Category: Cognitive Systems AI

  • The value of a liberal-arts education | Hechinger Report

    The value of a liberal-arts education | Hechinger Report. Related articles What Do You Do with A Liberal Arts Degree? (thedigitalwriterfox.com) Stanford Arts Institute to pilot new interdisciplinary honors program (stanforddaily.com)

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  • The Big Chill-Out: How Meditation Can Help With Everything | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

    The Big Chill-Out: How Meditation Can Help With Everything | Fast Company | Business + Innovation. Related articles Fast Company Is Hiring Staff Writers (fastcompany.com)

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  • Create An Intimate Map Of Your Life, Using Just Your Email Inbox | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

    Create An Intimate Map Of Your Life, Using Just Your Email Inbox | Co.Design: business + innovation + design. Related articles Create An Intimate Map Of Your Life, Using Just Your Email Inbox (fastcodesign.com)

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  • Ikea Develops a Smart Flat-Pack Shelter for Disaster Refugees | Wired Design | Wired.com

    Ikea Develops a Smart Flat-Pack Shelter for Disaster Refugees | Wired Design | Wired.com. Related articles Ikea develops a smart flat-pack shelter for refugees (wired.co.uk) The Latest from Ikea: Refugee Shelters (dailyfinance.com)

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  • FYI: What Is Hikikomori? | Popular Science

    FYI: What Is Hikikomori? | Popular Science. Related articles FYI: What Would Happen If I Ate Nothing But Meat? (oddonion.com) How Underwater Drones Are Searching For the Lost Pilots of WWII (gizmodo.com) FYI: Why Does My Voice Sound Different When I Hear It On A Recording? (oddonion.com)

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  • FDA gives thumbs-up to latest fingertip EKG | Crave – CNET

    FDA gives thumbs-up to latest fingertip EKG | Crave – CNET. Related articles FDA gives thumbs-up to latest fingertip EKG (news.cnet.com) more information on the ninth day at M.I.M (pediatricianfuture.wordpress.com) How EKG Courses Are Presented (basictelemetryclass.wordpress.com)

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  • UX Career Guide – User Experience Jobs, Salary, Market Information [Infographic]

    UX Career Guide – User Experience Jobs, Salary, Market Information [Infographic]. Related articles Colin Harman: How Would You Like Your Graphic Design – Fast, Cheap or Good? Pick Two. (usabilitycounts.com) User Experience Is More Than Design – It’s Strategy (uxmatters.com) Why We’re All UX Designers Now (fastcompany.com)

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  • Forever 21 slashes worker hours and health benefits

    (via Forever 21 Slashes Worker Hours And Health Benefits, Denies Obamacare Is To Blame)

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  • With Tech From Space, Ministry Of Supply Is Rethinking the Dress Shirt

    (via With Tech From Space, Ministry Of Supply Is… | TimBatchelder. Related articles With Tech From Space, Ministry Of Supply Is Rethinking the Dress Shirt (timbatchelder.com) I Wore These Socks For A Week And They Don’t Smell (forbes.com) Coffee-Infused Socks Don’t Smell (huffingtonpost.com)

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  • Nicholas Felton on Design’s Data-Driven Future

    Liz Stinson, wired.com Nicholas Felton talks to Gestalten about the burgeoning field of data-driven design. http://flip.it/aAIGe Nicholas Felton on Design’s Data-Driven Future

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  • Info graphic: using 2 million Instagram pics

    Infographic: Using 2 Million Instagram Pics to Map a City’s Visual Signature Liz Stinson, wired.com How can Instagram data visualize the cultural patterns and trends of a city? http://flip.it/SSmQP Related articles Brilliant example of Infographic (santhoshkrishnanblog.wordpress.com)

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  • The fall and rise of gene therapy

    Carl Zimmer, wired.com A genetically modified virus laid waste to James Wilson’s career. Now a second one could bring him to redemption. http://flip.it/qyPkg Related articles Carl Zimmer: How did feathers evolve? (ritholtz.com)

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  • How to fill and un-editable PDF form in OSX

