Can you just point out a single sector that doesnt require any graphic work in the present world? It is at most sure that you wont be able to find out even a single one even if you sit and think for hours together.
Posts Tagged ‘Nature’
Net Connexions: Perfect Design According To The Nature Of The Business Posted By : darttdavid
December 7th, 2010 |
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15 People Who Survived Nature’s Wrath
September 20th, 2010 |
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No matter what the odds against survival are in any given situation, someone somewhere could — and has — wiggled their way out. Here are fifteen people who survived nature’s wrath.
The nature of the universe: Ye cannae change the laws of physics
September 2nd, 2010 |
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Or can you?
RICHARD FEYNMAN, Nobel laureate and physicist extraordinaire, called it a “magic number” and its value “one of the greatest damn mysteries of physics”. The number he was referring to, which goes by the symbol alpha and the rather more long-winded name of the fine-structure constant, is magic indeed. If it were a mere 4% bigger or smaller than it is, stars would not be able to sustain the nuclear reactions that synthesise carbon and oxygen atoms. One consequence would be that squishy, carbon-based life would not exist.
Why alpha takes on the precise value it does, so delicately fine-tuned for life, is a deep scientific mystery. A new piece of astrophysical research may, however, have uncovered a crucial piece of the puzzle. In a paper just submitted to Physical Review Letters, a team led by John Webb and Julian King from the University of New South Wales in Australia presents evidence that the fine-structure constant may not actually be constant after all. Rather, it seems to vary from place to place within the universe. If their results hold up to scrutiny they will have profound implications—for they suggest that the universe stretches far beyond what telescopes can observe, and that the laws of physics vary within it. Instead of the whole universe being fine-tuned for life, then, humanity finds itself in a corner of space where, Goldilocks-like, the values of the fundamental constants happen to be just right for it. …
Nature on television: Cue the fish
August 12th, 2010 |
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Why natural history is such a good business
THIS month the Discovery Channel is treating American and European viewers to a frenzy of sharks. There are sharks munching on seals (filmed at 2,000 frames per second and slowed down to capture every bone-crunching detail), sharks attacking people and sharks chewing cameras. Discovery has been churning out shark programmes for 23 years. Yet ratings are sound. Nature sells.
Indeed, it is one of the best businesses in media. Discovery Communications, which also owns Animal Planet, TLC and a few smaller channels, made a profit of $372m in the second quarter of this year. That is about as much as the film studios of Fox, Paramount and Warner Bros put together. Its growth appears not to have been affected by the arrival of another channel, Nat Geo Wild, owned by National Geographic and News Corporation. …
Scientific discovery games: Game not over
August 5th, 2010 |
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Gamers pit their wits against nature’s puzzles
SOME people do science for its own sake. Others may be lured by pecuniary rewards. That still leaves a whole lot of clever folk with no training, or interest, in science. If only there was a way to harness their creative powers for the greater good.
It turns out there is. As Seth Cooper from the University of Washington and his team report in Nature, non-scientists can be cajoled into doing useful scientific work if it is packaged as an online computer game. And many of them are actually rather good at it, or at least better than the smartest available algorithms. …
Bring Nature Inside to Improve Performance
July 13th, 2010 |
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This week I went conference room shopping with a fellow speaker, Shirley T. Burke. Fortunately Shirley T. “gets†feng shui and understood that I would have some very specific requirements for the meeting room in which we’ll present our seminar, “Back on Track: Get More of What You Really Want From Life.†I speak best in spaces that feel good. And, I want the space to have a life-affirming energy that will complement our life-affirming message.
The first room was the right size and shape and was nicely appointed, but what really made it stand out from all the other meeting rooms we visited was it had windows with a view of green trees and shrubs. By comparison all the other spaces we saw seemed like lifeless boxes. Today’s experience reminded me of a similar experience I had several years ago. I attended an annual conference of the National Association of Professional Organizers in Reno, Nevada. It seemed like an odd location to have the annual conference of a group of left-brained, highly organized people, but I was willing to see what Reno had to offer us.
