Problem Solving Exercises for Learning

Problem Solving Exercises for Teenagers
Are you considering a few problem solving exercises for teenagers? If yes, then in the segment of information detailed below, we present before you some information about the same.

Problem Solving Games for Groups
Learning the basic skills of problem solving has become a necessity in today's world. Not only does it help us in our personal lives, but also in the professional one. One of the most effective ways to acquire this skill is through games and that is exactly what we shall be learning in the following article.

Group Problem Solving Activities for Adults
Problem solving is one of the most basic skills to learn, be it in the professional or personal context. In the following article we will list out some of the problem solving activities that you can adopt and hone this skill thus.

Problem Solving Exercises
The following article will take you through some problem solving exercises that you can use as a form of improving interpersonal and intrapersonal relations among the employees and thereby lead to improved efficiency and production. In the following article, some such problem solving exercises will be touched upon.

Creative Problem Solving Model
This article aims at explaining how to solve problems with the help of creative problem solving model. So, read on to know more...

Problem Solving Steps
The general problem solving steps for kids, students, and adults play a very important role in coming up with an effective solution to an issue in due time. This article concentrates on the fundamental problem solving steps in the workplace, school, or in any other situation.

Group Problem Solving Activities
Effective group problem solving activities are those which develop co-operation, communication, understanding and decision-making skills among the group members. Read on for four such highly effectual group activities...........

Problem Solving Activities for Kids
Problem solving activities for kids can be anything ranging from simple maths problems to something else the kids are interested in. Read on to find out more about this.

Problem Solving Activities
There is life, so there will be problems. And then there is the need to solve them. The following article will bring you some problem solving activities that you can use to get rid of the problems that you have.

Inductive Reasoning Examples
The following article will provide you with some simple inductive reasoning examples with the intention of making the concept simple and easy to understand. Continue reading to understand what is inductive reasoning and how it is applied.

Techniques of Problem Solving
Problem solving is the key skill which puts winners ahead of the pack. In this article, I have compiled some of the best techniques of problem solving that have been developed over the years. Read and get an insight into some radical problem solving techniques that can change the way you think!

How to Deal with Problems
Life comes with its ups and downs. It is a fact that we are all very well aware of. Life has its intense happy moments and its problems. I know that no one can coach anyone on how to deal with problems. But, I am sure that I can help you have the right perspective.

Creative Problem Solving Activities
These days, there are several complications in our private and professional lives. The old school, repetitive solutions may not work anymore! Lets face it, it's a new age of creativity. The articles below should help you to quite an extent, in finding suitable and creative problem solving activities.

50 Little Things You Can Do to Empower Other People

50 Little Things You Can Do to Empower Other People
1. Give out compliments that you mean.
2. Speak and act with honesty.
3. Listen to others.
4. Help illustrate your points with visual aids.
5. Teach a class.
6. Get involved in community art projects.
7. Mentor a child or student.
8. Volunteer with local organizations.
9. Lead a group on a travel expedition
10. Donate money to charity.
11. Help the spread of community health clinics.
12. Take the time to talk to strangers.
13. Start a non-profit.
14. Travel abroad and make new friends.
15. Reach out to friends and relatives at a distance
16. Be aware of body language.
17. Be sincere.
18. Nurture talent in others.
19. Go out and support local musicians.
20. Give thoughtful gifts.
21. Join a community farm or grocery coop.
22. Volunteer in schools.
23. Stay in touch with local politics.
24. Throw dinner parties with a mixed range of guests.
25. Smile more often.
26. Use public transportation.
27. Organize recycling projects.
28. Run a benefit event.
29. Project positivity and eliminate negative thoughts.
30. Join a book group or club.
31. Start or join a language exchange program.
32. Lead team-building exercises at work.
33. Encourage social activities.
34. Initiate physical contact.
35. Tell your loved ones how you feel about them.
36. Make sure the atmosphere at work is a democratic one.
37. Nod your head when someone is making a point.
38. Help foster creativity.
39. Run meetings with an open, discussion oriented atmosphere.
40. Have suggestions ready for those who need advice.
41. Take walks to new areas of town.
42. Spend time planting trees in the community.
43. Set up a food or blanket drive.
44. Learn inspiring quotes that can be doled out.
45. Learn new listening techniques.
46. Study psychology.
47. Give a helping hand.
48. Give encouragement instead of criticism.
49. Take time for yourself to help others.
50. Learn intervention techniques.
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Top 10 Techies Who Changed the World

Top 10 Techies Who Changed the World

Steve Jobs, Apple
Co-founder of Apple, A grandmaster of technology and Business. Risk taker, the visionary who redefined technology with  world changing products like the Apple Personal Computer, iPod, iPhone and iPad.

Bill Gates, Microsoft
Super Geek, entrepreneur and Microsoft founder, Brought computers to everyone  with his software, The richest man in the world from 1995 to 2007 is currently the second richest. Gates and wife Melinda have made philanthropy their primary concern recently .

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
A Whizkid from Harward, who single handedly transformed the Internet from a place people went to get information to a place they went to meet each other. Facebook gave the virtual world a touch of humanity, the real world a new medium of interpersonal relationships. Became this generation's phenomenon, and the second youngest billionaire in the world. The youngest billionaire is Dustin Moskovitz – co-founder of Facebook is 8 days younger than Zuckerberg.


