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From /weblog/science/human
Scientists Discover Driving Force in the Evolution of Speech - https://www.newsweek.com[..]ntists-discover-evolution-speech-1854505 Oldest known words have survived 15,000 years. They include “mother”, “not” and “to spit” - https://www.zmescience.com[..]earch/discoveries/oldest-words-in-world/ What Baby Babble Can Teach Adults About Learning New Languages - https://nicenews.com[..]ach-adults-about-learning-new-languages/ Mice With a Human Gene Started Squeaking Differently. Could This Tiny Genetic Mutation Explain the Origin of Speech? - https://www.zmescience.com[..]nce/biology/gene-mutation-origin-speech/
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Sun Feb 02 13:17:52 GMT 2025
From /weblog/business
Tips for getting the most from meeting - http://cn.wsj.com/big5/20120224/eoe082439.asp?source=rss No meeting should ever be more than an hour, under penalty of death. Every meeting should have a clearly defined mission statement. Do your homework before the meeting. Make it optional. Summarize to-dos at the end of the meeting. http://www.codinghorror.com[..]/02/meetings-where-work-goes-to-die.html Good and bad thing from meeting - http://www.targetprocess.com/blog/2013/01/meetings-are.html 「兩個披薩」和「六頁備忘錄」, meeting attendant should not eat more than 2 plazas and the discussion item should not more than 6 pages - http://www.businessinsider.com.au[..]zza-rule-for-productive-meetings-2013-10 http://www.inside.com.tw[..]zza-rule-for-productive-meetings-2013-10 http://softwaredevelopmenttoday.blogspot.ch[..]ve-signs-your-meetings-are-waste-of.html <- I like this one: "Sign 4: Someone asks: "who will document the results of this meeting?"" 上班族必學-在會議中教人刮目相看的十招, I double if it working...... - http://thehousenews.com[..]%B8%E7%9C%8B%E7%9A%84%E5%8D%81%E6%8B%9B/ http://www.yegor256.com[..]7/13/meetings-are-legalized-robbery.html A team might agree around the conference table, but then express doubts in the “safer” environment of the hallway or coffee shop. - https://marketoonist.com[..]14/03/the-meeting-after-the-meeting.html 6 phrases managers need to stop using in team meetings - https://medium.com[..]stop-using-in-team-meetings-dd46eb73c5e5 How to run better meetings - https://www.economist.com[..]ss/2021/10/16/how-to-run-better-meetings An ex-FBI agent explains how to recognize the power dynamics in a room - https://www.fastcompany.com[..]d-work-ex-fbi-agent-shares-how-read-room Talk less, listen more. The biggest predictor of ineffectiveness in a 1:1 was a manager talking more than the direct report. The ideal balance involves the direct report speaking between 50% and 90% of the time. While the agenda will dictate some of this, the manager should avoid talking more than their direct. This is not as easy as it sounds: We talk about ourselves because it feels good. But resist the temptation. - https://www.fastcompany.com[..]guide-to-make-them-suck-less-and-succeed The Art of the Awkward 1:1 - https://medium.com[..]/the-art-of-the-awkward-1-1-f4e1dcbd1c5c
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Sun Jan 26 06:44:36 GMT 2025
From /weblog/history
How National Geographic photographed Queen Elizabeth II - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]ographic-photographed-queen-elizabeth-ii Why Elizabeth II was modern Britain’s most unlikely queen - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]lizabeth-ii-britains-most-unlikely-queen From party invitations to requests for warm socks, letters discovered at Vindolanda, England gave first-hand accounts of everyday life inside a Roman fort. - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]um/article/vindolanda-roman-fort-england queen-elizabeth-ii - http://list25.com[..]t-queen-elizabeth-ii-you-might-not-know/ winston-churchill - http://list25.com[..]rated-and-controversial-figure/?view=all 南海泡沫：英國300年前一次金融危機留給後世的遺產 - https://yahoo-news.com.hk/BBCChineseNews/15328 A hero to the Welsh, Owain Glyndŵr led the country in a rebellion against the English crown that lasted for over a decade. Although ultimately unsuccessful at gaining independence for his people, Owain Glyndŵr was the last person to hold the title Prince of Wales, with his story and exploits becoming the stuff of local legend. Nevertheless, his cunning and bravery led today’s United Kingdom through one of its bloodiest conflicts, and the skeletons at Pembrokeshire could have lived and died during those times. - https://www.zmescience.com[..]nce/lost-welsh-abbey-skeletons-94245235/ The Tower of London has impressed—and terrified—people for nearly 1,000 years - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]s-terrified-people-for-nearly-1000-years London's underground treasures reveal lifestyles of the rich and English - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]f-the-rich-and-english-underneath-london Queen Elizabeth II: A lifetime of devotion and service - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]th-ii-a-lifetime-of-devotion-and-service The Clever Folds That Kept Letters Secret - https://getpocket.com[..]he-clever-folds-that-kept-letters-secret First known use of OMG - https://historyfacts.com[..]mg-was-in-a-letter-to-winston-churchill/
