Playing Tetris makes girls’ brains bigger:
a macacinha.com Background Neuro-imaging studies demonstrate plasticity of cortical gray matter before and after practice for some motor and cognitive tasks in adults. Other imaging studies show functional changes after practice, but there is not yet direct evidence of how structural and functional changes may be related. A fundamental question is whether they occur at the same cortical sites, adjacent sites, or sites in other parts of a network. Findings Using a 3T MRI, we obtained structural and functional images in…
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WSJ.com – Airline Wi-Fi and the power of FREE:
re than 500 airliners are flying around the U.S. with wireless Internet access up and running, but airlines are finding that the technology that they hope will bring new revenues may be more like in-flight meals: People gobbled up food when it was free, but they find it a lot less appetizing when they have to pay. Airlines and in-flight Wi-Fi providers say usage has been strong and is growing as more travelers sign up for the service and find…
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Clay Shirky on placing many bets in internet social media (Video):
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“Choose Your Own Adventure” on YouTube:
uTube campaigns are changing and so are the ways you can develop interactivity with video. Since the introduction of video hotlinks we’ve seen more and more “interactive” videos & story telling campaigns emerging. This new campaign called “Choose Your Own Ending” by DropTheWeapons.org is an interactive film that allows you to decide what happens next. You can interact with it, choose what to do and decide how it ends! The campaign utilises YouTube to tell a story across about 50…
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Do iPhones Cause People To Talk Less?:
hone users talk on the phone less than regular cell phone users, Morgan Stanley says. But, they spend a whopping 50% more time using their phones than average cell phone users, suggesting smart phones usage could increasingly resemble computer usage over time, threatening the PC industry. Here is the breakdown. iPhone users spend 60 minutes per day on their phones versus 40 minutes for cell phone users. iPhone users talk on their phones about 45% of the time they use…
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MIT develops wireless electricity (Video):
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Clay Shirky on Website Comments:
a youtube.com Clay Shirky's book "Here Comes Everybody" is here. Join over 320,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy New Harvard Research Reveals A Fun Way To Be More Successful How To Get People To Like You: 7 Ways From An FBI Behavior Expert
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Is the internet producing groupthink instead of innovation?:
e geeks guilty of groupthink? A network expert argues that less social networking would produce more radical innovation on the Internet. "An overabundance of connections over which information can travel too cheaply can reduce diversity, foster groupthink, and keep radical ideas from taking hold," Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, director of the Information + Innovation Policy Research Center at the National University of Singapore, writes in this week's issue of the journal Science. That may be one of the reasons why much of the…
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