Linus Torvalds- Linux 
Virtually unknown outside the inner circles of technology, yet he is among the most influential figures in software industry. A believer in open source software, Torvalds initiated the development of the Linux Kernel. Linux O/S runs the 10 fastest supercomputers in the world as well as smallest of devices. Android OS is a modified version of the Linux.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google
Co-founders of Google. They ran Google from a rented garage in 1998. Today world's largest media corporation.

Evan Williams, Twitter & Blogger
Virtually unknown in the real world, this college drop-out created two key communication technologies that shaped the Internet – Blogger and Twitter. He no longer works at Twitter.

Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo
Japanese game designer and creater of Super Mario Bros.

Jeffrey Bezos, Amazon
In 1994, this Princeton graduate started Amazon.com from his garage in Seattle and changed the face of online retail business. He began with selling books online but soon diversified into almost everything. Amazon made him a billionaire as well as Time magazine's person of the year in 1999.

Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web
in 1990 British physicist and computer scientist Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, the first web browser and the first web server.

Akio Morita, Sony
Former naval officer Akio Morita left his family business of sake, miso and soy sauce to co-found Sony Corporation in 1946. Most of Sony's path-breaking products like magnetic tapes, tape recorders, pocket-sized radios, the Walkman and the Discman were developed under his leadership.

Steve Wozniak
Co -founder of Apple
Affectionately called Woz, he has been credited with developing the Apple I and Apple II computers in the 1970s.

Andrew Grove, Co-founder of Intel
Sameer Bhatia - the whole concept of emailing
Vinod Dham - designer of Pentium processor


Source (NDTV)

A/L ICT

වැඩිම වෙසෙසි සංඛ්‍යාංකය - MSD
The most significant digit is the leftmost, non-zero digit in a number. It is the digit with the greatest value in the number.  in 2006.345 MSD is 2

අඩුම වෙසෙසි සංඛ්‍යාංකය - LSD
The least significant digit is the lowest digit in a number, located at the far right of a string. For example, in the number 2006, the "6" is the least significant digit.

Von Neumann architecture.

Introduced by John von Neumann
Parallel computers are referred as non-von Neumann architectures.

• Comprised of four main components:
  • Memory
  • Control Unit
  • Arithmetic Logic Unit
  • Input/Output
• Read/write, random access memory is used to store both program instructions and data
  • Program instructions are coded data which tell the computer to do something
  • Data is simply information to be used by the program
• Control unit fetches instructions/data from memory, decodes the instructions and then sequentially coordinates operations to accomplish the programmed task.
• Aritmetic Unit performs basic arithmetic operations
• Input/Output is the interface to the human operator
  
  https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/parallel_comp/#Neumann

Parallel computers

multi-processor computer architectures
Instruction and Data.  x Single or Multiple.
Single Instruction Single Data (SISD)
Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
Multiple Instruction Single Data (SIMD)
Multiple Instruction Multiple Data MIMD)

How to Make Social Innovation by making Technology and Social Solutions

• Innovation comes from constraints
• when you have very few resources, you’re forced to be very creative in using and reusing them. That's simple isn't it?
  
• Don’t fight culture, let peole be they are
• Embrace market system - give as well as sell
• Innovate on existing platforms rather than creating a totally new one.
• Problems are not always obvious as you seen
• Try living for a week on Rs 100/= a day to understand the poor.
• Listen to the right people.
• Do the hard work needed to find a simple and better solution. Its the key for innovation.
• Leonardo da Vinci said, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”
• Create “transparent” re-usable and upgradable technologies. It should be easily understood by the users
• Promote local and collaborative innovation. No one finds it alone.
• Electrone was known to many people. Rutherfered confired it.
• Make it inexpensive for the poor as well as for rich.
• Provide skills, not just shopisticated technologies.
• Do co-creation by teaching the skills to create solutions.
• Involving the community throughout the design process.
• Build capacity to help equip people to innovate and contribute to the evolution of the solution. It is real empowerment.
• Be where the action is, not away from it.
• Face the problem your self.
• Work with people who have the problem
• LISTEN to what they have to say  
• Learn everything there is to know about it, Learning is a journey
• Think big and act big – don’t plan to reach less than one million people, even if you implement for 100 or even for 10, think upscalability ...
• Concept is everything, Good ideas evolve ecologically
• Think like a child as have no limit to their thinking
• Learn to see the obvious and do the obvious
• If somebody already has invented it, design for measurable improvements
• Work to practical, three-year plans , not less
• Keep learning from your community and document and review
• Be positive
• Don’t be distracted by what other people think or say
• Understand by observing the environment, infrastructure, culture and lives of people by being there.
• Think creatively: start big, use constraints as a filter and find the simplest solutions.
• Increase user acceptance
• Beware of exsisiting costs
• Beware of radically different ways of doing things.
• Deliver value not just solutions.
• Make what benefits people from end product
• Ask how your solution improve life?
• Think economic sustainability
• Build financial motivations for continued growth over time.
• Empower people by improving their economic or social status.
• Share knowledge and skills to continue the innovative process
• Keep a looking out for other challenges or new one
• Dream Before Planning, Awake when planning, Sleep on the plan before making it work ...
• Innovation never ends , it's a process not a milestone

adaptod from Design Africa Blog 

How To Improve Your Memory Skills ?

Memory Skills

Following skills involves the use of memory and brain training

• Remembering names after the first introduction
• Navigating a new city using mental directions
• Performance on IQ tests
• Learning new subjects quickly and accurately
• Recalling the location of objects
• Calculating figures in your head
• Remembering visual patterns

2 Attention

Cognitive exercises improve specific abilities related to attention.

