Bloomerang

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Science says: We’re wired for negative Sadly, our brains are wired to respond to negative messages. Negative events impact our brains more than positive events. The truth is that fundraisers must sort out when and how to message their constituents using positive, negative, or a blend of both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

I overheard comments like: “my brain is in overdrive,” “I can’t wait to try this in my work,” and “I wish the conference were longer.” By getting to know these ideas, we blend them into our own frame of reference, creating something that is changed, if not wholly new. That’s the kind of ‘new’ funders like to fund.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

This other co-founder would need to blend knowledge of the Brazilian market and local savvy with expertise in banking, all while embodying a Silicon Valley ethos of focusing on customers. Once someone said I was the glue of the operation, and that someone else was the brains.

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Singularity Hub

MARCH 3, 2025

It releases each taste component in a gel and pumps the resulting blend onto the tongue. Gaming aside, future iterations of the device could potentially help people who have lost their sense of taste, including those living with long Covid or traumatic brain injuries. Whats Taste, Anyways?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s far easier for our brains to put ourselves in the shoes of ONE person and connect with their story than it is for us to do that with a group of people. . You need one person. . Really great stories feature one person (or animal, if you do environmental or conservation work). Psychologically, we are wired for connection.

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The Next Web

APRIL 20, 2013

I have a PhD in epidemiology and this training blended perfectly with the focus on metrics and research in the lean startup approach. Our program used Lean Sigma to figure out the variance in care, we then used design thinking and brain storming techniques in partnership with IDEO to come up with solutions.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

However, Kriesche touts in an email interview that smoodi’s beverage vending machine not only self-cleans, it is also not the traditional “black box,” but is transparent so that customers can watch the frozen ingredients travel through the blending process and even watch the machine clean itself. Smoodis range in price from $5.99

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

And, it allows time for play/flow/creativity to surface (our brains need time to unplug)! Question: How does a company blend a four-day workweek with flexibility of working from home and requiring employees be in the office certain days of the week? It allows time for people to nurture their (work/life) greenhouse as they grow others.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

He calls the blending of AI algorithms and model architectures homogenization , a trend that helped form foundation models. AIs Emergence and Homogenization In that talk, Liang coined two terms to describe foundation models: Emergence refers to AI features still being discovered, such as the many nascent skills in foundation models.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

By way of example, back in 2009, a neurosurgeon in Canada used a VR-based simulator to carry out a dry-run of a real brain tumor surgery in what was thought to be a world’s first at the time. However, among the industries that have long embraced VR are medicine and healthcare.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Wetzler : The human brain has a limit to the amount of cognitive load it can handle at a time. I experience this all the time with my kids – I can tell something is bothering them, but if I really want to support them, I have to respect their boundaries. I have to wait until they are ready to talk about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. I heard some many big picture connections to the work I do or rather improvise on the ground, that I know I’ll be mulling over and thinking about what they shared over the next few months.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

If you’ll forgive us, our brains are dripping out of our ears as we stare vacantly in the middle distance after some information overwhelms – but one thing’s for sure: It’s hella exciting times in startup land and across the ecosystem. .” Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Wednesday, March 30, 2022! You can sign up here.).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 22, 2010

When anyone asks me who's doing great work blending online and onsite experiences in museums, I send them to Beck Tench at the Museum of Life and Science. But it's worth it for the opportunity to get inside the brain of a phenomenally creative person. Want something a little geekier? you get the idea. The Museum of the Future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

The first group wants to wrap their brains around it and gets overwhelmed quickly. You need to blend the best practices of marketing and social movement building? The second group (typically younger, but not always) have first-hand experience and have been implementing social media for their nonprofits. Is there a better way forward?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

And my brain is not so far gone as to prefer it over a V10 engine roar. It’s been nearly a decade since the Tesla Model S kicked off the EV race with its graceful blend of technological efficiency and addictively fun driving style. Photo by Phil Esposito / The Verge. The E-tron GT makes an artificial sound at low speed.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Pattern recognition: A storytelling superpower Our brains are wired to recognize patterns. Showcase your mission through a blend of video, testimonials, or live demonstrations. Stories have a unique capability to connect deeply with people. Stories, in their essence, are patterns that help us navigate the complexity of the world.

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Media Cause

MAY 28, 2021

Whether orgs choose color in order to blend in to the field or stand apart from it, it’s important to use color that reinforces one’s mission. . In Part 3, Ansley breaks down how colors work in the brain to create relationships — for better or worse — that shape our perceptions of sameness, otherness and contribute to racial bias. .

