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    Buzzfeed

  • Strunk & White's Elements of Internet Style

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:44 pm
    The first in a new series of usage rules for the web. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »

  • Cats Performing Household Chores

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:43 pm
    We know you get a lot of love out of your pets, but isn't it about time they returned the favor??? Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »

  • Very Important Diagram About Unicorns

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:41 pm
    Unicorns are better than everything else. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »

  • Gratuitous Anti-Pedophilia Ads

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:36 pm
    These new anti-pedophilia ads seem like they might be perpetuating the problem more than helping it. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »

  • Stripper Fail

    3 Nov 2009 | 12:58 pm
    Link: http://space.offgamers.com/en/gaming-... Counter-Strike players refuse to take their eyes off the screen. Or is this really gamer geek fail? Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »
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    Chris Brogan

  • Trust Agents- An Introduction

    chrisbrogan
    3 Nov 2009 | 7:39 am
    I can’t say thanks enough to John Spiropoulos for his great video project from my trip to Southern California to spend time with Brandtailers. These videos he made are amazing. Pay attention to the quality John put into them more than the content itself. I mean, I’m flattered and pleased, but also pay attention to how John did what he did. I think he’s top shelf. You? If you can’t see the video, click here.

  • Thank You Amazon-Thank You Friends

    chrisbrogan
    3 Nov 2009 | 4:28 am
    Yesterday, Trust Agents was named a Top 10 Book by Amazon.com, thanks in great part to YOUR kindness by ordering it. In just over two months, the book has made the New York Times Bestseller’s list, the Wall Street Journal Bestseller’s list, the top 5 sellers on Audible.com, and now the Top 10 Business & Investing books of 2009, according to Amazon. I consider every one of those successes to be yours. You did all the hard work. Julien and I just typed. Thank you for what you’ve done to make the book successful, and for believing in us. For those of you who haven’t…

  • See a Movie and Help a Cause

    chrisbrogan
    2 Nov 2009 | 2:02 pm
    Oren Jacob just told me about a great cause tied to a neat documentary film. The film is called Ready-Set-Bag, and it’s a documentary about people trying to win the National Grocers Association’s Best Bagger competition. What’s cool is how they intend to help others during the process. Oren explains: We’re partnering with local, community food banks in the cities we’re screening in. So folks in the cities where we book the movie can come to a screening, donate food to their local food bank, get money donated to the food bank by buying tickets and/or bringing food for…

  • Grinding vs Clocking – Time and the Overnight Success

    chrisbrogan
    1 Nov 2009 | 8:21 pm
    This is part 7 of the Overnight Success video series. In this one, I talk about how important taking some time away and replenishing is to your overall success. Some times, we’re grinding (working and really making things happen). Other times, we’re clocking (we’re there supposedly working, but we’re just pushing hours, not really getting anything done). The point of this video is to suggest that getting away from everything is just as important as pushing hours at tasks. You with me? Can’t see it? Click HERE. What do you think?

  • The New Utility Belt

    chrisbrogan
    1 Nov 2009 | 6:56 pm
    I was thinking about utility belts. You know, Batman style. I’m thinking about this in two ways. In the first way, we could talk about the gear that people (like myself) use in this modern media making age. For instance, in my backpack, I have the following items (amazon affiliate links for some): Apple MacBook Pro Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3k digital camera and video camera Edirol R-09HR mp3 recorder Amazon Kindle iPhone 3G (thanks Alex for pointing out this missing piece). Verizon air card for mobile Internet and a few other things. That’s one way to think about the new utility…
 
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    CNN

  • Ten races worth watching around country

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:30 pm
    Tuesday's off-year election might not have the high stakes of the 2008 presidential election, but there are several significant races worth watching:

  • PGA Tour golfer banned for doping

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:23 pm
    Unheralded American Doug Barron has become the first player to be banned by the PGA Tour for taking performance-enhancing drugs.

  • Tennis star Haas has swine flu

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:22 pm
    German tennis star Tommy Haas has been gone down with swine flu and is set to miss key end of season tournaments.

  • Recession boosts global human trafficking, report says

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:21 pm
    The global financial crisis has increased the worldwide trade in trafficked persons, says a State Department report released in June.

  • Police find seventh body at rapist's home

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:18 pm
    Police discovered a seventh body at the Cleveland, Ohio, home of a convicted rapist arrested this weekend after the decomposing bodies of women were unearthed at his residence, a source close to the investigation told CNN.
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    HowStuffWorks Daily Feed

  • 10 Health Care Systems Around the World

    3 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    In the arguments about U.S. health care reform, you'll often hear a country held up as the worst or best example of what health care can be. What is health care like around the globe?

  • How does pregnancy affect the skin?

    3 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    Pregnancy is a time of joy for many mothers, but sometimes it's accompanied by various skin problems. Are they anything to worry about? And will they go away after the baby is born?

  • The Ultimate Steve Jobs Quiz

    3 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    Steve Jobs has always been kind of a mysterious guy. The CEO of Apple speaks openly about how his experimentation with LSD changed his life. His keynote speeches at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conferences are the stuff of legend, with geeks everywhere scrambling to figure out what gadget he's going to unveil next. Even while on leave for an undisclosed medical condition, people are still wondering what he's doing behind the scenes. Take our quiz to find out how well you know the man -- as much as anyone can know the man, anyhow.

  • 20 Facts About the Statue of Liberty

    3 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    The Statue of Liberty was given to the United States by France to symbolize freedom. Find out 20 interesting facts about the Statue of Liberty, including statue's real name and when construction began.

  • Today's Video - What Are the Odds? Marriage

    3 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    What are the odds you will get married and stay married? Learn more about odds in this video.
 
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    Digg

  • The long unanswered question of the four Doc Browns.

