Innovation is about finding a better way of doing something. Like many of the new development buzzwords (which many of them are over-used on many business documents), the concept of innovation originates from the world of business. It refers to the generation of new products through the process of creative entrepreneurship, putting it into production, and diffusing it more widely through increased sales. Innovation can be viewed as t he application of better solutions that meet new requirements, in-articulated needs, or existing market needs. This is accomplished through more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are readily available to markets, governments and society. The term innovation can be defined as something original and, as a consequence, new, that “breaks into” the market or society.
Innoveracy: Misunderstanding Innovation article points out that there is a form of ignorance which seems to be universal: the inability to understand the concept and role of innovation. The way this is exhibited is in the misuse of the term and the inability to discern the difference between novelty, creation, invention and innovation. The result is a failure to understand the causes of success and failure in business and hence the conditions that lead to economic growth. The definition of innovation is easy to find but it seems to be hard to understand. Here is a simple taxonomy of related activities that put innovation in context:
- Novelty: Something new
- Creation: Something new and valuable
- Invention: Something new, having potential value through utility
- Innovation: Something new and uniquely useful
The taxonomy is illustrated with the following diagram.
The differences are also evident in the mechanisms that exist to protect the works: Novelties are usually not protectable, Creations are protected by copyright or trademark, Inventions can be protected for a limited time through patents (or kept secret) and Innovations can be protected through market competition but are not defensible through legal means.
Innovation is a lot of talked about nowdays as essential to businesses to do. Is innovation essential for development work? article tells that innovation has become central to the way development organisations go about their work. In November 2011, Bill Gates told the G20 that innovation was the key to development. Donors increasingly stress innovation as a key condition for funding, and many civil society organisations emphasise that innovation is central to the work they do.
Some innovation ideas are pretty simple, and some are much more complicated and even sound crazy when heard first. The is place for crazy sounding ideas: venture capitalists are gravely concerned that the tech startups they’re investing in just aren’t crazy enough:
Not all development problems require new solutions, sometimes you just need to use old things in a slightly new way. Development innovations may involve devising technology (such as a nanotech water treatment kit), creating a new approach (such as microfinance), finding a better way of delivering public services (such as one-stop egovernment service centres), identifying ways of working with communities (such as participation), or generating a management technique (such as organisation learning).
Theorists of innovation identify innovation itself as a brief moment of creativity, to be followed by the main routine work of producing and selling the innovation. When it comes to development, things are more complicated. Innovation needs to be viewed as tool, not master. Innovation is a process, not a one time event. Genuine innovation is valuable but rare.
There are many views on the innovation and innvation process. I try to collect together there some views I have found on-line. Hopefully they help you more than confuze. Managing complexity and reducing risk article has this drawing which I think pretty well describes innovation as done in product development:
8 essential practices of successful innovation from The Innovator’s Way shows essential practices in innovation process. Those practices are all integrated into a non-sequential, coherent whole and style in the person of the innovator.
In the IT work there is lots of work where a little thinking can be a source of innovation. Automating IT processes can be a huge time saver or it can fail depending on situation. XKCD comic strip Automation as illustrates this:
System integration is a critical element in project design article has an interesting project cost influence graphic. The recommendation is to involve a system integrator early in project design to help ensure high-quality projects that satisfy project requirements. Of course this article tries to market system integration services, but has also valid points to consider.
Core Contributor Loop (CTTDC) from Art Journal blog posting Blog Is The New Black tries to link inventing an idea to theory of entrepreneurship. It is essential to tune the engine by making improvements in product, marketing, code, design and operations.
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Whoops, Humans Made a Space Barrier Around Earth
The kicker? It’s actually saving us.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a34980813/human-made-space-barrier-around-earth/
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SCIENTISTS SEE LIGHT FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF A BLACK HOLE FOR THE FIRST EVER TIME
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/black-hole-light-far-side-other-b1892301.html
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THESE MOON-BOUND BOXES TURN SAND INTO SOLAR ENERGY
A small Luxembourgish startup wants to send self-contained solar panel factories to Earth’s deserts as a stepping stone to the Moon.
https://www.inverse.com/innovation/these-moon-bound-boxes-turn-sand-into-solar-energy?utm_campaign=inverse&utm_content=1627744380&utm_medium=owned&utm_source=facebook
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Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real
By
NATALIE WOLCHOVER
July 30, 2021
Like a perpetual motion machine, a time crystal forever cycles between states without consuming energy. Physicists claim to have built this new phase of matter inside a quantum computer.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-time-crystal-built-using-googles-quantum-computer-20210730/
In a preprint posted online Thursday night, researchers at Google in collaboration with physicists at Stanford, Princeton and other universities say that they have used Google’s quantum computer to demonstrate a genuine “time crystal.” In addition, a separate research group claimed earlier this month to have created a time crystal in a diamond.
