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    Buzzfeed

  • Top 5 Buzz List - Nov 20th

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:15 pm
    These are the top posts from Friday, November 20, 2009. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »

  • Empty L.A. (Creepy Cool)

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:26 pm
    Link: http://emptyla.com/ Matt Logue's “Empty Los Angeles” photography book shows the effect of L.A. being completely people-less. The click through is worth it. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »

  • Do The Ice Cream and Cake

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:53 pm
    This video pulls off the Internet hat-trick of being adorable, annoying, and disgusting all at once. Somebody get this dog a medal. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment » The Best Links: Via Rob Huebel

  • Boy Finds Real-Life E.T.

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:45 pm
    11-year-old Thomas Demming hid E.T. in his closet for weeks. He fed it Reese's Pieces so it wouldn't get hungry. Cute! Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »

  • Crowd Boos Sarah Palin At Book Signing

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:44 pm
    This video is just of a crowd outside a Border's in Noblesville, Indiana, shouting “Sign our books!” as Palin's enormous tour bus idles. Apparently, Palin left before signing everyone's copy of her memoir, and people were unhappy about that. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »
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    Chris Brogan

  • The Serendipity Engine – Web 2 Expo Speech

    chrisbrogan
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:33 pm
    This is my favorite keynote speech yet. It’s just 10 minutes long, and I feel pretty good about it. You’ll recognize bits of my storytelling from the last several conferences tucked into here in a new way, I hope. Enjoy this video. (Can’t see it? Click here)

  • How Much Time Should I Spend On Social Media

    chrisbrogan
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:33 am
    How much time should you spend on social media? In some ways, the answer is: “how long is a piece of string?” And yet, you can set up some simple guidelines. They might be a bit different than you think. By the way, I’m writing these from a business perspective, but remember that I think of religion and nonprofits and all kinds of other applications as business-related, too. Here’s how I look at it: Social Media Time Management The way I’d do it is to break it up into 4 chunks, and then you decide the amount of hours to devote (2 hours a day is a minimum for MOST…

  • Start a Moving Business – Overnight Success

    chrisbrogan
    18 Nov 2009 | 7:30 pm
    In this episode of the Overnight Success series, I’ve got an idea about what makes one successful: moving. But it’s not what you think. If you can’t see the video, click here. What do you think?

  • Stop Humping My Leg

    chrisbrogan
    18 Nov 2009 | 9:13 am
    Dear people trying to sell me on something new: stop humping my leg. You know what I mean. You’ve seen dogs do this, right? That’s what it feels like when you jump on me breathlessly to share your new product or service when you don’t really much know whether I’m the right guy for your services. I was recently leg-humped at Web 2.0 Expo, by someone I like, and who I think is smart and has a lot of good potential. The thing is, I politely declined a demo, and he persisted. Immediately, I shifted to my back foot. I felt defensive. I rolled up my interest and tucked it…

  • Prioritize Your Social Media Efforts

    chrisbrogan
    17 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pm
    There aren’t enough hours in the day for all the chores that social media puts in front of us. The best writing I’ve found on how to manage your time in social media is via Amber Naslund’s social media time management series. Her efforts in crafting this should become a little ebook that you hand around to everyone. If you skipped over that link, go back, click it to open a new tab/window, and then read it when you’re done with this (or skip mine and read Amber’s- it’s that good). If you’re still with me, here’s what I want to say on the matter.
 
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    CNN

  • 2 linked to Mumbai terror attacks arrested in Italy

    21 Nov 2009 | 2:38 am
    Two Pakistani men were arrested in Italy on Saturday for providing logistical support to terrorists who carried out last year's deadly attacks in India, police said.

  • Northern England braces for more rain

    21 Nov 2009 | 2:07 am
    Forecasters predicted more rain for England's flood-ravaged northwest region Saturday, but said the risk of more flooding was smaller than in recent days.

  • 8-year-old rape victim's parents charged with abuse

    21 Nov 2009 | 1:51 am
    The parents of an 8-year-old Liberian girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted by four boys in July were arrested Friday on child abuse charges, according to Arizona police.

  • 200 games under scrutiny in match-fixing probe

    21 Nov 2009 | 1:41 am
    German prosecutors said Friday they are investigating a huge match-fixing scandal with more than 200 games under scrutiny and 17 people arrested.

  • Pope to meet with Anglican leader amid rising tension

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:28 pm
    Pope Benedict XVI is expected to meet the Archbishop of Canterbury on Saturday, the first meeting between the religious leaders since a Catholic overture to disaffected Anglicans that some commentators compared to a hostile takeover on Wall Street.
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    HowStuffWorks Daily Feed

  • 5 International Holiday Meals

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    We often associate holidays with food. But which food depends on where you live. What do people eat in Japan, Germany and other countries during the holidays?

  • How Facebook Works

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, "unfriend" -- the act of removing someone as a friend on a social networking site like Facebook -- is the word of the year. What else has Facebook brought to people's lives?

  • Travel the World: Famous Landmarks

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    What's a famous landmark? A destination that gets a lot of attention. Whether it's a natural world wonder or the site of a historic event, millions of people each year travel from all over the world to visit these interesting places.

  • Today's Video - Destroyed in Seconds: Million Dollar Wreck

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    Slick conditions stop these supercars in their tracks. Watch this video from Discovery Channel's "Destroyed in Seconds."

  • 5 Tips for Planning a Move

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    Whatever the reason for your move, getting everything you own from one home to another can be difficult to orchestrate. So rather than just play it by ear, it's a good idea to make a solid plan well in advance of your move.
 
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    Digg

  • 1936 Mercedes 260D Was First Successful Diesel Passenger Car

    21 Nov 2009 | 2:20 am
    Rudolf Diesel filed the patent for his signature engine in 1893. However, its installation in a passenger car didn't occur until 1933, when Citroën installed a diesel engine into a Rosalie bay, although this car was never authorized to run on roads. Not until 1936, when Mercedes showed off the 260D, can we talk about the first successful diesel car

  • 6 world powers meet about Iran nuclear issue

    21 Nov 2009 | 2:10 am
    Representatives of six world powers on Friday were considering measures against Iran for its refusal to halt nuclear enrichment activities, as the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency warned Tehran not to miss the opportunity to resolve the dispute.

