Culture – Page 40 – Impact Lab

Analysis, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Entertainment, facebook, Great Videos, Historical Perspectives

2005 Zuckerberg didn’t want to take over the world

August 13, 2011

What a flashback!

The Huffington Post has come across this fascinating five-minute interview of Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook’s Palo Alto office in June 2005. The clip is apparently part of a longer 40-minute-interview from a documentary about millennials shot by Ray Hafner and Derek Franzese. That interview has never been shown in full, and if I were Hafner and Franzese I’d be figuring out a way to do that stat, especially post-The Social Network.

Zuckerberg’s initial vision, “an online directory for colleges” seems remarkably short-sighted in light of the fact that Facebook users comprise now 11% of the world’s population and 35% of the world’s online population…

Continue reading… “2005 Zuckerberg didn’t want to take over the world”

Animals, Art, Crazy Photos, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Humor, Photo Perspectives

Top 10 Photos of the Week

August 13, 2011

The mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed psychiatrist is our friend

“Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.” – – Jerry Sienfeld

Continue reading… “Top 10 Photos of the Week”

Big Problems, Corporate Manipulation, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Current Events, Globalism, Health & Fitness, Historical Perspectives, Hot Issues

India takes Monsanto to court for biopiracy over development of GM eggplant

August 12, 2011

Biopiracy a Sensitive Issue in India.

Agri-giant Monsanto may be forced to take one on the chin in India: The nation’s first genetically modified food crop, a variety of eggplant known at Bt brinjal, has sucked its Big Ag developers into court. Monsanto, Mahyco, and “collaborators” have been accused of biopiracy by the National Biodiversity Authority of India.

NBA says the developers of Bt brinjal (the introduction of which was halted in 2010 by then environment minister Jairam Ramesh on the grounds that more tests were needed to prove its safety) used local varieties of eggplant in developing the GM crop “without prior approval of the competent authorities.”

Continue reading… “India takes Monsanto to court for biopiracy over development of GM eggplant”

Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Culture, Current Events, Entertainment, Great New Product, Historical Perspectives

Crowdmug lets you pay strangers to be your social spies

August 11, 2011

It’s always a bummer when you decide to try something new, only to discover that it’s not your scene. Crowdmug for iOS helps you avoid these situations by harnessing the most effective crowd motivation tool of our time: money.

The premise is simple: offer cash for photos or videos of whatever place and people will answer…

Continue reading… “Crowdmug lets you pay strangers to be your social spies”

Analysis, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Education, Entertainment, Health & Fitness, Human Behavior, Humor

The diarrhea dance

August 9, 2011

This video was is part of a series designed to teach Japanese speakers the English language. Songs and dances help reinforce vocabulary lessons, including this very practical dialogue between a sick person and a passerby willing to call an ambulance. Also, it’s an exercise video. Stand up and dance with me. Come on!

Continue reading… “The diarrhea dance”

Animals, Art, Crazy Photos, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Humor, Photo Perspectives

Top 10 Photos of the Week

August 10, 2011

Advantage always tips to the craziest among us

“There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” – – Douglas Adams

Continue reading… “Top 10 Photos of the Week”

Analysis, Big Problems, Culture, Health & Fitness, Human Behavior, Latest News

Antibacterial hand sanitizer may actually make you sicker

August 7, 2011

More harm than good?

Before you reach for that hand sanitizer, consider this: rather than killing germs, that action is actually more likely to make you – and society – sicker…

Continue reading… “Antibacterial hand sanitizer may actually make you sicker”

Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Culture, Health & Fitness, Historical Perspectives, Human Behavior

Feeling anxious? 5 Scientifically proven relaxation techniques

August 6, 2011

Is it time to destress and relax?

Everyone gets anxious from time to time: there’s public speaking, job interviews, the dentist and all the rest. For about one in six of us this will cross over into what psychologists term a disorder at some point in our lives. This is when people are almost continuously anxious and find it difficult to concentrate, have trouble sleeping and become irritable and restless…

Continue reading… “Feeling anxious? 5 Scientifically proven relaxation techniques”

Analysis, Culture, government, New Viewpoints, Science & Technology News

Rethinking the Court of Public Opinion

August 5, 2011

Futurist Thomas Frey: American TV personality Ryan Seacrest has a grim look on his face as he walks briskly across the stage. Turning to the camera, he pauses briefly before saying, “You have heard the arguments, listened to the experts, and seen the photos. But now it is up to you to decide the fate of Mr. Howard Cullens.”

Continue reading… “Rethinking the Court of Public Opinion”

Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Current Events, Historical Perspectives, Latest News, Latest Trend

LinkedIn now adding two new members every second

August 4, 2011

Some big numbers coming up here!

In LinkedIn’s first earnings call as a public company, CEO Jeff Weiner revealed that LinkedIn is adding two new members every second, which is up from one member per second in November 2010. In Q2 alone, LinkedIn added 14 million members, after passing the 100 million mark earlier this year…

Continue reading… “LinkedIn now adding two new members every second”

Culture, Education, Entertainment, Health & Fitness, Historical Perspectives, Human Behavior, New Viewpoints

What does your fridge say about you?

August 3, 2011

Messages from the fridge…

Photographer Mark Menjivar traveled the states for 3 years for his “You Are What You Eat” project, meeting people and documenting their lives from a surprisingly interesting viewpoint -their refrigerators. Could you tell the picture above belonged to a bartender who goes to sleep at 8 AM and wakes up a 4 PM every day?

Continue reading… “What does your fridge say about you?”

Big Problems, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Current Events, Entertainment, government, Historical Perspectives, Hot Issues

The 100+ State Parks facing closure – Is your favorite park on the list?

August 1, 2011

The United States is home to 6,624 state parks and has an annual attendance of over 700 million. Yet state parks are being threatened by budget cuts and economic downturn. Here’s a list of all state parks set to get the axe. Does your favorite make the cut?

It is worth noting that designating a single piece of land–especially one rich with resources–was quite radical for the early 1900s. Before the United States introduced its federal- and state-level park system, the concept was far from common. Thanks to Republican Teddy Roosevelt, the U.S. now has 41,725 miles of trail, 207,063 campsites, and 7,161 cabins and lodges across the state park system.

In fact, President Roosevelt couldn’t have said it better when he said “I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the nature resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.”

Continue reading… “The 100+ State Parks facing closure – Is your favorite park on the list?”