Losing Weight May Require Some Serious Fun

If you are aiming to lose weight by revving up your exercise routine, it may be wise to think of your workouts not as exercise, but as playtime. An unconventional new study suggests that people’s attitudes toward physical activity can influence what they eat afterward and, ultimately, whether they drop pounds.
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In aggregate, these three experiments underscore that how we frame physical activity affects how we eat afterward, said Carolina O.C. Werle, an associate professor of marketing at the Grenoble School of Management in France, who led the study. The same exertion, spun as “fun” instead of “exercise,” prompts less gorging on high-calorie foods, she said.
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Doccupy, EHRs and the Affordable Care Act

It’s rare for doctors to turn out en masse for a public protest. But that’s what happened at “Doccupy” in Contra Costa County California in 2012. A group of safety net physicians testified before county supervisors — in what they only half-jokingly called “Doccupy” — that the cumbersome move to electronic health records (EHRs) had taken an enormous toll on patient care. The doctors saw half their usual number of patients. As a result, they told supervisors, one in ten patients left the emergency room without being seen and wait times ballooned from one to four hours — with one person waiting 40 hours for a hospital bed.

This protest came on the heels of a letter from a group of county jail nurses asserting concerns about the same electronic records system. A subsequent NYT article pointed out additional productivity and patient safety issues raised about electronic medical records at other locations, even from health care establishments as impressive as the Mayo Clinic.

It might be tempting to think of these stories as an aberrant blip. But surveys show Doccupy may have just been the first sign of trouble with electronic health records nationwide:

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Why You Hate Work - NYTimes.com

THE way we’re working isn’t working. Even if you’re lucky enough to have a job, you’re probably not very excited to get to the office in the morning, you don’t feel much appreciated while you’re there, you find it difficult to get your most important work accomplished, amid all the distractions, and you don’t believe that what you’re doing makes much of a difference anyway. By the time you get home, you’re pretty much running on empty, and yet still answering emails until you fall asleep.

Increasingly, this experience is common not just to middle managers, but also to top executives.

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A 2013 survey of 12,115 workers worldwide found that many lacked a fulfilling workplace.

70%

Regular time for creative or strategic thinking

Ability to focus on one thing at a time

Opportunities to do what is most enjoyed

Level of meaning and significance

Connection to your company’s mission

A sense of community

Opportunities for learning and growth

Opportunities to do what you do best

Ability to prioritize your tasks

Overall positive energy

Understanding of how to be successful

Ability to balance work and home life

Ability to disengage from work

Comfort in truly being yourself

Employees are vastly more satisfied and productive, it turns out, when four of their core needs are met: physical, through opportunities to regularly renew and recharge at work; emotional, by feeling valued and appreciated for their contributions; mental, when they have the opportunity to focus in an absorbed way on their most important tasks and define when and where they get their work done; and spiritual, by doing more of what they do best and enjoy most, and by feeling connected to a higher purpose at work.
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We often ask senior leaders a simple question: If your employees feel more energized, valued, focused and purposeful, do they perform better? Not surprisingly, the answer is almost always “Yes.” Next we ask, “So how much do you invest in meeting those needs?” An uncomfortable silence typically ensues.

How to explain this odd disconnect?

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Partly, the challenge for employers is trust. For example, our study found that employees have a deep desire for flexibility about where and when they work — and far higher engagement when they have more choice. But many employers remain fearful that their employees won’t accomplish their work without constant oversight — a belief that ironically feeds the distrust of their employees, and diminishes their engagement.

A truly human-centered organization puts its people first — even above customers — because it recognizes that they are the key to creating long-term value.

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t also makes a big difference to explicitly reward leaders and managers who exhibit empathy, care and humility, and to hold them accountable for relying on anger or other demeaning emotions that may drive short-term results but also create a toxic climate of fear over time — with enormous costs. Also, as our study makes clear, employees are far more engaged when their work gives them an opportunity to make a positive difference in the world.

