Monday, March 26, 2012
Most Incredible Volcano Footage Ever
Never before has it been this close , the complexity and intense heat is just frighting .
اللهم اجرنا من نار جهنم
Friendship
Interacting amiably with family and friends is a super stress reducer. Instead of the mind working overtime on worries and problems, it is occupied with thoughts of other things and other people. There is less mental capacity left for anxieties and self-doubt.
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." - Marcus Cicero (BC)
Good friendship is healthy but it isn't easy for everyone. Getting people to like you is the starting point, and that should be fairly easy to do. People have a basic need to be liked themselves. Show interest, appreciation, and kindness. Smile. Praise given out sincerely is a great act of friendship. Be a good listener and try to see the good, not the bad qualities in people. These actions will usually be returned to you, sooner or later.
"The only way to have a friend is to be one. . . A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
As a friend, try to let an unfavorable incident or remark fly right over the top of your head. We all blurt out something stupid or do something regrettable at times, and it's so nice when the other acts as if it never happened. This is a dear friend.
"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words." - Buddha (BC)
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Thoughts
Life is thought, and when we cease to think, we are not living. How we think, is the kind of life we live. Since we are able to control our thoughts, we can determine the course of our life and the way we feel during our time here.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Perception
We all face situations in our lives that cannot be changed and that make us feel helpless and hopeless. Perhaps it is less serious than that, but we are stressed and worried. It might be an event that has happened, is happening, or will happen.
It should provide some immediate comfort to consider that these situations do not directly cause these awful feelings, but it is what we think of these situations. Changing our thoughts can have an enormous effect on how we are feeling. This has been stated by many great minds, over very many years.
"I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet." - Ancient Persian Saying
By reviewing some of the good things in our lives, past and present, we can feel good even in what appears to be a very disturbing situation. As long as there is nothing we can do to fix a problem, dwelling on the negative aspects of it will only make us feel worse and will do absolutely no good. Since it all depends on what is in our thoughts, we can control this.
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." - John Milton (1608-1674)
So start listing the things in your life that make or have made you happy. Stuff your mind with other things that make you smile or laugh. Keep it up so as not to let the negative creep back in.
Study babies. They fall and get up and try again and again, and then they walk. They are usually always ready to laugh, at the littlest things. They are constantly interested in new things to learn about, and normally sleep well. If they brood about a bad experience it's not for long.
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." - Art Linkletter
Thursday, March 22, 2012
The Death Star
My answer :
The Death Star from my favorite movie Star Wars , is what I call the ultimate weapon.
The fully operational battle station that takes out the defenseless world of Alderaan in a heartbeat. According to estimates, the upper range of the Death Star's power is 10^38 joules, or as much energy as our own sun generates in 8,000 years.It's no moon!
Worry
But the worry disease can be cured and it certainly can be reduced. Of course it requires a change in our thinking - how to view and react to situations. Worrying over things that 'might' happen can waste large portions of our lives, considering that so often it is for nothing, and almost certainly does no good.
"If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?" - Shantideva
Worrying about things that have happened will not turn back the hands of time to give you another try at doing it right. So that is a waste of time too. So many of our anxieties and fears are for nothing. Most of the rest can simply be discarded because worrying just isn't going to do any good. So let's spend our time thinking about the good and pleasant things in our lives, and move on in a peaceful and contented state of mind.
"I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever." - Isak Dinesen
A program to become knowledgeable on the subject of worry, through reading and other instruction, can help in turning our lives around. A life filled with contentment and lacking stress and worry are the goals to be achieved.
It's never too late to start eliminating worry.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Life
"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." - Scottish Proverb
Everyone says, "How the time flies." The days go by and they are years, and the years finally become our whole life. Each daily portion can be wasted, or it can be a pleasure, before it is gone forever. If a bedtime review of the day concludes that we were too stressed, too busy, didn't accomplish anything, didn't have any fun, then it has been another lost piece of precious life.
Perhaps we are putting off our enjoyment until we have more time, or money, or some other improved condition. The trouble with that is that it might never happen, or it may be too long in coming. It's so important to accept this time, this very minute, as something of tremendous value that will very soon be gone forever. There are many ways to ensure that we make the best of our time here on earth.
