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  • The Old Spice Manmercial

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:22 am
    Rather than compete in the Super Bowl's “manliest ad” fight, Old Spice took the digital route. [Amanda's Note: This is the 2010 version of that Mad Men deodorant campaign , and I am now buying Old Spice for every guy I know. You win, corporations!] Watch Video ›

  • 'Miss Me Yet?' Billboard

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:48 am
    The American Association of Volvo Drivers (TM) is all huffy about this anonymous billboard along I-35 in Minnesota. NPR has a reporter on the case; stay tuned. The Best Links: Your request is being processed… Miss Me Yet? Bush Billboard Looms Over Highway (PHOTO) View Image ›

  • Brooklyn Decker: 2010 Swimsuit Issue Cover Girl

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:34 am
    They put a scantily clad woman on the cover of a sporting magazine! Oh, they do that every year. Fun fact: She's married to Andy Roddick, who has a Twitter account , on which he's written about her being scantily clad and stuff. The Best Links: Sports Illustrated 2010 Swimsuit Issue Andy Roddick’s Twitter View Image ›

  • Featured Gold Star Posts - Tuesday, February 9, 2010.

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:30 am
    Here’s some recent posts and contributions that have received gold stars from our editors. Read More ›

  • Serbian Ninja Turtle Song

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:00 pm
    If you thought this was the worst Ninja Turtle song ever; I think you're in for a treat. Watch Video ›
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    Chris Brogan

  • Earn Your GED- Find Success Tomorrow

    chrisbrogan
    9 Feb 2010 | 1:30 am
    No, not your General Equivalent Degree. The GED to which I refer is “guest experience design.” What the heck am I talking about? I’ll tell you. Old words: customer service. New words: guest experience. Disney, where I am this week, has a concept called a Moment of Truth. A moment of truth is “any time a guest comes into contact with any aspect of a business, however remote, is an opportunity to form an impression.” Note that it’s “an impression.” It can be good; it can be bad. Why “guest?” Because guest is much more hospitable than…

  • Pursue the Goal Not the Method

    chrisbrogan
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:30 am
    In the back of a town car hired to take me to the Kansas City International airport, talking to Jeff, a driver with two kids, self-proclaimed ADD, and a history of quitting rote sales jobs every few months, I realized something of importance to the story of what’s brought me to this place: I am a seeker of the goal, not the method. Now, to unpack. The Method Is What We’re Taught to Pursue We learn our times tables. We learn the 50 states (in the US, at least). We are taught all these rules, these patterns, these systems, these methods. Musicians learn their scales. Painters copy…

  • Your Blog From the Prospect’s Point of View

    chrisbrogan
    7 Feb 2010 | 7:34 am
    When you use your blog to complain or report sideways about the industry at large, what message is that sending to your potential new clients? If you’re spending your time analyzing what other people in your space are doing, citing why they’re wrong, and providing your commentary about all the things they’re doing, what does your next potential customer come away thinking? Is your negative commentary helping them make a buying decision? I’ve rarely seen the tactic work in traditional advertising. You can graze them a little bit. For instance, I’m a bit fond of…

  • Just Lucky I Guess – Kitchen Table Talks

    chrisbrogan
    6 Feb 2010 | 1:46 pm
    In this Kitchen Table Talks video, I just want to address all the nice folks who call me lucky, or who think I’m just sitting around being handed my lot in life. Can’t see the video? Click here. Direct link to the video “Lucky” is absolutely what I am. Here’s what I do to earn my luck: Write a blog post or two a day. Write a newsletter every week. Comment and connect with others daily. Answer and send hundreds of emails daily. Read voraciously. Work with the best clients I can find. Reach into new markets weekly. Travel extensively. Seems lucky to me. People…

  • Some Of The Third Tribe Conversations

    chrisbrogan
    6 Feb 2010 | 1:02 pm
    I’m really enjoying participating in the forums at the Third Tribe site. I was just adding my two cents to a handful of forum postings, and thought that I’d show you what some of the topics we’re talking about are, so you’d have a sense of what’s going on. We don’t really share the contents, because the people participating there like having the chance to speak openly/candidly about their marketing challenges, but I don’t see the harm in sharing a few of the topic titles. Here they are: Favorite copywriting and marketing books? Third Tribe Blogroll? 2…
 
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    CNN

  • CNN Student News Transcript: February 9, 2010

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:42 pm
    February 9, 2010

  • Ebadi: Iran abusing rights on many fronts

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:35 pm
    Although I have already highlighted the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran on several occasions in writing and in person, I deem it necessary to once again draw the attention of Your Honor and the distinguished members of the UNHRC to the following issues as you prepare to review the Islamic Republic of Iran's human rights record, on February 15, 2010.

  • Iran official: Window for nuke deal open

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:34 pm
    Iran's envoy to the International International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the window for nuclear negotiations is still open -- even as tensions rise over Iran's decision to defy the world on uranium enrichment.

  • Man goes undercover to combat child sex slavery

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:33 pm
    Aaron Cohen first met Jonty Thern and her older sister, Channy, in 2005 while singing in a karaoke bar in Battambang, Cambodia. He has come back to see them every year since.

  • Toyota recalls may not solve problem, experts say

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:32 pm
    In his hectic, noisy laboratory at the University of Maryland, Michael Pecht is wary when it comes to assessing whether Toyota's suggested repair of sticky gas pedals will have any real impact.
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    HowStuffWorks Daily Feed

  • 5 Surprising Acne Treatments

    8 Feb 2010 | 10:00 am
    When you're desperate to get rid of a pimple, you're willing to try just about anything to make it go away. You might be surprised by some methods of blemish elimination -- especially since some of them haven't been proven to work at all.

  • How ADHD Works

    8 Feb 2010 | 10:00 am
    A new study in the American Journal of Psychiatry shows that girls who have ADHD are more likely than their peers to develop other mental health issues -- like depression and eating disorders. What are some signs that a person has ADHD?

  • 10 Grasses for Your Yard

    8 Feb 2010 | 10:00 am
    Choosing and maintaining a lawn can be a little like falling in love. Compatibility is key, and it's easy to get seduced by a lush, green grass. But that expanse of grass may be a little more high-maintenance than you bargained for.

  • Why do movies cost so much to make?

    8 Feb 2010 | 10:00 am
    Making movies costs a lot of money. Why? The easy answer is that no one knows for sure. The real answer is that someone knows -- but that person isn't going to tell you.

