8 TEDtalks That Will Change Your Life Forever. 1. Juan Enriquez: Will our kids be a different species? Juan asks in this compelling TEDtalk ‘can we upgrade ourselves?’ His answer immediately puts humankind in perspective. So far, there have been 29 upgrades of humanoids. Read more in his book Homo Evolutis. 2. Brené tells us a story about expanding our perception in a way that could change our lives forever.
Read more in her book The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are 3. Jane is a gamer. Read more in her book Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change The World 4. We often hear that success is a choice, that it is right around the corner and is for everybody to grasp. Read more in his book Status Anxiety 5. Daphne shows the world how an outdated education system can be outperformed in many ways by something new. 6. Do you eat? Learn more about Incredible Edible here 7. Scilla wants to know how to deal with violence in a non-violence way. 8.
Tech Start-Up Benefits from ABC’s ‘Shark Tank’ Computer Networking and Privacy. Io9 - We come from the future. Heap Collective pulls artistic talent from Tucson together. Art is a universal language, fundamental and particular to a community. Tucson, host to artistic expression and talent of all degrees, is regaining its voice with the aid of three local artists.
Matt Baquet, Joie Estrella and Claire Mirocha founded Heap Collective, a cooperative for the gathering of Tucson artists and inventors to express their ideas, work and voice in an innovative environment. “People are doing it all over the place; many people gather together to promote one great cause, which is getting your art out there, which everyone is trying to do in the same space,” said Baquet, Heap’s music director. Two years ago, Baquet started a collective in Seattle which gave rise to the notion itself. After moving to Tucson and forming the shoegaze act Dream Sick, Baquet began forming the musical foundation for Heap Collective.
From this idea and a desire to provide Tucson artists and free thinkers with a space that nurtures creative efforts. Heap is interactive and explosive. The Effects of Blue Light on Ocular Health. The Effects of Blue Light on Ocular Health Elaine Kitchel, M.Ed. American Printing House for the Blind Why should we care about blue light? For years now, professionals in the fields of light energy and vision have known about the hazards ultraviolet (UV) light presents to ocular health. We are gradually having longer and more intense exposures to blue light; much of the world of commercial display and industry is lit with cool white fluorescent tubes which emit a strong spike of light in the blue and ultraviolet ranges. What is blue light? Experts differ as to the exact wavelength of UV light waves, but generally speaking, UV light is defined as that part of the invisible spectrum which ranges from 380nm to 200nm. UV‑C, the shortest wavelength for purposes of this report, is virtually absent from ordinary lamps, blacklight and sunlight within the earth's atmosphere.
What about "black light? " Of special concern is the blue light given off by "black light" tubes and bulbs. RetinalDamage 1. 2. iTools - use the best tools. Startup Mistakes: Building Everything Yourself | StartupMuse. One of the biggest challenges startups face is deciding what is core to their business. For example, at ShopSavvy we spent a LOT of time developing technology around barcode scanning. We assumed that developing and owning our own intellectual property would make our company more attractive to potential acquirers or investors. Turns out this assumption was a huge mistake that cost us time – one of the most valuable assets that startups and entrepreneurs seem to lack. It is really easy to see other entrepreneurs making this mistake – it is really hard to see you are making it yourself. Figuring out your core/real business is vital to your success.
In the case of our barcode scanning technology we used a combination of open source software and proprietary code for the Android version of ShopSavvy. Around that same time, I was in Europe helping with the launch of the G1 and stumbled across a PhD engineer by the name of Benoit Maison who lived in Belgium. My Next Big Thing. . . | StartupMuse. Lots of you are asking about what I am up to these days so I thought I would give you a little update. Since January I have been working on a new startup called HAUL. Initially, spending all of my free time learning all I could about the market and attempting to formulate a plan to best address the opportunity.
Most recently we’ve been recruiting the team and raising capital. For the past few months we have been in ‘relative’ stealth mode. But, as you know, the Dallas startup community is relatively small and you know the cat is out of the bag when the telemarketers start calling. Evidently it’s hard to keep a secret when you are: meeting with lawyersshopping for office spaceworking with software developershiring employeesdoing video shootsraising capitalselected by Google for their Glass Explorer Programtelling friends what are you doing when they ask.
Stop listening to what they are saying. . . | StartupMuse. Recently I had an epiphany that has changed the way I deal with almost every person in my life and I wanted to share it with you. My question for you? The next time you are involved in some sort of interpersonal conflict – with a spouse, friend, client or employee – what would happen if you quit listening to the words they are writing or speaking and start thinking about where they are coming from. Think about the why more than the what. In high school and college I competed in cross examination debate, traveling nationally to argue any side of any argument (in rapid fire fashion like this young lad). The other day I was involved in a tense conversation with someone and for some reason I stopped listening to their attacks and starting thinking about where they were in their life.
Give it a try. Social curation finds an audience: Pearltrees reaches 10M pageviews. With its slick visual interface for bookmarking content, Pearltrees is unique enough that I’ve been both impressed and slightly skeptical that a mass audience will actually use it. But it looks like the site has found plenty of users. The French startup just announced that it crossed two big milestones in March: It has more than 100,000 users curating links, and it received more than 10 million pageviews. Not only does that show the concept is resonating, but it also suggests Pearltrees could reach the scale where it can build a real business around advertising or by offering premium accounts for publishers.
When you share links on Pearltrees, they show up as little circles called Pearls. (The site can also automatically add links that you share on Twitter.) You then organize those Pearls into larger groups of related content called, yes, Pearltrees. Pearltrees has raised 3.8 million euros in funding. How to Memorize - Learn to memorize and increase memory. If you are visiting from StumbleUpon and like this article and tool, please consider giving it a thumbs up. Thanks! Memorizing does not have to be as hard as most people make it. The problem is that most people only know how to memorize by reading the same thing over and over again. You have to learn to memorize. In this article we are going to focus on a technique that will let you easily: Memorize a speechMemorize the BibleMemorize linesMemorize Scripture At the end of this article is a Javascript tool that makes it easy to implement this method.
Synapses and Neurons and How to Memorize In the simplified model of the brain in this discussion, we’ll be looking at neurons and synapses. When you remember something neurons fire signals down particular synapse pathways to other neurons which in turn fire signals to other neurons. Strong Pathways Synapses appear to exhibit plasticity. For example, consider remembering your home telephone number. Why It’s So Disconcerting That SnapChat Is Now Worth Half a Billion Dollars. These are strange times we live in, when a sanctum for selfies and sexting is valued at a half a billion dollars. Yet here we are. GigaOm reported Friday that an "untraditional" backer (Om guesses a hedge fund) will infuse the beloved photo-messaging app SnapChat with an additional $100 million in funding, and has valued the startup at a whopping $500 million.
That's pretty whack. Not because it's a ton of money—though it’s nothing to sneeze at—but because it begs the question, why do investors think a silly app with no clear revenue model is worth so much money? Sure, SnapChat has seen extraordinary growth in the last several months, and a whole lot of buzz. It sees some 150 million "snaps" per day from some 5 million users—mainly teens and college students, an enticing market. It's certainly a helluva lot of users, but users aren't dollars. In reality, SnapChat’s business plan probably looks something like this: "Maybe someone will buy us!
" It's a sort of economy of cool, not value.