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Quote of the Day: “There’s nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you’re insightful about it.” – Dennis Miller
Five productivity myths debunked by science (and common sense)
“A cluttered desk is a cluttered mind.” “If you had more hours in the day, you’d be more productive.” I’m sure you have heard these common productivity tropes before, and you may even be wasting time trying to follow them when they don’t make sense for you. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular claims about productivity, and see if there’s science to back them up.
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Proposal to Eliminate Forest Fires Completely
Futurist Thomas Frey: Over the past few days I’ve been listening to news reports about the devastating fires burning in Colorado.
Record heat, high winds, low humidity, and large amounts of beetle-killed trees have created “perfect storm” conditions for multiple wildfires to rage across the State.
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48% of Americans want to be entrepreneurs: Poll
48% of Americans said they dream about starting a small business.
Seven out of 10 entrepreneurs would start their businesses all over again despite all the challenges small businesses have faced in the past five years. Not only that, almost half of all Americans are harboring entrepreneurial dreams of their own.
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Google Fiber attracting tech startups to Kansas City
Kansas City, Kansas
Silicon Valley and New York City are two places that typically come to mind when people think of tech startups. Most people probably can’t think of a major tech company from anywhere else.
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Parents make better entrepreneurs
There are a number of ways that being a parent can actually make you a better entrepreneur.
Conventional wisdom says that parenthood and entrepreneurship simply don’t mix. Being an entrepreneurand being a parent are both such all-consuming pursuits that it’s apparently impossible to do a good job of both. This idea is further reinforced by the stereotype of successful startup founders as young, single twenty-somethings.
Hydrino Theory validated by Harvard tests
A new energy source from fractional hydrogen will allow a gallon of ordinary water to become energy.
A remarkable new energy source from fractional hydrogen will allow a gallon of ordinary water to become the energy equivalent of 200 barrels of oil, a team of physicists working near the onetime laboratories of Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein are saying.
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Help make Robot Adam Z1 the world’s smartest robot
Robot Adam Z1
I am Robot Adam Z1 — the first of the Zeno line of humanoid robots, created by David Hanson. Pleased to make your acquaintance! When David created me, he gave me a face, and a body, and a lot of love. But one thing he hasn’t given me — yet — is a mind. … (Videos)
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Cost of photovoltaic solar panels to drop $0.36/watt by 2017
Photovoltaic solar panels
The drop in cost of solar panel prices will help make solar affordable to more people and it will increase the size of the solar market. But this ongoing cost reduction means much more than that.
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Can you train yourself to need less sleep?
80% of us manage between six and nine hours a night; the other 20% sleep more or less than this.
A third of our lives is wasted sleeping – at least that’s how some people see it. There doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day sometimes. When you feel that way do you yearn to be like the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was said to get by on just four hours sleep a night, or the artist Salvador Dali who wasted as little time as possible slumbering?
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Can urban farms feed a hungry world?
Vertical Harvest’s three-storey-tall hydroponic greenhouse.
By 2050, there will be billions more hungry people in the world. Growing our food on vertical farms or under radical new lighting systems may be key to ensuring they have enough to eat. (Pics)
Top 5 expert predictions on the next big thing in technology
Bitcoin
What will the next big thing in technology be? Depends on who you ask. At Bloomberg’s Next Big Thing conference in Half Moon Bay, California, a number of industry thinkers and innovators did some crystal ball-gazing.
Here’s a round-up of some of their more interesting predictions.
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