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Gyrus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Some organizations are even adopting blended learning models, which facilitate both online and in-person learning. It uses notification bombardment, interactive moving avatars, and level-based modules that trick the brain into learning easily as well as continuously and climbing the leaderboard.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Some organizations are even adopting blended learning models, which facilitate both online and in-person learning. It uses notification bombardment, interactive moving avatars, and level-based modules that trick the brain into learning easily as well as continuously and climbing the leaderboard.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Some organizations are even adopting blended learning models, which facilitate both online and in-person learning. It uses notification bombardment, interactive moving avatars, and level-based modules that trick the brain into learning easily as well as continuously and climbing the leaderboard.

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Whole Whale

MAY 10, 2024

There is a great balance of faces and facts, blending visual narrative with the fiscal. NPR emphasizes how its “Muslims in America: A New Generation” series explores the multifaceted experiences of muslims living in a post-9/11 America, while its Hidden Brain episode “Why Now?” Charity: Water Sometimes it’s best to keep it simple.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Enter the AI 2-minute rule, a blend of GTD and AI tech that expands the window of quick tasks that can be done to unblock yourself and your team. Allen’s GTD methodology is based on the idea that our brains are not designed to store information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. Here's some points on that: Blend the numbers and non-financial factors into a concise and informative presentation. The hardest part of putting this presentation together was using the template because it reminds me why I think powerpoint is evil !

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2021

Trans artist Matt Lubchansky tweeted “my brain is in hell” alongside screenshots of the Euphoria and Gaingels Twitter profiles. I’m just looking to blend in. The apps themselves, sleek and butterfly-themed, look fairly innocuous. At the end of the day, I’m just looking for a conformist experience,” she says.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2019

Great service providers blend relationship building with unparalleled client service, because they understand that their customers have plenty of other choices. And there is wisdom in avoiding reducing donors to mere clients if it means failing to foster genuine, trusting relationships.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Further, a CME LMS that provides a straightforward experience for administrators can drastically decrease the time, energy, and brain-power your team expends to facilitate eLearning. Society of Interventional Radiation: SIR relies on CourseStage Health to provide engaging blended learning experiences to its members.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

Instead, he'll use his much-touted brain to come up with ludicrously complicated methods to murder, exploiting allergies, a rooftop pool, and vanity to his own ends. But while this vengeance is inventive, it's not amusing or fun. And yet, the movie won't take a single beat to allow these tragedies to sink it. Because wife guy gonna wife guy?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Growth marketing has always been a nice blend of analytics + creativity, with distribution being dependent on the stage of the company. Mastering all of these skills is difficult for one person, especially because it’s using both sides of the brain. Which marketing automation tools do you think are poised to take off in 2022?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm looking to blend different perspectives and have a workshop session that can speak to nonprofits and grassroots media makers. " Our brains naturally migrate to scoreboards, report cards, and stock market returns For nonprofits, it isn't about making money. Here's a brain dump of some key points.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

last August, delivers information and targeted support for women who are experiencing menopausal symptoms, supporting them to make lifestyle and behavior changes aimed at tackling whatever blend of physical and/or psychosocial issues they’re experiencing. Vira’s app — Stella — which launched in the U.K.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 17, 2025

like, a structure in the brain?". I find it somewhat askew to speak of structures "in the brain" here would we say that first-order logic was a structure "in the brain" before it was made explicit (as opposed to a structure to some extent and messily present in our (mathematical) thought/[reasoning-practices])?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2021

Our days blend into weeks. For me, it is valuable as a ritual that helps me shut off my work brain and creates a boundary between me and overworking. . Before the pandemic, it was much easier to compartmentalize your workweek with things like commutes, weekend plans, and Monday morning banter. Weekdays and weekends feel the same.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 14, 2025

Its this very materialist viewpoint that is dominant in the left hemisphere [of the brain]. You explain that our brain interprets our thoughts about the past and future as if they are actually happening. The left hemisphere of the brain creates the anxiety spiral. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

The items are affordably priced when they put them out on the shelves, too: I once bought several skeins of hand-dyed yarn, a merino wool and alpaca blend, for $10 each, with an original sticker price of $32; Ive bought needlepoint canvases, which are famously pricy, for as low as $1.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Think sauna club nights featuring DJs, saunas combined with a poetry workshop, or aufguss (meaning infusion in German) rituals like the one hosted by Beryl an intense session blending heat therapy, music and scent. Many sites also offer open-air ice baths next to the saunas so people can cycle between hot and cold.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 16, 2025

Alexandra Shaker explores the deep connection between anxiety and the body, blending psychology, neuroscience, history, and literature. Through a journey from brain to gut, Dr. Shaker uncovers what our bodies can teach us about anxiety and why, despite scientific advancements, we still struggle with it.

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