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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One-Wheel Cubli Balances Like Magic A single reaction wheel enables two-axis balancing, which shouldn’t work but does
https://spectrum.ieee.org/balancing-robot-cube
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Vuonna 1820 tehtiin koko sivilisaation mullistanut löytö, mutta kukaan ei vieläkään tiedä, miksi kaikki tapahtui niin kuin tapahtui
Kalevi Rantanen6.12.202207:32|päivitetty6.12.202209:49HISTORIATEKNIIKKAKONEET JA LAITTEETTIEDE
Miksi uusi luonnonilmiö, sähkömagnetismi keksittiin vuonna 1820 ja nimenomaan Euroopassa?
https://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/uutiset/vuonna-1820-tehtiin-koko-sivilisaation-mullistanut-loyto-mutta-kukaan-ei-vielakaan-tieda-miksi-kaikki-tapahtui-niin-kuin-tapahtui/3bccf1ab-feb7-4956-911b-9be8583f7970
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Entangling Quantum Sensors Can Triple Accuracy “Spooky sensing at a distance” via one combined device
https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-10-new-programming-languages-to-overtake-python-in-5-years/
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New Biosensor Can Tell When Food Has Gone Off
I could really use this for the fridge.
https://www.iflscience.com/new-biosensor-can-tell-when-food-has-gone-off-66579
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Scientists see the impact of flushing the toilet in a whole new light
Scientists shine a light on what comes up when you flush.
https://www.techexplorist.com/scientists-impact-flushing-toilet-whole-new-light/55304/
Flushed toilets emit aerosols that spread pathogens in feces, but little is known about the spatiotemporal evolution of these plumes or the velocity fields that transport them.
To reduce exposure risk through ventilation and disinfection techniques, better toilet and flush design, or other exposure risk reduction measures, it is crucial to understand the trajectories and velocities of these particles, which can carry pathogens like E. coli, C. difficile, noroviruses, and adenoviruses. The COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) virus is prevalent in human faeces. However, there is currently insufficient proof that it may effectively transmit by toilet aerosols.
Crimaldi said, “People have known that toilets emit aerosols, but they haven’t been able to see them. We show this thing is a much more energetic and rapidly spreading plume than the people who knew about this understanding.”
According to the study, these airborne particles travel swiftly, at a rate of 6.6 feet (2 meters) per second, and can be seen in the toilet bowl as high as 4.9 feet (1.5 meters) above the ground in just 8 seconds. On the other hand, the smallest aerosols (particles less than 5 microns, or one-millionth of a meter) can cling to surfaces for minutes or more. In contrast, the largest droplets often settle onto surfaces in a matter of seconds.
Crimaldi said, “The goal of the toilet is to remove waste from the bowl effectively, but it’s also doing the opposite, which is spraying a lot of contents upwards. Our lab has created a methodology that provides a foundation for improving and mitigating this problem.”
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/physicists-discuss-bay-area-fusion-breakthrough-17657480.php
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Heavy Metal Headbanging Causes Brain Damage, Science Says
https://time.com/2956673/heavy-metal-headbanging-motorhead-brain-damage/
The study authors describe headbanging as “a contemporary dance form consisting of abrupt flexion—extension movements of the head to the rhythm of rock music, most commonly seen in the heavy metal genre.
“Headbanging was introduced in the early 1970s,” the authors add. “The number of avid aficionados is unknown.”
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We Have Ignition: US Experiment Becomes First To Achieve Controlled Fusion
The rumors were mostly right, but they actually left something out.
https://www.iflscience.com/we-have-ignition-experiment-becomes-first-to-achieve-controlled-fusion-66641
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SCIENTISTS BUILD CIRCUIT BOARDS BASED ON MUSHROOMS
https://futurism.com/the-byte/circuit-board-mushrooms
Electronic waste, also known as “e-waste,” is a major polluter, not to mention an increasingly difficult issue to combat. Excitingly, however, a team of Austrian scientists are working on a creative new solution to solve at least part of the e-waste puzzle: they’re making biodegradable substrates for electronics out of mushroom skins.