As I moved through the hotel lobby I found myself repelled by the glitz of the decor. When I ventured into the casino I felt disoriented by the cave-like space with the mirrored ceiling, busy carpet pattern, and noise of the machines. I was told that casinos are deliberately designed to encourage people to gamble. They are intentionally designed to be disorienting. What a strange place! I was most struck by the lack of connection between people. All around people were sitting alone at machines or focused on games at tables. It all seemed incredibly sad to me. I couldn’t wait to get out of the casino each time I had to walk through that space.
What a contrast it was to go upstairs to the conference rooms! Gone was the noise and glitz. It seemed like any other conference center – pretty lifeless. We spent time in windowless rooms and ballrooms divided by partitions. Although those rooms were clean and functional, they lacked natural light, color and positive energy.
After experiencing the casino and meeting rooms, two different types of impersonal and uncomfortable environments, both with no windows, both with no plants, it was such a relief to emerge into the lobby that offered beautiful views of the mountains in the distance through large picture windows. I stood at those windows and drank in the view. I felt like my soul was being nourished by the view. Never before had I been so struck by how depleting the man-made environment can be when it is devoid of elements of nature.
People can create all kinds of environments. Without having a consciousness awareness about how you are affected by those environments, you can spend enormous amounts of time in spaces that are not life-affirming. For most of us it’s not a casino, but our home or office. Spaces lacking views of nature or objects of nature are uncomfortable and will affect performance and productivity.
The natural habitat of a human being is the out of doors. Therefore, when you bring the outdoors inside, in the form of plants, rocks, shells and water; you feel more comfortable. When you feel more comfortable, you perform better.
If you don’t have windows that give you a view of nature, one quick way to improve the energy of those spaces is to bring the outdoors inside by adding elements of nature. Add a print of a beautiful landscape. Add plants and water features like fountains and aquariums. I was in a windowless bathroom recently that came alive with shell prints, real shells and a silk plant. Nature feeds our souls in ways that man-made environments cannot.
To bring the outdoors inside add:
- Live or silk plants
- Art with scenes of nature
- Water fountains
- Rocks
- Shells
- Driftwood
- Fabrics with plant patterns
- Blue and green colors
- Fresh flowers
My passion is helping people discover the profound impact that environment has on performance. I want people to know they can change their lives by changing the spaces in which they live and work. Check out my blog or my book, Rock Scissors Paper: Understanding How Environment Affects Your Performance on a Daily Basis.
10 Biggest Volcanic Eruptions in History
May 21st, 2010 |
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The recent eruptions of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland were a stark reminder of nature’s ability to bring human activity to an abrupt standstill. The cloud of smoke that drifted over Western Europe made aviation travel untenable, returning European skies to a quietude not felt for decades. Yet, while the effects of the eruption were [...]
Offshore Software Development Vietnam How Offshore Software Development Vietnam Can Make A Differe Posted By : andrewharris
April 26th, 2010 |
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When it comes to acquire services of professional nature, appropriate knowledge is essential to help you achieve the best results and so will the company from which you seek to acquire services from. With advancement in technology over time there is quite a lot to be explored in the real world offering you an entire new concept and prospects that can help you a great deal.
Twitter Refreshes Homepage to Better Reflect Its Real-Time Nature
March 31st, 2010 |
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Twitter March 30 began surfacing tweets on its homepage in real time, a redesign of its front door that better reflects the streamlike nature of the site. Users will now see a live ticker on top, a suggested users on the left and a live tweet stream in the middle. This hits to the core of the real-time data flow that keeps millions of Twitter users regularly tweeting. It’s also a potential gold mine for marketers and retailers looking to sell products.
– Twitter March 30 began surfacing tweets on its homepage in real time, a
redesign of its front door that better reflects the frenetic pace of
information sharing on the microblogging site.
When prospective users or existing users who are signed out visit Twitter.com, they will see a live ticker…
Conflict conservation
February 8th, 2010 |
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Biodiversity down the barrel of a gun
THERE was a time when conservation meant keeping people away from nature. America’s system of national parks, a model for similar set-ups around the world, was based on the idea of limiting human presence to passing visits, rather than permanent habitation.