A novel phase of matter that physicists have strived to realize for many years, a time crystal is an object whose parts move in a regular, repeating cycle, sustaining this constant change without burning any energy.
“The consequence is amazing: You evade the second law of thermodynamics,”
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Scientists transform water into shiny, golden metal
https://www.livescience.com/water-into-metal-experiment.html
In a mind-mending experiment, scientists transformed purified water into metal for a few fleeting seconds, thus allowing the liquid to conduct electricity.
Unfiltered water can already conduct electricity — meaning negatively charged electrons can easily flow between its molecules — because unfiltered water contains salts, according to a statement about the new study. However, purified water contains only water molecules, whose outermost electrons remain bound to their designated atoms, and thus, they can’t flow freely through the water.
Theoretically, if one applied enough pressure to pure water, the water molecules would squish together and their valence shells, the outermost ring of electrons surrounding each atom, would overlap. This would allow the electrons to flow freely between each molecule and would technically turn the water into a metal.
“Our study not only shows that metallic water can indeed be produced on Earth, but also characterizes the spectroscopic properties associated with its beautiful golden metallic luster,” study author Robert Seidel, head of the Young Investigator Group at Humboldt University of Berlin, said in the statement. “You can see the phase transition to metallic water with the naked eye,” he added.
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Smoking pizza ovens and pilfered dollar bills, or the early story of RapidSOS
RapidSOS EC-1 Part 1: Origin story
https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/27/rapidsos-ec1-origin/
RapidSOS learned that the best product design is sometimes no product design
RapidSOS EC-1 Part 2: Product and business
https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/27/rapidsos-ec1-business/
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After a decade, Congress might finally bring 911 into the internet age
RapidSOS EC-1 Part 4: Next-generation 911
https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/27/rapidsos-ec1-future/
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No-code Bubble raises $100M to make technical co-founders obsolete
https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/27/no-code-bubble-series-a/
Among Silicon Valley circles, a fun parlor game is to ask to what extent world GDP levels are held back by a lack of computer science and technical training. How many startups could be built if hundreds of thousands or even millions more people could code and bring their entrepreneurial ideas to fruition? How many bureaucratic processes could be eliminated if developers were more latent in every business?
The answer, of course, is on the order of “a lot,” but the barriers to reaching this world remain formidable. Computer science is a challenging field, and despite proactive attempts by legislatures to add more coding skills into school curriculums, the reality is that the demand for software engineering vastly outstrips the supply available in the market.
Coding is not a bubble, and Bubble wants to empower the democratization of software development and the creation of new startups.
Through its platform, Bubble enables anyone — coder or not — to begin building modern web applications using a click-and-drag interface that can connect data sources and other software together in one fluid interface.
It’s a bold bet
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DEVELOPING THE FIRST ICS IN ORBIT
https://hackaday.com/2021/07/31/developing-the-first-ics-in-orbit/
Over six decades of integrated circuit production we’ve become used to their extreme reliability and performance for a very reasonable price. But what about those first integrated circuits from the early 1960s? Commercial integrated circuits appeared in 1961, and recently Texas Instruments published a fascinating retrospective on the development of their first few digital ICs.
TI’s original IC product on the market was the SN502, a transistor flip-flop that debuted at $450 (about $4100 today), which caught the interest of NASA engineers who asked for logic functions with a higher performance level. The response was the development of the 51 series of logic chips, whose innovation included on-chip interconnects replacing the hand interconnects of the SN502. Their RCTL logic gave enough performance and reliability for NASA to use, and in late 1963 the Explorer 18 craft carried a telemetry system using the SN510 and SN514 chips into orbit. 52 and 53 series chips quickly followed, then in 1964 the 54 series TTL chips which along with their plastic-encapsulated 74 series equivalents are still available today.
