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A 200- year old law forbidding women in Paris to wear pants has been revoked.
In January, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, France’s minister of women’s rights, made it officially impossible to arrest a woman for wearing trousers in the French capital.
Startups can learn a lot from ‘end-ups’
End-ups are old companies and institutions that want to be become more like start-up, and startups want to become more like end-ups.
At the DLD Conference in Munich, John Maeda, President of RISD, sat onstage with the co-founder and CPO of Airbnb, Joe Gebbia. They discussed the unique creative culture at Rhode Island School of Design, where Joe went to college, and where John currently serves as president. Joe shared some of his secrets of being a successful designer-founder. He asked John what it’s like to run a 136-year-old institution like RISD.
Injectable foam stops internal bleeding on the battlefield
The polyurethane foam begins as two liquids stored separately and injected together into the abdominal cavity.
Despite the best efforts of military first responders to stabilize abdominal wounds sustained on the battlefield, they have few options when it comes to stopping internal bleeding caused by gunshots or explosive fragments. DARPA is studying a new type of injectable foam that molds to organs and slows hemorrhaging. This could provide field medics with a way to buy more time for soldiers en route to medical treatment facilities.
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Top 10 psychology tricks to win friends and influence people
Get someone to do a favor for you.
Here is a list of the top ten ways to win friends and influence people using psychology without being a jerk or making someone feel bad.
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Top 7 best-case scenarios for the future
If things go really well, our civilization will continue to evolve and diversify.
A lot of science fiction and visions of the future from futurists lean towards the negative – and for good reason. Our environment is a mess, we have a nasty tendency to misuse technologies, and we’re becoming increasingly capable of destroying ourselves. But the demise of the civilization is by no means guaranteed. Should we find a way to manage the risks and avoid dystopic outcomes, our far future looks astonishingly bright. Here are seven best-case scenarios for the future of humanity.
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Chrysler’s photographic Super Bowl ad for Ram trucks
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The Chrysler Group LLC aired a very photographic commercial during the 2013 Super Bowl. This was their second during the Super Bowl, called “Farmer,” and it was for the Auburn Hills-based automaker’s Ram truck brand.
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Bas Lansdorp got angel money to build a permanent colony on Mars
Mars One
Mars One is a fascinating tale of a private-sector mission to put humans on Mars. They will be left there, no round-trip ticket, to build a new civilization.
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38 predictions about the future of tech, science, and humanity
Predicting the future.
What does the future of humanity hold? Looking ahead at our future is an integral part of human nature. Information Is Beautiful Studio have compiled 38 predictions about the future of tech, science, and humanity in general — with an educated guess as to their odds of actually becoming reality. (infographic)
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DeltaMaker – personal 3D printer
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A new Kickstarter project has been launched by the DeltaMaker team to develop an elegant personal 3D printer.
The origins of ‘big data’
Digital technology is changing both how words and ideas are created and proliferate, and how they are studied.
The fundamental building blocks of language and culture are words and phrases, much as genes and cells are to the biology of life. Words are how we express ideas. Tracing their origin, development, and spread is not just an academic pursuit but a window into a society’s intellectual evolution.
Researchers analyzing New York Times archives to predict the future
Researchers are creating software that analyzes 22 years of New York Times archives, Wikipedia and about 90 other web resources to predict the future.
Microsoft and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers are creating software that analyzes 22 years of New York Times archives, Wikipedia and about 90 other web resources to predict future disease outbreaks, riots and deaths — and hopefully prevent them.
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Seniors in Sun City, Arizona
Sun City, Arizona
In 1960 in the U.S., the average life expectancy for all races and sexes was 69.7 years. In 2010, the average life expectancy increased to 78.7 years. In 1959, entrepreneur Del Webb built Sun City, Arizona. Sun City was the first active retirement community for the over-55. Webb predicted that retirees would flock to a community where they were given more than just a house with a rocking chair in which to sit and wait to die. (Pics)