for decades that some physical laws are emergent and that it is difficult, if not impossible, to deduce higher laws from lower-level fundamental truths. Laughlin suggests that all known physical law may have collective origins based upon organizational principles that are sensitive to differences in scale. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

The bestselling author of Warped Passages is an expert in both particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the study of the largest). In Knocking on Heaven’s Door, she explores how we decide which scientific questions to study and how we go about answering them. She examines the role of risk, creativity, uncertainty, beauty, and truth in scientific thinking through provocative conversations with leading figures in other fields (such as the chef David Chang, the forecaster Nate Silver, and the screenwriter Scott Derrickson), and she explains with wit and clarity the latest ideas in physics and cosmology. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

Will the Large Hadron Collider Explain Everything? [Jim Holt, New York Times - 10/7/11] http://nytimes.com/2011... - Mitchell Tsai

"Probabilistically Accurate Program Transformations" Sasa Misailovic, Daniel M. Roy, and Martin C. Rinard [MIT, 2011] http://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard... - Mitchell Tsai

When good enough is better - By exploiting a simple but counterintuitive trick, a new system finds sections of computer programs where accuracy can be traded for speed. [Larry Hardesty, MIT - 5/13/10] http://web.mit.edu/newsoff... - Mitchell Tsai

New mathematical framework formalizes oddball programming techniques: Loop perforation — speeding up programs by skipping instructions — is just one method that gets rigorous mathematical treatment in a new paper. [Larry Hardesty, MIT - 5/22/12] http://web.mit.edu/newsoff... - Mitchell Tsai

Esalen & PCC/CIIS has had me revisiting my views of physics and cosmology (which tends to happen once every few years). So far, the 1st significant behavioral change is 'Directing prayers towards times other than NOW - past & future'. I'm not sure if the beings who receive the prayers in universe administration have the ability to go to past times; however, perhaps I could contact my past self to pray for a specific person. - Mitchell Tsai