  • 1985 Redux! How Biff Tannen destroyed the world-and saved it

    21 Nov 2009 | 2:00 am
    The world will look up and shout “Save us!” And Biff Tannen will whisper “Hello?! Anybody home? Think, McFly. Think.”

  • A Message to Annoying Neighbor via Network Connections (PIC)

    21 Nov 2009 | 2:00 am
    A clever way to piss off people stealing your internet

  • Panty Liner? Phallic Art? No, It's Eco-Spoon for the Insane

    21 Nov 2009 | 1:50 am
    Not everyone can be trusted with a spoon (think asylums and prisons), so a company that develops paper container lids has developed a biodegradable, safe spoon. While its safe paper design ensures your dining partner won't be able to shank you with it, it's shape, complete with a tip labeled 'Eat', suggests a shank of a different sort.
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    Discovery

  • 2nd Night of False Alarms on Space Station

    21 Nov 2009 | 2:31 am
    Depressurization and smoke alarms woke the shuttle and station crews for a second consecutive night on Friday. Flight controllers quickly determined they were false alarms, but the station's ventilation system automatically shut down, prompting NASA to cancel spacewalk preparations inside ...

  • Shroud of Turin May Hold Death Certificate

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:16 pm
    The debate over the Shroud of Turin is reignited by alleged writing on the artifact.

  • NASA unleashes the Galactic Ghoul?

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:36 pm
    As I've mentioned before, I love a good outrageous space headline -- and the more they personify science or mold it to sound like a space opera, the better. But it's interesting to note that the "great galactic ghoul" traces ...

  • Firing Up the Large Hadron Collider... Again

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:29 pm
    If all goes well, the Large Hadron Collider will soon be smashing subatomic particles together as they travel near the speed of light around the 16.8 mile circumference of the world's most complicated machine. Scientists hope the Large Hadron Collider ...

  • Behind Oprah Winfrey's Power of Persuasion

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:34 pm
    Oprah Winfrey announced yesterday that after 25 years on the air, she would end her beloved talk show in September 2011. This announcement caused visceral reactions among my Facebook "friends." Several status updates read "Oprah, NOOOOOOOOOOOO," or "Why Oprah, Why?" ...
 
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    Dumb Little Man

  • The 7 Signs of a Leader - A Must Read

    Mr. Self Development
    19 Nov 2009 | 11:49 pm
    We all need leaders in our lives: mentors, people to look up to, people that simply get it. Leaders inspire us, help us accomplish our dreams, and teach by example. Leaders make us better people and give us an ideal to strive for.The measure of leadership is always influence; leaders have an amazing ability to influence our lives. Leaders lead wherever they go; they lead at work, at home, or wherever they happen to be.So after that intro, it's easy to conclude that being a leader is not an easy task; it requires a collection of very important skills that have to be ingrained into your daily…

  • Seven Ways to Create More Time In Your Day

    Ali
    18 Nov 2009 | 1:05 am
    Do you ever feel like you have way too much time on your hands, and far too little work and life to fit into it? Unless you're a teen on summer break, I reckon it's unlikely! Most of us would love to have an extra couple of hours in each day. With two more hours, we could find time to exercise, to read some of the books that are gathering dust on our shelves, to spend time with the kids...But, unless you're lucky enough to find a magic genie who can stretch your days to twenty-six hours long, you're stuck with the same twenty-four hours per day as the rest of the world. So how can you create…

  • The Bruce Lee Approach to Valuing of Money

    StevenAitchison
    16 Nov 2009 | 11:56 pm
    Bruce Lee lived his life through action; he was a man who lived what he taught. Many people don't know that he wasn't just a great martial artist but he studied, amongst other things, philosophy at the University of Washington. He was deeply interested in life and and all that encompasses, including money.From the book, 'Striking Thoughts' Bruce Lee talks about money as a useful tool, nothing more. Here are some of the lessons:The Nature Of Money"Money of itself has no explicit nature. Money is what one makes of it"Many of us believe that money holds a certain power. This is wrong. Money…

  • 7 Healthy Foods That Will Fill You Up and Prevent Overeating

    Krizia MissK
    13 Nov 2009 | 3:47 am
    David A. Kessler, the author of “The End of Overeating”, explains very well how people become addicted to foods that are high in sugar, fat and salt. Like addiction does, this causes people to crave so they eat more and more foods that are loaded with unhealthy ingredients and many times, completely devoid of any nutrients.So, as the process goes, people are instructed to stop eating sugar, fat, and salt. However, many times, those instructions are not supplemented with healthy replacements and it's left to you to do the research, which is no simple task. As Michael Pollan says in “In…

  • Frugal Fun: Five Ways to Be Social and Save

    DivineCaroline
    12 Nov 2009 | 5:21 am
    Living in San Francisco, one of the most expensive places in the country, I have learned a lot about budgets. First lesson: I need a budget. Recently, I kept track of my monthly expenditures and was shocked by the number in my “entertainment” column; no wonder my paychecks disappear so quickly.There are obvious alternatives to nights on the town, like socializing at home. However, sometimes we’re obligated to go out—a friend’s birthday, for example, or the need to leave the house and indulge ourselves a little. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to cut corners and still have a…
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    Essential Reads

  • Party Survival Tactics for Introverts

    Sophia Dembling
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:11 am
    My husband and threw a small party, a brunch, the other day. An introvert throwing a party? Yep. I'm not antisocial. I like seeing friends and offering hospitality. And in some ways, throwing a party is easier than attending someone else's. For one thing, when I need to check out of the chitchat, I can busy myself with hostess duties--refilling food or drinks, mopping up spills, general tidying. Plus, I usually know everyone at my own parties, which makes mingling less awkward for me.Still, a party is a party and I anticipated this party with the usual combination of pleasure, high anxiety,…

  • The Myths of Intrinsic-Extrinsic Motivation

    Steven Reiss, Ph.D.
    20 Nov 2009 | 7:22 am
    What happens when a person is offered an incentive to do something the individual would have done anyway, without incentive? Back in 1975 Edward Deci, Mark Lepper, and their colleagues proposed that rewards undermine intrinsic motivation. In contrast, Len Sushinsky and I argued that the effects of rewards depend on how you use them. If you reward a person for just spending time in an activity, the person will become bored with the activity. If you reward a person for learning a new skill, however, the person is likely to show greater interest in the activity. We also asserted the significance…

