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Feb 22

Your Life as Data: The Rise of Personal Annual Reports -

Every time he drinks a cup of coffee, Dan Meyer makes a note on his phone. He does the same every time he opens a beer, turns on his TV or travels away from home. At the end of each month, he spends about three hours transferring these meticulously gathered notes into an excel spreadsheet. Me…

Google Heads-Up Display Glasses Are Coming by the End of 2012 [REPORT] -

Google plans to launch glasses with a heads-up display by the end of 2012, the New York Times reports citing sources familiar with the matter. The glasses, who were previously rumored to have a front-facing camera with flash and a voice input interface, will be Android based, sources say. …

Oct 25

“We all go through life assuming that time is an external river that flows past us. But experiments in my laboratory over the past decade have shown that this is not precisely the case. Time is an active construction of the brain. We can set up simple experiments to make you believe that a flashed image lasted longer or shorter than it actually did, or that a burst of light happened before you pressed a button (even though you actually caused it with the button), or that a sound is beeping at a faster or slower rate than it actually is, and so on. Time is a rubbery thing.” — In a fantastic interview, neuroscientist David Eagleman shares insight on time and our capacity to know. Related, 7 essential books on understanding time from a cross-disciplinary perspective. (via curiositycounts)

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Sep 24

Series of Videos by Deepak Chopra