  • Today's Video - Health Tips: Relationship Issues

    8 Feb 2010 | 10:00 am
    Watch this clip for information about the science behind love, cheating, and jealousy.
 
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  • German thief successfully robs arcade using a cup of coffee

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:30 am
    A thief in the German town of Hamelin robbed an amusement arcade by threatening the attendant with a cup of coffee

  • Krugman: ‘Dark age of macroeconomics’ is upon us

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:30 am
    In Stata Center lecture, the Nobel Prize-winning former MIT professor warns that America is replaying its past economic policy mistakes.

  • What English Sounds like to People in other Countries

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:10 am
    Here are a few videos to show what English sounds like to people around the world. As English speakers, we have a lot of fun imitating what certain languages sound like to us, such as French, Italian, and Chinese.

  • Top 10 Games Of The Decade

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    It's 2010 now, baby, and the past 10 years have given us a wide variety of memorable cinematic and gaming moments: exploding Halo rings, the killing of Bill, a war against the gods and the history of violence. In the theater we saw the best superhero movies of all time. On the couch we played the greatest shooters ever created.

  • Twins Discover Teenage Brother’s Death on Facebook

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:50 am
    Instead of finding happy birthday wishes, the two twins found messages of “RIP Bobby” (their brother) and “RIP Chris Naylor” (a friend of his) all across their Facebook news feeds. Completely shocked, baffled, and hurt, the two rang their brother’s phone in the hopes it was a mistake. It was to no avail.
 
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    Dumb Little Man

  • The Power of Thinking Big

    Mark Harrison
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:03 am
    We've been conditioned to think small, simplify, not to be greedy, and to overall expect less and demand less from life. We’ve been taught that we should be happy and thankful with what we have and that there are many others less fortunate than ourselves.I read somewhere that, as an experiment, someone put two adverts in a newspaper. They were for the same job, doing the same work with the same hours, but one of them offered to pay a salary many times the other. Guess what? About ten times more people applied for the lower paid job! People think small. And that's one of the reasons they…

  • Who’s In Charge of Your Life?

    Ali
    7 Feb 2010 | 12:04 am
    This might seem like an odd question. Who’s in charge of your life? Who tells you what to do? Who says which choices are valid, and which are silly or self-indulgent?On the surface of it, if you’re an adult, there’s probably no-one standing next to you and telling you exactly what you should be doing. But many of us have ceded control of our lives to someone else. Often unconsciously, we’ve taken on their values, even their likes and dislikes, and we’ve made them their own.Do you ever feel that you “should” be doing something that you aren’t? Why? Is that impulse really from…

  • 8 Foods That Will Hide Your Bad Breath

    Krizia MissK
    6 Feb 2010 | 4:54 am
    There’s nothing worse than having bad breath and not knowing about it!There are certain foods that are guaranteed to cause bad breath. Most people are quite aware that eating foods such as curry, garlic, onions or coffee before a meeting or function might be the kiss of death when it comes to social etiquette.You can try chewing gum, but you’ll have to chew for a long time because until that bad-breath-causing-food clears from your system (which can take up to 24 hours), you’ll be stuck with that bad breath. That’s unless you know which foods you can eat to mask the problem.When it…

  • 50 Ways You Can Create a Better Day

    DLM Writers
    5 Feb 2010 | 6:45 am
    Every now and then I wake up in a crappy mood, feeling totally unmotivated and not wanting to do anything or see anyone. It could be due to something bad happening the previous day, or it could be due to nothing at all. I just feel crabby for no reason. Weird, I know. But, I'm sure you know what I mean. Everyone has experienced dreadful waking moments in the past.In fact, it is not really surprising that a lot of people nowadays feel bad the moment they wake up. If you are bombarded with negative news like the recent airplane crotch-bomb threat and the Haiti earthquake, it is little wonder…

  • 5 Reasons You May Want to Start a Side Business

    Ali
    4 Feb 2010 | 3:10 am
    Whether your “real” work is a full-time day job, an academic course, or taking care of kids, you might have a few hours to spare each week which you’d like to use productively. Have you ever thought about starting a side business?A few years ago, I thought that “business” was the realm of tough go-getters with a focus on profit and nothing else. Since then, I’ve met lots of individuals who run their own businesses from a couple who make rosettes for horse shows in their spare time, to people working as consultants with government organizations. These business owners come from all…
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    Essential Reads

  • Psychology: Apparently it isn't rocket science

    Art Markman, Ph.D.
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:57 am
    When you sign on to be a Psychologist, you have taken on the study of a topic that is both extraordinarily complex and underappreciated. Many people have an interesting attitude toward Psychology. On the one hand, they are interested enough to want to read news stories and blog entries, but on the other hand they often get the sense that Psychology isn't doing the heavy lifting of "hard" sciences like chemistry and physics. Even within the scientific community, Psychology is often the Rodney Dangerfield of sciences. There are plenty of Nobel laureates like Roger Penrose and Francis Crick who…

  • The Supportive Spouse: How to Get the Right Kind of Emotional Support

    Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D.
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:45 pm
    “I wish he’d be more supportive.”  Here’s what I’ve heard (almost as often) in response.  “I try to be supportive, but she doesn’t appreciate it.”  And the first-runner-up response?  “I don’t know what to do when she gets upset.  It’s like she wants me to read her mind.” So what’s the disconnect?  A recent series of University of Iowa studies suggests that “supportive” has almost as many interpretations as ”commitment” or “love.”  For instance, a five year study of 103 newly married husbands and wives identified four…

  • What Do Men and Women Want? Ask the Superbowl Ads

    Wednesday Martin, Ph.D.
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:24 am
    Human orcas performing for pretzels. Chickens scared to death of Denny's Grand Slam offers. That Dorito's kids who doesn't want to share his mom, or his Dorito's--and not necessarily in that order--with mom's new suitor.Yes, the Superbowl is the one time of the year we aren't grumbling about advertising as interruption, but looking to it for entertainment. And the advertising industry knows it, unveiling their riskiest, most expensive, and sometimes (they hope) funniest or most moving efforts for the occasion. Sometimes the ads are too hokey or even incomprehensible for words--remember the…