  • Aggressive Athletes: Out of Control and Unapologetic

    Jared DeFife, Ph.D.
    18 Nov 2009 | 11:01 pm
    "It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses." -William Arthur WardRecently, University of New Mexico soccer player Elizabeth Lambert was called out by ESPN for punching, kicking, shoving, and throwing elbows against opponents after her team fell behind in a conference tournament game. In her most blatant attack, she yanked back an opponent's ponytail, ripping her to the ground.News coverage of these incidents follows a time-worn pattern: the highlight reels run, the sports talk jockeys express outrage, the player makes a…

  • Procrastination, guilt, excuses and the road less traveled

    Timothy A. Pychyl, Ph.D.
    18 Nov 2009 | 5:01 pm
    People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. (Bob Dylan). I certainly agree with the first part of this Dylan quote, but I'm quite sure that there's more to it than repentance, including: distraction, forgetting, trivialization, self-affirmation and denial of responsibility to name a few.Since the 1950's with Leon Festinger's (and his students') initial work on cognitive dissonance, psychologists have spent countless hours studying how acting counter-attitudinally leads to a negative emotional state. Why? Well, most people try to maintain a consistent and…

  • The Secret for People Who Don’t Believe in VooDoo

    Robert Wilson
    18 Nov 2009 | 7:26 am
        The latest fad in motivation is the Law of Attraction or more popularly The Secret after the motion picture and book by Rhonda Byrne.  The idea being that if you use the power of The Secret  you will attract health, wealth and friends to you in abundance.      The Secret takes an old idea and repackages it for today’s society. The core idea is that your thoughts control the world around you.  If you have positive thoughts, good things come your way.  If you have negative thoughts then bad things come your way.  In other words,…
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    Guy Kawasaki

  • The 19 bloggers Inc. thinks you should read

    GuyKawasaki
    6 Nov 2009 | 6:20 pm
    Inc. named 19 bloggers that you should read. We’ve aggregated them all in one place: Inc19.alltop.

  • How to Get Found

    GuyKawasaki
    4 Nov 2009 | 3:29 pm
    The reality is that people and technology is getting better and better a blocking out unwanted interruptions—aka, “marketing.” Brian Halligan is the CEO of HubSpot, and he explains in my post on the American Express Open Forum “how to get found.” It’s all about creating great stuff and letting Google et al do what they do: find great stuff.

  • How I tweet

    GuyKawasaki
    2 Nov 2009 | 8:47 am
    By popular demand (and some complaints), I’ve done a FAQ with myself about how I tweet. Hope this helps you use Twitter for your business too. I explain how I use ghostwriters and why I repeat my tweets among other “unusual” practices.

  • Current Twitter Demo Script

    GuyKawasaki
    28 Oct 2009 | 2:26 am
    This is the set of links that I used to demo Twitter by going down through this list to show why Twitter is such a valuable marketing tool. Introduction Home page Profile page Monitor Search Guy Kawasaki or Alltop Starbucks VIA introduction Search for “Prius” or “Civic” Sell Dell Outlet Kogi BBQ Support Comcast Cares Engage JetBlue Virgin America Fandango Prospect Camaro Camaro near Palo Alto Advanced searches Surfing or skateboarding (shows how to eliminate extraneous results such as “surfing the web” How I Tweet - Find Alltop MyAlltop helped me find this.

  • How to Avoid Twitter Cluelessness

    GuyKawasaki
    26 Oct 2009 | 4:24 pm
    Over at the American Express Open Forum blog, I explain how to not look clueless on Twitter. The first five ways are: Don’t tell other people how to tweet. Don’t tell the world that you unfollowed someone. Don’t ask people why they unfollowed you. Don’t constantly tweet mundane updates and babble. Don’t use a small picture for an avatar. To read all ten and why they impugn your intelligence, click here.
 
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    Lifehacker

  • From the Tips Box: Gmail Remember the Milk, Touchpad Tricks, and Repelling Mosquitoes [From The Tips Box]

    Whitson Gordon
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:00 pm
    Readers offer their best tips for updating Remember the Milk with Gmail's canned responses, avoiding mouse jumps while typing with touchpads, and repelling mosquitoes with Listerine. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons—maybe they're a bit too niche, maybe we couldn't find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn't fit it in—the tip didn't make the front page. From the Tips Box is where we round up some of our favorites for…

  • This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

    Adam Pash
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    This week we rounded up the best online backup tools and explained how you're backing up wrong, detailed how to build an excellent Boxee-based media center, and cured your various aches and pains with some simple home remedies. Five Best Online Backup Tools Local backup is a useful and necessary part of securing your data against catastrophe, but with the advent of broadband and inexpensive online storage, you've got little reason to not back up critical files to the cloud as well. You're Backing Up Your Data the Wrong Way Time and time again, people tell me that they've bought an external…

  • PTS Desktop Live Makes Performance Benchmarking Simple [Downloads]

    Jason Fitzpatrick
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:00 pm
    Linux Live: If you want to put your computer through the paces and get some feedback and benchmarks, you'll be hard pressed to find a tool more packed with tests than the Phoronix Test Suite Live CD. PTS Desktop Live is an Ubuntu Live CD with the Phoronix benchmarking suite preconfigured and installed. Reboot your machine with the CD in your drive—or on a USB drive—and you'll boot into the test suite with access to 52 tests and 10 profiles. The profiles are set up to help you stress test and benchmark based on what you'll be using the machine for. The desktop interface and suite…

  • Twitter/Facebook Client Brizzly Open for Sign-Ups [Social Networks]

    Kevin Purdy
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm
    Brizzly, the web-based social media manager that ranked as one of our readers' favorite Twitter clients, has dropped the invite code requirement and is available for anyone to log into. It's still technically in "beta," but mostly to keep up the fairly rapid pace of feature development. [via TechCrunch]

  • Windows Surface Scanner Finds Bad Hard Drive Sectors [Downloads]

    Lisa Hoover
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:30 pm
    Windows: When your computer starts acting hinky and spitting out error messages, it's hard to know exactly where to begin to diagnose the problem. Windows Surface Scanner gives you a place to start. This free utility takes a look at your hard drives and ferrets out any physical errors it finds, so you know what might be causing random crashes or system flakiness. Windows Surface Scanner won't fix damaged sector problems—it simply diagnoses them. Once you've figured out the issue, you can use the native Windows check disk tool to make repairs. One important thing to note about this tool:…
 
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    MAKE Magazine

  • Mac mailbox

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:00 pm
    Mac mailbox from Te Atatu in Auckland... Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Remake | Digg this!

