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Fan Ho, 1931-2016

Born in Shanghai in 1931, an award-wining photographer Fan Ho won nearly 300 awards from international exhibitions and competitions worldwide between 1950's and 1960's (a span of 20 years). Ho was elected Fellow of the Photographic Society of America, Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, England; Honorary Member of the Photographic Societies of Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Argentina, Singapore and etc, and honored with many One-Man-Shows in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Fan Ho was invited by 12 Universities in Taiwan and Hong Kong as "Visiting Professor, " teaching the art of film-making and photography. He written five books, one of them containing all his award-winning prints that is currently a permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. Fan Ho: A Hong Kong Memoir is his latest book published by Modernbook Editions. Further, Fan Ho was an accomplished and acclaimed Hong Kong film director. He won the “Best Film Award” in Banbury International Film Festival in England. Three of his films was received the “Official Selection” of the International Film Festivals of Cannes, Berlin and San Francisco; and five of his films was selected in the “Permanent Collection” of the National Film Archives of Taiwan and Hong Kong. He was also a judge of the Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival and Hong Kong Oscar Film Award. These diverse cultural backgrounds made Fan Ho’s creative style so unique, full of lyrical beauty, dramatic power, and poetic grandeur. Ho died in June 2016 in San Jose, California where he resided with his family. Latest awards In 2012, Fan Ho was rated one of the Most Infuential Asian Photographers by Invisible Photographer, Asia. In 2014, received the Life-Time achievement award by 2nd Global Chinese International Photography.

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The lush green planet that we call home may have actually looked purple in its earliest days, according to the "Purple Earth hypothesis."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/04/health/colorscope-purple/index.html

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100% Is Overrated

On celebrating mistakes and never considering oneself "smart."

The group most damaged by fixed-mindset thinking is high-achieving girls, Boaler argues, because it’s girls who are told by society that they probably won’t be as good as boys at math and science. That means girls are only more likely to avoid challenging themselves in science and math, and that aversion to making mistakes leads to less learning and progress. The more that certain disciplines cling to ideas of giftedness, the fewer female Ph.D.s there are in those fields.

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“When we give kids the message that mistakes are good, that successful people make mistakes, it can change their entire trajectory,” Boaler said. 100 percent is not an ideal score. When kids come home from school and announce that they got everything right on their school work, Dweck advises parents to offer some sympathy: Oh, I’m sorry you didn't get the chance to learn.

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About Firefly Experience Hello, my name is Radim Schreiber. I was born in the Czech Republic, but presently I live in the USA. I been photographing insects since year 1999. Photographing fireflies is my latest project. If you would like to see my other projects and photos, please visit: RadimPhoto.com When I first moved to Iowa, I was mesmerized by the abundance and brightness of fireflies during summer nights. During my childhood in the Czech Republic, I had never seen anything like that. I fell in love with fireflies, and the idea for this project was born. It was in 2003, and I was on the plane when I felt inspired. So, I made a sketch on a paper; it was a glowing firefly on a silhouetted blade of grass, with the moon in the background and the dark blue sky. Since then I had this image in my head, waiting for the right time to materialize. I wasn't able to photograph fireflies until there were advancements of low light capabilities of the latest camera equipment to photograph fireflies. Since 2008, each summer I would photograph and video record fireflies. I have received several awards and also been published in numerous publications for my firefly photos. I have exhibited Firefly photos in the USA, London, Rio DeJaneiro, Hungary and Czech Republic. The pinnacle of the firefly debut experience was my night show at Teeple Hansen Gallery in Fairfield, Iowa. I created whole environment with firefly photos, dim lights and night sounds. I still remember the light and happiness on the people's faces.

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IAmA and AMA. One of the most popular subreddits is IAmA ("I Am A") where a user may post 'AMAs' (for "Ask Me Anything"), or similarly "AMAAs" (for "Ask Me Almost/Absolutely Anything") – prompts for others to ask questions about any topic. ~Wikipedia

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Mathematics World Mourns Maryam Mirzakhani, Only Woman to Win Fields Medal

The brilliant Stanford professor, killed by breast cancer at 40, worked with shapes unconstrained by the real world

In her thesis Mirzakhani solved a problem that sounds straightforward but which is actually extremely difficult to answer: On a given hyperbolic surface, how many simple loops are there of less than a given length?

Her thesis advisor, Curtis McMullen, a mathematics professor at Harvard, recalls that a few weeks after finding a solution she came to him with a surprising announcement, she had used her work to find a new proof of the Witten conjecture, an important result in string theory.

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Stanford researcher explores whether language is the only way to represent numbers

Psychologist Michael Frank enters the world of high-speed mental math and finds that "Mental Abacus" users can calculate without using verbal working memory.

