A gravity-mapping spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed home its first video of the lunar far side, a view people on Earth never see.

The new video was captured by one of NASA’s twin Grail probes using a novel camera called MoonKAM, which will eventually be used by students on Earth to snap photos of the lunar surface as part of an educational project. The two spacecraft have been circling the moon since they arrived in orbit over the New Year.

Because the moon is tidally locked with Earth, it only presents one face to the planet’s surface (the near side). The side of the moon that faces away from Earth is the far side. Only robotic spacecraft and Apollo astronauts who orbited the moon in the 1960s and 1970s have seen the far side of the moon directly.

Michio Kaku explains America’s H-1B ‘genius visa’ and declining skilled worker population domestically …

• Extract from NewSell by Michael Hewitt-Gleeson (New York 1984, ISBN 0932648568):

In NewSell, the sale “happens” to the salesperson. It is the prospect who does something to the salesperson, not the other way around. The direction of flow is always from the prospect to the salesperson, passive.

I used to call passive flow the “Studio 54 effect.” At that time a New York disco became internationally famous for the way people (prospects) would do anything to get in. It was an extreme, but very sucessful, example of NewSell. Some say that when Studio first opened, the owner, Steve Rubell, played loud music every night but never let anyone inside. Each night as the crowd outside grew and grew it attracted even more attention. Eventually, when he felt the situation was right, he admitted only the “glitterati”; his success is disco history.

DFQ#001:

As a thinker, what is the main point about this post, in your own considered opinion?

“If you own a mobile phone you must see this …”

Dr Charlie Teo gave the Australia Day Address for 2012 and is acknowledged as one of the world’s leading neurosurgeons. In this 60 Minutess clip he offers the following message for you to consider …
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Global health expert, Professor Hans Rosling, was listed as one of 100 leading global thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine in 2009.

Here, he does one of his inspired presentations of statistics showing the hopeful development of 200 countries in wealth and health over the last 200 years …

Space gluttons are greedy when it comes to taking up too much space. In a meeting, the space glutton always takes up considerably more than his or her fair share of airtime. Space gluttons may suffer from output mania, the inability to shut-up.

Gathering input by listening to the opinions of others is an important cognitive skill which is crippled in the space glutton. PTV may allow the thinker to wreak such enthusiasm for his or her own ideas that he or she is quite unable to listen to others.

In business, much creativity and productivity is lost in meetings due to those suffering from this condition. This condition is disastrous for those in sales or in management.

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Here below is the very first Membership Application we’ve received for School of Thinking China’s English Thinkers. It is from Yvette of Perth, Western Australia. I’m posting it here today to record a small piece of SOT history and with wishes of good fortune for the year of the Dragon. Interesting that this first member of SOTC comes on such an auspicious day–it sets a positive and hopeful outlook for the coming year.

My best wishes to you for 2012 年行大运

Michael

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Dr Michael Hewitt-Gleeson
Principal
School of Thinking CHINA
www.schoolofthinkingchina.com

Begin forwarded message:

From: Yvette
Date: 22 January 2012 12:04:42 AM AEDT
To: michael@schoolofthinking.org
Subject: Membership Application to English Thinkers

Michael,

Firstly thank-you for all the SOT resources including the lessons, online books, and e-newsletter.

I would like to considered for an invitation to English Thinkers. This is because;

1. I got a lot of value from the previous SOT lessons and from Software For Your Brain & Wombat Selling.
2. I learnt new things that I could actually apply to my life and I could see how they were helping me to think better.
3. I like how ‘big’ subjects are explained clearly in a way I can understand and I like the pictures which help my understanding.
4. I feel that the information will improve my quality of life.
5. I would like to keep practicing thinking skills and this is a good way to implement that.
6. I feel that I will be able to make more than the fees for the course if I can apply what I learn.
7. It seems like a better investment than the uni course I’m doing which costs a lot more.
8. I might go further in my career.
9. The people around me will benefit.
10. It sounds like fun.

I can do online weekly tutorials and daily lessons.

Regards,

Yvette
(Perth, Western Australia)

To you and your family and all your friends who are cheerfully celebrating the New Year of the Dragon.