10 Life Lessons by Albert Einstein

10 Life Lessons by Albert Einstein by Selim Yeniçeri



1. FOLLOW YOUR HOBBIES

What is your hobby? What are you most curious about? Reading was my greatest hobby, and I’m ever hungry for knowledge. Eventually, this hobby became a career that enabled me to get paid while learning, and even made me a name. Follow your hobbies, and the talents you brought to this world; even if you are unaware of them for now, they will be awakened, and you will succeed!

2. PERSEVERANCE IS INVALUABLE

Are you patient enough to go to the end? Postal stamps are said valuable, because they stick to the envelope until they reach to their destination. Be like a postal stamp, and finish what you start. And always remember: it’s not how you start, but how you finish!

3. FOCUS ON TODAY

You can’t ride two horses at the same time. You can do some things, but if you try to do everything, you end up doing nothing. Focus on now, and give your whole attention and energy to what you do at the moment. If you can do that, you can do everything you want… in turn.

4. IMAGINATION GIVES STRENGTH

Your imagination determines your future. Einstein says, “The real measure of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.” Use your imagination, and build it like a muscle. Without imagination, you can’t even know what you want to succeed at.

5. MAKE MISTAKES

Don’t be afraid of mistakes. Yes, you may get harmed, or lose some things when you make mistakes. And yes, sometimes you can make fool of yourself, perhaps in front of others. Just be confident of yourself, and even laugh at your own mistakes; but most importantly, learn from your mistakes. Nobody can do something right at first try.

6. LIVE AT THE MOMENT

The only way to shape your future is to live at the moment as much and productively as possible. You can’t take yesterday back, and you can’t jump forward in time. The only time that matters is now. If you can learn how to harness the power of now, as Eckhart Tolle emphasizes, you can create a future as in your dreams.

7. ADD AND CREATE VALUE

Of course, at the beginning of my career, I couldn’t earn so much of a penny for a very long time. People used to tell me I was fighting against windmills, and that it would be better if I find a regular job with a salary, translating books in my spare time. Frankly, it would divide my time, energy, and resources, so I don’t think I would be so successful. Furthermore, probably I would get in comfort zone due to little money I earned as salary, and I would give up of translating books. But following my dream enabled me to create hundreds of books that people who don’t know English could read, and eventually, name and quality brought the income. When you do something real good – and you do good when you’re in love with something, as I was in love with books – it turns into gold inevitably. Money does not bring success, but success brings money.

8. DON’T EXPECT DIFFERENT RESULTS DOING THE SAME THING

Four plus four always equals eight. It’s always same. But when you multiply instead of adding, it equals twice of it. As long as you follow the same routine everyday, your life will be same until the last day. If you want to change your life, change yourself first. Your entire world changes when you change.

9. THE MOST VALUABLE KNOWLEDGE COMES FROM EXPERIENCE

There is a joke in Turkish literature. The great folkloric Nasreddin Hodja, famous with his quick wits, falls from the roof of his house. While writhing in pain on the ground, villagers gather around him to help, and some of them suggest about calling the village physician. Hodja turns to them through his pain, and scolds them: “To hell with the physician! Bring me someone who has fallen from a roof!” You can discuss or read about something, but it gains you only a philosophical understanding. If you really want to know something, you have to experience it. The best way to learn something is doing it.

10. LEARN THE RULES SO THAT YOU PLAY BETTER

You have to learn the rules when you do something. Every area in life has its own rules, key players, teams, trend setters, etc. Therefore, when you plan to start something new, you have to learn what is what and who is who. Observe the key players, Duplicate their tactics, As you gain more experience, try new things. As blogging masterJohn Paul Aguiar says: “Test! Test! Test!” Observe to learn the rules, duplicate to gain experience, test new tactics to refine your own identity and style!

Watch Comet Pan-STARRS Race Around The Sun

Have you seen it at sunset yet?
By Rebecca BoylePosted 03.19.2013 at 5:00 pm0 Comments


Comet Pan-STARRS From L.A., March 12 Wikimedia Commons

Comet Pan-STARRS is visible in many parts of the U.S. around sunset, and it was at its peak brightness a few days ago when it made its closest pass to the sun. As they approach our star and warm up, dirty cosmic snowballs like Pan-STARRS grow bright tails, or comas, which are made of dust and ice particles that reflect light.

