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Job seekers find it difficult to keep up with innovations in their field

 Choose your career wisely or be swept aside by new innovations.

Karen Richards is unemployed, but it’s not for lack of trying. She estimates that she has sent out about 100 resumés in the past year.

The Arlington resident theorizes that a few factors have prevented her from landing a job: She’s overqualified for some positions, underqualified for others, and the fact that she’s currently out of work may be a turnoff to some employers.

But there’s another problem that she says could be holding her back. The legal sector is using new software for research and client management, and she isn’t familiar with it…

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DaVinci Institute’s 15th Anniversary Bash

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DaVinci Institute, the futurist think tank based in Louisville, CO, celebrated its 15th Anniversary on Aug 9, 2012. As part of the celebration there was a ribbon cutting ceremony and an open house to show off its many accomplishments made over the years…

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Recent PokerStars-DOJ Deal Will Change the Future of Online Poker Forever

 

New rulings mean big changes in the online poker world.

Two weeks ago, online poker site PokerStars.com  reached a settlement agreement with the United States Department of Justice in the amount of $731 Million dollars in relations to charges brought against them in April of 2011. In addition, the settlement included terms that saw PokerStars purchase rival online poker site Full Tilt Poker.

For those unfamiliar with the story, the US Department of Justice unsealed an indictment on April 15th, 2011 against PokerStars, Full Tilt, and Absolute Poker that charged them with numerous crimes that included money laundering, bank fraud, and violations of the UIGEA. In addition, their .com domains were seized by the US Government.Since that time, Full Tilt and Absolute Poker have both been forced out of business and PokerStars pulled out of the United States…

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When seconds count SafeAwake smoke alarm aid gives you an edge

  Saving lives when fire strikes.           

In addition to conventional smoke alarms, tactile response is proven more effective in saving lives. SafeAwake is designed to work in conjunction with a functioning traditional smoke alarm by adding a flashing light and a loud, low frequency audible sound that even the hearing impaired may hear. It also sets off a motorized bed shaker that literally pulls each and every sleeper from deep slumber; and warns them of smoke and possible fire.

When seconds could mean the difference between life and death, the SafeAwake provides a significant edge for you and your family.

SafeAwake is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct 13, 2012 at the Denver Merchandise Mart, so come can check out this and all the other amazing inventions!

Recently, company spokesman Timothy Shaffer took time to answer a few questions about safety for the deaf and hearing impaired, SBIR Grants and international patents…

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How HTML5 will take over mobile apps

HTML5 is gonna be HUGE! 

HTML5 is a new technology that allows developers to build rich web-based apps that run on any device via a standard web browser.

Many think it will save the web, rendering native platform-dependent apps obsolete.

So, which will win? Native apps or HTML5?

A recent report from BI Intelligence explains why we think HTML5 will win out, and what an HTML future will look like for consumers, developers, and brands…


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Whatever happened to the chemistry set?

By the 1920s and 30s children had access to substances which would raise eyebrows in today’s more safety-conscious times.

When you talk to people of a certain age about chemistry sets, a nostalgic glaze comes over their eyes.  The first chemistry sets for children included dangerous substances like uranium dust and sodium cyanide, but all that has changed.

 

 

 

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Meteorite fragments help explain why living things only use molecules with specific orientations


This is an artist’s concept of excess left-hand aspartic acid created in asteroids and delivered to Earth via meteorite impacts. The line at the bottom is a chromatogram showing that left-hand aspartic acid (tall peak in the center, with diagram of left-hand aspartic acid molecule on top) was four times more abundant in the meteorite sample than right-hand aspartic acid (smaller peak to the left, with right-handed aspartic acid molecule on top). 

 Researchers analyzing meteorite fragments that fell on a frozen lake in Canada have developed an explanation for the origin of life’s handedness — why living things only use molecules with specific orientations. The work also gave the strongest evidence to date that liquid water inside an asteroid leads to a strong preference of left-handed over right-handed forms of some common protein amino acids in meteorites. The result makes the search for extraterrestrial life more challenging…

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Craig Venter: A 21st century perspective on life

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Craig Venter: I was asked earlier whether the goal is to dissect what Schrödinger had spoken and written, or to present the new summary, and I always like to be forward-looking, so I won’t give you a history lesson except for very briefly. I will present our findings on first on reading the genetic code, and then learning to synthesize and write the genetic code, and as many of you know, we synthesized an entire genome, booted it up to create an entirely new synthetic cell where every protein in the cell was based on the synthetic DNA code.

 

 

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Peter Thiel’s Quest for Creating a Viable Global Currency

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Futurist Thomas Frey: In 2003 the DaVinci Institute produced a landmark event called “The Future of Money Summit” which took place at the Omni Hotel in Broomfield, CO. One of the featured speakers was Bernard Lietaer, chief architect of the Euro.

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The Exercise Eezer provides exercise option to movement restricted people

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The Exercise Eezer in action.

The Exercise Eezer is a lightweight portable whole body work exercise device that can enable people with movement restriction to exercise with greater ease.

The Exercise Eezer is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct 13, 2012 at the Denver Merchandise Mart.

Inventor Martina Hauptmann recently to talk to us about Pilates, differentiating the Exercise Eezer from all the other exercise products out there, creating the prototype and being free from “punching in” to a job…

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