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Conor McGregor Releases Cryptic Tweet On Fighting Future
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It was far from a surprise to see Conor McGregor react to Dustin Poirier's unreal win over Max Holloway (watch the highlights) in the main event of last night's (Sat., April 13, 2019) UFC 236 from Las Vegas.
After all, 'The Notorious' has made it a post-fight custom to either congratulate or call out the weekend's UFC main event winner (or both). However, this time around he had a personal investment. It was at least possible for the winner of the interim lightweight main event to get a shot at undisputed champ Khabib.
McGregor is still angling for that rematch after losing a one-sided contest to Khabib at last October's UFC 229. That became apparent in recent weeks. The Irishman rekindled his highly personal online battle with 'The Eagle.'
But Khabib thinks McGregor needs to pick up a win before he fights for the belt once again.
McGregor suggested that Poirier fight Nate Diaz next despite "The Diamond" holding the interim gold. However, UFC President Dana White confirmed Poirier would get the next shot at Khabib at the UFC 236 post-fight presser. It's the right match to make in terms of rankings legitimacy, yet that has hardly been the gold standard for UFC fight booking in the 'McGregor Era' (if ever). As it sits, McGregor is dealing with a whole host of outside-the-cage issues he doesn't really seem to be worried about.
Pending Comeback
He and White are supposedly meeting in the immediate future to discuss his next move. His longtime coach John Kavanagh is looking to see some positive fight-related things.
So he promised just that on social media this afternoon in a roundabout way, claiming his fans wouldn't believe him if he revealed how confident he is for the future. That belief wasn't needed anyhow, he boasted:
'If I told you how confident I was for the future, you wouldn't believe me. But your belief is not needed.'
If I told you how confident I was for the future, you wouldn't believe me.
But your belief is not needed.
— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) April 14, 2019
All Style & No Substance
Another solid, drawing lead-in from McGregor on social media. Problem is, that's becoming the whole scope of his appearances in the fight game as of late. It does get big attention from mainstream fans, and in truth, those are the fans he continues to thrive on. Hardcore MMA types will always follow the biggest news in the sport of mixed martial arts whether they like him or not.
But as Khabib so succinctly said this week, he hasn't won a fight since 2016. That type of track record would sink many a lesser pro fighter. The UFC's first double champ has kept his rep afloat with varied outside-the-cage ventures that turned to success. You only need look at his booming Proper Twelve Irish Whiskey sales to decipher that.
Still, he's eventually going to have a win a fight to stay relevant in the rarified air he claims to occupy. It appears his boss Dana White is longing for his much more active early-career days as well, as he said new interim middleweight champ Israel Adesanya is like a young McGregor.
In truth, 'The Notorious' is only a year older than the 29-year-old Adesanya. There's time for him to turn his somewhat floundering fighting career where he's lost three of his last five contests back around. McGregor is confident he'll do so.
Are you? According to him, that particular belief isn't needed.
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After 60 years of travel to and from Hawaii, Aloha Airlines has closed it's doors. ATA Airlines followed suit shortly afterwards causing enormous travel issues for customers. Those who payed with cash or a check have been left high and dry with no refund for unused tickets as well as many stranded from home. Neither airlines gave any warning before closing shop, while still accepting reservations up until the moment of their announcement. The selfishness of the airlines has hurt its loyal customers, the credit card companies that will have to foot the bill, our tourism industry, and the economy as a whole.
The remaining airlines operating are not without blame themselves. Having to pick up the slack from ATA and Aloha's lost flights has been done in an under-handed way. Stranded travelers have been forced to purchase tickets costing anywhere from double to 5 times the original price as well as eat the original amount payed. The way all of this has been handled has soured travel for many and given the airline industry in general an ugly image.
The reasons given for the end of these airlines stem from a military contract having been canceled as well as the inflated prices for fuel. These are valid reasons and don't need to be disputed. What does need to be disputed is whether these companies should be left accountable for their lack of responsibility to its customers, and how this disaster can be prevented in the future.
The State of Hawaii and America has taken a large blow due to the lack of foresight and responsibility by Aloha Airlines and ATA airlines.


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Q: insert formatted text in ole object I have a report in which there is a sentence which a certain field needs to be stressed on, that is - it needs to be formatted. Example:

" Some normal constant text followed be important data field .
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The length of the first "important data field" varies greatly, otherwise I would try and make several text fields with different formatting. Changing the appearance of the text is a no-no.
As Access doesn't allow for different formatting for different parts of the same field I think my only choice is to create an OLE object and programatically add and format the text in it. How to do that?
Maybe I should make a template word document with some macros and somehow pass arguments to those macros to add the different pieces of text with different formatting.

A: Since Access 2007, you can use rich textboxes, prior to that, depending on your report, it may well be best to use Word and merge or bookmarks to publish. An alternative is HTML, which is not too difficult to output. Either of these options, I reckon, would be a lot easier than trying to create and maintain OLE Objects.

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With temperatures soaring close to 50C in parts of northern and central India, the death toll in the heatwave has passed 1,000.
In the state of Andhra Pradesh alone, authorities say 852 people have died while over 250 lives have been claimed in neighbouring Telangana, according to media reports.
Khammam in Telangana touched 48C on 23 May, the highest in the past 68 years.
The hot conditions are expected to last a day or two more with the south-west monsoons expected by end of the month expected to result in a drop in temperatures.
Media reports spoke of melted roads in the city's capital where the mercury has touched 46C in the last couple of days.
Severe heatwave conditions prevailed over many parts of coastal Andhra Pradesh. Humidity worsened the stress caused by excessive heat.
The meteorological department has issued red alerts for Odisha, Jharkhand and coastal Andhra Pradesh, where heat conditions are worsened by constant dry, sweltering winds.
Most parts of northern India saw temperatures averaging 45C. Agra, where the Taj Mahal is situated, saw temperatures of 46.1C.
The unseasonal rainfall seen in many parts of India during the past two months is being blamed for the high number of deaths. The intervening rains did not allow for the usual gradual rise in temperature.
The sudden high temperatures disturbs the defence mechanism of the body, according to doctors. The intense heat can cause cramps, exhaustion and heat stroke.
Water camps have been set up in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and oral rehydration salts and intravenous fluids made available at bus and railway stations.
Various reasons are being cited for the unusually high temperatures. The IMD has blamed it on the hot winds blowing in from Pakistan's Sindh province.
El Nino conditions that transfer heat build up from oceans to the atmosphere and triggers scorching weather across land could also be the reason, say experts.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted a 60% chance the El Nino conditions will continue longer.
However, Indian climate expert J Srinivasan speaking to IBTimes UK notes the 0.8 degree warming during the past hundred years will set off more heatwaves, even without an El Nino.
Severe heat waves are becoming increasingly frequent globally. Human-induced global warming had turned 2014 into the hottest year on record, while records were broken with 2015 with this year's March being the hottest.
A Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research study on megacities has predicted Hyderabad in Telangana, which now sees a maximum of five heatwave days a year, could soon see as many as 40 days per year.
The study was made on the basis of global carbon emissions.


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Q: Ruby on Rails - Transactions - Generating X amount of codes I run this code on create:
ActiveRecord::Base.transaction do
   5.times { Vouchercode.create(Vouchercode_params) }
end

Which creates 5 voucher codes - this works as I expect. What I want to do is to allow my users to enter a number themselves.
for example:
A user enters 25 into a form and 25 vouchers are generated.
How could I accomplish this?

A: Is this code in your controller or model?
Regardless, pass the number to the controller using a form parameter like n_vouchers and replace 5 with params[:n_vouchers].to_i.
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Cheltenham Town vs Grimsby Town preview: How to watch, kick-off time, team news, predicted lineups and ones to watch
Cheltenham welcome Grimsby to the Jonny-Rocks Stadium on Tuesday.
By Louie Barrett 12 October 2020 22:03
(Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)
Cheltenham Town look to make it four wins from five in League Two as they take on strugglers Grimbsy Town, who are still yet to record their first win this season.
The fixture was due to be played on Saturday 26 September but after a member of Grimsby's team tested positive for Covid-19, the game was postponed and rearranged.
• Team News
Robbins boss Michael Duff has the same squad available as he did in his sides comfortable 2-0 win at home to Crawley Town last weekend although Hull City loanee, Elliot Bonds, is a doubt after picking up a knock.
Duff has plenty to choose from in the striking department with all five of his front men fully fit. George Llyod and Andy Williams are both likely to maintain their spots after impressive run-outs on the weekend.
Grimsby will be without the suspended Ludvig Ohman and 18-year-old Duncan Idehan is still being eased into a return to first-team action after recovering from a hamstring problem.
Aside from that, Mariners manager Ian Holloway has a fully fit squad to chose from as his side look to build on what was a positive point away at Bolton Wanderers on Saturday.
• Predicted Lineups
Cheltenham Town: Griffiths, Raglan, Tozer, Freestone, Hussey, Blair, Sercombe, Azaz, Thomas, Lloyd, Williams
Grimsby Town: McKeown, Pollock, Waterfall, Hendrie, Clifton, Preston, Taylor, Williams, Rose, Gibson, Green
Both managers are prone to opting with three centre backs, however, Cheltenham tend to play with wing-backs higher up operating with a 3-5-2 formation whereas Grimsby have been more cautious in their approach this season, utilising a five-man backline and playing 5-3-2.
• Ones to watch
Cheltenham added frontman Williams to their firepower going forward after he was released from Northampton Town after they secured promotion to League One last season.
He has started the season in a steady fashion, scoring twice in the opening four games. He knows the league and has notched double figures in five of his last seven seasons.
Thirty-two-year-old Reuben Reid is yet to start a league game this season for the Robbins but he has shown his sharpness in front of goal, scoring three times in two EFL Trophy appearances this term.
Cheltenham captain, Ben Tozer, possesses a bullet of a throw and with the Robbins looking to take advantage of this on every possible occasion, that could definitely be something that spells danger for the opposition.
As for the Mariners, they are yet to score a goal this season but the fans can be encouraged by a much improved defensive display on the weekend.
Bolton forward Eoin Doyle struck 25 goals last season and it was only thanks to the displays of Grimbsy's backline of Matthew Pollock, Luke Waterfall and Luke Hendrie that he was kept at bay.
Holloway will be hoping for more of the same from his defensive unit as the Mariners look to keep another clean sheet.
• Previous Meetings
These two sides have met nine times previously with Cheltenham having had more of the spoils, winning five, and drawing two.
Grimsby have won this meeting just twice before, with their latest affair ending a 0-0 draw back in November 2019.
The last side to win this fixture was Grimsby back in the 2018/19 season.
One goal decided the game with a first-half Wesley Thomas penalty securing the win for the Mariners.
Seven of their nine meetings have been won by either team and on six of those occasions, they could only be separated by a single goal.
• Where to watch:
The match kicks off at 19:00 BST on Tuesday 13 October 2020.
Cheltenham supporters can view the game through purchasing a live video match pass which can be found on Cheltenham's iFollow section of their website.
The same process can be followed on Grimsby Town's iFollow. Both are for a price of £10.
• What the managers have said
Cheltenham boss Duff was full of praise for his upcoming opponent, telling Gloucestershire Live:
"If you look at the performance on Saturday, I thought they were brilliant at Bolton.
"You might think they'd struggle in the last 20 minutes, but they grew into the game and stronger, keeping their first clean sheet.
"To grind out that result and they could have nicked it at the end too. We know we'll need to be at it."
Holloway also highlighted how proud he was of his side's performance on the weekend after he told Grimsby Live:
"In light of it all, I thought the performance was very, very good from the boys.
I'm really, really pleased, and it makes a big difference, it really does make a big difference.
It's nice to get back on the horse after a 4-0 drubbing at home."
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From punches to punch lines, Brendan Schaub is having the last laugh.
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Brendan Schaub Is Coming to a Stage near You
After quitting mixed martial arts in 2014, Brendan Schaub jumped into the stand-up comedy circuit where he excelled at executing his witty humor with fellow comedian Bryan Callen. He now performs stand-up alone and hosts the podcasts 'The Fighter and the Kid' and 'Below the Belt' which perfectly combine his wit with the knowledge of the martial arts scene.
Both podcasts are hit shows and Below the Belt has become the number 1 combat podcast in the world. Schaub is a familiar face on the LA comedy scene and last year toured the world with his stand-up, hitting most states across America as well as Canada, London, Ireland and Australia. He released his first comedy special 'You'd Be Surprised' earlier this year on Showtime.
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Happy Saturday everyone! It's the weekend! I hope it was a good week for you all? Today we have another video for you from Sadia at the Pick Up Limes YouTube channel.
In this video, Sadia shares three simple and delicious soup recipes, perfect for this cold, windy winter weather we're having, and also her love for Wix, an online website builder.
So, if you're in need of some warming soups this coming week, or, if you've always wanted to create your own website for something (hobby? business idea? passion project?) then this video will help you with both of those.


