us Neural network generates convincing songs by famous singers By flowingdata.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:25:39 +0000 Jukebox from OpenAI is a generative model that makes music in the same…Tags: Jukebox, music, neural network, OpenAI Full Article Statistics Jukebox music neural network OpenAI
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us ✚ Tornado Lines – Useful or Not? (The Process 088) By flowingdata.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 17:30:48 +0000 It looks like a tornado. It's messy. It's circular. It almost looks intentionally confusing. But how bad is it really?Tags: novelty, tornado Full Article The Process novelty tornado
us Famous Hope Quotes as Charts By flowingdata.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 07:18:08 +0000 I thought we (i.e. me) could use a break, so I made these abstract charts to represent the most popular quotes about hope.Tags: hope, quote Full Article Chart Everything hope quote
us TrailBuddy: Using AI to Create a Predictive Trail Conditions App By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:00:00 -0400 Viget is full of outdoor enthusiasts and, of course, technologists. For this year's Pointless Weekend, we brought these passions together to build TrailBuddy. This app aims to solve that eternal question: Is my favorite trail dry so I can go hike/run/ride? While getting muddy might rekindle fond childhood memories for some, exposing your gear to the elements isn’t great – it’s bad for your equipment and can cause long-term, and potentially expensive, damage to the trail. There are some trail apps out there but we wanted one that would focus on current conditions. Currently, our favorites trail apps, like mtbproject.com, trailrunproject.com, and hikingproject.com -- all owned by REI, rely on user-reported conditions. While this can be effective, the reports are frequently unreliable, as condition reports can become outdated in just a few days. Our goal was to solve this problem by building an app that brought together location, soil type, and weather history data to create on-demand condition predictions for any trail in the US. We built an initial version of TrailBuddy by tapping into several readily-available APIs, then running the combined data through a machine learning algorithm. (Oh, and also by bringing together a bunch of smart and motivated people and combining them with pizza and some of the magic that is our Pointless Weekends. We'll share the other Pointless Project, Scurry, with you soon.) Learn More We're hiring Front-End Developers in our Boulder, Chattanooga, Durham, Falls Church and Remote (U.S. Only) offices. Learn more and introduce yourself. The quest for data. We knew from the start this app would require data from a number of sources. As previously mentioned, we used REI’s APIs (i.e. https://www.hikingproject.com/data) as the source for basic trail information. We used the trails’ latitude and longitude coordinates as well as its elevation to query weather and soil type. We also found data points such as a trail’s total distance to be relevant to our app users and decided to include that on the front-end, too. Since we wanted to go beyond relying solely on user-reported metrics, which is how REI’s current MTB project works, we came up with a list of factors that could affect the trail for that day. First on that list was weather. We not only considered the impacts of the current forecast, but we also looked at the previous day’s forecast. For example, it’s safe to assume that if it’s currently raining or had been raining over the last several days, it would likely lead to muddy and unfavorable conditions for that trail. We utilized the DarkSky API (https://darksky.net/dev) to get the weather forecasts for that day, as well as the records for previous days. This included expected information, like temperature and precipitation chance. It also included some interesting data points that we realized may be factors, like precipitation intensity, cloud cover, and UV index. But weather alone can’t predict how muddy or dry a trail will be. To determine that for sure, we also wanted to use soil data to help predict how well a trail’s unique soil composition recovers after precipitation. Similar amounts of rain on trails of very different soil types could lead to vastly different trail conditions. A more clay-based soil would hold water much longer, and therefore be much more unfavorable, than loamy soil. Finding a reliable source for soil type and soil drainage proved incredibly difficult. After many hours, we finally found a source through the USDA that we could use. As a side note—the USDA keeps track of lots of data points on soil information that’s actually pretty interesting! We can’t say we’re soil experts but, we felt like we got pretty close. We used Whimsical to build our initial wireframes. Putting our design hats on. From the very first pitch for this app, TrailBuddy’s main differentiator to peer trail resources is its ability to surface real-time information, reliably, and simply. For as complicated as the technology needed to collect and interpret information, the front-end app design needed to be clean and unencumbered. We thought about how users would naturally look for information when setting out to find a trail