HTML5

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People use the term HTML5 in two ways:

to refer to a set of technologies that together form the future Open Web Platform. These technologies include HTML5 specification, CSS3, SVG, MathML, Geolocation, XmlHttpRequest, Context 2D, Web Fonts (WOFF) and others. The boundary of this set of technologies is informal and changes over time.
to refer to the HTML5 specification, which is, of course, also part of the Open Web Platform.

Although it would be great if people used one term to refer to the specification and another term to refer to the set of specifications, in practice people use the term both ways.

screen readers
http://accessibleculture.org/articles/2011/04/html5-aria-2011

in:
Learn HTML5 from W3C
https://www.edx.org/course/learn-html5-w3c-w3cx-html5-1x

He has a heart of gold

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Dan Gilbert: The surprising science of happiness
February 2004 at TED2004
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy

8:30 synthetic happiness

14:56
The psychological immune system works best when we are totally stuck, when we are trapped. This is the difference between dating and marriage. You go out on a date with a guy, and he picks his nose; you don’t go out on another date. You’re married to a guy and he picks his nose? He has a heart of gold. Don’t touch the fruitcake!
You find a way to be happy with what’s happened.

20:12
We should have preferences that lead us into one future over another. But when those preferences drive us too hard and too fast because we have overrated the difference between these futures, we are at risk.
When our ambition is bounded, it leads us to work joyfully. When our ambition is unbounded, it leads us to lie, to cheat, to steal, to hurt others, to sacrifice things of real value.
When our fears are bounded, we’re prudent, we’re cautious, we’re thoughtful. When our fears are unbounded and overblown, we’re reckless, and we’re cowardly.

The way we’re working isn’t working: Tony Schwartz at TEDxMidwest
TEDx Talks
June 26, 2012

The Science of Happiness: What Your Mother Didn’t Tell You
Prof. Dan Gilbert
PresidentialConf, 2013

Martin Seligman: Positive psychology (2004)

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Martin Seligman: The new era of positive psychology
TED2004
http://www.ted.com/talks/martin_seligman_on_the_state_of_psychology

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Who Attains Status? Similarities and Differences Across Social Contexts
Social Psychological and Personality Science August 2015 vol. 6 no. 6 692-700
http://spp.sagepub.com/content/6/6/692.abstract
Nicole M. Lawless DesJardins, et al.

Informal groups form hierarchies and allocate social status in order to coordinate action and make collective decisions. Although researchers have identified characteristics of people who tend to get status, the extent to which these characteristics are context-dependent is unclear. In two studies, participants from the United States (N = 157) and Germany (N = 95) engaged in affiliative or competitive group interactions. We investigated whether the nature of the group’s task moderated the relationship between status attainment and personality. As in previous research, we found that extraversion predicted status in both competitive and affiliative contexts. In contrast, agreeableness was only associated with status in affiliative contexts. These findings underscore the importance of examining the relationship between personality and social status in context.