Praise your children for their effort, not intelligence

Carol Dweck, a psychologist at Stanford, has devoted years to prove that one of the key elements of successful education is the ability to learn from mistakes. However, we often teach the opposite. If a child makes mistakes, is not very smart. The set does not make mistakes, and also precisely why we praise him for being ready. Few people are praising others for their effort, not innate ability.

Dweck conducted an experiment with more than 400 children from twelve schools in New York, were subjected to a very easy test consisting of a non-verbal puzzle. Once completed, the experimenter said the note to the child, followed by a phrase of praise. Half of the children were praised for their intelligence, the other half, for their efforts. Then they were allowed to choose between two different tests. The first option is described as a series of difficult puzzles, but told the children that if they tried, they would learn a lot. The other option was a simple test, similar to what they had done. When designing the experiment, Dweck had imagined that the different forms of praise would have a rather moderate. At the end of the day, it was just a phrase.
However, it soon became clear that the kind of compliment that became the fifth graders dramatically influenced subsequent choice tests. The group of children congratulated for their effort, 99% chose the set of difficult puzzles. For their part, most of the kids praised for their intelligence, they decided on the easier test. When we praise the intelligence of a child, we are actually getting the message: be smart, do not risk making mistakes. Dweck The following experiments also suggest that this fear of failure also inhibits learning. With the same group of group of children were subjected to another test, this time very difficult to see how they responded to the challenge.

Those who had been praised for their effort in the first trial, worked assiduously to solve the problem, engaging with great enthusiasm. However, children praised for their intelligence is quickly discouraged because they considered the inevitable mistakes as signs of failure, perhaps, deep down, they thought, were not ready. The final series of tests showed the same level of difficulty than the first. In any case, students praised for effort showed significant improvement: their average score increased by 30%. As these children were willing to accept challenges (although at first it meant missing), ended up paying a much higher level. This result was even more admirable when comparing with students who had been randomized to the group "ready" scores dropped an average of almost 20%. For children "ready", the experience of failure had been so daunting that actually experienced a setback.

How to Repair an MP3 Player

How to fix the MP3 player, the idea here is to take a soldering tin, open the MP3 player as a watermelon and start changing components. We refer to compensation at the software level, or when the default firmware starts to do his thing and there seems nothing to do back of darkness. One option is to try to force an official firmware, but there is an alternative, as long as your device is compatible: Rockbox. It takes a while among us, but its development has come a long way, and its compatibility list has become longer.


Can we consider a dedicated mp3 player as obsolete? After all, playing music is just a function in the great majority of phones available in the market, but those who advocate "decentralization" of devices must use and abuse of them. Like with any expression of modern technology, an MP3 player may stop working. Usually the reason involves an accident such as "physically strong" or typical "amphibious exploration," but also the firmware, and from time to time, decide to have a rebel attack that takes a walk indefinite. Now, if the player is a relatively known brand, there should be an official method of recovery. However an alternative would be to replace the firmware directly. Rockbox has passed through the halls of the blogs few years ago and has come a long way since then. The list of supported devices has expanded, and fortunately, its main functions are still intact. It is generally faster than the standard firmware may lead to lower power consumption in some models, with comprehensive support of audio formats (including FLAC always desired), enables images and text, and also provides playback video units that allow it. The players support list includes classics like the first iPod (in unstable), the Archos players and renowned people Sansa SanDisk and others. Be sure to visit the official website to see if there is at least an unstable version that works with your player.


The installation utility is easy to use, and can run on Windows, Mac and Linux. Although the review indicates a date of May 2011, the latest version was compiled in late June. Even if your mp3 is not a problem, not a bad idea to replace its firmware with Rockbox. Its built-in functions beyond what the manufacturer provides by default, so it would be possible to inject a little life to an old player. Now, if what you have in your hands is one of many "s1mp3" generic from the East, then Rockbox is for you. Pay a visit to this site, find the model of motherboard in your player, and cross your fingers hoping you have a compatible firmware.


To download Rockbox visit the following URL: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/RockboxUtility#Download

NASA: Travel the solar system in 3D from the browser

Whether for education or to satisfy curiosity, applications that bring us the universe through the screen has always been our favorites. Now NASA has once again demonstrated their teaching skills and technology in an application to the browser that lets you tour the solar system in 3D.


From NASA comes to your browser Eyes on the Solar System, where you can have guided tours or just for our neighborhood space using updated data in real time. NASA launched the Solar System suey on a 3D platform with the possibility of stereoscopic 3D (with glasses to see) that runs from the browser by downloading a plugin. From here you can browse for free or Guild Solar System, with data taken from the very basis of NASAy updated in real time by the U.S. agency and its various subdivisions. The application is not in technology we've seen in other interactive 3D applications, but is developed with technology from video games to an alternative sense of control, using both the mouse and keyboard to navigate menus and interactive. At the start you have to download the Unity plugin which is available for Windows and Mac at the moment, and once installed the plugin, you can start a journey through the Solar System Eyes on by going to your website. Inside, and not at all English, you will find invitations to visit current mission, to go directly through the solar system or start with an introduction, which is the video of the article, and add some tutorials that despite being in another language are easily understood by visual demonstration. The application is very fluid, but still has options to lower quality graphics if your computer shows any fatigue. Among other things we saw you can do is review of media files on a mission, visual checks of lights, modification time and date to present and future, increase speed, view satellite tour and modify various aspects of the configuration. Eyes on The Solar System is ideal for exploring the solar system in 3D and learn even more our home, without a doubt recommend it.