  • Why the Ban on Hand-held Devices in Cars May Not Reduce Accidents

    Satoshi Kanazawa
    7 Feb 2010 | 3:47 pm
    A recent study shows that, contrary to expectations, the ban on the use of hand-held devices like cell phones while driving has not reduced the number of accidents on the road.  How could that be? The study, conducted by the Highway Loss Data Institute (it’s the only research institute that I know of whose name consists of four disjointed nouns), examines auto collision insurance claims in the three states (NY, CT, and CA) and the District of Columbia, all of which have introduced a ban on the use of hand-held devices while driving.  The study compares the rates of accident claims…

  • Special Super Bowl Post: The Marvels of Football Psychology

    Stanton Peele
    7 Feb 2010 | 5:44 am
    Today is Super Bowl Sunday - the supreme day of national communion in the United States.The two teams confronting one another both have remarkable back-stories. The New Orleans Saints, of course, represent a city that has been assailed by nature and, equally, the failures of local, state, and national governance. The team has never before been to the Super Bowl - indeed, half of the teams' total franchise playoff victories of four have occurred this year. Who can help but root for them?But the team they face, the Indianapolis Colts, has had its own challenges. The Colts had football's worst…
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    Guy Kawasaki

  • How to Avoid Gullibility

    GuyKawasaki
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:45 pm
    We’ve all been sucked into doing something stupid, right? Fortunately, Steven Greenspan has written a book called Annals of Gullibility. In its conclusion he explains how to avoid gullibility, and I’ve provided a synopsis for you. Read the full story at the American Express Open Forum. More on psychology if you need the advice.

  • How to Be Empathetic

    GuyKawasaki
    4 Feb 2010 | 10:24 pm
    By definition, good marketers are empathetic. That is, they have a capacity to understand and care for the needs of others. Bruna Martinuzzi explains how to be empathetic over at the American Express Open Forum.

  • How to Not Be Annoying on Twitter

    GuyKawasaki
    4 Feb 2010 | 10:19 pm
    Amber MacArthur explains how to not be annoying on Twitter over at the American Express Open Forum. Sage advice for you to develop a great reputation and following on Twitter. More Twitter tips.

  • The Elements of Guyle: British Blogging

    GuyKawasaki
    27 Jan 2010 | 10:06 pm
    Want to make your blog classier? You should blog like a Brit. I explain how to do this in ten easy steps.

  • How to follow the Apple announcement

    GuyKawasaki
    27 Jan 2010 | 7:56 am
    Follow the Apple announcement at Apple.alltop. We aggregate over 200 sources there.
 
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    Lifehacker

  • 1DayLater Tracks and Graphs Your Time, Money, and Mileage [Time Tracker]

    Kevin Purdy
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    If it's time for a self-assessment of where your workday time or cash go, 1DayLater can help. If you're a freelancer looking for lightweight client tracking, 1DayLater's also got game. It's a really lightweight, web-based tool for watching where everything goes.After signing up and signing in, you'll see 1DayLater's basic interface: Value, Project, Date, and the optional "Note." If you drove 18 miles earlier to pick up poster something for a project, simply enter "18m" in Value, "Smith Account" in Project, and "Today" in date, and type in "Poster supplies" in note if you need to. That's…

  • Learn Basic Color Theory for Better Designs [Design]

    Kevin Purdy
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am
    Whether you're putting together a portfolio web site or just slapping together some slides, knowing how colors affect the minds of your audience makes your message more appealing. Smashing magazine offers a post that serves as Color Psychology 101 for would-be designers.Beyond explaining which colors work as "warm" and "cool," how primaries play off secondary colors, and offering lots of keen examples of every kind of color design, Smashing's post offers some clues on how colors are perceived when images are translated to mental impressions. Here's a little primer on orange that caught me…

  • Dropbox Extension Puts One-Click Access to Your Dropbox Files in Chrome [Downloads]

    Jason Fitzpatrick
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:30 am
    Google Chrome: If you're a frequent Chrome and Dropbox user, this unofficial Dropbox extension puts one-click access to your Dropbox files right on the Google Chrome toolbar.Once installed, the Dropbox extension places a small Dropbox icon in your Google Chrome toolbar. After your initial sign-in, clicking on the icon presents the menu seen here. You can select between your recently updated files and your folder structure to quickly navigate to the file you're looking for. Clicking on any given file will either display or play the file in your browser or download it to your computer for local…

  • Sketchpad Is a No-Flash-Required HTML5 Painting App [Webapps]

    Kevin Purdy
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    Chrome/Firefox/Safari: Want proof that HTML5 is the way of the future? Try Sketchpad, a surprisingly robust online painting app that doesn't require Flash, Shockwave, or any other plug-in—just a modern browser and a mouse.Run by a team that dubs themselves Colorjack, this "Sketchpad" demo shows off the capabilities of modern JavaScript and HTML5 support. You can paint any color in any shade or opacity, take on patterns and "Spirographs," and use all the tools you're likely familiar with from Microsoft's older versions of that old Paint standby. Sketchpad also offers a handful of control…

  • What to Do If Your Toyota's Been Recalled [Cars]

    Kevin Purdy
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:30 am
    Got one of those Toyotas with the "sticky" gas pedal? Maybe a just-recalled Prius? Don't trade in your car or panic if your dealer's booked through next week. Here's a few tips from the experts on saving money and driving safely.First off, if you're not sure whether your Toyota might be part of the recall or not, here's the read-out. 2010-model Prius hybrids are soon to be called in for a fix to the anti-lock brake software. Toyota's own recall page has the lengthy details and model list. Otherwise, here's CNNMoney's thumbnail of the list: Which cars are involved? The stuck-pedal recall of…
 
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    MAKE Magazine

  • 9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    We're all suckers for romance, even if most of us believe Valentine's Day is a holiday dreamed up by industry fatcats. Here are MAKE's staff picks for ways to celebrate with that special someone, maker style. Read on, it's a big list! Build a bike A personalized bike built for your sweetie can be really romantic, since all that hard work and custom choices relate specifically to the one you love. MAKE Advisory Board member Saul Griffith built a bike for his lady, Staff Editor Arwen O'Reilly Griffith. She writes: When my husband and I were dating, we had a running argument about flowers. I…