The Welcome Gift Shop was established by Sheridan Memorial Hospital and Nursing Home Auxiliary and is staffed by members of the auxiliary. Profits from the Welcome Gift Shop were then gifted to Sheridan Memorial Hospital Association for "wish list" items.
In August of 2012 the Auxiliary opted to hand the gift shop and its inventory over to Sheridan Memorial Hospital Association with it's members still volunteering their time to staff the gift shop. Profits received frome the Welcome Gift Shop will continue to benefit Sheridan Memorial Hospital Association.


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Q: R Two matrices, extract rows from m based on common column of r My question is about matrixes for R. I have two matrices r and m:
m <- as.matrix(read.table(text="
15 56 44 1 4 7
61 31 63 7 1 3
10 36 99 5 9 6
65 79 88 54 1 1"))
colnames(m) <- c("Z","Q","A","F","D","H")

r <- as.matrix(read.table(text="
15 56 64
10 36 61 "))
colnames(r) <- c("Z","L","O")

I want to extract the rows based on common column (in this case Z column), so the result would be
A

15 56 44 1 4 7

10 36 99 5 9 6

A is the new matrix.
Any Ideas how to ?

A: Just do:
> merge(x=m, y=r, by='Z')
   Z  Q  A F D H  L  O
1 10 36 99 5 9 6 36 61
2 15 56 44 1 4 7 56 64

To only keep the columns in m:
> merge(x=r, y=m, by='Z', sort=FALSE)[colnames(m)]
   Z  Q  A F D H
1 15 56 44 1 4 7
2 10 36 99 5 9 6

A: Also:
 indx <- intersect(colnames(m), colnames(r))
 m[m[,indx] %in% r[,indx],]
 #    Z  Q  A F D H
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 #[2,] 10 36 99 5 9 6


About five months ago I made the transition from a four-bedroom, 100-year-old home in a small town to a two-bedroom, newly built loft-style apartment in the city. Needless to say, decorating this new space has been both fun and challenging. Today, I'm excited to share this before and after that shows how I built an entryway in my new space.
First, here's how it looked when I started.
This is probably one of the most challenging areas in my new place. There are no windows, and it has three gray doors, so it is dark. I thought about painting the doors and trim white, but since that isn't an option right now, I decided to focus on what I could change.
To start, I added a table. This is the first wall you see when entering the apartment so having something beautiful and functional here is a must. The entry table gives me a space to decorate with personal touches, plus it offers a spot for a lamp and a place to put items such as keys and mail. I opted for this iron and wood piece with three shelves for ample storage.
With the table in place, I went to HomeGoods because I knew they would have some inspiration and tools (and by tools I mean decor) to give personality and life to this space.
My first find was this fabulous piece of artwork that set the mood for the space. I think it was on the same shopping trip that I scored this gold and acrylic lamp. It gives much-needed light. Fitted with a low-energy bulb, it stays on almost 24/7.
Having a rug for this space was also a must. I was so excited when I recently found this one in a matching color palette. It not only provides a splash of color, but it also gives a feeling of coziness right as you come into the apartment.
Opposite the entry table, I added a bench. If you have the room, a bench or stool is great for putting on and taking off shoes. It also creates an opportunity to up the cozy factor with pillows. A couple mirrors that repeat the gold in the lamp went above the bench. A mirror is another useful decor element in an entryway because it allows you to give yourself one final look over before heading out the door.
From there, I added a few decorative accents in my color palette. These included books, a dish for my keys and wallet, and fresh greens. With everything in place, the space now functions beautifully and is inviting for me and my guests.
Because I have ample closets, I have plenty of room for coats and outdoor gear. If you don't have an entry closet, consider adding a coat tree or hooks for functional storage.
And that's it, my friends. I hope you picked up a few ideas for your own entry as we looked at the before and after of mine.


