Tim Wu is a busy man. When he’s not teach law at Columbia or writing for The New Yorker, he’s testifying before Congress about the FCC proposed net neutrality. And as of last month, Wu is running for lieutenant governor of New York State. Busy might not be the right term, actually. Tim Wu is brimming with purpose.
Just like the odd eBay storefront that popped up last year , a new site called Factory Outlet eBay Store is selling refurbished Apple products and, despite any official Apple branding, is almost definitely the result of a partnership between Apple and eBay. And it’s selling Apple Certified Refurbished iPhones for cheap.
Riots have already started in Brazil. pic.twitter.com/BLEAvpGK8C #BRA
— World Cup 2014 (@PostWorldCup) July 8, 2014
What could go wrong with setting off explosives all around an active volcano? As scary as it might sound, this is a carefully planned experiment to peer inside Mount St. Helens’ mysterious underground magma chamber. No, we aren’t blasting the volcano open, but the induced seismicity will let geologists finally map what the volcano looks like 50 miles below the surface.
As one of the Blocks smartwatch team reminded us today, modularity has played an integral role in modern computing. A desktop PC is only a collection of components, after all, which can swapped out and upgraded based on what you need from that…
Wondering what Samsung’s virtual reality headset looks like? Well stop wondering, because when it’s announced at IFA 2014 later this year, it’ll look something like what you see above. That’s a render straight from Samsung, care of Sam Mobile. Our…
If you’d like to pick up some programming know-how, there are several methods for doing so. One of the neatest ways is iTunes U, which offers up several ways to learn on your own time. Often free, you can get up to speed in no time — and on your time. Apps iTunes U often taps several sources, but all … Continue reading
Camping is fun, but we are a bit spoiled with our toys and gizmos. Entertainment is found in abundance through a single device, our phones. When we visit the great outdoors, our mobile is only going to last about a day. That means the number of pictures, videos, and meaningful messages you can post to social media will be limited. If the thought of that makes you anxious, then you’ll want to make sure you have a way to keep your cell charged and at the ready.
If you like using devices that have more than one purpose, then maybe the UCO Arka XP-E CREE 180-Lumen LED Flashlight Lantern and Portable Charging Station for USB Devices can help. It’s a bit obvious, but this device will act as a flashlight, lantern, and charging hub. It houses a rechargeable 3.7V, 4AH Li-Ion battery that will charge up your phone, camera, GPS, and more. You’ll be able to charge your phone to 100%, and still have around 4 hours of bright LED light, or 25 hours or low light. If you’re only using this as a lantern/flashlight, it will burn on high for 6-8 hours and 50 hours on the lowest setting.
You can control how bright the light is by pressing and holding the button. It will start on the highest setting, and will gradually dim. Whenever you’ve hit the level of brightness you desire, remove your finger from the button and it will stay set. If you need a night vision preservation mode, press and hold the button for two seconds, and it will give you a bright red LED light. If you click the button again at this point, it will begin strobe mode. One more click and it will begin an S.O.S. Emergency strobe mode. There’s a loop on the top so it can hang from anywhere, and it is also somewhat waterproof. This will cost you around $55, and needs about 8 hours of being plugged in to give you the full benefits. In other words, make sure you use the power it would provide you with wisely.
Available for purchase on Amazon
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Indiana Jones would have a fit.
According to National Geographic, each year thousands of snakes gather at the Narcisse Snake Dens in Manitoba, Canada.
The dens are considered the largest gathering of snakes anywhere in the world, and when you see this video we’re pretty sure you won’t have any doubts. Apparently, the climate and geology is a perfect breeding ground for red-sided garter snakes, and boy do they breed.
If you have a fear of snakes, we strongly suggest avoiding this video.
I really love the fact that society is placing so much focus and emphasis on mentoring women to grab at life and assume positions long denied them. No doubt, the enormous strength female leaders and role models are injecting into this movement is doing a great deal of good. Whether we are Leaning In ourselves, burying our noses in recent literary hits as The Confidence Code, or reviewing the names of the 50 Most Powerful Women In New York as deemed by The New York Daily News recently, the emergence of women in the workplace at levels new to us continues to be demonstrated.
That said, I believe, it is very important that the growth we, women, are experiencing serves as a vital reminder of the intelligence and muscle that was put forth on our behalf by men who, ultimately, opened the first doors to us and continue to do so. Without these male visionaries leaning on the face of convention, bypassing stereotypes, and trekking down roads others dare not travel, we women would not be following in their footsteps or fashioning our own today. That’s reality and it is a truth that seems to get lost a great deal despite the fact that it can make us better leaders as we, too, begin to heartily trek and take other women with us.
Who knows whether or not Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sandberg or Hillary Clinton would be where they are today without the boosts given by Dennis Swanson, Mark Zuckerberg, or Bill Clinton on their own way to the top. I’m sure we would all like to believe that fate would have cast equal or better hands for these women despite Dennis, Mark, or Bill’s presence in their lives. Realistically, though, the odds are slim and purely for the reasons that kept like women from assuming such prestigious positions and formidable opportunities in the past — OLD SCHOOL wouldn’t have it.
It would take a new breed of thinkers underscored by an unstoppable desire to “win” to extinguish convention and replace it with WOMAN. Mind you, nowhere in that sentence do I infer a belief that these men took this approach because they were hell bent on helping women rise to the top. I’d rather think that their prime motivating factors were competition, money and survival — all of which equal success. It is not to say that lifting women up through the ranks along the way wasn’t a secondary advantage none of these men thought about, but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that primary motivations were socially driven. And then let us learn from such deliberateness as – in order for us to continue to Lean In effectively and expand the path further for more women – we need to (not just) Lean In but Stay In and that takes the same courage, tenacity, intelligence, aggressiveness, and effective leadership exhibited by the men who opened those initial doors to us.
Suffice-it-to-say, recognizing and thanking the men that truly brought us to this day does not diminish our own value, rights to passage, or well-earned positions. It makes us worthy contenders, insightful partners, and gracious leaders.
It epitomizes how one good decision can lead to a multitude of others. So in that spirit, I want to “Thank You” gentlemen for Leaning On convention, blowing open those doors, and inviting women inside. We might have fought to be recognized but without you possessing the vision, fortitude, and good sense to see us, the leaning we would currently be doing would look, undoubtedly, different than that which we are steadily growing accustomed to.
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