and what factors they’d think about when doing so. We posed questions like: How easy or difficult of a trail are they looking for?How long is this trail?What does the trail look like?How far away is the trail in relation to my location?For what activity am I needing a trail for? Is this a trail I’d want to come back to in the future? By putting ourselves in our users’ shoes we quickly identified key features TrailBuddy needed to have to be relevant and useful. First, we needed filtering, so users could filter between difficulty and distance to narrow down their results to fit the activity level. Next, we needed a way to look up trails by activity type—mountain biking, hiking, and running are all types of activities REI’s MTB API tracks already so those made sense as a starting point. And lastly, we needed a way for the app to find trails based on your location; or at the very least the ability to find a trail within a certain distance of your current location. We used Figma to design, prototype, and gather feedback on TrailBuddy. Using machine learning to predict trail conditions. As stated earlier, none of us are actual soil or data scientists. So, in order to achieve the real-time conditions reporting TrailBuddy promised, we’d decided to leverage machine learning to make predictions for us. Digging into the utility of machine learning was a first for all of us on this team. Luckily, there was an excellent tutorial that laid out the basics of building an ML model in Python. Provided a CSV file with inputs in the left columns, and the desired output on the right, the script we generated was able to test out multiple different model strategies, and output the effectiveness of each in predicting results, shown below. We assembled all of the historical weather and soil data we could find for a given latitude/longitude coordinate, compiled a 1000 * 100 sized CSV, ran it through the Python evaluator, and found that the CART and SVM models consistently outranked the others in terms of predicting trail status. In other words, we found a working model for which to run our data through and get (hopefully) reliable predictions from. The next step was to figure out which data fields were actually critical in predicting the trail status. The more we could refine our data set, the faster and smarter our predictive model could become. We pulled in some Ruby code to take the original (and quite massive) CSV, and output smaller versions to test with. Now again, we’re no data scientists here but, we were able to cull out a good majority of the data and still get a model that performed at 95% accuracy. With our trained model in hand, we could serialize that to into a model.pkl file (pkl stands for “pickle”, as in we’ve “pickled” the model), move that file into our Rails app along with it a python script to deserialize it, pass in a dynamic set of data, and generate real-time predictions. At the end of the day, our model has a propensity to predict fantastic trail conditions (about 99% of the time in fact…). Just one of those optimistic machine learning models we guess. Where we go from here. It was clear that after two days, our team still wanted to do more. As a first refinement, we’d love to work more with our data set and ML model. Something that was quite surprising during the weekend was that we found we could remove all but two days worth of weather data, and all of the soil data we worked so hard to dig up, and still hit 95% accuracy. Which … doesn’t make a ton of sense. Perhaps the data we chose to predict trail conditions just isn’t a great empirical predictor of trail status. While these are questions too big to solve in just a single weekend, we'd love to spend more time digging into this in a future iteration. Full Article News & Culture
us Should you use Userbase for your next static site? By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 08:00:00 -0400 During the winter 2020 Pointless Weekend, we built TrailBuddy (working app coming soon). Our team consisted of four developers, two project managers, two front-end developers, a digital-analyst, a UXer, and a designer. In about 48 hours, we took an idea from Jeremy Field’s head to a (mostly) working app. We broke up the project in two parts:. First, a back-end that crunches trail, weather, and soil data. That data is exposed via a GraphQL API for a web app to consume. While developers built the API, I built a static front end using Next.js. Famously, static front-ends don’t have a database, or a concept of “users.” A bit of functionality I wanted to add was saving favorite trails. I didn’t want to be hacky about it, I needed some way to add users and a database. I knew it’d be hard for the developers to set this up as part of the API, they had their hands full with all the #soil-soil-soil-soil-soil (a slack channel dedicated solely to figuring out our soil data problem—those were plentiful.) I had been looking for an excuse to use Userbase, and this seemed like as good a time as any. A textbook Userbase use case “When would I use it?” The Usebase site lists these reasons: If you want to build a web app without writing any backend code. If you never want to see your users' data. If you're tired of dealing with databases. If you want to radically simplify your GDPR compliance. And if you want to keep things really simple. This was a perfect fit for my problem. I didn’t want to write any more backend code for this. I didn’t want to see our user’s data, I don’t care to know anyone’s favorite trails.