The energy of leaders is, for better or worse, contagious. When leaders explicitly encourage employees to work in more sustainable ways — and especially when they themselves model a sustainable way of working — 

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The Truth About Building With Glass

THIS WEEK, TOURISTS STEPPED ONTO THE LEDGE, A GLASS OBSERVATION DECK 103 STORIES ABOVE CHICAGO, AND THE FLOOR SPLINTERED BENEATH THEIR FEET. MATERIAL EXPERTS HELP EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED.
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Medicine’s Top Earners Are Not the M.D.s

THOUGH the recent release of Medicare’s physician payments cast a spotlight on the millions of dollars paid to some specialists, there is a startling secret behind America’s health care hierarchy: Physicians, the most highly trained members in the industry’s work force, are on average right in the middle of the compensation pack.

That is because the biggest bucks are currently earned not through the delivery of care, but from overseeing the business of medicine.

The base pay of insurance executives, hospital executives and even hospital administrators often far outstrips doctors’ salaries, according to an analysis performed for The New York Times by Compdata Surveys: $584,000 on average for an insurance chief executive officer, $386,000 for a hospital C.E.O. and $237,000 for a hospital administrator, compared with $306,000 for a surgeon and $185,000 for a general doctor.

 And those numbers almost certainly understate the payment gap, since top executives frequently earn the bulk of their income in nonsalary compensation. In a deal that is not unusual in the industry, Mark T. Bertolini, the chief executive of Aetna, earned a salary of about $977,000 in 2012 but a total compensation package of over $36 million, the bulk of it from stocks vested and options he exercised that year. Likewise, Ronald J. Del Mauro, a former president of Barnabas Health, a midsize health system in New Jersey, earned a salary of just $28,000 in 2012, the year he retired, but total compensation of $21.7 million.

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Telemedicine Sector Attracts Funding, But Some Physician Groups Worry About Quality of Care

Investors are betting that more Americans will like getting medical care 24/7 without leaving home or work. The telehealth sector has attracted $272 million in venture-capital funding since 2010—including $79 million in the last quarter, according to Mercom Capital Group, a health IT research firm.

"Politicians and lobbyists can't solve health care. It's quite simple: Empower consumers with patient-in-control solutions," says John Sculley, former Apple CEO and vice chairman of MDLIVE, which netted $24 million in new funding this year.

Doctor on Demand launched in December with $3 million in seed funding from Google Ventures and other investors. Its co-founder is Jay McGraw, executive producer of the talk show "The Doctors," and son of psychologist Dr. Phil.

Many health plans think such services will provide savings, and cover most or all of the cost for their members. As of last year, 11% of large employers offered telemedicine services to their employees and 28% were considering it, according to consulting firm Mercer.

But some physician groups and state medical boards worry that such e-visits are undermining the doctor-patient relationship and lowering the quality of care.

"Most physicians would never accept a phone call from a patient they haven't met and diagnose and prescribe medication for that patient. Yet that is a common practice for many 24/7 health-care services," says Greg Billings, executive director of the Robert J. Waters Center for Telehealth and e-Health Law, a nonprofit research group, also known as CTel.

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'Barefoot' Running Heads Into the Sunset

"Barefoot" running may be going the way of the caveman.

The much-hyped running style that had weekend warriors ditching sneakers to jog with little or nothing on their feet, as humans had for millennia before the advent of footwear, is falling out of favor.

Health claims that had helped drive the trend are coming under attack. Vibram, which makes the FiveFingers shoes that look like gloves for the feet, has offered to settle a class-action suit that contends the company profited from unsubstantiated claims the shoes strengthen muscles and prevent injury

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Honoring the Missing Schoolgirls

Mother’s Day is this Sunday, and, by all means, let’s use it to celebrate the moms in our lives with flowers and brunches. But let’s also use the occasion to honor the girls still missing in Nigeria.

One way is a donation to support girls going to school around Africa through the Campaign for Female Education, Camfed.org; a $40 gift pays for a girl’s school uniform.

Another way to empower women is to support Edna Adan, an extraordinary Somali woman who has started her own maternity hospital, midwife training program and private university, saving lives, providing family planning and fighting female genital mutilation. AtEdnaHospital.org, a $50 donation pays for a safe hospital delivery.

Or there’s the Mothers’ Day Movement, mothersdaymovement.org, which is supporting a clean water initiative in Uganda. With access to water, some girls will no longer have to drop out of school to haul water.

