11:57 PM Saturday, August 29, 2009
Learn something everyday
by Shane 
LEARN SOMETHING EVERYDAY
The brain is 80% water... if you are feeling dehydrated your brain is already slowing down.
11:13 AM Sunday, July 26, 2009
Secret of Googlenomic
by Shane
Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability: "'Google needs mathematical types that have a rich tool set for looking for signals in noise,' says statistician Daryl Pregibon, who joined Google in 2003 after 23 years as a top scientist at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs. 'The rough rule of thumb is one statistician for every 100 computer scientists.'"
11:23 AM Tuesday, March 31, 2009
The mousetrap myth
by Shane
Build a better mouse trap and the world will beat a path to your door... or will they?
10:40 AM Friday, March 06, 2009
Study: Doodling Helps You Pay Attention
by Shane
I knew I was right, and now I have the study to back my meeting fidgeting...!
Study: Doodling Helps You Pay Attention - TIME: "Why does doodling aid memory? Andrade offers several theories, but the most persuasive is that when you doodle, you don't daydream. Daydreaming may seem absentminded and pointless, but it actually demands a lot of the brain's processing power. You start daydreaming about a vacation, which leads you to think about potential destinations, how you would pay for the trip, whether you could get the flight upgraded, how you might score a bigger hotel room. These cognitions require what psychologists call 'executive functioning' — for example, planning for the future and comparing costs and benefits.
Doodling, in contrast, requires very few executive resources but just enough cognitive effort to keep you from daydreaming, which — if unchecked — will jump-start activity in cortical networks that will keep you from remembering what's going on. Doodling forces your brain to expend just enough energy to stop it from daydreaming but not so much that you don't pay attention."
9:22 AM
Tattoo allows diabetics to monitor blood glucose
by Shane
Tattoo allows diabetics to monitor blood glucose | COSMOS magazine
When sugar levels drop, the tatto changes... simple and clever!
10:00 AM Tuesday, February 03, 2009
snow to bring further disruption
by Shane
I was reading the news today - and found something strangely romantic about this concept... must do some more research I think.
BBC NEWS | UK | snow to bring further disruption: "'I have travelled from Stockholm to the Arctic Circle on a train that arrived five minutes early, yet Britain lapses into chaos at the first hint of snow.'"