In recent years this way of doing things has come under suspicion. To fence off large areas of parkland is often impractical and can also be immoral—in that it leads to local people being booted out. These days, the consensus among conservationists is to try to manage nature with humans in situ. But there are still “involuntary parks”, to borrow a phrase from the writer and futurist Bruce Sterling, that serve to illustrate just how spectacularly well nature can do when humans are removed from the equation. …
Price fixing
January 18th, 2010 |
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Why it is important to put a price on nature
THE insight that nature provides services to mankind is not a new one. In 360BC Plato remarked on the helpful role that forests play in preserving fertile soil; in their absence, he noted, the land was turned into desert, like the bones of a wasted body. The idea that the value provided by such “ecosystem services” can be represented by ecologists in a way that economists can get to grips with, though, is rather newer. A number of the thinkers who have made it a hot topic in the past decade gathered at a meeting on biodiversity and ecosystem services held by the Royal Society, in London, on January 13th and 14th. They looked at the progress and prospects of their attempts to argue for the preservation of nature by better capturing the value of the things – such as pollination, air quality and carbon storage – that it seemingly does for free.
Environmental valuations aim to solve a problem that troubles both economists and ecologists: the misallocation of resources. Take mangrove swamps. Over the past two decades around a third of the world’s mangrove swamps have been converted for human use, with many turned into valuable shrimp farms. In 2007 an economic study of such shrimp farms in Thailand showed that the commercial profits per hectare were $9,632. If that were the only factor, conversion would seem an excellent idea. …
Officials on nature of statute changes
October 5th, 2009 |
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The head of the DS-led For a European Vojvodina MP group says changes being made to the draft Vojvodina statute “will not disturb its essence”. Dragoslav Petrović told daily Danas that all changes and agreement regarding the statute will be finished in the next two weeks.
Minister says protocol is of “technical nature”
September 12th, 2009 |
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Ivica DaÄić said this morning that a protocol signed by the Serbian police and the EU mission in Kosovo is “exclusively of a police and technical nature”. Speaking in Leskovac, in southern Serbia, where he presented the millionth biometric passport issued by his ministry, the interior minister said that the protocol signed with EULEX does not concern “any kind of customs”, nor “any other issues” that “politicians have been mentioning these days”.
Rabbi David Wolpe: Sam Harris’ Narrow View is Wrong
July 27th, 2009 |
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In today’s Los Angeles Times, Sam Harris would have the President withdraw the nomination of Francis Collins because Collins’ does not accept the “scientific understanding…
Mongolian wilds inspire UN’s Ban
July 27th, 2009 |
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By Michael Kohn
BBC News, Ulan Bator
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been in the wilds of Mongolia, travelling over rough roads to meet a nomad family.
He has attended a traditional sports festival and visited a nature reserve.
Mr Ban’s primary reason for visiting the north Asian country is to learn how climate change affects the far-flung corners of the globe.
Desertification and deforestation are major threats to Mongolia’s nomads, despite recent flooding in the capital.
Child jockeys serenaded their horses before a 10km (six-mile) horse race across the vast plains of central Mongolia.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon watched with delight as the horses galloped across the plains.
Traditional Mongolian wrestling followed and then Mr Ban tried his hand at archery, launching an arrow into the blue sky.
He finished off the day spotting wild horses at a nature reserve before bunking down in a traditional felt ger, the portable home of the nomads.
But the countryside tour was not all fun and games.
The visit is Mr Ban’s latest effort in his goal to learn about how climate change affects remote countries like Mongolia.
Mr Ban discussed desertification and deforestation with local herders who breed sheep, cows and horses on diminishing pastures.
Democracy and privatisation were enshrined in a new constitution, but the collapse of the economy after the withdrawal of Soviet support triggered widespread poverty and unemployment in the sparsely-populated, landlocked country.
Mr Ban has previously visited environmental hotspots such as the melting icecaps of the Antarctic and the rainforests of Brazil, hoping to keep the spotlight focused on global warming.</p
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
Panda cub born from frozen sperm
July 24th, 2009 |
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Spain battles 25 forest fires
July 23rd, 2009 |
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Strong winds continue to fan a series of forest fires in Spain. Hundreds of firefighters are struggling to contain about 25 separate blazes, some in protected nature reserves.