
When you’re hiring, seek out people who are managers of one...What’s that mean? A manager of one is someone who comes up with their own goals and executes them. They don’t need heavy direction. They don’t need daily check-ins..But still, it's very dificult to become one :) |
Solar Furnace Melts Steel, holy crap!seeing the potential energy of the Sun:..in the French Pyrenees, it's capable of achieving 4,352 ºF (2,400 ºC)—which, as you can see, it's enough to melt steel in a few seconds and almost disintegrate hot dogs..This is by far the most interesting video about sun energy |
100 Skills Every Man Should KnowFrom Popular Mechanic...but a real guy needs to know how to do real stuff. After months of debate among PM’s expert editors, here’s our lineup of essential skills... nice 100 point to do :) I've read it, and I roughly can do only 50%-60% of them. |
Using laundromats for counter TerroristSmart idea from UK:..While the laundry was indeed being washed, pressed and dry cleaned, it had one additional cycle -- every garment, sheet, glove, pair of pants, was first sent through an analyzer, located in the basement, that checked for bomb-making residue.. Not applicable in Indonesia though. |
Cool factor when using Vespafunny story from US:The upside is that people turn their heads and smile when you whoosh by on a Vespa. It looks and feels cool. It makes you want to say “ciao” again and again. In Indonesia, Vespa user is like third class road citizen.. |
solar panels can blanket a roof in under 35 minutesThe panels use traditional roofing adhesives, that'll be familiar to regular ol' roofers, and save the process from drilling holes more alternative energy news coming (via engadget) |
Lily-shaped pads could generate solar energy in Glasgow... ZM Architecture has an idea that would land a slew of large lily-shaped solar panels in the River Clyde... |
Superpowerful small wind turbines light up the nightWe've seem some impressive wind power tech, but a new breed of small, high-power wind turbines could potentially bring efficient wind power home. |
Six Bikes That Are Better Than Your Car"..Every year, more than 2,000 bicycle companies pour millions into research and development to make bikes faster, stronger, and lighter. Here are six two-wheeled machines that represent the cutting edge of bicycle design and technology.." bike to work! |
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE"Welcome to the first release of the Encyclopedia of Life portal. This is the very beginning of our exciting journey to document all species of life on Earth." Encyclopedia of Mechanical anyone? |
Exoplanets"Since the 1990s, we have found hundreds of worlds— exoplanets—orbiting other stars. This Cribsheet explains three ways astronomers can measure a star's light over time to infer the presence of exoplanets" Cribsheet from Seed |
MIT Builds Efficient Nanowire Storage to Replace Car Batteries"The point of these particular arrays is to capture ions and eventually give traditional rechargeable batteries a run for their money. The focus of Schindall’s research is ultracapacitors, which store drastically less energy than a battery but have essentially none of the drawbacks" I just read the article, in convinced that this is the future of battery |
Photos of the exterior the Long Duration Exposure Facility"It orbited the Earth for five and a half years with nothing expected of it other than to float there, getting battered about by whatever the great black yonder saw fit to throw at it" the experiment itself is rather interesting. |
Can a thinking, remembering, decision-making, biologically accurate brain be built from a supercomputer?"In the basement of a university in Lausanne, Switzerland sit four black boxes, each about the size of a refrigerator, and filled with 2,000 IBM microchips stacked in repeating rows. Together they form the processing core of a machine that can handle 22.8 trillion operations per second." scary isn't? |
NASA Baffled by Unexplained Force Acting on Space Probes"Mysteriously, five spacecraft that flew past the Earth have each displayed unexpected anomalies in their motions. new planet discovery? |
Virgin Galactic and Burt Rutan Unveil SpaceShipTwo: First Look"..But now Rutan’s followup to SpaceShipOne, which won the Ansari X Prize, is ready to roar for Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic. The two leaders of the private space revolution said today that SpaceShipTwo is 60 percent complete and that its carrier spacecraft, WhiteKnightTwo, is 70 percent ready.." I have followed this story from day one. It always thrilled me to see men obsession toward the space. |
