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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)…
FDA Approves Magnetic Helmet For Treating Depression By Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com Today the United States Food and Drug Administration approved a device that treats depression using… magnets. About 14.8 million American adults, or 6.7 percent of the U.S. adult population, are diagnosed with major depression in … RT @FastCompany: FDA Approves Magnetic Helmet For Treating…
Tag, Share, And Set Your Life To Music With SoundTracking By Tyler Gray, fastcompany.com Schematic Labs cofounder and CEO and former imeem CMO Steve Jang says he’s making it easier to share yourself through music (and maybe hook up with your rock ‘n’ roll crush). You’re already soundtracking your life, whether or not you use……
Want To Work For An Innovative Company? Be Prepared To Answer These Unusual Interview Questions By Christina Chaey, fastcompany.com “If you were to get rid of one state in the U.S., which would it be and why?” and more oddball questions you might be asked on your next job interview. The next time you step…
TalentBin Takes On LinkedIn By Targeting Recruiters By David Zax, fastcompany.com By trolling various sites, TalentBin builds a database of people’s hidden talents. Can it reinvent headhunting in the process? TalentBin, as its founder Pete Kazanjy explains, is a LinkedIn competitor. And yet, if the average person with … RT @FastCompany: TalentBin Takes On LinkedIn…
Diesel Tells You How Many Days Are Left In Your Life Joe Berkowitz, fastcocreate.com The brand expands on its “Time to Be Brave” philosophy by calculating roughly how much time each of its fans has in which to be brave.If you knew the extent of your projected longevity, it would probably change the way you…
Google Analytics For Real Life: Tracking Retail Customers Through Smartphones By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com A new technology debuting at New York’s National Retail Federation expo lets retailers track in-store customer activity through their smartphones’ MAC addresses. A new product released at this year’s National Retail Federation expo in New Y… RT @FastCompany: Google Analytics For…
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…
A New Test To Find Out If Your Water Has Been Fracked BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com There is a lot of talk about the dangers of fracking, but few hard facts. BaseTrace’s new technology—using DNA—will let you test to see if the natural gas extraction process has contaminated your water. Depending on whether you’ve just…
A New Company Uses Big Data To Fight Cancer (And Rethink Basketball) BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER, fastcoexist.com Ayasdi, a new big-data firm with close ties to Stanford University and DARPA has plans to change the way researchers analyze cancer, money laundering, and professional sports. Creating visualizations of huge data sets is big business.… RT @FastCompany: A…
CO2 Is Why You’re Fat BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com As the atmosphere fills with more carbon dioxide, it might mean that breathing creates a chemical reaction that makes you want to eat more. And more. And even more. There is no single factor that has caused widespread obesity in the… CO2 Is Why You’re Fat…
The Future Of Coworking And Why It Will Give Your Business A Huge Edge By Lydia Dishman, fastcompany.com Here are the numbers that support the case for coworking—and why it’s not just for startups or freelancers anymore. Fun. Friendly. Inspiring. Collaborative. Productive. If you wouldn’t define your workplace with any or all of those ter……
3 Strategies For Managing Public Speaking Anxiety By Deborah Grayson Riegel, fastcompany.com Mark Twain once said, “There are two kinds of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.” In other words, no matter how seasoned or “under-seasoned” you are when it comes to making presentations, there is going to be some… RT…
Open-sourced, big data knowhow meets auto racing Jonathan M. Gitlin, arstechnica.com A few months ago, Ars took a look at how cars are getting smarter, mainly in the aid of fuel efficiency and safety. All that technology stuffed under the hood creates data, and where there’s data, there are nerds eager to analyze it.It used…
Satellite Internet: 15Mbps, no matter where you live in the US Jon Brodkin, arstechnica.com billrdioAmerica is a land of haves and have-nots when it comes to broadband Internet. While many of us enjoy downloads speeds of 50 or even 100 Mbps, 119 million Americans lack broadband access (defined as 4Mbps down and 1Mbps up). Out of…
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…
Simon Rogers, guardian.co.uk How have temperatures changed where you live? Simon Rogers RT @guardianscience: Decades of temperature change where you live mapped http://flip.it/MPZ3f http://flip.it/PZL17 Decades of temperature change where you live mapped Related articles Earth’s Core is Much Hotter Than Scientists Thought (blogs.discovermagazine.com) Visualization of the Week: Every recorded U.S terror attack 1970-2011 (strata.oreilly.com)…
The secret of life won’t be cooked up in a chemistry lab Paul Davies, guardian.co.uk Life’s origins may only be explained through a study of its unique management of information The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science. How did a non-living mixture of molecules transform themselves into a living……
A Cheeky Guide To Eating Like A Caveman By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com Corn is a grain, knucklehead. Keeping up with the eating habits of our cave-dwelling ancestors can be tough. Luckily someone has slapped together a handy flowchart for you to reference if you’ve hopped on the latest diet-craze… http://flip.it/TxJpy Related articles Eating Like A…
Kumbh Mela festival is proof that crowds can be good for you Posted by Stephen Reicher, guardian.co.uk It’s overcrowded, noisy and insanitary, but a study suggests the Kumbh Mela improves devotees’ mental and physical wellbeing Once a year, at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in northern India, something truly remarkable happens.… RT…
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…
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…
New big data firm to pioneer topological data analysis Posted by John Burn-Murdoch, guardian.co.uk Stanford University project goes commercial following groundbreaking research into cancer therapy and counter-terrorism strategy • More from the Guardian on big data • More data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian A US big data… RT @guardianscience: New big data…
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