Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2023

If you’re an intern, like me, the percentage only increases, with nearly all of Candid’s fall 2023 interns working from their homes and schools across the country. As my internship comes to a close, I decided to ask my fellow interns at Candid what they’ve learned about working remotely. Be sure to add them to LinkedIn as well.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In practice: 1) The Brain Donor Project. Most people probably have never thought about donating their brains to science. The Brain Donor Project’s end goal is to get you to register your brain for donation after your death—a major ask that is likely to be shocking or even offensive to some people.

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TechImpact

APRIL 21, 2014

Innovation can be as simple as changing the content in you internal newsletter. The next time you and your team sits down to brain storm ideas, let them know before you start that “nothing is out of line.” Your brain is working a million miles per second from the time you wake up to the time you fall asleep planning for the next day.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

It’s a lot for the brain to process. Amnesty International USA :: pinterest.com/amnestyusa. My theory on why Pinterest has become so popular so fast is that it has arrived at at time when people are increasing becoming overwhelmed by the volume of tweets, status updates, and “Breaking News!”

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Many mobile phone users have been concerned about a possible link between the use of these handsets and cancer ever since the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the World Health Organization's cancer agency, classified radio wave exposure as a possible carcinogen to humans in 2011 – they can now stop worrying. Read Entire Article

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Especially following Russia's extremely costly invasion of Ukraine, Russia's space efforts have stagnated, suffering a lack of private investment, brain drain, and slowing commercial markets, in Ars ' analysis. The country is still looking to launch its own orbital space station to replace the International Space Station.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Secretary of Health and Human Service Nancy Brown Chief Executive Officer American Heart Association Under Brown’s leadership as CEO since 2008, the AHA has become a global authority on cardiovascular and brain health as well as overall well-being. Department of Treasury’s Office of International Affairs. AHA has invested more than $5.9

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

A lot of the focus in recruitment these days has been on better technology to connect people to job opportunities at new organizations, but that also leaves a wide opening to focus on one of the other big funnels for finding work: internal transfers. “Look for new jobs outside the company, or try to look internally.

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The Verge

MAY 2, 2021

Neuralink is focused on developing brain-machine interfaces. Last month, the company posted a video to YouTube that appeared to show a monkey with a Neuralink implant in its brain moving a cursor on a computer screen using only its mind. And as The Verge’s Nicole Wetsman wrote last year, “fixing the brain isn’t an engineering problem.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

million in seed funding from Y Combinator and Global Brain. Shibata claims that Tailor’s API-first approach should make it easier for enterprises to integrate with another third-party SaaS tool and help users build their tailor-made internal tools faster. and sell it in the U.S. market, aiming for 2023.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies. There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. The sitting brain is really disengaged.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

I’ve talked to other folks in the self-driving and related industries and they’re pretty adamant that it has to be an electrified car; you don’t want the complexity of the ICE (internal combustion engine) engines to do all this other stuff you’re doing. That’s ultimately what autonomous driving companies are looking at internally.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

That’s your circadian rhythm, which works as your body’s internal alarm clock. Studies have shown you work at highest brain capacity, with your best focus and attention, before lunch hour. Our brains are most likely to throw out the conventional ways of thinking and take us down new pathways when we’re tired from a long day.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Her brain is constantly at work dreaming up new campaigns, and rather than shying away from being different and taking risks, she embraces it. Untrained interns were fine two or three years ago, when the Social Web was still in its infancy and everyone was experimenting. But that era is over.

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Futurism

MARCH 18, 2025

actually has its roots at Google: the company's cofounders, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, worked together at the AI lab Google Brain, where they built an early chatbot that Google, at the time, refused to release to the public due to safety concerns. Do you know anything about Google's internal conversations regarding Character.AI

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

What goes on in your brain during a group brainstorming session. When faced with creating ideas during a group setting, extroverts find it more natural to share their ideas; whereas introverts, are more likely to process information internally and make meaning before contributing to the group discussion. Groups hate scary ideas.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

No reason to slow down as more international talent is moving to Vilnius from other EU and Asian countries. Lithuania is 16th in the Global Innovation in Biotechnology ranking according to Scientific American WORLDVIEW international biotechnology ranking 2019. The city [has been] growing for a decade each year.

