… Read More → "The easiest way around the New York Times paywall is a latte"Headlines come free with your Starbucks Breakfast Blend now. Connect to the Wi-Fi at the coffee chain, and the New York Times will let you read up to 15 articles for free a day.
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In January of 2010, Kesha Sebert, known as ‘Ke$ha’ debuted at number one on Billboard with her album, Animal. Her style is electro pop-y dance music: she alternates between rapping and singing, the choruses of her songs are typically melodic party hooks that bore deep into your brain: “Your love, your love, your love, is my drug!” And at times, her voice is so heavily processed that it … Read More → "Seduced by ‘perfect’ pitch: how Auto-Tune conquered pop music"
At the TED conference Tuesday, after Michigan’s governor lamented mass layoffs and before Bono praised poverty eradication progress, business writer Nilofer Merchant raised her own crucial issue: the quiet crisis of sore butts.
We’re sitting around too much at the office and particularly in meetings, says Merchant, a corporate director and former Autodesk executive. In classic TED fashion, Merchant found time in her short talk for a generous helping of statistics: People spend 9.3 hours per day on their derrieres, eclipsing even the 7.7 hours they spend sleeping. Their sedentary lifestyles contribute 10 percent of … Read More → "In Silicon Valley, sitting is the new smoking"
Music can make work fly by faster and maybe even boost your productivity—but that all depends on the type of music you listen to. The folks at productivity music service Focus@Will advise usnot to listen to music we love, but rather a genre we don’t typically listen to.
So if you like jazz, don’t listen to jazz while working, because, although that music … Read More → "Choose unfamiliar work music for better productivity and focus"
Researchers have demonstrated a flat, “stretchy” battery that can be pulled to three times its size without a loss in performance. While flexible and stretchable electronics have been on the rise, powering them with equally stretchy energy sources has been problematic. The new idea in Nature Communicationsuses small “islands” of energy-storing materials dotted on a stretchy polymer. The study also suggests the batteries can be recharged wirelessly.
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Who’d have thought sports flooring could be so dazzlingly cool? Whether it be b-ball, tennis
, hockey, volleyball or just about any other indoor activity you can name, the ASB GlassFloor will transform … Read More → "ASB Glassfloor"
What kind of dogs did Ivan Pavlov use in his classical conditioning experiments? The dogs that learned to salivate to the sound of a bell weren’t all purebreds -it turns out that Pavlov wasn’t all that picky about his subjects. Smithsonian has a pictures of 35 of the dogs Pavlov used to develop his theories about conditioned reflexes in 1901.
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A dead bird animated by off-the-shelf robotics helped US biologists study behaviour in the swamp sparrow species. Scientists at Duke University in North Carolina worked with engineering students and a taxidermist to operate the wings of a deceased swamp sparrow.
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Regional German transport operator Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (RNV) is set to carry out a pilot project to test the viability of wireless inductive charging technology of electric buses. The trial will see two electric buses fitted with Canadian transportation manufacturer Bombardier’s PRIMOVE inductive charging technology, which will enable them to be recharged wirelessly as they let passengers on and off at bus stops along the inner city route 63 in Mannheim, Germany.
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