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https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/this-ancient-tablet-secretly-held-the-oldest-evidence-of-applied-geometry-in-the-world/
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How Robots Helped Out After the Surfside Condo Collapse Responders flew drones night and day to survey the collapse and search for survivors
https://spectrum.ieee.org/building-collapse-surfside-robots
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Google’s ‘time crystals’ could be the greatest scientific achievement of our lifetimes
https://thenextweb.com/news/google-may-have-achieved-breakthrough-time-crystals
Eureka! A research team featuring dozens of scientists working in partnership with Google‘s quantum computing labs may have created the world’s first time crystal inside a quantum computer.
This is the kind of news that makes me want to jump up and do a happy dance.
These scientists may have produced an entirely new phase of matter.
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Getting out of your comfort zone is associated with creativity. Try a new route to work, take an improv class, brush your teeth with your non-dominant hand. But there’s more you should do.
Ditch Your Comfort Zone—Literally—To Boost Creativity
https://www.forbes.com/sites/janinemaclachlan/2021/07/30/ditch-your-comfort-zone–literally–to-boost-creativity/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflowForbesMainFB&utm_source=ForbesMainFacebook&sh=5957df5d7815
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http://uk.businessinsider.com/downsides-of-being-smart-2016-7
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So many in the West are depressed because they’re expected not to be
https://theconversation.com/so-many-in-the-west-are-depressed-because-theyre-expected-not-to-be-79672
Public health experts know living in an environment where fast food is readily available is a large contributor to the modern epidemics of diabetes and heart disease – we need to understand the context, not individual behaviour alone. In the same way, as depression reaches epidemic proportions, the sole focus on individuals no longer makes sense.
We have been investigating whether Western cultural values play a role in promoting the depression epidemic for several years now. In a series of experiments, we found the high value we place on happiness is not only associated with increased levels of depression, it may actually be the underlying factor.
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https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/there-are-nine-destinct-types-of-chronic-pain-says-pain-body-map-study/
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Xerox Was Actually First To Invent The PC, They Just Forgot To Do Anything With It
https://www.businessinsider.com/xerox-was-actually-first-to-invent-the-pc-they-just-forgot-to-do-anything-with-it-2012-2
I hear people arguing about what has contributed most to business productivity in the last one hundred years.
Obviously, many people claim it was the introduction of the personal computer – Yeah, OK, Apple Freaks, we know you were in the game early, but most would argue that IBM gave it legitimacy with corporate America.
The 1960 introduction of the Xerox 914 photocopier, an invention that improved office productivity in an amazing way.
In fact, many years later Fortune called the 914 “the most successful product ever marketed in America measured by return on investment.”
Yet its very success almost destroyed Xerox and has been extensively written about over the years
In the sixties and seventies Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Company (PARC) invented just about everything you can imagine. That includes what was recognized as the first true PC – The Xerox Alto… This sucker had everything, Ethernet networking, graphical user interface, icons, bit mapping, scalable type, a mouse, the world’s first laser printer, hot and cold running water, a back scratcher (OK, just kidding on the last two.)
It was years ahead of its time. So what did Xerox management do with it? Not a god damn thing. They were too busy counting the money rolling in every time someone used a 914, ‘cos you couldn’t buy one, you had to lease it and pay for every copy you made. The thing was a gold mine for years until the patents finally ran out.
As everyone knows, the main beneficiary of all the incredible stuff coming out of PARC was Steve Jobs, ‘cos in its infinite wisdom, Xerox gave the King of Apple a conducted tour of PARC, showing him everything they were up to, even watching him as he made notes of everything he was shown. Within months he had hired away some of PARCS top talent and instituted a program that resulted in the Lisa, the forerunner of the Mac
The moral of the story is that the management at Big Dumb Companies (BDC’s) and their Big Dumb Agencies (BDA’s) is unimaginative, to say the least. But you already knew that. Strangest of all, even in its roughest years, Xerox continued to fund PARC, and they still do. The place continues to come up with amazing stuff. Most of which, Xerox continues to ignore.