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Thu Jan 16 12:35:47 GMT 2025
From /weblog/science/math
Interesting maths - http://list25.com[..]-math-principles-to-challenge-your-brain Napoleon was the Best General Ever, and the Math Proves it. - https://towardsdatascience.com[..]ever-and-the-math-proves-it-86efed303eeb https://list25.com[..]tal-math-tricks-that-will-blow-your-mind The mind-bendy weirdness of the number zero, explained - https://www.vox.com[..]/7/5/17500782/zero-number-math-explained 幾何世界新成員：scutoid - https://dq.yam.com/post.php?id=9695 莫比烏斯環 (Möbius strip或Möbius band) - https://dq.yam.com/post.php?id=10248 The most beautiful and important mathematical equations - https://www.zmescience.com[..]athematical-equations-beautiful-30112018 https://getpocket.com[..]/the-man-who-invented-modern-probability https://www.zmescience.com/science/types-of-triangles-feature/ Random - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ndomness-awarded-prestigious-math-prize/ calculus - https://www.zmescience.com[..]-calculus-and-how-to-get-the-hang-of-it/ secret-link-uncovered-between-pure-math-and-physics - https://getpocket.com[..]-uncovered-between-pure-math-and-physics What are algorithms, and why we’d best get used to them - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ature-post/what-are-algorithms-06042021/ Amazing egg - https://www.zmescience.com[..]news-science/why-egg-egg-shape-07092021/ The appeal of the paradox — mankind’s fascination with self-contradicting ideas - https://www.zmescience.com[..]scination-with-self-contradicting-ideas/ Abel Prize awarded to pioneering mathematician who built bridges between seemingly different fields of math - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ween-seemingly-different-fields-of-math/ Top 6 Statistical Concepts Every Data Scientist Should Know - https://medium.com[..]-data-scientist-should-know-121c923742e1 Conservation laws are very useful for physics. Basically, when a particular measurable property of an isolated physical system does not change in time (and it is conserved), that is described by a conservation law. - https://www.zmescience.com[..]/?goal=0_3b5aad2288-11c151253e-242734313 Accuracy errors typically come from systematic errors — as in, your measuring device/method isn’t good enough to detect whatever you aim to detect accurately. Precision errors are more often associated with noise, randomness, electronic errors, temperature, or other factors that affect measurements. Accuracy is the measurement of conformity, precision is the measure of statistical variability. - https://www.zmescience.com[..]/science/precision-vs-accuracy-15082022/ A hundred years ago, a physicist tried to convince the world the universe is expanding — through math alone - https://www.zmescience.com[..]niverse-is-expanding-through-math-alone/ Statistics for Machine Learning A-Z - https://pub.towardsai.net[..]r-machine-learning-a-z-66a82fbf2622#3490 What is mathematics, an art or a science? - https://www.zmescience.com[..]what-is-mathematics-an-art-or-a-science/ How a magician-mathematician revealed a casino loophole - https://www.bbc.com[..]mathematician-revealed-a-casino-loophole 16 Math memes that make you laugh and then make you think - https://www.zmescience.com[..]-make-you-laugh-and-then-make-you-think/ Does Math matter? Math matters both more and less than you think… - https://betterprogramming.pub[..]glecting-math-at-university-9d937655752b For tie aficionados, knots are an art form—and a surprisingly difficult math problem. - https://www.newyorker.com[..]o-invented-fifteen-hundred-necktie-knots A Russian Math Olympiad Problem - https://medium.com[..]ssian-math-olympiad-problem-4620872f96e0
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From /weblog/science/earth