  • Don't walk! Controlling a pedestrian sign with an Arduino

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am
    In this tutorial about controlling a pedestrian sign with an Arduino you can learn a few important things. #1 How to control relays with an Arduino, which is really useful for a ton of different projects. #2 How to use an IR remote to control your Arduino, another cool technique. #3 Never trust a crosswalk sign with an Arduino hanging out of it! My latest project is controlling a pedestrian sign with an Arduino, so it will automatically step through the states of walk, flashing don't walk, and solid don't walk. In addition, I added infrared remote control support so I can use a remote control…

  • UC Berkeley has "Nobel Laureate Only" parking spaces

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    Image courtesy Jonathan Fiamor Photography. When I was at UT Austin, a school which is famously car-unfriendly, it was rumored that one of the elder patriarchs of the College of Natural Sciences--a man who had multiple doctoral degrees and had been given countless awards for his work both as a scientific researcher and an educational administrator--had once quipped that the honor that was most valuable to him, on a daily basis, was the "O" parking permit that let him leave his car literally in the shadow of UT's iconic tower. Well, in terms of available parking, UC Berkeley makes UT Austin…

  • LEGO PCB Agitator

    9 Feb 2010 | 4:00 am
    Etching your own PCBs can be a time consuming chore to say the least. Anything that automates the process or cuts down on the time it takes is usually appreciated. Maker Rui Cabral of Oporto, Portugal pieced together this handy PCB agitator out of LEGO to help him speed things up a bit. The project initially took him only 20 minutes from start to finish. More:HOW TO - Make Printed circuit boards - An illustrated guide (and round up)HOW TO - Use a laser to etch PCBs (printed circuit boards)PCB makingPCB etching on the cheapInkjet PCB kits Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles…

  • Volkemon in Space: Additional launch pics

    8 Feb 2010 | 8:30 pm
    Our favorite armchair astronaut, Rachel, is sleeping off all the adrenalin and exhaustion of covering the STS-130 shuttle launch for MAKE. (Great job, Rach!) So, we crowd-sourced a few more pictures from Make: Online member Volkemon, who was also on-hand for the big blast. Here are a couple of his pics (that's him and his mom in the top one, the causeway and the moon before launch, and the launch). There are a few more pics, and others from previous launches, in his Flickr sets. Thanks, Volkemon! Volkemon's photostream More:Rachel in Space: A dream realizedRachel in Space: Wake up (or stay…
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    Mashable!

  • World’s Longest-Married Couple to Answer Your Romantic Queries Via Twitter

    Brenna Ehrlich
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:39 am
    If Dear Abby and your therapist just aren’t cutting it this Valentine’s Day, you can tweet at the world’s longest-married (living) couple, Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher, for the scoop on how to score and sustain love. That’s right, while some of the older set just can’t wrap their heads around Twitter (unless it’s connected to a fax machine), the Fishers will be all up on the microblogging site this V-Day, dispensing pearls of wisdom to the younger set (for whom the sanctity of marriage has already been destroyed by Facebook). The whole project was dreamed up…

  • Aperture 3 Hits the Apple Store

    Christina Warren
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:27 am
    Earlier this morning, the Apple Store was down for a protracted amount of time. That almost always means one thing: Something new was added to the store. This time, it was Aperture 3. Aperture is Apple’s photo management and editing software for professionals or users who just want more power than Apple’s iPhoto can offer. In many ways, you could call Aperture iPhoto Pro — and that looks like it’s an even more apt description in the latest version.The software — which is $199 for new users and $99 to upgrade from a previous version of Aperture — lets you…

  • Mashable Launches TED Channel

    Pete Cashmore
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:59 am
    TED, the Technology Entertainment Design conference, is renowned for bringing together the world’s smartest and most creative people. TED 2010 starts today in Long Beach, California, and we’ll be bringing you coverage of the event all week.To help you track the most insightful presentations and news at TED, we’re launching a dedicated TED channel today at mashable.com/ted. Don’t forget to check out the TED channel – or bookmark it – to see what the world’s most influential people are saying about technology and social media innovation.If you’re…

  • 9 Odd But Awesome Tumblr Blogs

    Brenna Ehrlich
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:21 am
    In honor of the grueling work days in the immediate future and Tom Selleck’s glorious ’stache, we thought it prudent to offer up a list of single-serving Tumblr blogs that are sure to provide you with a much-needed helping of entertainment. This list is far from comprehensive, seeing as how there’s scores of Tumblrs on the web — with more popping up every day — but it does contain both staff and popular favorites. We know we’ll probably miss a few that you have bookmarked, so please feel free to post them in the comments.Selleck Waterfall SandwichThis blog…

  • Navigon GPS iPhone App Gets Twitter and Facebook Support

    Stan Schroeder
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:11 am
    Navigon’s MobileNavigator, one of the first iPhone apps to offer real turn-by-turn GPS navigation, has established itself as one of the best such applications available for Apple’s smartphone.The latest version of the app (available here) has an option to alert your buddies to your current location via Facebook or Twitter. It also adds an option called MyRoutes, which enables you to create custom routes according to your needs and habits. Finally, Panorama View 3D gives you a 3D terrain view, based on NASA’s data.The price of the app itself is currently $20 cheaper than…
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    Mind Hacks

  • Nine Legendary Hypochondriacs

    vaughan
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    ABC Radio National's Late Night Live has a fascinating discussion with the author of a new book on nine famous hypochondriacs: James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Alice James, Daniel Paul Schreber, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould and Andy Warhol. I'm not sure Daniel Paul Schreber is necessarily the best example of someone with hypochondria is he is famous for writing a personal account of being genuinely mentally ill and floridly psychotic. However, I've not read the book and the programme focuses on better known figures so I am open to being convinced (certainly…

  • Bonuses generate more heat than light

    vaughan
    6 Feb 2010 | 9:11 am
    The engaging behavioural economist Dan Ariely has just become a columnist for Wired UK and in his first article he describes how the promise of performance-related pay often backfires leading people to do more but perform worse. To see the effect of bonuses on performance, Nina Mazar (assistant professor of marketing, Toronto University), Uri Gneezy (professor of economics and strategy, University of California, San Diego), George Loewenstein (professor of economics, Carnegie Mellon, Pennsylvania) and I conducted three experiments. In one we gave subjects tasks that demanded attention,…

  • 2010-02-05 Spike activity

    vaughan
    5 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: Sex addiction is a feminist victory, according to an article in Slate, apparently because it allows man shaming. Malevolence-based medicine rears its ugly head. The BPS Research Digest covers research finding CBT-based self-help books might do more harm than good for people who worry a lot. The public are asked for their opinion on the recent news that The Lancet retracts the Wakefield autism paper, by The Onion. Neurophilosophy has an excellent piece on big news that the first evidence for navigation essential grid cells in the human…

  • Eureka brain special and more fighting

    vaughan
    4 Feb 2010 | 10:00 am
    The Times has just released its monthly science magazine, Eureka, with a special issue on the brain and all the articles freely available online. There doesn't seem to be a way to link to a whole issue, but inside you'll find an excellent piece on the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to temporarily switch off bits of the working brain, a profile of neurosurgeon Huma Sethi, an article on commercial brain-computer interfaces, a remarkable piece on how old injuries can 'return' to affect phantom limbs as well as an exploration of the link between brain activity and sporting skill.