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Google says it has created a time crystal in a quantum computer, and it’s weirder than you can imagine
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-says-it-has-created-a-time-crystal-in-a-quantum-computer-and-its-weirder-than-you-can-imagine/
In what could be the first useful application of quantum computing, Google’s scientists have demonstrated the existence of a new phase of matter.
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https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/risk-of-dementia-increased-even-by-slightly-higher-air-pollution-study-finds/
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Quantum physics is actually perfectly rational, if you understand the math. It’s people who typically seem irrational. (From 2014)
Quantum math makes human irrationality more sensible
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/quantum-math-makes-human-irrationality-more-sensible
People often say that quantum physics is weird because it doesn’t seem rational. But of course, if you think about it, quantum physics is actually perfectly rational, if you understand the math. It’s people who typically seem irrational.
In fact, some psychologists have spent their careers making fun of people for irrational choices when presented with artificial situations amenable to statistical analysis. Making allowances for sometimes shaky methodology, there really are cases where people make choices that don’t seem to make much sense.
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Internet Futures
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0013/222205/internet-futures.pdf
This report should not be seen as an exhaustive list of every innovative technology being developed. Indeed, it can be no more than a sample of the high-quality ongoing research work being conducted in industry and academia. Further, the omission or inclusion of any technology shouldnt be taken as a signal of our view of its importance. Nor are these our predictions for the future: this report . is a summary of the technologies that have been flagged to us by worldwide experts.
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Ketamine Immediately Halts Depression By Inhibiting Glutamate Release, Study Finds
https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ketamine-immediately-halts-depression-by-inhibiting-glutamate-release-study-finds/
Previously used as a horse tranquilizer and party drug, ketamine has reinvented itself over the past few years as a treatment for depression. Impressively, the drug has been shown to alleviate depressive symptoms in as little as 24 hours, which represents a major improvement on traditional medications like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), which can take weeks or months to produce an effect. According to a new study in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, ketamine’s ability to provide such rapid relief may hinge on its capacity to inhibit a particular neurotransmitter called glutamate.
“Elevated glutamate release has been linked to stress, depression and other mood disorders, so lowered glutamate levels may explain some of the effects of ketamine,” explained study author Per Svenningsson in a statement.
these findings could open the door for the development of new anti-depressants that work via the same mechanism but do not produce any of the trippy side-effects for which ketamine is famous.
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How Mathematical ‘Hocus-Pocus’ Saved Particle Physics
By
CHARLIE WOOD
September 17, 2020
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-renormalization-saved-particle-physics-20200917/
Renormalization has become perhaps the single most important advance in theoretical physics in 50 years.
You don’t have to analyze individual water molecules to understand the behavior of droplets, or droplets to study a wave. This ability to shift focus across various scales is the essence of renormalization.
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Conscious Reality Could Be A Controlled Hallucination Argues Neuroscientist
https://www.iflscience.com/brain/conscious-reality-could-be-a-controlled-hallucination-argues-neuroscientist/
Understanding consciousness is a holy grail of science and philosophy and it underpins not just your personal experience, but every single social enterprise. We are human and we are conscious. But what is consciousness and how does it arises?
Neuroscientist Dr Anil Seth has an interesting approach in trying to explain how what we call consciousness is like. In a delightful and informative video, he argues that our brain “hallucinates” everything we sense, and that’s where consciousness comes from.
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A possible future for people with diabetes: Get a small robot implanted in your gut. Every so often, swallow a magnetic capsule that docks with the robot and resupplies it with insulin.
Robot Could Operate a Docking Station Inside the Gut Magnetic drug capsule docks with implant to deliver insulin
https://spectrum.ieee.org/robot-operates-docking-station-inside-the-gut
Picture, if you will, a cargo rocket launching into space and docking on the International Space Station. The rocket maneuvers up to the station and latches on with an airtight seal so that supplies can be transferred. Now imagine a miniaturized version of that process happening inside your body.
Researchers today announced that they have built a robotic system capable of this kind of supply drop, and which functions entirely inside the gut. The system involves an insulin delivery robot that is surgically implanted in the abdomen, and swallowable magnetic capsules that resupply the robot with insulin.