  

• Concentrating on new challenges
•  Productivity at work or at home
•  Driving safely and quickly
•  Accuracy in sports like golf or tennis
•  Avoiding distractions
•  Peripheral vision
•  Focusing on important tasks throughout your day

3 Speed  - Think fast.  

Speed includes a variety of cognitive skills that well-designed brain training can enhance.

4 Flexibility  

Flexibility training can make multitasking a breeze, help you articulate your thoughts better, and give you the discipline to resist temptation. Getting better at flexibility can help improve your precision, cognitive control, and your creative thinking.

 

• Strategic planning
• Multitasking quickly and efficiently
• Thinking outside the box
• Avoiding errors and mistakes
• Communicating clearly
• Resisting temptation and controlling impulses
• Rapidly shifting your focus of attention

5 Problem Solving

Better problem solving skills can help you make quick, accurate decisions. Users that have trained their problem solving skills have reported a better ability to make mental estimates, comparisons, and calculations, not to mention more efficient thinking overall.

 

• Performing mental calculations
• Determining the best course of action from multiple options
• Recognizing patterns and trends
• Making quick, accurate estimations
• Comparing different values
• General aptitude with numbers
• Dissecting complex arguments

Reaction time

Decision-making in time-sensitive situations

Determining the best route through busy traffic

Sense of direction

Speeding up other cognitive processes

Mental visualizations

Adapting to changing environments

Extracts from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

 Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination".He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.

Leonado Davinci Notes and Art

Renaissance humanism saw no mutually exclusive polarities between the sciences and the arts, and Leonardo's studies in science and engineering are as impressive and innovative as his artistic work.These studies were recorded in notebooks comprising some 13,000 pages of notes and drawings, which fuse art and natural philosophy, made and maintained daily throughout Leonardo's life and travels, as he made continual observations of the world around him.


These notebooks—originally loose papers of different types and sizes, distributed by friends after his death—have found their way into major collections such as the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the Louvre, the Biblioteca Nacional de España, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan which holds the twelve-volume Codex Atlanticus, and British Library in London.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

He who thinks little, errs much.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Life well spent is long.

He who walks straight rarely falls.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

Truth was the only daughter of Time.

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

We ought not to desire the impossible.

The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.

Men out of fear will cling to the thing they most fear.

Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the Dead.


O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death.
No human research can be called true science unless it can be mathematically proved.

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.
Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Oh! human stupidity, do you not perceive that, though you have been with yourself all your life, you are not yet aware of the thing you possess most of, that is of your folly? and then, with the crowd of sophists, you deceive yourselves and others, despising the mathematical sciences, in which truth dwells and the knowledge of the things included in them. And then you occupy yourself with miracles, and write that you possess information of those things of which the human mind is incapable and which cannot be proved by any instance from nature. And you fancy you have wrought miracles when you spoil a work of some speculative mind, and do not perceive that you are falling into the same error as that of a man who strips a tree of the ornament of its branches covered with leaves mingled with the scented blossoms or fruit.

To lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.

The knowledge of past times and of the places on the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

In order to prove whether the spirit can speak or not, it is necessary in the first place to define what a voice is and how it is generated.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
The line has in itself neither matter nor substance and may rather be called an imaginary idea than a real object; and this being its nature it occupies no space. Therefore an infinite number of lines may be conceived of as intersecting each other at a point, which has no dimensions and is only of the thickness (if thickness it may be called) of one single line.

I know that many will call this useless work.

Tell me if anything was ever done. This was written in his notebooks in despair of so many projects that were never completed.

A point is not part of a line.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments; not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience, who is the one true mistress. These rules are sufficient to enable you to know the true from the false— and this aids men to look only for things that are possible and with due moderation— and not to wrap yourself in ignorance, a thing which can have no good result, so that in despair you would give yourself up to melancholy.

Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.

The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them. Of dice.

It is true that impatience, the mother of stupidity, praises brevity, as if such persons had not life long enough to serve them to acquire a complete knowledge of one single subject, such as the human body; and then they want to comprehend the mind of God in which the universe is included, weighing it minutely and mincing it into infinite parts, as if they had to dissect it!

Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings.


You do ill if you praise, and still worse if you reprove in a matter you do not understand.

The point, being indivisible, occupies no space. That which occupies no space is nothing. The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.


These rules will enable you to have a free and sound judgment; since good judgment is born of clear understanding, and a clear understanding comes of reasons derived from sound rules, and sound rules are the issue of sound experience— the common mother of all the sciences and arts. Hence, bearing in mind the precepts of my rules, you will be able, merely by your amended judgment, to criticise and recognise every thing that is out of proportion in a work, whether in the perspective or in the figures or any thing else.

Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.

Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature.

Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude. Pharisees— that is to say, friars.

Be not false about the past.
Movement will cease before we are weary of being useful.

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

The painter strives and competes with nature.

If you transmit the rays of the sun through a hole in the shape of a star you will see a beautiful effect of perspective in the spot where the sun's rays fall.

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing ... Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity— by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. These are miracles... Of the eye.

Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy— on experience, the mistress of their Masters.
The smallest natural point is larger than all mathematical points, and this is proved because the natural point has continuity, and any thing that is continuous is infinitely divisible; but the mathematical point is indivisible because it has no size.

The eye— which sees all objects reversed— retains the images for some time. This conclusion is proved by the results; because, the eye having gazed at light retains some impression of it. After looking (at it) there remain in the eye images of intense brightness, that make any less brilliant spot seem dark until the eye has lost the last trace of the impression of the stronger light.