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DataRobot

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Welcome Kiva International, DonorsChoose, University of California San Francisco’s Brain and Spinal Injury Center, Anacostia Riverkeeper, and Medical Faculty Mannheim - Heidelberg University to the DataRobot family! We are excited to announce the first round of program participants in AI for Good: Powered by DataRobot.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The email, which was sent to the Brain Women and Allies listserv, voiced frustration that managers were trying to get Gebru to retract a research paper. At the time, Google said the employees, Laurence Berland and Kathryn Spiers, had violated security policies and internal systems. The full text was first published in Platformer. “A

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Your body keeps track of time in a section in your brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (or SCN). The participants spent two nights in a sleep lab where the researchers measured their brain activity, looking at alertness and ability to concentrate. This is a full, mandatory shutdown of all internal activities. Lights out.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2021

One of the reasons this is exciting is that it seems to mirror how the human brain reacts to stimuli, where single brain cells have been observed responding to abstract concepts rather than specific examples. OpenAI’s research suggests it may be possible for AI systems to internalize such knowledge the same way humans do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions can be internal and come from our brains , our thoughts. This minimizes internal distractions for me. Brain Fitness. Concentration is part of our brain’s function and if your brain isn’t fit – you won’t concentrate or perform well. Or maybe it is negative thoughts.

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Li, Research Scientist, and Sven Dorkenwald, Student Researcher, Connectomics at Google Mapping the wiring and firing activity of the human brain is fundamental to deciphering how we think — how we sense the world, learn, decide, remember, and create — as well as what issues can arise in brain disease or dysfunction.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Among the people I’m privileged to call a colleague here at Benetech is Viji Dilip, the International Program Coordinator for our Bookshare International service. She was told that a brain tumor was pressing on her optic nerve and may cause her to become blind.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Different brains – visual vs words. Fast forward to 2009, Wendy led a process internally to create a social media guidelines and operational handbook. This session will take a look about these trends and how nonprofits can equipment themselves to be networked nonprofits. —— [link].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

And as part of its emerging from stealth, the company is also launching international payments. “We’re building not just a front-end product to support these finance teams, but also an accounts payable product that can manage payments,” Katzenberg told TechCrunch. Image Credits: Glean AI.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Yuri Gurski, CEO and founder of Palta said: “Palta Brain platform, the foundational powerhouse that drives our consumer digital apps, allows for much faster scaling of both products that we envisage internally, as well as those that come to us from the market.”. Palta claims to have 2.4 million active, paid subscribers in their apps.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

March = Adolescent Self-Injury Awareness Month, National Athletic Training Month, International Black Women In Jazz & The Arts Month, Brain Injury Awareness Month, Irish-American Heritage Month, National Music in Our Schools Month, National Nutrition Month, National Social Work Month, Women’s History Month, Youth Art Month.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Kevin Leong was in kindergarten when he experienced an organic brain injury that forced him to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. For several years, he struggled in school because his vision was blurry and reading normal size print was grueling. He could no longer keep up with his peers in the classroom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

This useful handbook summarizes and explains the brain science of how people learn and provides easy to use frameworks to help you design and deliver training where people learn. Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training. The Accelerated Learning Handbook. By Dave Meier. by Eric Jensen.

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Recode by Vox

MARCH 8, 2025

But the discoverer does get to propose a formal name for it, provided its less than 16 characters and meets the approval of the International Astronomical Union, which is cool.) Garan quoted a colleague: If the dinosaurs had a space program, theyd still be here.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

On October 7th, she submitted it for review internally at Google. Gebru sent an email to the Brain Women and Allies listserv at Google detailing the pushback she’d gotten on the paper. Gebru was planning to present the paper at a computer science conference in March. Shortly after midnight on October 8th, it was approved.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2014

One method I’ve used a lot at Buffer is to use our internal experiences as a basis for blog posts. When we run an experiment or change up our internal routines, this can be really useful to explore on the blog. For a different style, this post was a roundup of tools we use internally at Buffer. Without being boring!

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

London-based Divido , a white-label platform for retail finance that integrates with e-commerce platforms (but can also support omni-channel) so retailers can offer consumers a “buy now, pay later” option at the point of sale, has bagged a $30 million Series B to fund international expansion.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

students, we also serve adults, seniors, veterans, and international subscribers in over 40 countries. We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India. While the majority of our members are U.S.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

Neuroscientists would tell you that the brain processes facts and stories differently. Your brain naturally becomes more skeptical when you hear facts first. Your brain gets absorbed in the story and it drops its guard. That’s why every culture uses storytelling to pass down vital traditions and values.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

My brain was completely fried and those around me were getting pretty fed up with the fact that I was never present, only connected… online, all the time. Six months ago I came pretty close to complete social media burnout. Even when I wasn’t at home at my desk, I was on my iPhone updating Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.

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