Americans have about an eight-second attention span.
That’s less than a goldfish.
But we can improve our powers of concentration by, for example, finding clever ways to eliminate distractions, hacking our workflows, or working on our mindsets.
Daily Archives: September 19, 2015
Why We Should Embrace — Not Fear — the Biohacker Uprising
Dr. Steve Kurtz was making arrangements for his wife Hope’s funeral when the FBI burst in.
Kurtz, a professor of arts at the New York State University, was detained and interrogated for 22 hours as a bioterrorism suspect.
The previous day, Kurtz had dialed 911 in panic when Hope passed away in their home in Buffalo, NY. When the paramedics arrived, they were taken aback by dozens of petri dishes full of bacterial cultures casually strewn around the house. They thought I killed my wife with some sort of biochemical toxin, recalled Kurtz in an interviewwith the BBC.
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Stunning 7-mile scale model of the solar system created in Nevada
(Vimeo video screenshot of the “To Scale: The Solar System” film by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh.)
A group of friends has created a stunning 7-mile scale model of the solar system on a dry lakebed in Nevada.
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