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April 2013
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10 Myths about Nuclear Energy
10 Myths about Nuclear Energy View Post
Consumer Health Information Corporation Warns Poor... →
Consumer Health Information Corporation Warns Poor Patient Adherence in Clinical Trials May be Putting the Public at Risk. Unexpected drug toxicities occurring years after prescription drug approval
To Find Good Problems, Trace the Supply Chain
I often hear first time entrepreneurs who have failed that are starting off tell me about their difficulties finding good problems.
I’ve discovered one very time intensive but very worthwhile way of tracking down problems.
Choose any product in your house… View Post
March 2013
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February 2013
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5 Technologies for Better Infrastructure
Transportation and facility location planning are tough. A few technologies have arisen that may make it easier to plan scheduling, locations for new facilities, and coverage zones for any type of infrastructure related project or venture.
Airsage.… View Post
January 2013
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Language Learning Is Broken
I’ve learned a lot about languages over the years. I’ve independently studied the following languages and achieved varying levels of fluency. By competency:
Spanish
French
German
Swahili
Russian
Hindi
Farsi
Arabic
Afrikaans
Polish
I estimate that there… View Post
December 2012
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In a Cave
In a Cave
The landlocked region I’d never heard of, Nagarno Karabakh
After escaping Georgia, I ended up hitch hiking around Armenia with 2 Russians I met couch surfing. They took me to a country I had never heard of: Nagarno Karabakh.The… View Post shared via WordPress.com
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Wolf Price: Photos of War, Happiness, and Women's...
[Foreword: I met Wolf Price through friends in Silicon Valley. His story is a Shantaram of its own. We come from completely different backgrounds, myself from the world of technology startups and he from documentary film making and travel. We hit it off and became friends and slowly I began to learn more about his passions, goals, and desire to build something sustainable for the women of...
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Bookmark Dump of a Hacker News Rookie
These are some of the best articles I discovered this year. Many of them are from Hacker News, a site I discovered in early March. #YCS2012 I read about 700-1000 words per a minute at a 60-80% comprehension rate and go through about 40-50 articles a day. If it’s a super technical article, I might read it a few times. Hacker News is worth the 30 to 40 minutes of time every day.
Why...
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: Focus on what you are good at! →
One of the smarter entrepreneurs I met out in the valley. A good post.
katgleason:
It should be incredibly obvious, but for some reason it is really hard to come to terms with the fact that you should do what you are really good at. For me, its sales. I am really good at making money — insanely good at it. I’ve been making people rich since I was 18 (CC Anthony Casimano - back…
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The Challenges of launching a business in...
Read Quote of Ejaz Asi’s answer to Afghanistan: What are the biggest challenges for small businesses in Afghanistan? on Quora
Ejaz Asi, Managed MarCom activities in 2012
In short, War, Taliban, Guns and/or US Military are in no way any reasonable danger or challenge for the average joe who wants to set up his business, shop, trade or whatever. So, what are? Here goes my opinion and...
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37 Innovations from the Space Program
I decided to make a short list of innovations from the space program after seeing just how difficult it is to find a good indexed list of innovations from the space program. I really don’t like NASA’s spinoff website. At the moment, I think space exploration is well worth the investment.
Invisible Braces
Scratch Resistant Lenses
Memory Foam
Ear Thermometers
Shoe Insoles
Long...
Anonymous asked: Are you an IIT grad?
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Foreign Language Learning Hacks
I have not studied linguistics. These are just a collection of my own pseudo-random hacks to learn a language. If you have any additional pointers feel free to submit them here.
Use and memorize pangrams. Pangrams are holoalphabetic phrases that contain every letter of a word. Some pangrams contain every type of pronunciation of a letter. My favorite pangram is in German: Victor jagt zwölf...
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Top Foreign Artists you've never heard of
This list doesn’t discriminate by language or style.
Cem Adrian- This Turkish acoustic artist has a huge range in his voice and can sing the highs and lows.
Lukas Graham- A soul singing great dane who mixes funk, jazz, hip hop, and pop in a style of music he calls “ghetto-pop.”
Cro- A german rap artist who mixes incredible instrumentals with pop lyrics.
Movits- A...
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November 2012
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German Artist Buddies
Two of my buddies from Germany are up and coming young artists, and one of them is even running for Bundestag(German Congress of sorts.) I won’t pretend to know how the German political system works, but I wish him the best in whatever he does.
Without further ado…..Kades aka Katrin.
My other buddy, Hannes Munzinger.
Marius & Hannes – Dieselbe Sucht from Urs Mader on...
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