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sst-0540 Do you know who Amory Lovins is? Nobody. Amory Lovins is an unusual character. He is something of polymath. Just say, he has varied (sort of) knowledge across a wide range of fields. He’s not an academic. He actually has a consulting company which he runs until recently out of his home in Colorado. He lives beside Snowmass in […]

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sst-0539 Both music and language have a lot of similarities: They involve complex sequences that unfold in time. They are both forms of communication. This has interested all the world’s best philosophers from Plato going back over 2000 years. Scientists like Darwin wrote about possible evolutionary links between music and language in his book the Descent of Man and so […]

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sst-0538 Current studies show that what goes on labels is an important consideration for manufactures since more than 70 percent of shoppers read food labels when considering whether to buy a product. A recent controversy as to whether labels on prepared foods should educate or merely inform the consumer is over and a consumer group got its way. The group […]

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sst-0537 Social skills are vital in enabling an individual to have and maintain positive interactions with others. Many of these skills are crucial in making and sustaining friendships. Social interactions do not always run smoothly and an individual needs to be able to implement appropriate strategies, such as conflict resolution when difficulties in interactions arise. It is also important for […]

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sst-0536 This is a new memory-learning memory. It is a good thing for you to get enough sleep, and a bad thing for you if not. People need to sleep before learning, and people also need to sleep after learning. When you are asleep, the memory can consolidate all the information into your brain. From this point, it may only […]

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sst-0535 I hereby not even to elaborate too much why I think it is that population matters in the world. These are the kind of topics which are normally cited when when thinking about the population, its challenges, its problems, its opportunities, its own problems. After all, pressure on resource is a very obvious point. When world population has reached […]

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sst-0534 We have a long history to research on hospital design and patient recovery. A long time ago, people began to study therapeutic environments. For example, in 1855, Florence Nightingale recognized that color and form enhanced a patient’s recovery. They found that fresh air and sunlight had positive impacts, and architecture also played as an important part. Views of the […]

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sst-0533 Most companies believe that competition drives employees to improve performance and motivate them. Ranking among employees is widely used in large corporations, like Cisco, General Electric, because they believe this can help improve productivity. Employees in those companies are ranked into levels by their supervisors in every department, in which, employees in top ten percent are rewarded or promoted, […]

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sst-0532 There are two kinds of stress. The first one is little stress, which happens in special circumstances such as exams or other competitions, and can be considered as a motivation to improve performances. You always think about stress as a really bad thing, but it’s not. Look on the bright side, and some stress is good for you. Stress […]

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sst-0531 We are from an organization called Nonhuman Rights Project, and we fight for legal rights of non-human animals. Drawing a line in order to enslave an autonomous and self-determining being is a violation of equality. We then searched through 80 jurisdictions. We chose the state of New York. Then we decided upon who our plaintiffs are going to be. […]