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	September 25th, 2012 新旧 Posted 1 day ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 5 比較中。 Be authentic when you speak Posted 1 day ago by SmartBrief to Holy Kaw! 7 The ability to communicate is not merely the ability to string words together coherently. It is the ability to authentically connect with people. If you are in charge of an organization you may have the ability to tell people what to do, but you will never have the ability to tell them what to think. Great leaders do. They win over followers on the strength of what they say and how they act, and that is why the sincerity of communication is so critical. Full story at SmartBrief Social Media. More SmartBrief stories. Photo credit: Fotolia Why a little chocolate is never enough Posted 1 day ago by Futurity to Holy Kaw! When the University of Michigan researchers gave extra morphine-like drug stimulation to a certain part of rats' brains, it caused them to eat twice the normal amount of sweet fatty foods—in this case, M&M milk chocolate candies. “The same brain area we tested here is active when obese people see foods and when drug addicts see drug scenes,” says Alexandra Difeliceantonio. “So it seems likely that our enkephalin findings in rats mean that this neurotransmitter may drive some forms of overconsumption and addiction in people.” Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. Photo credit: Alexandra Difeliceantonio Finally, a fun way to iron clothes Posted 1 day ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! If you’ve ever had to dry clothes on the road with a rest stop hand dryer, Nigel Roddy’s innovative ironing system, the Arion, is going to look familiar, but without the annoyance of having to hold the clothes on the nozzle. The airbag is produced from a porous membrane. When inflated the airbag expands applying an even pressure across the entire inner surface of the garment. This gentle pressure straightens out the creases and removes wrinkles from within. Hot air is simultaneously forced through the clothing fibers to speed up the process. The Arion can have a pair of wet pants ironed in fifteen minutes and a t-shirt in three, perfect for when you have exactly that much time to make coffee, shower and make a mad dash through the house looking for the keys. With the Arion, though, you won’t look as if you just rolled out of bed. Pure genius and no burns to boot. Full story at Nigel Roddy via Tuvie. Designed for the lazy. iPhone 5: Towering over the competition [video] Posted about 22 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! 10 Who needs FaceTime when you can have BodyTime, just one of the benefits of Apple’s tallest iPhone yet? Heck, you don't even have to move up the line for this beauty, just hand over the cash and hold out your hand. Now that's convenience. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Full story at YouTube. Poking fun with the iPhone. F. Scott's Fitzgerald's hate mail response still echoes today Posted about 20 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! 5 Today would have been F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 116th birthday, and though millions of students are required to read novels like The Great Gatsby, one critic of his first work , This Side of Paradise, was incensed at his treatment of the powerful classes. For every writer, artist and rebel out there who feels under the gun of societal pressure to DO SOMETHING with their lives, Fitzgerald’s words may give you the strength to fight another day. Here’s a small excerpt from the letter featured at Brain Pickings. Your letter riled me to such an extent that I’m answering immediately. Who are all these ‘real people’ who ‘create business and politics’? and of whose approval I should be so covetous? Do you mean grafters who keep sugar in their ware houses so that people have to go without or the cheap-jacks who by bribery and high-school sentiment manage to control elections… … Who in hell ever respected Shelley, Whitman, Poe, O. Henry, Verlaine, Swinburne, Villon, Shakespeare ect when they were alive. Shelley + Swinburne were fired from college; Verlaine + O Henry were in jail. The rest were drunkards or wasters and told generally by the merchants and petty politicians and jitney messiahs of their day that real people wouldn’t stand it And the merchants and messiahs, the shrewd + the dull, are dust — and the others live on… Full story at Brain Pickings. The great writers. Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.