The Era of Cloud Computing [Jeff Koegel, New York Times - 6/2/14] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014...
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Industry analysts at IDC figure that if largely cloud-based things like mobile apps, big data, and social media are counted, over the next six years almost 90 percent of new spending on Internet and communications technologies, a $5 trillion global business, will be on cloud-based technology.
- Mitchell Tsai
He added: “Historically, we’ve been in a world where computing was a scarce resource. Now it is moving to being an abundant resource. Anybody who claims to have a crystal ball about where this is heading is kidding themselves.”
- Mitchell Tsai
Acrobatic Gymnastics People Are Awesome ! - 2012 Worlds Orlando - Final Clip - We are Gymnastics! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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The Bottom Billion - Paul Collier - Books - Review [Niall Ferguson, New York Times - 7/1/07] - http://www.nytimes.com/2007...
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Africa's economic future - On one side of the argument is Jeffrey D. Sachs, the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the author of “The End of Poverty.” On the other is William Easterly of New York University, whose ironically titled “White Man’s Burden” lampoons Sachs as a modern version of a 19th-century utopian.
- Mitchell Tsai
The evolution of beauty: Face the facts, What makes for a beautiful visage, and why, may have been discovered accidentally on a Russian fur farm [Economist - 11/16/13] - http://www.economist.com/news...
Nov 21, 2013
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Dmitry Belyaev tried to breed silver foxes to make them tamer and thus easier for farmers to handle. He found the animals’ coats developed patches of colour; their ears became floppy; their skulls became rounded and foreshortened; their faces flattened; their noses got stubbier; and their jaws shortened, thus crowding their teeth.
- Mitchell Tsai
What’s He Really Like? Check the Lulu App [Deborah Schoeneman, NYTimes - 11/20/13] - http://www.nytimes.com/2013...
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On Lulu, women can rate men in categories — ex-boyfriend, crush, together, hooked-up, friend or relative — with a multiple-choice quiz. Women, their gender verified by their Facebook logins, add pink hashtags to a man’s profile ranging from the good (#KinkyInTheRightWays) to the bad (#NeverSleepsOver) to the ugly (#PornEducated).
- Mitchell Tsai
A Cold War Fought by Women [John Tierney, NYTimes - 11/18/13] - http://www.nytimes.com/2013...
Nov 20, 2013
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In jeans, she attracted little notice and no negative comments from the students, whose reactions were being secretly recorded during the encounter and after the woman left the room. But when she wore the other outfit, virtually all the students reacted with hostility.
- Mitchell Tsai
Most of the aggression, though, happened after she left the room. Then the students laughed about her and impugned her motives. One student suggested that she dressed that way in order to have sex with a professor. Another said that her breasts “were about to pop out.”
- Mitchell Tsai
The results of the experiment jibe with evidence that this “mean girl” form of indirect aggression is used more by adolescents and young women than by older women, who have less incentive to handicap rivals once they marry. Other studies have shown that the more attractive an adolescent girl or woman is, the more likely she is to become a target for indirect aggression from her female peers.
- Mitchell Tsai
“Sex is coveted by men,” she said. “Accordingly, women limit access as a way of maintaining advantage in the negotiation of this resource. Women who make sex too readily available compromise the power-holding position of the group, which is why many women are particularly intolerant of women who are, or seem to be, promiscuous.”
- Mitchell Tsai
GoldieBlox, Rube Goldberg, & Beastie Boys "Princess Machine" (a concert for little girls) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Nov 20, 2013
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The Most Influential Businessmen [Forbes - 7/28/05] - http://www.forbes.com/2005...
Nov 20, 2013
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Global Study: Kids Today Are In Worse Shape Than Their Parents Were [Marilynn Marchione, AP, Business Insider - 11/20/13] - http://www.businessinsider.com/global-...
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It takes children 90 seconds longer to run a mile (1.6 kilometer) than their counterparts did 30 years ago. Heart-related fitness has declined 5 percent per decade since 1975 for children ages 9 to 17. (American Heart Association conference featured the research on Tuesday) -
- Mitchell Tsai
Considering the kids' parents are my generation's children, and we were told the same thing when we were kids, I am not surprised. Back then they blamed it on cars and TV.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
It's a gradual thing in the developed world. With each generation we seem to get more sedentary.
- Spidra Webster
Why Does Health Care Cost so Much in America? Ask Harvard's David Cutler [David Cutler, PBS - 11/19/13] - http://www.pbs.org/newshou...
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3 Reasons (1) Administrative costs are astronomical (~25%). Next highest countries are ~10-15%. Duke University Hospital has 900 hospital beds and 1,300 billing clerks. The typical Canadian hospital has a handful of billing clerks.
- Mitchell Tsai
An obvious one, the more you charge the more money you make?
- Todd Hoff
Alan Watts by South Park creators (All in one in HD) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Nov 18, 2013
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Acrobatic Gymnastics World Cup 2011 Belarus, Women's Group - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Nov 16, 2013
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WC Orlando (USA) 2012 -- Great Britain, Men's Group - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships 2010 - Russia Women's Group 1st place - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Acrobatic Gymnastics Worlds 2010 Ukraine WG Combined - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Above, Below and Around Paris, on Foot [Andrew Brenner, New York Times - 11/15/13] - http://www.nytimes.com/2013...
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But with four of us, there was safety in numbers, and so we set out into the darkness to explore one of the city’s more hidden treasures: the Petite Ceinture. Forget the Catacombes or the Égouts; impressive as Paris’s underground bone repository (the former) and sewers (the latter) are, the abandoned rail line encircling the city offers urban hikers a new perspective.
- Mitchell Tsai
Jean-Claude Van Damme's Volvo splits stunt between two semis - watch (& behind-the-scenes) [Andrea Reiher, Zap2it - 11/14/13] - http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it...
Nov 15, 2013
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- Mitchell Tsai
Volvo Trucks - The Epic Split feat. Van Damme (Live Test 6) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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On a Mission Within Earshot of a War, Armed With Paint [Jodi Rudoren, New York Time - 11/14/13] - http://www.nytimes.com/2013...
Nov 15, 2013
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