phone reduces the amount of brain activity associated with driving 37 percent. (Source: Carnegie Mellon) Risk of collision increases by up to 400% when talking on a cell phone while driving. Also when drivers are using cellphones whether it is hand-held or hands-free‚ this activity delays a driver’s reactions as much as having a blood alcohol concentration at the legal limit of .08 percent. (Source: University of Utah) Now when we think about it‚ is it really worth to lose a life of your own‚ or the
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made up of catoms could morph into nearly any object‚ even replicas of human beings for virtual meetings. With Claytronics we are talking of intelligent material. How can a material be intelligent? By being made up of particle-sized machines. At Carnegie Mellon‚ with support from Intel‚ the project is called Claytronics. The idea is simple: make basic computers housed in tiny spheres that can connect to each other and rearrange themselves. It’s the same concept as we saw with Modular Robotics‚ only on
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Pittsburgh – the most livable city! Towns and cities have a long history. In the ancient world cities were developed in a number of regions and for a variety of reasons and motivation from religious to political views. The first true cities are sometimes considered to be large settlements where the inhabitants were no longer simply farmers of the surrounding area‚ but began to take on specialized occupations‚ and where trade‚ food storage and power was centralized (Gracias‚ par.1). An ancient
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Freshman Composition 2 Professor: Feng-ming Chi 蕭湞燕 Pika final book report (draft 3) LAST LECTURE SUMMARY: Randy Pausch‚ a remarkable professor in Carnegie Mellon‚ delivered his last lecture and book entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" in 2007. Because he was diagnosed with terminal cancer‚ he was dying but he tried to leave what he wanted to educate his children in the future. After recalling his memory‚ he found that all meaningful things in his life were related to his childhood
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can also lead to poor decision making. Now that we have looked at some advantages and disadvantages of Full Cost Accounting‚ here is a company that has found a definite advantage for the environment through the use of full cost accounting. Carnegie Mellon‚ Engineering‚ is a Midwestern injection molding plant that switched to full cost accounting for its entire company. This plant was weighed down with elevated scrap rates‚ which caused an unattractive loss in profitability. Mainly due to the
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No one joins Facebook to be sad and lonely. But a new study from the University of Michigan psychologist Ethan Kross argues that that’s exactly how it makes us feel. Over two weeks‚ Kross and his colleagues sent text messages to eighty-two Ann Arbor residents five times per day. The researchers wanted to know a few things: how their subjects felt overall‚ how worried and lonely they were‚ how much they had used Facebook‚ and how often they had had direct interaction with others since the previous
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Warhola in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania. They were a working class family that stuck close to the roots and traditions of their Eastern European heritage. In 1934 Andy began attending the local Holmes School and took free art classes at Carnegie Institute (now the Carnegie Museum of Art). Andy had an amazing gift for drawing even from a very young age. In addition to drawing‚ Andy was fascinated by Hollywood cinema and spent much of his time at the local cinema. He also enjoyed taking pictures that he
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freaks or just time-pinched consumers. Yet‚ rising from the din of MP3 players‚ DVD film premiers and podcasts is an ever increasing evidence‚ braced by scientific work‚ of the ill-health effects of modern gadgets. The study done by Carnegie Mellon University found that spending one hour a week on the Net led to an average increase of 1 percent on depression scale‚ a loss of 2.7 members of the Net users social circle and increase of 0.4% on the loneliness scale. Intel Apple computer along
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In the talk given by Randy Pausch‚ Achieving Your Childhood Dreams‚ Pausch gave some of his personal insights on life. He began his presentation by addressing the “awkward elephant” in the room‚ explaining that he had liver cancer and was expecting to live three to six months. Pausch quickly establishes that this is not something that he wishes pity for‚ but rather‚ conveys his attitude that these were the cards that have been dealt to him and he simply has to make the best of what he has left. During
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