Category: Cognitive Systems AI

  • The cancer social network

    New algorithm maps cancer cells like nodes on a social network Derrick Harris, gigaom.com Often times, the best way to to get a sense of your data is to look at it. A bunch of of num­bers or words might not mean any­thing sit­ting with­in a table, but they start to make a lot more…

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  • Domain name prospecting

    Build Your Startup On A Vacant Domain Name David Teten, forbes.com This is part two of a two-part series on domain names and star­tups; part 1 was “Should a Start­up Spend VC Fund­ing on a Domain Name?”. I’ve writ­ten in the past about how to iden­ti­fy a great start­up oppor­tu­ni­… Build Your Startup On A…

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  • The resume is dead

    Times Have Changed. Your Resume Needs To Change, Too. Rob Asghar, forbes.com The pro­fes­sion­al resume is said to go back to five cen­turies ago, as yet anoth­er inno­va­tion by Leonar­do da Vinci . Dur­ing our own life­times, it’s been a sta­ple of the Age of Bureau­cra­cy, designed to be a bland and stan­dard­ized… Times Have…

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  • Programmable world: all things as one–Buddhism meet engineering

    In the Programmable World, All Our Objects Will Act as One Bill Wasik, wired.com We are surrounded by tiny, intelligent devices that capture data about how we live and what we do. Soon we’ll be able to choreograph them to respond to our needs, solve our problems, and even save our lives. http://flip.it/SEIhJ Related articles…

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  • Size of home around the world

    How Big Is Your Home? See How Your Space Compares to Those Around the World Lindsay Wilson, inhabitat.com Graham Hill’s flat is 420 square-feet, HGTV’s smart home is 2,400 square-feet and Al Gore’s home is quite a bit bigger. But just how big is the average home these days, and how big does it need…

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  • Most households don’t wear their clothes

    Average Woman Owns 22 Garments She Never Wears But Refuses to Junk ecouterre.com Photo by cohdra A wardrobe full of clothes but noth­ing to wear? You’re in good com­pa­ny. The aver­age British woman has 22 unworn items in her clos­et that she refus­es to throw or give away, accord­ … http://flip.it/AoUGo Related articles Ecouterre talks…

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  • Bio hacking healthcare

    (via Biohacking Healthcare – Part 1 – Forbes) Related articles Biohacking (wewanttolearn.wordpress.com) guardian tecnologia: Kickstarter must not fund biohackers’ glow-in-the-dark plants | Martin Lukacs (guardian.co.uk) Saudi Prince Sues Forbes Magazine (intheq8.com)

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  • Biohacking Healthcare – Part 1 – Forbes

    Biohacking Healthcare – Part 1 – Forbes

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  • Student uses fruit flies to study benefits of organic foods

    16-Year-Old Student Uses Fruit Flies to Investigate Benefits of Organic Produce Morgana Matus, inhabitat.com Anyone who has ever taken a course in biology or left produce out on the counter for a little too long will recognize the noble fruit fly. Easy to breed, feed and observe, they are the subject of choice for many…

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  • Effects of posture on social interaction

    Weak or Powerful: How Does Your Posture Make You Seem? Jessica Stillman, inc.com START IT UP Practicing your posture before a big meeting may sound silly, but scientists have found that how your stand has dramatic effects on your mood and therefore how you are perceived. If you came into the bath­room one day to…

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  • Email apnea: how your email is making you sick

    Is Your Email Making You Sick? One Thing New, inc.com Researcher Linda Stone says 80% of us suffer from so-called email apnea. That quelches our creativity and can contribute to stress-related diseases. Your inbox may be caus­ing you more stress than you real­ize. Accord­ing to Linda Stone, a… Is Your Email Making You Sick? http://flip.it/21Hqu…

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  • Why food is the next big thing in business

    The Next Big Thing in Business: Food Steve Tobak, inc.com LAST WORD If you’re looking for a business, industry, or career to sink your teeth into, look no further than your next meal. 10 reasons the food industry is booming. You’d never know the econ­o­my is in a slump from the state of the food……

