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Watch as Astronaut Chris Hadfield Covers Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ in Space

Life imitating Art.

Here is a version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.

Hadfield is not only an astronaut, he is a social media star who invited the world to experience space differently by sharing the photos and videos he captured during his stay on the International Space Station.

 

 

With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here's Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World. youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9d…

— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) May 12, 2013

 

 

In the clip, Hadfield floats around the space station singing the 1969 track (with modified lyrics such as, “Ground control to Major Tom, lock your Soyuz hatch and put your helmet on,”) and playing an acoustic guitar while gazing at Earth from space.

Kind of fun to watch.

 

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Love this illustration of Thinking versus Doing.

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• The 12 Things That Successfully Convert a Great Idea Into a Reality. (Forbes)
• What Will You Create to Make the World Awesome? (Harvard Business Review)
• Lost In the Cloud. How safe are your online files and secrets. (NewScientist)
• Humans Can Feel Empathy Toward Robots. That's just what SkyNet wants us to do. (Popsci)
• Iron Man 3 to Get Smell-Enhanced Screenings in Japan. (Wired)

 

Trading Links:

• 20 Dramatic Predictions for 2030. (Staff.com)
• What Nassim Taleb Misses About Technology and Innovation. (Forbes)
• Why You Should Care Cybersecurity Lobbying Doubled. (Mashable)
• How Big Data Is Changing the Whole Equation for Business. (Wall Street Journal)
• Data Leak Reveals Big Secret Trove of Global Wealth in Offshore Bank Accounts and Shell Companies. (NYTimes)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Certainty is a 'funny' thing.  Just because you know the 'right' answer doesn't mean there isn't a different answer that might seem even more correct.

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• Business lessons from the Dalai Lama. (CBSNews)
• We Wait Too Long to Train Our Leaders. (Harvard Business Review)
• Here's What Happens Every Sixty Seconds in the World of Data. (DZone)
• The Smell of Nature Is Almost as Good For Us as the Real Thing. (TheAtlantic)
• How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes: Lessons in Mindfulness and Creativity from the Great Detective. (BrainPickings)

 

Trading Links:

• The World's Youngest Billionaires. 29 Under 40 - (Forbes)
• Retirees Set to Outnumber Canada’s Youth for the First Time. (Globe&Mail)
• An Aging Population May Be What the World Needs. (Businessweek)
• Self-Learning Algorithms. The New Frontier for Trading & Market Surveillance (AT)
• Data Shift to Lift US economy 3%. Because of this change, the U.S. economy will 'officially' grow in July ... as R&D and film royalties are added. (FT)

This Graphic Lets You Watch How Fast America Got Fat

Fit or Fat?  Data Says ... "Fatter than Ever".

It’s no secret that the US has a weight problem, but did you realize how fast the country got fat?

The U.S. has gone from a relatively thin country to a place where the norm in many areas is to be overweight or even obese.

Look How Fast It Happened.  The chart starts in 1985.

 

via The Atlantic

 

This animated map is jaw-dropping (or belt-busting).  Notice the how the rate of change accelerates when it reaches the 2000s … many states burst from around a 20% obesity level to over 30%.

It is interesting to note that Colorado remains the only state (in blue) with less than 20% obesity.

Meanwhile, Gallop recently released their Well-Being Index of 189 metro areas.  In 2012, obesity rates in all but two areas were above 15%.

Here are the Fittest and Fattest Communities in the U.S.:

 

If you live in Charlottesville VA or Boulder CO, you’re probably looking good.

 

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The Most Honest Three Minutes In Television History? [Video]

Tragedies often sound a clarion call that get people to band together and be their best selves.  

But how long will the good behavior last?  Like exercise or showers, while it is good to do ... it is better to repeat. 

It is time to take an honest look at ourselves ... and take appropriate action.

The 3 minute video below highlights some tough issues.  The hard truth is that progress starts with honesty.

 

 

 

Do you think this painted an accurate picture of the current United States?

