Author: John Walker
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7 April Fool’s Day Pranks To Play On Your Friends’ PC
7 April Fool’s Day Pranks To Play On Your Friends’ PC http://t.co/KAcEbltOsH — Mr. Walker (@greshamhs) March 31, 2014
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The world’s largest photo service just made its pictures free to use
Getty Images is betting its business on embeddable photos Article from The Verge If you go to the Getty Images website, you’ll see millions of images, all watermarked. There are more than a hundred years of photography here, from FDR on the campaign trail to last Sunday’s Oscars, all stamped with the same transparent square…
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The Value of Marginal Gains
This post originally appeared on James Clear’s blog. In 2010, Dave Brailsford faced a tough job. No British cyclist had ever won the Tour de France, but as the new General Manager and Performance Director for Team Sky (Great Britain’s professional cycling team), Brailsford was asked to change that. His approach was simple. Brailsford believed…
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Where in the World are the Best Schools and the Happiest Kids?
The best test scores don’t always mean the happiest kids at school. The Best Schools and the Happiest Kids visualizes the results from a worldwide survey of over 500,000 15-year-olds globally. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s triennial international survey compared test scores from 65 countries. Happiness was ranked based on the percentage of…