Blogs
Oct
17
2011
In quest of serving mankind through compassions Wahlwies (Germany) downs to Berli (India) with Elisa.
By Dr. Dilip N. Pandit
Humanity and human values have also been supreme over mechanical world of this era. Mind of human could be synchronized with mechanical observation or fluctuation but the heart would always be in different to feel in deep. Compassion is, one of the human virtue that make an individual more humanistic in knowing other people by heart. This could be wording of a language but heart knows only feeling of hearts through compassionate hearts. This is feeling of a Lacks of Southern Germany, Elisa Kohnlein, who visited Barli Women Institute, Indore India recently. Elisa’s interest grew during school days for community services and it centered her to Barli, India. Being a staunch German, Elisa head to learn Hindi language for communication among tribal girls of Barli. She picked up, rather fast, Hindi words and started communicating through body language to get the deep in to the Heart and emotions of tribal girls around here. The motive behind her community services is just to know the human bondage and behavior toward learning and she got that through the link of basic instinct – compassion. Apart from different language, cultural values and food habits; Elisa mixed among other travel girl
Sep
10
2011
MacBook Air 'doubles as a kitchen knife'
When all your kitchen knives are in the dishwasher and you really -- just really -- need to chop up some carrots, what tool do you turn to for backup?
Well, the MacBook Air, of course. Apple's ultra-lightweight laptop computer has become the star of a few bizarre online cooking videos in recent years, with the latest showing the pointed edge of the contoured laptop being used to hack up carrots, apples, baby corn, mushrooms and even shrimp. (For some reason, the shrimp just make this seem all the weirder.)
"I'm definitely not suggesting that you try it at home, but -- if the following videos are to be trusted -- you could use your MacBook Air as a knife if there were a cooking emergency and every other sharp-edged object disappeared from your kitchen," writes Rosa Golijan, who called our attention to this trend with her post on the MSNBC blog "Gadgetbox."
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This isn't the first time the MacBook Air has been used in cooking, however, and it definitely isn't the first time someone has written about this computer being potentially-somewhat-maybe dangerous.Hilariously enough, the company describes the $1,000 laptop as "sleek, durable and ready for anything."
Here's a photo of someone using the
Sep
10
2011
Hacked TV remote will auto-mute Snooki
When Matt Richardson works from his home in Brooklyn, New York, he likes to keeps the TV on to stay informed, but some celebrity or another is always taking up airtime and bugging him.
"A while ago it was Charlie Sheen. And then it was Sarah Palin. And then it was Donald Trump," said Richardson, who is a video producer for Make Magazine. "And after a while I realized there's sort of always someone who I don't really want to hear about."
Like any good hacker, Richardson decided to come up with a fix: He developed a do-it-yourself TV remote control that will automatically mute the television when certain celebrity names are mentioned.
He plans to debut and explain the hack at the upcoming Maker Faire event in New York. The name of his talk is "Enough Already: Silencing Celebs with Arduino."
Unless you're speaking at that do-it-yourself inventors' conference, you may be wondering: "What the heck is Arduino?" It's basically a piece of computer hardware that can be programmed to do anything you want. In this case, Richardson combined a couple of Arduino circuit boards with an infrared LED light -- that little red bubble on the
Sep
09
2011
Analysis: Obama jobs plan reinvigorates growth outlook
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's jobs package could lift economic growth by one to three percentage points in 2012, add well over one million jobs and lower the unemployment rate by at least half a percentage point, judging by early estimates.It might not exactly deliver the "jolt" Obama claimed in his speech to Congress, but it would be enough to make a difference.
The basic idea is to give a sufficient boost to get the stalled recovery over the hump where households, banks and businesses have paid down more of their debt loads and regained the confidence to start spending, lending and hiring again.Once demand picks up, the private sector will kick in and begin hiring, and the fiscal props can fall away.It would deliver the economic medicine prescribed in recent weeks by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and the International Monetary Fund to prevent a worrisome slowdown in global economic growth from turning into recession.Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner also can assure his fellow finance officials at the G7 meeting of top industrial nations in Marseilles the United States is pulling its weight.The wild card of course is whether a Republican-dominated House of Representatives will agree to the full $447
Sep
09
2011
Managing people helps develop better brains
Sydney: Managing other people at the workplace promotes brain health, protects memory and the learning centre well into old age.University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers have identified a clear link between managerial experience and larger size of one's hippocampus, the brain area responsible for learning and memory -- at the age of 80.
These findings bolster our understanding that mental activity promotes brain health, possibly warding off neuro-degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, according to an UNSW statement.'This could be linked to the unique mental demands of managing people, which requires continuous problem solving, short term memory and a lot of emotional intelligence..., says Michael Valenzuela, leader of regenerative neuroscience in UNSW's School of Psychiatry.
The research comprises the doctoral work of Chao Suo, supervised by Valenzuela, along with Perminder Sachdev's Memory and Ageing Study based in Sydney.Using MRI imagery in a group of 75- to 92-year-olds, researchers found larger hippocampal volumes in those with managerial experience compared to those without, even after accounting for any of a number of possible alternative explanations.
The study was presented at the Brain Sciences UNSW symposium Brain Plasticity - The Adaptable Brain

