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02 Dec 09

01 Dec 09

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entrepreneur

directing financial wealth towards the creation of wealth with not just startup capital but also handholding is one way of giving back to society
If it is a known face in the corporate sector, a lot of things happen much faster as there is a comfort level that officials have with these people. In business, networking works and that is what these people bring with them apart from their experience and money
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- Narayana Murthy’s Catamaran, for instance, will look at startups in healthcare and retail apart from technology

30 Nov 09

Why Do We Swear? | World of Psychology

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communication psychology

sexual references (fuck), those that are profane or blasphemous (goddamn), scatological or disgusting objects (shit), animal names (pig, ass), ethnic/racial/gender slurs (fag), ancestral allusions (bastard)
depending upon the company we’re in, and what our relationship is to that company, as well as the social setting. We’re more apt to use less offensive terms in mixed company or in settings where more offensive swear words might result in recrimination
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- variety of reasons, including to achieve a specific reaction from others
- express frustration, anger or surprise
- insulting swears can be name calling or wishing someone harm, so it’s no wonder they are often a defining feature of hate speech, verbal abuse, sexual harassment and obscene phone calls.
- cathartic — it often frees us of the feelings of anger or frustration we hold and allows expression for them. It can also be a useful substitute to physical violence
- positive manner, in the form of jokes and humor, sex talk, storytelling, self-deprecation or even social commentary. Imagine when you want to emphasize how great you feel something is
- people who swear more, not surprisingly, score higher on traits such as extraversion, dominance, hostility and Type A personalities. Swearing is not just for the uneducated or people of a lower socioeconomic class — it knows no social boundaries in its expression.
- natural part of human speech development. We learn which words are taboo

How to Deal With Negative Emotions

negative communication in relationships arises because we treat feelings as facts, and tend to skip over the thoughts that underly those feelings

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Thoughts precede emotions.

2. Honesty requires that we communicate our thoughts and feelings, not our conclusions.

Molyneux’s point is that so much of the negative communication in relationships arises because we treat feelings as facts, and tend to skip over the thoughts that underly those feelings. This results in arguments that are, in essence, based on mythology.
Thoughts precede emotions. Emotions, in and of themselves, tell you nothing about the facts of reality.

29 Nov 09

Overcoming Bias : Make More Than GPA

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if you try to study a subject in depth without following a textbook or review, you’ll have to decide for yourself which sources seem how relevant to your topic. If you try to add something to the subject you’ll have to decide what changes are how feasible and interesting. Doing these may feel awkward at first, but they will be very useful skills later in life. Similar skills come from writing your own game or starting your own business or composing your own album.

Most of the interesting academics I know spent lots of time when young structuring their own “unstructured” activities

why you need to write like a bad girl, part one « Tribal Writer

rebel your own ways of thinking that you have taken for granted.
rebel those voices that you internalized until those perceptions of me became what i'm to me.
When you become a REBELLION you say A HEALTHY FUCK YOU to all that.
Claim the truth of your life & yourself. Fight for the right to your own personhood instead of being an extension or reflection of others.

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“You need to write like the bad daughter.”

If she could tell how she fought her parents for the right to her own personhood instead of being an extension or reflection of them, she could claim the truth of her life and herself — and offer up a valuable story in the process.

If she wrote as the good daughter, she was doomed.
They want you to love them, or to look at them, which to them is much the same thing.

A true bad girl doesn’t give a damn.
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- “I became my own rebellion.”
  
  I would turn this phrase over in my mind, thinking that it sounded good, but what did it mean, exactly? Why did it appeal to me so much, and seem necessary to anyone who wanted to be an artist (or entrepreneur or hacker or any other thing that demands stepping off the beaten path)?
  
  Probably because of this: the statement is rooted in such spirit and defiance. It’s not just a challenge to the conventional ways of living, the accepted wisdom, the status quo, the established Establishment, etcetera…but a challenge to the self.
  
  We are all born into ways of thinking that we take for granted. We are raised within certain belief systems. We take the dominating voices of the adults around us and internalize them until those perceptions of us become what we are to ourselves.
  
  But when you become your own rebellion you say a healthy Fuck You to all of that.
  
  And if you’ve been raised to be the good daughter (or the good son), you maybe start to think that what is ‘bad’ is in many ways ‘good’ and what is ‘good’…might be killing you slowly.
- And if she doesn’t have anything nice to say, she won’t say much at all.
  
  This could be a problem if you want to be a writer.

Are Passions Discovered or Constructed? « Scott H Young

entertain your strenghts/interests to mastery.

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grit

Tap into your interests and work to master them. Mastery creates passion out of interests.
With water and sun, an acorn can become an oak. But a pebble will always be a pebble.

