January 2011
34 posts
3 Year Olds Out Of Control Set Pattern For Life →
A long-term study has found that children who scored lower on measures of self-control as young as age 3 were more likely to have health problems, substance dependence, financial troubles and a criminal record by the time they reached age 32.
Chinese megacities foster unlikely green citizens ... →
Concrete megacities are not an obvious place to look for green citizens. Yet a new survey shows that, in China, the urban elite is most likely to get environmental gold stars. Jianguo Liu of Michigan State University in East Lansing and colleagues quizzed 5073 people living in Chinese urban centres ranging from small country towns to Beijing and Shanghai. They asked about six “green”...
Cult of less: Living out of a hard drive →
“It’s always nice to have a personal sense of home, but that aside - the internet has replaced my need for an address,” the 27-year-old said. Since boxing up his physical possessions and getting rid of his home, Mr Yurista has taken to the streets with a backpack full of designer clothing, a laptop, an external hard drive, a small piano keyboard and a bicycle - an armful of goods...
WatchTechnology is evolving us, says Amber Case, as we become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of homo sapiens. We now rely on “external brains” (cell phones and computers) to communicate, remember, even live out secondary lives. But will these machines ultimately connect or conquer us? Case offers surprising insight into our cyborg selves. (via We Are All Cyborgs Now
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WatchJoel E. Cohen is a mathematical biologist and Professor of Populations at Rockefeller and Columbia Universities. He projects that by 2050 there will be about 9 billion people in the world. The vast majority of them will live in urban areas, and will have a significantly higher average age than people today. (via More People, More Cities, Longer Lives
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WatchJoel E. Cohen is a mathematical biologist and Professor of Populations at Rockefeller and Columbia Universities. He projects that by 2050 there will be about 9 billion people in the world. The vast majority of them will live in urban areas, and will have a significantly higher average age than people today. (via More People, More Cities, Longer Lives
)
WatchA classic silent film dedicated to Berlin shot in 1927 by Walter Ruttmann. See http://imdb.com/title/tt0017668/ for further details. (via Berlin: Symphony of a Great City : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive)
WatchChannel 4 Documentary following the revolutionary life-extension and immortality ideas of this somewhat eccentric scientist, Dr. Aubrey de Grey. This show is all about the radical ideas of a Cambridge biomedical gerontologist called Aubrey de Grey who believes that, within the next 20-30 years, we could extend life indefinitely by addressing seven major factors in the aging process. (via Do You...
List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia →
This list of common or popular misconceptions describes documented, widespread ideas and beliefs which are fallacious, misleading, or otherwise flawed.
Google Hands Open Video a Huge Win, as... →
Today, Google announced it is omitting H.264 support from its Chrome browser, in favor of free and patent-unencumbered VP8 (via the WebM container) and OGG Theora codecs. Simply put, it’s the biggest victory the open video camp has gotten in a landscape that has largely seemed tilted against them. The long-term outcome is, fairly, anyone’s guess. But you can at least mark one in the column of open...
CES: Thought-controlled iPad app gets in your head →
Touchscreens? So two years ago. Gesture recognition? How 2010. Everyone knows the future lies in thought-controlled interfaces. At least that’s what InteraXon, a tiny Toronto startup, is hoping to convince attendees of at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. The company, which made waves at the 2010 winter Olympics by allowing users in Vancouver to control the lights on the CN Tower...
“Malcom Gladwell makes it sound so easy. Need a burst of insight or inspiration?...”
– World Too Confusing? Trust Your Gut – TIME Healthland
Myspace's unhappy New Year amid layoff rumors -... →
Sources close to the sagging social-networking company, which has been battered by the meteoric rise of one-time rival Facebook, say the cutbacks are imminent but had no other specifics. The sources asked not to be named because they are not authorized to speak on behalf of Myspace.
BBC News - Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall →
The amount of junk e-mail being sent across the globe has seen a dramatic fall in recent months. The volume of spam has dropped steadily since August, but the Christmas period saw a precipitous decline. One security firm detected around 200 billion spam messages being sent each day in August, but just 50 billion in December.
WatchTopologies (Excerpt) - Tiepolo (by Quayola)
WatchFirst Test Time Lapse from My Balcony (by Oxygene)
Justin E. H. Smith: On the Internet | berfrois →
The Internet has concentrated once widely dispersed aspects of a human life into one and the same little machine: work, friendship, commerce, creativity, eros. As someone sharply put it a few years ago in an article in Slate or something like that: our work machines and our porn machines are now the same machines.
YouTube - Everything is OK Montage →