    How to fill an uneditable PDF form in OS X by Topher Kessler, cnet.com If a PDF form is static, you can still fill it out without having to print and do so by hand. The PDF for­mat is com­mon­ly used to pro­vide elec­tron­ic forms and other doc­u­ments, and often these will require you to…

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  • Kreyos smart watch

    Kreyos Meteor smartwatch – Cell phone and smart phone accessories cnet.com CNET Editors’ Take July 25, 2013 11:51 AM PDT What does it take to make a great smart­watch? The Kreyos Mete­or is an effort to at least outdo the Peb­ble. Based on fea­tures, I’m inclined to agree it does…but is that enough? I got a…

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  • Why healthcare needs Apple

    Why health care needs Apple Christina Farr, venturebeat.com Apple has a huge oppor­tu­ni­ty to inno­vate in dig­i­tal health. The Sil­i­con Val­ley tech­nol­o­gy giant has yet to con­firm any new health and fit­ness gad­gets — includ­ing its hotly antic­i­pat­ed “iWatch.” If you were hop­ing yes­ter­day’… http://flip.it/mxJnO Related articles Is Apple Moving Into Digital Health? (inc.com) Samsung…

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  • Upcoming book: the maker space workbench

    Upcoming Book, The Makerspace Workbench, Now In Early Release Brian Jepson, makezine.com Adam Kemp’s upcom­ing MAKE book, The Mak­er­space Work­bench, is now avail­able for sale as an early release ebook. Early release ebooks give you access to books in their ear­li­est form — Adam’s raw and unedit­ed con­tent as he writes. You… http://flip.it/jwyBv

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  • How to become a hacker

    How to Become a Hacker wikihow.com Edit Steps Thinking Like a Hacker • Adopt the mindset of a hacker. Hackers solve problems and build things, and they believe in freedom and voluntary mutual help. To be accepted as a hacker, you must behave as though you have this kind of attitude… http://flip.it/hfpnv

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  • The Tech Valley Center of Gravity

    techvalleycenterofgravity.com The Tech Val­ley Cen­ter of Grav­i­ty is a fed­er­a­tion of mak­ers, hack­ers, crafters, and artists who share cama­raderie, space, and resources to do our tin­ker­ing. We have a per­ma­nent mak­er­sp … http://flip.it/RK4b1 About Us

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  • Antique Rasberry Qi radio

    Antique Raspberry Pi Internet Radio Matt Richardson, makezine.com It seems to be a pop­u­lar thing to do, turn­ing your Rasp­ber­ry Pi into a stream­ing audio play­er for inter­net radio sta­tions. How­ev­er, I’m espe­cial­ly impressed with Flo­ri­an Amrhein’s Dig­i­tal Vin­tage Radio. The Oxford-based maker use… http://flip.it/Emb1I

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  • Grundtal magnetic towel rack

    Grundtal magnetic towel rack Jules Yap, ikeahackers.net Materials: Grundtal bar, neodymium magnets Description: My oven door handle does not have a large enough gap to hang a kitchen towel from, which is something that I grew accustomed to in my previous kitchen. This hack is a non… http://flip.it/AGNH1

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  • Genetic engineering vs. natural breeding: What’s the difference? Nathanael Johnson, grist.org If you are new to this series, I’ve been trying to break down the competing claims about genetic engineering. I’m not an expert: When I told a friend I was writing about GMOs he asked, “So are you for them, or against?” My answer:…

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  • Handy map shows you where to find silence in NYC

    Handy map shows you where to find a moment of silence in New York City Jess Zimmerman, grist.org New York can be overwhelming, but there are tons of websites and apps that will help you navigate the city. If you want to find the best bagel, you can use Yelp. If you want the times…

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  • America’s wicked deadly heat wave

    America’s wicked, deadly heat wave last week John Metcalfe, grist.org Take a gander at this map of the United States lit up like the burning face of the sun. It shows how hot America got from July 10-19, with maximum temperatures shown in appropriately incendiary shades:NOAAReleased on Friday by NOAA, the map shows … http://flip.it/f5okV

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