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:30 pm
    Let's figure out exactly how many Doc Browns exist in the Back to the Future universe, and where they all ended up.

  • Twitter Reveals More Lists Power With A Widget

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:30 pm
    Since it was turned on for all users late last week, everyone is talking about Twitter's new Lists feature. The List Widget is exactly what you’d expect: A widget that you can place on your blog that displays a list of your choosing. One nice thing is that this can be a list you made or one any user has made (that is public). If you simply type in

  • Madeleine McCann: Still Missing, PLEASE HELP.

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:30 pm
    British girl Madeleine McCann disappeared in Portugal on May 3, 2007. She would now be aged six. The Child Explotation & Online Protection Centre CEO said: "The person we are looking to reach is likely to be a partner, family member, friend or colleague of the person or people who were involved in Madeleine’s disappearance."

  • Alan Grayson Money Bomb Nets $500k

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:24 pm
    Freshman Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) just raked in half a million dollars on a non-election year money bomb. The fundraising effort was coordinated by ActBlue, and demonstrates the truth behind the ancient Latin proverb: fortune favors the bold.

  • Save That Money! 15 Overlooked Tax Deductions

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:20 pm
    Who knows how many people forgot -- or never knew about -- a deduction that could save them money? It's all too easy to miss a trick and pay too much.
 
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    Dumb Little Man

  • How to Take Action on What You Read: Filtering and Using Information

    Ali
    2 Nov 2009 | 11:52 pm
    You spend a lot of time reading. Whether it’s blogs, magazines, journals, Twitter streams, newspapers or good old fashioned books, you’ve got a huge amount of information at your fingertips. Every day, you take in tons of ideas for overhauling your life: whether it’s shaking up your fitness regime, working more effectively, or having stronger relationships.The problem is, it’s easy to get caught up in this sea of information. You might feel inspired when you read a particular blog article, or you might get a great idea from a journal... but all too often, that thought barely gets…

  • 7 Food Groups That Will Help Boost Your Mood

    Krizia MissK
    2 Nov 2009 | 3:40 am
    This is the time of year when days begin to feel shorter and shorter. We see the sun much less, and when we do, it's often fighting a battle of gloominess with an impending cold front.This gloominess hits us all pretty hard. In fact, if you've ever believed that you had a case of the Winter Blues, this is what we're talking about. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is no laughing matter because these dark-gray-rainy days have a huge impact on your mood and energy level. The good news is that we can all partially escape this mental zapping.By now it's common sense to us all that our bodies are…

  • 7 Must Read Productivity Steps to Finally Getting Things Done

    Mr. Self Development
    30 Oct 2009 | 4:54 am
    I wrote this article as a “master guide” to productivity. Well OK, I don't know about a "master guide" but one thing is for sure: implementing these steps will help you increase your output if you implement them towards the tasks that you’re passionate about.The process I’ve documented below is the one that I personally use, and frankly, I have had excellent results. Before jumping in, try not to treat this like every other article (scan, consider, forget). Write down the steps, see how they specifically apply to your situation, and by all means, be sure to put them into…

  • 10 Tips for Navigating the Waters of Life

    DLM Writers
    28 Oct 2009 | 6:21 am
    While some of us might fit the stereotype of Jeff Spicoli beach bums who don’t care about anything other than riding waves, there is an entirely spiritual and zen side to the sport of surfing that gives us a chance to really understand how to navigate the waters of life. In fact one of the most common things you’ll hear a surfer say when asked about how much time they spend in the water is “Of course I surf every day that I can, it keeps you from going nuts.” So, here it is, in no particular order:10 Tips for Navigating the Waters of LifeTrust Your instinctsIf there’s anything…

  • How to Free Yourself From Limiting Beliefs

    DLM Writers
    27 Oct 2009 | 6:37 am
    “From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do – now.” - Stoic philosopher Epictetus Whether you want to believe this or not, we all have the capacity to be extraordinary, to live our passion, to realize our full potential. When you get right down to it, what holds us back are limiting beliefs that run through our minds. These are mental habits repeating in an endless loop, making us believe that we are incapable and that our dreams are impossible to achieve. They trick us into thinking we…
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    Essential Reads

  • Who’s Your Daddy? Global Nonpaternity Rates.

    Gad Saad, Ph.D.
    2 Nov 2009 | 9:16 pm
     The threat of being cuckolded is one of the most evolutionarily important threats faced by men especially in light of the fact that humans are a bi-parental species (i.e., children require great parental care from both parents).  Numerous sex differences in sexual behavior have been linked to paternity uncertainty, as such it is perhaps appropriate to ask what the prevalence of cuckoldry actually is.  Given the recent advances in DNA testing, we can now establish the paternity of an offspring, and accordingly determine some factors that might affect cuckoldry rates in…

  • Putting God out of the ethics business

    Austin Dacey, Ph.D.
    2 Nov 2009 | 11:17 am
    By now you may have heard about or seen the "good without God" posters in the subways of New York City and elsewhere. Media outlets from the New York Times to Fox News have characterized them as ads promoting atheism. Yet while the campaign aims to reach out to nonbelievers, it also raises a broader issue--something most people seem to have missed.The obvious meaning of "good without God" is that atheists can be good people. But a closer look reveals a more universal message: people can be good regardless of their beliefs about God. From this perspective, the ad was not about atheism, but…

  • Increase Tips with Persuasion Cues

    Steve Booth-Butterfield, Ed.D.
    2 Nov 2009 | 7:06 am
    I've read through the research literature on factors that affect tipping for service workers, particularly in the food and beverage industry.  It confirms one simple and obvious conclusion:  Persuasion skill affects tips.  What we know generally about persuasion can be applied specifically to tipping.  Thus, there is no New New Thing, no Special Sauce, no Magic Words that only apply to tipping.  Or stated as my Rule:  There are no Laws (of Tipping) and if there were, why would I tell you? If you want to pursue the literature, start with Professor Michael Lynn at…

  • Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do

    Satoshi Kanazawa
    1 Nov 2009 | 6:48 pm
    One of my all-time favorites among all the scientific papers that I have ever read in my life is “Why your friends have more friends than you do,” published in the American Journal of Sociology in 1991 by my old sociology friend Scott L. Feld, who is now Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. The title of Feld’s paper says it all, and here’s a little demonstration you can do to confirm his conclusion.  List all of your friends.  Then ask each of your friends how many friends they have.  No matter who you are, whether you are a man or a woman, where you live, how…

  • Broken Symmetry: Nobel physicist explains why you miss old places, friends

    Jeremy Sherman, Ph.D.
    1 Nov 2009 | 2:41 pm
    The bittersweet sad intense pain of missing a place, a person, a crew, a time. What's with that? How does that happen? Here's a take on it you probably haven't heard before. I'll start way back with the big bang.  If everything was all concentrated and homogeneous at the origin, how did our universe ever get so lumpy, with separate things like stars and planets, you and me? The 2008 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to scientists who identified the source as broken symmetry. A first pass explanation of their idea is simple.  You know how you can easily balance a broomstick on the…
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    Guy Kawasaki

  • 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.

  • Chris Anderson on Free

    GuyKawasaki
    15 Oct 2009 | 5:41 am
    Chris Anderson explained his concept of “free” at a recent Garage Technology Ventures conference. Click here to learn more about his model and to get to the link to a video of his presentation. Any company that produces digital content and goods should check it out.

  • Version 3 of Alltop

    GuyKawasaki
    21 Sep 2009 | 10:55 pm
    Over the weekend we upgraded Alltop to version 3. The primary functions that this version addresses are improved navigation and search. Because Alltop has grown to over 700 topics, we needed a better way for people to understand what Alltop does and to find topics that interest them. Version 1. Circa March, 2008. Version 2. Circa March, 2009. Version 3. September 2009. We also wanted to increase advertising revenue by placing an ad on our home page. :-) The “What’s Hot” section on the home page shows the websites and blogs that are most frequently added to people’s…
 
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    Lifehacker

  • Create an Awesome Command Line Calculator [Terminal Tip]

    The How-To Geek
    3 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pm
    When you spend as much time at the terminal as I do, having a calculator at your fingertips can be a really useful feature, and the Command-Line Fu web site tells us how to create one easily. To create the calculator, you can just enter this function on the command line to test out how it works, or add it into our ~/.bashrc file to make sure that it's always available after restarting the terminal. calc(){ awk "BEGIN{ print $* }" ;} To use it, you can simply type calc followed by the calculation you want to solve, making sure to use quotes around the calculation if there are spaces or special…

  • Know When (and When Not) to Buy an Extended Warranty [Saving Money]

    Adam Pash
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:30 pm
    As a rule, extended warranties are rarely worth the extra cash. Tech site CNET goes in depth on why you don't want to shell out for the extended warranty, then discusses when it may actually be worth it. Photo by andrew_cosand. On the "just forget it" side of things, CNET had this to say: [T]he majority of gadgets won't ever need to be repaired—though retailers and device makers don't usually share statistics about how often they break, Consumer Reports has done studies and found that 3- to 4-year-old gadgets don't need repair all that often. Laptops need service about 43 percent of the…

  • His, Hers, and the Media Center: A Compact Home Office [Featured Workspace]

    Jason Fitzpatrick
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pm
    Today's featured office manages to pack in a lot of functionality into a rather small room. Check out how two workstations, a media center, and storage space all squeezed into a 10'x12' room. Lifehacker reader Andrew Egenes managed to fit quite a bit of equipment into a small space. The room houses a His and Hers workspace, a media center with extra storage space, and all of it with neatly managed cables. Andrew writes: Photos of my home office for two. A rather small room, only 10' x 12', the room feels quite spacious because of the furniture arrangement. It's extremely comfortable and cozy.

  • Use Work Breaks to Keep up Connections [Productivity]

    Whitson Gordon
    3 Nov 2009 | 11:30 am
    We all know that taking breaks from work is beneficial to productivity, but that doesn't mean that your breaks themselves can't be productive. Career weblog WorkAwesome suggests a few tips for keeping our breaks productive without focusing on work. Photo by George Reyes. We all love to waste time on Facebook and personal emails during our breaks, and while we're all for keeping up with your friends, it's rarely something you'd consider productive. In their list of things to keep breaks productive, WorkAwesome mentions that your networking time could be better spent: Instead of personal…

  • Google Voice Quick Reference Cheatsheet Speeds Through Voice Menus [Cheatsheets]

    Adam Pash
    3 Nov 2009 | 11:00 am
    Google Voice's great feature set takes your phone and voicemail out of the past, but that doesn't mean you won't still have to navigate the occasional touch-tone menu. Weblog Cool Geex comes to the rescue with a pocket-friendly quick reference guide. There's not all that much to it beyond that. Their reference guide is handy, it's printable, and it gives you a simple way to quickly navigate Google Voice's calling and voicemail menus. We're sold. Head to the Cool Geex post for a higher resolution version. Google Voice Quick Reference Guide [Cool Geex via TechCrunch]
 
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    MAKE Magazine

  • Eavesdropping on the moon, circa 1969

    3 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm
    In July, 1969, a ham radio operator named Larry Baysinger, from Louisville, KY, used a 20-year old radio from an army tank and a homemade folded dipole antenna array to listen to the Apollo 11 astronauts on the moon. This page is an archive with the original newspaper piece, photos, PDFs of a couple of radio hobby mags and books of the time, and a sort of where are they now update. MP3 of Baysinger's recordings of the audio are also there. Fascinating stuff. Lunar Eavesdropping in Louisville, Kentucky Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Makers | Digg this!