  • LHC tweets its first circulating beam of 2009

    20 Nov 2009 | 6:45 pm
    LHC tweets its first circulating beam of 2009, good luck finding the Higgs gang. Photos here... Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Science | Digg this!

  • Building a shop presence notification system

    20 Nov 2009 | 6:00 pm
    As a member of Hack Pittsburgh, our local hackerspace, one thing I've wanted to know if anyone else is there before I make the trek over. Well, so did Andy Leer and Marty McGuire, so they decided to build a shop presence notification system. They reasoned that they could measure the ambient light level to determine if someone was around, because people tend to turn on the lights when they show up. With this in mind, they hooked up a photocell to a donated iobridge module, and had a notification widget up on the website in record time. Excellent work! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read…

  • Vacuum tube prototyping board

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:00 pm
    Bruce Heran made this prototyping board for his tube projects. He writes: This is a project that I made to take care of an ever increasing need to prototype vacuum tube (valve) circuits. As you can see from the photos, it really is a test "board." I do a lot of work with tubes and love to design and improve circuits. In the process I often use various CAD type programs to rough out the designs. I have frequently found that the models do not agree with the final build. Some are right on, but most are off enough to turn a good idea into a waste of time. Thus the need to quickly prototype…

  • Free LED Cookbook from TI

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:00 pm
    By way of Andrew Q Righter of HacDC comes word of this free PDF from Texas Instruments, a 41-page "cookbook" of circuit designs and application notes for TI's LED-related components. [Thanks, Andrew!] LED Reference Design Cookbook [PDF] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this!
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    Mashable!

  • Tila Tequila Continues Her Ustream Video Meltdown [LIVE VIDEO]

    Ben Parr
    21 Nov 2009 | 1:19 am
    Social media is a double-edged sword. Due to its unfiltered nature, it can be a powerful promotional tool. However, it can also publicly expose our problems. Former reality TV star Tila Tequila is an unfortunate but prime example. Some backstory: Tila Tequila is one of the most popular artists on MySpace, was the subject of an MTV reality show, and most recently filed assault charges against San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman, which were subsequently dropped. Fastforward to Wednesday, November 18th. That night, Tila had a very public meltdown on her Ustream page. She waved around a…

  • UNDERDOG: Google Android Smashes Apple iPhone in Reader Vote

    Barb Dybwad
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:20 pm
    We’ve been matching up popular web services, applications and mobile apps against each other in heated one-on-one battles here in our weekly Faceoff Series. Last week Microsoft Office bested Google Docs in a head to head race for the title of office suite champion. This week we turned our attention to a rather timely battle being waged on the mobile front, between Apple’s still wildly-selling iPhone platform and Google’s slower to boil Android mobile operating system. Apparently the latter has been gaining some ground, resulting in our first unexpected upset victory in the…

  • Fido Factor Finds Dog-Friendly Places in Your City

    Ben Parr
    20 Nov 2009 | 7:31 pm
    This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: Fido Factor Quick Pitch: Fido Factor is a dog-specific local search and review site and iPhone app built for dog owners. It’s a “Yelp for dogs.” Genius Idea: We dog owners love our canines: it’s really that simple. We raise them, feed them, play with them, sleep with them, and fall in love with them. We want to…

  • Droid Does: A Price Drop

    Adam Ostrow
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:04 pm
    When it was released earlier this month, the retail price for the Motorola Droid was $200 for new activations on Verizon. Although Verizon is staying firm with that price point for now, it appears that some of its retailers are not. Specifically, Amazon and Dell have both cut prices on the smartphone to $150 and $120, respectively. The news comes just one day after news broke of price cuts by online retailers on other devices not named iPhone: the Palm Pre and Pixi. Of course, the device cost shouldn’t really play a huge role in consumer’s decision given the total costs of ownership for…

  • Top 10 News Readers Judged by Mashable Readers

    Barb Dybwad
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:47 pm
    Each Friday we choose a Lunchtime Poll topic to get a sense of how Mashable readers feel about the chosen topic of the week. Below are the results from last Friday’s poll, where we asked for your favorite news reader. Is your favorite app or service not represented in the list? Let us know in the comments! And to make sure your vote counts next time, be sure to vote in this week’s Lunchtime Poll, where we want to know your favorite video-sharing service. A surprising number of readers in the top 10 were Mac apps, and enough of you said you’d switched to using Twitter as your…
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    Mind Hacks

  • Cold asylum

    vaughan
    20 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    New Scientist has a gallery of striking photos taken from Christopher Payne's book that details his photographic tour of abandoned asylums in the US. In both the UK and the US, and, I suspect, in many other countries, there are numerous unused decaying mental asylums that have become obsolete as 'care in the community' has become the flag under which mental health services have been reformed or ignored. The NewSci gallery captures the faded grandeur of some of these impressive buildings and has photographs of the devices and technology from a psychiatry of a bygone era. As we discussed…

  • Feliz Día Nacional del Psicólogo en Colombia

    vaughan
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    Colombia has an official Day of the Psychologist and you might be forgiven for thinking that it's a self-declared promotional event by the psychology association here, but it isn't, the day is established by law. Article 92 of Law 1090 establishes 20th November as the official celebration. Psychology departments around the country usually celebrate the day with conferences and parties. I was kindly invited to give a talk on the 'Neuropsicología de Alucinaciones' at the four day conference (wow) at the University of Antioquia, so many thanks to everyone who attended. Later on, there is a free…

  • 2009-11-20 Spike activity

    vaughan
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:

  • Time-space fusion

    vaughan
    19 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    Neurophilosophy has an excellent piece on 'time-space' synaesthesia where affected individuals experience units of time - such as hours, days, or months - as occupying specific locations in space relative to their own body. The image on the right is taken from a BBC News article on time-space synaesthesia and was drawn by one lady to illustrate how days of the week appear to her. However, Neurophilosophy piece covers two new studies, one on a person with synaesthesia who experiences months in the space around her body in the form of a '7' shape: Michelle Jarick of the Synaesthesia Research…

  • Selecting for kuru resistant cannibals

    vaughan
    19 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    New Scientist reports on a new study on how a gene that gives protection against the deadly brain disease kuru became more common in people exposed to the condition through their cannibalistic tradition of eating the bodies of dead relatives. Kuru is a prion disease, meaning the damage is caused by a poorly arranged or folded protein molecule which can trigger the same damaging changes in other proteins it comes into contact with. The condition is related to what we know as 'mad cow disease' and causes a distinctive form of shaking, brain degeneration and eventually leads to death. It was…
 
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    Neuromarketing

  • The Outsider Effect

    Roger Dooley
    16 Nov 2009 | 4:52 am
    Trying to juice up your next ad campaign? Develop a clever new product strategy? Research shows that adding an outsider to the mix can improve the thinking of your team and produce better results. According to a study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Better decisions come from teams that include a [...]

  • Management Lessons from Airplane Crashes

    Roger Dooley
    9 Nov 2009 | 6:40 am
    Airplane crashes don’t happen often, and when they do they are no doubt among the most-studied failures in any industry. Most bad business decisions, by contrast, are pushed into the past as quickly as possible. That may be one lesson – studying why a business strategy proved to be a failure might prevent similar failures [...]

  • Emsense Raises $9 Million

    Roger Dooley
    3 Nov 2009 | 9:09 am
    Neuromarketing firm Emsense has raised $9 million in additional capital. The new round was led by an investment from Technology Partners with existing investor the Foundry Group also participating. This funding will allow EmSense to continue its global expansion in support of its many market research partners. The funds will also enable the company [...]

  • Want Some Emotion with That Website?

    Roger Dooley
    3 Nov 2009 | 5:01 am
    As a web community guy, one of the most common problems I see is the failure to communicate emotion properly when people interact online. A remark intended as humorous can be perceived as a personal attack, or an expression of sympathy can be taken as cruel sarcasm. While I always suggest caution (particularly [...]

  • College Branding: What if Harvard Moved Next Door?

    Roger Dooley
    2 Nov 2009 | 5:06 am
    Why do most college branding efforts end up as meaningless pablum? I think it’s because most colleges have been relatively insulated from the effects of devastating competition. In fact, historically there have been major barriers to competition in the cozy world of higher education. The biggest have been geography, cost, and reputation. [...]
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    Newswise

  • IU School of Law-Indianapolis Ranks 44th in the Nation

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:30 pm
    In its first annual ranking of U.S. law schools , Super Lawyers Magazine ranks Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis as 44th in the nation.

  • Northwest Hospital Moves to Enviro-Friendly Generator

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:05 pm
    Northwest Hospital in Randallstown is among the first hospitals in the nation and first hospital on the East Coast to move to an environmentally-friendly generator to power its emergency electrical needs.

  • Smartphone App Illuminates Power Consumption

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pm
    A new application for the Android smartphone shows users and software developers how much power their applications are consuming. PowerTutor was developed by doctoral students and professors at the University of Michigan.

  • Saving the single cysteine: new antioxidant system found

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pm
    We've all read studies about the health benefits of having a life partner. The same thing is true at the molecular level, where amino acids known as cysteines are much more vulnerable to damage when single than when paired up with other cysteines.

  • Gallery of Fluid Motion and Virtual Press Room Now Open

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pm
    The virtual Press Room for next week's 62st Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics in Minneapolis is now open. See http://www.aps.org/units/dfd/pressroom/.
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    New York Times

  • Cadbury Bid Under Study at Hershey

    By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
    21 Nov 2009 | 1:55 am
    Any Hershey offer would need to be at least $17 billion and would break from the financial conservatism that has long defined the American chocolate giant.

  • Proton Beams Are on Track at Collider

    By DENNIS OVERBYE
    21 Nov 2009 | 1:23 am
    The successful operation of the Large Hadron Collider marked the resumption of a $9 billion quest to investigate the universe when it was less than a trillionth of a second old.

  • China Mine Explosion Kills 31, Traps 78

    By REUTERS
    21 Nov 2009 | 12:30 am
    BEIJING (Reuters) - At least 31 miners were killed and 78 remain trapped 500 meters (yards) underground following a gas blast at a mine in China, state media said on Saturday.

  • Raids Expose Soccer Fixing Across Europe

    By ROB HUGHES and ERIC PFANNER
    21 Nov 2009 | 12:02 am
    German law enforcement officials arrested 17 on Friday in connection with what was described as the biggest match-fixing scandal yet uncovered in European soccer.

  • The Breaking Point: Hospital Falters as Refuge for Illegal Immigrants

    By KEVIN SACK
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:59 pm
    When an Atlanta hospital closed its dialysis unit, many illegal immigrants had to scramble to find treatment.
 
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    Pop! Tech Blog

  • Crowdsourcing Government Listening

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:43 am
    The federal government is just beginning to use social media to talk to citizens. What’s needed now, says Web entrepreneur Anil Dash, is a way for government to use social media to listen. Anil Dash at Web 2.0 Expo, photo by James Duncan Davidson and courtesy O'Reilly Media and TechWeb. Expert Labs—one of the more intriguing ideas to emerge from this past week’s Web 2.0 Expo in Manhattan—is a new nonprofit that will seek to bridge that gap. Its mission is to use the Web and expert online communities to crowdsource solutions to social problems that state or federal lawmakers either…

  • FLAP Bag Update: Mozambique, Kenya, and Haiti

    17 Nov 2009 | 3:14 pm
    Editor's note: PopTech staff Coco Rojas gives an update on the FLAP (Flexible Light And Power) solar bag project and who is helping us test it right now below--FLAP is a collaborative effort from PopTech, Timbuk2, and Portable Light Project. You can find out more about the project's history and field work on the FLAP FAQ page (including how to order the bag) and join the FLAP project on our community site, the Hub. FLAP received a tremendous response at the PopTech 2009 conference, and we are incredibly grateful to all the PopTech'ers who offered to help field test the bag. (Let us know in…