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CTO of Estonia: The role of tech is to automate routines, so we can use the time saved for what is really important
https://investinestonia.com/cto-of-estonia-the-role-of-tech-is-to-automate-routines-so-we-can-use-the-time-saved-for-what-is-really-important/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=socialmedia&utm_content=cto-of-estonia-the-role-of-tech-is-to-automate-routines-so-we-can-use-the-time-saved-for-what-is-really-important&fbclid=IwAR0uvDsO2E8cHZowhE6s6PSbs8suMAK1OOjrYTipfrjzE-qvcRuZ1pQ87d0
Kristo Vaher, CTO of Estonia, discusses the fear of robots and finds that no matter how insecure we feel about the future, robots are here to give us more quality time for ourselves.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2021/08/12/outer-bug-shield-blanket-never-wear-bug-spray-again/?sh=12e68176c90c&utm_source=ForbesMainFacebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflowForbesMainFB
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https://www.iflscience.com/technology/heres-what-life-will-be-like-in-2022-according-to-ibm/
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https://blog.prusaprinters.org/does-a-3d-printed-guitar-pick-suck-spoiler-its-actually-awesome_53320/
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https://hackaday.com/2021/08/13/doom-on-a-desk-phone-is-just-the-tip-of-the-iceburg/
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Chameleon-inspired robot skin changes colors instantly
Artificial camouflage could make it easier to blend in with—or stand out from—your surroundings.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/10/1031511/chameleon-inspired-robot-changes-colors-instantly/
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MIT’s Martin Nisser Details Projects for Assembling Ready-to-Run Drones, Space-Ready 3D Printing
“The closer we get toward automating assembly,” Nisser claims, “the sooner we can reduce costs and increase accessibility.”
https://www.hackster.io/news/mit-s-martin-nisser-details-projects-for-assembling-ready-to-run-drones-space-ready-3d-printing-5b688a9d7bf9
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First Direct Observation Of Quantum Tug Between Water Molecules
https://www.iflscience.com/physics/first-direct-observation-of-quantum-tug-between-water-molecules/
Water molecules are kept together by the so-called hydrogen bond, an electrostatic force between such molecules. It is of incredible importance also in proteins and DNA. And it gives water some of its peculiar properties. And now researchers have directly observed how it can tug molecules when one is excited by a laser.
The study is published in Nature. Water molecules are made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom connected by covalent bonds. The hydrogen bond is between the hydrogen in one molecule (which is slightly positive) and the oxygen in another (which is slightly negative).
To study it, researchers gave the covalent bond of a molecule a bit more energy. This led to stronger vibrations between the oxygen and the hydrogen, and in turn, this affected the water molecules around it. They were tugged in and pushed away with more strength following the excitation.
“Although this so-called nuclear quantum effect has been hypothesized to be at the heart of many of water’s strange properties, this experiment marks the first time it was ever observed directly,” added co-author Professor Anders Nilsson, from Stockholm University. “The question is if this quantum effect could be the missing link in theoretical models describing the anomalous properties of water.”
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https://hackaday.com/2021/08/25/welcome-to-our-new-robot-nurses/
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12477-uusi-eriste-parantaa-sahkonsiirron-tehokkuutta
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Michael Faraday was an exceptional experimentalist who invented the electric motor, the electric transformer, and the dynamo. But he misstepped while navigating the cutthroat world of academic publishing.
200 Years Ago, Faraday Invented the Electric Motor
https://spectrum.ieee.org/200-years-ago-faraday-invented-the-electric-motor
After Faraday published his results, his mentor accused him of plagiarism
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Study identifies 579 genetic locations linked to anti-social behavior, alcohol use, opioid addiction and more
The study, published today in the journal Nature Neuroscience, is one of the largest genome-wide association studies ever conducted.
https://www.news.vcu.edu/article/2021/08/study-identifies-579-genetic-locations-linked-to
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7 digital tools to boost your creativity
https://www.namecheap.com/blog/7-digital-tools-to-boost-your-creativity/
As the genius Albert Einstein once said, “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
But why does fostering creativity sometimes not feel so fun?
Be it fatigue, stress, or lack of motivation, we’ve admittedly all hit that creative wall. But don’t despair! Thanks to the wonderful world of modern technology, there are so many apps out there that are designed to get your creative juices flowing and productivity going.
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RARE EARTH RECYCLING: HOW CAN WE KEEP OUR GADGETS SUSTAINABLE?