  • Type chess set

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pm
    Linda and John Meyers built this beautiful chess set using typography, a scroll saw and boxes (in the form of a old type-holding tray). It's from Wary Meyers' Tossed & Found, their new book about re-purposing found objects. [via dudecraft] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Digg this!

  • Alien twins life support system haunt prop

    3 Nov 2009 | 11:50 am
    John Russell made this fantastic haunted house prop. In his own words: Two aliens contained in suspended animation chambers. A central control unit monitors and sustains life support functions. The control screen is a looping flash animation. Every few minutes, a malfunction state is triggered. Sound and graphics announce the error, and a Make Controller board is used to trigger emergency flasher lights and a fog machine (simulates a cryogenic coolant leak). The video shows the system going into its "malfunction state." Awesome work, John! Make: Halloween Contest 2009There's still time left…

  • Make: NYC Meeting November 12

    3 Nov 2009 | 11:00 am
    If you tried to go to the last Make: NYC meeting and were thwarted, like me, by the police blocking the street (for an unrelated construction problem), you'll be happy to read this announcement for the next Make: NYC meeting, featuring fewer cops! Make:NYC Meeting 16 - Thursday November 12th, 6:30PM We're bringing back a favorite challenge for all you makers! We're excited to see how new faces and new ideas can take this challenge to the next level Challenge: Return of the Blimps You've got brains, we've got blimps! Three teams will compete to make ordinary RC blimps perform extraordinarily.

  • Build a voice-powered RF transmitter

    3 Nov 2009 | 10:30 am
    Fred points out this schematic for a rather interesting radiotelephone transmitter instantaneously powered by the operator's voice - One of the neatest minimalist amateur radio transmitter circuits around - this one is voice powered - it provides DSB, (double side band)modulation and power from an ordinary 8-ohm speaker - if are in doubt that the circuit works, the maker has the contacts and the voice recordings to prove it!An explanation of how it works + schematic and audio sample can be found on the El Silbo page. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg…
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    Mashable!

  • PayPal Now Supports 24 Currencies

    Ben Parr
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:53 pm
    PayPal, fresh off of the launch of its PayPal X developer platform, has announced even more new features here at the PayPal Innovate conference in San Francisco. The newest revelation by the eBay subsidiary is that it now supports 24 different currencies. Curious about the new PayPal currency line-up? Here’s the full list of supported monetary units: U.S. Dollar, Australian Dollar, Canadian Dollar, Hong Kong Dollar, Singapore Dollar, Taiwan New Dollar, New Zealand Dollar, Euro, Swiss Franc, Czech Koruna, Swedish Krona, Danish Krone, Norwegian Krone, Hungarian Forint, Mexican Peso,…

  • 99 Cent iPhone Recession Case Gets a Makeover From You [Pics]

    Jennifer Van Grove
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:28 pm
    Who can forget the iPhone Recession Case that costs just a buck? The lure of owning such a real-life buzz-generating case, with Sharpie script, was enough to make the geek in me whip out my credit card for the insignificant $1.98 charge. Case-mate’s not ready to let the iPhone Recession Case die off just yet, so they’ve started the Recession Case Photo Contest to inspire owners to decorate their cardboard cases and turn them into works of art. Anyone can enter the contest – those without the case can download a file – by uploading their artistic creations to the…

  • 4 Ways News Organizations are Using Twitter Lists

    Vadim Lavrusik
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:09 pm
    Though Twitter Lists are new to most users, some news organizations are trying to stay ahead of the curve by taking advantage of the new feature and implementing it quickly. Whether by creating staff directories to make their journalists easier to find, or recommending tweeps to follow on specific subjects, Twitter lists are giving news sites the ability to curate news and further open up to Twitter users that can help them to gather news. News organizations are beginning to learn the fundamental characteristic of social media: it’s social. This is an interesting departure for news…

  • Family Guy: Microsoft’s Whoops Becomes Warner Bros’ Whoopie

    Jennifer Van Grove
    3 Nov 2009 | 11:45 am
    We thought it was a little bizarre when Microsoft decided to sponsor a Family Guy special to promote Windows 7. Not only does Seth McFarlane’s cartoon creation skirt the line when it comes to show content and characters, but the show staff actually uses Macs. That’s why we weren’t exactly surprised when Microsoft got cold feet and backed out of the deal. Warner Bros must have a much thicker skin, because they’ve just swooped in to the rescue and will use the sponsorship to hawk their new movie Sherlock Holmes, directed by Guy Ritchie and staring Robert Downey Jr. and…

  • Verizon’s Droid: $15 Per Month Extra For Exchange Support

    Christina Warren
    3 Nov 2009 | 11:20 am
    The Motorola Droid might not hit Verizon stores and authorized retailers until Friday, but details on the available data plans are already emerging. If you’re thinking about getting a Droid to use with a Microsoft Exchange e-mail account (one of the many new features with the included Android 2.0 software), be prepared to fork over some extra cash for the privilege. Verizon will be charging $44.99 a month for users who want Exchange support, versus the $29.99 for users that don’t. Verizon will offer three tiers of data plans: $30 per month on top of your voice plan to add data and…
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    Mind Hacks

  • Rare 'shell shock' footage online

    vaughan
    3 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    One of the most important films in the history of psychiatry, depicting treatment of 'shell shocked' British soldiers during World War One, has just been made freely available online by UK medical charity the Wellcome Trust who are currently releasing lots of their archive footage. The film was made by Sir Arthur Hurst in 1917 when large numbers of soldiers with 'shell shock', later to be called 'war neurosis', were returning from the front - in this case to a make-shift military hospital in South Devon, England, which was previously an agricultural college. Time and time again you'll read in…