  • VIDEO: Paul van Zyl, Alec Ross, and Erica Williams

    17 Nov 2009 | 12:30 pm
    This week, President Obama has spoken in China about openness and human rights, world leaders are meeting in Rome to talk about world hunger and food security, and it is Global Entrepreneurship Week, so we are releasing three PopTech 2009 talks on truth, politics and the art of diplomacy. Below, Paul van Zyl makes the case for an American Truth Commission, Senior Advisor on Innovation Alec Ross argues for an overhaul of U.S. diplomacy, and Erica Williams tells how the younger generations participate in politics. All three ask us to consider how we shape the future of the American political…

  • The Twittering’s On The Wall

    13 Nov 2009 | 3:49 pm
    Upon the 20-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city of Berlin has launched a remarkable “living” online memorial: the Berlin Twitter Wall. Using the hashtag #fotw, people can share their thoughts on the Fall of the Berlin Wall and tell the world “which walls still have to come down to make our world a better place.” The Web site scrolls messages along a backdrop of the East Side Gallery, a famous stretch of the wall still standing and painted with murals. By clicking "stop" and "play", older tweets are shown. A click on the cameras…

  • Fellows Friday: Recent Tweets We Have Seen and Favorited

    13 Nov 2009 | 9:18 am
    Our group of 2008 and 2009 Social Innovation Fellows is incredibly active--and they often work together and link to each other's work. Some of our favorite tweets from them in the past few days are below; you can follow them on Twitter on the PopTech SI Fellows List. Jason Aramburu of @re_char is tweeting from the NE Biochar Symposium today: Heather Fleming ( @heatherfleming) is attending the Aspen Design Summit this week (through tomorrow): Ken Banks ( @kiwanja) of @frontlinesms congratulated @Afrigadget (founded by 2008 Fellow Erik Hersman ( @whiteafrican)) and recently contributed to by…
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    Psychology / Psychiatry News From Medical News Today

  • Mathematical Abilities Examined In Children With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    Children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) have a number of cognitive deficits, but mathematical ability seems particularly damaged. Little is known about the brain structures related to mathematical deficits in children with FASD. A new study that used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to investigate the relationship between mathematical skills and brain white matter structure in children with FASD supports the importance of the left parietal area for mathematical tasks.

  • Innovative Therapy That Offers New Hope For Borderline Personality Disorder

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    Patients coping with the chaos and misery of Borderline Personality Disorder now have reason for strong confidence in making major life changes through a new treatment, Schema Therapy. For the first time, three major outcome studies have shown that many patients with Borderline Personality Disorder can achieve full recovery across the complete range of symptoms.

  • Otsuka Pharmaceutical Europe Ltd Withdraws Its Application For An Extension Of Indication For Abilify (aripiprazole), Europe

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    The European Medicines Agency has been formally notified by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Europe Ltd of its decision to withdraw its application for an extension of indication for the centrally authorised medicine Abilify (aripiprazole) tablets, orodispersible tablets and oral solution. Abilify was expected to be used in the treatment of major depressive episodes, as adjunctive therapy, in patients who have had an inadequate response to previous treatment with antidepressants.

  • People With Type D Personalities Experience More Health Problems

    19 Nov 2009 | 3:00 am
    People who experience a lot of negative emotions and do not express these experience more health problems, says Dutch researcher Aline Pelle. She discovered that heart failure patients with a negative outlook reported their complaints to a physician or nurse far less often. The personality of the partner can also exert a considerable influence on these patients. Aline Pelle investigated patients with a so-called type D personality.

  • Ending The 'Endless Adolescence': U.Va. Psychologists Tell How In New Book

    19 Nov 2009 | 1:00 am
    Parental nurturing is backfiring, and as a result a generation of teens is growing up less independent, less skilled at common tasks - from doing laundry to choosing college classes - and increasingly unprepared for adulthood, studies show. Even young adults often are highly reliant on their parents; more than 60 percent of 23-year-olds and 30 percent of 25-year olds are still financially supported by their parents.
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    Scientific American

  • Fight to protect California condors from lead ammunition moves to Arizona

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:57 pm
    It has been 22 years since the last 22 California condors ( Gymnogyps californianus ) were collected from the wild and placed in captive breeding programs. The species, which nearly went extinct due to habitat loss, poaching, DDT and lead poisoning, has since rebounded to 332 birds, according to counts maintained by the Zoological Society of San Diego . But despite that conservation success, condors still face a major threat from lead poisoning, which often occurs when the birds eat carcasses killed by hunters' lead ammunition. [More]

  • Circulation of LHC Beams Could Resume in Earnest over the Weekend

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:50 pm
    The Large Hadron Collider , the world's most powerful particle accelerator, is drawing near to its long-awaited reboot. More than a year after the European collider's initial start-up was quashed by a helium leak caused by a faulty electrical connection , particle beams have been injected into the collider, known as the LHC, and may be guided fully through its rings in the coming hours. [More]

  • Measuring Up: New NIST Director, Plus Big Budget Put Measurement Science in Public Eye

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:30 pm
    Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Commerce confirmed Patrick Gallagher as the 14th director of its National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) . Although the title may be new to Gallagher, NIST's mission of developing measurement science, standards and technology isn't. The 46-year-old physicist began his career in the organization's NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) in 1993 to pursue studies in neutron and x-ray instrumentation; in 2004 he became NCNR's director. [More]

  • How Long Can a Nuclear Reactor Last?

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:27 pm
    Could nuclear power plants last as long as the Hoover Dam?Increasingly dependable and emitting few greenhouse gases, the U.S. fleet of nuclear power plants will likely run for another 50 or even 70 years before it is retired -- long past the 40-year life span planned decades ago -- according to industry executives, regulators and scientists. [More]

  • What to Do About Endocrine Disruptors? A Q&A with Linda Birnbaum

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:37 am
    Nearly a year ago, toxicologist Linda Birnbaum was named director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program. She sat down with Environmental Health News journalist Jane Kay in San Francisco on Wednesday to answer questions about the environmental health risks we face today. [More]
 
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    TechCrunch

  • Naspers Could Be The Next Owner Of ICQ (And Why That Would Make Sense)

    Robin Wauters
    21 Nov 2009 | 1:55 am
    Last week, it was reported that AOL – amid restructuring efforts in the lead-up to the imminent Time Warner spin-off and IPO – was putting its instant messaging service unit ICQ on the block and had hired bankers Allen & Co. and Morgan Stanley to assist in the sales process. According to the reports, AOL was looking to offload the asset for $300 million and talking to a pair of non-US companies about an acquisition (likely in a part cash, part stock transaction). Question is: who are those potential buyers? We’ve pinned down one who, sources say, has already engaged in…

  • CrunchGear 2009 Gift Guide: Peripherals

    Devin Coldewey
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Peripherals, they say, are the spice of life. Well, maybe they don't say that, but they do say it about variety, and peripherals add variety to your computing life. If you're reading this on a stock HP desktop, clicking on links with the mouse that came with it, and trusting your data to that 512MB USB stick they gave you at work, then you should consider accessorizing.