27 Nov 09

Maximizing Productivity and Recognition, Part 3: Developing a Research Plan - Science Careers - Biotech, Pharmaceutical, Faculty, Postdoc jobs on Science Careers

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Medical Animation Library

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Welcome to Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics - Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

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23 Nov 09

Murmurs recognition –part 1 | Vanumu.com

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ECG Learning Center

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22 Nov 09

Overcoming Bias : Praise Results

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praise

we often hear that someone was head of an organization, or had a credential, without hearing much about what they did with such influence. We often hear they were part of some project without hearing the difference they made
Very small acts are often mentioned, if they seem telling. And we often hear that someone was head of an organization, or had a credential, without hearing much about what they did with such influence. We often hear they were part of some project without hearing the difference they made, and the differences we do hear about are often merely due to others knowing of their association with the project.
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- Because the usual focus is on inferring how smart, strong, creative, caring, charismatic, determined, etc. people are, the incentives are more to do things that suggest good things about your character. If instead we focused on describing the differences a person has actually made to the world, we would get more folks trying harder to actually make a difference.
- evaluate the difference someone made, we should correct for the opportunities they had.
- If we praised results instead of character, maybe we will get more of both.

21 Nov 09

ED Primer.pdf (application/pdf Object)

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EmergencyMed books

20 Nov 09

Audacity, Part 3: Funding Audacious Science - Science Careers - Biotech, Pharmaceutical, Faculty, Postdoc jobs on Science Careers

"pursue a range of projects with different levels of risk and potential reward and different timetables" -KEEP SIDE PROJECTS.

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MedicalResearch audacious

You get hired for the big and bold ideas, but you don't get funded for those
You get hired for the big and bold ideas, but you don't get funded for those
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- What you publish is “the advertisement that you're providing to prospective students,” she says. If you aim to nudge your research into a bolder area but all you're publishing is the incremental, interim steps that are being funded, you will attract only students interested in incremental work, not bold ideas
- Once “you get hired at a place, the biggest expectation is not necessarily to make great discoveries but to get grant funding and to publish a lot of papers
- “If you start doing the boring stuff and you get all these little, minor reinforcements, like you get a grant, and you get tenure, and you get people patting you on the back and some paper gets accepted in this journal or that journal, you start losing sight of what's really driving the enterprise,” adds Vilayanur Ramachandran, a behavioral neurologist at the University of California, San Diego. “I would never compromise on doing the exciting stuff, and the reason for that is it becomes habit. You get lulled into a false sense of security. You follow the crowd, and you become that.”
- If you want to get tenure, then you have to get grants–but is strong funding correlated with strong science? Not so much, say our sources, though it depends on the field. “It's a false impression that important discoveries necessarily need a lot of equipment and time and money. In fact, the opposite can be true,” Ramachandran argues. “If you've got a huge grant and 16 postdocs working under you, you become a lab manager. It stifles your creativity.”
- “What many of us do is, we get the funds for the boring stuff and then do the exciting stuff on the side,” Ramachandran says. “The great thing about NIH is, they don't mind [if you] spend about 10 or 20% of [grant money] on other exciting stuff as long as you tell them it's vaguely related. That's an easy, easy way to deal with that problem.”
- JHU neuroscientist Solomon Snyder doesn't write about new and exciting research directions in his grant applications. “I write about what we did that was exciting a couple of years ago and that was just published in the last year and say, 'Look, we discovered x, and we're going to do the boring follow-up of x.' ” When the money comes in, he works on what he wants to.
- “My advice is, if you're selling your wares, which is what you're doing when you're applying for a grant, you try to find out what the customer wants,” Snyder says. “You sell the customer what he wants. And then in real life, you do what you feel like doing.”
- Importantly, almost all of our sources put forward the concept of portfolio theory: Don't put all your eggs in a high-risk basket, they advise. Instead, pursue a range of projects with different levels of risk and potential reward and different timetables. Also pursue a range of funding sources; instead of relying on a single grant or source, spread the ideas and the applications around. Using strategies like these, you can establish a record of solid, if boring, productivity even as you pursue the big payoff.

19 Nov 09

Student BMJ: Cervical spondylotic myelopathy: arm stiffness and unsteady gait

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- Brisk reflexes

16 Nov 09

Overcoming Bias : Contrarian Excuses

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criticism

Honest contrarians who expect reasonable outsiders to give their contrarian view more than normal credence should point to strong outside indicators that correlate enough with contrarians tending more to be right.
higher aspirations
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- No fair assuming you are less biased just because you feel that way.
- shouldn’t matter who agrees or disagrees.
- There is usually some way to define “valid” critics so they are outnumbered by advocates
- If you want outsiders to believe you, then you don’t get to choose their rationality standard.

15 Nov 09

Neurologic Exam Videos and Descriptions: An Anatomical Approach

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