In our daily routine let's include time to enjoy others and thus ourselves. Look and wonder at the trees, fields and mountains, smell the flowers, hear the birds, and watch the clouds in the sky.
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it." - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
Face your problems bravely, confidently, and improve on your situation, no matter what state it be in. Be good to feel good. Be active and improve your mind. Laugh, relax, and sleep well.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Wrap rage !!
A great majority of us are impatient enough to have it.
Wrap rage, also called package rage, is the common name for heightened levels of anger and frustration resulting from the inability to open hard-to-remove packaging, particularly some heat sealed plastic blister packs and clamshells. Consumers suffer thousands of injuries per year, such as cut fingers and sprained wrists, from tools used to open packages and from the packaging itself.
Do you have wrap rage ,,,
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Why did Einstein stick out his tongue in that famous photo?
Monday, March 12, 2012
Description of Fallacies
There are two main types of arguments: deductive and inductive. A deductive argument is an argument such that the premises provide (or appear to provide) complete support for the conclusion. An inductive argument is an argument such that the premises provide (or appear to provide) some degree of support (but less than complete support) for the conclusion. If the premises actually provide the required degree of support for the conclusion, then the argument is a good one. A good deductive argument is known as a valid argument and is such that if all its premises are true, then its conclusion must be true. If all the argument is valid and actually has all true premises, then it is known as a sound argument. If it is invalid or has one or more false premises, it will be unsound. A good inductive argument is known as a strong (or "cogent") inductive argument. It is such that if the premises are true, the conclusion is likely to be true.
A fallacy is, very generally, an error in reasoning. This differs from a factual error, which is simply being wrong about the facts. To be more specific, a fallacy is an "argument" in which the premises given for the conclusion do not provide the needed degree of support. A deductive fallacy is a deductive argument that is invalid (it is such that it could have all true premises and still have a false conclusion). An inductive fallacy is less formal than a deductive fallacy. They are simply "arguments" which appear to be inductive arguments, but the premises do not provided enough support for the conclusion. In such cases, even if the premises were true, the conclusion would not be more likely to be true.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
Japan invents speech-jamming gun that silences people mid-sentence Read more:
Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University, developed a portable "SpeechJammer" gun that can silence people more than 30 meters away.
The device works by recording its target's speech then firing their words back at them with a 0.2-second delay, which affects the brain's cognitive processes and causes speakers to stutter before silencing them completely.
Describing the device in a research paper published Feb. 28 at arXiv.org, Kurihara and Tsukada wrote, "In general, human speech is jammed by giving back to the speakers their own utterances at a delay of a few hundred milliseconds. This effect can disturb people without any physical discomfort, and disappears immediately by stopping speaking."
They found that the device works better on people who were reading aloud than engaged in "spontaneous speech" and it cannot stop people making meaningless sounds, such as "ahhh," that are uttered over a long time period.
Kurihara and Tsukada suggested the speech-jamming gun could be used to hush noisy speakers in public libraries or to silence people in group discussions who interrupt other people's speeches.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Psychology of Color
Iv always believed in the power of color and iv been looking into the psychology of color for a while now . Below are some key concepts about the amazing topic that still fascinates me on a regular day to day bases .
Friday, March 2, 2012
Its Not All about You ,,
Take a deep breath. Stop obsessing. It probably wasn't as bad as you think. Not nearly.
A growing body of research shows that far fewer people notice our gaffes than we believe as we pace the floor in private, going over and over the faux pas. And those who do notice judge us less harshly than we imagine. In a series of groundbreaking studies over the last two years, psychologists have shown that the "spotlight effect," as they call it, is a universal experience that distorts our egocentric notion about the degree to which people in groups, like parties and work gatherings, pay attention to us.
Learning to recognize this self-deception can soothe the anxiety that surrounds social interactions. "In this case, the truth will set you free," said Kenneth Savitsky, a psychologist at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., who studies how egocentrism affects behavior. "You can't completely eliminate the embarrassment you feel when you commit a faux pas, but it helps to know how much you're exaggerating its impact."