Yes, really. And per the scientists’ proof-of-concept paper published in Science Advances, these materials — dubbed “MycelioTronics — are showing some incredible promise as a possible replacement for traditionally plastic printed circuit boards, among other applications.
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Lyhennelmä: 600–800 eurolla silmälasit loppuelämäksi – Suomalaisyhtiö tuo automaattisesti säätyvät moniteholasit markkinoille jo 2024
https://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/uutiset/lyhennelma-600800-eurolla-silmalasit-loppuelamaksi-suomalaisyhtio-tuo-automaattisesti-saatyvat-moniteholasit-markkinoille-jo-2024/26cfa908-8c34-4435-99b6-aee36ba7fe62#Echobox=1671335667
Automaattisesti tarkentuvat monitehosilmälasit ovat todellisuutta jo lähivuosina. Niitä kehittää espoolainen Pixieray.
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Stress can cause health problems, reduce productivity and lead to bad decisions. But mentally strong people use these 6 key strategies to stay calm.
https://www.learning-mind.com/stay-calm-mentally-strong/
We all know that stress can be bad for us and is one of the leading causes of many health problems we experience. But stress can also put a strain on our relationships and decrease our performance in every area of our lives.
However, a certain level of stress is actually essential to our productivity and well-being. Stress isn’t all bad, it’s prolonged stress that can be damaging.
Well, here are six strategies that mentally strong people use to help stay calm under pressure.
1. They practice gratitude
Many studies have found benefits to being grateful and appreciating what we already have. When we focus on what we lack, we feel negative, however, focusing on our blessings helps us to stay positive.
2. They choose to focus on positive thoughts
Because constant stress is what causes the damage, we can interrupt it by taking time out to focus on something positive. When we are in a spiral of stress, anxiety and negative thinking this can be hard.
3. They breathe deeply
This has become such a cliché when we are under stress that we sometimes think it is too simple. We think, ‘Taking a deep breath won’t help me cope with this huge pile of stuff I have to get through,’ but actually, breathing is powerful and can really help us stay calm.
4. They take regular breaks
Being in a state of high alert all the time can mean we are constantly stressed. Our bodies need downtime in order to keep healthy. When we are stressed, our bodies cannot digest our food properly, or make essential repairs. We sometimes treat our bodies as if they were machines.
5. They reframe their perspective
While we cannot control outside events, we can control how we react to them. We can choose to reframe the situation. For example, when we feel like everything is going wrong in our lives we can consciously choose to look for the things that are going right.
6. They ask for help
Many of us believe that asking for help is a weakness. We think that people will think less of us if we can’t manage everything all on our own. But actually working together and supporting each other makes more sense.
When we share problems and activities, we can benefit from the skills of other people and they can benefit from our talents. It makes sense to pool our resources.
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https://www.learning-mind.com/shallow-people/
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https://pyimagesearch.com/2022/12/05/automatic-differentiation-part-1-understanding-the-math/
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Stop Pressing The Walk Buttons, Most Don’t Actually Do Anything
They might make you feel better, but don’t expect them to actually work.
https://www.iflscience.com/stop-pressing-the-walk-buttons-most-don-t-actually-do-anything-66511
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A Transistor? Memory? Wait, It’s Both!
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/18/a-transistor-memory-wait-its-both/
What do you get if you cross graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, and tungsten diselenide? Well, according to researchers at Hunan University, you get a field effect transistor that can act as both a switching element or a memory cell. The partial floating-gate field-effect transistor or PFGFET uses 2D van der Waals heterostructures to deal with isolated atomic layers. The paper in Nature is unfortunately behind a pay wall, but you can read a summary over on [TechExplore].
