Modern life causes brain overload, study finds - Telegraph - 3 views
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Uly Lalunio on 17 Dec 09"Experts believe that the information overload could prompt our brains to evolve in a new way. "
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Facebook Moves to Standardize and Own Customer IDs - BusinessWeek - 2 views
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Watch Out! Facebook ends privacy options. No more web anonymity.
ResearchGATE and Its Savvy Use of the Web - BusinessWeek - 0 views
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"The site links medical researchers from around the world-and is driving homegrown, locally relevant innovation in developing nations."
MIT wins Pentagon prize in social networking contest - 0 views
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"According to DARPA, the goal of the Network Challenge was to explore how "broad-scope problems can be tackled using social networking tools." It said it aimed to look at such issues as mobilization, collaboration, and trust in diverse social networking constructs."
5 New Technologies That Will Change Everything - latimes.com - 6 views
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"3D TV, HTML5, video over Wi-Fi, superfast USB, and mobile "augmented reality" will emerge as breakthrough technologies in the next few years. Here's a preview of what they do and how they work."
Technology | Web ads that learn from you | Los Angeles Times - 0 views
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"Thanks to the simple addition of thumbs up and thumbs down buttons on many websites, advertisers are finally getting a sense of how enjoyable (or annoying) their ads are."
Does Technology Reduce Social Isolation? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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This article contradicts other studies that suggest we are feeling more socially isolated because of the rise of the internet and wireless media.
Novelties - Turn a Cellphone Into a Microscope - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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"In one prototype, a slide holding a finger prick of blood can be inserted over the phone's camera sensor. The sensor detects the slide's contents and sends the information wirelessly to a hospital or regional health center. "
Google launches Dashboard privacy controls - 0 views
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It's about time! "The Google Dashboard aggregates all of a user's Google service accounts - for sites such as Blogger, the blogging platform, and Picasa, the photo-sharing site - in to a single interface, providing one-click access to privacy settings and account-management tools. "
Using computers to analyse sentiments: Software that can tell when people are getting u... - 1 views
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"An attempt to enable computers to assess the emotional meaning of text. The software can construct sentiment scores for the concepts mentioned in the text, as a combination of positive, negative and neutral results."
The Real-Time Search Revolution is Here - 0 views
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An article on how current developments in giant search engines are revolutionizing the way we search the web?
How to Fix Our Education System - WSJ.com - 1 views
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"A panel of 'experts' talks about what's wrong with our education system -- and how to fix it."
Learn a foreign language online for free via social networking - CNN.com - 0 views
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How social media facilitates learning a foreign language online for free.
The Chemistry of Information Addiction: Why We Want to Know the Answer - Scientific Ame... - 3 views
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This article scientifically explains why humans crave for information. Research suggests the notion that midbrain dopamine neurons are coding for both primitive and cognitive rewards. This sounds like section of our brain still prefers to be strongly wired as behaviorist and cognitivist over constructivist.
Dyslexia has big differences in English and Chinese - 0 views
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"Researchers looking at the brains of dyslexic Chinese children have discovered that the disorder in that language often stems from two separate, independent problems: sound and visual perception. "
Does Falling in Love Make Us More Creative?: Scientific American - 0 views
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Not to worry, this article perhaps is still within the realms of meta-cognition. The author posits, "...because love activates a long-term perspective that elicits global processing, it should also promote creativity and impede analytic thinking." Interesting findings, though I have yet to buy them.
Does your social class determine your online social network? - 1 views
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Here's a brief article with statistics on online social networking divide. What does your online social networking preference reveal about your social class?
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Will online social networking create or perpetuate a "caste system" within online communities?
DIY-Virtual Reality...prob. not in Walmart anytime soon - 1 views
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Newest Disney attraction called - Sum of All Thrills where kids get to design their own virtual roller coaster. It uses virtual-reality technology. "Disney hopes the interactive nature of the ride would also help kids learn that math and science can be fun."
10 Most Brilliant Products of 2009: Breakthrough Awards Products 2009 - Popular Mechanics - 4 views
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Breakthrough product innovations of 2009 - tools, gadgets and toys.
A New Web Tool to Take Control of Your Health - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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"The national health care debate right now is all about giving more people affordable access to doctors and hospitals. Yet the vast majority of health care decisions - 80 percent or more, experts say - are really made by individuals, instead of medical professionals..."