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Artist Creates Mini Paintings on Eyelids. This Will Blow You Away!

An Israeli makeup artist, Tal Peleg, makes miniature paintings on eyelids and shows that a little eyeshadow and some eyeliner can go a long way. The entire eye and face becomes an unbelievable portrait that displays some amazing feeling and detail!

10 ways you're ruining your eyes

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Can Your Eyes Change Color?

Some people say the color of their eyes has changed with age or can change with their moods. One expert, Ivan Schwab, a professor of ophthalmology at University of California, Davis, and a clinical spokesman for the American Academy of Ophthalmology, takes a closer look.

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From Volunteers, a DNA Database

Abigail Wark wants to see your areolas.

But only if you are a participant in the Personal Genome Project, a research effort to find 100,000 volunteers as research subjects in the public domain — contributing data from their genomes, microbiomes, health records, tissues and more.

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An About-Face on a Risky Transplant

When the world’s first face transplant was performed in France in 2005, it pushed medical boundaries and made headlines. Yet the procedure’s future was very much in doubt.

The surgeons, operating on a 38-year-old Frenchwoman whose face had been mauled by her pet Labrador, had to surmount the opposition of prestigious medical societies, which declared the procedure unethical and immoral. Critics, including surgeons who had lost out in competing to do the first face transplant, said the pioneering team did not follow ethical and legal guidelines.

But the first comprehensive review of every face transplant reported since then — 28 in seven countries, counting the French case but not two done in Turkey since the review was completed — has removed many of those early doubts.

The report, published online by The Lancet on Sunday, says the procedure is generally safe and feasible, and should be offered to more patients.

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9 Secrets To Living Longer

Search no further for the fountain of youth, we've summarized it for you

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Should Doctors Care About Cost?

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Dr. Shapiro in the third letter  down points out that Congress has allowed Drug Companies exorbitant pricing on their products. While Medicare and Ins. companies try to "nickel and dime" doctors, who are operating at very low profit margins as it is, drug companies can charge 2000$ a month for medications injected into patient's eyes, and medicare wants to totally eliminate paying ophthalmologists for exams when pt's get injections. If medicare decides to cut out doctor payments for 12 exams a year per patient, it still will not equal what medicare pays for one dose of an injected medicine per month, such as Lucentis. If a patient is getting one of these expensive drugs in both eyes monthly, it costs medicare 48, 000$/year. The payment to the physician is a small fraction of that amount.

In an excellent segment on 60 minutes (link here), which one congressman pointed out was the "ugliest night he had ever seen (in Congress),  it is pointed out that pharmaceutical companies paid 100 million dollars a year to lobbyists (and that was in 2007). Their lobby is bigger than defense and oil according to a recent meeting I attended last week. It is the biggest lobby in the world. 

The whole video is a definite must watch, but at ~5:20 into the video it clearly states that the Bill prohibited the Government, with its massive purchasing power, from negotiating the price of drugs with pharmaceutical companie!. It is thus  no surprise that this bill was written by the pharmaceutical industry. 

It is no surprise that Tom Scully, Medicare's lead negotiator on the drug bill told the chief actuary to withhold  at the congressional hearings,his revised estimates that it would cost you the tax payer, 500 billion dollars for the first ten years. At the same time he prohibited this revised estimate from being announced, he was negotiating to be a lobbyist for the pharmaceutical companies. It is no surprise that 15 of the key congressman who got the drug bill based shortly thereafter got lucrative jobs working for pharmaceutical companies, either.
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Want to Be More Creative? Take a Walk

If you are unable to think of a catchy, creative way to present sales data or begin a newspaper column, take a walk. A brief stroll, even around your office, can significantly increase creativity, according to a handy new study.
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The focus on patient satisfaction is enough to make you sick

All patients should be treated with professionalism and respect.  We all want our patients leaving our care happy, healthy and satisfied, if at all possible.  However, sometimes patients don’t leave an emergency department very happy or satisfied.  Sometimes the doctor could have prevented it, but many if not most times, such dissatisfaction has little if anything to do with what the treating physician did, or didn’t, do.

The reasons for a patient being dissatisfied with a particular healthcare encounter can be very complex.  It’s not so simple as to just include a line in a survey such as, “Were you satisfied with your doctor?”

Who should be held responsible for the results of these surveys, is where the crux of this debate lies.

So why are hospitals obsessed with patient satisfaction?

It’s the same reason Walmart puts greeters at the front door (the ED), not the back door (inpatient floors), and the same reason the government collects taxes and not sea shells: money.  The question we really need to be asking is: Why is the obsession with patient satisfaction in the ED so soul-crushing to those that work there?

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Sometimes a patient voices frustration in a survey despite your best efforts to be nice, helpful, professional and clinically astute.  This may be due to factors out of your control regarding ER wait times, a large hospital bill, dirt on the waiting room floor, or a rude staffer that wasn’t you.  If the results are used against you, it is very difficult to smile and say, “It’ll never happen again.  I’ll do better next time.”

You didn’t make it happen, and you have little if any ability to make it better next time.  You’re already nice to your patients, do your best to help them and treat them with respect.  There’s tremendous cognitive and emotional dissonance there.  Things like this can end careers and fuel burnout in a big way.  Such things are the undercurrents that cause doctors to go work for insurance companies, as non-clinical consultants, or just plain move on.

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Hearing quality restored with bionic ear technology used for gene therapy

Researchers at UNSW Australia have for the first time used electrical pulses delivered from a cochlear implant to deliver gene therapy, thereby successfully regrowing auditory nerves. The research also heralds a possible new way of treating a range of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease, and psychiatric conditions such as depression through this novel way of delivering gene therapy..

Professor Housley and his team at UNSW developed a way of using electrical pulses delivered from the cochlear implant to deliver the DNA to the cells close to the array of implanted electrodes. These cells then produce neurotrophins.

"No-one had tried to use the cochlear implant itself for gene therapy," says Professor Housley. "With our technique, the cochlear implant can be very effective for this."

While the neurotrophin production dropped away after a couple of months, Professor Housley says ultimately the changes in the hearing nerve may be maintained by the ongoing neural activity generated by the cochlear implant.

"We think it's possible that in the future this gene delivery would only add a few minutes to the implant procedure," says the paper's first author, Jeremy Pinyon, whose PhD is based on this work. "The surgeon who installs the device would inject the DNA solution into the cochlea and then fire electrical impulses to trigger the DNA transfer once the implant is inserted."

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Answering an Emergency Call: Yes, There Is a Doctor on Board

WHEN I travel, I try to remember a quotation often attributed to William Butler Yeats that there are no strangers, only friends you have not yet met.

I’m a retinal surgeon at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland. When I travel in that capacity, I’m either speaking at a meeting or going someplace to help train other surgeons. I enjoy every place I go. I’m not needy when I travel. I don’t get jet-lagged. I try to just take things in stride.

But no doctor wants to hear, “Is there a doctor on board?”

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For Drugs That Save Lives, a Steep Cost

We approve drugs and devices without considering cost-effectiveness, or even having a clue about price. We don’t ask for estimates and then are surprised when the nation is stuck with a $2.7 trillion annual health care bill.
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In the case of the naloxone device, the question is germane because the drug itself is very old, and long off patent. A simple syringe filled with a dose of naloxone should cost about $3, said Dan Bigg, director of the Chicago Recovery Alliance, which has long deployed the drug in communities to reverse overdoses. He says giving the shot is “no more complicated than basting a turkey. It’s a no-brainer: You pull up this liquid and inject it into the muscle.”

But experts expect that Evzio could well be priced close to $500.

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For many years, drug manufacturers have justified the high price of new drugs by citing their investments in research and development. But it has become harder to claim that it takes, say, $1 billion to bring a new drug to market, since many medicines originate with government-funded research, 

An Apple a Day, and Other Myths

SAN DIEGO — A trip to almost any bookstore or a cruise around the Internet might leave the impression that avoiding cancer is mostly a matter of watching what you eat. One source after another promotes the protective powers of “superfoods,” rich in antioxidants and other phytochemicals, or advises readers to emulate the diets of Chinese peasants or Paleolithic cave dwellers.

But there is a yawning divide between this nutritional folklore and science. During the last two decades the connection between the foods we eat and the cellular anarchy called cancer has been unraveling string by string.