These rules are of use only in correcting the figures; since every man makes some mistakes in his first compositions and he who knows them not, cannot amend them. But you, knowing your errors, will correct your works and where you find mistakes amend them, and remember never to fall into them again. But if you try to apply these rules in composition you will never make an end, and will produce confusion in your works.

If the Lord— who is the light of all things— vouchsafe to enlighten me, I will treat of Light; wherefore I will divide the present work into Parts... Linear Perspective, The Perspective of Colour, The Perspective of Disappearance.

Among all the studies of natural causes and reasons Light chiefly delights the beholder; and among the great features of Mathematics the certainty of its demonstrations is what preeminently (tends to) elevate the mind of the investigator. Perspective, therefore, must be preferred to all the discourses and systems of human learning. In this branch [of science] the beam of light is explained on those methods of demonstration which form the glory not so much of Mathematics as of Physics and are graced with the flowers of both.

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

Amid the vastness of the things among which we live, the existence of nothingness holds the first place; its function extends over all things that have no existence, and its essence, as regards time, lies precisely between the past and the future, and has nothing in the present. This nothingness has the part equal to the whole, and the whole to the part, the divisible to the indivisible; and the product of the sum is the same whether we divide or multiply, and in addition as in subtraction; as is proved by arithmeticians by their tenth figure which represents zero; and its power has not extension among the things of Nature.

That is not riches, which may be lost; virtue is our true good and the true reward of its possessor. That cannot be lost; that never deserts us, but when life leaves us. As to property and external riches, hold them with trembling; they often leave their possessor in contempt, and mocked at for having lost them.

It seems to me that men of coarse and clumsy habits and of small knowledge do not deserve such fine instruments nor so great a variety of natural mechanism as men of speculation and of great knowledge; but merely a sack in which their food may be stowed and whence it may issue, since they cannot be judged to be any thing else than vehicles for food; for it seems to me they have nothing about them of the human species but the voice and the figure, and for all the rest are much below beasts.

Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition.

There is no certainty in sciences where one of the mathematical sciences cannot be applied, or which are not in relation with these mathematics.

 Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times. This relates to a huge equestrian statue that Leonardo had been commissioned to design and create, but which was never cast until over 00 years later, in .

A picture or representation of human figures, ought to be done in such a way as that the spectator may easily recognise, by means of their attitudes, the purpose in their minds.

A shadow may be infinitely dark, and also of infinite degrees of absence of darkness. The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

Those men who are inventors and interpreters between Nature and Man, as compared with boasters and declaimers of the works of others, must be regarded and not otherwise esteemed than as the object in front of a mirror, when compared with its image seen in the mirror.

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

Reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginning.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.

How to work with Python Lists - Beginers Guide

Consider list as numbered containers
which can hold different data and objects

It keeps objects in an order like an array, accessible like list[n].
A list is a sequencial data structure which allows you to add and remove objects from
the sequencial list.

How to create Lists
    L = [] # creates an empty list
    L = [1,2,3] # list with Numbers
    L = ["A","B","C"] # list with Strings
    L = ["a:A","b:B","d:C"] # list with Key pairs
    L1 = [1,"A",L] # list with mixed data
    L = [a, b, c]# list with objects
           which may have a.move() like processes
    L = [expression, ...]

You can put all kinds of objects in lists, including other lists, and multiple references to a
single object.

A = B = [] # both names points to the same list

>>> A=B=[]
>>> A=[1,2,3]
>>> B
[]
>>> A=B=[1,2,3]
>>> A.pop()
3
>>> A
[1, 2]
>>> B
[1, 2]
>>>

A = []
B = A # both names will point to the same list
A = []; B = [] # two independent lists


How to Acces Lists

len(L) # returns the number of items
the first item is L[0]
L[i:j] # creates a new list with objects between i and j.
    n = len(L)
    item = L[index]
    sequence = L[start:stop]

L[-1]  # access the last item in a list.
How to do Lists slicing
seq = L[start:stop:step]
seq = L[::2] # get every other item, starting with the first
seq = L[1::2] # get every other item, starting with the second
>>> A
[1, 2, 3]
>>> A[0:2]
[1, 2]
>>> A[0:2:2]
[1]
>>> A[0:2:1]
[1, 2]
>>>
>>> A[0:4:1]
[1, 2, 3]
>>>

How to Loop over Lists
How to use for-in statement
    for item in L:
        print item
How to use enumerate function with lists
    for index, item in enumerate(L):
        print index, item
How to use range and len with lists
    for index in range(len(L)):
        print index

>>> for a in A:
 print a
1
2
3
How to use explicit iterator
    i = iter(L)
    item = i.next() # fetch first value
    item = i.next() # fetch second value
>>> i=iter(A)
>>> i.next()
1
>>> i.next()
2
>>>

How to sum list containing numbers
    v = sum(L)
    total = sum(L, subtotal)
    average = float(sum(L)) / len(L)
>>> sum(A)
6

How to add individual items and slices
    L[i] = get one obj
    L[i:j] = slice sequence of items

How to auto update list values
    L = []
    M = L
    # modify both lists M & L
    L.append(obj)

>>> A.append(4)
>>> A
[1, 2, 3, 4]
>>> B
[1, 2, 3, 4]
>>>
How to create news lists
    L = [] # empty
    M = L[:] # create a copy
    # modify L only
    L.append(obj)

