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Embodied energy is the energy consumed by all of the processes associated with the production of a material, from the mining and processing of natural resources to manufacturing, transport and product delivery.
LED Task Lamp Adjusted via Two Conductive Ball Joints. This Light Was Exhibited at the 2015 International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York.
Conor Davidson
The great mathematician Gottfried Leibniz who is credited with being one of the inventors of calculus, once said that
> Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Implicit in this statement is the notion that all of us who appreciate music must, on at least a subconscious level, be appreciating its mathematical structure.
Mathematics of Music
ams.jhu.edu
Loss in Judo is more personal than in other sports. Defeat in a sport like tennis feels bad, but defeat in a fighting sport is crushing in ways that most people do not comprehend. My coach liked to say that “at the end of the day, Judo is a fight, and humans respond very differently to losing in a physical fight.”
An Expertise Acceleration Experiment in Judo
Cedric Chin
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