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.