how the brain has shaped our world

... understand how complex the web has become From 360 to 365 The web used to be nothing more than a digital dead end However, think of how much the web has changed our lives We handle our banking, ... digital The people expect to have their needs served online - their time is worth more than the service the companies are providing Why aren’t companies investing in the opportunity to the end ... ability to affect data - at least their own They assume the site has a reason of existing, a purpose What is the purpose of your site? From simple to complex The change from simple to complex...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 16:07

... impoverished nations in the world After all, in the last two decades the country has endured bombing, foreign occupation, famine, the most radical revolution of the twentieth century, and the death of more ... is the only country in the world ever to have abolished money The Khmer Rouge, when they came to power on April 17, 1975, set out to impose the strictest Marxist doctrine yet implemented in the ... dichotomy between the urban elite, who used coins and other valuable objects, and the rural peasants, who traded rice Like the other “dual economies” of Southeast Asia, Cambodia has traditionally...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... on the other hand, you are the sole survivor in the world, or at least one of a small number of survivors so dispersed that they are unlikely to stumble across one another during their lives, then ... to head to after the apocalypse is the golf course, not for a relaxing 18-hole round to help ease the stress of the end of the world as we know it, but to gather a crucial resource Car batteries ... how to smelt the iron to make the shares The most valuable part of our flying start is knowledge That’s the short cut to save us starting where our ancestors did JOHN WYNDHAM, The Day of the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/06/2014, 09:04

... photosynthesis, wave action, or other natural means The microorganisms instead deplete the oxygen of the receiving waters, doing grave harm to other living things in the water According to the EPA, ... down the sewer should not come up into our basements, streets, or streams Few Americans give much thought to the fate of the infectious wastes we flush down the toilet or the toxic wastes we pour ... communities, as is the case for most of the interior portions of the United States, sewage overflows can put downstream users at risk The Missouri River, for instance, is the source of drinking...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20

... HOW THE EURO BECAME OUR MONEY A SHORT HISTORY OF THE EURO BANKNOTES AND COINS FOREWORD Naming the currency and creating the € symbol Fixing the denominations 12 Timing the introduction of the ... through the ages The “founding fathers” of the European Union Cosmology In the end, the Advisory Group proposed the following three themes: • “Ages and styles of Europe”: one side of the banknote ... course the first letter of the word Europe The two strong parallel horizontal lines are intended to symbolise the stability of the currency The official abbreviation of the euro, EUR, has been...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20

... because the pressure of the water is directly moving the curtain When the water does not hit the shower curtain, air is pushed out of the shower stall, but the air escapes from the top of the enclosure ... way does the bottom of the shower curtain move? Does the bottom of the shower curtain get pushed out of the stall, remain stationary, or get pulled into the stall? Assume that the shower curtain ... REASONING PUZZLES Sometimes the most common artifacts of our lives are the most puzzling How well candidates observe the world in which they live? How curious are they about the phenomena, both natural...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 12:14

... everything from the quality of our water supplies to the character of life aboveground If more effort has in the past been spent classifying the soils of the earth than examining the work of the living ... over the years, the team has yet to see anything preying on a nematode That’s why Wall has dubbed them lions, kings of the food chain on this harsh plain As for the rest of the soil community, the ... or up from the sea can quickly drop the wind chill as low as –100° F On this morning, however, the sun is piercing and the temperature hovers in the high 20s Without the brisk wind, the place...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 00:49

... left only if they are still facing in the direction in which they saw the arrow in the first place If, however, they turn around, they will draw it pointing to the right— that is, in the same absolute ... good experiences will make them feel good ten the ticket purchasers actually attended the plays over the and how long bad experiences will make them feel bad The course of the season Fullwaning of ... with the glia and the axonal glia were nowhere near the synapse? Neurotransmitters were not the answer; they not diffuse out of axons (if they did, they could act in unintended places in the brain, ...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 16:19

... populated the whole of the modern world These Cro-Magnon people are our true hunter-gatherer ancestors, and as exempliWed by their famous paintings in the Lascaux caves in the South of France, they ... global The doctor checked into room 911 on the ninth floor of the Metropole Hotel and by the time he was admitted to hospital twenty-four hours later he had infected at least seventeen others in the ... the trypanosome and schistosome parasites We will see how and why these and other microbes rose to prominence at different stages in our cultural history and the profound effect they had on the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:41

... B-movie league They are born organizers At their best, they are the party givers, the instigators of great excursions to the beach, the dynamic center of the social world At worst, they are manipulators ... pictures of food The guests can understand all they care to about how the food looks and hear descriptions of how the food tastes, but until they put actual food in their mouths they won’t really ... variation, they waited expectantly to see if this version of the task would earn a reward or not Through their behavior, the otters were testing the system They were learning the rules of the game, the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/07/2014, 20:39

... peace The way to explain the decline of violence is to identify the changes in our cultural and material milieu that have given our peaceable motives the upper hand Finally, I need to show how our ... prepare the tabernacle for the first service, but the sons slip up and use the wrong incense So God burns them to death As the Israelites proceed toward the promised land, they meet up with the Midianites ... confess their hidden apostasy, the inquisitors tied their arms behind their backs, hoisted them by their wrists, and dropped them in a series of violent jerks, rupturing their tendons and pulling their...

