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CMU, Claytronic's homepage for programmable matter. Real life transformer research.

And, oh yeah, try meditation

Quoted: When something bright or novel flashes, it tends to automatically win the competition for the brain’s attention, but that involuntary bottom-up impulse can be voluntarily overridden through a top-down process that Dr. Desimone calls “biased competition.” He and colleagues have found that neurons in the prefrontal cortex — the brain’s planning center — start oscillating in unison and send signals directing the visual cortex to heed something else.

Quoted: She recommends starting your work day concentrating on your most important task for 90 minutes. until that first break, don’t get distracted by anything else, because it can take the brain 20 minutes to do the equivalent of rebooting after an interruption. “Multitasking is a myth,” Ms. Gallagher said. “You cannot do two things at once. The mechanism of attention is selection: it’s either this or it’s that.”

Truly amazing.

Quoted: Brian Greig creates electrified geared orreries for sale, exhibits for science museums, planetariums and observatories. View these exquisite works of art

I never really gave these much thought until I had to design for the Research Dept.

Further advancements in flexible electronics.

An intriguing investigation trying to get to the bottom of a tangled network of small dating sites. Strange business practice but apparently very effective.

World Urbanization Prospects:
The 2007 Revision Population Database

A lot of useful information on urban forestry!