>>> M=A[:]
>>> M
[1, 2, 3, 4]
>>> B
[1, 2, 3, 4]
>>> M.append(5)
>>> M
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> A
[1, 2, 3, 4]
>>>
How to insert an items to a list.
    L.append(item)# adds to the end
    L.insert(index, item)# inserts an item at a given index, moves rest down

>>> M.insert(0, 0)
>>> M
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]


How to delete items in a list    del L[i]
    del L[i:j]
>>> del M[0]
>>> M
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> del M[0:1]
>>> M
[2, 3, 4, 5]
>>>

pop method removes an individual item and returns it,
remove searches and removes the first matching item.
    item = L.pop() # last item
    item = L.pop(0) # first item
    item = L.pop(index)
    L.remove(item)
>>> M.pop()
5
>>> M
[2, 3, 4]
The del and pop defference is pop returns the removed item.

How to reverse a list.
    L.reverse()
>>> M.reverse()
>>> M
[4, 3, 2]
>>>

Inserting/and deleting items on the top is fast if you use reverse
    L.reverse()
    # append/insert/pop/delete at far end
    L.reverse()

>>> M.append(1)
>>> M.reverse()
>>> M
[1, 2, 3, 4]
>>>

How sort lists and get a sorted copy
    L.sort() # sort L, L changed
   out = sorted(L) # returns a sorted copy L not changed

>>> M
[1, 2, 3, 4]
>>> M.insert(2,5)
>>> M
[1, 2, 5, 3, 4]
>>> M
[1, 2, 5, 3, 4]
>>> M.sort()
>>> M
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>>

How to get the smallest or largest item
    lo = min(L)
    hi = max(L)

>>> max(M)
5
>>> min(M)
1
>>>

Be careful when deleting in a loop
for object in L[:]:
    if not condition:
            del L[index]
this can create problem as for keeps an internal index
create a new list and append items
out = []
for object in L:
     if condition:
         out.append(object)
finally remove L
How to implement stack data structure with lists
    stack = []
    stack.append(object) # push
    object = stack.pop() # pop from end
How to implement queue data structure with lists
    queue = []
    queue.append(object) # push
    object = queue.pop(0) # pop from beginning

How to search in lists
    if value in L:
        print "list contains", value

How get the index of the first matching item
    i = L.index(value)

To get all matching items, use a loop, passing a start index:

    def findall(L, value, start=0):
        # generator version
        i = start - 1
        try:
            i = L.index(value, i+1)
            yield i
        except ValueError:
            pass
    for index in findall(L, value):
        print "match at", i

If you need to count matching items
    n = L.count(value)

The Art of War

The Art of War
Sun Tzu
600 BC
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military written by Sun Tzu who is a high ranking military general and strategist of the Kingdom of Wu in the late-sixth century BC. The book is devoted to aspects of warfare strategies and tactics of its time, and is still read for its leadership and military insights.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/132
A leader leads by example not by force.

Swift as the wind
Quiet as the forest
Conquer like the fire
Steady as the mountain

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
 
Winner is, He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
 
All warfare is based on deception.
 
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has taken no precautions.

 To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape.

A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.

Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.

It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperilled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperilled in every single battle.

If you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.
If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose.
If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself.
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful. Seizing the enemy without fighting is the most skillful.

One defends when his strength is inadaquate, he attacks when it is abundant

If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him.
force the enemy to take our strength for weakness, and our weakness for strength, and thus will turn his strength into weakness

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

 There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

The Art of War is one of the oldest and most successful books on military strategy in the world. It has been the most famous and influential of China's Seven Military Classics: "for the last two thousand years it remained one of the the most important military books in Asia, where even the common people knew it by name. It has had an influence on Eastern military thinking, business tactics, and beyond.
Sun Tzu emphasized the importance of positioning in military strategy, and that the decision to position an army must be based on both objective conditions in the physical environment and the subjective beliefs of other, competitive actors in that environment. He thought that strategy was not planning in the sense of working through an established list, but rather that it requires quick and appropriate responses to changing conditions. Planning works in a controlled environment, but in a changing environment, competing plans collide, creating unexpected situations.

Chapter summary
1. Laying Plans/The Calculations
Explores the five fundamental factors (the Way, seasons, terrain, leadership, and management) and seven elements that determine the outcomes of military engagements. By thinking, assessing and comparing these points, a commander can calculate his chances of victory.  Habitual deviation from these calculations will ensure failure via improper action. The text stresses that war is a very grave matter for the state, and must not be commenced without due consideration.

2. Waging War/The Challenge Explains how to understand the economy of warfare, and how success requires winning decisive engagements quickly. This section advises that successful military campaigns require limiting the cost of competition and conflict.
3. Attack by Stratagem/The Plan of Attack
Defines the source of strength as unity, not size, and discusses the five factors that are needed to succeed in any war. In order of importance, these critical factors are: Attack, Strategy, Alliances, Army, and Cities.
4. Tactical Dispositions/Positioning Explains the importance of defending existing positions until a commander is capable of advancing from those positions in safety. It teaches commanders the importance of recognizing strategic opportunities, and teaches not to create opportunities for the enemy.
5. Energy/Directing
Explains the use of creativity and timing in building an army's momentum.
6. Weak Points & Strong/Illusion and Reality
Explains how an army's opportunities come from the openings in the environment caused by the relative weakness of the enemy in a given area.
7.  Maneuvering/Engaging The Force Explains the dangers of direct conflict and how to win those confrontations when they are forced upon the commander.
8.Variation in Tactics/The Nine Variations
Focuses on the need for flexibility in an army's responses. It explains how to respond to shifting circumstances successfully.
9. The Army on the March/Moving The Force
Describes the different situations in which an army finds itself as it moves through new enemy territories, and how to respond to these situations. Much of this section focuses on evaluating the intentions of others.
10. Terrain/Situational Positioning
Looks at the three general areas of resistance (distance, dangers, and barriers) and the six types of ground positions that arise from them. Each of these six field positions offer certain advantages and disadvantages.

