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While looking for some specific information this morning on time management I came across this video by a now deceased professor, named Randy Pausch. His story is incredibly inspiring and his methods of time management are impeccable.

If you'd like to manage your time or just simply be inspired, watch away.

Further information on time management can be found in the time management section. It holds work from Brian Tracy, Steven Covey and Edwin Bliss to name a few.

Not much I can say about it... just watch.

 

I found this lovely list on lifehacker and thought I'd share it with you!

It lists several products I use daily and I'm glad their free. Check the list out maybe, you've missed out on a few free products that you've never heard of.

Free Software We're Most Thankful For [lifehacker.com]

As you mayknow, I'm intrigued by psychology. So I found this article very interesting, interesting enough to share with you lot!

"To test familiarity-based recognition, Cleary gave her subjects a list of celebrity names. Later, they were shown a variety of celebrity photographs. Some of the faces had been on the list of names and some had not. Subjects were asked to identify the people in the photographs and indicate how likely it was that the celebrity's names had been on the earlier list. According to the report, "Even when the volunteers were unable to identify a celebrity by photo, they had a sense of which names they had studied earlier and which they had not. That is, they couldn't identify the source of their familiarity with the celebrity, but they knew the celebrity was familiar to them."

Interesting? The article goes a lot more into detail on the test, along with another test that Cleary carried out to identify the trigger elements.

Personally I agree with thid article as an understanding of the mystery about  Déjà Vu, but you are completely free to make up your own mind!

Explaining Why It's Not Déjà Vu [popsci.com]

Well great news! Recently an article published on the BBC dismissed that compulsive gamers are addicted.

"Ninety per cent of the young people who seek treatment for compulsive computer gaming are not addicted."

 99%! If you enjoy playing a lot of gamer, for a lot of time. Don't worry, you're not addicted.

"This gaming problem is a result of the society we live in today," Mr Bakker told BBC News. "Eighty per cent of the young people we see have been bullied at school and feel isolated. Many of the symptoms they have can be solved by going back to good old fashioned communication."

I very much agree with this quoted section, I believe compulsive gamign is very much a social issue. The false sence of reality people get from games in my opinion is a good way to help them through lives, but should not be used to subsitute life completely.

Compulsive Gamers Are Not Addicts [bbc.co.uk]

 

If you do, great news! Recent advances could mean that the woolly mammoth could be a common sight in a zoo in the near future.

"In November 2008, a team of scientists at the University of Pennsylvania reported they had sequenced a large fraction of the mammoth genome. The genome of any living species is the DNA genes which make up the chromosomes that reside in the nucleus of every cell and if we have that, then we might be able recreate the entire beast. We are on the road that leads to cloning a woolly mammoth."

How long do you think Jarassic Park will take to be a reality? If science keeps going this way, I'd say it's likely in the future. I for one, would love to see it.

"A new DNA decoding machine made this exciting success possible because it can work with genetic material from hair and DNA that is broken up and can only be isolated as fragments. Decoding the entire mammoth genome is only question of money, cost estimate is about $USD 2 million."

At only a cost of money I doubt it'll take much longer, so watch out people. Here comes the woolly mammoth, back from the dead to a zoon near you.

Cloning the Wolly Mammoth [environmentalgraffiti.com]

Here's a video you may like to see. I'm not 100% sure if its true, but either way. It does help give awareness to technology that is required to sort out the water problems, especially in poorer countries.

 "Over 1.1 billion people in the world don't have access to clean drinking water. When I heard of a water purifier that uses nanotechnology to purify water even from fecal matter contaminated water sources, I couldn't help but test it out the "uncultured" way."

 

Cow Shit to Clean Water [youtube.com]

 

 

Today I read a very interesting article that I'd like to share with you.

"Will the next Einstein come from Africa? If Neil Turok gets his wish the answer will be a resounding yes. When he's not pondering the origin of the universe, Turok is setting up mathematical science institutes across Africa. Ivan Semeniuk caught up with him at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada to find out how Turok plans to change not only who does physics, but how physics is done"

The article goes on about who Turok is and what business has he got saying thing such as this.

"Africa is the biggest repository of untapped potential in the world"

I agree greatly with that statement that Africa is indeed an untapped potential. I hope in the near future we start seeing some of the brilliant minds appear from Africa in fields of science and much more.

Will the next Einstein come from Africa? [newscientist.com]

Hey everyone!

I've been away for just over 2 months settling into my new life away from home, so this has kept me quite busy.

During my absence I spent a few hours here and there modifying and improving the current Most Useful for it to become the next version in a never-ending improvement cycle.

If you're reading this on the site, you can already see the improvements and differences that have been achieved to bring you a much more useful and efficient environment where you can simply be, most useful.

