Archive for April, 2019
Ideal gas law – Wikipedia – PV=nRT
Sunday, April 14th, 2019The Eisenhower Method For Taking Action (How to Distinguish Between Urgent and Important Tasks)
Sunday, April 14th, 2019QT:[[”
“A lot of things that take up mental energy, waste time, and rarely move you toward your goals can easily be eliminated if you apply the Eisenhower Principle. It’s a simple decision-making tool you can use right now. It’s meant to help you question whether an action is really necessary.
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You can only benefit from the Eisenhower Method if you can commit yourself to making radical categorization of your daily tasks. This Method requires that you group your tasks and activities into four priorities.
Priority 1 tasks are both urgent and important.
Priority 2 tasks are important but not urgent.
Priority 3 tasks are urgent but not important.
Priority 4 tasks are neither urgent nor important”
The Eisenhower Method For Taking Action (How to Distinguish Between Urgent and Important Tasks)
https://medium.com/the-mission/the-eisenhower-method-for-taking-action-how-to-distinguish-between-urgent-and-important-tasks-895339a13dea via Instapaper
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Let People Share DNA With a Click
Sunday, April 14th, 2019one end of the spectrum on open DNA
Let People Share DNA With a Click
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-22/the-nih-should-become-the-facebook-of-genome-data
Robot Vacuums Are Finally Good—Here’s Which One to Buy – WSJ
Sunday, April 14th, 2019room mapping – perhaps elaborate
How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World – The New York Times
Sunday, April 14th, 2019Here are cognitive scientist Steven Pinker’s 13 tips for better writing / Boing Boing
Sunday, April 14th, 2019liked particularly:
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3. Don’t go meta. Minimize concepts about concepts, like “approach, assumption, concept, condition, context, framework, issue, level, model, perspective, process, range, role, strategy, tendency,” and “variable.”
8. Old information at the beginning of the sentence, new information at the end.
10. Prose must cohere: readers must know how each sentence is related to the preceding one. If it’s not obvious, use “that is, for example, in general, on the other hand, nevertheless, as a result, because, nonetheless,” or “despite.”
12. Read it aloud.
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https://boingboing.net/2019/03/27/here-are-cognitive-scientist-s.html
NEJM: Record-Breaking Performance in a 70-Year-Old Marathoner
Sunday, April 14th, 2019https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1900771?query=featured_secondary
We determined the physiological profile of a 70-year-old male marathoner who ran the event in 2:54:23…
LDL 84mg/dL and HDL 66mg/dL, quite impressive…