The Second Billion Smartphone Users

Via TechCrunch the Android and Apple ads that clog the streets of Mandalay, the temple shopkeeper I passed yesterday playing a game on his Galaxy Note, the teenage girls riding sidesaddle on motorcycles holding their phones carefully just away from the tree-bark paste...

Gangnam robot: CHARLI-2

Via Wired: Points: “…the Navy is using him for research on its firefighting robot of the future.” Advanced algorithm for stabilizing CHARLI-2, making it able to move around ships. Ponder: How quickly will the technology improve so robots become even more agile and...

Fastest Growing Cities On The Planet

Via Business Insider: People aren’t flocking to Europe and the United States as they did a century ago . A new class of cities is on the rise, and millions of people migrating to these new hubs throughout the developing world. Fastest Growing Cities On The...

Fastest Growing Cities On The Planet

Via Business Insider: People aren’t flocking to Europe and the United States as they did a century ago . A new class of cities is on the rise, and millions of people migrating to these new hubs throughout the developing world. Fastest Growing Cities On The...

Books Change How a Child’s Brain Grows

Via Instapundit: …the level of mental stimulation a child receives in the home at age 4 predicted the thickness of two regions of the cortex in late adolescence, such that more stimulation was associated with a thinner cortex. Books Change How a Child’s Brain...