Plate tectonics: We figured out how to build an atomic bomb before we realized how mountains form - https://www.zmescience.com[..]b-before-we-realized-how-mountains-form/ Divergent boundaries: the tectonic forces that split the earth - https://www.zmescience.com[..]h-dynamics/what-are-divergent-boundarie/ What is the Ring of Fire? Earth’s most volcanically active region - https://www.zmescience.com[..]y/planet-earth/what-is-the-ring-of-fire/ Convergent boundaries: the tectonic forces that shape the Earth - https://www.zmescience.com[..]gy/earth-dynamics/convergent-boundaries/ These Revolutionary Maps Are Revealing Earth’s Geological Secrets = https://www.zmescience.com/science/tectonic-model-beatiful-new/ The Earth’s Mantle is Far More Dynamic and Chaotic Than We Thought - https://www.zmescience.com[..]science/geology/hidden-mantle-anomalies/
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From /weblog/learning
How habit affecting you - http://stephencfchan.blogspot.com[..]2012/02/poor-study-habit-and-remedy.html How to change habit - http://cn.wsj.com/big5/20120420/trv075618.asp?source=rss How to quit bad habit - http://now.eloqua.com[..]028&elq=2220804c77864d95acba08b4a6f21c23 好奇心,细节 - http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_47841af70102e1yi.html The most interesting things I've learnt about learning - http://jchyip.blogspot.com.au[..]-most-interesting-things-ive-learnt.html The most interesting things I've learned about improvement - http://jchyip.blogspot.com.au[..]t-interesting-things-ive-learned_14.html * Increase your exposure to new and different ideas * Spend as much time learning from your trading as you actually spend trading * Manage yourself, not just your risk and your positions http://traderfeed.blogspot.hk[..]hree-best-practices-of-best-traders.html http://traderfeed.blogspot.com[..]/energy-well-being-and-success-four.html 直覺的奧妙 — Blink - https://thestandnews.com[..]%A6%BA%E7%9A%84%E5%A5%A7%E5%A6%99-blink/ 1) How does the person spend his or her free time? Per Ayn Rand's observation above, what does he or she do for enjoyment? 2) How does the person respond to your successes? Many people are willing to commiserate with you when you're down and elevate themselves in the process. A person of genuine goodwill celebrates your successes and is happy for your happiness. 3) What strong beliefs does the person voice and live through their actions? Character means standing for what you believe in and living your beliefs. Go along and get along might be comfortable, but commitment is what powers effective action in the world. http://traderfeed.blogspot.hk[..]hree-powerful-measures-of-character.html Ask as a habit - https://thestandnews.com[..]%83%E9%80%99%E5%80%8B%E5%95%8F%E9%A1%8C/ practice consistently, stay warm - http://www.zmescience.com[..]brain/halo-starcraft-practice-excellence Wake up early - https://medium.com[..]e-guide-for-waking-up-early-a750c011eb07 This will work, I believe, but really not easy - https://journal.thriveglobal.com[..]e-your-life-in-just-a-month-eed6c90ee6c4 3 Simple Habits to Improve Your Critical Thinking: Question assumptions Reason through logic Diversify thought - https://hbr.org[..]habits-to-improve-your-critical-thinking A cue that triggers your brain to behave automatically A routine that consists of some kind of action A reward that reinforces the loop by giving you a good feeling https://evernote.com[..]ur-productivity-and-how-to-take-it-back/ Their assessment blew Psycho-Cybernetics out of the water, showing that the time it took to form a new habit ranged from 18 to 254 days. - https://www.zmescience.com[..]post/how-long-it-takes-to-break-a-habit/ How to Create a Habit System and Stay Motivated as a Developer - https://www.freecodecamp.org[..]ystem-and-stay-motivated-as-a-developer/ Why ‘daily-ish’ habits can be better than everyday routines - https://www.fastcompany.com[..]its-can-be-better-than-everyday-routines 14 habits that make you more focused than 98% of people - https://iamalexmathers.medium.com[..]e-focused-than-98-of-people-1fd9e40093ff 6 inspiring morning habits of highly successful people - https://www.fastcompany.com[..]rning-habits-of-highly-successful-people Rebecca Solnit: Slow Change Can Be Radical Change - https://lithub.com[..]olnit-slow-change-can-be-radical-change/ The results were striking. Mice that had any form of passive exposure to the sounds learned to categorize them more quickly than those that relied solely on active training. This was true whether the passive exposure was interleaved with active training or occurred entirely before the active training began. - https://www.zmescience.com[..]could-help-you-learn-a-new-skill-faster/ How I Make Learning New Things Feel Easy and Avoid Burnout - https://medium.com[..]feel-easy-and-avoid-burnout-391892b13f93
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From /weblog/science/earth