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https://resource.co/article/rare-earth-recycling-how-can-we-keep-our-gadgets-sustainable-11904
Our reliance on rare earth elements in our gadget-hungry world is growing, but their supply is far from secure. Libby Peake learns about the environmental costs of mining the materials and increasing efforts to recycle them
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https://hackaday.com/2021/08/07/the-magnetosphere-has-a-ton-of-energy-can-a-guitar-amp-company-tap-into-it/
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Dyson Award Goes To Emergency Medical Device For Treating Stab Wounds
https://hackaday.com/2021/08/29/dyson-award-goes-to-emergency-medical-device-for-treating-stab-wounds/
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It turns out the way to do this is to make them visualize themselves as Superman.
Psychologists Turn Conservatives Into Liberals With One Strange Thought Experiment
https://www.iflscience.com/brain/psychologists-turn-conservatives-into-liberals-with-one-strange-thought-experiment/
Studies have consistently shown that turning liberals into conservatives (at least temporarily) is surprisingly easy. All you need to do is scare them.
For example, one group of experimenters asked students to think about their own death before taking tests designed to assess their political beliefs. Over several experiments, the researchers, from the University of Central Arkansas, found that when the participants had been asked to think about their own death they became more conservative, and had attitudes in line with their conservative classmates on issues from capital punishment and abortion, to rights for gay employees.
The theory goes that the liberal students became much more socially conservative than the control group (who thought about television) because thinking about their own death made them feel vulnerable.
“Moreover, defensive conservatism appears to be a general psychological response to vulnerability that is not necessarily strategically linked to the eliciting threats.”
Now researchers have discovered an easy way to do the reverse – turn conservatives into liberals. Psychologist John Bargh has written about experiments his team conducted in which he managed to turn conservatives liberal through another thought experiment.
It turns out the way to do this is to make them visualize themselves as Superman.
In John Bargh’s book Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do he writes that he and his team asked participants to picture themselves as Superman. They were asked to really picture what it would be like to be as invincible as Superman – Business Insider reports – where bullets, fire, and falling off a cliff wouldn’t hurt them. The control group was asked to picture themselves merely having the ability to fly.
The participants were then asked to rate statements to assess their political beliefs. This time the experimenters found that it was conservatives’ beliefs that shifted. They became – albeit briefly – more socially liberal than they were, whilst liberals’ attitudes remained unchanged by the thought experiment.
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Innovaation mittaaminen on vaikeaa, mutta arvokasta
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2021/09/01/innovaation-mittaaminen-on-vaikeaa-mutta-arvokasta/
- 1.9.2021
Tutkimurahoituksella on mitattavia vaikutuksia, mutta yhteiskunnan tuet ovat kasvattaneet innovaatioiden todennäköisyyttä suomalaisyrityksissä, selviää VTT:n InnoPack-hankkeen tuloksista. Selvityksen alaisena oli TKI-rahoituksen vaikutukset vuosina 1995-2018. Tässä linkit tutkimusraporttien lyhennelmiin.
InnoPack-tutkimuksen mukaan suomalaisyritykselle myönnetty innovaatiotuki on kasvattanut yrityksen todennäköisyyttä tuoda markkinoille merkittävä innovaatio. Tutkimuksessa selvitettiin myös menetelmiä eri innovaatiopoliittisten toimien vaikutusten arvioimiseksi ennakkoon.
Laajaan ja poikkeuksellisen kattavaan aineistoon perustuva tutkimushanke käsittää tietoa yli 230 000 yrityksestä sekä yli 2300 merkittävästä innovaatiosta.
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45-Year-Old Footage Shows Arthur C. Clarke Accurately Predicting The Future
https://www.iflscience.com/technology/45yearold-footage-shows-arthur-c-clarke-accurately-predicting-the-future/
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Vanhempien koulutus vaikuttaa lapsiin entistä enemmän: Koulutus toistaa etuoikeuksia, muistuttaa Karvin selvitys
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12074882
Suomessa on hyväksyttyä ajatella, että olemme tasa-arvoisia. Myös peruskoulua pidetään usein tasa-arvoisena, mutta opetus vahvistaa esimerkiksi sukupuolten välisiä eroja. Suomalainen työelämä on yhä kovin jakautunut miesten ja naisten aloihin.