* A nice bonus to not having users in our backend was not having to worry about keeping their data safe. We don’t have their data at all, it’s end-to-end encrypted by Userbase. We can offer a reasonable amount of privacy for free (well for the price of using Userbase: $49 a year.) I am not tired of dealing with databases, but I’d rather not. I don’t think anyone doesn’t want to simplify their GDPR compliance. Finally, given our tight timeline I wanted nothing more than to keep things really simple. A sign up form that I didn't have to write a back-end for Using Userbase Userbase can be tried for free, so I set aside thirty minutes or so to do a quick proof of concept to make sure this would work out for us. I made an account and followed their Quickstart. Userbase is a fundamentally easy tool to use, but their quickstart is everything I’d want out of a quickstart: Written in the most vanilla way possible (just HTML and vanilla JS). This means I can adapt it to my needs, in this case React using Next.js Easy to follow, it does the most barebones tour of the functionality you can expect to get out of the SDK (software development kit.) In other words it is quick and it is a start It has a live demo and code samples you can download and run yourself It didn’t take long after that to integrate Userbase into our app with more help from their great docs. I debated whether to add code samples of what we did here, and I didn’t because any reader would be better off using the great quickstart and docs Userbase provides—they are that clear, and that good. Depending on your use case you’ll need to adapt the examples to your needs, for us the trickiest things were creating a top level authentication context to manage users in the app, and a custom hook to encapsulate all the logic for setting, updating, and deleting favourite trails in the app. Userbase’s SDK worked seamlessly for us. A log in form that I didn't have to write a back-end for Is Userbase for you? Maybe. I am definitely a fan, so much so that this blog post probably reads like an advert. Userbase saved me a ton of time in this project. It reminded me of “The All Powerful Front End Developer” talk by Chris Coyer. I don’t fully subscribe to all the ideas in that talk, but it is nice to have “serverless” tools like Userbase, and all the new JAMstacky things. There are limits to the Userbase serverless experience in terms of scale, and control. Obviously relying on a third party for something always carries some (probably small) risk—it’s worth noting Usebase includes a note on their pricing page that says “You can host it yourself always under your control, or we can run it for you for a full serverless experience”—Still, I wouldn’t hesitate this to use in future projects. One of the great things about Viget and Pointless Weekend is the opportunity to try new things. For me that was Next.js and Userbase for Trailbuddy. It doesn’t always work out (in fact this is my first pointless weekend where a risk hasn’t blown up in my face) but it is always fun. Getting to try out Userbase and beginning to think about how we may use it in the future made the weekend worthwhile for me, and it made my job on this project much more enjoyable. *I will write a future post about privacy conscious analytics in TrailBuddy when I’ve figured that out. I am looking into Fathom Analytics for that. Full Article Code Front-end Engineering
us "I always hated that word—marketing—and I hate it now. Because for me, and this may sound simplistic,..." By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:20:00 -0700 ““I always hated that word—marketing—and I hate it now. Because for me, and this may sound simplistic, the key to marketing is to make something people want. When they want it, they buy it. When they buy it, you have sales. So the product has to speak. The product is what markets things.”” - Interview with Tom Ford. Full Article tom ford
us "In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses..." By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:13:00 -0700 “In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. This kind of art is not theoretical or illustrative of theories; it is intuitive, it is involved with all types of mental processes and it is purposeless. It is usually free from the dependence on the skill of the artist as a craftsman.” - Artist Sol Lewitt on conceptual art. Full Article
us Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create an iPhone Icon By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 11:57:20 +0000 Welcome back to another Adobe Illustrator based tutorial, in which we're going to take a close look behind the process of creating a simple iPhone icon, using nothing more than some basic geometric shapes that we're going to adjust here and there. 1. Set Up a New Project File As with any new project, we’re […] The post Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create an iPhone Icon appeared first on Bittbox. Full Article How To Illustrator Adobe contacts dialer Featured icon iphone icon line icon phone phone icon UI
us Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Simple Computer Icon By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 14:50:36 +0000 In today’s tutorial, we're going to take a close look behind the process of creating a simple computer icon, and see how easy it is to build one of our one using nothing more than some basic geometric shapes. 1. Set Up a New Project File As with any new project, we’re going to kick […] The post Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Simple Computer Icon appeared first on Bittbox. Full Article How To Illustrator adobe illustrator computer icon Featured flat icon icon Vector vector icon
us Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Folder Icon By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 02 May 2019 02:04:36 +0000 In today’s tutorial, we’re going to take an in-depth look behind the process of creating a folder icon, and see how easy it is to build one from scratch using nothing more than a couple of basic geometric shapes, which we’re going to adjust here and there. So, assuming you already have Illustrator up and […] The post Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Folder Icon appeared first on Bittbox. Full Article How To Illustrator Adobe adobe illustrator Design Feature Featured folder folder icon icon Icon Design Vector
us Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Watch Icon By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:02:39 +0000 Welcome back to another Illustrator based tutorial, in which we’re going to learn how to create a simple watch icon, using nothing more than a couple of basic geometric shapes and tools. So, assuming you already have the software running in the background, bring it up and let’s jump straight into it! 1. Set Up […] The post Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Watch Icon appeared first on Bittbox. Full Article How To Illustrator Adobe adobe illustrator Feature Featured Icon Design vector icon watch watch icon
us Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create an Icognito Icon By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 18:04:04 +0000 Welcome back to another Illustrator based tutorial, in which we’re going to take a close look behind the process of creating an incognito icon, using nothing more than a couple of simple shapes and tools. So, assuming you already have the software running in the background, bring it up and let’s jump straight into it! […] The post Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create an Icognito Icon appeared first on Bittbox. Full Article How To Illustrator Adobe adobe illustrator Featured icon incognito incognito icon line art line icon Vector vector icon
us Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create an Ice Cream icon By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:49:23 +0000 In today’s tutorial, we’re going to take a quick look at the process of creating an Ice Cream icon, and learn how easy it is to build one from scratch using nothing more than a couple of basic geometric shapes that we’re going to adjust here and there. So, assuming you already have the software […] The post Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create an Ice Cream icon appeared first on Bittbox. Full Article How To Illustrator Adobe adobe illustrator Featured ice cream icon icon Icon Design Vector vector icon
us Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Notification Bell Icon By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 03:42:01 +0000 n today’s tutorial, we’re going to take a quick look behind the process of creating a notification bell icon, and see how easy it is to do so using nothing more than a couple of basic geometric shapes and tools. So, assuming you already have the software up and running, let’s jump straight into it! […] The post Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Notification Bell Icon appeared first on Bittbox. Full Article How To Illustrator Adobe adobe illustrator Featured flat flat icon icon Icon Design Vector vector art
us Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Recycle Bin Notification Icon By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 03:56:08 +0000 Welcome back to another Illustrator based tutorial, in which we’re going to learn how to create a recycle bin notification icon, using nothing more than a couple of basic geometric shapes that we’re going to adjust here and there. So, assuming you already have the software running in the background, bring it up and let’s […] The post Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Recycle Bin Notification Icon appeared first on Bittbox. Full Article How To Illustrator Adobe adobe illustrator Art Feature Featured flat icon icon Icon Design Vector vector icon
us The power of intent tag discussed By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:09:59 +0000 Google developer advocate Paul Kinlan has detailed his recent work on a lightweight sharing facility using a very simple intent share protocol. Web Intents began life in 2010. Now, Kinlan and company are looking for feedback. Basically, his intent tag is intended to allow users to more easily mix and match favorite plug-in capabilities, freeing Read the rest... Full Article Android Front Page html5