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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

It was cool that they found the bombers so fast. Yet, I have mixed feelings about what that implies about the 'surveillance society' we live in.

Sometimes things just don't seem to make sense ... other times they do.

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• Google Person Finder Located the Missing at Boston Marathon Explosion. (Mashable)
• Stupidity: Why Didn't Evolution Make Us All Geniuses? Why we still do dumb things. (NS)
• IBM CEO Predicts Three Ways Technology Will Transform the Future of Business. (Forbes)
• Disruption Results from Rational Responses to a Changing Environment. (Harvard BR)
• Stanley Kubrick Worried that IBM Would Get Mad About His Psycho Computer, HAL. (BI)

 

Trading Links:

• After Apple’s Rise, a Bruising Fall. Wall St. has turned viciously on its one-time iDarling. (NYT)
• The Death of the PC Has Not Been Exaggerated. (Forbes)
• Computer Sales in Free Fall. Quarterly Shipments Dropped 14% (Wall Street Journal)
• New Study: Smaller Hedge Fund Managers Outperform. (AllAboutAlpha)
• Condoleezza Rice:  Russia Is Really Just a Large Oil & Gas Syndicate. (AdvisorOne)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Some things are harder than others ...

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• Clayton Christensen Wants to Transform Capitalism. Interesting insights. (Wired)
• Why Weirdos Outperform Normals. (Linkedin)
• Your Brain Is Hooked on Being Right. (Harvard Business Review)
• Spotify’s Top 10 most viral tracks. Or, proof I'm getting older and more like my father. (Salon)
• Online Passwords. At the height of the cold war, the "secret unlocking code" for America's nuclear missiles was 00000000. (Guardian)

 

Trading Links:

• Dear SEC, This Is HFT "Cheating" At Its Most Obvious. Regards, Everyone Else. (ZeroHedge)
• Computer Algorithms Rely Increasingly on Human Helpers. (NYTimes)
• FBI Joins SEC in Computer Trading Probe. (FT)
• Top 10 Richest Colleges for 2012—The Biggest Endowments. (AdvisorOne)
• David Stockman On ‘The Great Deformation’ and Our Economic Doom. Are these new stock-market records just another bubble? (TDB)

When Sleep Doesn't Help Like It Should ... It Might Be The Position You're In

Front, Back or Side ... What's Your Perfect Sleep Position?

Instead of a good night's sleep, it may be hurting you.

Here is an infographic from the WSJ that lays it out for you.

 

 

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A View From Above ... Making the Invisible Visible [Video from the Space Station]

It is easy to get lost in the admistrivia of day-to-day life.  Here is a quick antidote for that.

International Space Station astronaut Don Pettit lived on the station for about a year, and took many pictures while up there.  The results of his innovative photographic work and passion have changed the way we see earth from space.

Next, astrophotographer Christoph Malin took thousands of Pettit's individual photos and animated them, adding clips of Pettit giving a talk about his stay aboard the ISS and his photography there. He also set it to music, creating a simply stunning time-lapse video.

The result is certainly worth watching.  So, set aside 16 minutes of your busy day, sit back, and soak this in: “The ISS Image Frontier”.

 

"Making the invisible visible" - the ISS Image Frontier from Christoph Malin on Vimeo.

 

The video presents an interesting perspective of our planet.

Many astronauts, even from back in the Apollo days, talk about an incredible feeling they get after a few days in space. As they gaze on the Earth from above, they lose their feeling of borders and nationality. The Saudi astronaut Sultan bin Salman Al-Saud, who flew on the Space Shuttle in 1985, commented on this, saying , “The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.”

On a different note, the technique where they create a composite view of a visual time series is facinating.  It makes the invisible visible ... and has many uses in the big data space as well.  Very cool!

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Check-Out the "People Are Awesome 2013" Video

Watch this video.  Lots of it is amazing ... Some of it is inspiring.

You will witness flips, jumps, catches and feats that defy imagination (and certainly logic). 

  

What type of person thinks, 'I want to do that' ?

To see which of the segments might be fake, click here.