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"Paradox of Choice" author Barry Schwartz on TEDTalks. Barry Schwartz is a sociology professor at Swarthmore and author of The Paradox of Choice .

"Paradox of Choice" author Barry Schwartz on TEDTalks

In this talk, he persuasively explains how and why the abundance of choice in modern society is actually making us miserable. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 20:22) Get TED delivered:Subscribe to the TEDTalks video podcast via RSS >>Subscribe to the iTunes video podcastSubscribe to the iTunes audio podcastGet updates via Twitter >>Join our Facebook fan page >> Subscribe to the TED Blog >> Behind the Poster: 'One Arm' A boxer turned hustler with a missing arm seems like an unlikely subject for a play, considering that the pool of one-armed actors is probably small, even in New York.

Behind the Poster: 'One Arm'

The meaning of 9/11's most controversial photo. In the photograph Thomas Hoepker took on 11 September 2001, a group of New Yorkers sit chatting in the sun in a park in Brooklyn.

The meaning of 9/11's most controversial photo

Behind them, across brilliant blue water, in an azure sky, a terrible cloud of smoke and dust rises above lower Manhattan from the place where two towers were struck by hijacked airliners this same morning and have collapsed, killing, by fire, smoke, falling or jumping or crushing and tearing and fragmentation in the buildings' final fall, nearly 3,000 people. Ten years on, this is becoming one of the iconic photographs of 9/11, yet its history is strange and tortuous.

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SXSW: 'Hot-spot honeypot' hacker's heaven. AUSTIN, Texas--Some funny things were happening at the South by Southwest conference here today.

SXSW: 'Hot-spot honeypot' hacker's heaven

Japan tsunami pictures: before and after. The Alma – Crystal Palace – Mark Blundell - South London Photographer. Japan quake: Images of then and now. 10 March 2012Last updated at 19:31 ET One year ago, a massive earthquake and tsunami struck off the coast of north-east Japan.

Japan quake: Images of then and now

Thousands of people lost their lives and many more were injured as torrents of water swept through coastal cities, towns and villages. Twelve months on, the Japanese people are making progress in repairing the damage to their country and rebuilding their lives. Ed Boyden: The brain is like a computer, and we can fix it with nanorobots. Ed Boyden heads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group at MIT Media Lab.

Ed Boyden: The brain is like a computer, and we can fix it with nanorobots

He is working on developing technologies and tools for "analysing and engineering brain circuits" – to reveal which brain neurons are involved in different cognitive processes and using this knowledge to treat brain disorders. What is synthetic neurobiology? The synthetic biology part is about taking molecules from the natural world and figuring how to make them into little machines that we can use to address complex brain problems. Moreover, if we can synthesise the computation of the brain and write information to it, that allows us to test our understanding of the brain and fix disorders by controlling the processes within – running a piece of software on the brain as if it is a computer. The brain as computer… we probably shouldn't be surprised that your initial training was in electrical engineering and physics?

2012/03/10/the-economics-of-emotion/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch) Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Alan Zorfas, the co-founder and CMO of Motista, a VC-backed consumer intelligence service.

2012/03/10/the-economics-of-emotion/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)

Prior to co-founding Motista, Alan spent 25 years in senior roles at advertising agencies like Interpublic Group, DBB, and Earle Palmer Brown. The most recent commercial for the BMW i3 and i8 concept cars is a great example of something enlightened marketers have known for years: emotion is the key driver behind purchasing decisions.

Yet, today, most businesspeople still follow the old adage, “Emotions and business don’t mix,” relying on rational data to drive decisions instead. Doesn’t the advertisement make you want to buy a BMW? Don’t you want to feel cool or look more successful, technology-forward and progressive? Marketing performance is sub-par across the board, with everything from ad recall to customer loyalty declining. Plastic-Eating Fungi Found in the Amazon May Solve World’s Waste Problem. A New Approach to Wind Energy. Tennessee Williams - THE YELLOW BIRD. Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity.

Jonah Lehrer on How to Be Creative. Photos. 771242DeLijnCrabs105510881080108210861083.gif (400×225) Logik.jpg (600×613) Ferruginea1.jpg (402×268) Honk+if+You+Love+LIberty%2C+Plate+3.jpg (301×301) DSC_0460.jpg (1019×675) Google photos - Sacred Sunday. Photos. Google Photos - Paris.