蓋亞假說：美麗的神話 - http://thehousenews.com[..]%8E%E9%BA%97%E7%9A%84%E7%A5%9E%E8%A9%B1/ 色彩斑斕的動物 - http://cn.wsj.com/big5/20131203/PHO101146.asp?source=rss 地球上仍存活的最古老生物 - http://cn.wsj.com/big5/20140430/PHO082434.asp?source=rss rare-flowers-that-are-stunning-to-look-at - http://list25.com/25-rare-flowers-that-are-stunning-to-look-at/ earth-facts-that-might-surprise-you - http://list25.com/25-earth-facts-that-might-surprise-you/ north-pole-facts-most-people-are-not-aware-of - http://list25.com[..]s-most-people-are-not-aware-of/?view=all earth-facts-you-probably-have-not-considered - http://list25.com[..]u-probably-have-not-considered/?view=all 25 Interesting Tidbits About Deserts That Will Make You Glad For Rain - http://list25.com[..]at-will-make-you-glad-for-rain/?view=all Antarctica is one of the coldest, most desolate places in the world, and today you're going to learn all about it. - http://www.damncoolpictures.com[..]interesting-facts-that-you-probably.html Types of mountains - http://www.zmescience.com[..]st/main-types-mountains-earths-ups-downs http://www.zmescience.com[..]ology/animals-ecology/animal-speed-limit Earth - http://list25.com/25-shocking-facts-you-never-knew-about-earth/ sinkholes - https://www.zmescience.com[..]other/science-abc/science-abc-sinkholes/ ecosystems - https://www.zmescience.com[..]what-they-are-and-why-they-are-important https://list25.com/25-unbelievable-cloud-formations/ What is soil? Here’s the inside scoop - https://www.zmescience.com/science/what-is-soil-feature/ What causes an Ice Age? A simple explainer - https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/what-causes-ice-age-14092019/ https://www.zmescience.com[..]water-dont-underestimate-the-connection/ https://www.bbc.com[..]108-why-the-world-is-running-out-of-sand Even a little extra CO2 is triggering big changes in forests - https://www.zmescience.com[..]o2-is-triggering-big-changes-in-forests/ Christmas flakes: macro photography reveals unique snowflake design - https://www.zmescience.com[..]/great-pics/christmas-snowflakes-photos/ This is the secret behind biodiversity hotspots - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ience/biodiversity-hotspot-source-35243/ Looking back on Palmyra’s recent history, Wegmann sees it as a source of hope. Tropical islands may seem fragile, but they can turn out to be surprisingly robust. The conservation story of Palmyra should remind us of two things, he says: “One, nature is resilient. And two, we as humans can engineer ourselves out of some of the major problems that we’ve caused.” - https://www.bbc.com[..]w-tropical-islands-got-rid-of-their-rats Rivers can change colors as time passes, and this is linked to ecosystem health - https://www.zmescience.com[..]-and-this-is-linked-to-ecosystem-health/ Photosynthesis could be as old as life itself - https://www.zmescience.com[..]thesis-old-genes-live-evolution-2374523/ climate-tipping-points - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ecology/what-are-climate-tipping-points/ What is natural selection: the driving force of evolution - https://www.zmescience.com/science/what-is-natural-selection/ Simple seaweed could be used to heal human wounds with bio-ink - https://www.zmescience.com[..]dicine/seaweed-healing-virtues-10042021/ They spent 28 days under the sea—and found another Earth - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]-the-sea-and-found-another-earth-feature Earth's magnetic field flips much more frequently than we thought - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]ld-flipped-more-times-scientists-thought Soils from Antarctica seem to contain no life—something that's never been found - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]-no-lifesomething-thats-never-been-found What causes earthquakes — and what you should do if hit by one - https://www.zmescience.com[..]es-and-what-you-should-do-if-hit-by-one/ The hexagon shape and why it shows up so much in nature - https://www.zmescience.com[..]t/hexagon-shape-nature-physics-13092021/ Bizarre mangrove forest far from the coast offers clues to future sea level rise - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]the-coast-offers-clues-to-sea-level-rise New clues into ancient climate shifts reveal the possible origin story of Spain's Pulpí Geode, one of the world's largest. - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]range-ways-climate-chemistry-pulpi-geode For decades, highly skilled cavers have come to Mexico to explore Cheve, a labyrinth within a mountain. - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]g-into-one-of-the-deepest-caves-on-earth To the bottom of the Earth: the Mariana Trench - https://www.zmescience.com[..]