If you enjoyed Ken Cosgrove busting a move on Mad Men, then you’ll love it even more when Daft Punk comes to call in the last century.
We dare you to keep those happy feet still.
Full story at YouTube via Kottke.
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Worried about someone making off with your hard drive and all those super, secret files the bad guys are dying to get their dirty hands on?
Well, chances are they’ll just hack you and the damage will be done before you have a clue what happened, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the show put on by Caleb Kraft as he constructs a self-destruct mechanism out of thermite and lights that baby on fire! *Insert evil laugh here*
Full story at Hack a Day via Boing Boing.
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Ever stop and look at your grocery cart as though it wasn’t yours?
Would people say you were a healthy eater, a busy person, a late-night snacker?
Photographer Peter Menzel decided to use a wider lens and focus on what families from different countries consume in a typical week and, as you might guess, pizza figures prominently in the shot from the States.
Italy
Japan
Australia
Full story at Peter Menzel Photography via Fstoppers.
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Sadly, 25% of businesses fail within their first year and an astonishing 70% of businesses fail within ten years. So, if you’re thinking about starting a business or you’ve recently made the leap, how can you optimize your chances of success? What is the single most important factor in determining your success?
1. Build a strong leadership team
2. Have a great mindset
3. Execute
4. Create value
Most important: focus!
Full article on LinkedIn by Dave Kerpen
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People who learn two languages early in life can switch back and forth between separate sound codes for each language.
While “pa” and “ba” sounds exist in both English and Spanish, how those sounds are produced and perceived in the two languages varies subtly. In the case of “ba”, for example, English speakers typically begin to vibrate their vocal chords the moment they open their lips, while Spanish speakers begin vocal chord vibration slightly before they open their lips and produce “pa” in a manner similar to English “ba.”
As a result of those subtle differences, English-only speakers might, in some cases, confuse the “ba” and “pa” sounds they hear in Spanish.
“When most people think about differences between languages, they think they use different words and they have different grammars, but at their base, languages use different sounds,” explains Andrew Lotto, associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences and the study’s co-author.
Full story at Futurity.
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Women who consume 1,000 mg of calcium a day—regardless if consumed in food or supplements—may live longer, new research suggests.
“We found that daily use of calcium supplements in women was associated with a lower risk of death, irrespective of cause,” says the study’s lead author, David Goltzman, director of the Calcium Research Laboratory at McGill University. “The benefit was seen for women who took doses of up to 1,000 mg per day, regardless of whether the supplement contained vitamin D.”
The longitudinal study of participants living in or near 9 cities across Canada monitored the health of 9,033 Canadians between 1995 and 2007. During that period, 1,160 participants died. Although the data showed women who took calcium supplements had a lower mortality risk, there was no statistical benefit for men. The study found no conclusive evidence that vitamin D had an effect on mortality.
Full story at Futurity.
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Alan Kennedy, along with his son Thomas, has written a book called: The Alpha Strategies. Not only for corporations, but also for public agencies and marketing firms, he wrote this because he saw a need for a book on developing corporate strategies after years of experience as a deal-maker for some major corporations in Canada. He was frustrated with the, as he says, “hazy and unfocused” boardroom discussions about strategy. He also noticed that the business leaders often couldn’t even communicate strategy effectively. And so he compiled his list of 8 elements for corporate strategists to consider.
1. Business definition
2. Financial management
3. Growth
4. Marketing
5. Organizational management
6. R&D/technology
7. Risk
8. Service delivery
For details about each point, see the full article here: Globe and Mail.
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