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Perception is everything. Part of that is influenced by behavior, plus our emotion. Significant studies have shown that color effects not just what we see. It is how we feel... The post Using Color Psychology for Better Website Results appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

I was one of the biggest fans of flexbox before it hit but, due to being shuffled around at Mozilla, I never had the chance to use it in any practice project; thus, flexbox still seems like a bit of a mystery to me.  This greatly pains me because I feel left out of the […] The post Creating Spacers with Flexbox appeared first on David Walsh Blog.

The minerals may have formed in a body as big as Mars

Photos and a newspaper article captured the 1991 visit of first lady Barbara Bush at the opening of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. The post Remembering Barbara Bush: The first lady who helped open Packard Children’s appeared first on Scope.

A non-toxic variation on the ‘pharaoh’s snakes’ reaction yields high-surface-area catalysts for fuel cells

Specialty WordPress themes serve a legitimate purpose, but you will usually do far better in most instances by investing in a premium multipurpose theme like any of those described in... The post Check out the Best Multipurpose WordPress themes of 2018 appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

What to do when we don’t know what to do.

My Two-for-Tuesday Tax day morning train reads: • The Future of College Looks Like the Future of Retail (Atlantic) • What to do when we don’t know what to do. (New York Times) see also The What-Ifs (Irrelevant Investor) • The Price of Free is Actually Too High (Feld) • Paul Ryan Was a Failure, Even on His Own Terms (New Yorker)… Read More The post 10 Tuesday AM Reads appeared first on The Big Picture.

A combination of machine learning and human judgment can provide solutions for social problems, said Rayid Ghani of the University of Chicago in a speech at Stanford. The post Solving social problems with data appeared first on Scope.

Ben Thornton received a heart transplant when he was 3-years-old and later suffered a complication that left him struggling to walk. Now, he's thriving as a wheelchair basketball player. The post From heart transplant to wheelchair basketball, a patient’s story appeared first on Scope.

I mentioned late last year that my buddy Rich Yamarone had unexpectedly passed away. He was too young, vibrant and, alive too have left us so soon, and it created a hole in the universe. That void is now ever so slightly smaller, thanks to his parents, Bloomberg, Brooklyn College and many of his friends… Read More The post Richard Yamarone Memorial Scholarship in Economics at Brooklyn College appeared first on The Big Picture.

As the first known room-temperature ductile inorganic semiconductor, the material could boost flexible electronics applications

For some reason, the small cap premium keeps coming up. It is one of the original Fame-French Factors and continues to persist, even after tall of these decades. However, if you really want to see premia based on size, there must also be a control for quality. Here is Cliff Asness of AQR explaining the issue… Read More The post Understanding the Cap Size Premium appeared first on The Big Picture.

Any small hole in the roof of your home or commercial property, if not repaired in time can lead to roof replacement in the long run. Hence it is crucial fixing small repairs in the roof in time. Heavy rain or storm can cause considerable damage to the roof and look for signs of damage […]

The post Monitoring Banking System Fragility with Big Data appeared first on The Big Picture.

It’s one of the deepest ‘swimming pools’ in Europe, but for three years has been helping preparations for a human return to the Moon. ESA’s Neutral Buoyancy Facility at the European Astronaut Centre has been the site of the ‘Moondive’ study, using specially weighted spacesuits to simulate lunar gravity, which is just one sixth that of Earth.

In this video, Stanford Medicine heart surgeon Joseph Woo discusses his award-winning research that examined the pros of cons of mechanical versus biological valve replacements. The post Are mechanical or biological heart valves best? appeared first on Scope.

How can you make intelligent decisions when you don’t have a lot of information? Are you unsure whether luck or skill determines an outcome? Do you engage in “resulting?” These issues and more are the basis for my Masters in Business conversation with Annie Duke, 2004 World Series of Poker winner, and at one point the… Read More The post MiB: Annie Duke on Avoiding “Resulting” appeared first on The Big Picture.

Tariffs threaten growth of U.S. chemical industry, Congress told

It’s clear from the fossil record that at times in the history of Earth there have been massive and geologically rapid changes in the assemblage of life. For each such change, however, there is the question of what caused the change. Perhaps the most famous is the K-Pg extinction (Cretacious-Paleogene extinction) about 66 million years […]