In the perpetual search for the new and the hot.
NYT article about aging says keep your mind fit:
Regular mental workouts can actually alter the brain’s neural circuits in middle-age and older adults, making regions like the hippocampus, a center for memory and learning, more responsive. Cognitive exercise also helped improve executive functioning, the kind of decision-making ability associated with a mission control center.
full article here
There are at least 8 things that you can learn from Woody Allen’s way of life, even if you’re not into the film business.
The first is the power of Failure. Go into unknown territory and expose yourself, in order to know yourself better and to know life better. Eh, this is a paraphrase from this wonderful article that I urge you to read if you have 10 minutes. I bet it can make you want to watch an Woody Allen movie as well.
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/01/9-things-i-learned-from-woody-allen/
Why Hungarian is a lovely language. I study it myself and have still a lot ahead to discover. (video in English)
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The tie between information and action has been severed. Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one’s status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don’t know what to do with it.
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Here is what Henry David Thoreau told us: “All our inventions are but improved means to an unimproved end.” Here is what Goethe told us: “One should, each day, try to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it is possible, speak a few reasonable words.” And here is what Socrates told us: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” And here is what the prophet Micah told us: “What does the Lord require of thee but to do justly, and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God?” And I can tell you — if I had the time (although you all know it well enough) — what Confucius, Isaiah, Jesus, Mohammed, the Buddha, Spinoza and Shakespeare told us. It is all the same: There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory.
from here http://www.mat.upm.es/~jcm/postman-informing.html
via Ana
It’s a demonstrated fact by a study conducted at Texas University that you are not that different in real life than on Facebook.
The study called “Manifestations of Personality in Online Social Networks: Self-Reported Facebook-Related Behaviors and Observable Profile Information” published in the academic journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking found that Facebook users are no different online than they are offline. The study also revealed strong connections between real personality and Facebook-related behavior. Social and personality processes, the study says, accurately mirror non-virtual environments.”
Read everything here:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/study_your_facebook_personality_is_the_real_you.php
via dascloud.ro
This (click on the big yellow title with an arrow near it) I found via Jane McGonigal’s Twitter account
https://twitter.com/#!/avantgame.
The main idea is: work less for a more balanced economy and be free!
This post is the 2nd in my transforming my tumblr account into a scrapbook.
Stii ce face mama ta pe Facebook? http://t.co/X9QnFKPB
Cine se trezeste de dimineata, merge la Salina Turda.
Masini luxoase cu girofarurile aprinse gonesc pe Valea Oltului dinspre Alba Iulia spre capitala. Gata si cu aniversarea unirii!
