Category: Cognitive Science

  • Survey Says GOP Women Are Prettier

    Survey Says GOP Women Are Prettier – The Daily Beast Related articles House GOP Strips LGBT, Native American Provisions In VAWA (addictinginfo.org) You: As House GOP leaves women unprotected from violence, citizens fight back (allvoices.com) The GOP’s sequester messaging muddle (politico.com) Americans aren’t buying what GOP is selling (maddowblog.msnbc.com) Poll: Obama approval hits 3-year high,…

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  • Fast Exercises To Find Your Purpose And Passion For Work

    Fast Exercises To Find Your Purpose And Passion For Work | Fast Company Related articles 5 Easy Steps To Make Your Job Descriptions Go Viral (mashable.com) Job Hunting? (RED) and 180+ Others Are Hiring (mashable.com) Why Most Employees Wish They Had A Different Job (forbes.com)

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  • Blacksocks, App For Sorting Socks

    Blacksocks, App For Sorting Socks, Is In Fact A Real Thing Reuters, huffingtonpost.com By Natasha Baker TORON­TO (Reuters) – If match­ing socks is a daily prob­lem a new app that sorts them into pairs and even lets users know when it is time to buy a new pair may help. The free iPhone app called…

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  • Body Language Expert: Romney ‘Hyperactive,’ Obama ‘Measured’ in Debate

    Body Language Expert: Romney ‘Hyperactive,’ Obama ‘Measured’ in Debate by Lloyd Grove, thedailybeast.com The pundits may be calling Denver a slam-dunk for Romney, but David B. Givens, who analyzed the candidates’ mannerisms, disagrees: the governor looked ‘aggressive and manic, simultaneously,’ while Obama was ‘cool.’ The gov­er­nor was manic and t… http://flpbd.it/uwyKR Related articles Jimmy Carter:…

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  • Bird brains? Crows remember your face

    Bird brains? Crows remember your face Scott K. Johnson, arstechnica.com One of the most enjoy­able facets of study­ing other species is dis­cov­er­ing the amaz­ing things they’re capa­ble of. As humans, the things we tend to find most amaz­ing are the abil­i­ties that remind us the most of, well,… http://flpbd.it/YObK6 Related articles The social brain hypothesis…

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  • Is a résumé relevant in the age of online courses and open source projects?

    Is a résumé relevant in the age of online courses and open source projects? Stack Exchange, arstechnica.com This Q&A is part of a biweek­ly series of posts high­light­ing com­mon ques­tions encoun­tered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered net­work of 80+ Q&A sites. davidk01 asks: My resume is no… http://flpbd.it/XbZep…

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  • Bills, bills, bills: manage your accounts like a real pro

    Bills, bills, bills: manage your accounts like a real pro Megan Geuss, arstechnica.com No mat­ter your day job, we all have a sec­ond gig that saps a cou­ple of hours from our lives every month: oper­at­ing the admin­is­tra­tive branch of your life (or your house­hold). Per­son­al bureau­cra­cy is a sad fact of life, but there…

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  • Never forget a face? Take the test

    Never forget a face? Take the test Gerry Everding-WUSTL, futurity.org WASH­ING­TON U. – ST. LOUIS (US) — A new online exper­i­ment tests your abil­i­ty to remem­ber names and faces, and com­pares your score with oth­ers’. The test, which can be taken from a com­put­er, smart­phone, iPad, and other mobile… http://flpbd.it/dn2t5 Related articles Review: Logitech’s Ultrathin…

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  • Could ePatient Networks Become the Superdoctors of the Future?

    Could ePatient Networks Become the Superdoctors of the Future? BY ANITA HAMILTON, fastcoexist.com As technology allows patients to pool their knowledge, can the collective experience of the sick create better care? There’s some­thing seri­ous­ly wrong with a health care sys­tem that makes patients wait a month or more just to get a doc­tor’s… http://flpbd.it/5v6PX Related…

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  • Measuring An Employee’s Worth? Consider Influence

    Measuring An Employee’s Worth? Consider Influence By E.B. Boyd, fastcompany.com The performance review of the future will include services like Salesforce.com’s Chatter and its Influencers feature, which measures how much weight you carry among your peers. Today, your per­for­mance review is based on things like sales num­b… http://flpbd.it/xZePm Related articles Salesforce.com Announces Timing of its…

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