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"Past studies have showed various types of berries may possess cancer-fighting effects. Now new..."

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:56:58 -0700

“Past studies have showed various types of berries may possess cancer-fighting effects. Now new research, presented yesterday at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, shows eating blueberries, strawberries and acai berries might be able to slow the brain’s natural aging process.”

- Scope - medical blog - Stanford University School of Medicine

"the future of technology is designing intelligent filters for search engines — Google on..."

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:12:58 -0700

“the future of technology is designing intelligent filters for search engines — Google on steroids. So that no matter how many things are out there in the world you can look at them through a filter that only shows you the four or five you ought to care about. So it’s as if there only are four or five. The other ones will just be invisible. They’ve already done the job of making every imaginable piece of information accessible. Now the trick is to help you manage all of that information, including hiding a lot of it.”

- An Interview on ‘The Paradox of Choice’ with Barry Schwartz - Open Spaces Magazine

Beloit College Mindset List

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:06:14 -0700

Beloit College Mindset List:

Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List. It provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall.

"There is no need to do a search,” McCue says. “We almost view it as a bug if we have the..."

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:27:04 -0700

““There is no need to do a search,” McCue says. “We almost view it as a bug if we have the user search for something.”

- Google: The search party is over - Fortune Tech

Years from inception to $1 billion in revenue

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:22:27 -0700

Years from inception to $1 billion in revenue

"AFTER A THOROUGH BATTERY OF TESTS WE CAN NOW RECOMMEND “THE NEWSPAPER” AS THE BEST..."

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:56:17 -0700

“AFTER A THOROUGH BATTERY OF TESTS WE CAN NOW RECOMMEND “THE NEWSPAPER” AS THE BEST E-READER ON THE MARKET.”

- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: After a Thorough Battery of Tests We Can Now Recommend “The Newspaper” As the Best e-Reader On the Market.

"O’Brien said the biggest thing that held him back from both writing and performing was a fear of..."

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:16:51 -0700

“O’Brien said the biggest thing that held him back from both writing and performing was a fear of being criticized because he’s incredibly sensitive. He punched a big hole in one of the biggest clichés in fame—that you just have to develop a thick skin. He says he’s still just as sensitive and criticism still hurts just as much. The secret is to just keep going anyway, because you will get criticized no matter how brilliant you are.”

- Conan O’Brien’s Love/Hate Relationship with the Internet

Seth's Blog: So easy to talk about lunch

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:11:42 -0700

Seth's Blog: So easy to talk about lunch

"The largest of these companies is Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., also known as Foxconn. The company..."

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:17:13 -0700

“The largest of these companies is Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., also known as Foxconn. The company has grown at an astounding rate, first in Taiwan and later in China. Its revenue last year was $62 billion, larger than Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Dell Inc. or Intel. Foxconn employs more than 800,000 people, more than the combined worldwide head count of Apple, Dell, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel and Sony Corp.”

- How to Make an American Job Before It’s Too Late: Andy Grove - Bloomberg

"Not every new site is a hit. One called Pandaganda, which collected images of pandas looking..."

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:53:09 -0700

“Not every new site is a hit. One called Pandaganda, which collected images of pandas looking comically evil and sinister, fizzled after a few weeks, so Mr. Huh pulled the plug. “We kill about 20 percent of all the sites we start,” he said. The idea of quickly tailoring a blog network to satisfy the fickle tastes of a Web-savvy audience, generating new sites to capitalize on a viral sensation and dropping the ones that don’t catch on, is what convinced Geoff Entress, a noted angel investor in the Seattle area, to help Mr. Huh purchase the original company. “Being flexible and able to change as the environment changes is a huge asset to a consumer Web site,” said Mr. Entress, who has backed more than 35 local start-ups, including an online community for booklovers called Shelfari that was eventually bought by Amazon.”

- I Can Has Cheezburger Blog Leads to a Web Empire - NYTimes.com

"Thanks to the liberating forces of globalisation and Googlisation, innovation is no longer the..."

Sat, 15 May 2010 12:19:51 -0700

“Thanks to the liberating forces of globalisation and Googlisation, innovation is no longer the preserve of technocratic elites in ivory towers. It is increasingly an open, networked and democratic endeavour.”

- Innovation in history: Getting better all the time | The Economist

"people are, to a large extent, in charge of their own intelligence. Being smart - and staying smart..."

Thu, 06 May 2010 10:12:24 -0700

“people are, to a large extent, in charge of their own intelligence. Being smart - and staying smart - is not just a gift, not just a product of their genetic good fortune. It is very much a product of what they put into it. It means that being smart is a long process of self-development and self-discovery.””

- Malleable intelligence

"the Pew Research Center found that half of American teenagers — defined in the study as ages 12..."

Wed, 05 May 2010 09:22:35 -0700

“the Pew Research Center found that half of American teenagers — defined in the study as ages 12 through 17 — send 50 or more text messages a day and that one third send more than 100 a day.”

- How Does Technology Affect Kids’ Friendships? - NYTimes.com

"WOMEN now outnumber men at elite colleges, law schools, medical schools and in the overall work..."

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:01:35 -0700

“WOMEN now outnumber men at elite colleges, law schools, medical schools and in the overall work force. Yet a stark imbalance of the sexes persists in the high-tech world, where change typically happens at breakneck speed.”

- Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley? - NYTimes.com

"Of all the people in human history who ever reached the age of 65, half are alive now."

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:51:56 -0700

“Of all the people in human history who ever reached the age of 65, half are alive now.”

- SCOPE - medical blog - Stanford University School of Medicine

Here's How Google TV Will Work - And What It Might Mean

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:57:46 -0700

Here's How Google TV Will Work - And What It Might Mean

"Kaizen (Japanese for “improvement” or “change for the better”) refers to a..."

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:57:54 -0800

“Kaizen (Japanese for “improvement” or “change for the better”) refers to a philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous improvement of processes in manufacturing, engineering, supporting business processes, and management. It has been applied in healthcare, government, banking, and many other industries. When used in the business sense and applied to the workplace, kaizen refers to activities that continually improve all functions, and involves all employees from the CEO to the assembly line workers.”

- Kaizen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

YouTube - “Tony Steinberg: Brave Seventh-Grade Viking...

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:11:59 -0800

YouTube - “Tony Steinberg: Brave Seventh-Grade Viking Warrior,” by TAYLOR MALI

"I remain suspicious, however, of anyone who argues that online social networks, like Facebook, will..."

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:36:21 -0800

“I remain suspicious, however, of anyone who argues that online social networks, like Facebook, will revolutionize human interactions. Whenever I encounter some utopian celebration of Facebook, I always go back and read some Jane Goodall, or Robert Sapolsky, and remind myself that our social lives haven’t changed that much since we were hairy apes patrolling the African forest. In fact, the most obvious parallel for just about every primate troop remains high school. It’s not that Facebook doesn’t matter - it’s just that our social lives are stubborn things, and tend to revolve around the same constants regardless of the technology.”

- Facebook Friends : The Frontal Cortex

Comcast changing cable unit name - chicagotribune.com

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:31:36 -0800

Comcast changing cable unit name - chicagotribune.com