11.The Nine Situations/Nine Terrains Describes the nine common situations (or stages) in a campaign, from scattering to deadly, and the specific focus that a commander will need in order to successfully navigate them.
12.The Attack by Fire/Fiery Attack Explains the general use of weapons and the specific use of the environment as a weapon. This section examines the five targets for attack, the five types of environmental attack, and the appropriate responses to such attacks.

13. The Use of Spies/The Use of Intelligence Focuses on the importance of developing good information sources, and specifies the five types of intelligence sources and how to best manage each of them.

Words, Phrases Activities and Habits to Influence people

The most selfish one-letter word - "I" ... Avoid it.
The most satisfying two-letter word - "WE" ... Use it.
The most poisonous three-letter word - "EGO" ... Kill it.
The most used four-letter word - "LOVE" ... Value it.
The most pleasing five-letter word - "SMILE" ... Keep it.
The fastest spreading six-letter word - "RUMOUR" ... Ignore it.
The hard working seven-letter word - "SUCCESS" ... Achieve it.
The most enviable eight-letter word - "JEALOUSY" ... Distance it.
The most powerful nine-letter word - "KNOWLEDGE" ... Acquire it.
The most divine ten-letter word - "FRIENDSHIP" ... Treasure it.

Use these words into your everyday speech
• Discover, (instead of find)
• Good
• Money
• Easy (rather than simple)
• Guaranteed (rather than promise)
• Health (rather than fitness)
• Love (rather than like)
• Proven (rather than right)
• Results
• Safe (rather than secure or secret)
• Save rather than (protect)
• Own (rather than buy)
• Fair (rather than reasonable)
• Better
• Best
• Improve ( rather than "change")
• Now (rather than today)
• Learn
• Science (scientific)
• Immediate (immediately)
• You/You

You can discover and learn how much of these nice words used in these wonderful sayings, which make us better persons.

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. i'll always be with you.”
Winnie the Pooh

 “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
Roy Croft

 “We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.”

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
 Thomas Kempis
“The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?”
 Tennessee Williams
 “Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”

 “If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”
 Winnie the Pooh
 “Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
“Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends.”
“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”
 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    “A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
Influencing people through Word-of-mouth is not a nitche,
people talk about you when you are not there online or off-line.
Most people fail to plan for it. Social Networks exsist in every place, use them.
Five ways you can influence people to do it
Up, Up And Away – Going Way BeyondOne of the best ways to get people talking good things about you give them more than they expect. Give them something to talk about.  Word of mouthcan be a double edged sword in that if you fail to meet those expectations the word-of-mouth received will be negative.
Give them something good.

Don’t Go Faceless – Show Your Personality
What is the personality of you to the people that make it up? What are your stories and what makes them unique? Answer those questions and make sure to put it out there for people to see. Have you made a video why you do your kind of work?  It’s okay to get personal because that’s what you want, you want your personality to shine. The idea is to create something that people want to be part of.

Correcting Mistakes – Listening To What They Are Saying
It’s okay to make mistakes, as we all do. Things will always crop up!  It’s how you fix those mistakes differentiate you from the competition and get people talking. The first rule is to not let the negative stuff people may say about you to make you down. Look at them as a way to improve and a way to stand out. Take what they to your heart to improve by integrating the negatives and turn them into positives. Be concerned about them as a part of your day to day processes to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.
Making Connections – Staying ConnectedConnect with people online, go to where they they go,  and get to know them.  Connect physically. Build relationships that go beyond business enabling to influence people to talk about you and your work. Such relationships boost your business by increasing repeat referrals you receive.

Give, Give, Give – Work on PhilanthropyEvery person should be doing this as a part of  life activities. Keep in mind that charity does not mean that you have to donate money.  Help people with your knowledge, give away used stuff.

Plan For Word-Of-MouthInclude it as part of your social strategy, plan for it, to find your way into your customers social graph. Take a look at your processes and integrate the information in this post into them. Creating information delivery channel with websites, news letters, exceptional customer service, developing personality, correcting mistakes, connecting with people and being philanthropic.

“Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.”
Karl Albrecht, co-founder of Aldi.
Before meeting someone or even writing an e mail  or making a phone call
  - Know what you want. Sit down and work out exactly:
  - What you need and what want.
 -  Ask for the needs first and negotiate with the wants
 - How much you can afford
 - How far you’re prepared to compromise on both (afford vs. spend)

Consider new ideas and make sure you understand the pros and cons, and find out if you can ‘mix and match’ elements of various options.
Don’t be rushed into anything. If you’re happy with something, get them to draw up the paperwork and tell them you’ll be back in a day or two.

At the very least, you should read the small print and ‘sleep on it’.

Don’t feel pressured. You can always walk away from the deal. If you’re not impressed with the ‘final offer’, thank people for their time and say you need to look elsewhere.

Learn to COMPROMISE at the very end. Then you always win


If you are dealing with people from banks/government/insitution and a general tip is to understand their mentality, become who they are.