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Sia Calls Shia LaBeouf a "Pathological Liar" in Solidarity With FKA twigs
After news broke that FKA twigs was suing LaBeouf for abuse and assault, Sia opened up about her own experience with the actor.
By Michelle Hyun Kim
This article contains mentions of alleged assault and abuse.
Shortly after news broke that FKA twigs had filed a lawsuit against her ex-boyfriend and actor Shia LaBeouf, citing alleged "relentless abuse," sexual battery, and assault, Sia claimed that she had also been previously "hurt" by LaBeouf.
"I too have been hurt emotionally by Shia, a pathological liar, who conned me into an adulterous relationship claiming to be single," the queer singer-songwriter wrote in a tweet on Friday. "I believe he's very sick and have compassion for him AND his victims."
She concluded the statement with a word of warning: "Just know, if you love yourself- stay safe, stay away."
Sia previously worked with LaBeouf when she cast him alongside Maddie Ziegler in her controversial 2015 "Elastic Heart" video. At the time of filming the music video, he was known to be dating actress Mia Goth.
She followed up her tweet with another, writing, "Also I love you @FKAtwigs. This is very courageous and I'm very proud of you." The Magdalene singer responded in her own tweet: "love you back @Sia you're an inspiration and thank you everyone for your love and solidarity <3"
In a New York Times report, FKA twigs alleges numerous occasions in which LaBeouf emotionally, physically, and mentally abused during their relationship that lasted just under a year. According to the Times, she details some of these instances in the lawsuit, including a February 2019 incident in which the actor allegedly assaulted outside of a California gas station. Additionally, twigs reportedly claims that he knowingly gave her a sexually transmitted disease. The lawsuit and Times report also includes allegations of abuse from Karolyn Pho, a stylist who also used to date LaBeouf.
"What I went through with Shia was the worst thing I've ever been through in the whole of my life," FKA twigs told the Times. "I don't think people would ever think that it would happen to me. But I think that's the thing. It can happen to anybody."
In an email to the Times, LaBeouf wrote that "many of these allegations are not true." He continued by saying he owed the women "the opportunity to air their statements publicly and accept accountability for those things I have done." He disclosed that he was "a sober member of a 12-step program" and added: "I am not cured of my PTSD and alcoholism, but I am committed to doing what I need to do to recover, and I will forever be sorry to the people that I may have harmed along the way."
Sia has recently been embroiled in her own controversy after she released the trailer for Music, the upcoming film she co-wrote and directed that follows the story of an autistic teen, played by Ziegler. Not only did disabled critics point out that it's ableist to cast a neurotypical actor to tell the story of an autistic person, but also that the narrative was a "misrepresentation" of neurodivergent people.
When one Twitter user, who said she was an autistic actor, claimed that "zero effort was made to include anyone who is actually autistic," the singer replied, "Maybe you're just a bad actor."
Sia hasn't announced any plans to adjust, postpone, or otherwise change the 2021 release of Music.
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The college admissions process can be, and indeed should be, a rewarding, stimulating, and successful experience for you, not a burdensome task to be undertaken with anxiety. It can be fun, and it will inevitably be a time for self-discovery and self-knowledge. You are heading into a venture in which you will learn much about yourself, your feelings about education and your place in an educational environment, and about your place in life and what you want from it and are willing to give to it.
A college education is, without a question, the largest single investment people ever make in themselves. Remember, there is "no ideal college". You know best about your own potential, and your abilities, and the task of college choice ultimately rests with you. CollegeCounselling.com is available to counsel and assist you in any way possible, but you must begin the process by thinking about who you are and what you want from your life after high school.
CollegeCounselling.com encourages you to investigate the information available here and to contact Ms. Groelle, M.A. at rgroelle@collegecounselling.com with any questions you may have. She is available to work with you as you begin the college admissions process .You also are urged to seek out others for there are many sources of support and information: your parents, teachers, advisor, friends, college admissions staff, and others. Go to the college catalogs, websites, and read the guides at your disposal. Make use of your school's guidance office and meet often with the counselor there. The better they know you, the more they will be able to help you.
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Should the U.S. have Google's "Right to be Forgotten" too?
Google last week unveiled a system which enables citizens of the European Union to ask the search engine to remove results from its listings. The move comes in response to a landmark E.U. court ruling which gave people there the "right to be forgotten."
Europeans who want personal information removed from search results can make their case directly to Google via an online form. And even though, as with everything with Google, the requests must be made online, the final decision on what information will be removed from search results will be made by actual people – not one of Google's famed algorithms. According a story from the BBC, disagreements about whether information should be removed or not will be overseen by national data protection agencies.
I asked my friend Brook Zimmatore, owner of the brand protection agency Massive in the United Kingdom, about the situation. While it may seem like fabulous news and great precedent for individuals who want information removed from search results, Zimmatore is more circumspect.
"Google has carefully controlled this case to provide minimal removal options," he says. "Initially what we are seeing is the right to correct outdated personal records such as private information, phone numbers, financial details, address, current employment, etc. Public records, alleged defamation and bona fide news stories are unlikely to be removed."
While this news is biggest in Europe, it also affects the ongoing debate in the United States about privacy and information posted on the Internet about private U.S. citizens. It makes me wonder, what qualifies as something falling under the "right to be forgotten" and if such a policy might find its way to U.S. shores.
For starters, this new policy is only going into effect for countries within the E.U. Google's submission form asks what country you are from, and the "United States" is not an option. Further, Google requires that anyone asking for personal information to be removed to provide identification, so you can't make a removal request on behalf of someone else.
But who and what deserves to be forgotten? This is a fascinating debate which might rage for a long time. The BBC article includes a sidebar about a man in England who lost his job after his employer learned of a drunk driving conviction that preceded his employment. The man was never asked about it on his employment application but, later, someone found evidence of his conviction online, and he was sacked. This man believes he has the right to have his drunk driving conviction "forgotten." (It's important to note that while the story doesn't describe the man's vocation, it does say that he is not a chauffeur, bus driver or the like.) He made a mistake which he hopes will not continue to haunt him. To me, this seems like a reasonable request which Google could grant.
Yet the waters are so much murkier. Having grown up before the digital age, I'm fortunate that the things I hope remain forgotten (#fraternity, #college) were never cataloged online. Folks who have had indiscretions since the Internet proliferation are not as lucky. Does a person have the right to have a photo of them taking a bong hit removed from search? Perhaps so. But what if that person is Micheal Phelps? Maybe not. If Kim Kardashian decides to ditch her camera-starved ways and live a monastic lifestyle in Montana, does she deserve to someday be forgotten? We probably say no because she's a public figure and famous.
But what about infamy? Would we no longer have a right to exploit that? Does Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman have a right to have his infamous foul-ball-interference moment forgotten? While Cubs fans will never forget how he may have cheated them of a World Series appearance, does he have a right to be removed from search results?
