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The Science of Productivity

December 17th, 2012 | Brain

 

Productivity

Everyone would appreciate a little more productivity in their lives, and the short video above gives you a few tips to make that possible.  I remember reading about the study habits of world class musicians a while back.  Someone did a pretty extensive study comparing the best violinists in a school to the rest of the students, and like the video states, it was found that the best musicians didn’t study any longer but rather more effectively.  The best students attacked the most challenging musical sequences while other students focused on the easier portions of the songs.  I have a feeling that this may be a common trait among all successful people.

In the world of Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and Instagram it can be a bit difficult to maintain focus and accomplish goals.  To increase your productivity, focus on these main points from the video above:

  • Get Started!
  • Don’t rely on will power, Stick to a plan
  • Break up large projects into smaller, achievable tasks
  • Make deadlines
  • Take planned study breaks
  • Stop Multitasking!

I have begun making nightly lists for the next day’s tasks, and I’ve found this to greatly increase my productivity.  Maybe it can help you too.

For more videos from the creators, check out AsapSCIENCE’s YouTube page.

-RSB

[via Laughing Squid]

Pale Blue Dot Animated Video

December 10th, 2012 | Space

Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

This is a new animated video of Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot” speech by Joel Somerfield (from the animation studio, Order, in East London).  It’s a moving speech and the style of the video does it justice. I’m not sure it beats out Reid Gower’s video of “The Frontier is Everywhere,” but I still enjoyed it quite a bit. It should be said, however, that a few of us are living in space right now.

-RSB

‘Feels Like We Only Go Backwards’ by Tame Impala

November 15th, 2012 | Brain

Tame Impala Video

I’m pretty sure we are witnessing the resurrection of John Lennon in lead singer Kevin Parker from Tame Impala.  “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” is a single off of the band’s new album, Lonersome.  The music is described as psychedelic groove rock, which seems fitting.  And I will tell you, this is NOT one of those record’s with just one good song; the whole thing is fantastic, so I recommend listening to it from start to finish.

Also, the video is one of my favorites of the year (directed by Joe Pelling & Becky Sloan).  It looks like it was made with the Play-Doh color palette, which makes sense considering the video was created entirely with Plasticine collage.

I see bright things in Tame Impala’s future.

-RSB

High Speed Robot Hand

November 14th, 2012 | Robot

High-Speed-Robot-Hand

I suppose most advancements in the field of robotics come from Japan, and this High Speed Robot Hand is no exception.  Ishikawa Oku from The University of Tokyo created this prototype, and it’s pretty amazing how far we’ve come in the last 10 years or so.  At first, all we had were clumsy hands that could barely hold anything, and now, we have this robot hand that can probably take care of my iPhone better than I can.
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The hand bounces balls, ties knots, and spins its chopsticks using high-speed actuators with harmonic drive gears.  My main criticism of most humanoid robots is that they move too slowly, so I find this hand particularly fascinating.
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-RSB

[via Hizook]

Slit-Scan Experimental Video

November 9th, 2012 | Brain, Space

Slit-Scanning

This film was created by  using a variant of slit-scan technology.

How it works: The first line of the video is recorded in real-time, but the second line is late by 1/60 of a second, the third is late by 2/60 of a second and so on to create a long rolling shutter effect.

This is by no means new technology, but the simple dance accompanied by Beirut music (La Llorona – March Of The Zapotec), is certainly one of best examples I’ve ever seen.  It looks like some sort of alien mating dance.

The video actually came out a few years ago, but it’s recently been making the internet rounds, so it’s new to me.  Here’s an example using the same technique from 1988 called The Fourth Dimension.

-RSB

[via TheCuriousBrain]

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