"There are a limited number of things that we explicitly remember," said Frank. People are only able to hold three to four separate items in the visual working memory at any one time. In contrast, an MA (Mental Abacus) calculation might involve the manipulation of fifteen beads. "Given these limitations, we were confused about how a whole abacus could be represented in working memory."

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Our Story

Our story starts at the Hadron collider at CERN, where our co-founder, Mait Müntel, was busy discovering the Higgs boson. He’d been living in the French part of Switzerland for years but hadn’t managed to learn the local language, as he didn’t have time to attend classes. Online platforms and language books didn’t give him the vocabulary he needed. In short, progress was slow.

Thus, he decided to approach language learning like a mathematical challenge and build his own solution instead.

After learning with a homemade prototype for 200 hours, he put himself to the test and took a high-school-level French exam, which he passed with a strong overall score. That was the seed for the idea.

Mait took those principles he had used to teach himself and started developing them for public use.

We built our proof of concept after receiving the Prototron Grant, a great seed-funding initiative for budding startups, in March 2013. The following year, we were selected from over 1,500 applicants to participate in the renowned TechStars London accelerator program. With the support of €1m in seed funding from our first investors, we grew a great idea into an amazing team of over 30 people. Together, we work to service a fast-growing language learning community of over 500,000 users around the world.

We get closer every day to our goal of building the future of fast and powerful language learning, and our EU H2020 grant for scientific and technological development and $8m Series A funding led by Rakuten in November 2015 will allow us to do just that – by scaling our team in Estonia, the UK, and around the world to build new and faster algorithms, a better product, a wider selection of languages, and an amazing experience that will help learners acquire new language skills faster than ever.

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About Us

At Highbrow, we are always hungry for more knowledge.

The idea of Highbrow first came to us when we felt like there was a huge knowledge gap between what we were learning from the media and real textbook knowledge. And like most modern people, we found ourselves constantly too busy or distracted to invest the time or money to learn about something new in-depth.

So, we made it our goal to solve our own problem by creating Highbrow.

Highbrow is the solution to the knowledge gap. With Highbrow, we try to create a simple, easy, and free way for people to gain new knowledge in less time than it takes to drink a cup of coffee.

In just 5 minutes, we hope to make you just a little more knowledgeable than you were the day before.

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On InstaNerd you can read endless stream of useful facts and how-to's. If you want to start a conversation, these facts can help you. It's not time-consuming and adds a lot of value to your knowledge. It's simple and fun. There are a lot of websites where you can have fun and waste time, and a lot of educational websites with long articles which take time to read. We combine these two together in the simplest presentation way possible. Read here how we did it. Just click START and keep clicking NEXT.

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An unlikely battle took place in California last night: Paul Rudd and Stephen Hawking had a not-so-friendly match of quantum chess, a variation of the classic game that employs the laws of quantum mechanics to make things more interesting. The video, which you can check out below, is narrated by "future Keanu Reeves" and was debuted at the Caltech event “One Entangled Evening,” which kicked off a special one-day conference on the future of quantum technology.

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From Risk to tic-tac-toe, popular games involve tons of strategic decisions, probability and math. So one happy consequence of being a data nerd is that you may have an advantage at something even non-data nerds understand: winning.

So how do you win (almost) every game in existence, do you ask? Here are 20 data visualizations that offer lots of insight into the most popular games in America, including chess, Connect Four, Monopoly, Pac-Man, “Wheel of Fortune” and much more.

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The top religious cleric in Saudi Arabia denounced the sport of chess, declaring it "a waste of time" and reiterating reasons why it should be forbidden.

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Lumosity, which created a brain game powerhouse by telling people it could make them smarter, is paying for its lies. Lumos Labs will pay the Federal Trade Commission $2 million for deceptive trade practices.

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The stethoscope is having a crossroads moment. Perhaps more than at any time in its two-century history, this ubiquitous tool of the medical profession is at the center of debate over how medicine should be practiced.

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My decision to throw out reading logs is one of the best decisions I’ve made for my third-grade students. I also threw out homework, with the exception of 20 minutes of reading each night. By throwing out homework, reading logs went with it. As a teacher, I have found several factors impeded homework from being beneficial to elementary students.

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The barefoot man in mismatched plaids roamed for years through Princeton University’s math building, muttering to himself. In empty classrooms, the “Phantom of Fine Hall,” as he was known, scribbled mysterious equations and strange revelations.

The barefoot man in mismatched plaids roamed for years through Princeton University’s math building, muttering to himself. In empty classrooms, the “Phantom of Fine Hall,” as he was known, scribbled mysterious equations and strange revelations.

He was a solitary figure, tormented by paranoia and subject to strange delusions. He once declined an appointment to the faculty at the University of Chicago, saying he was about to be named Emperor of Antarctica.

But John Forbes Nash Jr. was also a genius, a Nobel Prize winner who transformed economics and was known as one of the greatest mathematicians of his time.