While the right to have some personal information removed from web searches is currently confined to the E.U., it seems that it has potential to migrate across the Atlantic. I have a friend who was born in Wales but married an American. He holds dual citizenship, so could he ask for information to be removed from search using his British passport as identification but submitting it from his office in Florida?
Can I finally cash-in on my Polish ancestry and make an argument that I'm as European as my long-lost relatives on that continent?
And here's another question: What if Google's efforts in the E.U. turn out to be well received and uncontroversial? Might the worldwide search engine itself migrate the policies to the United States and the rest of the planet.
I will leave the legal arguments to the attorneys and free-speech advocates, but it seems to me that, while tricky to judge, the right to be forgotten is an intriguing option that could find its way to America. I wouldn't expect to see it anytime soon, but it's certainly worthy of discussion. In the meantime, you are still stuck calling those of us in reputation management to help with your online issues.
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Are You Out of Your Mind?
By Charles Clavey
DO YOU THINK you have what it takes to make it through this entire review? Though it's not long, it will require patience. And though it will be interesting, it will require concentration. It deals with important topics — technology, craftsmanship, philosophy, psychology — and big questions — What does it mean to belong to a community? How do we become individuals? What does it mean to be human? — that excite the imagination and captivate the intellect. At least, that's what I think. You might agree, but I still doubt you'll make it through the whole essay without distraction. Your phone will buzz or your email will ding or your Facebook will light up. Even if none of these happen, you'll feel compelled to check if they did. Not that I'm immune: I've already checked my phone twice and paced around my apartment once before completing this paragraph. And I'm the guy writing this.
Matthew Crawford doubts if you'll make it either. He doesn't blame you, though, because he thinks we are living through an unprecedented crisis of attention. From the quotidian — the daily onslaught of emails, texts, tweets, and updates — to the innovative — the use of ambient perfume to market coffee, for instance — the world around us relentlessly colonizes our precious attention. Faced with unceasing interruptions that beget pernicious distraction, "what is often at stake," Crawford writes, "seems to be nothing less than the question of whether one can maintain a coherent self." Not only are we increasingly distracted, but we're also increasingly distractible. "Our mental lives," Crawford argues, have "become shapeless, and more susceptible to whatever presents itself out of the ether." Unable to figure out what to pay attention to, we seek out distraction itself, chasing the phantom of fulfillment through the simulacrum of enjoyment.
This anxiety is nothing new. Philosophers from the ancient Greeks onward have worried that technological innovation would suborn the pursuit of truth and wisdom through ease, superficiality, and distraction. In Plato's Phaedrus, no less a figure than Socrates lamented the invention of writing for its deleterious effects on memory, argument, and knowledge. Socrates imagined the Thamus, king of the Egyptian gods, chastising Teuth, inventor of the alphabet:
This discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learner's souls, because they will not use their memories … [Y]ou give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.
Late in the 18th century, Immanuel Kant identified excessive distraction as the enemy of an Enlightened mind. As he argued in Philosophical Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View:
If distraction is habitual it gives the human being who is subject to this ill the appearance of a dreamer and makes him useless to society, since he blindly follows his power of imagination in its free play, which is not ordered by any reason.
The source of this distraction, according to Kant, was a new literary technology: the novel. Kant worried that novels, with their admixture of coherence and digression, would "fragment" human thought and disrupt the "unity of understanding."
While its philosophical trappings have largely fallen away, this critique persists today, albeit in an attenuated form that is often either nostalgic or pat. Consider, for instance, the novelist Gary Shteyngart's view of the iPhone's transformative powers. As Shteyngart wrote in an essay for The New York Times:
With each post, each tap of the screen, each drag and click, I am becoming a different person — solitary where I was once gregarious; a content provider where I at least once imagined myself an artist; nervous and constantly updated where I once knew the world through sleepy, half-shut eyes; detail-oriented and productive where I once saw life float by like a gorgeously made documentary film.
Fragmented and shallow, ignorant and arrogant, bored and boring: from Socrates to Shteyngart, these are the qualities ascribed to the distracted human mind. What new insight can Matthew Crawford bring to such a crowded field? As it turns out, his new book, The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction, is less concerned with extending the terms of the critique than it is with restoring its proper philosophical content and full existential meaning.
Cast as a work of "political philosophy," The World Beyond Your Head aims at nothing less than reopening the philosophical treatment of distraction and reevaluating the prevailing understanding of the human condition. No simple problem restricted to the contemporary mindset or modern technology, distraction signals a deeper crisis of attentional ethics: we're so distracted, Crawford argues, because we have no ability to discriminate between things worthy and unworthy of attention; we have no ability to discriminate, in turn, because we have a misunderstanding of human action in and interaction with the world. On a somewhat more restrained view, the book is less magnum opus than philosophical provocation. Crawford's greatest service is to spur our thought, to enjoin his readers to pay attention to the struggle of paying attention.
The arc of Crawford's argument is easily sketched. Beginning with analyses of mundane activities — a short-order cook working the breakfast shift, for instance — Crawford argues persuasively that ours is a world structured by "ecologies of attention," that the activities we undertake — whether determined by culture, employment, or choice — play a determinative role in shaping our experience of the world. Consider the cook, whose attention, Crawford argues, is both constrained by the physical environment of the kitchen and directed by the desires of his customers. Or think about the motorcycle racer, whose motions when hurtling down the track are shaped by an intuitive understanding of physics.
Attention, this is to say, isn't ours to direct freely. It is, in his words, erotic; it pulls us out of our heads into the world around us. Giving in to attention's pull can be an exhilarating experience. Thinking about the cook's feeling of success after a difficult service or the racer's excitement at entering "the zone" during a race gives credence to Crawford's description of attention's erotic quality. It's also important to remember, he urges, that this erotic quality is born out of constraint. Consider here the joy of a young musician who succeeds at playing a difficult piece of music that demands her full attention. For Crawford, getting outside your head brings real fulfillment because it allows us to face, tackle, and overcome challenges.
Part of Crawford's argument is to show that we're less and less likely to feel attention's erotic pull. Since the Enlightenment, he argues, we've been beholden to the pernicious philosophies of liberalism and individualism, with their fallacious view that human freedom consists in autonomy, in independence from external constraints. Crawford reads the founders of modern liberalism — he names Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and, above all, Immanuel Kant — as having transposed the argument of autonomy from politics to epistemology to morality. Because it was wrong for individuals to be beholden to external political authority, it became, mutatis mutandis, wrong for them to be beholden to any and all externalities. Modern, liberal man was to be politically independent, epistemologically self-reliant, and morally autonomous.
The 20th century has seen the culmination of these Enlightenment tendencies. Our recent emancipation from seemingly restrictive cultural identities has set us free into a liberal paradise, a world without constraints. But, Crawford argues, this lack of constraint entails a lack of direction. Though it is addressed less explicitly here, Crawford's argument in his first book, Shop Class as Soulcraft, complements this claim, showing how the growth of industrial production deskilled labor and denuded work's meaning. Taken together, these arguments paint a bleak picture of modern times. We're not real individuals, Crawford holds, but "autistic monads" living in a "virtual reality" that mistakes "mass solipsism" for real individuality.
