Russia had a three-day traffic jam By Sarah Miller, grist.org There was a three-day-long traffic jam in Russia over the weekend. That’s not three hours. That is three days. There was a snowstorm on the M-10, a well-traveled road between St. Petersburg and Moscow. Now, one might think a country… RT @grist: Russia had a … Continue reading Russia had a three-day traffic jam
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Sauna Box turns an old shipping container into a self-contained steam room
Sauna Box turns an old shipping container into a self-contained steam room - Images gizmag.com Sauna Box turns an old shipping container into a self-contained steam room - Images http://flip.it/YoSlL http://flip.it/SxMah Related articles Sauna Box turns an old shipping container into a self-contained steam room (gizmag.com) Curbed Maps: Homes With Hot Tubs And Saunas Keep … Continue reading Sauna Box turns an old shipping container into a self-contained steam room
Qmountz jumps into the iPhone-to-actioncam market
Qmountz jumps into the iPhone-to-actioncam market Adam Williams, gizmag.com iPhone users looking to turn their device into an actioncam have been spoiled for choice as of late, and Qmountz by Maptaq is the latest protective case and mount package to join the fray. .. Continue Reading Qmountz jumps into the… http://flip.it/hgBZv Related articles Qmountz jumps … Continue reading Qmountz jumps into the iPhone-to-actioncam market
Bonobos prefer to share food with strangers
Bonobos prefer to share food with strangers Karl Bates-Duke, futurity.org DUKE (US) — For bonobos, building a social network and making new friends are as valuable as food, say researchers. If you opened a pack of gum while standing in line somewhere, would you give a piece to the coworker standing on one side of… … Continue reading Bonobos prefer to share food with strangers
Re:Re:Fw:Re: Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email
Re:Re:Fw:Re: Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email Megan Garber, theatlantic.com Unless you happen to get some sort of obsessive compulsive satisfaction from keeping your inbox in shipshape — and hey, if you do, more power to ya — dealing with email has got to be one of the most deadening aspects of any … Continue reading Re:Re:Fw:Re: Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email
How REI Put A Bow On Social Marketing
How REI Put A Bow On Social Marketing And Wowed Customers By Ekaterina Walter, fastcompany.com As marketers, we talk a lot about real-time response and true social agility. But very few brands were able to master the art. So is agile marketing a myth? A lot of brands struggle with agility in marketing: thinking on … Continue reading How REI Put A Bow On Social Marketing
4 Secrets For Doing Gonzo User Research
4 Secrets For Doing Gonzo User Research By Brian Millar, fastcodesign.com Fast, cheap, and out-of-control insights can help you to outsmart the competition. Here’s how to gather them. A few years ago, I got to partner up with one of the world’s best ad creatives, Steve Henry. We spent the morning working on a brie… … Continue reading 4 Secrets For Doing Gonzo User Research
Anonymous Forum Users Can Be Identified By Linguistics
Anonymous Forum Users Can Be Identified By Linguistics By CARMEL MELOUNEY, fastcompany.com Researchers discover ways to identify the authors of anonymous online comments through linguistic analysis. If you want to ensure your anonymous comments online really do stay anonymous, it’s probably wise to start using leetspeak. … http://flip.it/IVsls Related articles Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users (disinfo.com) … Continue reading Anonymous Forum Users Can Be Identified By Linguistics
10 Job Interview Tips From A CEO Headhunter
10 Job Interview Tips From A CEO Headhunter By Russell S. Reynolds, Jr., with Carol E. Curtis, fastcompany.com Whether you’re being interviewed to be an intern or a CEO, you’re going to run into a few notoriously tricky questions—here’s a road map of what you’ll be asked, and how to craft impressive answers to even … Continue reading 10 Job Interview Tips From A CEO Headhunter
Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain
Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain, new research reveals By Julie Henry, Education Correspondent, telegraph.co.uk The works of Shakespeare and Wordsworth are “rocket-boosters” to the brain and better therapy than self-help books, researchers will say this week. RT @TelegraphSci: Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain, new research reveals http://flip.it/o4phh http://flip.it/iIR1N Related articles Difficult Texts Boost … Continue reading Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain
We forget a face, but not a Facebook post
We forget a face, but not a Facebook post Anna Blackaby-Warwick, futurity.org U. WARWICK (UK) — Chatty updates on Facebook are much easier to remember than faces or carefully worded sentences.A new study sheds light on how our memories favor natural, spontaneous writing over polished, edited content—and could have wi… http://flip.it/VztTr Related articles Online fraudsters … Continue reading We forget a face, but not a Facebook post
Body language reveals how we really feel
Body language reveals how we really feel Morgan Kelly-Princeton, futurity.org PRINCETON (US) — To figure out how someone is really feeling, don’t just read their lips, watch their body language.In a recent study, researchers asked participants to determine from photographs if people were experiencing feelings such as… Body language reveals how we really feel http://flip.it/bcv0f … Continue reading Body language reveals how we really feel
Enormous Online Library Catalogues 150,000 Animal Sounds
Enormous Online Library Catalogues 150,000 Animal Sounds By Colin Lecher, popsci.com And here’s a few fun ones in advance. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology just released an online archive filled with thousands of animal noises. The archive doesn’t have everything—it mostly focuses on birds—but you could still was… http://flip.it/5juay Related articles National Library of Wales: … Continue reading Enormous Online Library Catalogues 150,000 Animal Sounds
Death and Dying, the Animal Way
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All US iPhone Users Can Now Make Free Phone Calls Via Facebook
Whoa What: All US iPhone Users Can Now Make Free Phone Calls Via Facebook By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com No more caring about minutes. Free phone calls over Wi-Fi and 3G/4G! Facebook just let loose with a new update to the Messenger app for iPhone, which until now was restricted to text messaging, sort of like … Continue reading All US iPhone Users Can Now Make Free Phone Calls Via Facebook
How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language
How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com Futurist and artificial intelligence guru Ray Kurzweil has just started at Google and gave an interview to Singularity Hub days after starting his new work. For starters, Kurzweil plans to dive into natural language… RT @verge: How Google’s Ray Kurzweil … Continue reading How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language
Clamcase Pro offers a much-improved take on the iPad as a laptop
Clamcase Pro offers a much-improved take on the iPad as a laptop (hands-on) By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com The original Clamcase was one of the most flawed iPad keyboards we tried in our roundup — since then, the company has gone back to the drawing board and is now debuting a much-improved new model called the … Continue reading Clamcase Pro offers a much-improved take on the iPad as a laptop
America’s first bookless public library
America’s first bookless public library will look ‘like an Apple Store’ By Laura June, theverge.com Bexar County, Texas says that it will open the first 100 percent digital public library system in the country, unveiling plans for its first location this past week. The plan has been in the works for a while, headed up … Continue reading America’s first bookless public library
California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial
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IBM Predicts: Cognitive Computers That Feel And Smell
IBM Predicts: Cognitive Computers That Feel And Smell, Within The Next Five Years By Clay Dillow, popsci.com The computing giant’s annual list of technology predictions for the next five years foresee computers that can taste, see, smell, hear, and touch. At the end of each year, IBM releases its “5 in 5”—five technology predictions that … Continue reading IBM Predicts: Cognitive Computers That Feel And Smell
The New Science of Building Great Teams
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Sauna Savu – Modular Design sauna
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Robot ethics: Morals and the machine
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The Slow Medicine Movement
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