us Shim uses node.js to test sites on multiple browsers By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:01:13 +0000 Shim was developed within the Boston Globe’s media lab as a way to study how Web sites look on various devices and browsers. A laptop intercepts all wifi traffic – this is redirected to a custom node.js server – which inserts a javascript, or “shim,” at the head of each web page that is visited. Read the rest... Full Article Browsers Front Page JavaScript Testing
us Vert.x ramblings: Asynchronous network, your time has come By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 19 May 2012 02:00:24 +0000 With the debut of Vert.x, the asynchronous framework is reaching an inflection point, suggests Andrew Cholakian. With Vert.x, the software is packaged together in such a way as to be extremely practical, he states. For some JVM zealots, Vert.x may meet needs recently and apparently addressed by node.js. Vert.x is an asynchronous application server – Read the rest... Full Article Front Page Node
us 10 Exciting Examples of the Beaver Builder Plugin in Use By wphacks.com Published On :: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 08:00:00 +0000 Building a stunning website is a tough job. Even if you have some basic understanding of things like code and […] The post 10 Exciting Examples of the Beaver Builder Plugin in Use appeared first on WPHacks. Full Article Plugins beaver builder plugin web design
us Best WordPress Live Chat Plugins for Better Customer Support By wphacks.com Published On :: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 08:00:00 +0000 Customer service as we know it has changed. Today’s customers won’t necessarily call a contact center when they need help. […] The post Best WordPress Live Chat Plugins for Better Customer Support appeared first on WPHacks. Full Article Plugins improving user experience live chat plugins
us 40 Examples of Sites Using WooCommerce By wphacks.com Published On :: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 08:00:00 +0000 Are you on the hunt for the ideal eCommerce solution? There are plenty of tools on the market today that […] The post 40 Examples of Sites Using WooCommerce appeared first on WPHacks. Full Article Plugins online store woocommerce
us 40 Examples of Sites Using the Total Theme By wphacks.com Published On :: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 08:00:00 +0000 Choosing the ultimate theme for your WordPress site is easier said than done. You need something easy to use, attractive, […] The post 40 Examples of Sites Using the Total Theme appeared first on WPHacks. Full Article Themes total theme wordpress website
us METAL INJECTION LIVECAST #538 – Bush Did Mayhem with Special Guest Riki Rachtman By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 06:52:33 +0000 Former host of MTV Headbangers Ball, Riki Rachtman, called into the show to share memories of Headbangers Ball, working at... The post METAL INJECTION LIVECAST #538 – Bush Did Mayhem with Special Guest Riki Rachtman appeared first on Metal Injection. Full Article Metal Injection Livecast
us METAL INJECTION LIVECAST #539 - Hard Camera with Busted Open's Alex Metz By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 03:28:22 +0000 We're excited to welcome back Busted Open radio producer Alex Metz to the show, to talk about all things pro... The post METAL INJECTION LIVECAST #539 - Hard Camera with Busted Open's Alex Metz appeared first on Metal Injection. Full Article Metal Injection Livecast
us METAL INJECTION LIVECAST Bonus Episode: Blake Harrison Interview By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 14:00:42 +0000 A special treat for Livecast fans, we are giving you a preview of the type of content you can expect... The post METAL INJECTION LIVECAST Bonus Episode: Blake Harrison Interview appeared first on Metal Injection. Full Article Metal Injection Livecast
us WPCampus 2019 WP Rig Workshop By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:24:52 +0000 This post contains the slides for and links to all the things you need to follow my WP Rig workshop at WP Campus 2019, including a couple of verbose code examples for complex walk-throughs. WP Rig itself: WP Rig WP Rig Wiki Free LinkedIn Learning course on WP Rig VS Code extensions EditorConfig ESLint PHP […] The post WPCampus 2019 WP Rig Workshop appeared first on MOR10. Full Article Events WP Rig
us What's Inside the White House? By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 22:49:12 +0000 Visual explanations are a big part of data visualizations, and this video exploration of What’s Inside the White House? by animator Jared Owen gives viewers a great perspective of where the major rooms are located in context with the rest of the building. I would bet that most people don’t know that the Oval Office isn’t in the main, center building.The White House is full of lots of interesting rooms. A lot of people don't realize that this information is public! Please join me as we take a walk through the different rooms and what they are used for.Found on Core77 Full Article