A reconfigurable device based on 2D van der Waals heterostructures that works both as a transistor and memory
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-reconfigurable-device-based-2d-van.html
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Optical computers run a million times faster than conventional computers, study reveals
Traditional computer’s input signals run at a snail’s pace compared to light-generated input signals.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/optical-computers-run-a-million-times-faster-than-conventional-computers-study-reveals
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Engineers Push Probabilistic Computers Closer to Reality Noisy bits might beat quantum computers
https://spectrum.ieee.org/probablistic-computing
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The metric system is growing. Here’s what you need to know
New prefixes will help researchers interpret exceedingly big and small numbers
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/metric-system-prefixes-what-to-know
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Not just light: Everything is a wave, including you
A concept known as “wave-particle duality” famously applies to light. But it also applies to all matter — including you.
https://bigthink.com/13-8/wave-particle-duality-matter/
Quantum physics has redefined our understanding of matter. In the 1920s, the wave-particle duality of light was extended to include all material objects, from electrons to you. Cutting-edge experiments now explore how biological macromolecules can behave as both particle and wave.
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Intiassa keksitty nolla on yksi matematiikan tärkeimpiä oivalluksia, mutta Euroopassa “pakanalliseen numeroon” suhtauduttiin pitkään torjuvasti
https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-10003665
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Everything dies: people, machines, civilizations. And even in the golden age of digitization, knowledge dies, too.
Everything dies, including information
Digitization can help stem the tide of entropy, but it won’t stop it.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/26/1061308/death-of-information-digitization/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement
Everything dies: people, machines, civilizations. Perhaps we can find some solace in knowing that all the meaningful things we’ve learned along the way will survive. But even knowledge has a life span. Documents fade. Art goes missing. Entire libraries and collections can face quick and unexpected destruction.
Surely, we’re at a stage technologically where we might devise ways to make knowledge available and accessible forever. After all, the density of data storage is already incomprehensibly high. In the ever-growing museum of the internet, one can move smoothly from images from the James Webb Space Telescope through diagrams explaining Pythagoras’s philosophy on the music of the spheres to a YouTube tutorial on blues guitar soloing. What more could you want?
Quite a bit, according to the experts. For one thing, what we think is permanent isn’t. Digital storage systems can become unreadable in as little as three to five years. Librarians and archivists race to copy things over to newer formats. But entropy is always there, waiting in the wings. “Our professions and our people often try to extend the normal life span as far as possible through a variety of techniques, but it’s still holding back the tide,” says Joseph Janes, an associate professor at the University of Washington Information School.
To complicate matters, archivists are now grappling with an unprecedented deluge of information. In the past, materials were scarce and storage space limited. “Now we have the opposite problem,” Janes says. “Everything is being recorded all the time.”
In principle, that could right a historic wrong. For centuries, countless people didn’t have the right culture, gender, or socioeconomic class for their knowledge or work to be discovered, valued, or preserved. But the massive scale of the digital world now presents a unique challenge. According to an estimate last year from the market research firm IDC, the amount of data that companies, governments, and individuals create in the next few years will be twice the total of all the digital data generated previously since the start of the computing age
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The human brain doubled in power, very suddenly, 200,000 years ago. Why?
A long-ridiculed theory about humankind’s early leap of consciousness is revived.
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/stoned-ape-return/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1671408979
Terence McKenna first proposed psychedelic mushrooms as the trigger for our rapid cognitive evolution. McKenna’s theory was called the “Stoned Ape Hypothesis.” The hypothesis is being revisited as a possible answer to a vexxing evolutionary riddle.
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Scientists have discovered a new species of plastic-eating worms that can live entirely off stuff like styrofoam.
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/336999-scientists-discover-plastic-eating-worms-that-digest-styrofoam?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook
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Frozen Food: The $300 Billion Idea That Changed How We Eat | Billion Dollar Breakthrough
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_JaI5zDFDig
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The key to solving problems is often about fishing the right information out of your memory.