  • Time to think

    vaughan
    4 Feb 2010 | 4:00 am
    Bioemphemera has found some wonderfully left-field brain illustrations by Dutch graphic designer Rhonald Blommestijn. The image on the left is a brain made out of clocks. Blommestijn's blog is full of strikingly surreal eye-candy that manages both to inspire a feeling of wide-eyed wonder and illustrate scientific themes. They're certainly very original takes on the subject and the neuroscience images are particularly vivid. Link to Bioephemera on Blommestijn's brain illustrations. Link to Blommestijn's blog.
 
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    Neuromarketing

  • Cookie Framing

    Roger Dooley
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:34 am
    Years ago, when The Tonight Show ruled late-night TV and when all the guests weren’t celebrities promoting their latest book, movie, or TV show, host Johnny Carson interviewed the Girl Scout who sold the most cookies that year. This young lady, Markita Andrews, set a cookie-sales record that has yet to be broken. [...] CommentsComments

  • Post-Super Bowl Briefing

    Roger Dooley
    8 Feb 2010 | 6:36 am
    Very soon, we will be subjected to a variety of neuromarketing-based opinions on which Super Bowl 2010 ads worked, and which didn’t. While we are awaiting these analyses, I thought I’d point readers at a good article on one kind of neuromarketing study methodology by WIRED writer Alexis Madrigal. It’s accurate, largely devoid [...] CommentsHi Roger- Thanks for the post. You are correct that we are in ... by Ron Wright

  • Neuromarketing Foes Use Subliminal Text?

    Roger Dooley
    2 Feb 2010 | 5:08 am
    Yesterday I wrote about the latest anti-neuromarketing flap in Guard Your Reptilian Brain! While researching that post, I found an interesting spinoff at another site, Progressives, South Bend. I initially couldn’t find the text “neuromarketing” on that page. When I searched the page text, I found what looked like a short horizontal [...] CommentsGreat catch Roger. As someone very famous once said : Judgment ... by christophe morinhahaha, and I even mentioned subliminals in my comment ... by Sculptor?!?Plus 2 more...

  • Guard Your Reptilian Brain!

    Roger Dooley
    1 Feb 2010 | 4:28 am
    Every year or so, some fuzzy-thinking critic reads an article about neuromarketing, becomes extremely agitated, and tries to raise the alarm about marketers turning consumers into mind-controlled zombies. The latest push of the neuro-panic button began with an article on a site called Truthout (fresh out of truth, perhaps?). Truthout seems to be a [...] CommentsThe writers from Truthout are not fully aware that the ... by CindyLet's be fair. To those who don't understand something, it's ... by Brendon ClarkPlus 7 more...

  • WIRED Throwing Biometric Super Bowl Party

    Roger Dooley
    29 Jan 2010 | 10:21 am
    Every year, there is a burst of neuromarketing-related activity coinciding with the Super Bowl. After all, that game features commercials that people actually watch, and the cost of airing each ad is the highest of any program throughout the entire year. One staple of Super Bowl Sunday is the party – millions will [...] Comments*reposted to my blog* Thanks Roger! by CindyI am a fan of neuroscience and marketing and am glad that there ... by CindyPlus 2 more...
 
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  • FLAP Videos from a Navajo Reservation

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:44 am
    Editor's note: For more on the FLAP off-grid solar project, see the PopTech FLAP page. One might think of living at the “base of the pyramid” as an unimaginably difficult situation confined to those in the developing world, but there are plenty of people living at the base right here in the United States in the 21st century--people like Pat Boone. I met Pat Boone just outside of a ceremony his community was holding in order to heal his brother’s abdominal pains after traditional medicine failed to provide relief. Pat is a tiny man with laughing eyes that are partially blind, leaving him…

  • Paving a Nuanced Path for Online Privacy

    5 Feb 2010 | 10:54 am
    Make no mistake: the privacy debate is hotter (and louder) than ever. The recent uproar over Facebook’s new Terms of Service – and then, even more recently, Twitter’s new service terms – is all about privacy, says Helen Nissenbaum, an associate professor in NYU’s Department of Culture and Communication and a Senior Fellow of the NYU Information Law Institute. But what people really care about today when they complain that their privacy has been violated, Nissenbaum says, is not the fact that their personal information has been shared, but that it’s been shared inappropriately.

  • A New PopTech Fellows 2009 Video

    4 Feb 2010 | 11:19 am
    We announced a call for nominations for the 2010 class of PopTech Social Innovation Fellows this week, so I edited a video to accompany the email announcement. Typically during the PopTech conference I’m running around with the camera crew, missing all the edifying and moving moments taking place on stage, so I was excited to finally watch the 2009 Fellows’ videos in their entirety while pulling this short piece together. Editing always involves a dance between what’s being said, where the camera was focused when the great moments took place, and how each piece fits with every other…

  • Apply Now to be a Global Citizen Year Fellow

    4 Feb 2010 | 7:59 am
    Editor's note: Wil Keenan heads up communications and technology at Global Citizen Year, an organization led by PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Abby Falik. Watch Abby's PopTech talk to learn more. Each year, Global Citizen Year (GCY) selects and trains a corps of HS grads and supports them in apprenticeships across Asia, Africa and Latin America during a bridge year before college. Our first corps of Fellows launched last fall and now we're searching for our 2010 Fellows. Do you know any high school seniors or educators who might be interested? Help us spread the word! Since the 2009 Fellows…

  • The Grand Disappointment: Apple and Obama after Hype and Hope

    1 Feb 2010 | 9:47 pm
    Some languages are more precise than others. German's word for disappointment, “Enttäuschung,” for example, literally translates as “disillusion” and thus implies that the prerequisite of any disappointment is excessive (and false!) expectation. As if that needed any further evidence, Apple’s iPad presentation and President Obama’s first State of the Union address last Wednesday marked the preliminary culmination of an obvious trend: disappointment as a widespread sentiment and cultural subtext at the dawn of this young decade. Both Apple and Obama are…
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    Psychology / Psychiatry News From Medical News Today

  • Morality Research Sheds Light On The Origins Of Religion

    9 Feb 2010 | 3:00 am
    The details surrounding the emergence and evolution of religion have not been clearly established and remain a source of much debate among scholars. Now, an article published by Cell Press in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences on February 8 brings a new understanding to this long-standing discussion by exploring the fascinating link between morality and religion...

