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May 25, 2012
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Curated News - Magazine - The Perfected Self - The Atlantic
May 24, 2012
“Early studies of a fast-expanding pool of electronic weight-loss aids suggest that, by allowing people like Dan to construct their own regimen on their phone and computer, these tools could be a key to reversing the obesity epidemic. Applied across the health-care spectrum—to improve senior care, fix sleep problems, and cure addiction, for example—these affordable, accessible tools could radically change the way we conceive of and administer health care, potentially saving the system billions of dollars in the process.”
Curated News - How exercise affects the brain | KurzweilAI
May 24, 2012
“The implication is that exercising during development, as your brain is growing, is changing the brain in concert with normal developmental changes, resulting in your having more permanent wiring of the brain in support of things like learning and memory,” says Bucci. “It seems important to [exercise] early in life.”
Curated News - To Get To The Root Of A Hard Problem, Just Ask “Why” Five Times | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
May 23, 2012
“The Five Whys ties the rate of progress to learning, not just execution. Startup teams should go through the Five Whys whenever they encounter any kind of failure, including technical faults, failures to achieve business results, or unexpected changes in customer behavior.”
Curated News - To Get To The Root Of A Hard Problem, Just Ask “Why” Five Times | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
May 23, 2012
“At the root of every seemingly technical problem is a human problem.”
Curated News - The Right Way to Try to Buy Happiness - NYTimes.com
May 23, 2012
“But according to another article about money and happiness that ran in The New York Times in 2010, there is plenty of research suggesting that experiences, time spent with people we love, and memories of special events contribute significantly to happiness.”
Curated News - Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: The hierarchy of innovation
May 23, 2012
“We’re already physically comfortable, so getting a little more physically comfortable doesn’t seem particularly pressing. We’ve become inward looking, and what we crave are more powerful tools for modifying our internal state or projecting that state outward. An entrepreneur has a greater prospect of fame and riches if he creates, say, a popular social-networking tool than if he creates a faster, more efficient system for mass transit. The arc of innovation, to put a dark spin on it, is toward decadence.”
via Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: The hierarchy of innovation
Curated News - The Force of the Quantified Self « The Heart Beat
May 18, 2012
“But collecting data under the radar (with consent of course) and communicating it to the right people could potentially offer even more than a health course correction — it could save your life. I think that this is the future of the Quantified Self.”
Curated News - The Facebook IPO – US Business News — ‘Apple Being Used as ATM for Facebook IPO’ - CNBC
May 17, 2012
“It looks like Apple is being used as an ATM for the Facebook IPO,” writes Chris Verrone at Strategas.”
via The Facebook IPO – US Business News — ‘Apple Being Used as ATM for Facebook IPO’ - CNBC
Curated News - Technology Review: The Authority on the Future of Technology
May 17, 2012
“A good chunk of computer and human-computing interaction research these days is focused on giving computers better senses so they can either implicitly or explicitly augment our intellect and assist with our tasks,” says Desney Tan, a researcher at Microsoft Research. “This work is a wonderful first step toward understanding our changing mental state and designing interfaces that dynamically tailor themselves so that the human-computer system can be as effective as possible.”
via Technology Review: The Authority on the Future of Technology