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This month at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, a mammoth event that drew more than 18,500 researchers and other professionals here, the latest results about diet and cancer were relegated to a single poster session and a few scattered presentations. There were new hints that coffee may lower the risk of some cancers and more about the possible benefits of vitamin D. Beyond that there wasn’t much to say.

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Why You Shouldn't Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

Talk about dirty money: Scientists are discovering a surprising number of microbes living on cash.

In the first comprehensive study of the DNA on dollar bills, researchers at New York University's Dirty Money Project found that currency is a medium of exchange for hundreds of different kinds of bacteria as bank notes pass from hand to hand.

By analyzing genetic material on $1 bills, the NYU researchers identified 3,000 types of bacteria in all—many times more than in previous studies that examined samples under a microscope. Even so, they could identify only about 20% of the non-human DNA they found because so many microorganisms haven't yet been cataloged in genetic data banks.

Easily the most abundant species they found is one that causes acne. Others were linked to gastric ulcers, pneumonia, food poisoning and staph infections, the scientists said. Some carried genes responsible for antibiotic resistance.

"It was quite amazing to us," said Jane Carlton, director of genome sequencing at NYU's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology where the university-funded work was performed. "We actually found that microbes grow on money."

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Grandmother Uses Oculus Rift as Therapy

Spokane doctor brings first retina laser to Angola

It took two years of fundraising and a mountain of paperwork for Dr. Eric Guilielmo of Spokane Eye Clinic to install a retina laser at a hospital in Angola, a country located on the southwest shore of Africa. Many of the patients there suffer from retinal eye conditions and up until Dr. Guilielmo brought the disassembled laser to the country there was nothing available to save them from blindness.

Angola gained independence from Portugal in 1975, and then spent the next 27 years engaged in a blood diamond funded civil war. President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has  been in power since 1975 and has been accused of corruption and of plundering the country’s oil wealth. According to Forbes, the people of Angola live off of $2 a day while President dos Santos has secured a $3 billion fortune for his daughter through questionable government funded business deals.
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Younger Skin Through Exercise

Exercise not only appears to keep skin younger, it may also even reverse skin aging in people who start exercising late in life, according to surprising new research.
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TEAMWORK IS BEST WHEN MAKING SURGERY DECISIONS FOR ELDERLY

Deciding if a sick, elderly patient should have surgery should be a team effort, with input from the patient, family members, the surgeon, primary care physician, nurses, and non-clinicians, such as social workers or advocates.
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How Much Does Your Doctor Really Make?

The U.S. government released payment data for 880,000 physicians this week—to widespread misinterpretation. What the numbers can actually tell us.

These approaches to looking at the new payment records suffer three major flaws.
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The purpose of Lunar Tabs is to give a person who is blind the ability to more easily access electronic guitar tablature (tabs) by converting electronic tabs to a format that a screen reader can process.
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GOOGLE IS KNOWN FOR ITS ZANY OFFICE DESIGNS, FROM STROOPWAFEL CEILINGS TO SLIDES TO SCOOTERS. AND YOU THOUGHT YOUR OFFICE'S FOOSBALL TABLE 

WAS COOL.

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Breakthrough in Quest to Grow Body Parts

Lab-Made Vaginas Transplanted Into Patients Whose Own Were Absent Due to Rare Disease

Scientists have successfully transplanted laboratory-made vaginas into four teenage girls whose own were absent because of a rare disease, marking a milestone in the quest to grow structurally complex body parts.

The experiment was published Thursday in the journal Lancet along with another study, in which a separate group of researchers transplanted lab-made nostrils into patients whose noses were damaged by cancer.

The vaginas were created from the patients' own cells and implanted between 2005 and 2008. Today, the women report normal sexual function.

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Dr. Atala began the effort to make a lab-grown vagina in the late 1990s to address disorders that cause some girls to be born without normal vaginas. Cancer and trauma can also lead to vaginal damage or loss. Currently, doctors reconstruct the vagina using a patient's own skin or part of the intestine, but both cause other physical problems.