Look forward for coming  gifts as more features are unwrapped, just in time for Christmas.

You may notice that I haven't updated this for a little while. That is because I'm currently preparing to move 140 miles to Bournemouth and start at Bournemouth University.

This has therefor made me focus more on other things besides the site, I've still kept upto date with article posting (roughly daily!). So I hope this isn't a big deal :p

You will see a few university related article appearing within the next few days, first one being posted today titled "9 Fresher's Week Tips". If you're going to University, or are currently there. I suggest you check it out and leave a comment of what you think.

Also, I've been busy setting up sponsorship with various other websites. You will notice a new widget under the articles, this is from http://wonderhowto.com and it is currently on trial to see how successful it will be. I will also be making a guest appearance over at http://dietsinreview.com this Friday to be a guest blogger.

Check back often and look forward to more goodies in the near future!

Hey guys!

I'm sure most of you would have seen the update on the summary section.  This basically was because the previous assortment was prone to duplication.  I've set it up all differently now, to what I think is a much better organised collection.

All feedback is greatly welcomed, thanks!

SEO tIn today's internet, where the measure of a site's worth is largely based on its ranking in major search engines and where the value of real estate on your site depends on things such as Google Page Rank and Alexa rankings, it comes as no surprise that the webmasters spend a lot of time, and often money, on making their site as appealing to search engines as possible, without cutting its appeal to people. The ability to encourage search engine bots to crawl your site efficiently and place it high in results is perhaps more important than the maintenance of the content of the site itself simple because; what's the point of updating a poorly optimized site every day if no one finds it to appreciate it? That said, we'll now go into simple technique you need to know to do your own basic optimizing.

First, right of the bat, be careful with Flash. Flash animations are pretty and visually appealing but search engine bots cannot read them so if your site is designed with most of its content in flash you may have a problem. What I recommend is using flash but ensuring that your links are represented outside of the flash code so the bots can find them.

Also, use good keywords. Remember that the results are compiled by a computer that follows an algorithm to determine the value of your site to users based on a number of factors including the keywords it finds on your site. As such, if your site is about music, try to use ‘music' as well as other keywords such as ‘rock' if it's about rock music often on your site. This will earn your site a higher listing if someone searches for those keywords.

Page Rank is the next important asset to a webmaster. This little number can make the difference between selling a banner ad on your site for a dollar per month or charging hundreds. More noticeable, this number wields the greatest influence over where your site falls in search results. To use this to your advantage, you need to know that Google uses the amount and quality of links to your site from other sites to determine your rank.

The simple option is to set up some reciprocal links with other webmasters. This means that each of you links to the others site on your page. This has minimal effect however.

A much more effective way is 3-way-linking, in which 3 webmasters link to each other in a chain reaction that ensures that no two websites link back to each other. Articles are available to explain this in more detail.
All in all, the procedures shown here can and will make a big difference to your site if done correctly. Alternatively you could hire a search engine optimization professional to do it for you.

Hello everyone! Yet another site announcement! This time to introduce another guest blogger by the name of Vipey, Vipey owns and runs http://vipey.com and he is packed full of useful information on web mastering in general.

You will blog posts appearing from Vipey soon and you will see them from time to time, so look out for this new exciting blogger and he helps you unravel the secrets of web mastering!

Most primates shift their gaze to show submission. If an ape is going to display aggression or is likely to attack, it will lock eyes onto its victim. To avoid being attacked, the victim will look away and try to make it appear smaller.

Scientific evidence shows that submission behaviour appears to be hardwired into primate brains for survival reasons. Under attack, we make ourselves appear smaller by hunching our shoulders, pulling our arms in close to the body, pressing our knees together and locking our ankles under a chair, dropping our chin to the chest to protect the throat and averting our gaze by looking away. These gestures activate an 'off switch' in the brain of the aggressor and the attack can be avoided.

 

 

Making yourself appear smaller turns off the aggression switch in an aggressor's brain.

 

This is an ideal position to take if you are being reprimanded by a superior when you actually deserve the reprimand, but it would be detrimental against a random street attack. From a person who is walking past a group of possible assailants in the street it would signal fear and this can contribute to inciting an attack. If you walk upright with larger movements, swinging your arms and legs and having your front open, you will project that you could defend yourself if necessary and so are less likely to be attacked.

Here is the free online weight watchers point calculator widget on its own for easy access!

With this widget you can easily manage your Weight Watchers plan.  All you need to know is the number of Calories, Fat grams and Fibre in the food you're consuming, once you know this enter it into the calculator and wolah!  The amount of points you've consumed or are thinking about consuming appears. This is excellent if you are on the Weight Watchers diet plan or are thinking about joining.

Here is the weight watchers calculator widget-

 

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