1. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
2. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
3. I wish I had let myself be happier.
4. I wish I’d had the courage to express my true self.
5. I wish I had lived a life true to my dreams, instead of what others expected of me.

Jane McGonigal can’t help but note that games let us fulfill all five of these. Watch her TED talk:

And read the TED blog post: a game that heals. All backed by science.

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http://animalsbeingdicks.com/

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Some of the heat energy is lost in a process called hysteresis, but the researchers found a way to limit that. Hysteresis just means that there’s a time lag between the material heating, turning magnetic, and inducing current in the surrounding coil so the conversion isn’t perfect. What the article doesn’t go into is whether the magnetic field is maintained with steady heat; if it isn’t, the metal would have to be cooled and heated repeatedly to keep inducing electricity in the coil…not very efficient.

More here.

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Thus making us introverts the next stage of evolution :P

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“Religions can discourage believers from erring for fear that God is watching. Now it seems that children also avoid cheating if told they’re being watched – not by God, but by Princess Alice, an invisible person conjured up by researchers.”

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http://blogs.forbes.com/rogerkay/2011/04/18/the-unbearable-triviality-of-social-networking/

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45 seconds of slow-motion fuzzy goodness.

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Madness? This. Is. Sunshine!

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Game of Thrones TV series coming in April 2011. It’s looking great so far!

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We’ll grow in vitro cloned meats in factories that are computerized and run by artificial intelligence. You can just grow the part of the animal that you’re eating. Some people say, “Oh, that sounds yucky.” I say, “Well, why don’t you go visit a factory-farming installation? You’ll find that getting meat from living animals is yucky.” But we’ll need a marketing genius to sell the idea.

Speaking of marketing, what idea about the future do you have the hardest time selling?

People are most resistant to the idea of dramatic extensions to life expectancy, because it affects every decision they make. They have this cycle of life in mind. People sort of wax philosophical–“Oh, I don’t want to live past 100.” I’d like to see them say that when they’re 100.

More at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2033076,00.html

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