  • Final destination, Golden Gate Bridge

    vaughan
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    There's a remarkable article on the world's most popular suicide spot, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, in the latest American Journal of Psychiatry. The article has several case studies of people who have died from jumping from the bridge and some fascinating quotes from one of the few people who have survived their attempts. It is full of curious snippets of information, and one of the clearest things to come through from the article is that the bridge has a sort of iconic attraction for those wanting to kill themselves (indeed, in hindsight, the name itself seems darkly ironic). This is…

  • Liberation psychology graffiti

    vaughan
    30 Oct 2009 | 5:00 am
    I've just seen my first genuine piece of psychology graffiti. The picture is from a wall in Universidad de Antioquia and the graffiti is promoting a conference on the application of 'liberation psychology' to preventing violence and helping the victims of violence in Colombia. The text in Spanish is roughly translated as "We propose a scientific endeavour committed to historical reality and the problems and aspirations of the people" and is a quote from social psychologist and Catholic priest Ignacio Martín-Baró. Martín-Baró was working in El Salvador during its bloody civil war and was…

  • 2009-10-30 Spike activity

    vaughan
    30 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am
    Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:

  • Monkey brain surgeon

    vaughan
    29 Oct 2009 | 1:00 pm
    Online t-shirt company Psycho Reindeer have this fantastic monkey brain surgeon t-shirt with which you can proudly display your brain tinkering tendencies. It's only $14 and looks kinda funky. If you do have a monkey by the way, it's best not to let them do neurosurgery with a screwdriver as the t-shirt suggests. I always make sure that they're involved purely in an advisory capacity. Link to monkey brain surgeon t-shirt.
 
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    Neuromarketing

  • 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. [...]

  • Scent Marketing vs. Social Media

    Roger Dooley
    30 Oct 2009 | 5:23 am
    The other day, Ad Age’s CMO Strategy Section ran a column by Harald Vogt on scent marketing. Vogt may not be entirely impartial on the topic – he is the founder and chief marketer of the Scent Marketing Institute – but he makes some good points when he questions why so few marketers employ [...]

  • Sugar as Brain Food

    Roger Dooley
    29 Oct 2009 | 5:22 am
    This isn’t great news for dieters, but sometimes sugar can be a good thing. Roy Baumeister, a psychologist at Florida State University, had subjects perform a mentally taxing task – watching a video while being careful to ignore random words scrolling across the bottom of the screen. (Apparently, it takes quite a bit [...]
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    Newswise

  • UIC Receives $1 Million Grant to Study 'Fat Taxes,' Diet, Obesity

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:10 pm
    UIC researchers receive $1 million to study the relationship between "fat taxes" and food consumption, diet quality and obesity.

  • U. of Maryland School of Pharmacy Hopes to Close Clinical Gap for Elderly Blood Disorder

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:05 pm
    The National Institutes of Health has awarded UMBaltimore researchers a $777,000 grant to study treatments for blood disorders that affect more than 10,000 elderly patients each year.

  • New Study Wins Prize for Socially Responsible Investment Research

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pm
    A study examining the complex relationships between corporate financial performance, corporate social performance, and social pressure has won the 2009 Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing (SRI). The Moskowitz Prize, awarded annually by the Center for Responsible Business at University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business in cooperation with the Social Investment Forum, is the only global award recognizing outstanding quantitative research in the field of socially responsible investing.

  • Weight Training Boosts Breast Cancer Survivors' Body Image and Satisfaction with Intimate Relationships

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pm
    In addition to building muscle, weightlifting is also a prescription for self-esteem among breast cancer survivors, according to new University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine research. Breast cancer survivors who lift weights regularly feel better about bodies and their appearance and are more satisfied with their intimate relationships compared with survivors who do not lift weights, according to a new study published in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.

  • New Methods Found Useful for Diagnosing Myocarditis

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pm
    Myocarditis is an important, and often unrecognized cause of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Several new diagnostic methods, such as cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), are useful for diagnosing myocarditis, according to a study published in the November 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings
 
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    Pop! Tech Blog

  • First PopTech 2009 Videos Released: Social Innovation Fellows

    2 Nov 2009 | 3:43 pm
    In our first batch of video releases from PopTech 2009: America Reimagined, we are excited to share the fine presentations of the 2009 Social Innovation Fellows from October 22nd and 23, 2009, when they captivated a packed Camden Opera House and global live stream audience. During the days leading up to the PopTech 2009 conference, this extraordinary group of Fellows and their faculty met at a retreat center in Maine. For more on their week, see previous blog entries on their introductions to each other and what they learned. The Fellows and faculty will continue to be in touch as they begin…

  • Follow Friday: PopTech Fellows and 2009 Speakers + Vote Vittana!

