Researchers discovered several small regions in online addicts’ brains shrunk.
There are more internet and gaming addicts in China than in any other country. China also conducts more research on the issue than anyone. Chinese researchers think that excessive gaming and internet use can permanently alter brain function, according to a new study.
Continue reading… “Addictive internet use rewires the brain: study”
Watching reality shows like “Jersey Shore” might influence your smarts more than you realize.
Fans of mindless reality shows like “Jersey Shore” should take note. Watching something dumb might make you dumber according to new research. You are what you watch.
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Coins with QR codes. Far Out!
The Dutch Royal Mint in Utrecht is celebrating its 100th anniversary by releasing silver 5€ and gold 10€ coins. It has been reported that they include functional QR codes and are legal tender in the Eurozone…
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Futurist Thomas Frey: Two hundred years ago, the most stable jobs involved the needs of a community and the work of a skilled craftsman to meet those needs. People holding jobs such as cobblers, blacksmiths, chandlers, and butchers found themselves in high demand.
Continue reading… “Building a rapid job-creation engine”
The White House is lit the color pink to highlight Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
As cancer death rates continue to fall in the U.S. not all segments of the population are benefiting, the American Cancer Society said Friday.
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Women lose 3 weeks of sleep every year.
It may not come to much of a surprise to many women but, one in three of them lose three weeks’ of sleep every year because of their husband’s snoring, a new study has found.
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What you Tweet is not always what you get.
I must be the only person on Twitter who calls their location by its real name. A recent study by InboxQ revealed that 66% of Tweeters have either made up a location entirely (“John Malkovich’s brain”) or use clever nicknames for their cities. The latter is what you’ll find represented in this “America According to Twitter” map…
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Magic Mushrooms can induce transcendental states.
The hallucinogen in magic mushrooms may no longer just be for hippies seeking a trippy high.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have been studying the effects of psilocybin, a chemical found in some psychedelic mushrooms, that’s credited with inducing transcendental states. Now, they say, they’ve zeroed in on the perfect dosage level to produce transformative mystical and spiritual experiences that offer long-lasting life-changing benefits, while carrying little risk of negative reactions.
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A powerful solution in a tiny package.
As a national smart grid lumbers forward, researchers are still searching for more immediate solutions to upgrading our aging power grid. A research team from Switzerland’s EPFL Electronics Lab has come up with a chip that can manage power grid network issues as much as 1000x faster than current software. The tiny chip costs just a few dollars to make, but can take in real time information and make subtle changes in energy consumption that can save money and spare electricity big time.
Continue reading… “An Entire Power Grid on a 4mm Chip Could Be Solution to Aging Grid”
“Take Time To Be a Dad Today”
The percentage of fathers in the U.S. who live apart from their children has doubled over the last 50 years. But, many dad’s today are spending more than twice as much time with their kids as they did back then.
Continue reading… “Dad’s spend twice as much time with kid’s than they did a few generations ago”
Will companies be impelled to make more of an effort to use clean power if they were publicly recognized for their efforts? The folks behind Windmade are betting they will. Windmade is a new initiative spearheaded by Vestas, the Danish wind company, that will eventually allow companies to place labels on consumer products touting their clean energy commitments. So how, exactly does a company obtain the right to slap a Windmade label on their goods?
Continue reading… “WindMade: A New Label for Products Built Using at Least 25% Wind Power”
The Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica can’t be explained.
A man once infamously said “you can’t explain that” and it turns out there are some things we really can’t explain. These are enigmas and artifacts that have no known orgin or purpose including The Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica, and the Baigong Pipes…
Continue reading… “6 Discoveries that Science can’t explain”
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