Confort Zone

The idea that you should step out of your confort zone was clearly created by someone who just likes to to jump from one thing to the next. I, for one, clearly do my best job in my confort zone, and the best way to expand my confort zone is by nudging its borders. Not […]

Ed Yong: Zombie roaches and other parasite tales

The luminescent bike path

In Poland, near Lidzbark Warminski, a new bike path was created that get bright at night after being charged by the sun during the day. The company who created the path tried to be as cost effective as possible, as the materials are more expensive than the materials used in tradicional bikelanes. The luminescente material […]

What makes a good read?

As a reader I approach each new book with a question: Will this book be a good read? Will I have fun reading it? Will this be another one of those amazing books I can’t put down until I’m through it, until I read it to the last chapter? Or will it, on the other extreme, […]

stuff multinational internet companies don’t get

There are a few things multinational internet companies don’t seem to understand: Location and language don’t always match – even when a users are proficient with the local official language, they may still prefer to use a different language – but there are a lot of users who may not be proficient enough to use the […]
Dividing issue nr. 354762

Dividing issue nr. 354762

Today I would like to ask you about one of the big dividing issues in the western world… Cinnamon swirl, are you a hot or cold kind of person?

Great Wall of Logitech

Ted Talk: How to make stress your friend

Wintergatan – Marble Machine

Martin Molin of the Swedish band Wintergatan has debuted his musical marble machine. It took more than two years to plan, build and tweaking the machine, but it sound amazingly.

Hundred doves

This is a math riddle often asked in Portugal to kids who are good at math. There are two versions of the same riddle, but if you can do one, you will most likely be able to do the other – I leave you both, just in case: A hawk flies by a flock of […]

the Problem with Jeggings

Increase the headcount

I hope you won’t mind the direct approach, the **Some company name** team is looking for Perl developers to increase its headcount, and I was wondering whether you would be interested. Your profile is a good match for our needs. I was looking into my recent contacts on Linked in and I had a message from […]

Our responsibility for those whose lives we touch

From the little prince to the intersessions of Mercy, by the sisters of Mercy, and not even spiking social responsibility statements from corporations, our society is impregnated with the idea that we are responsible for the lives of others. With the little prince, our responsibility end with those we tame, but to almost everyone else […]

The Zipf mystery

Vsauce published this video where he talks about the relationship between word usage ranking and the frequency they are used, as all as the relationship between Zipf’s Law and the Pareto Law and how the Zipf law works for so many things in the world and our live. An interesting video to see.
Tempo suficiente para amar

Tempo suficiente para amar

Time Enough for Love, (tempo suficiente para amar) é um clássico de ficção cientifica da autoria de Robert Heinlein, publicado pela primeira vez em 1973. Nele Lazarus Long conta a sua história de mais de dois milénios. Ambos ensinávamos escola, dentro e fora de casa. Talvez os nossos miúdos tenham tido uma educação estranha… mas uma rapariga […]
Time Enough for Love

Time Enough for Love

Time Enough for Love is one of several books Robert Heinlein wrote for his character Lazarus Long. In it Lazarus counts his long history to a group of people who are at least as interesting in his recovery as they are in his history. Born in 1916 Lazarus Long just didn’t outlived time, but his story goes […]

Energy and sleep

Some days I have the feeling that sleeping is essential to keep productive. Other days the fun of keeping working on something takes all the need for sleep away. It’s not only how much we sleep that matters, it seems, but also what is keeping us from sleeping.
the Unsuspecting Mage

the Unsuspecting Mage

The Unsuspecting Mage is the first of seven volumes that constitute the Morcyth Sage written by Brian S. Pratt. The book follows the adventures of a guy who likes Role Playing games, just finished high school and on what he expects to be a job interview is sent to a different reality where he become a mage. […]

Robert Heinlein

Robert Heinlein is one of the authors I had the fortune of getting to know since an early age. I grow up in a very small village – the first library I had access to was the shelf full of books from my primary school – maybe about an hundred books for an very young […]

What if 3D printing was 100x faster?

Joseph DeSimone introduces a new method of 3D printing that is not only up to 100x faster than traditional 3D printing, but also don’t have most of the problems of the current 3D printing technology – the printed objects are not layered like with traditional printing and they can be printed with a wider variety of materials.

Will our kids be a different species?

In this TED Talk, Juan Enriquez talks about the evolution of the human species, and asks if our children will be of a different specie.
Welcome to Hell

Welcome to Hell

“Any given Saturday” (Um sábado qualquer) is a Brazilian comic from Carlos Ruas about gods – lots of them, from the Christian God and his son to the Nordic, Egyptian and the African and traditional Brazilian gods – they all show up now and then. This one strip is about hell… the conversation goes like this: […]

Bancos – Roubo institucionalizado

Um destes dias ao fazer um par de transferências interbancárias através do sistema de HomeBanking do banco onde tenho conta em Portugal, reparei que me era cobrado uma “taxa” – 1,75 Euros quando a transferência é feita imediatamente, e 1 Euro se a transferência for pré-agendada, parte de uma transferência regular (como um pagamento mensal, que se […]
Attitude Transplants

Attitude Transplants

Just like mine… in my case I even had the excuse that in Portuguese (my native language) the expression for Homework, when translated back to english mean “Work of Home” or “Work for Home” – my home never learned how to do the homework, doesn’t matter how much I insisted.

The Dream work

One of the things that keeps surprising me is the lack of dreams. I understand quite well those who don’t do anything or that don’t manage to finish much – I’m planing on buying one of those T-Shirts that say “I put the Pro in procrastinator” – After I start writing this story I did replace […]

Dear authors

Dear authors, I love to read. And the space in my shelves is more than gone. I know that a lot of you are already being published in digital formats, but If that is limited to the big publishers who use DRM, don’t count me as a client. But in general I’m more than willing […]

Dear authors

Dear authors, I love to read. And the space in my shelves is more than gone. I know that a lot of you are already being published in digital formats, but If that is limited to the big publishers who use DRM, don’t count me as a client. But in general I’m more than willing […]

Artscribing

We just created a new word at coffee today: Artscribing – artscribing is the art of creating meaning for and/or describing pieces of art, specially for abstract modern pieces that don’t have any apparent visual resemblance with pre-existing things. In a less formal way, what it really means is taking some meaning or description for a piece of […]

Artscribing

We just created a new word at coffee today: Artscribing – artscribing is the art of creating meaning for and/or describing pieces of art, specially for abstract modern pieces that don’t have any apparent visual resemblance with pre-existing things.

Flaws

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you. Tyrion Lannister Just found it and thought that it was worth keeping somewhere!
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