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center stitched together some observations from the STEREO observatory, which watches the sun. The comet moved around the star from March 10 through 15 and gradually grew brighter.

In the video, Earth is the unmoving bright spot on the right, and the sun’s light comes from the left. The swirly vapors on the left are coronal mass ejections. While it looks like one CME goes right past Pan-STARRS, it actually wasn’t in the same plane, because the comet’s tail didn’t move as the CME went by.

Pan-STARRS is named for a synchronized wide-field telescope project developed at the University of Hawaii. Since it became operational in 2010, the first telescope in the system has discovered more than 345 near-Earth asteroids (including 29 potentially hazardous ones) and 19 previously unobserved comets—including the project’s namesake. It will be visible in the western sky at dusk for a few more days.

Physicists Say They Have Found A Higgs Boson

by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
March 14, 2013 9:29 AM


GENEVA (AP) — The search is all but over for a subatomic particle that is a crucial building block of the universe.

Physicists announced Thursday they believe they have discovered the subatomic particle predicted nearly a half-century ago, which will go a long way toward explaining what gives electrons and all matter in the universe size and shape.

The elusive particle, called a Higgs boson, was predicted in 1964 to help fill in our understanding of the creation of the universe, which many theorize occurred in a massive explosion known as the Big Bang. The particle was named for Peter Higgs, one of the physicists who proposed its existence, but it later became popularly known as the "God particle."

The discovery would be a strong contender for the Nobel Prize. Last July, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, announced finding a particle they described as Higgs-like, but they stopped short of saying conclusively that it was the same particle or was some version of it.

Scientists have now finished going through the entire set of data.

"The preliminary results with the full 2012 data set are magnificent and to me it is clear that we are dealing with a Higgs boson, though we still have a long way to go to know what kind of Higgs boson it is," said Joe Incandela, a physicist who heads one of the two main teams at CERN, each involving several thousand scientists.

Whether or not it is a Higgs boson is demonstrated by how it interacts with other particles and its quantum properties, CERN said in the statement. After checking, scientists said the data "strongly indicates that it is a Higgs boson."

The results were announced in a statement by the Geneva-based CERN and released at a physics conference in the Italian Alps.

CERN's atom smasher, the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider that lies beneath the Swiss-French border, has been creating high-energy collisions of protons to investigate how the universe came to be the way it is.

The particle's existence helps confirm the theory that objects gain their size and shape when particles interact in an energy field with a key particle, the Higgs boson. The more they attract, so the theory goes, the bigger their mass will be.

After meditation, conservatives lean left

by Jessica Lewis-Toronto on Monday, March 11, 2013

"The conservative part of religious belief has played an important role in holding cultures together and establishing common rules. The spiritual part, on the other hand, helps cultures renew themselves by adapting to changing circumstances," says Jordan Peterson. (Credit:Lily/Flickr)

U. TORONTO (CAN) —After a spiritual exercise like meditation, people endorse more liberal views, new research shows.

“There’s great overlap between religious beliefs and political orientations,” says one of the study authors, Jordan Peterson of University of Toronto’s department of psychology. “We found that religious individuals tend to be more conservative and spiritual people tend to be more liberal.

“Inducing a spiritual experience through a guided meditation exercise led both liberals and conservatives to endorse more liberal political attitudes.”

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DOI: 10.1177/1948550612444138

Lead author Jacob Hirsh the Rotman School of Management says, “While religiousness is characterized by devotion to a specific tradition, set of principles, or code of conduct, spirituality is associated with the direct experience of self-transcendence and the feeling that we’re all connected.”

In three studies, the researchers—Hirsh, Peterson, and Megan Walberg, also from the department of psychology—examined their participants’ political views in relation to their religiousness and spirituality.