The effort immediately hit a roadblock: "We couldn't even get the vaginal mucosal cells to grow outside the body," Dr. Atala recalled. After solving that problem, the team needed to find something to serve as a scaffold—or skeleton—on which the cells would sit. They rejected various options, including the material used to make surgical sutures, before settling on one they liked: tissue from a pig's intestine.

The pig tissue was first bathed in detergent, which removed the original cells and left behind a scaffold-like structure made from collagen. This was coated on one side with epithelial cells, which line the body's cavities, and which had been obtained via a biopsy of the patient's external genitals. The other side was coated with smooth muscle cells, also from the patient. When the scaffold was placed in an incubator and nourished with chemicals and oxygen, the cells began to grow.

The scaffold was hand-sewn into a vagina-like shape and tailored to fit the patient. Surgeons created a cavity in the patient's pelvis and sutured the cell-populated scaffold to reproductive structures, including the uterus.

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Play It Again And Again, Sam

A couple of years ago, music psychologist Elizabeth Margulis decided to make some alterations to the music of Luciano Berio. Berio was one of the most famous classical composers of the 20th century, a man internationally recognized for the dramatic power of his compositions. But Margulis didn't worry much about disrupting Berio's finely crafted music. After loading his most famous piece into a computer editing program, she just randomly started cutting.

"I just went in and whenever there was a little pause on either side of something, I grabbed that out and then I'd stick it back in — truly without regard to aesthetic intent," she says. "I wasn't trying to craft anything compelling."

The idea behind this vandalism was simple: Margulis wanted to see if she could make people like Berio's music more by making it more repetitive.

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They reported enjoying the excerpts that had repetition more," Margulis says. "They reported finding them more interesting, and — most surprising to me — they reported them as more likely to have been crafted by a human artist, rather than randomly generated by a computer."

What's So Seductive About Repeats?

We are drawn to repetition. It surrounds us, not just in modern American pop music, Margulis says, but everywhere.

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So mere exposure is one of the reasons we respond so well to repetition — both of music and in music — but Margulis clearly doesn't think it's the whole story. She says repetition also allows us to shift our attention around, from the surface aspects of the music to other aspects.

And in that way, she says, it allows us to shift our experience of the reality around us

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Samsung Releasing Smartphone-Paired Technologies for Blind People

Today’s smartphones have a surprising amount of technology built into them to help people do all sorts of things that were otherwise impossible not so long ago. Their brilliant screens are one of their greatest draws, but somewhat surprisingly at first, the technology within can be harnessed and expanded to help blind people navigate, “see” their environment in a new way, andcommunicate with others. Now Samsung is pushing the boundaries of what smartphones can do for blind people by releasing three new assistive devices that work with their Galaxy Core Advance phones.
The most exciting is perhaps the Ultrasonic Cover that works like a virtual white cane to spot objects ahead of the user. It will vibrate or use text-to-speech (TTS) to notify the user when something is within a couple meters of the cover. 
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Science More: Happiness Happify Psychology Success Five Quick Ways To Make Yourself Happier Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-science-of-happiness-2014-4#ixzz2y1wX2PWm

Happiness isn't about winning the lottery according to Happify, a website and app that uses games and tasks based in positive psychology to make you happier.
Happiness is a combination of three things: your circumstances (10%), your genetics (about 50%), and your thoughts and actions (40%).
Happify works on the latter. The app trains your brain to think and act in ways that will make you happier. For example, reaching out to old friends, being thankful for the good things in life, and being nice to others.
Here are five specific things you can do you make yourself happier.

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Advice for a Happy Life by Charles Murray

Consider marrying young. Be wary of grand passions. Watch 'Groundhog Day' (again). Advice on how to live to the fullest

The transition from college to adult life is treacherous, and this is nowhere more visible than among new college graduates in their first real jobs. A few years ago, I took it upon myself to start writing tips for the young staff where I work about how to avoid doing things that would make their supervisors write them off. It began as a lark as I wrote tips with titles such as, "Excise the word 'like' from your spoken English."

But eventually, I found myself getting into the deeper waters of how to go about living a good life. At that point, I had to deal with a reality: When it comes to a life filled with deep and lasting satisfactions, most of the clichés are true. How could I make them sound fresh to a new generation? Here's how I tried.

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