LG 3D Optimus 2012 will take an especially thin

LG is working on an update to its star phone, LG 3D Optimus, a showcase technology from the Korean company, which highlight the 3D display (no glasses) and dual-core processor, signed by Texas Instruments.

Updating the phone's main objective is to get a super-thin design, we talk about 7 millimeters thick, while preserving the virtues of the phone. It is quite possible that in 2012 we start seeing Smartphones on the market close to 6 mm.

The information has been given exclusively by one of the creators of the first phone, Dr. Henry Noh, people from Pocket-Lint. Also reported that the phone does not appear this year on the market.

It is very interesting to hear from a designer of smartphones as a first firm LG: Henry is honest about his phone, knowing that the phone is not more attractive or the thinnest on the market, so you have to work on this sense.

He also believes that mobile is increasingly more like (size, thickness, design ...), so the market is becoming boring. We appreciate your sincerity, but the truth is in their power to try to circle the issue.

CPUsage: Earn money and contribute to research on your computer

CPUsage is a company specializing in grid computing with an infrastructure of providing on-line computer processing for large computer systems. The company allows you to fully use your computer's idle CPU to earn about $ 10 a month with an application that downloads. But what matters is that the application and service CPUsage also have charitable purposes and can be a viable way to generate money for schools or state have lots of unused computer while supporting an industry that has great potential for future. The worlds biggest "hard drive" and largest of IBM is developing supercomputers or presented in a report on the fastest on earth give us a clue of what the computation of high complexity required to operate and conduct research in all fields we can imagine. To investigate these things, it requires processing power to which all companies can not economically or physically access a supercomputer, and that's where the scene appear in companies that offer grid computing. This type of infrastructure can combine collectively in a remote environment or physical depending on the occasion, thousands of computers to provide processing power to a given activity. Some of these are services such as CPUsage, taking advantage of the potential ability to compute your CPU idle state, and thousands of others around the world, supplies the computing needs of an institution or company and will reward you for collaborate with them.

CPUsage system is similar to what we have seen repeatedly in other mechanisms of "donation processing," in which the ability to produce energy that do not use your processor is used to generate processing power that is fed to other projects or users, as well as for symbolic or monetary benefit. With similarities platform to SETI @ homepero in SEO CPUsage words "for commercial purposes, the collection system benefits of this service is similar to the system flyer miles in air travel promotions or awards scheme credit card. That is, the contributor CPUsage is creating "points" to let the application units consume processing power of idle computer (when airconditioners idle or when you run something very light).

CPUsage activity is intended primarily for companies that manage SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) or PaaS (Platform as a Service), so the large influx of customers is something we should get used to the user wants to work with processing in exchange for gifts and prizes. Jeff Martens plan, CPUsage founder, plans to provide 45 cents who donate computing power sufficient to win $ 1 CPUsage. Customers of the service, CPUsage charges 15 cents per hour of CPU usage. Clearly, no one is going to get rich by giving individuals donating CPU to earn at least $ 10, but it's good to know that the project is also supportive edges, as Martens mentioned the possibility of using computers in public schools for them earn extra money for funding. The viability of the project depends on himself and his ability to raise the money needed to start working.

Official Site: http://cirrus.cpusage.com/

7 sources of inspiration to revive your business idea

Most people begin with great enthusiasm your new business or business idea, but as time progresses, complications may arise or simply the project can not proceed as planned.
To overcome this problem FoxBusiness website published an article in which an entrepreneur can find new sources of inspiration to revive its business.

A summary of the article:
1. Talk to your customers. Where else can you find ideas if not of your own clients whom you can propose a number of ways to renew your business.
2. Follow the news. See what is happening in the world will allow you to sniff out new business opportunities.
3. Use new technology. Being always experimenting with new technology will allow you to find new ways to develop your business may be in a much more profitable.
4. You trace your own path. If you think a new way of doing business, go ahead to develop it without thinking if someone else has done before, you may be the first to do so and that can be very good.
5. Study your industry. Buy magazines related to your business industry and discover new trends to where you could direct you to earn more money.
6. Travel. When traveling you can continue exploring new ways of doing business that are occurring in other places and other realities that may suit your business.
7. Ask your employees. As your clients employees can be an important source

Lady Gaga released literally a skeleton costume

Now if there is anyone who should not strive for attention, for it comes almost automatically, is Lady Gaga. After the infamous dress meat used last year at the MTV awards, which seemed insurmountable at the time, is that there is a new look in sight of the star.

And to follow the anatomical line, this time the dress was the result of a bone inspiration .... the dress will be bones. It seems that an Internet company that sells products related to the food industry, Gaga offered a modest sum of $ 500 thousand dollars to get the dress at the MTV awards this year. Of course, the dress is a secret to only a few walls and have no idea how it will be.

This carnivorous company is based in Ohio, USA declared that it met with a famous designer, whose name also remains secret, who shows his work on the runways in the world and, in theory, is already working on a designs crazier than the fashion industry has seen. And if the dress is a skeleton, makeup and accessories, too? Maybe instead of eye shadow Gaga will use a little sauce.

The director of the company called PigoftheMonth, Leah Richards, said "we will not disclose even the number of bones to be included in the dress" However, rumors indicate that weigh several kilos attire. But yes, "Gaga will be able to move in a normal way," said Richards.

That part kind of crazy idea 'fashionista' is that after you use the star for the MTV event, the dress will be auctioned to benefit a financial assistance program for artists called 'Bones for Hunger. "

Lady Gaga does not say anything, and certainly put it that you will notice. The awards will air on August 28 this year in Los Angeles, California. Just have to wait and see to believe.