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FYI Friday, April 5: Week in Review

 

LIFE

screen-shot-2013-03-26-at-12-45-08-pm  Improve Your WiFi Signal Using a Soda Can

When your life is nothing but trolling and viral videos, having a bad wi-fi connection can be incredibly irritating. Poor loading times, lost connections, and more can put a strain on your time browsing the internet. However, there are some ways to improve your Wi-Fi connection. FULL ARTICLE.

HEALTH

yoga-1  Why Health Integrity Matters, or The Power of Being Honest With Yourself

Today we have infinite possibilities, and we suffer as well as benefit a great deal for it. We have the option of sitting on the couch all weekend watching a Game of Thrones marathon. We have the potential to eat at McDonald’s for thirty days straight. We can buy a pack of cigarettes despite the fact we’re hooked up to an oxygen tank. We can have our doctor up our insulin dosage and buy a large Slurpee or a Krispy Kreme on the way home. We can stress ourselves to our last, pathetic nerve (and adrenal exhaustion) by living on too much work, too little sleep, too much worry, and too many stimulants. We have the choice – and that’s exactly what it is: a choice. Whatever our past, whatever our present condition, however, we are always free to make a different next choice. FULL ARTICLE.

TECHNOLOGY

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Top 10 Tech Stories from March

Virtual fences for cows. Projects for Raspberry Pi microcomputers. A teen invents a solution for cleaning up ocean plastic. Charging your cell phone with text messages. These and other awesome stories from March are rounded up here so you can get caught up quickly.  FULL ARTICLE.

40-years-of-cellphone-history  Cell-ebration! 40 Years of  Cell Phone History

Today’s mobile movement is all about efficiency and multitasking. But with the first cellphone in 1973, you could place a phone call and get a workout at the same time. After all, the phone weighed 2.5 pounds.

The cellphone turned 40 on Wednesday, April 3. Its creator, Martin Cooper, 84, placed the first mobile phone call on the streets of New York City — he phoned his rival, Joel Engel, head of research at Bell Labs. You can imagine how cheeky that exchange was. FULL ARTICLE.


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FYI Friday, March 29: Week in Review

Can you believe March is almost over? Here are some awesome highlights from the past week…

LIFE

original-1How Many Tetris Pieces Would You Need to Build a House?

It was the game that defined a revolution in handheld gaming, but during the countless hours you spent playing Tetris and neatly organizing falling tetrominoes, did you ever stop and wonder how many of those piecesyou’d need to build a full-size house? Probably not, after all what kid spends their time imagining about home engineering?

But the folks over at Movoto did…FULL ARTICLE.

You Should Wear Red on Your Online Dating Profile

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If you want to improve your chance of getting a date on any online dating site, you should wear a red shirt. Slate took a look at various studies comparing the same person wearing different colored clothes and each time, red was the most successful color. Do it. Change your online profile now. FULL ARTICLE.

TECHNOLOGY

Volkswagen’s e-Up! Debuts

e-up_look-ma-no-exhaust.jpg.492x0_q85_crop-smartAt the annual Press and Investors Conference on Friday in Wolfsburg, the home of Volkswagen, the company’s first bet in the all-electric vehicle market made its debut. With a range of 93 miles (150 km) and recharging to 80% of capacity in just 30-40 minutes, the e-Up! should interest commuters but may also offer options for people willing to stretch their wings on the emerging electric-charging infrastructure. FULL ARTICLE. 

Slow Internet Due to ‘Biggest Attack Ever’

imgres-1A squabble between a group fighting spam and a Dutch company that hosts Web sites said to be sending spam has escalated into one of the largest computer attacks on the Internet, causing widespread congestion and jamming crucial infrastructure around the world. FULL ARTICLE. 

HEALTH

fearDo Fear and Anxiety Define Your Health Journey?

Think for a minute about the health messaging sources in our culture. Think of the pharmaceutical ads in every magazine and television show. Think of the medical talk shows and evening exposes on obscure conditions, the nightly newscasts depicting the ravages of epidemics in far flung corners of the globe and “expert” sound bytes warning of pathogens closer to home. Then there are the messages themselves. How many doom and gloom health statistics and inflammatory stock images do you encounter in a day? How many times do you hear “Ask your doctor if [insert medication] is right for you”? FULL ARTICLE.

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