  • This Week On TechCrunch: Real-time distractions, Indian outsourcing, rumours, layoffs and Scoble’s brave new world of tweets

    Paul Carr
    20 Nov 2009 | 8:30 pm
    Honestly, it’s impossible to work in these conditions. I’m writing this from the TechCrunch Real-Time CrunchUp; a one-day event in San Francisco celebrating the joys of the ‘real-time’ web. Sounds awesome, right? It is. I’ve been on stage, heckling participants on the marketing panel, I’ve been Tweeting from the audience, I’ve been following the live-blogging of the panels. Generally I’ve been living the real time dream – which probably explains why I haven’t done any actual work all day. And now I’m twenty minutes away from my…

  • Getting To The SuperTweet: Speedi.ly Classifies The Real Time Web

    Michael Arrington
    20 Nov 2009 | 7:33 pm
    Keith Teare was hanging around the Real-Time CrunchUp today showing off his newest project – Speedi.ly. What does Speedi.ly do? One thing, very well and at scale. Speedi.ly takes a piece of content, or grabs the content from a URL, and analyzes it. It does this very fast and it outputs some key data. Speedi.ly tells you the language of the content, categorizes it (topics, keywords), and additional metadata. This metadata payload is exactly what Robert Scoble is talking about with his SuperTweet idea. Here’s what Speedi.ly returns for this story we wrote on the Skype/eBay sale:…

  • The Ellerdale Project Mines The Semantic Web To Help You Make Sense Of Real-Time Streams

    Leena Rao
    20 Nov 2009 | 7:30 pm
    Extracting meaning from the Web is a difficult undertaking. Keyword search skims the surface of contextual meaning that is locked in Web pages, Tweets and feeds. That’s where semantic search comes in. The semantic web deals with looking beyond simple links that make up the web to understand a deeper meaning and context behind that content. The Ellerdale Project, which launched in alpha this past week, is hoping to add context to search by using semantic technology to power a real-time search platform. Ellerdale mines the real-time stream, including Tweets, RSS and the, to identify…
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    Science Daily

  • Barn personnel experience higher-than-average rates of respiratory symptoms

    21 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm
    The estimated 4.6 million Americans involved in the equine industry may be at risk of developing respiratory symptoms due to poor air quality in horse barns, according to a questionnaire study.

  • Saliva proteins change as women age

    21 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm
    In a step toward using human saliva to tell whether those stiff joints, memory lapses, and other telltale signs of aging are normal or red flags for disease, scientists are describing how the protein content of women's saliva change with advancing age. The discovery could lead to a simple, noninvasive test for better diagnosing and treating certain age-related diseases in women, they suggest.

  • Brain disease 'resistance gene' evolves in Papua New Guinea community; could offer insights into CJD

    21 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm
    A community in Papua New Guinea that suffered a major epidemic of a CJD-like fatal brain disease called kuru has developed strong genetic resistance to the disease, according to new research by scientists in the UK.

  • Hidden threat: Elevated pollution levels near regional airports

    21 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm
    Scientists are reporting evidence that air pollution -- a well-recognized problem at major airports -- may pose an important but largely overlooked health concern for people living near smaller regional airports. Those airports are becoming an increasingly important component of global air transport systems. The study, one of only a handful to examine airborne pollutants near regional airports, suggests that officials should pay closer attention to these overlooked emissions, which could cause health problems for local residents.

  • Software knowledge unnecessarily lost

    21 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm
    All too often the knowledge acquired by software architects is unnecessarily lost. Moreover, it is difficult to simply and quickly assess the quality of software. According to researchers these problems can, however, be easily resolved. They investigated how architectural knowledge can be better disseminated and retrieved.
 
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    Wired Science

  • Istanbul Opens World’s Largest Earthquake-Safe Building

    Alexis Madrigal
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:16 am
    The world’s largest seismically isolated building, the new international terminal at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport, is now complete and open for business. Stretching across more than 2 million square feet, the terminal doesn’t sit directly on the soil, but rather on more than 300 isolators, bearings that can move side-to-side during an earthquake. The whole building moves as a single unit, which prevents damage from uneven forces acting on the structure. “What an isolation system does is that it enables the building to move through large displacements in unison,…

  • Sushi DNA Tests Reveal Fraud

    Aaron Rowe
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:14 am
    A biologist walks into a sushi bar and orders some tuna. What does he get? Escolar, a nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhea, accompanied by a waxy intestinal discharge. It’s not a joke. It happened five times to the same scientists during a brief research project. The results of that study were published Wednesday in PLOS One. “A piece of tuna sushi has the potential to be an endangered species, a fraud or a health hazard,” wrote the authors. “All three of these cases were uncovered in this study.” The team of researchers from…

  • Ghostly Bones of Galactic Feast Revealed

    Alexis Madrigal
    20 Nov 2009 | 10:08 am
    A new infrared image of the galaxy Centaurus A reveals the gassy, ghastly bones of a galaxy that it consumed several hundred million years ago. The parallelogram of stars leftover from the collision had been obscured by dust. But using new processing techniques in the near-infrared part of the spectrum, European Southern Observatory astronomers were able to glimpse the leftovers of the cosmic dinner. “There is a clear ring of stars and clusters hidden behind the dust lanes, and our images provide an unprecedentedly detailed view toward it,” said Jouni Kainulainen, in a paper on the…

  • When Good Rockets Go Bad

    Annaliza Savage
    19 Nov 2009 | 5:08 pm
    << previous image | next image >> In the grand scheme of human space programs in Russia and the United States, catastrophic failures are relatively rare. But they are often quite spectacular and make a big impression on the public and on the funding for space exploration. The explosions in the videos we’ve assembled here were very costly, some in terms of life, some in terms of lost equipment and all in terms of progress of the space programs. Vanguard TV3 Fuel Tanks Explode Dec. 6, 1957: The United States’ first attempt to launch a satellite into orbit was also its first…