    30 Oct 2009 | 10:38 am
    Congrats to PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Kushal Chakrabarti of Vittana (facilitating education microloans throughout the world) who is in the Huffington Post's Top Ten for Ultimate Game Changers in Philanthropy. You can vote for Kushal here. CC image of Kushal Chakrabarti at PopTech 200 by Kris Krüg. You can lend money to students right now on the Vittana.org home page. We also have a few Twitter lists we are developing for our community: * You can follow all the PopTech Social Innovation Fellows on Twitter in the PopTech Fellows Twitter list. * Follow the 2009 PopTech speakers,…

  • PopTech 2009: Videos and Images

    25 Oct 2009 | 6:00 am
    Thank you to everyone for a wonderful PopTech 2009: America Reimagined conference. Below are videos from the conference; you can find beautiful images of each speaker by Kris Krüg from Thursday and Friday on his personal site. More images are in the PopTech Flickr account, the PopTech 2009 Flickr set, and the PopTech 2009 Flickr group pool. We have made videos with highlights of each day along our special 2009 Social Innovation Fellows video and Science Fellows announcement, and we hope you will share these videos widely--each has a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike…

  • James Fowler and the Power of Connections

    24 Oct 2009 | 3:23 pm
    Scientist James Fowler is a professor at University of California San Diego, where he studies the intersection of social and natural sciences. His most recent book is Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives. For years, he has studied the role our real-life networks play in our health outcome. CC image by Kris Krug. You hear social networks these days and what do you think of? Twitter, Facebook etc. But Fowler is interested in "what became before".  Part of what makes us human, says Fowler, is that we live in "webs of humanity". Who are we going…

  • Kacie Kinzer: Tiny Moments with Tiny Robots

    23 Oct 2009 | 9:52 am
    Thanks to Ethan Zuckerman and Rachel Barenblat for their amazing live coverage these past two days! Picking up since they had to head south a little early. Safe travels to our PopTech friends!-- MRR "You may have noticed a small, roving, very adorable robot over the past few days," jokes Andrew Zolli to begin the final session of PopTech. This robot is the work of roboticist Kacie Kinzer, who explains that she's actually not that interested in robots, she's more interested in people. Kinzer's tiny, friendly robots, which she calls tweenbots, traverse cities unaided except for the…
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    Psychology / Psychiatry News From Medical News Today

  • Second Pathway To Feeling Your Heartbeat Revealed By University Of Iowa Study

    3 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    A new study suggests that the inner sense of our cardiovascular state, our "interoceptive awareness" of the heart pounding, relies on two independent pathways, contrary to what had been asserted by prominent researchers. The University of Iowa study was published online this week in the journal Nature Neuroscience by researchers in the department of neurology in the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and the graduate programs in neuroscience and psychology.

  • Updated Action Plan To Reduce Suicide In Wales

    3 Nov 2009 | 5:00 am
    Fresh plans to reduce suicide and self-harm will be launched today, by the Welsh Assembly Government following extensive consultation on a draft action plan published last year. The national action plan, 'Talk to Me', aims to raise awareness of suicide and self-harm and encourage people to talk more about their problems to remove the stigma that is associated with emotional and mental health problems.

  • Improving Access To Psychological Therapies Gets Positive Results

    2 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am
    A study of an Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme has found it had significant clinical results for depression and anxiety sufferers. The results are published today, 2nd November 2009, in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology.

  • Study Says Chronically Ill May Be Happier If They Give Up Hope

    2 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    Holding on to hope may not make patients happier as they deal with chronic illness or diseases, according to a new study by University of Michigan Health System researchers. "Hope is an important part of happiness," said Peter A. Ubel, M.D., director of the U-M Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine and one of the authors of the happily hopeless study, "but there's a dark side of hope.

  • Brain Tumors In Childhood Leave A Lasting Mark On Cognition, Life Status

    2 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    Brain tumors in childhood cast a long shadow on survivors. The first study of the lasting impact of these tumors -- the most common solid malignancies in childhood -- shows that survivors have ongoing cognitive problems. They also have lower levels of education, employment and income than their siblings and survivors of other types of cancer, according to a report published by the American Psychological Association.
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    Scientific American

  • Is BPA Contaminating Your Soup?

    3 Nov 2009 | 12:01 pm
    New research results show the controversial plastics additive bisphenol A , or BPA, is commonly found in a wide range of canned foods, including some marked "BPA free" or organic."The findings are noteworthy because they indicate the extent of potential exposure," said Urvashi Rangan at Consumers Union , which publishes Consumer Reports and released the results yesterday. [More]

  • Stellar deal: NASA awards $2 million to X Prize winners for helping develop a lunar lander

    3 Nov 2009 | 11:13 am
    Less than one month after NASA crashed its Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) into the moon's surface in order to analyze the resulting plume of debris for signs of water , the U.S. space agency is handing out nearly $2 million on Thursday to engineers developing technology for a much softer landing on the lunar surface as part of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander X Prize Challenge . [More]

  • How Threatened Are Killer Whales in the Wild?

    3 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    Dear EarthTalk: How are populations of the world’s orca whales faring these days? Are we still in danger of losing them all in the wild? --J. Witham, Bangor, ME [More]

  • Human Evolution II: Recent Evolution; and Becoming Human NOVA Preview

    3 Nov 2009 | 9:50 am
    The transcript of this podcast wil be posted in two to three weeks. Anthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison talks about recent human evolution, especially of our ability to digest lactose. [More]

  • Sugar Negates Worm's Life-Extending Mutation

    3 Nov 2009 | 8:55 am
    [ The following is an exact transcript of this podcast. ]For worms fed a sugary diet, life is sweet. But short. According to a new study published in the journal Cell Metabolism , consistently adding a small amount of sugar to a worm's regular diet of bacteria shortened its lifespan by 20 percent. The research was performed on C. elegans, tiny roundworms that typically live an average of two weeks. [More]
 
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    TechCrunch

  • Loopt Shifts Its Strategy To Tap The Pulse Of Location

    MG Siegler
    3 Nov 2009 | 1:17 pm
    When Loopt launched in 2006 it was ahead of a curve that is just starting to be recognized: Location. Now, with services like Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite, and even Twitter fueling the location-based services frenzy, Loopt realized that it needed to shift its strategy a bit. Enter Pulse, a new feature launching today. Previously, Loopt was more of a passive service — you started it up on some device and it kept track of where you were. Other users could see where you were if they opened the app too, but generally it wasn’t about pinging your friends to let them know where you are…

