« Making the Adjustment to Smallness | Main January 24, 2008 Cheap Happiness Posted by Derek There are some well-known expensive ways to make scientists happy: buy them lots of equipment and put it in fancy new buildings, pay them lots of money to work there. Come to think of it, that works on just about anyone. But there are some cheap ways to make them happy, too, and companies are really hurting themselves if they don't pick up on them. Recognizing what the people in the lab do doesn't cost very much. Odds are e... lire la suite
Lien du post: http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/01/24/cheap_happiness.php
Making the Adjustment to Smallness | Main January 24, 2008 Cheap Happiness Posted by Derek There are some well-known expensive ways to make scientists happy: buy them lots of equipment and put it in fancy new buildings, pay them lots of money to work there. Come to think of it, that works on just about anyone.
Cheap Happiness | Main January 25, 2008 Extractions: A Way of Life Posted by Derek Over at Org Prep Daily, Milkshake did an excellent post earlier this month on extraction techniques. It's well worth looking over, even for experienced lab crew. Solvent extractions are a way of life for organic chemists, a fact that has not changed since the beginning days of the science, because (for one) we still do the bulk of our reactions in one sort of solvent or another, and (two) because the bulk of our reactions need to have garbage removed from them, and this is the first line of cleanup.
The Performancing Blog Awards for 2007 are over and the winners have been announced. Congratulations to the Prosper blog for getting the nod for “Best Use of a Corporate Blog” — will we now be seeing many other corporate blogs following Prosper’s example? And congratulations to The Simple Dollar for winning the top blog in the finance and money category.
Innovation on the Cheap
Is happiness as simple as a cheese & tomato sandwich?
This is a guest post written by Alex Ion of SocialPacks. com. If you’re on the lookout for happiness, chances are it’s going to take awhile to find it. This isn’t because happiness is elusive, but simply because you’re not looking in the right place. This is a simple truth but too often we forget that we need to identify with our inner happiness in order for us to realize the happiness that’s around us.
So, we are the "ugly American," we're always told. But to whom do they come running when they need help? Italy, France, maybe? Hardly. Still, they love to beat up on the US, and unfortunately our MSM is only too happy to act the echo chamber for anti-Americanism. This time it is Time Magazine that gleefully adds to the din of opprobrium at America with theirs titled, "US Ranked Low in Humanitarian Aid," wherein, crook and ex-UN chief Kofi Annan has decided that we are cheapskates where it concerns so-called "humanitarian aid" to foreign countries.
When solar beats 6 cents per kilowatt hour, Americans will buy it. David Roberts at the Gristmill blog is all excited by a report that it may cost less per watt/hour to build a solar energy plant than a new coal plant. His overreaction is called “Solar cheaper than coal and falling:
Life, and finding happiness, is like a bowl of cherries! Or a box of. damn, why is it so hard to come up with any other ideas? That's what publishers are wondering, as they appear to be having.
Dans les coulisses d'un [b]distributeur automatique[/b] de Coca-Cola, Bisous, Capuchon, Patatix et Travailleur s'affairent au sein de la fabrique Coca-Cola " Happiness Factory". C'est une journée comme les autres les Patatix s'amusent à distribuer du Coca-Cola, les Capuchons encapsulent les bouteilles et les Bisous prodiguent du bonheur tout autour de l'usine.
Preston Keres - TWP) I' m starting to think of Gilbert as sort of the secular Joe Gibbs. Gibbs puts his weekly spiritual guides to life on the Web; Gilbert does the same, a bit less regularly but with equal length and earnestness, invoking True Happiness as his God. But either way, this man can preach.
I’m filling in this week as host of the Personal Development and Happiness Carnival. Regular host Alex Blackwell of The Next 45 Years is off on a work-related trip to Florida, but he’ll be back next week. Welcome to the 24th issue of the Personal Development & Happiness Carnival This carnival is dedicated to people who [.
AP - India's Tata Motors on Thursday unveiled the world's cheapest car, bringing new mobility within the reach of tens of millions of people and nightmares to environmentalists, traffic engineers and safety advocates.
Jan 10 2008World's Cheapest Car Unveiled, Costs $2,500 MORE:
Lamedust writes - This project demonstrates a simple hack to create a large format laser cutter utilizing all the scrap electronics you may have lying around. If you have a broken scanner or two, the cost can be just about 30 dollars for the entire project. Cheap DIY laser cutter - Link.
Meet the Tata Nano car, currently the cheapest car in the world: The vehicle, called the Tata Nano, will sell for 100,000 rupees or $2,500 (£1,277) and enable those in developing countries to move to four wheels. Tata will initially make about 250,000 Nanos and expects eventual annual demand of one million cars.
Tata Nano - world's cheapest car no use to rural folks
Filed under: Deals and BargainsUpdate 2: Most games are gone, except for: Smash Court Tennis 3 ($39). Update: Seems like Wal-mart has either caught on to the pricing problem or games are selling out, because certain pre-orders are coming up as "Product Not Found! errors.
Todd Kenyon submits: I have owned and followed American Express (AXP) for many years. In that time, I think the only time I purchased it this century was just after 9-11-01. It is rarely cheap, because it is a great business and a great franchise and everyone knows it. You need some serious fear to get this company on the cheap.
Cadmium batteries are cheap and safe to use, but hazardous to manufacture. They'll save you money—about $1. for the average cadmium-powered toy, says the Wall Street Journal. But cadmium. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!