Ideas-for-Life

Steve shares his learnings so far - 30 days after quitting Facebook The Christian Illuminati? Or Just a well connected crew? More questions than answers in this teaser... Large-proofing emergency services - counting the costs. The Jerusalem UFO, or a drone? Becoming invisible? Wack or what? The bloke who added his wife to a terrorist watch list to prevent her flying back home. ‘Spray-on skin’ for burn victims. This brings a whole new meaning to the storm in a tea-cup idiom. Storm in a bed sheet? Mubarak’s cronies launch a cyber counter-insurgency… Mosquitoes evolved?

Genetically engineering plants to spot bombs may be the future of counter terrorism.. LED teeth may be the new cool.. If only in Japan.. Want to make the transition from talk to bed? Social media might be it after all. So much for Gladwell’s ‘diss’ of social media. Apparently brain scans can identify a predisposition to transexuality.. His Grace - Archbishop Crammer - weighs in on the lack of political voices speaking up on the abortion debate. Tyler Blanski encourages us to re-think sex One bloke got busted for importing cockroaches… HT @relevantmag

Max Atkinson deconstructs JFK’s iconic inaugural speech and identifies Six Essentials. Apparently the key is utilizing contrasts; three-part list; contrasts combined with lists; alliteration; bold imagery and audience analysis. Useful for writers? Children who write by hand ’learn better than those who type’. However text messaging ‘improves children’s spelling skills’. Clearly the pen is mightier than the keyboard, but the cellphone is mightier still.. The woman who solved her own kidnap story. The evidence for manflu - even if its only in our heads… The genetic basis for friendships.. Surely it’s a first, but the city of Liverpool now has an embassy in the UK..

Having passed several chronological milestones, one increasingly has had to field questions that assume that all the basic competencies required to function as an independent contributor to life in various spheres have been achieved. Invariably these often centre on the achievement of academic, financial, material and career milestones. Amidst the focus on these admittedly essential categories is a lack of focus on the attainment of certain critical thinking skills. I subscribe to the belief that a child is born with a blank worldview - the so called tabula rasa. Over time he/she acquires knowledge about life; typically by experience. The child thus builds up a worldview- religious, social, cultural, sexual even. At it’s most basic, this worldview is a set of answers for what constitute good, bad, the why of life, meaning, etc. Of necessity, these answers have to be gleaned from others in the early days - parents and relatives, peers, civic and religious leaders and teachers. ...

One big idea to revolutionise the year in my opinion - ‘Practical Wisdom’. Rules are great but they often lead to performance based metrics which meet the letter of the law, but fail to address the real root causes…. Two excellent TED talks from Barry Schwartz that I’ve been listening to a lot today.. Bring on the new year… The real crisis? We stopped being wise..Using our practical wisdom

The science of attraction. Perhaps it’s all in the mind after all. Another reason to google your name. You might be wanted for murder… Necessity is the mother of invention - the husband who rigged up a taser device to keep his wife faithful.. The ‘completely irresponsible’ call reporting a stolen snowman The case for eating insects.. Mathematical immortality - buy a theorem and name it after yourself. The smart wallet that could help you spend within your means.. Bacteria that could recycle iron.. The gene for aggression. DNA testing of babies - whilst in the womb..

Google’s 2010 Zeitgeist makes for interesting read.. The summary from Google: In the year of Nigeria’s 50th independence celebration, it was unsurprising that terms like “Nigeria” and “Goodluck Jonathan” ranked highly in the search trends. But the nation’s imagination was certainly captured by social networking, with “2go” topping the fastest rising list, and “Facebook” being the second most popular search by volume. Nigerian musicians “Terry G” and “Dagrin” also attracted significant online interest. ...

Feeding the poor with iPads: How FareShare is blending technology and social responsibility.. The game that ‘makes’ you a genetic scientist… The radiation debate flares up again - are radio waves frying our brains? Facebook breakups are the real deal.. The right twitter handle can make you famous.. The girl who suddenly became famous thanks to the ashes down under.. Skye Jethani’s 30 day Twitter experiment…

More on cheating in Universities… A statistical approach at the University of Central Florida The many uses of Facebook - Oo.. Another reason to dissolve a marriage? Religious differences.. Sigh… Wanna ’live’ forever? Enter the bluetooth enabled e-tomb. Indonesia’s the world’s biggest Twitter users? Getting the girl is all in the angle of the tilt.. Football by biting... Wonder what the bloke was thinking though..

6 years on - the 66 year old woman who gave birth to a kid.. Selfish? Playing God or a real chance for re-inventing life? .. Celebonomics.. Why you’re not famous.. Con artist.. Not Nigerian.. Gasp! Another take on the homoepathy debate.. Apparently the talk not the tincture is what works. The danger of desensitization - The daily telegraph’s Geoffrey Leon compares BP’s Gulf disaster to Chernobyl. Ghost writers.. A shadow scholar ‘bares’ all.. Ultimate gadget? Or quirky? The remote control + pillow combo… Google street view - weight loss tip.. Apparently its not only Nigerian cops who are camera shy.. The demise of marriage? Or just a blip.. Time ponders the relevance of marriage