The Cynical Girl: Monday Morning HR Humor: What’s For Lunch?

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Monday Morning HR Humor: What’s For Lunch? Posted: 13 May 2013 03:45 AM PDT Your local Qdoba needs a new menu item: The Purrito.

The Week Ahead: May 12, 2013 Posted: 12 May 2013 03:45 AM PDT How are you guys? I had a great week away from the blog. I worked hard to deliver a keynote speech in Grand Cayman. By working hard, I mean that I showed up and talked about social media. It doesn’t sound tough but I am always concerned about delivering a good experience. Some people are self-funded and these conferences can be so expensive for regular HR professionals. I try to do my best and show respect and appreciation. [But FYI this is why Jennifer McClure and I are launching our social media webinar series. If you want to learn more about LinkedIn/Facebook/Twitter but can't afford to attend a conference, we priced a series for hardworking people like you.] Now I am off to the inaugural InfluenceHR. I am excited to see several old friends and colleagues I met back in 2007 when I first became a blogger and writer. We are either visionaries or bittereinders. Here we are, six years later, still talking about HR technology and marketing. Ridiculous. We need hobbies, I think. I’m also about two weeks away from my first half-marathon. Holy crap. Hope everyone has a great week!

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ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

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• New method of finding planets scores its first discovery
• Mechanism that puts the curl in the curling stone revealed
• Physicists light 'magnetic fire' to reveal energy's path
• Terahertz technology: Seeing more with less
• Metallic glass: How nanoscale islands react under strain
• Data storage: Synchronized at the 'write time'
• Photonic quantum computers: A brighter future than ever
• Solar panels as inexpensive as paint?
• New model to recommend media content according to your preferences
• Improving communication during disasters

New method of finding planets scores its first discovery Posted: 13 May 2013 12:28 PM PDT Detecting alien worlds presents a significant challenge since they are small, faint, and close to their stars. The two most prolific techniques for finding exoplanets are radial velocity (looking for wobbling stars) and transits (looking for dimming stars). Astronomers have just discovered an exoplanet using a new method that relies on Einstein's special theory of relativity.

Mechanism that puts the curl in the curling stone revealed Posted: 13 May 2013 08:52 AM PDT Researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden can now reveal the mechanism behind the curved path of a curling stone. The discovery by the researchers, who usually study friction and wear in industrial and technical applications.

Physicists light 'magnetic fire' to reveal energy's path Posted: 13 May 2013 08:52 AM PDT Physicists have uncovered how energy is released and dispersed in magnetic materials in a process akin to the spread of forest fires, a finding that has the potential to deepen our understanding of self-sustained chemical reactions.

Terahertz technology: Seeing more with less Posted: 13 May 2013 08:50 AM PDT Single-chip integration of the components needed for sending and receiving terahertz radiation should help applications in imaging and communication.

Metallic glass: How nanoscale islands react under strain Posted: 13 May 2013 08:49 AM PDT High-level simulations reveal that plastic deformation in super-resilient alloys is governed by atomic zones with characteristic lengths.

Data storage: Synchronized at the 'write time' Posted: 13 May 2013 08:49 AM PDT Numerical simulations show how to avoid imperfections in the next generation of high-density data storage.

Photonic quantum computers: A brighter future than ever Posted: 13 May 2013 07:38 AM PDT Harnessing the unique features of the quantum world promises a dramatic speed-up in information processing as compared to the fastest classical machines. Scientists have succeeded in prototyping a new and highly resource efficient model of a quantum computer -- the boson sampling computer.

Solar panels as inexpensive as paint? Posted: 13 May 2013 07:36 AM PDT Researchers are helping develop a new generation of photovoltaic cells that produce more power and cost less to manufacture than what's available today.

New model to recommend media content according to your preferences Posted: 13 May 2013 05:31 AM PDT Researchers have developed a model capable to recommend audiovisual content to each user based on their own media consumption and intrinsic features of images and videos.

Improving communication during disasters Posted: 13 May 2013 05:30 AM PDT A small armband which can be attached to the injured. An information board containing a complete visual record of events. This is technology helping to improve communications during major national disasters.

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Daily Newsletter       14 May 2013  Best of the Moment Has The Future of College Moved Online? Nathan Heller | New Yorker | 12th May 2013 America's top universities — Harvard, Stanford, MIT among them — unroll "massive open online courses" for any number of students. Potentially a great answer to the rising costs of higher education, and the overwhelming demand for top college places. But can distance learning replace classroom contact? If it does, what follows for low-prestige universities? Can they compete against ubiquitous online Ivy League teaching? The Boundaries Of Photo Editing Matthias Krug & Stefan Niggemeier | Spiegel | 8th May 2013 Computerised post-production editing is almost universal. This piece probes a little deeper by following a master Italian picture editor, Claudio Palmisano, as he works with news images. "Impermissible manipulation includes moving around pixels within a photo. But the choice of development techniques, as well as modifying contrast, saturation and density, are all allowed in principle" Terrence Malick And The Twenty-Year Hiatus Michael Nordine | LA Review Of Books | 12th May 2013 He didn't drop out, he just kept a low profile. In the 20 years between Days of Wonder and Thin Red Line, he was busy with lots of projects that never went to term: a script for Louis Malle; a Jerry Lee Lewis biopic; adaptations of The Moviegoer, The White Hotel, Brighton Rock; a character drama set in prehistory. And besides, he had other interests. Before turning to film he taught philosophy at MIT and wrote for the New Yorker Eurovision 2013: First Predictions Martin O’Leary | Cold Hard Facts | 12th May 2013 Modeling the Eurovision Song Contest. "I’ve taken voting results from the finals going back to 1998 and the semi-finals going back to 2004. I’ve used a Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampler to calculate the song qualities and friendship scores. Once I’ve got the parameters, it’s relatively straightforward to run a simulation of this year’s contest". Which comes down to a tussle for first place between Azerbaijan and Russia Indian Historical Linguistics: Setting The Record Straight SAP | Economist | 13th May 2013 Expert short essay ranging over the evolution and interaction of languages within India, the role and influence of Sanskrit inside and outside India, Indo-European language ties, and language politics. "For thousands of years, Sanskrit persisted as a language of religion and elite education even as local vernaculars increasingly diverged from it. The language's name for itself, saṃskṛta vāk, means 'perfected speech'" What Is Keplerian Finance? Robert Frey | Keplerian Finance | 12th May 2013 Quantitative finance today is roughly where astronomy was in Kepler's day: "We are committed to the scientific method. We have developed some crude theories that appear reasonable and that have been somewhat validated by actual observation or experimentation. Unfortunately, we have difficulty knowing exactly what and how to abstract from the complexity of reality to build models which offer us viable predictions" Video of the day: Wolfsong Thought for the day: "How we feel about 'the nature of existence' is largely determined by what we have to do in the next few hours"— Alain de Botton Having trouble reading this email? View it in your browser. You are receiving this email because you signed up for the Best of the Moment newsletter on thebrowser.com. Click here to unsubscribe The Browser Ltd, 106 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 6PF

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