Harvard Turn Strangers Into Friends With 8 Great Questions From HarvardForbes - Remy Blumenfeldby being the first to ask a provocative question, strangers are usually only too happy to follow suit. Helpfully, the Harvard Business Review has now published 8 great questions to ask at any kind of event.
Mathematics A Major Proof Shows How to Approximate Numbers Like PiWIRED - Kevin Hartnett The deep recesses of the number line are not as forbidding as they might seem. That’s one consequence of a major new proof about how complicated …
Innovation The world’s largest rooftop farm will open soon in ParisFast Company - Adele PetersLarge rooftop farms aren’t new—in Chicago’s South Side, a 75,000-square-foot greenhouse on top of a factory building grows up to 10 million heads of leafy greens each year (and was the largest rooftop
Mobile Technology A Mexican Physicist Solved a 2,000-Year Old Problem That Will Lead to Cheaper, Sharper LensesGizmodo - Andrew Liszewski It’s a problem that plagues even the priciest of lenses, manufactured to the most exacting specifications: the center of the frame might be …
One giant ... lie? Why so many people still think the moon landings were fakedThe Guardian - Richard GodwinIt took 400,000 Nasa employees and contractors to put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon in 1969 – but only one man to spread the idea that it was all a hoax. His name was Bill Kaysing. It began
Business People in Japan are renting cars but not driving themThe Verge - Andrew J. HawkinsMost people who spend money on car-sharing services do so because they have a destination in mind. They need transportation, and driving a car is an incredibly popular and efficient method of travel between
Management Mistakes 101: Two In A Row That Don't KnowInc Magazine - Jim SchleckserOne of the fundamental management tenants I have used in my career, something I originally first learned from one my large and successful customers, is that you don’t want to have two managers in a row
Why Chennai, India's Sixth Biggest City, Has Run Out of WaterGizmodo - Brian Kahn In what’s becoming an increasingly common story, a major city has run out of water. Chennai, India is home to 4.65 million and a severe deficit of …
Play button Light Photographed As A Wave And A Particle For The First TimePopular Science - Alexandra OssolaScientists have long known that light can behave as both a particle and a wave—Einstein first predicted it in 1909. But no experiment has been able to show light in both states simultaneously. Now, researchers
Five Ways to Disrupt Yourself: The Fight for Relevancebusinessesgrow.com - Mark Schaefer By Mark SchaeferOne of the catalysts for writing my book Marketing Rebellion was an observation that most marketers are asleep … and they don’t even …
Greenland This remarkable Greenland photo highlights extreme Arctic meltingMashable - Mark KaufmanThe melting Arctic is on dramatic display. At mid-June, Arctic sea ice is now at a record low for this time of year, and melted ice is especially notable both in and around Greenland — home to the second
Gaming disorder is now a mental illness, according to World Health OrganizationAndroid Authority - Hadlee SimonsGaming can indeed be addictive, but is it a mental health condition? Well, the World Health Organization (WHO) has now declared that gaming disorder is indeed a thing. The move came after the organization
Human Fat Was Once a Medicine With a Black MarketThe Atlantic - Christopher ForthIn 16th- and 17th-century Europe, physicians, butchers, and executioners alike hawked the salutary effects of Axungia hominis. One night in 1731, Cornelia di Bandi burst into flames. When the 62-year-old
Asia Chinese driver gets ticket for scratching his facebbc.co.uk - News from Elsewhere... A man in eastern China received a fine after a traffic camera using artificial intelligence captured him scratching his face, it's reported.
New Paper Confirms Near-Room-Temperature Superconductivity in Wild, Hydrogen-Rich MaterialGizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum A team of physicists has published peer-reviewed results documenting near-room-temperature superconductivity in the hydrogen-rich compound lanthanum …
Tuition This School Replaced Tuition With Plastic Waste And The Town Was TransformedForbes - Trevor NaceSchool children line up with bags filled with plastic recyclables. As a way to make school more accessible and help clean up their local community, this primary school began to accept grocery bags full
The new kilogram just debuted. It’s a massive achievement.Vox - Brian ResnickHumanity has a new definition of the kilogram, the standard unit of mass used the world over. The change — implemented on this World Metrology Day — will occur more silently than when a leap second was
Sonos will launch Google Assistant on its smart speakers next weekThe Verge - Chris WelchAfter months of beta testing, Sonos is nearly ready to roll out Google Assistant to its Sonos One and Sonos Beam smart speakers. In today’s quarterly earnings letter to shareholders, Sonos CEO Patrick
Nikon Shot On Nikon - The Tank Man Photo at the Center of Leica Ad Controversy Actually Captured with Famous Japanese Camera Brandlightstalking.com - Nabeel Tariq Leica is still digging itself out of the controversy that erupted when a Brazilian marketing agency unleashed an ad upon the world that depicted the …
These logic problems will make long car rides feel shorterPopular Science - Claire MaldarelliThere’s nothing more painful than watching time pass during a road trip. Instead, occupy your mind with these logic problems. Then whip them out on future car rides, and watch your fellow passengers struggle.
Technology A new camera can photograph you from 45 kilometers awayMIT Technology Review - Emerging Technology from the arXiv Developed in China, the lidar-based system can cut through city smog to resolve human-sized features at vast distances. Long-distance photography on …
Medtronic 'Looping' Created an Underground Insulin-Pump MarketThe Atlantic - Sarah ZhangHow an obsolete medical device with a security flaw became a must-have for some patients with type 1 diabetes One day last June, Doug Boss pulled into a police-station parking lot to meet a stranger from
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UX Design Product-Service Hybrids – When Products and Services Become Oneinteraction-design.org Mikal Hallstrup,, the Chief Visionary Officer of Designit says; “The world doesn’t necessarily need more products, it needs better solutions.” While …
Technology Scientists have found a way to decode brain signals into speechMIT Technology Review - Antonio Regalado It’s a step towards a system that would let people send texts straight from their brains. You don’t have to think about it: when you speak, your brain …
Forget about artificial intelligence, extended intelligence is the futureWired UK - Joi Ito Last year, I participated in a discussion of The Human Use of Human Beings, Norbert Weiner’s groundbreaking book on cybernetics theory. Out of that …
Social media influencer plotted to take internet domain at gunpoint. It didn't end wellCNN - By Faith Karimi, CNN(CNN) — The plan was like a bad movie script -- complete with an attacker in a puzzling outfit and a backup weapon. The intruder entered a victim's home in Iowa carrying a cell phone, a stolen gun and
CRISPR used to build dual-core computers inside human cellsnewatlas.com - Michael Irving The CRISPR gene-editing system is usually known for helping scientists treat genetic diseases, but the technology has a whole range of possible uses …