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  • Top 10 personal finance books

    Top 10 Personal Finance Books of All Time Geoffrey James, inc.com SALES SOURCE These ten books have ten different (and powerful) approaches to accumulating personal wealth. Pre­vi­ous posts have iden­ti­fied the best moti­va­tion­al busi­ness books of all time, and the best eye-opening books for the… Top 10 Personal Finance Books of All Time http://flip.it/ItKdA http://flip.it/eHCKQ…

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  • Creating a great LinkedIn group

    7 Ways to Create an Awesome LinkedIn Group Jeff Haden, inc.com OWNER’S MANUAL If this guy can build a thriving group on industrial water treatment (no, really), you can be master of your own niche on LinkedIn. There are almost 2 mil­lion LinkedIn Groups, since any of the more than 200 mil­lion LinkedIn us… 7…

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  • Best states for entrepreneurship

    10 Top States for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Bill Murphy Jr., inc.com D.C. BILL Recently I told you about the 10 worst states for new business in America. Now here’s where entrepreneurship is thriving. Recent­ly, I told you about the 10 worst states in Amer­i­ca for new busi­ness­es—at least, accord­ing to the… 10 Top States for…

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  • Airbnb lessons on distruption

    Disruption Lessons From Airbnb The Build Network staff, inc.com Your future competitors will likely supply what you do—but from cheaper, off-the-radar sources. There are back­yard busi­ness terms, and there are—how shall we put it?—more ele­vat­ed notions. Any kid with a lemon­ade stand grasps “sup­ply”… Disruption Lessons From Airbnb http://flip.it/4k2ef http://flip.it/tU716 Related articles Disruption Lessons From…

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  • Gmail now allows you to designate trustee after you die

    Act Now Or, When You Die, Your Secret Love Letters Will Belong To Google BY STAN ALCORN, fastcoexist.com Gmail’s recent policy changes that let you designate someone to control your account after you’re gone is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the confusing issues around who can access your online life once…

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  • Big data is distrupting Hollywood scriptwriting

    How Big Data Is Rewriting Hollywood Scripts By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Ever wonder why all movies seem to look the same? Yeah, there’s a reason. I hon­est­ly can’t tell hor­ror movies apart. From set and cos­tume design to the trail­ers that all seem to have the same…tempo…of…HE’S RIGHT THERE, OMG!!—nov­el­ty has… How Big Data Is…

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  • Glaxo intrapreneurs convince big pharma to help developing world

    Turning Big Pharma Toward The Developing World, From The Inside BY MARZENA ZUKOWSKA, fastcoexist.com How three intrapreneurs at GlaxoSmithKline created a program to help diagnose disease in places without access to medicine, and how they convinced the company to support it. How many high-end research sci­en­tists does it take to make a dent in ……

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  • Unilever sees financial benefits of sustainability practices

    Unilever’s Aggressive Sustainability Practices Have Paid Off BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com New numbers released by the corporate giant show the incredibly cost-saving benefits of pursuing cleaner policies. Mega-corporation Unilever, owner of every­thing from Ben and Jerry’s ice cream to Dove soap, announced that it has man­aged to mak… Unilever’s Aggressive Sustainability Practices Have Paid Off…

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  • Visualizing changing cost of living vs education

    If You Graduated After 1976, You Are Getting Screwed By The Economy BY STAN ALCORN, fastcoexist.com This infographic shows the hard truth for anyone in their late 30s or younger: Everything has been more difficult for you, and it’s just getting worse. The 1970s have strange­ly become, in ret­ro­spect, a gold­en era, at least for…

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  • Spleen on a chip

    This Spleen-On-A-Chip Will Clean Your Blood Like A Machine BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com Using nanobeads that strip out anything bad in your blood, this machine could be a solution to deadly blood infections, especially in places far from a hospital. Which is why the military is very interested. Sep­sis is a whole-body inflam­ma­to­… This Spleen-On-A-Chip…

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