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Man uses brain-controlled prosthetic robot arms to eat a Twinkie

Digital Trends

A quadriplegic man, who suffered an accident in his teens that left him with minimal movement in his hands, used two prosthetic robot arms to feed himself.

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book.

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Here are all the startups pitching today at Venture Day Minsk

TechCrunch

Startups pitching: 1 – TeenUP : learning video platform teens-2-teens to unlock the teenagers’ potential and personality @TeenUP12. 5 – Pigpug : AI neurofeedback brain training system for kids with ADHD and ASD @PigPugHealth. And you can join the startup pitches on Clubhouse here. On twitter the hashtag is here.

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Connecting Homeless Youth and Shelter Animals: 20-Year-Old Rachel Cohen, Hand2Paw

Have Fun - Do Good

Hand2Paw's mission is to connect homeless teens and shelter animals in a mutually beneficial way. They provide homeless teens with professional skills training and therapeutic experiences. ." - Rachel Cohen Twenty-year-old Rachel Cohen is the Founder and Executive Director of Hand2Paw.

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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

Mission: Under the Laughs for the Troops umbrella, you will find many other great programs to help our veterans, increase awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), raise funds, and recruit volunteers. Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens.

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Your attitude is the reason you’re poor

The Next Web

If you start a positive habit and see that it has a positive effect upon your business or health outcomes, your brain is more willing to utilize resources to continue that behavior and scan for new ones,” said Shawn Achor , author of The Happiness Advantage. How to hit the positivity tipping point. Take two minutes and journal.

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Empowering young women in philanthropy to create lasting change

Candid

We must engage our children during their formative yearsideally starting in elementary school, while their worldview and brains are being developedand before resources get passed down. In a generation very well-documented to be suffering with anxiety, Half the Story is at the leading edge of the digital well-being movement for teens.