Links for ths Post include embedded video below plus: Mind Flex Like Basketball for Your Mind on Gizmodo Odball Gadgets: Mattel Mind Flex by Melissa Perenso on PC World Video: Mattel Mind Flex hands (and heads) on Engadget The Mattel toy company (which is also releasing its 50th Anniversary Barbie D...

Wikipedia is offering a new service allowing users to select articles from Wikipedia and have them printed as a book: Step 1 - Creating the book from a collection of articles The book collection menu, entitled “Create a book”, can be seen on the left hand side of the browser screen towar...

“In his masterwork, Flow, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi tells us that the two major components affecting our ability to control and direct our mental resources are time and attention. On the first, time, most of our verdicts are the same: we don’t have enough of it.  In the case of t...

Submitted by Brett Werenski on November 26, 2008 to the Online Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2008, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei, via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink) Abstract Anyone attempting to build and grow a community must have a clear set of social policies ...

Submitted by Christopher Charles on November 24th, 2008 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2008, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog ( http://www.matei.org/ithink ) Abstract The process of creating a successful online community may seem to involve more l...

Great New York magazine profile of Rachel Maddow, officially out tomorrow, I guess, but so many good lines and pithy observations that I just had to pull out my favorite bits here, so you will be certain not to miss them. (FWIW: I also gushed previously, with pictures, when MSNBC first launched Madd...

Yes, I know its only Monday, but that doesn’t mean I can’t resurrect my favourite list-based rant format. Christ knows I need something to get me motivated today: That study is not going to tidy itself. 90 per cent of the world is populated by very nice people 5 per cent are idiots 3 per cent vo...

Link for this Post: Findings - Futurist Ray Kurzweil Sees a Revolution Fueled by Information Technology - NYTimes.com. Here is a bit from the beginning of this piece. Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Have patience. Within 10 years, Dr. Kurzweil explained, there will be a drug that lets you ea...

Link for this Post: A Psychedelic ‘Problem Child’ Comes Full Circle By Benedict Carey in the New York Times My mother read this article about Albert Hofmann and his legacy, LSD. Here is a snip from the piece: Dr. Hofmann’s child was no hustler from a shotgun lab in Tijuana, after all, but a bo...

- This guy, whom I don't now, L.M. Orchard, who has this blog which I used to visit often a few years ago, but not so much now, has a great idea that I'm going to start working on. He calls it 'The Accumulator.' I love the concept; the name he's using, that's a bit weak for my taste, but the idea is...