  • Following DCIS Diagnosis, Psychosicail Interventions Recommended

    9 Feb 2010 | 3:00 am
    A new analysis has found that women with medium or low levels of income are particularly susceptible to anxiety and depression after being diagnosed with the precancerous breast condition, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)...

  • Feeling Gray, Not Blue, Using Colors To Describe Emotions

    9 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am
    People with anxiety and depression are most likely to use a shade of gray to represent their mental state. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Medical Research Methodology describe the development of a color chart, The Manchester Color Wheel, which can be used to study people's preferred pigment in relation to their state of mind...

  • Can Memory Be Improved? A Meta-Analysis Suggests It Does

    9 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am
    A meta-analysis published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics by Swiss investigators B. Metternich and associates indicates the effectiveness of non pharmacological interventions on memory complaints. Subjective memory complaints (SMC) in the absence of psychiatric or neurological disorders are common among older adults...

  • Brain Area Responsible For Fear Of Losing Money Discovered

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and their colleagues have tied the human aversion to losing money to a specific structure in the brain - the amygdala...
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    Scientific American

  • What Happens in the Amygdala... Damage to Brain's Decision-Making Area May Encourage Dicey Gambles

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am
    Imagine you've lost your job. You have some money saved, and a chance to double it with a gamble. But if you lose the bet, you'll forfeit everything. What would you do? [More]

  • Python Predation: Big snakes poised to change U.S. ecosystems

    9 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am
    Brought to the U.S. as pets, Burmese pythons have made headlines with their uncontrolled spread in the Florida Everglades and willingness to challenge alligators for the position of top predator. A report released by the U.S. Geological Survey last fall delivered more bad news: two other constrictor species, also former pets, are thriving in the area, and six others could pose similar threats. Researchers fear that reproductive populations could spread and eat native animals into extinction.The new interlopers--northern and southern African pythons, reticulated pythons, boa constrictors and…

  • Distracted Customers' Wait Times Fly

    8 Feb 2010 | 9:05 pm
    You know what it’s like. Sit chatting with a friend, and the hours can zip by. But once someone puts you on hold [audio: bad on-hold music] or makes you wait in line, each second feels interminable. But Dan Zakay of Tel Aviv University has some tricks for businesses to keep waiting customers happy. He published the psychology research in the journal NeuroQuantology . [More]

  • The Advantages of Being Helpless

    8 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    At every stage of early development, human babies lag behind infants from other species.  A kitten can amble across a room within moments of birth and catch its first mouse within weeks, while its wide-eyed human counterpart takes months to make her first step, and years to learn even simple tasks, such as how to tie a shoelace or skip a rope, let alone prepare a three-course meal. Yet, in the cognitive race, human babies turn out to be much like the tortoise in Aesop’s fable: emerging triumphant after a slow and steady climb to the finish. As adults, we drive fancy sports…

  • Scientists baffled by Amazon mystery

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:31 pm
    Aerial images show the remains of a mysterious ancient civilization in Brazil's Amazon forest.
 
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  • No Sense Of Humor, TechCrunch Is Blocked In China

    Erick Schonfeld
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:44 am
    Over the past 48 hours, and perhaps longer, it appears that TechCrunch is being blocked inside China. We’ve confirmed this with contacts and tipsters inside China who can no longer access our site, as well as through Web tools such as WeSsitePulse and Just Ping which pings sites from inside China’s Great Firewall. Both of those services indicate that, at least in Shanghai, readers cannot connect to TechCrunch. Chinese readers have reported problems accessing the site in the past as well. If you are located in China and you can read this, please let us know in comments. We are not…

  • Fotomoto Upgrades Service; Attracts New Users, Investors And Board Members

    Robin Wauters
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:43 am
    In May 2009, we covered the launch of Fotomoto, a Web-based photo monetization service built by the eponymous startup based out of San Francisco. The product has grown a lot since then, and founder & CEO Ahmad Kiarostami informs us that they have signed up 2800 website publishers since launching publicly, which translates to some 610,000 photos to date. Some of these publishers are big names – Mirror.co.uk for instance uses Fotomoto to monetize its photographs on-site. Fotomoto’s website has recently received a make-over, and now doubles as a browser-based marketplace where…

  • CrunchGear Reviews the Withings Tweeting WiFi Scale

    John Biggs
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:38 am
    So the Internet made me fat. That and all the beer. Anyway, now I'm going to depend on the Internet to make me skinny again and I think the Withings WiFi scale is just the thing to get me back in Abraham Lincoln mode. This glass scale features a body mass sensor complete with invisible electrodes as well as a backlit OLED readout. To start, you connect the scale to your computer via USB and assign your wireless hotspot. Then each time you hop on the scale you wait for the electrodes to sense your body fat (or if they can't it just transmits your weight) and then you check your progress…

  • Pursway Scores $6 Million To Help Companies Leverage The Power Of Social Influencers

    Leena Rao
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am
    We wrote about the power of brand buzz on social media sites yesterday, and one contributing aspect to buzz are individuals who are “influencers,” similar in some ways to the trend that Malcolm Gladwell highlighted in The Tipping Point. But how do companies find and then leverage the power of these influencers on the web? Israeli startup Pursway (formerly known as Datanetis), aims to help companies identify the influencers and followers for each product or offer within their customer database. The startup has just raised $6 million in Series A funding from Battery Ventures.