How You Define the Problem Determines Whether You Solve It
https://hbr.org/2017/06/how-you-define-the-problem-determines-whether-you-solve-it?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=hbr&utm_source=facebook&tpcc=orgsocial_edit
Typical stories of creativity and invention focus on finding novel ways to solve problems. James Dyson found a way to adapt the industrial cyclone to eliminate the bag in a vacuum cleaner. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque developed cubism as a technique for including several views of a scene in the same painting. The desktop operating system developed at Xerox PARC replaced computer commands with a spatial user interface.
These brief descriptions of these innovations all focus primarily on the novel solution. The problem they solve seems obvious.
But framing innovations in this way makes creativity seem like a mystery. How could so many people have missed the solution to the problem for so long? And how in the world did the first person come up with that solution at all?
In fact, most people who come up with creative solutions to problems rely on a relatively straightforward method: finding a solution inside the collective memory of the people working on the problem. That is, someone working to solve the problem knows something that will help them find a solution — they just haven’t realized yet that they know it.
Sure, some people stumble on the answer.
But tapping into the individual’s or group’s memory is one of the most cost effective and repeatable problem-solving approaches.
The key to this method is to get the right information out of memory to solve the problem.
Human memory is set up in a way that encountering a piece of information serves as a cue to retrieve other related things. If I ask you to imagine a birthday party, you can quickly retrieve information about birthday parties you have attended, and you will likely be able to think about party hats, cake, and singing “Happy Birthday.” You don’t have to expend much effort to recall this information; it emerges as a result of the initial cue.
If you want to retrieve something else from memory, you need to change the cue. If I now ask you to think about salad, you can likely call to mind information about lettuce, tomatoes, and dressing, even though you were thinking about birthday parties just a minute ago.
When doing creative problem solving, the statement of the problem is the cue to memory. That is what reaches in to memory and draws out related information.
For example, it is hard to see how Dyson would have gotten to industrial cyclones from thinking about vacuum cleaner bags. But an alternative way to describe the problem is that a vacuum takes in a combination of dirt and air and has to separate the dirt from the air. Bags do this by acting as a filter that traps the dirt and lets the air pass through pores in the bag. But there are many ways to separate particles from air. Industrial cyclones create a spinning mass of air that throws particles to the edges by centrifugal force.
This way of describing a vacuum is that it generalizes the problem by removing some of the specific components typically used to solve it. The phrase “separating dirt from air” does not mention the bag at all. When you focus on the bag, you’ll naturally be reminded of aspects of bags. The large list of patent numbers on most vacuum cleaner bags suggests that many inventors have done just that. A radically new solution to a problem, though, requires a new problem statement.
So how do you create the problem statement you need to find a solution to your business problem? Unfortunately, there is no ideal problem statement. Instead, the most consistently creative people and groups are ones that find many different ways to describe the problem being solved. Some of those statements will be specific and talk about the objects being acted on (e.g. vacuum bags). That leads to retrieval of specific information that is highly related to the problem (e.g. different types of vacuum bags).
Then, groups should find several ways to describe the essence of the problem being solved in ways that focus on the relationships among the objects or a more abstract description of the goal (e.g. separate dirt from air). Each of these descriptions will help people to recall knowledge that is more distantly related to the domain in which the problem is stated.
Most of us have been looking in the wrong place for our creative insights. We ask people to “think outside the box,” but we should be asking people to find more descriptions of the box and see what that causes us to remember.
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https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/331169-human-tetrachromacy-is-real-heres-what-we-know?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook
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WWW keksittiin Cernissä 1989, mutta nyt siellä löydettiin WWW – Mitä ihmettä se tarkoittaa?