When we undertake activities that pull us beyond our heads, when we cultivate attention's erotic pull, we begin the process of becoming authentic individuals. These activities have internal standards of excellence that demand confrontation and struggle with the world around us; they undo the Enlightenment's pernicious illusion of an autonomous individual free from external constraint and replace it with a more correct understanding of the subject as embedded in society and history and constrained by culture and nature. These activities are also always-already social. At a bare minimum, every musician requires a maestro, every cook learns from a chef. Becoming an excellent cook requires external approbation; it requires that one cook recognize another as excellent. This, for Crawford, is the source of authentic individuality: the recognition by another that I am outside my head, that I am engaged in the world.
There are intimations of a potentially rich social theory here — one stretching backward to the philosopher G.W.F. Hegel and forward to thinkers like Robert Pippin, Nancy Fraser, and Axel Honneth. Crawford imagines a world structured by these sorts of practices — in essence, craftwork and tradecraft — in which we throw off the mantle of false individualism and others escape the shadow of anonymity. Together we would become individuals by working towards excellence and recognizing each other when we do so. Guided by traditions, shaped by material constraints, we'd embrace the challenges of confronting the world and rediscover the joys of innovation, modification, and success.
Some of The World Beyond Your Head's individual chapters approach true excellence. In two back-to-back chapters, Crawford mines the children's television show Mickey Mouse Clubhouse for insight into the processes of magical thinking in which we raise children, and then analyzes video gambling as sites of the thanatotic self-negation created by a world devoid of true agency. Deep in its insight and considered in its analysis, this sequence, which is part of Crawford's argument about the individual autism and cultural solipsism produced by false conceptions of agency, is nevertheless approachable, economical, and entertaining. It is a remarkable combination.
Take, for instance, Crawford's analysis of video slots and virtual poker. He argues that gambling's malevolence lies not in the misplaced hope for the once-in-a-lifetime jackpot it inspires, but in the illusory sensation of skillful development each wager fosters. Playing a machine that comes closer and closer to a winning combination with each pull, the gambler feels that he's gaining the upper hand on the one-armed bandit. But the odds are rigged in more ways than one: the exercise of the will is, at best, a "pseudo-action;" a simulation of autonomy, experience, and mastery in a carefully managed environment. Gambling alternately fosters and frustrates autonomous agency, sending the modern ego into fits of directionless anger and self-loathing that spiral into destruction. It is the antithesis of real skill and the gambler is the inverted craftsman: endlessly feeds quarter after quarter into the slot, he is searching for some dark nirvana, for the total sublimation of the active, thinking self in the emptiness of automatic routines.
In Crawford's skillful hands, such examples are far more than irreverent illustrations of philosophy by pop culture; they are illuminations from within of the many — and often surprising — connections between philosophy and ideology. When it comes to justifying its existence, Crawford rightly argues, the gambling industry has no problem turning to the very same discourse of individualism that its operations so clearly unmask as hollow. Such arguments bear some resemblance to the Western-Marxist tradition of critical theory. Theodor Adorno saw fascism reflected in slippers and capitalism embodied in automatic doors; Crawford sees liberal individualism instantiated in slot machines. Both unite cultural and philosophical critique in analyses of the strange collusion between industry and entertainment in the creation of a fragile modern subjectivity. And though Crawford's critiques of, inter alia, the rise of antidepressants and the advent of identity politics would make the likes of George Will and Allan Bloom proud, they wouldn't necessarily be out of step with some of Adorno's own mandarin sensibilities.
But Crawford isn't Adorno. Indeed, it is one of The World Beyond Your Head's greatest shortcomings that it never gives voice to the trenchant critique of capitalism that lies just beneath its surface. Crawford repeatedly comes right up to the precipice but always hesitates and ultimately retreats. Adorno conjured fiery images of "the cogs and levers of industry" and the "colossi of production" stamping out subjectivity and mass-producing pseudo-individuality.[7] Crawford, by contrast, offers anodyne allusions to "corporate forces" and "systems" that "monetize" our attention, stepping in when we "cede the field." After uncovering the evidence and preparing the exhibits for a full-throated indictment of the capitalist system, Crawford demurs, offering an ethic of individual responsibility as a kind of plea-bargain.
Readers of The World Beyond Your Head will certainly want to spend considerable time with the last of its three sections, "Inheritance." Here, in the section's sole chapter, "The Organ Makers' Shop," Crawford offers his finest and most extended example. Drawing on interviews with the organ makers, restorers, and repairmen of a Shenandoah Valley workshop, Crawford develops a more subtle and sophisticated account of the interaction between skill, tradition, and community in the furthering of excellence and the fostering of individuality. Laying his analysis on top of the craftsmen's voices, Crawford argues that tradition is best understood as "an ongoing quarrel about how to realize certain functional ends;" it is "a living conversation, concretely expressed in action." Crawford continues:
The conversation has a point, and moves along. To participate, an interlocutor must have good manners: he must listen well, contribute with tact, and have the sense of shame that helps you recognize when you have been refuted.
Though it isn't explicitly framed as such, this hermeneutic understanding of tradition — as an evolving conversation that guides practice — serves as a kind of summa for his overall argument. Originating in the past but oriented towards the future, tradition is a pliable jig that marshals and directs our attention; it pulls us out of our egotistic heads and towards the world around us. By embracing shared traditions we stand a chance of reclaiming our individuality.
The discussion of the organ makers' workshop is rewarding, at least in part, because it evokes the rustic charm and achieves the plainspoken eloquence that made Crawford's first book such a breakout success. Readers who responded to that book's accessible structure, personal voice, and plucky arguments will doubtless find the current project disappointing — except, perhaps, in this final section. Crawford's surer footing here is doubtless due to the fact that the material on organ makers was originally intended for Shop Class as Soulcraft. Though it is unclear why this chapter didn't make it into the earlier volume, it is clear that its function as the capstone of the present volume invites questions about Crawford's latest book. Is The World Beyond Your Head a kind of sequel to Shop Class as Soulcraft? Or is it a separate project, meant to stand on its own? Is Crawford refining earlier arguments or formulating new claims?
Considered in a mercenary light, The World Beyond Your Head could be read like material cut from a draft of Shop Class as Soulcraft. Encouraged by the sorts of sensationalist literary journalists who proclaimed Crawford "one of the most influential thinkers of our times," feckless publishers keen to capitalize on trendy topics like boredom, technology, and craftwork might easily rush such a manuscript to press. Read more charitably, The World Beyond Your Head might be considered something of a philosophical appendix to Shop Class as Soulcraft. Crawford's earlier success affords him the opportunity to turn, in this book, to the nitty-gritty work he calls political philosophy. If there is overlap or revision, so much the better: having caught Crawford in the process of working, we're able to watch the craftsman at work, repairing old arguments and fashioning new ones.
Crawford seems to understand his task in this second sense. He notes in the acknowledgements, friends and scholars helped him to see that The World Beyond Your Head centers on an extended debate with Immanuel Kant. Reading Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Crawford writes, "I felt I was reading a crystallization, or rather an over-the-top parody, of the psychology of freedom I had been criticizing. That book also revealed the deep connection between our stance toward the world of things and the kind of moralism that flies the flag of the self." Impressed with a new sense of his project's philosophical weight and moral seriousness, Crawford felt that he had "no choice but to seat [Kant] at the head of the table and allow him to speak."