SuggestionsDon't tell people what to do, offer them suggestions, people respond more to fear than normal action, because once action commences one rarely steps down.

It is a great technique to just offer suggestions. If you need a person's help and that person usually has moral reservations, you need to offer them something useful, an information, link of a website that would help him of his work would be fine.

Basic influencing includes understanding the mindset of your mark, earning their respect.

And sometimes no matter what you do, you will fail to convince a person, so what option do you have? Convince anorther preson to convince them. A friend of them, a superrior can help you influence them.
Read the book
How to win and influence people by Dale Carnagie
Control your temper. Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.
Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy.
Give it to them, and they will love you.

Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
Ask questions instead of giving direct orders and comments.

The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely.

Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
 
Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.

Make the other person feel important - and do it sincerely.

There is one all-important law of human conduct. If we obey that law, we shall almost never get into trouble. In fact, that law, if obeyed, will bring us countless friends and constant happiness. But the very instant we break the law, we shall get into endless trouble. The law is this: Always make the other person feel important.

Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and do not waste a minute thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal. Keep your mind on the great and splendid things you would like to do, and then, as the days go gliding away, you will find yourself unconsciously seizing upon the opportunities that are required for the fulfillment of your desire. Advice from Elbert Hubbard

When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

Let the other person do a great deal of the talking.

If you disagree with someone you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They won't pay attention to you while they still have a lot of ideas of their own crying for expression. So listen patiently and with an open mind.

You will never get into trouble by admitting that you may be wrong. That will stop all argument and inspire your opponent to be just as fair and open and broad-minded as you are. It will make him want to admit that he, too, may be wrong.

Wouldn't you like to have a magic phrase that would stop arguments, eliminate ill feeling, create good will, and make the other person listen attentively? Yes? All right. Here it is: "I don't blame you  for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do."

So the only way on earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.

You can tell people they are wrong by a look or an intonation or a gesture just as eloquently as you can in words - and if you tell them they are wrong, do you make them want to agree with you? Never! For you have struck a direct blow at their intelligence, judgment, pride and self-respect.

That will make them want to strike back. But it will never make them want to change their minds. You may then hurl at them all the logic of a Plato or an Immanuel Kant, but you will not alter their opinions, for you have hurt their feelings.
 
If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.
Get the other person saying "yes, yes" immediately.
 
You don't feel like smiling? Then what? Two things. First, force yourself to smile. If you are alone, force yourself to whistle or hum a tune or sing. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
 
The world is full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

There is a reason why the other man thinks and acts as he does. Ferret out that reason - and you have the key to his actions, perhaps to his personality. Try honestly to put yourself in his place.
 
These investigations revealed that even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15 percent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 percent is due to skill in human engineering-to personality and the ability to lead people.

Listen first. Give others a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.
 
Even our friends would much rather talk to us about their achievements than listen to us boast about ours.

Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your opponents and reduce defensiveness.

If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly.

It is always easier to listen to unpleasant things after we have heard some praise of our good points.

Your smile is a messenger of your good will. Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.

Asking questions not only makes an order more palatable; it often stimulates the creativity of the persons whom you ask. People are more likely to accept an order if they have had a part in the decision that caused the order to be issued.

Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.

So, because I had apologized and sympathized with her point of view, she began apologizing and sympathizing with my point of view, I had the satisfaction of controlling my temper, the satisfaction of returning kindness for an insult.

Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.
 
Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
 
There's magic, positive magic, in such phrases as: "I may be wrong. I frequently am. Let's examine the facts."

The expression one wears on one's face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one's back.

Yet I know and you know people who blunder through life trying to wigwag other people into becoming interested in them. Of course, it doesn't work. People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.
 
Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers.

I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it .
 
Napoleon the Third, Emperor of France and nephew of the great Napoleon, boasted that in spite of all his royal duties he could remember the name of every person he met. His technique? Simple. If he didn't hear the name distinctly, he said, "So sorry. I didn't get the name clearly." Then, if it was an unusual name, he would say, "How is it spelled?" During the conversation, he took the trouble to repeat the name several times, and tried to associate it in his mind with the person's features, expression and general appearance.
 
If we want to make friends, let's put ourselves out to do things for other people - things that require time, energy, unselfishness and thoughtfulness.

In talking with people, don't begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing - and keep on emphasizing - the things on which you agree. Keep emphasizing, if possible, that you are both striving for the same end and that your only difference is one of method and not of purpose.

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors.

 If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm. When somebody calls you on the telephone use the same psychology. Say "Hello" in tones that bespeak how pleased YOU are to have the person call.
  
The skillful speaker gets, at the outset, a number of "Yes" responses. This sets the psychological process of the listeners moving in the affirmative direction.
 
The desire for a feeling of importance is one of the chief distinguishing differences between mankind and the animals.

When you are displeased, it is much easier to criticize and condemn than it is to try to understand the other person's viewpoint.

It is more natural to talk about what vou want than to talk about what the other person wants.
 
When our friends excel us, they feel important; but when we excel them, they - or at least some of them - will feel inferior and envious.

Tomorrow you may want to persuade somebody to do something. Before you speak, pause and ask yourself: "How can I make this person want to do it?" That question will stop us from rushing into a situation heedlessly, with futile chatter about our desires.

Courtesy is just as important to a relationship as oil is to your motor.

Make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.
  
Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, "I like you, You make me happy. I am glad to see you." That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them.

We an win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.
 
Begin in a friendly way.
Health is a prime interest of adults and that their second interest is people.