Tuomas Kangasniemi22.12.202207:12TIEDE
Hiukkasfysiikan WWW-reaktio on nyt lopullisesti vahvistettu todelliseksi. Alustavia tuloksia saatiin jo vuonna 2020.
https://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/uutiset/www-keksittiin-cernissa-1989-mutta-nyt-siella-loydettiin-www-mita-ihmetta-se-tarkoittaa/9983b4ef-165c-4994-ad09-e7e157444581
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Too many of us build our lives around avoiding unpleasant but professionally useful tasks.
If You’re Not Outside Your Comfort Zone, You Won’t Learn Anything
https://hbr.org/2016/07/if-youre-not-outside-your-comfort-zone-you-wont-learn-anything?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=hbr&utm_source=facebook&tpcc=orgsocial_edit
You need to speak in public, but your knees buckle even before you reach the podium. You want to expand your network, but you’d rather swallow nails than make small talk with strangers. Speaking up in meetings would further your reputation at work, but you’re afraid of saying the wrong thing. Situations like these — ones that are important professionally, but personally terrifying — are, unfortunately, ubiquitous. An easy response to these situations is avoidance. Who wants to feel anxious when you don’t have to?
But the problem, of course, is that these tasks aren’t just unpleasant; they’re also necessary. As we grow and learn in our jobs and in our careers, we’re constantly faced with situations where we need to adapt our behavior. It’s simply a reality of the world we work in today. And without the skill and courage to take the leap, we can miss out on important opportunities for advancement. How can we as professionals stop building our lives around avoiding these unpleasant, but professionally beneficial, tasks?
First, be honest with yourself. When you turned down that opportunity to speak at a big industry conference, was it really because you didn’t have the time, or were you scared to step on a stage and present?
Then, make the behavior your own. Very few people struggle in every single version of a formidable work situation. You might have a hard time making small talk generally, but find it easier if the topic is something you know a lot about. Or you may have a hard time networking, except when it’s in a really small setting.
Recognize these opportunities and take advantage — don’t chalk this variability up to randomness. For many years, I’ve worked with people struggling to step outside their comfort zones at work and in everyday life, and what I’ve found is that we often have much more leeway than we believe to make these tasks feel less loathsome. We can often find a way to tweak what we have to do to make it palatable enough to perform by sculpting situations in a way that minimizes discomfort.
Finally, take the plunge. In order to step outside your comfort zone, you have to do it, even if it’s uncomfortable. Put mechanisms in place that will force you to dive in, and you might discover that what you initially feared isn’t as bad as you thought.
You may stumble, but that’s OK. In fact, it’s the only way you’ll learn, especially if you can appreciate that missteps are an inevitable — and in fact essential — part of the learning process.
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The mathematical explanation for “spontaneous synchronization”
It’s spooky, and it’s happening all around us. And inside us.
https://bigthink.com/13-8/nature-synchronization/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1671493663
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Life and the Universe offer multiple remarkable examples of spontaneous synchronization across populations. It’s not just mechanical phenomena like ticking metronomes. Large populations of crickets or neurons manage to synchronize their behavior so that their chirps or their neural firings end up working in lock-step progression. One day, we hope to learn how life makes meaning out of harmony.
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How To Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children
Lael Stone explains the importance of childhood for mental health and emotional literacy.
https://www.iflscience.com/how-to-raise-emotionally-intelligent-children-66756
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The study also found that reading books “gave a significantly stronger survival advantage than reading periodicals.” Why?
People who read live longer than those who don’t, Yale researchers say
https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/yale-study-people-who-read-live-longer-than-people-who-dont/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1671408723-1
The benefits of reading should not be understated, even when it comes to living a longer life. A new study finds that reading books in particular returns cognitive gains that increase longevity.
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Why the world is going crazy—and how to win back our minds
Why are rapture ideologies exploding?
https://bigthink.com/series/the-big-think-interview/collapse-of-meaning/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1671508460
The speed at which civilization is progressing has become overwhelming for modern humans and has caused what Jamie Wheal (author of Recapture the Rapture, founder of the Flow Genome Project, and host of the Collective Insights Podcast) calls a “collapse of meaning.”