Though Kant speaks only a handful of times in The World Beyond Your Head, it is nevertheless clear that what Crawford finds objectionable is a Kantian "metaphysics of freedom" that requires human autonomy so radical that it is, in fact, absolute autarky. Crawford takes Kant to have argued that the truly free will is unconstrained by reliance on or interference from externalities. The Kantian man is an isolate, a maroon, an extraterrestrial in the most literal sense. Exogenous influences constrain his will and circumscribe his freedom; they strip him of his humanity. Crawford believes that his account not only runs counter to Kant's thesis, but also reveals it to be a hollow argument, a "lawyerly" trick that evades rather than confronts reality. Kant's "fantasy of autonomy," Crawford claims, is built on this solipsistic rejection of the world and "comes at the price of impotence."
I'm no Kant scholar, but this seems to be a partial account and fragmentary account of Kant's philosophical project. Crawford is certainly right to claim that Kant held fast to the existence of autonomy as a principle of moral life and political action. Enlightened modernity, Kant famously wrote, began with mankind's emancipation from its "self-imposed immaturity" — that is to say, its move from a condition of dependence to one of autonomy. But Crawford would do well to delve deeper into Kant's critical philosophy, into his epistemology and metaphysics. Here the matter seems much less clear. Experience — knowledge of the world beyond our heads — was the origin of thought, but not its determinant. "[A]lthough all our cognition commences with experience," Kant wrote in the introduction to the second edition of his Critique of Pure Reason, "yet it does not on that account all arise from experience." Indeed, the aim of the first Critique might be summarized as Kant's attempt to discern the structures of thought and laws of perception that enable experience as such. This is to say that Kant's critical philosophy sought not to decouple subject and object but to figure out how the human mind encountered, experienced, and acted in the world. In his epistemology, Kant found it necessary to go into our heads to push us into the world beyond them.
Instead of fighting this battle, Crawford would have done well to direct his efforts to the real confrontations that bear directly on his anthropology of attention and theory of tradition. Consider, for instance, the varied arguments for a physically embedded, socially embodied human condition put forward by, inter alia, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Michael Polanyi, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Charles Taylor, and, perhaps most radically, Derek Parfit. These philosophers deserve more than the cursory treatment they receive or total neglect they suffer in The World Beyond Your Head. Crawford, it seems, subscribes to a narrowly circumscribed philosophical canon.
Certainly the most striking omission from this canon is Martin Heidegger. Crawford's belief that we encounter our world as laden with pre-given meanings and significances, his claim that we act in the world through the pragmatic use of skill in the pursuit of projects, and, above all, his argument that true individuality consists in both the rejection of the dominant opinion of an anonymous public and the authentic embrace of tradition — in short, the entire scope of the book's argument — relies heavily on the recondite philosophical anthropology the young Heidegger developed in Being and Time. Moreover, Crawford's dim evaluation of the dominant philosophy of the subject — as a sovereign self at once isolated from the world yet imperiously demanding authority over it —resonates deeply with the later Heidegger's trenchant critique of Western metaphysical thought and its concomitant humanistic worldview. Modern technology, Heidegger argued, encapsulated this view of man as an all-powerful subjectum, a tyrant who orders, manipulates, and controls the things of the world. Heidegger urged a clearer thinking that would abandon this position in favor of a humble view of man — of human being — as subordinate to the larger sway of Being. Though couched in a poetic idiom foreign to The World Beyond Your Head, this line of thought must, I believe, be the inspiration for Crawford's complaint about the autonomous Kantian subject and advocacy for an embedded human condition.
But Heidegger's thinking, an occluded polestar for Crawford's arguments, does not point toward Kant. True, Heidegger took Kant to be a powerful interlocutor. But Heidegger's thought points in this instance to another source: to the ancient Greeks and, in particular, to Aristotle.
One of Heidegger's earliest ambitions was to overcome Aristotle's distinction between theoretical wisdom (sophia) and practical wisdom (phronēsis). Aristotle understood practical wisdom not simply as a technical skill (technē), but as a capacity to undertake actions oriented towards ends, and, crucially, an ability to reflect on the consonance of means and ends with the good life. Though the practices essential to the exercise of phronēsis — arts, sciences, games, politics — were therefore conducive to virtue, Aristotle ultimately argued for the superiority of theoretical wisdom. The Nicomachean Ethics leaves little room for doubt: the contemplative life of sophia, Aristotle argued, is the truly excellent life. In a series of early lectures and books devoted to Aristotle, Heidegger claimed that this valuation of sophia was the source of modernity's perverse metaphysical subjectivism. Further, Heidegger used Aristotle's own texts against him, arguing that phronēsis was the higher calling. Heidegger called this kind of argument an Auseinandersetzung: a word meaning, literally, "quarrel" and denoting, more figuratively, a form of philosophical reading that aimed not only to explain but to transform the text at hand.
It seems to me that Crawford's aim, too, might be described as an Auseinandersetzung with Aristotle. Like Heidegger, Crawford wrestles with Aristotle's division of wisdom into philosophical and practical components. Like Heidegger, Crawford disputes Aristotle's conclusion, arguing instead that it is practical, rather than theoretical, wisdom that orients us towards virtue and makes us truly human. Aristotle's ethical philosophy subtends Crawford's argument for the development of virtue through practice; his political thought corroborates Crawford's model of a community of shared ends. All of this is to say that it is Aristotle, rather than Kant, who stands at the center of The World Beyond Your Head. Aristotle has, of course, been here all along. But Kant casts a long shadow, precluding Crawford from realizing his Auseinandersetzung.
If you've managed to pay attention this long, you might be left wondering who cares? Does it really matter that Crawford mistakes the origins of this philosophical tradition? Why, above all, take the time to interrogate a book that falls somewhere between philosophy and self help?
There's more at stake, I believe, than the critic's bitter pleasure of unmasking the middlebrow or the academic's jealous indictment of the non-professional. The World Beyond Your Head deserves careful analysis and detailed criticism because Crawford takes himself to be "doing political philosophy." Like the artisans whose art he traces, he, too, is a craftsman seeking to meet criteria of excellence established by the practice and judged by the community. Has Crawford produced such a work of political philosophy? Perhaps not. But maybe that was an over-ambitious goal, a too-strict standard. After all, this is only a second book — maybe it is better to consider him a journeyman rather than a master.
What Crawford has done is awaken his readers — albeit obliquely — to the philosophical problems and theoretical arguments entailed in the cultural problematic of attention. Beginning with a problem that many understand to be culturally urgent, historically recent, and technologically contingent, Crawford leads his readers on a tour of modernity's dominant philosophies and prevailing ideologies. A neat bait-and-switch, The World Beyond Your Head could easily lure any cultural pessimist into considerations that pass beyond the symptoms, deep into the causes of our present ills.
And lure readers The World Beyond Your Head no doubt will. Crawford's books command a serious audience: Shop Class as Soulcraft topped editor's-choice lists on both sides of the Atlantic, from The Financial Times to Popular Mechanics. There's little reason to think that his second book will prove much less popular. Crawford's even something of a media star: The New York Times profiled his unique fusion of philosophy and craftsmanship this past March. But Crawford and his books are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. He stands within a rich critical tradition — a tradition populated by the likes of Christopher Lasch, Alasdair MacIntyre, Wendell Berry, and Barbara Ehrenreich — that has made the pernicious effects of post-industrial capitalist production and consumption on the self its object of inquiry and critique. At root, these thinkers give voice to a persistent unease about the constellation of society, politics, and morality in modernity itself.
