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. Multiple versions co-existed.
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. 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. iTools - use the best tools. Startup Mistakes: Building Everything Yourself. One of the biggest challenges startups face is deciding what is core to their business.
My Next Big Thing. . . 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. Stop listening to what they are saying. . . 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. 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.) 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! 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'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! "