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You Have A Second Brain [video]

Turns out you have TWO brains!  Written by Annik Carson, Gregory Brown, Rachel Salt, and Mitchell Moffit ASAPSCIENCE BOOK: http://asapscience.com/book/  Further reading — http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic… http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25… http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic… http://www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/… http://www.pnas.org/content/108/38/16050 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18… http://www.scientificamerican.com/art… http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health… http://neurosciencestuff.tumblr.com/p… http://www.theatlantic.com/health/arc… http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/mag… http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/21/459… This article originally appeared at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3Ftj5E90tY

The Incredible Technical Mastery Of Formula One Drivers, Illustrated

I love Formula 1 and am so proud of our new HAAS USA team and Track of The Americas in San Antonio. The skill these drivers maintain for 90 min each race is incredible. No other sport requires such mental concentration. With the recent purchase of F1 by Liberty Media we should start to see […]

Best of the First Half of 2016 from “People Are Awesome”

PEOPLE ARE AWESOME is a top destination for amazing, original videos and compilations of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. This compilation features some incredible feats of strength, skill fitness and cleverness. It’ll make you want to go out and do something awesome too.  This article originally appeared at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvJIfDy6CVQ

The oldest working nurse in the United States turns 90 and celebrates 60 years of nursing

Florence “SeeSee” Rigney is an operating room nurse in Tacoma, WA. She celebrated her 90th birthday last year with coworkers, who honored her 60+ years of nursing.  SeSee hasn’t changed stations since 1946, when she began her career. “She always knew she wanted to be a nurse,” explained Sheri Morris, assistant nurse manager, in a […]

Introducing Spectacles from Snap (fka Snapchat)

When the $130 Specs are released this fall, you might have to stick to barbecues and day-time music festivals when you want to tap the rim of your glasses to record 10 seconds of circular, first-person video. Perhaps future iterations could come with clear lenses or photochromatic light-adaptive lenses that are dark in the sun […]

Yep, Disney is in talks with bankers about possible Twitter acquisition

Disney has had talks about a potential acquisition of Twitter, we’ve confirmed. They’re working with bankers now to determine whether the deal makes sense, multiple sources have informed us. While some reports have suggested that Twitter could fetch $30 billion, we are hearing that the price tag is much lower. Twitter stock is currently trending […]

Someone Made A Working Transformer Out Of A BMW

It may not have Optimus Prime’s voice or fighting capability, but this creation from Turkey has that classic “looks-and-drives-like-a-real-car-and-then-transforms-into-a-standing-robot” thing going on. This article originally appeared at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWx2viSOjAs

Stripe Announced a New Service to Pay People Immediately

Stripe is a six-year-old tech company on a mission to make digital payments as simple as possible for all businesses. And yesterday, they made some serious headway with the launch of Instant Payouts — a service that allows marketplaces currently using Stripe’s payments API to pay contract workers “within minutes.” This isn’t new, it’s just […]

Kid Obliterating His Rugby Opponents Is An Absolute Monster

Is it really a stiff arm anymore if you’re just throwing kids to the floor like ragdolls? Because that’s what this kid in Australia is doing to his poor opponents. This article originally appeared at: http://digg.com/video/rugby-kid-somebody-stop-him?utm_medium=email&utm_source=digg