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Google Respins Its Hiring Process For World Class Employees – Slashdot
“‘We looked at tens of thousands of interviews, and everyone who had done the interviews and what they scored the candidate, and how that person ultimately performed in their job. We found zero relationship. It’s a complete random mess.’ This sounds similar to criticism of Google’s hiring process occasionally levied by outsiders. Beck says Google […]
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Wine-tasting: it’s junk science | Life and style | The Observer
“Experiments have shown that people can’t tell plonk from grand cru. Now one US winemaker claims that even experts can’t judge wine accurately. What’s the science behind the taste?” Wine-tasting: it’s junk science | Life and style | The Observer.
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Artist Makes Everyday Objects Completely Unusable | Bored Panda
“Switzerland-born Italian artist Giuseppe Colarusso has a strange fetish for making everyday objects totally unusable. Each of the objects in Colarusso’s pictures are strange, and more than being useless, they would even cause you problems if applied in everyday life: from Egyptian hieroglyphs on a keyboard to a square rolling-pin, or an ordinary hammer with […]
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A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder.
“It is proposed that happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder and be included in future editions of the major diagnostic manuals under the new name: major affective disorder, pleasant type. In a review of the relevant literature it is shown that happiness is statistically abnormal, consists of a discrete cluster of symptoms, is associated […]
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Bilderberg
“I was invited to the Bilderberg conference this year — embarrassed I hadn’t known anything about it before, and more embarrassed I hadn’t known anything about the controversy around it. But having been there, and done that, I confess I don’t get the outrage. It’s a conference.” via Lessig Blog, v2.
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Google Stats
“Here are some official stats for the most important Google services and software: Google Search – 1 billion users (September 2010), 100 billion searches per month (August 2012) Google Maps – 1 billion monthly active users (June 2012) YouTube – 1 billion unique users every month (March 2013) Android – 900 million activations (May 2013) […]