In the first study, they asked 590 American participants whether they identified as Democrat or Republican. In the second study, they measured 703 participants’ political orientations and support for the major US and Canadian political parties.

The researchers confirmed that religiousness was associated with political conservatism, while spirituality was associated with political liberalism. These associations were in turn due to the common values underlying these orientations: conservatism and religiousness both emphasize the importance of tradition, while liberalism and spirituality both emphasize the importance of equality and social harmony.

In the third study, the researchers recruited 317 participants from the US and asked half to complete a spiritual exercise consisting of a guided meditation video. Those who watched the video were asked to close their eyes and breathe deeply, imagining themselves in a natural setting and feeling connected to the environment. They were then asked about their political orientation and to rate how spiritual they felt.

The researchers report that, compared to those in the control group, participants who meditated felt significantly higher levels of spirituality and expressed more liberal political attitudes, including a reduced support for “tough on crime” policies and a preference for liberal political candidates.

“Spiritual experiences seem to make people feel more of a connection with others,” says Hirsh. “The boundaries we normally maintain between ourselves and the world tend to dissolve during spiritual experiences. These feelings of self-transcendence make it easier to recognize that we are all part of the same system, promoting an inclusive and egalitarian mindset.”

The researchers hope that these findings can not only advance our understanding of spirituality, but also help future political dialogue.

“The conservative part of religious belief has played an important role in holding cultures together and establishing common rules. The spiritual part, on the other hand, helps cultures renew themselves by adapting to changing circumstances,” says Peterson.

“Both right and left are necessary; it’s not that either is correct, it’s that the dialogue between them produces the best chance we have at getting the balance right. If people could understand that both sides have an important role to play in society, some of the unnecessary tension might be eliminated.”

The paper is published in Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Source: University of Toronto

Anti Aging Drug Breakthrough Achieved

Anti Aging Drug Breakthrough Achieved

By Lyle J. Dennis, M.D.

Publishing his work in the prestigious journal Science, David Sinclair of Harvard reports a breakthrough in the development of drugs that can block the aging process.

The article is entitled Evidence for a Common Mechanism of SIRT1 Regulation by Allosteric Activators, and reveals how interaction with a single amino acid in the SIRT1 enzyme is crucial for the ability of drugs that can activate the enzyme.

SIRT1 is an enzyme in the class of molecules called Sirtuins. Significant research shows that activation of sirtuins reduces cellular aging through its interaction with other cellular master switches such as FOXO3a and PGC-1a

“At the cellular level,” explain the authors. “SIRT1 controls DNA repair and apoptosis, circadian clocks, inflammatory pathways, insulin secretion, and mitochondrial biogenesis”

Resveratrol a polyphenol found in red wine and grapes may be a weak natural activator of sirutin and has been linked in some studies with the extension of animal lifespan. Data on these sitruin activators or STACs is inconsistent. “The legitimacy of STACs as direct SIRT1 activators has been widely debated,” write the authors.

In the present study, the researchers developed a sirtuin activation assay. They tested 117 experimental STACs and were able to prove that the enzyme could be directly activated and uncovered the exact molecular mechanism by which this occurred.

The authors conclude:


The data presented here favor a mechanism of direct “assisted allosteric activation” mediated by an N-terminal activation domain in SIRT1 that is responsible for at least some of the physiological effects of STACs. Thus, allosteric activation of SIRT1 by STACs remains a viable therapeutic intervention strategy for many diseases associated with aging.

“Ultimately, these drugs would treat one disease, but unlike drugs of today, they would prevent 20 others,” says Sinclair, from Harvard University. “In effect, they would slow ageing.” He points out this research shows something never previously described ”In the history of pharmaceuticals, there has never been a drug that tweaks an enzyme to make it run faster,” he said.

From this work, Sinclair believes safe new drugs of this class could be available in as little as five years. There will still be the need to prove their effectiveness.

“Now we are looking at whether there are benefits for those who are already healthy. Things there are also looking promising,” he says. ”We’re finding that ageing isn’t the irreversible affliction that we thought it was,”

“Some of us could live to 150, but we won’t get there without more research,” he adds.

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