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How working remotely changed my life (and can change yours, too)

The Next Web

This is by far the biggest single improvement to my life. I feel like I’ve got a huge part of my life back. Start slow : start by letting local workers work “remote” for a few days a week. Some other perks to improve their quality of life could hurt. Go to a different room. Coffee shop is too loud? Commuting hell.

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New Ideas at TED2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He quickly came up with the idea of a mobile app that could show a woman the years of life expectancy she (or her family) will lose due to breathing the polluted air inside her dwelling. Of course, we’d have to focus on local language content. The rural blind are truly among the poorest of the poor in the world.

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Locals share why Vilnius, Lithuania is becoming an international startup hub

TechCrunch

But what are the locals excited about on the ground? However, one said: “The ecosystem still lacks local funding for the late Series A and beyond rounds.”. Other growing industries would be deep tech, life sciences, mobility, and the game industry. Moreover, the local investor community is quite dynamic. Rokas Tamoši?

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The science behind optimizing a productive work environment

The Next Web

I’ve written how creativity works in the brain before, and I found it really useful to understand this process. There’s so much going on in the brain during creativity that science is still trying to pin down exactly how it all works. your “busy” space—to a free, creative space sends a signal to your brain.

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Meet the self-driving brains working with Volkswagen and Ford

The Verge

So we do encode certain contextual information so that we can act as naturally as possible with what the norms are in that local area. And I mean, I think it’s cool that we see this now coming into everyday life. There are other places where, if you do that, you’re going to get honked at and run off the road.

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11 apps to promote healthy lifestyles among employees

The Next Web

Yet as the work-life balance blurs more than ever — especially for an employee of a startup team — entrepreneurs are taking the pledge to not only lead their colleagues to success, but to protect them from burnout and bad health along the way. Brain Trainer by Lumosity. Go with FitBit. George Mavromaras , Mavro Inc.

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Humanity isn’t asteroid-proof yet. But we’re getting closer.

Recode by Vox

In 1967, MIT professor Paul Sandorff asked his class to imagine that a real-life asteroid called Icarus, which astronomers had already identified, would hit the Earth in the near-future and it was their job to devise a way to save the world. (In Garan quoted a colleague: If the dinosaurs had a space program, theyd still be here.