-bottom-of-the-earth-the-mariana-trench/ These beautiful landscapes hold secrets to the origins of life - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]apes-hold-secrets-to-the-origins-of-life 'Impossible' chemistry may reveal origins of life on Earth - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]stry-may-reveal-origins-of-life-on-earth Storm Recipe: How Cyclones, Typhoons and Hurricanes Are Formed - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ones-typhoons-and-hurricanes-are-formed/ How geological periods got their names - https://www.zmescience.com[..]/how-geological-periods-got-their-names/ Exploring Baikal: The world’s deepest and oldest lake - https://www.zmescience.com[..]aikal-the-worlds-deepest-and-oldest-lake What is Sahara dust and why does it matters so much for the Earth - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ature-post/what-is-sahara-dust-11102022/ The 'super-deep' royal diamonds revealing Earth's secrets - https://www.bbc.com[..]-royal-diamonds-revealing-earths-secrets The San Andreas fault — what it is, why it matters, and what you should know about its earthquakes - https://www.zmescience.com[..]t-you-should-know-about-its-earthquakes/ How It Feels to Surf the World’s Biggest Wave - https://nautil.us[..]s-to-surf-the-worlds-biggest-wave-245476 What’s the tallest mountain in the world? Hint: it’s not Mt. Everest - https://www.zmescience.com[..]/?goal=0_3b5aad2288-47ae773c7c-242734313 Lava is very hot. But exactly how hot? The answer isn't straightforward. - https://www.zmescience.com/science/geology/how-hot-is-lava/ What are the different climate zones? A simple explainer - https://www.zmescience.com[..]er/feature-post/climate-zones-explainer/ What is Gondwana: the ancient supercontinent that changed Earth - https://www.zmescience.com/science/geology/what-is-gondwana What are ecosystems and why they’re important - https://www.zmescience.com[..]hat-they-are-and-why-they-are-important/ Drilling to the Mantle: 6 unexpected discoveries from the world’s deepest well - https://www.zmescience.com[..]iscoveries-from-the-worlds-deepest-well/ The Thickest Layer of the Earth - https://www.zmescience.com[..]nce/geology/thickest-layer-earth-mantle/ The types of clouds: everything you need to know - https://www.zmescience.com[..]/?goal=0_3b5aad2288-fb35185888-242734313 Why clouds don’t fall: the physics behind the sky’s fluffy wonders - https://www.zmescience.com/science/why-clouds-dont-fall/ The main types of caves, according to science - https://www.zmescience.com/science/geology/the-types-of-caves/ How the Moon is making days longer on Earth - https://www.bbc.com[..]-the-moon-is-making-days-longer-on-earth ‘Rivers in the sky’ are why California keeps flooding - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]ic-river-flood-rain-california-explainer Nature is out of sync—and that’s reshaping everything, everywhere - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]phenology-seasons-climate-change-feature The main types of mountains — Earth’s ups and downs - https://www.zmescience.com[..]t/main-types-mountains-earths-ups-downs/ What is point Nemo: the loneliest place on Earth - https://www.zmescience.com/science/what-is-point-nemo/ Rarely seen cliff art reveals the majesty of the Amazon’s aquatic realm - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]-cliff-art-majesty-amazon-aquatic-region How natural selection causes evolution - https://www.zmescience.com/science/what-is-natural-selection/ Rock-solid geology puns that will make you erupt in laughter - https://www.zmescience.com/science/geology-puns-feature/ The Paratethys Sea was the largest lake in Earth’s history - https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/paratethys-sea/ World Heritage List - https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/ What does a melting glacier sound like? 'Gunshots.' - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]/melting-glaciers-bubbles-climate-change Inner core rotation: Wait, the planet’s core is rotating? - https://www.zmescience.com[..]/planet-earth/earth-inner-core-rotation/ Earth is a geological oddball in our solar system. This is why. - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]le/earth-geology-rare-rocks-solar-system Metamorphic rocks: formation, types, examples - https://www.zmescience.com[..]gy/rocks-and-minerals/metamorphic-rocks/ What lurks beneath the surface of these forest pools? More than you can imagine. - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]premium/article/vernal-pools-forest-life 25 Hidden Secrets of the Earth - https://list25.com/25-hidden-secrets-of-the-earth/ The ancient practice of 'good fire' is reviving Nebraska's birds, bears and berries - https://www.bbc.com[..]2-how-controlled-burns-can-help-wildlife GeoPicture of the week: Biggest crystals in the world - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ant-crystal-cave-cueva-cristales-repubz/
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