Study: Long-held view of ‘bell curve’ in performance measurement proven flawed…
“All five of our studies suggest that organizational success depends on tending to the few who fall at the ‘tails’ of this distribution, rather than worrying too much about the productivity of the ‘necessary many’ in the middle,” Herman Aguinis said of Indiana University.
“A new showing that 51 percent of recent college graduates were employed full-time struck many as a low total, but it represents an improvement over last year. The Rutgers University Worktrends report released Thursday found that 6 percent were unemployed and 6 percent were working part-time while actively seeking full-time jobs. The remainder were either pursuing additional education or training, not looking for work or were engaged in volunteer activities.” Source: By Janice Podsada, The Hartford Courant.
There’s some amazing things coming down the healthcare pipeline and Daniel Kraft (@daniel_kraft) knows a “little” about all of them. We asked him to take us on a rollercoaster-journey through them.
Take for example regenerative medicine, which is starting to experience tremendous growth with the blossoming use of stem cells to help the body heal and replace damaged tissue. Or personalized medicine that allow for far more precise dosage and effectiveness for individuals, not masses. Kraft will touch upon some impressive developments that hint us to the future of medicine. Kraft teaches at Stanford University, is an expert on regenerative medicine, and a member of the faculty at Singularity University and is directing their upcoming FutureMed program
THE BIOTECH REVOLUTION – Visions Of The Future – BBC
Genetics and biotechnology promise a future of unprecedented health and longevity: DNA screening could prevent many diseases, gene therapy could cure them and, thanks to lab-grown organs, the human body could be repaired as easily as a car, with spare parts readily available. Ultimately, the ageing process itself could be slowed down or even halted.
Albert von Kolliker discovered the existence of mitochondria around 1857. He was studying human muscle cells when he noted strange granules in them.
Dr. Terry Wahls learned how to properly fuel her body. Using the lessons she learned at the subcellular level, she used diet to cure her MS and get out of her wheelchair.
Minding My Mitochondria 2nd Edition: How I overcame secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) and got out of my wheelchair.
Khan Academy founder Sal Khan and
Stanford professors Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun
“Thrun says he can no longer teach at Stanford University.
He says he was presented with the red pill and the blue pill.
“You can take the blue pill and go back to your lecture of 20 students.
From Sebastian’s Welcome! page:
“One of the most amazing things I’ve ever done in my life is to teach a class to 160,000 students. In the Fall of 2011, Peter Norvig and I decided to offer our class “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” to the world online, free of charge. We spent endless nights recording ourselves on video, and interacting with tens of thousands of students. Volunteer students translated some of our classes into over 40 languages; and in the end we graduated over 23,000 students from 190 countries. In fact, Peter and I taught more students AI, than all AI professors in the world combined. This one class had more educational impact than my entire career.”
By: Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies
Sheikh of Dubai and The World Economic Forum
Global Agenda Council
meets the Sheikh of Dubai
Emerging technologies are critical to building a sustainable and resilient future. But without new understanding, tools and capabilities, their safe and successful development is far from guaranteed.
At the Summit on the Global Agenda 2011 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies asked some of the world’s leading minds within the entire GAC Network which technology trends would have the greatest impact on the state of the world in the near future.
Below, the Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies presents the technological trends expected to have major social, economic and environmental impacts worldwide in 2012. They are listed in order of greatest potential to provide solutions to global challenges:
1. Informatics for adding value to information
The quantity of information now available to individuals and organizations is unprecedented in human history, and the rate of information generation continues to grow exponentially. Yet, the sheer volume of information is in danger of creating more noise than value, and as a result limiting its effective use. Innovations in how information is organized, mined and processed hold the key to filtering out the noise and using the growing wealth of global information to address emerging challenges.
2. Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering
The natural world is a testament to the vast potential inherent in the genetic code at the core of all living organisms. Rapid advances in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering are allowing biologists and engineers to tap into this potential in unprecedented ways, enabling the development of new biological processes and organisms that are designed to serve specific purposes – whether converting biomass to chemicals, fuels and materials, producing new therapeutic drugs or protecting the body against harm.
In a remarkable feat of micro-engineering, UNSW physicists have created a working transistor consisting of a single atom placed precisely in a silicon crystal.
