Older staff are more productive than younger colleagues
Older workers are more productive than their younger colleagues, according to researchers.
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Will Electric Cars Be The Next Red/Blue Divide?
Focus-ing on a new perspective.
Ford–which is about to release an all-electric version of the Focus–just put out the above map of the United States with the cities it feels are best suited to electric car ownership. And with a few exceptions, it looks like the flyover states aren’t making preparations for the messianic arrival of the electric car. What do you want to bet that in the next presidential election, we’ll add “electric-car” to the litany of liberal-associative words like arugula, lattes, and sushi.
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Word Clouds Show Gender Bias in Toy Ads
Advertising words used in ads for boys.
Crystal Smith of The Achilles Effect blog looked at the words from TV commercials for toys and used to present the stark gender bias in toy advertising in graphic form…
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The Laws of Transparency
Futurist Thomas Frey: Can you feel the layers being lifted? Transparency is entering our lives in unusual ways and much like having individual veils lifted from a multi-veiled garment; we are now seeing the world around us with far greater clarity.
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Is Sugar Toxic?
How much do we love sugar? The amount may surprise you – the average American eat about 3,550 pounds of sugar and 313 gallons of high fructose corn syrup in a lifetime. And according to Dr. Robert Lustig, UCSF expert on pediatric hormone disorders and childhood obesity, it’s killing us…
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Authorities In Tajikistan Plan Ban On Divorce By Text Message
Convenient but soon to be banned.
Tajikistan’s Council of Ulema is set to issue a fatwa banning a so-called SMS-divorce, the state religious committee have announced. The move comes amid growing complaints that some Tajik men – working as migrant laborers in Russia – divorce their wives by sending a mobile-phone text message or just making a phone call.
Sunni Islamic traditions allow men to divorce their wives by merely saying “talaq,” an Islamic term for a declaration of divorce. Tajik religious leaders, however, insist that ending a marriage is not such a simple matter…
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Swedish File Sharers Get Religious About Stealing
Praise God and Pass the Torrent?
Swedish philosophy student Isaac Gerson thinks that file sharing is sacred. The 19-year-old leader of the Missionary Church of Kopimism believes that stealing and sharing are signs of appreciation, and has compared closed-source software to slavery. Last year, Sweden rejected the church’s application to be recognized as a religion, but Gerson isn’t giving up so easily…
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Advances In Magnification
It’s called the Eye Card.
If you are wearing glasses but still have a hard time in reading a few letters or words, then stick on this new eye card. It is a perfect tool to read diminutive letters clearly without giving any stress and difficulty to your eyes. The eye card is designed in such a manner that a person wearing them can effortlessly focus on every single tiny word. It is not like any regular spectacles as you feel more comfort in reading and watching nearby things…
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What’s Your Dominant Eye?
Which way do you see?
Ocular dominance, sometimes called eye dominance, is the tendency to prefer visual input from one eye to the other. In normal binocular vision there is an effect of parallax, and therefore the dominant eye is the one that is primarily relied on for precise positional information. This may be especially important in sports which require aim, such as archery, darts or shooting sports…
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Geeky and Funny Haircuts
With the top of head shaved to look like a face and a pair of glasses to disguise, you can probably make some
professors with badeyesight believe that you are listening attentively while you are actually sleeping.
Costumes are so last year. Now the latest way to show that you have a truly geeky head is to have a truly geeky haircut. Some of the haircuts are so cool that you might want to get one for yourself the next day. Some of them are so funny that you can’t help ROLF-ing. But whatever the case is, if you have any of these 17 crazy haircuts, you’ll definitely get people’s attention wherever you go.
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Test Subjects With Electrode Implants Use Mind Control To Move A Cursor
What kind of future technology will come from this breakthrough?
As trippy as mind-control still seems to us, we’ve already seen it implemented in everything from wheelchairs to pricey gaming (and car driving!) headsets. But the problem is that they measure brain activity outside the skull — you know, the thing we’ve evolved to shield the murky goings-on in our minds from prying EEG sensors.
Now, though, a team of Washington University researchers appears to have happened upon a more effective — albeit, invasive — approach…
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Wedding Foods From Around The World
What food did you eat on your wedding day?
While the world is abuzz with speculation about Kate Middleton and Prince William’s April 29 nuptials, a few details have been leaked – including their choice of wedding cake! Staying true to English custom, the couple is serving a fruitcake, a tradition that dates back to medieval times.
Just like many American weddings often feature a tiered wedding cake, countries the world over have unique foods that they use to celebrate marriage, which are eaten to deliver good luck, fertility and peace to the happy couple…
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