The spotlight effect blinds us in several ways. A few years ago, researchers at Cornell University conducted an experiment with 109 college students in which young men and women enter a roomful of their peers, alone, while wearing a Barry Manilow T-shirt. The pop singer wasn't exactly a favorite in the dorms of Ithaca, N.Y., at the time. The students felt self-conscious about the shirt, and after spending only moments in the room, met individually with researchers and guessed that at least half of their peers had noticed and might have said something about the Manilow shirt. Not so, the researchers found. On average, less than a quarter of the people in the room had paid any attention at all. Follow-up experiments using T-shirts have found that people exaggerate by up to six times the percentage of observers who notice.
A pioneer in this field, Tom Gilovich, a psychologist at Cornell, has demonstrated the same exaggerated misperceptions in several situations, such as group discussions about social issues. In a 2000 study, Gilovich and colleagues reported that students also badly overestimated how well their own gaffes and clever arguments were noticed by others in discussion groups. "The fact is that others do not notice us nearly as much as we think they do," Gilovich said. Contrary to every instinct, our nervousness, our sadness, even our lies are largely lost on most observers, he said.
The findings apply to most of us, of course, but not to everybody -- some people really do live under a microscope, as a chosen way of life. If the company's chief executive is cavorting with the bellhop at the annual retreat, she's surely going to hear about it. But as for the rest of us, our self-absorption not only creates a false spotlight, it also results in an exaggeration about how we are judged.
Most of the time a mistake is just a mistake, not a death sentence. As psychologists have shown, there is a knee-jerk critic in us all: When we see someone fall to the pavement, we may think, klutz; when a driver turns the wrong way down a one-way street, we may think, idiot. But the harshness is short-lived: Almost immediately, we tend to moderate our initial judgments if we continue to think about the incident at all, taking into account the circumstances: The road was icy, the one-way sign was obscured by a tree.
Yet we don't expect that same empathy for ourselves. In one recent experiment, psychologist Nicholas Epley of Harvard University and Gilovich asked students to imagine that they spilled a drink in their laps in the middle of an interview -- a blunder that went unnoticed until the interviewee stood to leave.
The researchers divided the young men and women into three groups. One group was asked to anticipate how the blunder would be evaluated by a harsh critic; another predicted how it would be viewed by a charitable person; and the third estimated how it would come across to an "average" interviewer. The students' responses showed they made no distinction between a harsh critic and an average one (they were all thought to be harsh), although they did expect to be judged much more positively by a charitable person, as the ratings showed. But that charitable person often doesn't come to mind. "This is a very reliable effect," said Epley. "When anticipating how others will evaluate us for our embarrassing mishaps, people seem to automatically imagine critics with horns and fangs."
Mark Leary, a psychology professor at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., said the spotlight effect, painful as it may be, has social utility, at least at the extremes. It's better to be too sensitive to what people may be thinking, even if you're wrong, than to be unconscious of it. "If you're going to err, you're better off being oversensitive when people aren't watching you than oblivious when they are," he said. "The risk of being excluded is too high, in terms of getting jobs, in terms of finding a lover, of being accepted socially."
Some researchers speculate that the habits date back to early human history, when people lived in small, highly interdependent groups. "In those societies, certainly, the price for being ostracized would be evolutionary death," Epley said. "You would have to be very attuned to how others viewed you."
In modern life, it nevertheless can be enormously helpful to cut yourself a break. In a report due out this year, psychologists find for the first time that simple awareness of this native oversensitivity can improve how people do when they actually are in the spotlight. Savitsky and Gilovich had 77 Cornell students make a three-minute public speech on university race relations. The speakers had five minutes to prepare. Half were told in a vague sort of way not to worry, that it's natural to be anxious about public speaking. The other half were offered some genuine education on printed materials. They read about specific psychological findings that speakers "feel that their nervousness is transparent, but in reality their feelings are not so apparent to observers. If you become nervous, you'll probably be the only one to know." The result: The better-informed speakers were significantly more lucid and less nervous, as rated by outside judges.
The researchers have not yet studied how well speakers do when they're nervous -- and have dumped a drink in their lap.