  • IVT Raises $5.5 Million For Webcasting Software

    Leena Rao
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:28 am
    IVT, a company that produces enterprise-friendly webcasting software, has raised $5.5 million in Series B funding from Syncom Venture Partners with Barshop Ventures, Monitor Ventures and Tudor Ventures participating in the investment round. IVT raised $3 million in Series A funding in 2006. IVT’s SaaS offering not only helps power webcasts, but also converts multimedia files, such as slideshows, into viewable videos for the web. IVT also offers a YouTube-like hosting and social media site for companies to disseminate videos and webcasts. And the startup has a number of prominent…
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    Techmeme

  • The Man Who Looked Into Facebook's Soul (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:40 am
    Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: The Man Who Looked Into Facebook's Soul  —  Youth social networking researcher danah boyd has observed that many people presume the way they use social networks is the way everyone uses them.  “I interviewed gay men who thought Friendster was a gay dating site because all they saw were other gay men,” she says.

  • Apple Job Posting Suggests Video Recording Coming to Future iPad Models (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    Eric Slivka / MacRumors: Apple Job Posting Suggests Video Recording Coming to Future iPad Models  —  A new job posting on Apple's site suggests that the company is preparing to add still and video camera capabilities to its iPad tablet device in the future.  The position is for a quality assurance engineer …

  • comScore Reports December 2009 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share (comScore, Inc.)

    9 Feb 2010 | 5:45 am
    comScore, Inc.: comScore Reports December 2009 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share  —  Nearly Two-Thirds of America's 234 Million Mobile Subscribers used Text Messaging in December 2009  —  comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service …

  • Will You Be E-Mailing This Column? It's Awesome (John Tierney/New York Times)

    9 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am
    John Tierney / New York Times: Will You Be E-Mailing This Column?  It's Awesome  —  Sociologists have developed elaborate theories of who spreads gossip and news — who tells whom, who matters most in social networks — but they've had less success measuring what kind of information travels fastest.  Do people prefer to spread good news or bad news?

  • Google Launches Phone Support For The Nexus One, Lowers ETF By $200 (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch)

    9 Feb 2010 | 2:40 am
    Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch: Google Launches Phone Support For The Nexus One, Lowers ETF By $200  —  Since the launch of the Nexus One, early adopters have likely had one question lurking in the back of their minds: who to take the phone to if it broke.  You see, when the phone was first launched, Google was directing people …
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    Science Daily

  • Marijuana ineffective as an Alzheimer's treatment

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am
    The benefits of marijuana in tempering or reversing the effects of Alzheimer's disease have been challenged in a new study.

  • Poor hand-grip strength associated with poor survival

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am
    Poor or declining hand-grip strength in the oldest old is associated with poor survival and may be used as a tool to assess mortality, found a new article. The fastest growing segment of the elderly population is the group older than 85 years, classified as the oldest old.

  • Probing exoplanets from the ground: A little telescope goes a long way

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am
    NASA astronomers have successfully demonstrated that a David of a telescope can tackle Goliath-size questions in the quest to study Earth-like planets around other stars. Their work provides a new tool for ground-based observatories, promising to accelerate by years the search for prebiotic, or life-related, molecules on planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system.

  • Detecting cancer early

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am
    A new testing method is being developed to detect cancer soon after the tumor has formed. It will identify characteristic substances in the blood which accompany a certain type of tumor. The first steps in the development have already been completed.

  • Ultra-cold chemistry: First direct observation of exchange process in quantum gas

    9 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am
    Considerable progresses made in controlling quantum gases open up a new avenue to study chemical processes. An Austrian research team has now succeeded in directly observing chemical exchange processes in an ultra-cold sample of cesium atoms and Feshbach molecules.
 
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    Stuff White People Like

  • #131 Conan O’Brien

    clander
    13 Jan 2010 | 12:28 pm
    The recent news that Conan O’Brien will be replaced by Jay Leno has caused white people to erupt with rage and hostility. You might even expect them to lash out and do something about it like take to the streets or write a letter to NBC to voice their dissatisfaction with the network. But no, white people will solve this problem the way that they solved the election crisis in Iran – through Facebook and Twitter status updates. In 2009, millions of white people took 35 seconds to turn their twitter profiles green, and consequently sent a very powerful message to the leaders of Iran.

  • #130 Ray-Ban Wayfarers

    clander
    22 Dec 2009 | 3:03 pm
    White people can do powerful things with their eyes: casting judgment, indicating scorn, and obnoxiously rolling them when someone says something they don’t agree with. Yet in spite of these powers, they are not immune to the dangers of the sun. So white people must wear sunglasses. But what may surprise you is that while white people will spend upwards of three months finding a perfect pair of unique prescription glasses, they have no such requirement for sunglasses. Right now, all white people are either wearing or coveting a pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses. These sunglasses are…

  • Stuff White People Like Book Available in UK Today, author to talk at LSE on October 22nd.

    clander
    5 Oct 2009 | 1:55 pm
    Hardie Grant UK has just released Stuff White People Like: The Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions in the UK on Monday 5th October (Retail price £7.99).  It is available from Waterstones, Borders and at Amazon.co.uk. Also, Stuff White People Like author Christian Lander will be giving at talk at the London School of Economics Title: STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE – How to find social success with the urban-dwelling middle classes Date and Time:  Thursday 22nd October, 6.30pm Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2…

  • #129 Banksy

    clander
    4 Oct 2009 | 8:06 pm
    Keeping up with art is hard; trips to galleries, enormous books, and costly bi-annual magazines are just a few of the many expenses you will incur during the process of attempting to stay current with art. While the challenge and difficult of this proposition would seem to actually attract more white people than dissuade them, the amount of work required to become and remain an expert on art is simply too much for the majority of white people. Of course there are exceptions such as the people who have invested both their money and their lives into the appreciation of art: people with Art…

  • #128 Camping

    clander
    14 Aug 2009 | 2:13 pm
    If you find yourself trapped in the middle of the woods without electricity, running water, or a car you would likely describe that situation as a “nightmare” or “a worse case scenario like after plane crash or something.” White people refer to it as “camping.” When white people begin talking to you about camping they will do their best to tell you that it’s very easy and it allows them to escape the pressures and troubles of the urban lifestyle for a more natural, simplified, relaxing time. Nothing could be further from the truth. In theory camping…
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    Wired Science

