Food, Health & Fitness, Historical Perspectives, Human Behavior, Medical Breakthrough, New Discoveries

Routine Periodic Fasting Is Good for Your Health, and Your Heart, Study Suggests

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Fasting can be good for your heart.

Fasting has long been associated with religious rituals, diets, and political protests. Now new evidence from cardiac researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute demonstrates that routine periodic fasting is also good for your health, and your heart.

Research cardiologists at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute are reporting that fasting not only lowers one’s risk of coronary artery disease and diabetes, but also causes significant changes in a person’s blood cholesterol levels. Both diabetes and elevated cholesterol are known risk factors for coronary heart disease…

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Art, Breakthrough Thinking, Human Behavior, Humor, New Inventions, New Viewpoints

HOWTO make a SNES cartridge urinal

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Here’s a delightful HOWTO for making a urinal out of SNES cartridges (please only use broken ones and crappy sports games, as the authors of this suggest!):

I recommend calling a professional plumber to install your video game urinal. They can help you remove the excess hardibacker, adjust the height of the flush valve & P-trap so they align with your plumbing, and secure the urinal to the wall…

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Anti-Piracy Measures Could See NZ Libraries Switch Off Internet Access

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Anti-Piracy measures in New Zealand could change its libraries forever.

Governments around the world are trying to figure out ways of cutting down on piracy. Some governments have already implemented controversial monitoring and three-strike rules. Such rules may look like they solve the issue in theory, but its a very different outcome in practice.

France was one of the first places to attempt to implement the three-strike rule, which sees an Internet connection represented by an IP address monitored through an ISP. If an infringement is identified a strike is given, get three strikes and the connection is terminated and/or you face prosecution or fines. However, it never made it past the French National Assembly…

But that same system has made it into law for New Zealand, and will be turned on come September…

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Analysis, Education, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Education as an App

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Futurist Thomas Frey:  In March of 2007 I posted my original paper on the Future of Education where I talked about a system based on an iTunes-like approach where experts around the world could use a “rapid courseware-builder” to produce bite-sized courses, send them to a global distribution center, and students from around world could plug-in and learn whatever class matched their interests.

 

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

Top 10 Photos of the Week

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To me its far less about the photo and far more
about where the photographer was sitting
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” – – Sir Winston Churchill

To me its far less about the photo and far more about where the photographer was sitting

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” – – Sir Winston Churchill

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Education, Historical Perspectives, Money Talk, New Viewpoints

6 Important Tips for First-Time Startup Investors

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If you are a first-timer these are great tips.

An angel investor used to be defined as someone with a high net worth. They typically have more than $1 million and privately invest money in startup businesses that are seeking capital. The SEC restricts investing in private deals to mostly accredited investors. I say mostly because there are some opportunities for non-accredited investors to participate on a limited basis. The definition of an accredited investor in the U.S. is a person who either has a net worth (excluding a primary residence) of $1 million, an income of $200,000 per year for the last two years, or $300,000 in household income per year for the last two years.

Angel investing has gained a lot of popularity despite anxieties over the bubble bursting. You need to understand what you are getting into before making that first investment. The general rule is that you shouldn’t invest more than 10% of your net worth, since startups can be risky. Investments typically range from $25K to $250K, but with startups needing less capital to launch these days, the amounts are shrinking…

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The Urgency Paradox

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As people live longer, some aspects of life are beginning to slow down

Futurist Thomas Frey:  Tick, tick, tick. For virtually all working people, there is a clock ticking in the background. Tick, tick, tick.

Much like the rhythm of a beating heart, the sound of time creates a rhythm for our lives, a world unfolding in iambic pentameter, pulsing to the tempo of life.

 

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