Your brain on multitasking

I read this article about how our brains work when we do multitasking at the same time. Studies have shown that our brains are not as good as we think they are. For example if you are working on an activity over here on the right side of the brain, and suddenly you are trying to multitask another activity, like talking on the phone. What you are doing is that you are not actually doing both activities at the same time, but you are now diverting your attention from one part of your brain to another part of your brain.This takes time and resourced and our brain cells. What you are doing is that you are starting a brand new activity and not nearly as good at doing both activities at the same time.Most of the time we shift our focus in just 10 seconds. I agree with this because this will affect your performance. Lets look at something like driving. When you shift your attention from your driving, you are now paying no attention to your driving. I think this may surprise you. Also, there have been studies that show women are generally better at multitasking than men. However, women who thought they were the best at multitasking are mostly the worst.

Study Reveals Surprising Link Between Age and Hapiness

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/12/age-and-happiness_n_4773484.html


This is an article I read about the relationship between age and happiness.Are people less happy or more happy the older they get?  If you answered more happy, then you were right, based on a study published two years ago. It found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after the age of fifty.

In fact, it found that by the age of eighty-five people are happier with their life than they were at eighteen. The findings came from a Gallup Survey of more than three hundred forty thousand adults in the United States in two thousand eight.  At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five. But the people least likely to report feeling negative emotions were those in their seventies and eighties. The survey also found that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older.I think this is partly true.

However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men did. So why would happiness increase with age? One theory is that as people get older, they become more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences. The findings appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.What do you think? At what age do you believe people are happiest?

How a circular smartphone could help us rethink technology.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/12/tech/mci-runcible-smartphone/index.html


This article I read is about how our technological world would look like if our mobile phones are circular in shape. Almost all mobile phones are rectangular in shape. Even three-year-old could tell you that. But how could a circular smartphone help us rethink tech? Monohm, a start-up based in Berkeley, California, was founded around this very idea. They have been working together to introduce this to the technology world.
They also cheekily refer to it as the "anti-smartphone." a description that goes for both its form factor and its value system. I think this is a challenge to the rectangular phones and everything it represents.
This is a big dream, but an interesting one. Display technologies have a long rectangular history. Even before smartphones there were movie screens, TVs and Computers. In fact rectangles are dictating our behavior today. Movie screens and TVs have gotten bigger and wider encouraging us to sit back and lose ourselves in the spectacle. All this is easier said than done. Throwing out centuries of rectangular thinking and starting from scratch is not easy. In a nut shell Google is even convinced that circular smartphones are the future. Lets hope and see.

Why DNA could be the future of data storage

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/25/tech/make-create-innovate-fossil-dna-data-storage/index.html

No more hard drives! It is very interesting about how our future storage devices will be. Storage devices don't last forever. Some may last longer than a decade. Researchers at ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, are looking to find the best way to store data. They are also looking for a way that data can last for million of years. They now believe the answer may lie in the data storage system that exists in every living cell: DNA.
I think this is very interesting. They are very compact and just 1 gram of DNA is capable of containing all the data of internet giants such as Google.. " The problem with DNA is that it degrades quickly," says Robert Grass, lecture at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Bio-sciences, I realized that the time limit with DNA in fossils is about 700,000 years. There are also new surprises about the preservation of DNA as new discoveries are throwing up. Water and oxygen are the enemy of DNA survival.Robert Grass also says, " The best DNA comes from sources that are ceramic and dry. These sources includes teeth, bones and eggshell. This is another step that researchers have made and I wonder how data can be stored for about thousands of years.

We are getting closer to Pluto

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/25/us/new-horizons-encounter-pluto/index.html


Soon we will see what no one has ever seen before: clear pictures of the tiny, icy world. The NASA spacecraft will be the first probe to visit Pluto.This was launched in 2006, and it has already traveled more than 3 billion miles. Each day it nearly covered 746,000 miles per day. The probe is expected to reach Pluto in July 2015.This is the moment I have been waiting for. Until now, the images of Pluto have been a few pixels shot by the Huble Space Telescope. I suppose this is one of the biggest step NASA has taken. NASA also said the images confirmed Pluto is a dynamic world that undergoes dramatic changes. Pluto is about two-thirds the diameter of Earth's moon. It is also believed that Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. I think that place is the coldest place and nobody would be able go there. Technology has many things to offer in the future. I also think this is a positive projects.

Coffee is Practically a health food: Myth or fact?

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/04/health/coffee-myth-fact/index.html


I read this article about how coffee is beneficial to our health. New studies have shown that coffee has health benefits including protecting us from liver diseases, prostate cancer, computer back pain and more. In South Korea more than 25,000 people drink coffee. They also drink three to five cups a day(WHO). Coffee also helps to decrease the risk of coronary consumption. I was also stunned by the fact that having four cups of coffee a day reduces dangerous skin cancer. There has also been long time research on coffee. So we ask why coffee has been regarded as unhealthy for so long?
However over-consumption of coffee reduces its health benefits. People with sleep issues must ask their doctors before adding it to their diets. Pregnant women are also encouraged to avoid consuming coffee, since this can likely lead to miscarry. For a long time, coffee has been a myth to many scientists.There is more to learn about coffee and its benefits.
To sum up, I think coffee is beneficial to our health and we should consume it with moderation.

New Apple Watch

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/10/opinions/apple-watch-self-obsessed/index.html

I hope you find this article interesting.
The most valuable company "Apple Inc," I believe, has done it again!
With the release of their i-phone 6 last year, they have now released a new Apple watch.The CEO of Apple Tim Cook said, "The new watch is a comprehensive health and fitness companion.This product is yet to be tested by people all over the world. I think Apple is the most successful company in this century. Their products are also very expensive and of good quality.
Also, according to research, smart watches has many uses which benefit us in many ways, but has another dark side. Usually companies don't tell us about these things. What drives people to have a smart watch is to keep track of their emails.This often prevent people to pay attention to what goes on around them. When we are at meetings we find it rude to glance at our phones so these smart watches reminds us that our inbox is filling up. However these smart phones help to track information as we interact socially, It also saves us from the hassle to dig through our pocked or bag to find our phones.Research also found out that average smart phone users check their phone 150 times a day. This a very huge step for Apple, and I am looking forward to the release of their new i-phone this year.