  • Stunningly Preserved 165-Million-Year Old Spider Fossil Found

    Tia Ghose
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:11 pm
    Scientists have unearthed an almost perfectly preserved spider fossil in China dating back to the middle Jurassic era, 165 million years ago. The fossilized spiders, Eoplectreurys gertschi, are older than the only two other specimens known by around 120 million years. The level of detail preserved in the fossils is amazing, said paleontologist Paul Selden of the University of Kansas and lead author of the study appearing Feb. 6 in Naturwissenschaften. “You go in with a microscope, and bingo! It’s fantastic.” The fossils were found at a site called Daohugou in Northern China…

  • Audio: DIY Recordings of Awakening Sun

    Alexis Madrigal
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:20 pm
    As the sun emerges from a long lull in activity, the star’s emissions in the radio band of the spectrum have also picked up. And from a shed on three acres of land outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft is making recordings of them available for download. “The Sun has become hyper-dynamic the past few days,” Ashcraft wrote on his website Sunday, along with links to four “specimens” of radio bursts, as he calls them. The sun is crackling with solar flares now as a very large sunspot continues to circle our star. The recent solar…

  • Ultra-Precise Quantum-Logic Clock Trumps Old Atomic Clock

    Tia Ghose
    5 Feb 2010 | 3:13 pm
    Scientists have built a clock which is 37 times more precise than the existing international standard. The quantum-logic clock, which detects the energy state of a single aluminum ion, keeps time to within a second every 3.7 billion years. The new timekeeper could one day improve GPS or detect the slowing of time predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity. “It could it be a real contender for the next frequency standard, or next timekeeper,” said physicist Chin-wen (James) Chou of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, lead author of a study…

  • Electric Charge Can Change Freezing Point of Water

    Lisa Grossman, Science News
    5 Feb 2010 | 2:03 pm
    A watched pot never boils, but an electrically charged pot sometimes freezes. A study in the Feb. 5 Science reports that water can freeze at different temperatures depending on whether the surface it rests on is positively or negatively charged. Under certain conditions, water can even freeze as it heats up. “We are very, very surprised by this result,” says study coauthor Igor Lubomirsky of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. “It means that by controlling surface charge, either positive or negative, you can either suppress ice formation or enhance ice formation.”…

  • Leaves Show Looped Networks May Be Better Than Branched

    Laura Sanders, Science News
    4 Feb 2010 | 8:21 pm
    Tree branches have inspired efficient transit networks, but a new study finds inspiration in leaves. The curvy, connected leaf veins found in some plants are an efficient way to circumvent damaged areas and channel nutrients, report researchers led by Eleni Katifori of the Rockefeller University in New York City. “It’s obvious that if you look at leaves, they have a lot of loops,” Katifori says. To find out how the looped networks may be beneficial for the plants, the researchers created a computer model to compare how efficiently different branching patterns could do the job of leaf…
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    World of Psychology

  • 7 Office Depression Busters: Tips for Work Depression

    Therese J. Borchard
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:25 am
    In his classic, “The Prophet,” Kahlil Gibran writes: Always you have been told that work is a curse … But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. Unfortunately Kahlil’s words don’t jibe with a new Australian study that found almost one in six cases of depression among working people caused by job stress, that nearly one in five (17 percent) working women suffering depression attribute their condition to job stress and more than one in eight (13 percent) working men. In the last…

  • Introducing the Pop Psychology Blog

    John M Grohol PsyD
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:11 am
    Genders issues in mainstream psychology are of interest to a great many people, us included. So we’re happy to welcome Yale University student, Johannah Cousins, as our newest blogger to be blogging about the intersection of gender issues and pop psychology in her new blog, Pop Psychology. Johannah Cousins is a senior English major at Yale University with a focus on gender studies and contemporary popular culture. She recently completed her senior thesis, an analysis of the cultural and feminist context of the Twilight series. She is a film and music critic and staff writer for the Yale…

  • Watching Others Do Good, Clean Scents Promote Altruism

    John M Grohol PsyD
    7 Feb 2010 | 8:05 am
    What would you say if I told you that simply observing people thanking others induced more altruism? The simple act of watching someone else do something uplifting or a good deed motivates us to also do good. At least that’s what researchers found in a recent demonstration of this effect at the University of Plymouth. In two experiments, researchers (Schnall et al., 2010) tested the level of altruistic behaviors amongst female students by asking them to view TV clips of three kinds — a neutral clip showing scenes from a nature documentary, an uplifting segment from “The Oprah…

  • Facebook Continues to Dominate Among Youth

    John M Grohol PsyD
    6 Feb 2010 | 7:17 am
    Last week, we discovered that 4 out of 5 teens prefer and use Facebook over the leading sugarless gum. Oh, sorry, I meant to say that while 7 out of 10 (73% to be exact) teens use social networking websites like Facebook, only 1 in 12 teens use Twitter. Clearly, the still-in-place-to-be is on Facebook and other social networking websites like it. The new data comes from our friends over at the Pew Internet and American Life Project, who conducted a phone survey in the middle of last year of 800 adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17. And while teens continue to embrace social networking,…

  • Newsweek: Do Antidepressants Work? For Many People, YES!

    Therese J. Borchard
    5 Feb 2010 | 4:39 am
    I admire Newsweek writer Sharon Begley’s work … especially when she explains ways we can try to rewire our brain. But I found last week’s cover story irresponsible. If, for no other reason, than its title and subtitle: “The Depressing News About Antidepressants: Studies Suggest That the Popular Drugs Are No More Effective Than a Placebo. In Fact, They May Be Worse.” Then I may as well kill myself. That’s how I would have read the article four years ago, before I started questioning all the information available today on mood disorders and drug treatment,…
 
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    ZDNet

  • Student file sharers allegedly extorted

    9 Feb 2010 | 5:53 am
    An Internet security analyst, was in charge of tracking illegal file sharing at the University of Georgia until he allegedly tried to shake down the student downloaders he caught.

  • PayPal suspends service in India

    9 Feb 2010 | 5:16 am
    Online payment service provider PayPal has put some of its services in India on hold, and is reversing funds requested through PayPal India, according to reports.

  • China breaks up Black Hawk hacking ring

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:07 pm
    Chinese authorities have broken a hacking-tool dissemination ring, according to state media.

  • Oracle releases emergency patch

    8 Feb 2010 | 7:51 am
    Oracle has released a patch for a server flaw that can be exploited over a network without the use of a username or password.

  • Google seeks four patents for Web app tech

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:04 am
    Google has filed at least four patent applications for technology it is building into its Chrome browser to try to make the web a more powerful foundation for applications.
 
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