Daniel Raffel’s Favorite New Geek Stuff Of 2010 Daniel Raffel is a former Yahoo product manager and a newbie entrepreneur. A year ago we asked him to write a guest post telling us about his favorite new products, projects and features of 2009. The post below is an updated list of his favorite new geek stuff from 2010. Looking back at 2010, I’m particularly struck by the quantity and quality of new projects that launched. Just when I thought I had time to start reflecting on the year another project popped up onto my radar! And then another. As I started assembling a list of launches from 2010 that caught my eye, I grouped them into the categories I used last year: New Products and Services, New Projects, Feature Updates, and Mobile Apps. New Products/ServicesApple Airplay, iBooks, iPad, Magic Trackpad My iPad can just about always be found in my backpack. Boxee Box The Boxee Box reminds me a bit of the Nexus One: it’s a very good, controlled demonstration of the power of the platform.
The Science Behind Foldit | Foldit Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research. This page describes the science behind Foldit and how your playing can help. What is a protein? Proteins are the workhorses in every cell of every living thing. What are amino acids? What shape will a protein fold into? Why is shape important? What do proteins do? Proteins are present in all living things, even plants, bacteria, and viruses. Photosystem I is a collection of proteins in plants that captures sunlight for photosynthesis.Luciferase catalyzes the chemical reaction that makes fireflies glow.Hemagglutinin helps the influenza virus invade our cells. You can find more information on the rules of protein folding in our FAQ. What big problems is this game tackling? Protein structure prediction: As described above, knowing the structure of a protein is key to understanding how it works and to targeting it with drugs. How does my game playing contribute to curing diseases?
French spend most time shopping, eating and sleeping The French sleep an average of 8.5 hours a night, says the OECD’s annual Society at a Glance report, making France the best rested country out of the organisation’s 34 members. They also spend the most time eating and drinking: more than two hours per day on average. That’s nearly twice as long as Americans or Canadians spend consuming. However, belying their reputation for culinary savoir faire, the French typically spend just 48 minutes per day cooking – less than the OECD average. Less time in the kitchen means more time in the shops: the French spend 32 minutes each day shopping. All this leisure time, plus the highest social protection spending of any OECD country (28 per cent of GDP), gives French people the second-highest life expectancy in the OECD. Their relative quality of life doesn’t necessarily make the French any more generous, though: only 31 per cent of them do volunteer work, give money or help strangers, compared to the OECD average of 39 per cent.
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Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. Baby Birth Announcements & Baby Photo Announcements by Tiny Prints Your special delivery is finally here and this one has ten chubby toes and a tiny little nose. Now it's time to introduce your brand new bundle of joy to everyone who has been anxiously waiting to hear the good news. And there's no better way to present your precious newborn to friends and relatives than sending a personalized birth announcement from Tiny Prints. Designing Your Birth Announcements At Tiny Prints, each baby announcement is chock-full of charming themes including argyle elephants, mischievous monkeys, lovely ladybugs, frilly flowers and tiny toy planes. Sending Baby Announcements If your baby is almost here and you're wondering when to send birth announcements, there's no better time to mail them than right after your child is born. Birth Announcement Wording Whether you're expecting your first child or your kids are just so much fun that you decided to have another one, birth announcements are the perfect way to share your excitement with friends and family.
The Event Strategy Jason Cohen has a great post on unfair advantages. One of Cohen’s differentiators — personal authority — is the most useful to first- and second-time entrepreneurs. So the question arises: how do you build strong and scalable personal authority? I’ve heard blogging come up often, but I don’t think this is the way to go for most people. Events are different — when you run an event, you’re in front of the crowd. Starting an event series is daunting, but it’s actually quite a bit easier than it seems. 1) Pick a topic. 2) Build your promotional tools. 3) Find content. 4) Find 2-3 solid venues. 5) Make sure you have great attendees. 6) Play up your social benefit to maintain great content. 7) Leverage your membership to run events for you. The last point is especially critical — events die when organizers feel the need to exert too much control and burn themselves out.
MBAdventure Hell Week has come to Harvard. I’ve heard whisperings of this infamous event ever since my first day on campus, and now that it is here I can confirm that it is, in fact, just as scary as it sounds. Hell Week (or, “recruitment week”, as the HBS administration sugarcoats calls it) is the week that tons of companies come to campus to interview students for summer internships. I’ve observed a variety of Hell Weekers, and have identified several different breeds in their natural habitats: The Consultants: Probably the most high strung of all of the Hell Weekers. The Hedge Funders: Another particularly hardy breed, these future finance whizzes have been preparing stock pitches for weeks, and are known to pepper their vernacular with financial jargon, like, “I’m long Domino’s man, that sh*t is delicious!” The Consumer Packaged Goods Peeps: These bright young stars are the future managers of some of your favorite household brands, and are both quantitatively savvy as well as very creative.
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Video: Flying Thing Propels Itself By Flipping Inside Out Flying objects can achieve forward thrust in a few ways, but here's a unique new one: Flipping inside out to move forward. Designed by the people who brought us the amazing robot seagull, the SmartInversion flying object can move through the air indefinitely. The object is based on a design envisioned by inventor Paul Schatz. It's a six-sided articulated ring of prisms that attaches to a cube, and when it's unleashed, it can start folding into new geometric shapes. As it turns itself inside out, it moves forward. This property of kinematics is called inversion. The object is filled with helium so it will float in the air. Designers at Festo, also known for their nature-inspired robots, are now sponsoring a competition for students to figure out some practical uses for this thing. It looks like the folded-square paper fortune-cookie game thing I used to play with in grade school.
The 2012 PopSci Invention Awards Skip to main content 6th Annual Invention Awards Every year, the editors of Popular Science put hundreds of home-brew inventions through a rigorous vetting process. Are they genuine innovations? The Other 2012 Invention Awards Winners Are... Where Are They Now? Recommended by Photo Galleries Rss + More Photo Galleries 1 Comment MaximumMark 06/29/2012 at 4:33 pm What brand is this helicopter and where can I find one? Log in or register to post comments Permalink Log in or register to post comments Inside Popular Science
First Great Pacific Garbage Patch Clean-Up Effort to Begin Image via maeschultz If you've spent much time reading about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, you might have started wondering why we aren't out there cleaning it up. Well, barely scratch the surface of that thought and you'll see why. It's a massive effort, and would require some massive carbon emissions from fossil fuel-powered boats and equipment to accomplish it. Plus, it's expensive as all get out. From the Times: Scientists and conservationists on the expedition will begin attempts to retrieve and recycle a monument to throwaway living in the middle of the North Pacific." The expedition is supported by Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Brita, which will use unmanned aircraft and robotic surface explorers to explore exactly how big and how deep the vortex is, as well as collect as much as 40 tons of junk as a test for the possibility of cleaning up and recycling the spiraling soup of death into fuel for the vessels. Project Kaisei's Mission: