12 Tips to Mature Leaderships
In: Leadership
10 Mar 2010
My father forwarded me this list taken from the book “La sociedad que no quiere crecer” (The society that doesn’t want to grow up) from Sergio Sinai. I think that this tips do not only apply to managerial leadership but to every other sphere of our adult lives as well. So if you are either a father, mother, Bill Gates, team captain, older brother, friend or foe this list is for you.
Team ACC6 Returns Home After Helping in Haiti
In: Uncategorized
8 Mar 2010
Nefthalie Suglia, one of my co-workers returned today from an 8 day relief effort in Haiti. She’s a native from Haiti and works in The Devereux Foundation as a Residential Counselor. She wants to spread the word on what’s going on in Haiti and to raise awareness about the precarious conditions that its people are enduring.
This is the chronicle of this team’s journey into a devastated land and a wounded society. Click to get to TeamACC6’s blog.
Chile’s Earthquake Moved South American Cities. And What Happened With The Tsunami?
In: Uncategorized
8 Mar 2010
Chile’s 8.8 magnitude earthquake shook the whole continent and tilted Earth’s axis thus making our days shorter. Now it’s moving us.
The city of Concepcion (Chile’s second largest) moved at least 10 ft (3 m) to the West. Other parts of the continent such as Fortaleza (Brazil’s North-East) and the Falkland Islands. Buenos Aires (Argentina’s capital) moved 1 inch (2.54 cm) to the West. Santiago moved 11 inches (28 cm) to the West-Southwest.
These findings were possible by comparing GPS locations from before the earthquake and 10 days after it. Read the rest of this entry »
Crucial Stages of Cancer Uncovered
6 Mar 2010
By Maria Gonzalez.- Cancer is a sort of disease which can be described by the uncontrolled growth of a group of unusual cells within the body. This uncontrolled growth of cells can then cause death if left untreated. Thus, you have to make sure to immediately treat your cancer if ever you have acquired such health problem in order to save your precious life. But before going straight to your physician and start a cancer medical treatment, you need to identify first the various stages of cancer. Being aware on these stages is vital so that you can easily establish your own cancer treatment regimen with your physician. Read the rest of this entry »
Change: The Problem with Evolution and Global Warming
In: Evolution| Global Warming| Science
4 Mar 2010
In 1996, I was almost finishing high school and we were still concerned about the Ozone hole. Global Warming “did not exist” back then. We were in Biology class discussing cancer. I remember saying that I knew it was an uncontrolled growth of a group of cells product of a maladaptive mutation. Our teacher questioned why I used the word maladaptive and I told her that because in other cases mutations are the driver of evolution. She tried to explain me that evolution was just a theory and that anyhow, humans were “handcrafted” by god and that the idea of us being related to primates was just blasphemy. Yes, Biology class. To make the story short, we never got to agree as you may have suspected.
If I could just say that it was 1996 but now things are different, I wouldn’t be writing this article. But we are in 2010 and we still see in the news teachers being fired for teaching evolution. It’s not that in 14 years we reached the pinnacle of evolution and became all geniuses, but come on, 2010! Read the rest of this entry »
According to Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile may have also shifted Earth’s axis by bout 8 centimeters (3 inches). This happened due to the redistribution of mass on the planet (lots of rocks were moved around during the quake). Earth’s inclination may not only have been the only thing that was changed. Earthlings can expect shorter days too. How shorter? Around 1.26 microseconds (millionths of a second) shorter. Providing this is accurate you needn’t worry about smaller paychecks.
Even though these changes are difficult to directly measure due to their small size they can be modeled using supercomputers and a couple of trained brains. More accurate data will be available as soon as more detailed information about the earthquake can be gathered.
News source, BusinessWeek
Image credit, Imaginative Worlds
February 27th, 2010 – A massive earthquake has struck Chile early this morning. The epicenter of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake was near the city of Concepción, Chile’s second largest city. It was also felt in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and as far as Sao Paulo, Brasil. A tsunami alert was issued for the Pacific. The first waves are expected to hit Hawaii after 11 a.m. (4 p.m. EST; 2100 GMT) and measure 8 feet (2.5 meters).
- To track the evolution of the Tsunami refer to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center of NOAA.
- A warning is in effect specially for coastal areas in Chile, Mexico, Hawaii, Tahiti, Polinesia, Tonga, Japan and Australia. In total 53 countries and territories are subject to tsunami warnings.
- So far, the death toll is 147 300. If you need to find someone in Chile or provide information about a person, Google has launched Person Finder: Chile Earthquake.
- To see pictures of the affected areas published through Twitter under the hashtag #terremotochile go to http://picfog.com/search/terremotochile
Mother’s Sensitivity May Help Language Development in Children With Autism
In: Psychology| autism| discoveries
26 Feb 2010
A study from the University of Miami suggests that maternal sensitivity, understood as a combo of affection, responsiveness to the child’s needs, structuring support and education, and the ability to manage presence-absence to foster independency; may influence the development and acquisition of language among children with autism or potentially at risk.
Even though parenting does not cause autism, it doesn’t mean that a difference can be made through adequate parent-sibling interactions. Ask the thousands of parents who raise kids with autism about that.
Some Psychoanalysts theorized, (i.e.: Bruno Bettelheim, The Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism and the Birth of the Self, The Free Press, New York, 1967) that autism in children was caused by (faulty) family psychodynamics. This didn’t lead to any cure or findings, but to a whole lot of troubled and guilty parents.
Click here to read the adapted article of the University of Miami from Science Daily.
Image credit, Michigan State University
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What Makes an Effective Leader?
In: Leadership| Management
25 Feb 2010
The most effective leaders are those focused on people instead of just goals. Goals are important but many think of people as instruments to achieve them. You can categorize leaders in two big groups. The ‘hard’ ones are those who remain distant to obtain respect and compliance with their directives and frequently resort to a rewards and punishment strategy to manage people. And there are those who think that this way of thinking is obsolete. They promote closeness, support and flexibility. Read the rest of this entry »
Windows to the World
In: Science| Uncategorized
24 Feb 2010
NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavour landed safely in Florida on Sunday evening. The crew attached a new bus sized module to the International Space Station (ISS) and the largest observation deck ever launched into space.
The Cupola, a 1.5 meters (4.9 ft) Forged Aluminium structure features 7 windows, the central one measuring 80 centimeters (31 in) wide. Awesome views that I think you shouldn’t miss. See lots of eye candy the pictures after the jump.
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- Change: The Problem with Evolution and Global Warming
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