  • Malaria Gaining Resistance to Best Available Treatment

    Nathan Seppa, Science News
    19 Nov 2009 | 4:44 pm
    WASHINGTON — Malaria that is resistant to the best available drug is more widespread in Southeast Asia than previously reported, new research shows. The worrisome finding poses a risk that travelers could carry this strain of the malaria parasite to other parts of the globe and unwittingly spread it, scientists reported Nov. 19 at a meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The frontline drug in question is called artemisinin, the most potent medication currently in use against malaria. Signs of malarial resistance to artemisinin have surfaced over the past several…
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    World of Psychology

  • Woman Loses Sick-Leave Benefits for Depression Thanks to Facebook Pics

    Summer Beretsky
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:17 pm
    Quebec woman Nathalie Blanchard poses on the beach in a Facebook photograph that convinced her insurance company that she was no longer depressed.Can you really determine someone’s mental state by looking at a photograph? Manulife, a Canadian-based financial services company, apparently thinks so. Nathalie Blanchard, a 29-year-old IBM employee from Quebec, took a long-term sick leave from her job after being diagnosed with major depression. Her doctor told her to try & have fun, and to take a sunny vacation to get away from her problems. She did just that while she received monthly…

  • 2009 Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy Recommendations

    John M Grohol PsyD
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:05 am
    Earlier this month, I was honored to attend the 25th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy in Atlanta, Georgia. The focus of this symposium every year is to tackle a particular issue in mental health policy, population or care. This year focused, fittingly enough, on health care reform and how mental health and substance abuse programs need to be an integrated part of that effort: Currently health care in this country is focused on illness rather than health, on procedures and face-to-face interventions rather than on coordination and prevention, and on fragmented,…

  • Year in Review: Your Picks

    John M Grohol PsyD
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:13 am
    It’s that time of the year again, when we pull together our top picks for mental health and psychology stories in the news in the past year. There’s no magic to our choices, we’re just looking for stories that you believe had the biggest positive or negative impact in this area. For instance, last year the passage of the mental health parity law here in the U.S. was the biggest mental health news story of 2008. One example for this year might’ve been the debate we had surrounding what I thought was a pretty sensible law about postpartum depression. You can take a look…

  • Two New Blogs, Always Learning and The Y Factor

    John M Grohol PsyD
    19 Nov 2009 | 11:27 am
    I’m pleased to announce the introduction of two new blogs here in the Psych Central family. The first is from Leigh Pretnar Cousins, MS called Always Learning. Leigh is a private tutor and is studying in educational psychology. Although her blog will focus on the topic of educational psychology and learning, she believes these lessons are of value to all of us throughout life: Every day my work teaches me some lesson that holds, not only for kids, but for all of us. I can hardly wait to share these things with you. I’m excited to have this place to talk about learning and all its…

  • 12 Ways to Be Thankful

    Therese J. Borchard
    19 Nov 2009 | 6:03 am
    To get us in the mood for the Thanksgiving Holiday! Cicero said that “gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” The English preacher John Henry Jowett wrote that “every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.” And according to Aseop Fables, “gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” A dear professor of mine just acknowledged a thank-you note I sent him and told me that “gratitude is the sign of maturity and wisdom.” I don’t feel like I’m very good at…
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    ZDNet

  • Ballmer: Windows 7 sales on a roll

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:55 am
    Delivering opening remarks at Microsoft's shareholder meeting on Thursday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said that Windows 7 was off to a "fantastic start."

  • Cisco launches iPhone security app

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:50 am
    Cisco is offering a free iPhone app that will allow people to get customized alerts on new security threats and other information for safe web browsing.

  • UK police make Zeus Trojan arrests

    19 Nov 2009 | 1:22 pm
    The UK Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit made two arrests earlier this month for suspected use of the Zeus Trojan.

  • Microsoft designs laptop for developer giveaway

    19 Nov 2009 | 5:53 am
    Windows division president Steven Sinofsky took his Windows team through the process of designing and building a Windows 7 laptop in conjunction with Acer.

  • Intel to use EC slip-up in antitrust defense

    18 Nov 2009 | 10:45 am
    Intel plans to use a finding of the European Ombudsman in its appeal against a European Commission antitrust fine.
 
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    MediaPost | Marketing News

  • Marketing Daily: Chrysler Group Offers Incentives

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:16 pm
    Chrysler Group is offering new incentives under a "Year-end Wrap-up." For Chrysler brand vehicles the company is offering 0% financing for up to 60 months or $3,000 as well as All-wheel drive at no cost with the purchase of a Chrysler 300; a no-cost DVD system with the purchase of a Chrysler Town and Country minivan. The company is offering 0% for up to 60 months on Jeep vehicles, with $4,000 and a no-cost service/maintenance program for three years/36,000 miles.

  • Marketing Daily: Reliability As Value Isn't What It Used To Be

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:13 pm
    Auto industry observers have predicted for years that, as automakers get closer and closer to each other in terms of vehicle quality and durability, attributes like looks, vehicle performance, features and gadgets will play a bigger role in consumers' decisions about brands and vehicles.

  • Marketing Daily: Mazda Plans To 'Zoom-Zoom' Past Electrics

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:27 pm
    One strategy will involve focusing on solving gasoline-engines' weak points, such as low-RPM driving, where a car starts at zero to develop initial momentum. That is where hybrid vehicles save gas, since they power a vehicle entirely on electricity to get going. Mazda's Robert Davis also hinted at the possibility that the company may see diesel in its future.

  • Marketing Daily: Study: Credit Card Mailings On The Rise

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:43 am
    "With recent green shoots of economic recovery, card issuers feel more confident about the future," says Mintel Comperemedia's Andrew Davidson. "I anticipate that this winter will mark the start of a turnaround in credit card direct marketing that will be sustained through 2010. This could very well be the beginning of the end for credit card direct mail declines."

  • Marketing Daily: Restaurant Fare To 'Return to Quality' In '10

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:00 am
    "Restaurants are redefining 'value' on the menu - moving away from the cost savings that were so important earlier this year to incorporate high-quality ingredients, classic flavor combinations and authentic, old-fashioned preparations," summed up Mintel Menu Insights analyst Maria Caranfa.
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