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Why Every Great Leader Should Study Philosophy | Page19

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In the boardroom, announcing your degree in philosophy is a lot like admitting to a history of animal cruelty in a therapist’s office: a sure sign of madness.

For philosophy scholars, the incredulous questions start early: “How will you ever get a job?” your parents might have asked. “What can you even do with a philosophy degree?” At first glance, it might seem impractical to study the great thinkers – after all, it isn’t every day that one has the burning need to apply Heidegger’s theories or ponder Derrida. But there’s one important thing that a rigorous study of philosophy trains like nothing else can: leadership.

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Sitting Stool in Backpack |CoolBusinessIdeas.com

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BAGOBAGO is a sitting backpack that allows you to sit down comfortably just about anywhere. BAGOBAGO is a sitting backpack with built-in stool. The interior is designed to prevent damage to its contents while keeping the stool always functional. The stool is hidden in the interior of the backpack and the construction is designed to prevent damage to its contents

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Small Volcanic Eruptions Slow Global Warming | livescience.com

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Small volcanic eruptions account for part of the global warming slowdown since 2000, a new study suggests. Until now, the climate impacts of small volcanic blasts were overlooked because their planet-cooling particles cluster below the reach of satellites, scientists reported Oct. 31 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. It turns out, satellites were missing about 30 percent of these particles, called aerosols, the study found

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When the Extra Mile Isn’t Worth It | Page19

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“Go the extra mile” is a familiar adage, and really, what isn’t laudable about putting in 110%? Well for starters, it isn’t actually a great strategy for success. Here, learn what works for 10X companies like Intel, Microsoft, and Southwest Airlines instead.

We are all taught that the best way to get ahead in business is to never stop trying to succeed. At the end of every day you should have achieved what you set out to and more. In short, to smoke the competition you should constantly strive to go the extra mile or 10 – but this is far from truth.

The most successful businesses don’t try and push as much as they can. Instead, they make attainable targets and ensure they reach them.

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Drop a bad habit, gain a virus | Reuters

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e-cigHe was, of course, talking about physical safety; a Mother Jones report earlier this year was subtitled “a brief history of e-cigs blowing up—in your face, in your car, in your home, in your bar. ” But if that weren’t enough, e-cigarettes are now also proving virtually dangerous: last week an IT employee on Reddit outlined the case of a malware infection that came as the result of using a USB port to charge an e-cigarette that was made in China.

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11 Surprising Thanksgiving Facts | Live Science

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turkey-signDo you love Thanksgiving? I mean do you really LOVE everything about the holiday, from the delicious food to seeing your crazy relatives? Then you are going to be amazed at what goes into making the holiday what it is. And you thought cooking your turkey was a challenge.

1) Are you ready for a day (or three) of eating?

If you can’t make it through the daylong celebration of food, football and family be thankful that you weren’t around for the first Thanksgiving. That celebration took place in the fall of 1621 in Plymouth Colony between European settlers and the Wampanoag Indians and it lasted three days. Talk about a food coma.

2) What’s in a name?

If you think that your Thanksgiving celebration is something special, chances are it has nothing on the celebration in Turkey Creek, La. That town, which has only 440 residents, is one of four towns in the United States with the word turkey in its name. The others are Turkey, Texas, Turkey, N.C. and Turkey Creek, Ariz.

There are also seven towns named after popular Thanksgiving side dishes. Towns and cities named after cranberries are the most popular. In total, seven townships and cities in the United States are named for cranberries, though most have different spellings.

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Chrome Will Start Blocking All Remaining NPAPI Plugins In January | TechCrunch

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Starting in January 2015, Google’s Chrome browser will block all old-school Netscape Plug-In API NPAPI plugins. This doesn’t come as a huge surprise, given that Google started its efforts to remove NPAPI plugins more than a year ago.

Over the last year, Google went from recommending that developers move away from this old architecture to actively blocking almost all NPAPI plugins. There was, however, always a whitelist that allowed some of the most popular NPAPI plugins like Microsoft’s Silverlight, Unity and Google’s own Google Earth plugin to continue to run in the browser. Starting in January, even that’s going away and all of these plugins will be blocked by default.

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