  • Swedish Government Promises Citizens 100MB Broadband

    TechCrunch Europe
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:55 pm
    [Sweden] The Swedish government is following in the footsteps of the Finns (well almost), as their IT-ministry is now promising that 90 percent of all Swedish homes will have access to a 100 mbit/s broadband connection before 2020. According to Swedish IT-minister Åsa Torstensson it isn’t possible to function in the information society of today without a fast internet connection. You hear that? This is the information society, people! Crunch Network: CrunchBoardbecause it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0

  • Infectious Now Lets You Print Your Own Designs For Custom Wall Decals, iPhone Skins, And More

    Jason Kincaid
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:27 pm
    Infectious, a startup that makes high quality decals and skins that let you customize the look of your iPhone, car, laptop, skateboards, and more, is launching a new feature today: one off prints of your own custom designs. Starting today users will be able to use an integrated Flex app to upload their own images, which they can then have printed out on high quality adhesive stickers (or decks, in the case of skateboards). We’ve been watching Infectious for a while — back in May 2008 the site launched large, vinyl decorative stickers for your car, and they released decorative iPhone…

  • Newly Discovered Safari Bug Could Mean Big Fees For Some iPhone Users

    Greg Kumparak
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:17 pm
    Whenever you hear about bugs and exploits being discovered in the iPhone’s browser, Safari, it’s usually the doings of some masterful meddler who devoted hours to unearthing any flaws they could find — not some user casually tapping around the application. Apple’s pretty good at keeping things locked down, and the iPhone’s got enough users that most of the nasty user-facing bugs have been flushed out. Well, except for this new one. It’s not an incredibly common bug, and it doesn’t seem likely that it would hit most users – but for the iPhone…

  • PayPal X: A Complete List Of Adaptive Payments APIs

    Leena Rao
    3 Nov 2009 | 11:55 am
    We’re at PayPal’s much-hyped PayPal Innovate X 2009, the payments company’s first dedicated developer conference. PayPal, which reported strong earnings recently, is hoping to engage developers in producing applications on top of PayPal’s newly released API. eBay’s CEO John Donahoe said this morning that PayPal is set to be bigger than eBay in the near future, forecasting the payment company’s continued growth and dominance in the space. We reported on parts of the open platform here and here. PayPal is already testing the platform with startups Payvment,…
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    Techmeme

  • AT&T sues Verizon over 'there's a map for that' ads (Nilay Patel/Engadget)

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:35 pm
    Nilay Patel / Engadget: AT&T sues Verizon over 'there's a map for that' ads  —  Whoa — we just got word that AT&T is suing Verizon for false advertising over Big Red's “There's a map for that” ads.  We're reading the complaint and motion to stop the ads right now, but here's what AT&T says is the big problem:

  • PayPal X: A Complete List Of Adaptive Payments APIs (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)

    3 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pm
    Leena Rao / TechCrunch: PayPal X: A Complete List Of Adaptive Payments APIs  —  We're at PayPal's much-hyped PayPal Innovate X 2009, the payments company's first dedicated developer conference.  PayPal, which reported strong earnings recently, is hoping to engage developers in producing applications on top …

  • Ken Auletta: Google Is Not Trying to Harm Old Media (Patrick Phillips/I Want Media)

    3 Nov 2009 | 12:55 pm
    Patrick Phillips / I Want Media: Ken Auletta: Google Is Not Trying to Harm Old Media  —  Ken Auletta, the longtime media columnist for The New Yorker, explores “the roiling crosscurrents of the new media terrain” in his new book, “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It,” published this week.

  • End to Fight Over Skype May Be Near (Brad Stone/New York Times)

    3 Nov 2009 | 12:30 pm
    Brad Stone / New York Times: End to Fight Over Skype May Be Near  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The bitter battle over the future of the Internet calling service Skype appears to be nearing an end.  —  A resolution of the litigation surrounding the service, currently owned by eBay, could be announced as soon as this week …

  • Really, Peek? We Need a Dedicated Twitter Device? (Colin Gibbs/GigaOM)

    3 Nov 2009 | 12:10 pm
    Colin Gibbs / GigaOM: Really, Peek?  We Need a Dedicated Twitter Device?  —  For those who thought its email-only device targeted too broad a market, Peek Inc. has gone even more niche — and more absurd — with the first mobile device dedicated entirely to Twitter.  TwitterPeek, as the gadget is branded …
 
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    Wired Science

  • Darwin’s Wolf Mystery Solved

    Brandon Keim
    3 Nov 2009 | 11:24 am
    Genetic analysis of the now-extinct Falkland Islands Wolf has answered a biological riddle that caught the attention of a young Charles Darwin, and helped shape his understanding of evolution. During his voyage aboard the HMS Beagle, Darwin observed that the wolves — like his now-famous finches — varied widely in size between different islands, suggesting that the traits of species were not immutable, but changed over time in response to their environments. Darwin also wondered at the origins of the wolves, which were unusually small, and had reddish fur and relatively short jaws. He…

  • Russia Leads Nuclear Space Race After U.S. Drops Out

    Alexis Madrigal
    3 Nov 2009 | 9:27 am
    The Russian space agency may build a nuclear-powered spacecraft with the blessing of the country’s leader, Russian and international media reported Thursday. The craft would cost $600 million and Russian scientists claim it could be ready as early as 2012. “The idea [of nuclear-powered spaceflight] has bright prospects, and if Russia could stage a breakthrough it could become our main contribution to any future international program of deep space exploration,” Andrei Ionin, an independent Moscow-based space expert, told Christian Science Monitor. Building a nuclear-powered…