Machines are evolving 10 million times faster than man. In 100 years time, robots will run our houses, drive our vehicles, patrol our streets, operate on our bodies, and fight…
With the BionicOpter, Festo has technically mastered the highly complex flight characteristics of the dragonfly. Just like its model in nature, this ultralight flying object can fly in all directions,…
Published on Jan 31, 2013
The New Digital Age is a book written by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen. Eric Schmidt is the Executive Chairman of Google and Jared Cohen is…
In one fell swoop, Microsoft was praying that it could stitch up the mobile and desktop platforms into one neat little package; instead, I fear that Microsoft may have blown…
Brand identity for Ibsesn Fabrikker. A small eyecatching company that delivers all kinds of inflatabel, fiberglass and mascots. www.ibsensfabrikker.dk www.bamsefabrikken.dk www.figurfabrikken.dk www.luftfabrikken.dk […]
People probably don't associate my work with sci-fi genre so much. What they don't know is that I was a HUGE sci-fi geek growing up. (yes!) Though I don't get a lot of sci-fi related jobs, there are some in my recent works. I picked some recent book cover jobs that are in theme of science fiction. […]
We developed a wayfinding which is also an identity for new health and entertainment center opened within Voskresenskoe club-hotel near Moscow. One of the tasks was not only to create comfortable navigation system, but also to position the center as an independent place that offers services also for people who live near the hotel territory in Voskresenskoe d […]
Our UK agents Handsome Frank organised an exhibition with a twist. Each artist was a given a brief that was tweeted online, suggested by their twitter followers. We chose this brief from @ejikeanyanwu 'A balloon full of multiple colours of paint, burst by a bullet, spilling onto a blank canvas. Represents creativity.' We've explored water colo […]
Código is a leading Mexican magazine reporting in current art, architecture, design, fashion and style tendencies worldwide, in other words, a Zeitgeist vessel of our era. Struggling with an expired identity, an uncomfortable reading format and displaced generic perception, Código approached us with the task to redesign its entire structure and image. We gav […]
Why don't an app that allows you to controls all your web account as your portfolios or socials without enter in that specific website. So I started to imagine how the UI could help users to have all of them under control. I've designed specifically two UI about my favorite website: Behance & Dribbble. I love these website and allows me to spre […]
ROF // RELEASE THE FUNK COLLABORATION // The Renegades of funk is a vector &mixed media collaboration featuring 6 international artists with various styles & techniques. We mixed our passion for urban digital art withour far-eastern graphic art influences to create this supafly Funk-STYLE-mashup! ?say jam sucka! jam!?....... […]
San Francisco serves, in Star Trek?s fictional universe, as the site of Starfleet Command ? the headquarters of the good guys ? and despite all the time they spend boldly going where no one has gone before, the Enterprise and its sister ships make it back home surprisingly often. […]
Curiosity's adventures on Mars continue with another drilling operation: On May 20, the rover drilled into a rock named Cumberland, creating a hole measuring a bit more than half an inch across. […]
A group of Kansas City high school students and their mentors have electrified a Karmann Ghia, modifying it so that it will only run when it gets mentioned in social media. If that sounds like a publicity stunt, that's because it is. And it's for a good cause. […]
Starting this Friday, you can watch the conservation of historical Apollo Saturn V engines that were recovered from the bottom of the ocean. That is, if you live near or are planning to visit Hutchinson, Kansas. […]
Wired senior editor Peter Rubin spent a few days in Redmond, Washington getting the inside scoop on the new console, and we sat down to discuss all the news and what it means for you. […]
Gamers are very, very interested in what Microsoft is doing. Because how its gaming ecosystem works will likely play a big part in laying down the new rules for how games are made, bought, and sold. […]
As part of WIRED's exclusive look at the development and capabilities of the Xbox One, we present a detailed look at the hardware. (Well, the exterior of it, at least. We've got another gallery for the insides.) Can you spot all the changes? […]
The Pentagon insists that its deal with a Chinese satellite firm to carry U.S. troops' communications isn't a security risk. But Congressmen with the ultra-influential House Armed Services Committee don't want to leave military data in Beijing's hands. […]
The images Mark Fischer makes for his Aguasonic Acoustics project are visually mesmerizing, like something you might find in a black-light room at the back of a smokeshop. These images, however, weren't created to enhance your high. They're animal sounds turned into pictures. […]
The President Barack Obama administration went on record four years ago supporting a proposed international treaty to make books more accessible to the blind across the globe. Fast forward to today. As world leaders are readying to congregate in Morocco next month to finalize the deal first proposed by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay in 2009, the Obama administ […]
Officially, the September rocket launch is supposed to improve America's ability to send small satellites into orbit. But the launch will also have a second purpose: to help U.S. commandos hunt people down. […]
Apple didn't originally market the iPhone or the iPad as business tools, but that's exactly what they've become. So what about Google Glass? Is it the next enterprise Trojan Horse? […]
Hackers who breached Google's network in 2010 obtained access to the company's system for tracking surveillance requests from law enforcement, according to a news report. […]
The Syrian disaster is like a superstorm. It’s what happens when drought, a fast-growing population, a repressive and corrupt government, and sectarian and religious passions combine. […]
With the resignation of Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, goes the progress made toward transparent governance and a two-state solution. […]
Looking at scenes of the Boston sidewalk a few hours after Monday’s bombing — torn clothing, bloodstains, shards of glass — I found my mind going back to a similar sidewalk in Tel Aviv in September 2003. A Hamas suicide bomber had blown himself up at a bus stop outside the Tsrifin army base, and by coincidence I was nearby and got there to witness the immedi […]
