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Higher IQ = Longer Life
According to Lab Notes, new research is suggesting that a higher IQ is an indication that you may live a longer life. A number of recent studies have been finding that people who score lower on intelligence tests (notice how careful I am not to say “smarter people”) tend to die earlier than those who…
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Sex Map
Remember xkcd’s map of online communities? Well, Franklin Veaux has gone and done the same… but for sex. I always thought I was pretty well-versed in slang of all types, but the sex map tells a different story. Hopefully this isn’t a sign of ageing. via Rudius
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Web App User Flow Library
In designing any application, creating efficient and easy user flows is crucial to user engagement. Of course, this isn’t as easy as it sounds. Product Planner provides user flows from successful web applications to help others learn from them.
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Glow in the Dark Animals
‘Mr. Green Genes’ is a transgenic cat that glows in the dark. As a huge fan of both cats and science, I think this may be my ideal pet. From the ScienceBlogs Weekly Recap: The cat’s DNA [has been injected] with a gene for green fluorescent protein (GFP), to easily visualize whether the protein was…
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Top 10 ‘Gen Y’ Blogs
Ryan Stephens has produced a list of the top ten blogs for Generation Y. It’s an excellent list containing a number of blogs I already subscribe to; those I don’t read I’ll be checking out soon. Personal Branding Blog Hard Knox Life Employee Evolution Driven Leaders Newly Corporate Ben Casnocha Brazen Careerist: Penelope Trunk I…
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Startups and Bad Economies
Two weeks ago the renowned VC firm Sequoia Capital gave their portfolio CEOs a presentation on how startups should deal with the bad economy. In the presentation, the “entrepreneurs behind the entrepreneurs” gave some good advice any startup should follow in good and bad times (for example, “spend every dollar as if it were your…
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The Elements of Style: Programming Edition
Strunk and White’s Elements of Style is one of the most popular and influential writing guides available. By replacing a few key words, it can be used as a text on programming style and the craft of software. 2.12. Choose a suitable design and hold to it. A basic structural design underlies every kind of…
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Impossible Ideas are Great Ideas
After his presumption that both eBay and Wikipedia would never go mainstream was proven wrong, Joel Spolsky realised what he calls “a fundamental lesson about the nature of technological innovation”. For Inc. Magazine Joel describes his idea that the most important innovations are often those that appear to be fatally flawed. […] “seeming impossible” is…
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The Seven Sins of Memory
According to Daniel Schacter, there are seven fundamental ways in which our memories fail us. Schacter elaborates in his book of the same name, and now PsyBlog has produced a series of articles on each of these ‘seven sins of memory’: Transience Absent-Mindedness Blocking Misattribution Suggestibility Bias Persistence
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Our Evolutionary Predisposition to Faith
The anthropologist Pascal Boyer asks, “Is religion a product of our evolution?” and in doing so he concludes that it may be easier to believe than to reject faith. In the past ten years, the evolutionary and cognitive study of religion has begun to mature. It does not try to identify the gene or genes…