  • Space Junk Could Be Tracked Like Vultures

    Betsy Mason
    3 Nov 2009 | 8:39 am
    Dangerous debris near rocket launches could be tracked in real time by combining tricks from particle colliders, moon landings and vulture tracking, a new study finds. In a paper to be published in Acta Astronautica, physicist Philip Metzger of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and colleagues describe a technique to plot the paths and determine the densities of worrisome detritus kicked up during launch. This method could help flight engineers know instantly which pieces of debris threaten the spacecraft. “We combined together two different types of software that can do on-site…

  • How to Keep Planes From Colliding With Lasers

    Hadley Leggett
    3 Nov 2009 | 6:48 am
    Beaming high-powered lasers into the sky allows scientists to study changing weather patterns, pollution in the Earth’s atmosphere and even gravity on the Moon. But if one of those helpful lasers happens to cross paths with an airplane, it can temporarily blind or distract the pilot and potentially cause a crash. The current method to avoid plane-laser collisions is decidedly low-tech: Federal Aviation Administration regulations require anyone who’s sending a laser up into the atmosphere to employ multiple human observers, called “spotters,” to watch for planes flying…

  • Cosmic-Ray Mystery Traced to Star-Birth Frenzy

    Ron Cowen, Science News
    2 Nov 2009 | 11:55 am
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Astronomers have for the first time traced gamma rays, the most energetic form of light, to galaxies undergoing a frenzy of star birth. The finding, which has revealed a new class of galactic gamma-ray sources, is not unexpected. But it provides new hints about the origin of many cosmic rays, the high-speed protons and other charged particles of extraordinarily high energies that bombard Earth. According to the prevailing theory, cosmic rays are accelerated to energies of billions to trillions of electron volts by the expanding shock waves generated when massive stars…
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    World of Psychology

  • The Fear of Relapse: 5 Cognitive Tools

    Therese J. Borchard
    3 Nov 2009 | 11:39 am
    A reader recently wrote to me about her overwhelming fear of relapse. She said, “I’m struggling now with it, obsessing over it, and I’m so, so scared. Do I want to crawl into the hole? I fear that. But I can’t. I can’t.” First of all, thank you for being honest. Because so many of us know exactly how you feel. I’m there a lot of the time myself. Less than I was the two years following my hospitalizations, but there too much of the time. Doctor Smith would continually remind me during those first fragile years after my big breakdown that a slight…

  • What Health Care Reform Means for Mental Health

    Richard O'Connor, MSW, Ph.D.
    3 Nov 2009 | 4:08 am
    Now that it looks like some form of health care reform will be passed this year — barring a catastrophe like Joe Lieberman — we have some idea of how the eventual act will affect mental health services. All of the plans now under consideration will mean some real improvements for mental health consumers, and there doesn’t seem much likelihood of these improvements being cut out before passage. However, it appears that individuals and employers will still have to purchase their insurance from private insurance companies, without competition from a strong public option like…

  • Research-Backed Online Mental Health Interventions

    John M Grohol PsyD
    2 Nov 2009 | 12:58 pm
    So the other week I attended and presented at the First International e-Mental Health Summit 2009 in Amsterdam and already discussed some great online interventions for depression. I’m still planning on talking about additional online interventions for other mental disorders, but am waiting for the conference folks to publish the presentations on their website because the abstract book doesn’t always contain the valuable bits of information I need to properly summarize a topic area. In the meantime, I thought I’d mention Beacon. Beacon is a website that has gone to the…

  • Depression, Lifestyle and Processed Food

    John M Grohol PsyD
    2 Nov 2009 | 7:53 am
    We know that people who are depressed don’t eat as well as people who don’t have depression. So not surprising to anyone, diet and what we eat remain linked to depression. But despite new research, we still don’t know which way the relationship goes — does diet cause depression, or do people with a certain lifestyle or with depression eat poor diets? They split the participants into two types of diet - those who ate a diet largely based on whole foods, which includes lots of fruit, vegetables and fish, and those who ate a mainly processed food diet, such as sweetened…

  • 5 Ways to Tackle Perfectionism

    Therese J. Borchard
    1 Nov 2009 | 5:07 am
    This week I have the pleasure of interviewing Michelle Russell, who writes the fantastic blog, “Practice Makes Imperfect.” Since we talk about perfectionism a lot on Beyond Blue — because it’s so related to depression — I thought she’d be a perfect guest to interrogate on this topic. Therese: What are five ways a person can tackle perfectionism? Michelle: Here they are … 1. Compare yourself to others. I know, this probably sounds surprising when the prevailing wisdom says not to. But we perfectionists need frequent reality checks. Think about whatever…
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    ZDNet

  • Malwarebytes accuses rival of software theft

    3 Nov 2009 | 12:49 pm
    Malwarebytes claims IObit stole from its database of malware samples that its software uses to detect malware on customer computers.

  • Intel investigating Windows 7 iPhone sync flaw

    3 Nov 2009 | 10:20 am
    Intel is investigating a flaw that affects people trying to sync their iPhone with a PC that has an Intel P55-based motherboard and the 64-bit version of Windows 7.

  • Chrome 4.0 gets beta release

    3 Nov 2009 | 4:39 am
    Google introduced the bookmark sync feature for the developer-preview version in August, and now it is also in the better-tested beta version, Chrome 4.0.223.16.

  • New Trojan encrypts files but leaves no ransom note

    2 Nov 2009 | 1:38 pm
    Symantec is warning about a new Trojan horse that encrypts files on compromised computers but offers no ransom note like other software designed to hold data hostage for a fee.

  • Scams surfacing on Twitter, Facebook

    2 Nov 2009 | 1:35 pm
    Twitter users warned about direct messages that said: "I make money online with google. i learned how here [link]." Facebook users were getting a bogus link from a friend.
 
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