Health & Science
In her new book, Sleeping with Your Smartphone, Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow details her years-long research project with The Boston Consulting Group, an attempt to improve the work-life balance at the hard-driving firm with incremental but meaningful changes in attitude and behavior.
We love talking about ourselves, we really do — that’s what a group of Harvard neuroscientists found while testing the theory, anyway. In fact, say the scientists, we love self-disclosure so much because it tickles our core value centers in much the same way as “primary rewards” like food and sex.
The 8-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. Their family’s teenagers also like the hand-held computer tablets, too, but the clan’s elders show no interest.
We live in a digital era, juggling schedules packed with family and work, all while trying to stay in shape and eat healthy. What if we told you there’s an easier way to search, save, and organize your go-to meals and recipes?
Dr. Evil had one simple request to properly arm his lair – he wanted “sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads.” While his right-hand man Number Two couldn’t deliver on this rather simple setup (instead, he offered ill-tempered sea bass), Australian marine biologist-turned-TV host Luke Tipple was able to turn it into reality.
Not content with merely changing the world, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks he can save a few lives as well. Starting today, Facebook users in the United States and United Kingdom can post organ donor status to their Facebook Timelines.
A discovery on the floor of the Atlantic may — or may not — be a treasured artifact.
Today, the White House is announcing that it’s spending $200 million on its “Big Data” initiative, which aims to “advance state-of-the-art core technologies needed to collect, store, preserve, manage, analyze, and share huge quantities of data.”
Warning: Part of this story may resemble an advertorial, because when I first bumped into it crawling AllThingsD, that’s what it read like to me. The idea’s that there’s a new energy drink called GungHo (hey, at least it’s not called “Banzai!”) that’ll make you a better gamer. Better, that is, than the sort of gamer you might otherwise be tossing back a Red Bull or Lucozade.
At the press site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, one figure stood out among the crowd gathered to watch the final launch of the space shuttle Discovery last year.
If you’re a social media junkie, you likely share plenty of your personal life online already. But are you “checking in” when you have sex?
