Category: Cognitive Systems AI

  • Sushi now makes you dim

    Sushi really does kill your brain – Salon.com By Paul Ames, GlobalPost, salon.com A new report warns that mercury contamination can cause restricted cerebral development and other health problems BRUS­SELS, Bel­gium — Can eat­ing too much sushi reduce your brain power? Mer­cury con­t­a­m­i­na­tion in big fish such as sharks… RT @Salon: Put down that tuna…

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  • Fox News tries to ditch conservative propaganda

    Fox News adjusts to new reality as it faces four more years of Obama Paul Harris in New York, guardian.co.uk It’s the go-to network for outraged conservatives – but now Fox News has benched two high-profile pundits, and shown signs of retreat. Is the US’s biggest cable news network going moderate? For America’s liberals, it…

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  • Tiny house living on the road

    My Traveling Tiny House Site by Sophic, tinyhouselistings.com Post­ed by Steven on Novem­ber 26, 2012 // 34 Com­ments By Christy Dean Four months ago I moved out of my 2 bed­room home and into this tiny (mobile) house. I’m trav­el­ing the coun­try in my lit­tle nest and I love it! It gets a lot of……

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  • Designing your life

    How To Design a Lucky Life Trent Hamm, lifehacker.com Is luck a supernatural thing that we have no control over, represented by four leaf clovers and gold pots at the end of the rainbow? For The Simple Dollar’s Trent Hamm, luck is defined as the result of some of the many random events in life……

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  • Creativity and social science critical to reform government gridlock

    Innovating Policy with Creativity and Social Sciences core77.com Today’s glob­al finan­cial and social crises demand inno­va­tion not only in pub­lic ser­vices, but with­in the whole bureau­crat­ic, admin­is­tra­tive sys­tem of pub­lic gov­er­nance. In order to respond effec­tive­ly to a chang­ing con­text of… RT @core77: Innovating Policy with Creativity and Social Sciences – Paper by @Nesta_UK &…

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  • Google gDrive and Gmail take on Dropbox

    Gmail Facelift: New Features of Gmail Steve Dotto, lifehack.org Google is taking dead aim at Web 2.0 services like Dropbox as they expand the capabilities of Google Drive and integrate it more tightly with their other services like Gmail. There is a new refined Gmail compose screen, which opens the door to… RT @lifehackorg: Gmail…

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  • The reason societies become less productive with industrialization

    Seven Productivity Myths, Debunked by Science (and Common Sense) Alan Henry, lifehacker.com The end goal of “productivity” is to spend less time doing the things you have to do so you have more time for the things you want to do. Of course, if you follow every morsel of productivity advice out there, you probably…

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  • How not to destroy for gadgets: temperature and humidity

    Can I Leave My Gadgets In a Cold or Hot Car? Whitson Gordon, lifehacker.com Dear Lifehacker, I almost always have my laptop, iPod, and smartphone with me, but don’t always want to lug them around. Is it okay to leave them in my car if it’s particularly cold outside? What about in the summer heat?…

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  • Drug companies return to nutritional supplements for innovation

    (via Consumer, Drug Firms Vie in Vitamins – WSJ.com) Related articles We mistook drugs for food supplements: Ram Singh (thehindu.com) Myths In The Pricing Of New Drugs (forbes.com) Decreasing Diabetes Risk In Obese Children And Adolescents Through Vitamin D Supplementation (medicalnewstoday.com)

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  • Coco mat Eco mattress: get a sustainable night’s sleep

    Get a Sustainable Night’s Sleep On an Ultra-Comfy, Uber-Cozy Coco-Mat Mattress | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Yuka Yoneda says:, inhabitat.com The aver­age per­son sleeps around eight hours a night — which amounts to a third of your life spent in bed. But despite the amount of time that we find…

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  • Green holiday gift guide

    Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide inhabitat.com http://flip.it/M3Ixh Related articles Inhabitat’s Week in Green: stair-climbing vacuum cleaner, carbon dioxide diapers and a real 3D-printed face (engadget.com)

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  • Green peace compels Mango, Esprit to clean up their supply chains

    Mango, Esprit Pledge to Eliminate Toxic Chemicals From Supply Chains by 2020, Thanks to Greenpeace Campaign ecouterre.com Green­peace’s “Detox” cam­paign is hav­ing a ban­ner month. Not only did the envi­ron­men­tal non­prof­it con­vince Zara, the world’s No. 1 appar­el retail­er, to com­mit to elim­i­nat­ing haz­ardous chem­i­cals from its sup­ply chain by 2020, but… http://flip.it/L9zUA Related articles…

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  • Fossil Fuel Subsidies In Focus At Doha Climate Talks

    AP, huffingtonpost.com DOHA, Qatar — Has­san al-Kubaisi con­sid­ers it a gift from above that dri­vers in oil- and gas-rich Qatar only have to pay $1 per gal­lon at the pump. “Thank God that our coun­try is an oil pro­duc­er and the price of gaso­line is one of the… Fossil Fuel Subsidies In Focus At Doha…

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  • Soda stream disrupts beverage industry waste

    SodaStream’s Banned Ad Helps Home Carbonation Company Hit It Big Rachel Tepper, huffingtonpost.com An ad for SodaS­tream, a home car­bon­a­tion prod­uct, has been mak­ing the rounds world­wide. In it, bot­tles of soda seem to com­bust spon­ta­neous­ly every time some­one uses the SodaS­tream else­where in the world. The take­away: why pay for… http://flip.it/BgTFD Related articles 3…

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  • Paul Krugman analyzes GOP fiscal cliff proposal on health

    Paul Krugman: GOP Plan Only ‘Sounds Serious Because It Hurts Vulnerable People’ Bonnie Kavoussi, huffingtonpost.com In an inter­view with PBS’ Gwen Ifill on Tues­day, Nobel Prize-winning econ­o­mist Paul Krug­man tore into the GOP’s fis­cal cliff pro­pos­al and launched a spir­it­ed defense of Pres­i­dent Barack Obama. Krug­man explained that Oba­macare has d… http://flip.it/ZuD2u Related articles Paul…

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  • GOP and UN disability treaty position

    Jon Stewart: Have Republicans Hit ‘Rock Bottom’ With Failed United Nations Disability Treaty? Carol Hartsell, huffingtonpost.com For the sec­ond day in a row, Jon Stew­art ham­mered at Repub­li­cans over irra­tional par­ti­san­ship. On Tues­day, he took down Boehn­er and com­pa­ny’s inde­cent fis­cal cliff pro­pos­al, and on Wednes­day “The Daily Show” host took sen­ate… http://flip.it/iamVo Related articles…

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