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 07:52

... of the mental world The dark matter of the mind, the unconscious, has the greatest psychic gravity Disregard the dark matter of the universe and anomalies appear Ignore the dark matter of the ... I apologize for not following the instructions But that’s the way of all good explanations The better they are, the more questions they raise THE DARK MATTER OF THE MIND JOEL GOLD Psychiatrist; ... the brain, the brain would be bombarded with a hugely redundant message Great economies can be achieved if most of the impulses reaching the brain come from pixel cells lying along edges in the...

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 14:11

... solution that the rest of the world, which has to finance it, might not accept Currently, the fight between the administration and Congress over the bailout is whether the bailout will include the Democrats’ ... part of the solution Obama’s policy, like Bush’s before him, is on the wrong track If the course is not changed, the crash will be hard indeed There is repetition in the chapters, because the government’s ... companies as if they represent the country, and they not.” Companies are no longer bound to the interests of their home countries, because the link has been decoupled between the profit motive...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 18:48

Ngày tải lên: 20/04/2017, 13:45

... unmounts them—that is, gets them off your screen.) The instant you begin dragging a disk icon, the Trash icon on the Dock changes form, as though to reassure the novice that dragging a disk icon there ... file or folder icons there—not disk icons Dragging a disk icon into the Trash (at the end of the Dock) makes the Mac spit the disk out (If you've dragged a disk image icon or the icon of a networked ... "Connected servers." They'll no longer appear on the desktop—only in your Computer window (You can stop them from appearing in the Sidebar, too, by clicking the Sidebar button in the Finder preferences...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 14:15

... Amerindians during the late Pleistocene to help bring the horse of the New World to extinction.37 Whether chickens were already in the Americas when the Spanish arrived has been the subject of some ... later They thrived, multiplied, and, although the Appalachian Mountains blocked them for a time, by the end of the eighteenth century they had buzzed their way west of the Mississippi Their honey ... so, the only one in the world to lay blue and green eggs Most agree, however, that even if these South American curiosities were chickens, they probably were not natives but rather had reached the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 11:20

... rejecting the China devaluation hypothesis, the IMF offered the hypothesis that the devaluation of the yen, from mid-1995 onwards, may have been responsible for the East Asian crisis The Economist ... question the China devaluation thesis, and it did so in a footnote in the World Economic Outlook of Dec 1997 “It has been argued by some observers that the devaluation of the Chinese yuan at the beginning ... rejecting the Chinese devaluation thesis, the authors not provide an explanation for why the East Asian crisis occurred a The Data The debate on the effects of Chinese devaluation has helped...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 21:15

... respond to the external host (HostB), the reply to which the router will then translate using NAT, causing the external host (HostB) to think it has been communicating with the router the whole ... using TCP port 80 The router forwards the response to the internal web server (HostA), keeping the source IP address of the original external host (HostB) unchanged This allows the web server (HostA) ... internal sources, blocking only the traffic that is explicitly defined The reason for this "backward" implementation speaks to the heart of the debate over security and functionality The vast...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 04:20

... on the PIX firewall as a component of the ASA through the use of fixups or inspections For PIX/ASA 7.0, the fixup command has been replaced by the use of the policy-map command Functionally, the ... important to understand that the concept of inbound and outbound traffic in the context of an ACL is based on the traffic direction on the given interface, not the network that the traffic may have come ... applying to traffic that is coming from the internal network (after all, the traffic is going out of the network) This is not correct, however From the perspective of the firewall, that traffic would...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 04:20

... carry; the sensitive period is over, and it’s going to be harder for them Their architecture is not as well developed in their brain as it would have been if they had the right experiences during the ... sufficient financial resources to purchase it Thus poverty is the major proximal cause of food insecurity in the U.S The Food Insecurity Continuum: • On the least severe end of the spectrum, food ... to the FSS answers “Yes” to any of the following three questions, would you say the I children in the household experienced hunger? n the last 12 months, did you ever cut the size of any of the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20