Could your opponents be right or at least partly right? If there is truth or merit in their position or argument? admit it.
 
Consider about a real smile, a heartwarming smile, a smile that comes from within, the kind of smile that will bring a joy in others.
Many companies train their telephone operatars to greet all callers in a tone of voice that radiates interest and enthusiasm.

Looking at the other person's point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation.

First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way. Said by Harry A. Overstreet


"As I leave for my office, I greet the elevator operator in the apartment house with a 'Good morning' and a smile, I greet the doorman with a smile. I smile at the cashier in the subway booth when I ask for change. As I stand on the floor of the Stock Exchange, I smile at people who until recently never saw me smile."

When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.

Read these always, apply and learn to make them a Habit of your life.

Failures is a situation on the way to success !

Failure is the Pillar of Success

Top 50 Nano Technology & Bio Technology and Science Blogs

 

Technology provides interesting opportunities to advance our knowledge in science to improve our lives. When technology is shrinking down to the nanoscale, where objects and devices becoming one billionth of a meter in size. Scientists are working on projects at a nano scale so small that they are working with molecules and even atoms in some cases.

 

Nanotechnology is providing the potential for a number of new discoveries and breakthroughs, including in materials. New materials are being discovered regularly, including biomaterials that have some amazing potential. Here are some of the top nanotech and biomaterial blogs around.

Nanotechnology
Learn about what is happening in the world of the smallest machines. Interesting breakthroughs and fascinating science.

1. Soft Machines: This blog focuses on thoughts related to the future of nanotechnology, looking at where we are and where we might be going.
2. Responsible Nanotechnology: A look at developing nanotech in a way that is more socially responsible.
3. blog nano: Looks at what is happening in the world of nanotechnology.
4. Next Big Future: A look at what our future could look like, with the help of nanotech.
5. The Foresight Institute: This blog looks at explaining the transformative technology that is nanotech.
6. Nanotechnology Today: The latest information and news related to nanotechnology and more.
7. Nanotechnology Development Blog: Learn about how nanotech is developing and read about the latest breakthroughs.
8. Nanotechnology Now: News and information related to nanotechnology and related developments.
9. Nanotechnology News and Information: Just what it sounds like, this blog features the latest in news on nanotech, as well as jobs in the field.
10. Nanotech Buzz: Get the latest news and happenings in the world of nanotechnology.
11. Nanotechnology Law Blog: An interesting look at legal issues surrounding nanotechnology.

Quantum Computing and Mechanics

One of the most interesting and exciting applications of nanotechnology is for use with quantum computing. Learn about the advancements made in this area, and how they relate to nanotech and biomaterials. Besides, to understand things at the nanoscale, it helps to have a knowledge of quantum mechanics.

1. Michael Nielsen: This blog looks at computer development, including quantum computing, from one of the pioneers in the field.
2. Shtetl-Optimized: An interesting look at items related to science and the theory behind quantum computing.
3. The Quantum Pontiff: A look at all things quantum, especially in terms of theory and research on quantum computing.
4. in theory: Delve into the world of quantum theory, and how it can lead to interesting new possibilities.
5. Computational Complexity: A look at computational learning, including theory about computation, and sometimes looking at quantum computing.
6. Quantum Mechanics Demystified: Attempting to make quantum mechanics a little more understandable.

Materials Science

Learn about the science behind developing new materials and the interesting possibilities provided by these advancements.

1. Engineering World: A look at materials science from the perspective of an engineer.
2. OSU Materials: Learn about materials science and education from Ohio State University.
3. Materials Science News: Updates and more from the materials science blog at Science Daily.
4. Gold Innovations: An interesting look at how gold can be used to advance technology. Applying a material we know about for new purposes.
5. Materials Today: Looks at the latest technology advances in the field of materials science.
6. DMSE News and Events: This is the blog of the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Lots of news and interesting accomplishments.
7. MRS: Fun & Newsworthy: The Materials Research Society has a fun blog related to materials and science. Some of the items take a look at science fiction, while other items look at the advancements of science.

Biomaterials

These materials are those made from the building blocks of life. Read about some of the interesting advancements in biomaterials.

1. Biomaterials, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News: Get the latest news in biomaterials development and science.
2. Biomaterials News Feed: Pulls in different bits of news from around the Internet about what is happening in biomaterials science. Also includes videos and old lectures.
3. Biotech Blog: Get the latest in biotechnology news, and in what is happening with biomaterials.
4. helpBIOTECH: Explore biotechnology and materials, and what it means for the future.
5. Kush Tripathi’s Blog on Biomedical: Get a look at biomedicine and the materials and applications that come with the territory.
6. Intute Blog – biomaterials: A look at different subjects related to biomaterials.
7. The Biotech Ethics Blog: Consider the questions of ethics brought up by biotechnology and research into bioma
   terials.

Devices and Applications

Find out more about nanotech and biomaterials can do for a number of different fields. A look at the applications of nanotechnology and biomaterials.

1. Medical Device Link: How new devices based on new technology can improve the filed of medicine.
2. Nanotech – The Circuits Blog: This blog from CNET News focuses on nanotechnology used in many of our devices.
3. Nanotechnology Made Clear: This blog focuses on the applications of nanotechnology, and how it can be used in devices and for technological advancement.
4. Window for Devices: News and information about new gadgets and gizmos.
5. Medical Devices, Biotechnology, Bioengineering and the Like: A look at the news revolving around devices and biotech, and including commentary on recent happenings.