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Being productive is all about building a lifestyle that enables just that. Here are some tips that can help you develop habits enabling productivity in your work place.
1. Remove all form of distractions from your life. For example, deactivate FaceBook or use site blockers….
I’ve always been fascinated by “fictional” languages.
I put fictional in quotes because if it’s a language isn’t it a language? For example, though Klingons of Star Trek and Elves of Lord of the Rings don’t exist, people still learn and become fluent in their language.
Is Dothraki a real language? What do you think?
The HBO series “Game of Thrones” transports audiences to a fantasy world in which the politics and violence are as brutally real as our own. The Dothraki are a nomadic warrior tribe that figure heavily in the series. When the show’s creators were looking for someone to invent a language for the Dothraki people, they needed something that sounded as believable as the bloody battles looked.
The Berkeley-trained linguist and Language Creation Society member David Peterson got the job when he submitted a 300-page book of Dothraki vocabulary and grammar. More.
(Photo: Jason Momoa as Khal Drogo in the HBO series “Game of Thrones” / CC Dothraki language)
- Want to learn Klingon? Visit the Klingon Language Institute.
- Want to learn Elvish? Visit Elvish Linguistic Fellowship.
- Want to learn Dothraki? Visit the New York Times or this old looking website.
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Dracula Police Sketch of the Day: Popular Tumblr The Composites uses law enforcement composite sketch software to bring literary characters to life — the latest of which is Count Dracula, from Bram Stoker’s Dracula:
A tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache… His face was a strong, a very strong, aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils, with lofty domed forehead… His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking… For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed. The chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin… The blue eyes transformed with fury. (Multiple suggestions)
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Dracula Police Sketch of the Day: Popular Tumblr The Composites uses law enforcement composite sketch software to bring literary characters to life — the latest of which is Count Dracula, from Bram Stoker’s Dracula:
A tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache… His face was a strong, a very strong, aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils, with lofty domed forehead… His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking… For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed. The chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin… The blue eyes transformed with fury. (Multiple suggestions)
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This is a video showing blindsight, which I talked about last week. Patient TN had lost his sight due to a brain injury to his visual cortex. They persuaded him to walk without his cane in this video, through a hallway with obstacles (but they also followed him just in case).
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Whale shark!
Is this how Superman sees the world? British photographer Nick Veasey created these amazing images with an industrial X-ray machine, showing what lies beneath everyday objects — like a whole house!
The bike before time.