This, ultimately, is the reason The World Beyond Your Head deserves the attention and warrants careful criticism. Books like this gather strands of individual experience, cultural malaise, and philosophical reflection, weaving them together to form braided rope whose tensile strength has the power to lead readers forward, onward, and downward — from the personal to the cultural to the political by way of the social. Put differently, Crawford's new book may not always be right in discussing the world beyond your head, but it is certainly useful in getting us beyond our own heads.
Charles Clavey is a PhD candidate in the Department of History working broadly on the history of European ideas and intellectuals in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Last month, the triathlon industry held its annual Triathlon Business International conference for industry insiders. It's a three day seminar aimed to connect people in the business and to discuss the current and future state of our sport. We didn't get a chance to participate this year, but we heard that several key points came up time and again. Two included the sale of World Triathlon Corporation (Ironman) to the Chinese owned Wanda Group and the increase in number of races but the flat or declining levels of participation.
The one topic most discussed, however, was women. Do women feel included in the sport? Why are women racing everything from sprint to 70.3 distance but not jumping wholeheartedly into long distance/Ironman events? What can retailers/race directors/triathlon companies do to attract more women?
It appears women are the future of triathlon, something we have (obviously) believed for years. There is nothing we would like more than to see throngs of women toeing the starting line. For this to happen, though, change is necessary. But what change? For starters, triathlon companies can and should do more to attract women to the sport, and we think creating a community is a great first step. A perfect example of a company who is doing this right is the popular women's clothing line Coeur. This women owned company embraces all women triathletes, not only by creating fashionable comfortable performance wear, but also by encouraging community. Either through its race teams or positive social media messages, they are reaching women on a deeper level.
If retailers and triathlon business executives could look past the "make a buck" mindset, they would see that a woman's business may come with a little extra work, but it's worth it. Build a community where women feel appreciated and valued and boom, business will follow.
As much as we celebrate that the triathlon industry leaders are talking about the "women problem," we fear some of the actions they may take to attract more women to the sport could shift us back decades regarding women's liberation. We're no bra burners, but at the conference, talk revolved around making triathlon easier with more pool swim events and indoor tris, more women's only events, and doing things like offering manicures at race expos. We understand that open water swimming is fear inducing to many, but is making triathlon easier the only way to bring women to the sport? How about supporting swim clinics, offering wetsuit demos, and organizing group training instead?
Who is to say women need or want triathlon to be easy? What are the real reasons more women aren't racing? By the way, racing long course (Ironman) is the major discrepancy here. Women's participation in shorter events, including 70.3 is generally on par with men. Does the future of the sport hinge on how many women do Ironman distance?
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Article | Published: 19 November 2018
Flexible layer-structured Bi2Te3 thermoelectric on a carbon nanotube scaffold
Qun Jin ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-8710-77371,2 na1,
Song Jiang ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5277-429X1,2,3,4 na1,
Yang Zhao1,5,
Dong Wang6,7,
Jianhang Qiu1,5,
Dai-Ming Tang1,5,8,
Jun Tan1,5,
Dong-Ming Sun ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-1552-79401,5,
Peng-Xiang Hou1,5,
Xing-Qiu Chen1,5,
Kaiping Tai ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-2756-13481,5,
Ning Gao ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9755-55796,
Chang Liu ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-3016-39971,5,
Hui-Ming Cheng ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5387-42411,3,5,9 &
Xin Jiang1,5,10
Nature Materialsvolume 18, pages62–68 (2019) | Download Citation
Carbon nanotubes and fullerenes
Materials for devices
Materials for energy and catalysis
Nanoscale materials
Inorganic chalcogenides are traditional high-performance thermoelectric materials. However, they suffer from intrinsic brittleness and it is very difficult to obtain materials with both high thermoelectric ability and good flexibility. Here, we report a flexible thermoelectric material comprising highly ordered Bi2Te3 nanocrystals anchored on a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) network, where a crystallographic relationship exists between the Bi2Te3 <\(\bar{1}2\bar{1}0\)> orientation and SWCNT bundle axis. This material has a power factor of ~1,600 μW m−1 K−2 at room temperature, decreasing to 1,100 μW m−1 K−2 at 473 K. With a low in-plane lattice thermal conductivity of 0.26 ± 0.03 W m−1 K−1, a maximum thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT) of 0.89 at room temperature is achieved, originating from a strong phonon scattering effect. The origin of the excellent flexibility and thermoelectric performance of the Bi2Te3–SWCNT material is attributed, by experimental and computational evidence, to its crystal orientation, interface and nanopore structure. Our results provide insight into the design and fabrication of high-performance flexible thermoelectric materials.
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The authors acknowledge financial support from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (grants 2017YFA0700702 and 2016YFA0200101), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grants 51402310, 51571193, 51625203, 51532008 and 51521091) and the Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Equipment Development Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Innovation Foundation of Institute of Metal Research.
These authors contributed equally: Qun Jin, Song Jiang
Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
Qun Jin
, Song Jiang
, Yang Zhao
, Jianhang Qiu
, Dai-Ming Tang
, Jun Tan
, Dong-Ming Sun
, Peng-Xiang Hou
, Xing-Qiu Chen
, Kaiping Tai
, Chang Liu
, Hui-Ming Cheng
& Xin Jiang
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
& Song Jiang
School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
Song Jiang
& Hui-Ming Cheng
State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Shenyang, China
Yang Zhao
Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
Dong Wang
& Ning Gao
State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
World Premier International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Dai-Ming Tang
Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China
Hui-Ming Cheng
Institute of Materials Engineering, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany
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Q.J., S.J., Y.Z., K.T. and C.L. conceived and designed the experiments. Q.J. fabricated the hybrids and characterized their thermoelectric properties and microstructures. S.J. prepared the free-standing high-quality SWCNT scaffold and carried out its characterization. Y.Z. and J.T. fabricated the thermal conductivity test devices and measured the thermal conductivity of the hybrids and pure SWCNTs. D.W. and N.G. conducted the MD simulations. D.T. carried out the in situ TEM nanomechanical test. D.S., P.H., X.C. and X.J. proposed ideas for materials synthesis, characterization and simulation. Q.J., S.J., J.Q., K.T., C.L. and H.M.C. analysed the data and wrote the manuscript. All authors discussed the results and commented on the manuscript.
Correspondence to Kaiping Tai or Ning Gao or Chang Liu.
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Reversible bending of hybrid Bi2Te3 flexible film performed using a non-contact electrostatic approach
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Fig. 1: Illustration of the fabrication and structure of a free-standing highly ordered Bi2Te3–SWCNT hybrid thermoelectric material.
Fig. 2: Bright-field TEM images of the Bi2Te3–SWCNT hybrid.
Fig. 3: Scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction characterizations of the Bi2Te3–SWCNT hybrid.
Fig. 4: Thermoelectric characterization of the ~600-nm-thick (000l)-textured Bi2Te3–SWCNT hybrid (~3,000 s deposition) and a ~600-nm-thick dense Bi2Te3 film.
Fig. 5: Flexible bending tests of the Bi2Te3–SWCNT hybrid and MD simulations.
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