The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains Nicholas Carr Over the last two decades the Internet has developed into instant source of information. Libraries and museums are slowing becoming useless for research and development‚ because of how easy and simplistic it is to discover information with just a couple mouse clicks away. Now in modern libraries people do not just go there for books‚ but they are there for the wifi hotspots as well. Tapping of the keys is the most predominant
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fascinating how when you look at someone’s receipts‚ you can what kind of person they are. My own receipts over the past few months‚ for example‚ can show a lot about who I am and what I like to do. Listed with different titles of many movies and how much I paid for them‚ once can clearly realize through these paper strips that I have been a very serious movie watcher of action movies‚ movies in which the good guy is the hero. When I was in Saudi Arabia‚ during my teen years‚ I use to own a huge
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13-3 (Key Question) Describe wage determination in a labor market in which workers are unorganized and many firms actively compete for the services of labor. Show this situation graphically‚ using W1 to indicate the equilibrium wage rate and Q1 to show the number of workers hired by the firms as a group. Show the labor supply curve of the individual firm‚ and compare it with that of the total market. Why the differences? In the diagram representing the firm‚ identify total revenue‚ total wage
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ago. And an even more worrisome bulge is coming: A typical woman in her 40s now weighs 168 pounds‚ versus 143 pounds in the 1960s. "People used to start midlife [at a lower weight] and then lose weight when they got into their 50s‚ but that doesn’t happen as much anymore‚" says David Kessler‚ former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and author of The End of Overeating. If you’re entering that danger zone now‚ be aware that it’s not going to get any easier to lose weight‚ because people
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Star from Above Sabastian‚ Stevenson‚ and his dog‚ Buck‚ sat on their house’s back porch around a bonfire. Stevenson was watching Buck chase a lightning bug while Sabastian leaned back in his chair and gazed at the cosmos. His mind traveled back to a time before Stevenson found him in the village pub‚ to a time when he was adventurous and quick witted. He had flown through those same star constellations that he stared at now. As Sabastian let his mind wander‚ he didn’t care to notice a particularly
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There are many things in life that can strike one when they least expect it. The situation could either be winning the lotto or something bad like catching a fatal sickness‚ but no matter what it is‚ both will have a huge effect on ones life. Homelessness can happen to anyone at any given moment in their life for over a hundred different reasons. It does not even have to be their fault. For this reason exactly is why Americans should consider this a major crisis today. The amount of people becoming
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normal student like me may find it hard to do some extra-curricular tasks and be involved to other organizations actively participating in school-related activities and all; I do not consider joining and participating to some ORG or clubs important. What I value the most is to complete all my enrolled units‚ attend all my subjects and be a normal student‚ I suppose‚ most of students here in Bicol University also thinks the same. One rainy morning last December 2011‚ the news broke out about the
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Can You Find Me Now How is a Nintendo Wii game console able to determine the location of a Wii Remote while a player interacts with a game? The answer is triangulation‚ a process that determines the location of an object by measuring the angles from two or more fixed points. Surveyors often use triangulation to measure distance. Starting at a known location and elevation‚ surveyors measure a length to create a base line and then use a theodolite to measure an angle to an unknown point from each
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Food is the matriarch of the human civilization. Our ability to function is dependent upon what we put into our bodies and the sustenance gained from doing so. While it is true that food plays a very vital role in maintaining proper health as well as preventing/curing diseases‚ for some‚ food can also be used to fill emotional voids. Other people are forced into specific dietary restrictions based on auto-immune intolerances‚ or other health-related problems‚ while others may simply choose not to
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Now you see me is an action film with a magical twist. The plotline involves four magicians‚ the four Horsemen‚ performing a series of heists through magic while trying to outwit the police and join the mysterious Eye. From the start of the film the aspect of magic is present even as the Four Horsemen are brought together‚ which I find effective and almost enchanting since it shows how magic can bring people together. Apart from magic‚ there
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