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Motherhood 'makes women brainier and can protect them from degenerative diseases' - Javed Alam

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From the page: "Netvibes Announces Integration with Facebook Connect, Powering Personalized News Sharing for Millions of Facebook Users" - Javed Alam

Netvibes Announces Integration with Facebook Connect, Powering Personalized News Sharing for Millions of Facebook Users - Javed Alam

Niels Bohr once declared that the opposite of a profound truth is also a profound truth. This is the charmed predicament of the Blue Brain project. If the simulation is successful, if it can turn a stack of silicon microchips into a sentient being, then the epic problem of consciousness will have been solved. The soul will be stripped of its secrets; the mind will lose its mystery. However, if the project fails—if the software never generates a sense of self, or manages to solve the paradox of experience—then neuroscience may be forced to confront its stark limitations. Knowing everything about the brain will not be enough. The supercomputer will still be a mere machine. Nothing will have emerged from all of the information. We will remain what can't be known. - Javed Alam

Almost human October 12, 2008 In the final round of competition for this year's Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence, held today at the University of Reading in the UK, a robot came within a whisker of passing the Turing Test. In a series conversations with people, the winning robot, named Elbot, fooled 25% of its interlocutors into believing it was a genuine human being. A score of 30% would have been sufficient to pass Turing's criterion for a true artificial intelligence. - Javed Alam

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15 Tools for Monitoring a Website’s Popularity October 10th, 2008 by Jacob Gube | 40 Comments | Stumble It! del.icio.us As a web designer or developer building a site, it’s helpful to first scout similar websites (i.e. the competition) to help you make design and development decisions. Knowing what websites work and which ones tank can give you insights and inspiration on what design elements, website features, and website content is effective. To help you in your analysis, here are 15 top-notch, free, and simple web tools to help you learn more about a particular website. - Javed Alam

In the end, by refusing to allow market forces to work their cure, our economy will inevitably die from the disease. Our economy will now face death by hyperinflation, which will cause a complete loss of confidence in the dollar and result in prices and interest rates skyrocketing out of sight. The evaporation of our national wealth will lead to civil unrest, food and energy shortages, and the possible imposition of martial law. If such a scenario unfolds, what is left of our Constitution will surely be completely shredded. - Javed Alam

Humans will not evolve further, says geneticist - Javed Alam

From the page: "Which Video Editing Program Should You(Tube) Use? " - Javed Alam

Which Video Editing Program Should You(Tube) Use? - Javed Alam

According to the tests conducted by the expert, it was found that men who scored high on a battery of intelligence tests boasted high counts of healthy sperm. - Javed Alam

Has anyone seen a worthwhile discussion of statistical and/or meta-analysis use in detecting fraud, say in those Diebold voting machines or other classic fixed voting scams? Will we have U.N. election monitors in the U.S.? Should we? - Javed Alam

From the page: "Sequoia Capital is a venture capitalist firm that has financed some of the notable high tech companies such as Yahoo. The list of compaines financed and supported by them can be found at this web address. Here is an interesting presentation by them on the economic downturn and advice to startup technology companies on how to survive it. " - Javed Alam

Sequoia Capital is a venture capitalist firm that has financed some of the notable high tech companies such as Yahoo. The list of compaines financed and supported by them can be found at this web address. Here is an interesting presentation by them on the economic downturn and advice to startup technology companies on how to survive it. - Javed Alam

From the page: "This means that our accounting, which has focused on financial losses, is missing lots of offsetting financial gains. The offsetting gains are accruing to current or prospective purchasers of the assets whose market values have dropped. Asset buyers, whether they are young people buying their first homes, middle-aged workers contributing to their 401(k)s or billionaires such as Warren Buffett buying financial firms, can now acquire homes and stocks (claims to the same capital inside the companies) at a roughly one-third discount from a year ago. That's great for them, and lousy for the rest of us, but not a net economic tragedy." - Javed Alam

From the page: "Because emotions affect our cognitive processes, they also affect how people respond to one another. This is especially true for the leader-follower relationship. When we experience what researchers call the Positive Emotional Attractor--hope, compassion, excitement, enthusiasm and the like--we are more open to new ways of seeing things, we can be more creative, we're more resilient and able to direct our energy toward long-term goals. The opposite is of course true as well--the Negative Emotional Attractor, especially fear, anger, and chronic distress--send us into a spiral of avoidance, or aggression, or mental paralysis. " - Javed Alam

Because emotions affect our cognitive processes, they also affect how people respond to one another. This is especially true for the leader-follower relationship. When we experience what researchers call the Positive Emotional Attractor--hope, compassion, excitement, enthusiasm and the like--we are more open to new ways of seeing things, we can be more creative, we're more resilient and able to direct our energy toward long-term goals. The opposite is of course true as well--the Negative Emotional Attractor, especially fear, anger, and chronic distress--send us into a spiral of avoidance, or aggression, or mental paralysis. - Javed Alam

From the page: "Toxic bosses. We've all seen them. They're screamers, stressed-out micromanagers, volatile, untrustworthy, insecure nightmares to work with. They're everywhere, and they do tremendous harm to the people around them and to their organizations. And it seems that bad behavior is on the rise. Why? Because people are freaking out about the economy. Our economic systems are careening wildly, not following the rules anymore, and it's touching all of us, at home, in the grocery store, and at work. It could get a lot worse, and soon. It's just plain scary. " - Javed Alam

Toxic bosses. We've all seen them. They're screamers, stressed-out micromanagers, volatile, untrustworthy, insecure nightmares to work with. They're everywhere, and they do tremendous harm to the people around them and to their organizations. - Javed Alam

It not just this. According to Robert Spalosky, low hierarchy males also suffer from stress and all the ailments that are associated with it. - Javed Alam

Imaging study reveals battle between lure of reward and fear of failure. That familiar pull between the promise of victory and the dread of defeat - whether in money, love or sport - is rooted in the brain's architecture, according to a new imaging study. Neuroscientists at the USC Brain and Creativity Institute have identified distinct brain regions with competing responses to risk. Both regions are located in the prefrontal cortex, an area behind the forehead involved in analysis and planning. - Javed Alam

Stacy Conradt The Quick 10: 10 Famous People and Their Drug Habits - Javed Alam

From the page: "Vote for Obama Sarah Silverman " - Javed Alam

In terms of advice for developers, Zuckerberg declined to really elaborate on what he'd do differently if he were starting the company now, or what mistakes he's acknowledged he's made along the way. But he did say that he prides himself on having a workforce that's largely staffed by people with technical and engineering backgrounds. "A lot of the people (at Facebook), even if they're not in technical roles, they have technical backrounds," Zuckerberg said. - Javed Alam

From the page: "Beauty is Nothing Without Brains - Javed Alam

Beauty is Nothing Without Brains - Javed Alam

From the page: "Harvard Professor Anne Harrington discusses the relationship between neuroscience, cognitive science, and Buddhism in the first lecture of the Religious and Psychological Well-Being Project series sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and Psychology at the Danielsen Institute. She recalls a 2005 Society for Neuroscience conference, where the Dalai Lama spoke on The Neuroscience of Meditation. He talked to the 13,000 attendees about his curiosity about the world, his affection for science, its benefits for happiness and health, and his belief that science and Buddhism have a lot of constructive things to say to each other. Harrington then asks a key question, â€oeWhat in the world does Tibetan Buddhism have to do with brain science?” " - Javed Alam