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alexbelov

Podshare is like a hostel and hotel combined - Tech Insider - 0 views

  • Guests get their own bunk with a TV, towel, outlets, and more for between $40 and $50 a night, depending on the location. They can also share the community fridge, food, bathrooms, toiletries, and work space areas.
  • Four years after launch, Podshare has hosted over 5,000 guests and has a loyal fan base. The company has a near-perfect five-star review on Yelp, 4.5 stars on TripAdvisor, and 16 members love it so much they had the logo tattooed on their body. Keep reading to see what it's like inside.
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    Podshare provides cheap and really small accommodation space to its customers who get their own tiny place to sleep and access to shared community space, which includes fridge, food, bathrooms and working area.
Vsevolod Plokhov

Банк Москвы организует в столице сеть велопрокатов - BBC Russian - Россия - 1 views

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    "Всего в 2013 году планируется построить около 50 км велодорожек, сообщил Митяев. Что касается велопроката, по словам Митяева, планируется построить 104 станции (каждая из которых вмещает 16 велосипедов) и закупить 1000 велосипедов."
Ekaterina Nurieva

'Fakebooking' parents, and why I'm okay with that - 2 views

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/on-parenting/fakebooking-parents-and-why-im-okay-with-that/2013/07/22/fe08795e-e57f-11e2-aef3-339619eab080_story.html

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al_semenchenko

Считавшаяся мёртвой китаянка десять лет прожила в интернет-кафе, играя в онла... - 1 views

  • Китаянку Сяо Юн (Xiao Yun), которую в течение последних десяти лет считали погибшей, обнаружили во время полицейского рейда в интернет-кафе в провинции Чжэцзян.
  • Сяо Юн ушла из дома в возрасте 14 лет в 2005 году, и с тех пор о ней было ничего не известно.
  • в последние десять лет она жила преимущественно в интернет-кафе.
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  • почти всё свободное время тратила на игры, а для личной гигиены использовала общественные бани. На жизнь Сяо Юн зарабатывала, время от времени устраиваясь кассиром в интернет-кафе. В них же она обычно спала.
  • В начале 2015 года о такого рода «интернет-кафе-беженцах» в Японии был снят документальный фильм. В картине сообщалось, что многие японцы из-за отсутствия постоянной работы вынуждены жить в небольших каморках в интернет-кафе, где проводят большую часть свободного времени, сидя в сети и играя в онлайн-игры.
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    Образ жизни проходит через существенные трансформации. Люди все больше проводят времени в небольших замкнутых пространствах. Все большая часть жизни проходит во взаимодействии с виртуальными пространствами.
Oleg Batluk

Web-mad Hongkongers have digital dementia - and we're losing our memories | South China... - 1 views

  • Frequent use of digital devices is causing memory loss among Hongkongers
  • brain health experts have even coined a name for the condition: digital dementia.
  • correlation between more frequent usage of digital devices and self-reported memory loss in daily life and at work.
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  • the cognitive challenges and attention problems that result from overuse of digital technology.
  • Almost all respondents (95 per cent) owned at least two digital devices
  • bio-behavioural sciences
  • Respondents who spent more than six hours daily on their digital devices were more likely to report experiencing forgetfulness in the past month compared to those who spent fewer hours
  • the survey for first time shows this connection between overuse or higher use of digital devices and more complaints of memory disturbances in Hongkongers
  • "digital immigrants"
  • In his 2008 book iBrain, Small talks about "digital natives"
  • The survey also found poor dietary and exercise habits among the respondents
  • The term digital dementia was coined a few years ago in South Korea, after doctors reported seeing young patients with memory and cognitive problems, conditions that were more commonly linked to brain injuries.
  • Samsung Medical Centre in Seoul, South Korea: "As people are more dependent on digital devices for searching information than memorising, the brain function for searching improves whereas an ability to remember decreases
  • Dr Manfred Spitzer, a German neuroscientist and author of the 2012 book Digital Dementia: What We and Our Children are Doing to our Minds,
  • warns that children who spend too much time on electronic devices could experience irreversible deficits in brain development.
  • multitasking teens
  • The devices are not all bad," he says. "It's really about content, context and dose
  • balance the online time with offline time
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    Digtal overdose and multitasking digtal natives with "Inspector Gadget Syndrome" ((c) Batluk) can lead to medically diagnosed digital dementia which can be avoided by offline online balance
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    Digtal overdose and multitasking digtal natives with "Inspector Gadget Syndrome" ((c) Batluk) can lead to medically diagnosed digital dementia which can be avoided by offline online balance
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    Digtal overdose and multitasking digtal natives with "Inspector Gadget Syndrome" ((c) Batluk) can lead to medically diagnosed digital dementia which can be avoided by offline online balance
zolotarev

Исповедь миллениала. Культурные коды поколения Y - 2 views

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    Generation Y values - Self care instead of healthy lifestyle obsession - More natural, less taboo - Psychotherapy is normal - More time on parenting - Environmental awareness - Conscious limitation of choice - Millennials are needed of new online communication ethical norms - Chill
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