us 9 Ways To Focus A Wandering Mind By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 16:39:51 +0000 As everyone has made the temporary shift to WFH (work from home), many are surrounded by distractions. The 9 ways to focus a wandering mind infographic originally from On Stride Financial in the UK and now published on Headway Capital, offers simple ways to help you refocus.It’s probably no surprise that the human mind has a tendency to wander. Scientific research has discovered that this trait is almost ubiquitous among humans, and most of us experience it regularly..Constant mind wandering is a source of frustration for many people. In their study “A Wandering Mind is an Unhappy Mind,” researchers found that that experiencing a regular lack of concentration has a negative impact on overall mood and state of mind. In short, people were less happy when their minds wandered.Luckily, research into ways of combating this phenomenon is also plentiful. And while we may never be able to eliminate our mind’s propensity for wandering, there are lots of simple techniques that can help improve concentration and focus.Next time you’re feeling a little distracted, try out some of these techniques and see if you can bring your mind back on task.A little text-heavy design, but the illustrations help with each section. The comprehensive sources help establish the credibility of the information, and the infographic landing page includes clickable links to all of the source material. Nice touch!Found on Creative Bloq Full Article
us COVID-19 #Coronavirus Infographic Data Pack By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 23:08:47 +0000 COVID-19 (aka Coronavirus) has obviously been a hot topic recently, especially within the media. But how dangerous is this new virus?The Covid-19 #Coronavirus Infographic Data Pack on Information is Beautiful gathers the current data around the world (version above is from March 31, 2020) and makes the virus more tangible to understand. The infographic makes comparisons to other diseases when it comes to incubation times and number of deaths, as well as reporting who is dying from it. Created by David McCandless, Omid Kashan, Fabio Bergamaschi, Dr Stephanie Starling, Univers LabsFrom Information Is Beautiful:We made an infographic of the best COVID-19 / Coronavirus charts floating around, plus some of our own – all with the latest dataWe’ll plan to keep it updated every few days.They have also made all of their data accessible with a Google Sheet link: bit.ly/COVID19-DATAWith so many good and bad COVID-19 charts being published at a frantic pace, I can appreciate the design and effort here to gather some of the best data and the best visualizations together in one place. Full Article
us California Study: Four Widely Used Neonicotinoid Pesticides Harm Bees By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 18:33:52 +0000 Center for Biological Diversity Press Release WASHINGTON – Four commonly used neonicotinoid pesticides can harm bees and other pollinators, according to a new analysis by California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation. The study found that current approved uses of the “neonics” … Continue reading → Full Article Endangered Species ET News Bee California EPA Neonicotinoid Pesticides save the bees
us ‘Coming Mass Extinction’ Caused by Human Destruction Could Wipe Out 1 Million Species, Warns UN Draft Report By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 18:47:43 +0000 By Jessica Corbett Common Dreams Far-reaching global assessment details how humanity is undermining the very foundations of the natural world On the heels of an Earth Day that featured calls for radical action to address the current “age … Continue reading → Full Article Endangered Species ET News mass extinction UN Report
us Insects Are ‘Glue in Nature’ and Must Be Rescued to Save Humanity, Says Top Scientist By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 07 May 2019 22:23:24 +0000 By Jake Johnson Common Dreams Rapidly falling insect populations, said Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, “will make it even more difficult than today to get enough food for the human population of the planet, to get good health and freshwater for everybody.” A … Continue reading → Full Article Endangered Species ET Perspectives
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us Can Houseplants Improve Indoor Air Quality? By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:53:36 +0000 By University of Illinois Extension In an era of increasing energy prices, many Americans insulate and seal up their homes during the winter months. Although this can result in savings on the monthly power bill, sealing the home can concentrate … Continue reading → Full Article Air Quality Health houseplants indoor air pollution indoor air quality VOCs
us ‘Coming Mass Extinction’ Caused by Human Destruction Could Wipe Out 1 Million Species, Warns UN Draft Report By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 18:47:43 +0000 By Jessica Corbett Common Dreams Far-reaching global assessment details how humanity is undermining the very foundations of the natural world On the heels of an Earth Day that featured calls for radical action to address the current “age … Continue reading → Full Article Endangered Species ET News mass extinction UN Report
