by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
You may have noticed comments in several threads which seem to have come a bit out of the blue. We were wondering the same and found out that the comments are related to a climate change related class activitiy originating from& King Mongkut's Intern...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Last year my wife and I bought our first home, in a Massachusetts town north of Boston. When we moved to the town, we had no friends in the area or family members. If we were going to navigate the complexities of buying a home in an u...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
There's a fine line between pushy and pushover. In this toolbox episode, we learn 10 ways to maintain resolve and stay high value in personal and professional conflict situations. "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiat...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
I’m not sure I get the point of the story of David and Goliath. And just for clarity, I’m talking about the biblical story, not the 1970s claymation creep-fest that used to give me morality-based fever dreams. (What the hell is...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
The story of how Cambridge Analytica had scraped Facebook data in its attempt to influence voting behaviour has been reported widely this week. Andrew Steele, a medical researcher at the Crick Institute in London, explains how data mining or scraping...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
This is a& re-post from DeSmogUK by Mat Hope It has been a heck of a few days in the spotlight for Cambridge Analytica& —& a ‘political consultancy’ that confesses it likes to operate in the& shadows. Revelations continue to& emerge...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds. By Daniel C. Dennett. W.W. Norton, New York, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-393-24207-2. 496 pp. Hardcover, $28.95, Softcover, $18.95. For most of human history, p...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
This is a& re-post from Carbon Brief by Robert McSweeney The warming the world has already experienced could be enough to melt more than a third of the world’s glaciers outside Antarctica and Greenland &- regardless of current efforts to reduce...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
I have a soft spot for lamassu. Ten-foot-tall statues of these winged bull-men guarded the entrances to ancient Assyrian palaces. Show me lamassu, or apkallu—human-shaped winged deities—or other reliefs from the Neo-Assyrian capital of Nineveh, and y...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
In 2007, the US Supreme Court ruled that& carbon dioxide is an air pollutant, which means that if it poses a threat to public health or welfare, the EPA must regulate it under the Clean Air Act. In 2009, the EPA completed its review of the climate sc...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Mental models and frameworks guide the way we make decisions in everyday life -- but what are they, where do we get them, and how can we make sure we're not sticking with outdated defaults? The Cheat Sheet: Mental models are our beliefs about oursel...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
As spring and Brexit loom, Adam Rutherford examines what stance the UK might take on neonicotinoids. The pesticide has been shown to harm bee populations by many scientific studies. Now, the largest report of its kind has put pressure on the EU to vo...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Everyone is talking About Stephen Hawking. My good friend Explained how time can end. And clued us in On how time can begin. Always droll, He spoke about a hole: “Now, wait a minute, Jack, A black hole ain’t so black!” Those immorta...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
A former Russian spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia are in a serious condition after being exposed to a nerve agent on Sunday. The first police officer to attend the scene also remains in hospital. It is being treated as 'a major incident in...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
In order to welcome high value people into our lives, we have to make sure we're leading with value ourselves. Here's what we can do to make it happen. The Cheat Sheet: Even the highest value people have bad days where they exhibit low value behavio...