Category: Design UX

  • Re:Re:Fw:Re: Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email

    Re:Re:Fw:Re: Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email Megan Garber, theatlantic.com Unless you hap­pen to get some sort of obses­sive com­pul­sive sat­is­fac­tion from keep­ing your inbox in ship­shape — and hey, if you do, more power to ya — deal­ing with email has got to be one of the most dead­en­ing aspects of any…

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  • How REI Put A Bow On Social Marketing

    How REI Put A Bow On Social Marketing And Wowed Customers By Ekaterina Walter, fastcompany.com As mar­keters, we talk a lot about real-time response and true social agili­ty. But very few brands were able to mas­ter the art. So is agile mar­ket­ing a myth? A lot of brands strug­gle with agili­ty in mar­ket­ing: think­ing on…

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  • This $10 Chip Turns 50 Blood Tests Into A Brilliantly Simple Chart

    This $10 Chip Turns 50 Blood Tests Into A Brilliantly Simple Chart By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Test results become far easier to process, since they’re visual. Blood tests are one of those things that always seem to slow down doc­tor appoint­ments. You’re in the room. The nurse takes blood. The doc­tor sees you—speculates a lot—and…

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  • Anonymous Forum Users Can Be Identified By Linguistics

    Anonymous Forum Users Can Be Identified By Linguistics By CARMEL MELOUNEY, fastcompany.com Researchers discover ways to identify the authors of anonymous online comments through linguistic analysis. If you want to ensure your anony­mous com­ments online real­ly do stay anony­mous, it’s prob­a­bly wise to start using leet­s­peak. … http://flip.it/IVsls Related articles Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users (disinfo.com)…

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  • Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain

    Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain, new research reveals By Julie Henry, Education Correspondent, telegraph.co.uk The works of Shakespeare and Wordsworth are “rocket-boosters” to the brain and better therapy than self-help books, researchers will say this week. RT @TelegraphSci: Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain, new research reveals http://flip.it/o4phh http://flip.it/iIR1N Related articles Difficult Texts Boost…

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  • Body language reveals how we really feel

    Body language reveals how we really feel Morgan Kelly-Princeton, futurity.org PRINCETON (US) — To figure out how someone is really feeling, don’t just read their lips, watch their body language.In a recent study, researchers asked participants to determine from photographs if people were experiencing feelings such as… Body language reveals how we really feel http://flip.it/bcv0f…

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  • Enormous Online Library Catalogues 150,000 Animal Sounds

    Enormous Online Library Catalogues 150,000 Animal Sounds By Colin Lecher, popsci.com And here’s a few fun ones in advance. The Cor­nell Lab of Ornithol­o­gy just released an online archive filled with thou­sands of ani­mal nois­es. The archive doesn’t have every­thing—it most­ly focus­es on birds—but you could still was… http://flip.it/5juay Related articles National Library of Wales:…

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  • Death and Dying, the Animal Way

    Death and Dying, the Animal Way – NYTimes.com http://flip.it/p64yX http://flip.it/X0pJs   Related articles Death, Dying, & Buddhism – Pinterest (avantika1967.wordpress.com) On Death and Dying Differently (judemarian.wordpress.com)

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  • All US iPhone Users Can Now Make Free Phone Calls Via Facebook

    Whoa What: All US iPhone Users Can Now Make Free Phone Calls Via Facebook By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com No more caring about minutes. Free phone calls over Wi-Fi and 3G/4G! Face­book just let loose with a new update to the Mes­sen­ger app for iPhone, which until now was restrict­ed to text mes­sag­ing, sort of like…

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  • MIT illustrates how the world uses its mobile phones

    Infographic: MIT illustrates how the world uses its mobile phones By Madhumita Venkataramanan, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Jan­u­ary 2013 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… http://flip.it/kl0pp Related articles The…

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  • How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language

    How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com Futur­ist and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence guru Ray Kurzweil has just start­ed at Google and gave an inter­view to Sin­gu­lar­i­ty Hub days after start­ing his new work. For starters, Kurzweil plans to dive into nat­ur­al lan­guage… RT @verge: How Google’s Ray Kurzweil…

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