us Why Is Going Green So Hard? Because Our System Isn’t By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 12:13:01 +0000 By Jill Richardson Other Words If environmental solutions aren’t systemic, living green will always mean going against the grain — and usually failing. Every year around Earth Day, I’m reminded of papers I graded in an environmental sociology class. The … Continue reading → Full Article Points of View & Opinions environmental consciousness going green government policy
us Insects Are ‘Glue in Nature’ and Must Be Rescued to Save Humanity, Says Top Scientist By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 07 May 2019 22:23:24 +0000 By Jake Johnson Common Dreams Rapidly falling insect populations, said Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, “will make it even more difficult than today to get enough food for the human population of the planet, to get good health and freshwater for everybody.” A … Continue reading → Full Article Endangered Species ET Perspectives
us 'And the award goes to...' How to avoid winning a Procrustes Award for bad UX By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 07:48:51 GMT We're familiar with awarding prizes for excellence, from the Oscars to The International Design Awards. But what if we started giving prizes to shame bad examples of design? Enter the Procrustes Awards. Full Article
us Common traps in user needs research and how to avoid them By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 07:31:22 GMT Whether you call it a field visit, a contextual inquiry or a customer discovery interview, the goal of early stage research is the same: to uncover users' needs. Here are 5 mistakes I've seen crop up time and again in this kind of research. Full Article
us Usability task scenarios: The beating heart of a usability test By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 07:22:13 GMT Usability tests are unique. We ask people to do real tasks with the system and watch. As the person completes the task, we watch their behaviour and listen to their stream-of-consciousness narrative. But what makes a good usability task scenario? Full Article
us Why personas are antiquated (and what you should use instead) By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:00:00 +0000 Personas are antiquated… this coming from someone who has relied on and written about them for years. For years at 3.7 Designs, we’ve created personas during the design discovery phase. I recently realized that the traditional marketing persona is no longer a relevant practice. The keyword here is “traditional.” At 3.7 we’ve adopted a practice […] The post Why personas are antiquated (and what you should use instead) appeared first on Psychology of Web Design | 3.7 Blog. Full Article Psychology of Design Strategy and Planning User Experience Web Design
us Illustrations for Demetre's Winter Sweet Menu By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 04:00:46 +0000 Illustrations for Demetre's Winter Sweet Menu AoiroStudioMay 04, 2020 It’s a bit of an old project by Sean Lewis but I thought it was perfectly suited for ABDZ. During these pandemic times, we had to find ways to be more creative with our daily lives. I think we all did somehow. For my case, now I am currently living in Switzerland, I still remember the simple walks that I would take with the family especially early in the morning. And I remember having conversations with my oldest kid who never saw huge mountains covered in snow, and he kept saying that it looked like ice cream (being a huge fan of ice cream). That’s why I thought about sharing Sean’s work, the little but simple memories that goes through your mind. Life is simple and filled with opportunities to be remembered. Thank you Sean. About Sean Lewis Sean is a fellow Canadian (hi!) and is an illustrator based in Toronto, Canada. Make sure to check out his work for more illustrations via his Behance profile. Behance Full Article
us Using Funds from Disability Compensation and the GI Bill for Going Back to School By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 00:00:00 EST Receiving service-related disability compensation does not interfere with the funds veterans receive from the GI Bill, explains Adam. Full Article
us Using Communities to Further the True Meaning of Resiliency By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:00:00 EST Service members, veterans, and their caregivers are incredibly resilient, says Adam, but learning to connect with whatever community you are in will only strengthen that resiliency. Full Article
us Reestablishing a Social Life on Campus with Other Veterans and Civilians Post-TBI By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:00:00 EST Transitioning from military to civilian life can take time and can be tricky. Adam talks about how student veteran groups on college campuses can help vets reintegrate socially in their own way and time. Full Article
us Inform user about automatic comment closing time By wpengineer.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:00:27 +0000 To prevent spammers from flooding old articles with useless comments you can set WordPress to close comments after a certain […] Full Article WordPress Hacks comments
us Customizing the User Registration Notification eMails By wpengineer.com Published On :: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 10:07:25 +0000 If a new user registers at a WordPress site the new user and the administrator receive notification mails: User: From: […] Full Article WordPress Tutorials