For many, Meaning 1.0 (organized religion) and Meaning 2.0 (modern liberalism) no longer provide the structure and guidance that they used to. “It does feel like the handrails, the things we used to look to for stability and security, have evaporated,” says Wheal. “If we’ve experienced a collapse of meaning, how do we go about restoring it?”
In order to reach Meaning 3.0—which Wheal says is a blend of traditional religion and modern liberalism without the promise of an escape—we need to focus on mending trauma, reconnecting with inspiration, and connecting better with one another.
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Remembering Thomas Huang: Image Processing and Computer Vision Pioneer
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/remembering-thomas-huang-image-processing-and-computer-vision-pioneer/
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https://www.iflscience.com/bees-are-fish-the-strangest-facts-we-learned-in-2022-66864
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https://www.iflscience.com/cannibalism-and-the-antichrist-what-did-nostradamus-actually-predict-will-happen-in-2023-66854
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https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/chip-scale-laser-isolator-paves-new-ground-in-integrated-photonics/
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Graphene Breakthrough Could Replace Silicon Electronics with Majorana Fermion Equivalents
Potentially driven by a quasiparticle proposed in 1937, this graphene device could be the first in a whole new family of electronics.
https://www.hackster.io/news/graphene-breakthrough-could-replace-silicon-electronics-with-majorana-fermion-equivalents-bf9d867527d0
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Yes, you can see sounds — it’s called cymatics
Ernst Chladni proved that sound can be seen, and developed a technique of visualizing vibrations on a metal plate.
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/cymatics/#Echobox=1672217563
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Why divergent thinkers beat geniuses in the real world
https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/generalists/#Echobox=1671966345
The idea for Nintendo’s Game Boy system was born from a philosophy that had a much less catchy name: lateral thinking with withered technology.
The term was coined by Gunpei Yokoi, a Nintendo employee who started at the company with a similarly dry job: machine maintenance worker. One day, a Nintendo executive noticed that Yokoi had built a simple extendable-arm-grabber toy in his free time. Let’s sell it, the executive said. It became a small hit.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Physicists shot a laser pulse sequence mimicking the Fibonacci sequence at a quantum computer and ended up creating a new phase of matter.
SCIENTISTS FED THE FIBONACCI SEQUENCE INTO A QUANTUM COMPUTER AND SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENED
https://futurism.com/the-byte/fibonacci-quantum-computer
“YOU CAN HAVE THE SYSTEM BEHAVE AS IF THERE ARE TWO DISTINCT DIRECTIONS OF TIME.”
They suggest that the newfound phase of matter is particularly robust in preserving information, more so than the methods currently used.
But why the Fibonacci numbers? In essence, when you shoot laser pulses following the Fibonacci numbers, they act as a sort of quasicrystal, the physicists say, a structure of matter that adheres to a pattern, but is not periodic.
In other words, ordered, but not repeating.
“With this quasi-periodic sequence, there’s a complicated evolution that cancels out all the errors that live on the edge,” Dumistrescu elaborated in a press release. “Because of that, the edge stays quantum-mechanically coherent much, much longer than you’d expect.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.iflscience.com/human-mini-brains-observed-responding-to-visual-stimuli-for-the-first-time-66905
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/yes-you-can-control-your-dreams-the-strange-science-of-lucid-dreaming
Tomi Engdahl says:
Microbes can produce electricity out of thin air. Scientists have finally figured out how to harvest it.
A microbial organism pulls electricity from water in the air.
https://bigthink.com/the-present/air-gen/#Echobox=1672759689
Tomi Engdahl says:
This study isn’t alone, previous studies found that people approach abstract work with different eye movements than with more concrete works.
Viewing abstract art causes notable cognitive changes
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/abstract-art-distance/#Echobox=1672786148
Viewing art that doesn’t look like anything makes your brain take extra steps to try and get it.