Exercise seems to help children with ADHD focus.
Just 20 minutes of physical activity per day may help children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to recent research.
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Brazil’s policies could result in as many as 7 million lives saved by 2050.
All a part of Brazil’s strong tobacco control policies are high cigarette prices, smoke-free air laws, marketing restrictions and other measures that are credited for a 50 percent reduction in smoking prevalence between 1989 and 2010. The reduction contributed to an estimated 420,000 lives saved during that time period. Those are the findings of a new study published in PLOS Medicine by a team of researchers from Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Brazilian National Cancer Institute.
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Airbnb is living up to its potential as a community-powered hotel. Today they changed their policies to allow do-gooders to offer up their spare spaces free of charge to displaced victims of superstorm Sandy.
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Bacterial spores are added to the concrete mix and they are activated by water.
A concrete that patches up cracks by itself is to undergo outdoor testing. The experimental concrete contains limestone-producing bacteria, which are activated by corrosive rainwater working its way into the structure. This new material could potentially increase the service life of the concrete – with considerable cost savings as a result.
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Obama’s data crunchers.
The backroom data crunchers who powered Barack Obama’s campaign to victory noticed last spring that George Clooney had an almost gravitational tug on West Coast females ages 40 to 49. The women were far and away the single demographic group most likely to hand over cash, for a chance to dine in Hollywood with Clooney — and Obama.
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About a third of Americans take a daily multivitamin.
The risk of heart attack and stroke was not cut by taking a daily multivitamin in a study that followed more than 14,500 men for over a decade. There was a small reduction in cancer risk, according to results from the study released in October.
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For people who are colorblind, daily life can be a challenge. Daily challenges range from not knowing whether meat is fully cooked to not being able to read whether a horizontal traffic light is showing green or red. More serious repercussions include being shut out of a dream job, like piloting planes, because misreading landing-strip lights can have life-or-death consequences.
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In an introductory article on Ruby, creator Yukihiro Matsumoto said, “For me the purpose of life is partly to have joy. Programmers often feel joy when they can concentrate on the creative side of programming, So Ruby is designed to make programmers happy.”
Happy computer programmers?
In this interview, world renowned futurist Thomas Frey talks to Yukihiro Matsumoto, or “Matz,” as he is known online, about how and why he created the Ruby programming language, what interested him in creating a programming language rather than creating video games, plus what it means to bring the languages newest version, Ruby 2.0, to the programming community.
If there is anything that the Silicon Valley worships it is the network effect. Startups are plucked from obscurity and elevated to fame and fortune. The list includes nearly every technology success story of the past 15 years. Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, eBay, and PayPal. Each have soared to multi-billion-dollar valuations on the power of the network effect.
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The process of getting a visa is slow, expensive, time-consuming, and often unsuccessful.
It seemed like all of the stars were aligning for Jay Meattle in early 2010. He had raised several hundred thousand dollars from investors in Boston for his start-up, Shareaholic. And the company, which enables people to easily share online content they find interesting, had just passed the milestone of 1 million users.
Time to rethink the who, what, where, why and how of big data.
It is probably time to rethink the who, what, where, why and how of big data. There has been a surge of important news in the past couple weeks, where we are approaching a period of relative calm and can finally assess how the space has evolved in the past year. Here are the top five trends shaping up that should change almost everything about big data in the near future, including how it’s done, who’s doing it and where it’s consumed.
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In Japan, a person’s blood type is popularly believed to determine temperament and personality.
One thing that unites the entire human race is blood. Most people don’t think about our blood type very much unless we need a blood transfusion. But, in Japan, blood type has big implications for life, work and love.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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