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Joshua Foer

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Name: Joshua Foer

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

How Your Brain Perceives Time (And How To Use It To Your Advantage)

We might not be able to create more time when we need it most — like when a deadline is approaching — but we can use the understanding of how we perceive time to our advantage. For example, author Joshua Foer thinks it might be possible to make it seem ... [Published The Australian Society of Entrepreneurs - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Joshua Foer, Deadline, Entrepreneur

First reported Jun 05 2013 - Updated Jun 05 2013 - 1 reports

My latest Quarterly.co mailing - a precious fragment of oudh

Quarterly.co is a subscription service for wonderful things. People can subscribe to a curator (such as me, Joel Johnson, Veronica Belmont, Tim Ferriss, Joshua Foer, Gretchen Rubin, and others) to receive a box of items selected by the curator. ... [Published Boing Boing - Jun 05 2013]

Entities: Chandler Burr, Veronica Belmont, Joshua Foer, Joel Johnson, Gretchen Rubin

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

National Geographic Society

Can Anyone Learn To Be A Master Memorizer?

Joshua Foer says that one past memory champion developed a technique to remember more than 4,000 binary digits in half an hour. (James Duncan Davidson)Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode Memory Games.About Joshua Foer's TEDTalkSome people can memorize ... [Published WNYC - May 24 2013]

Entities: Joshua Foer, Memory, James Duncan Davidson, Virtuoso, National Geographic Society

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Redbox

Tim Ferriss Goes Offline

And joins forces with Quarterly.co to deliver meaningful, tactile goods. In a world full of touchscreens, tastemakers are going after "physical engagement." The 4-Hour Workweek author tells us why."Humans are tactile creatures."Tim Ferriss is explaining ... [Published Fast Company - May 23 2013]

Entities: Redbox, Startup, Joshua Foer, Jason Kottke, Anne Lamott

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Tenzin Gyatso

A Reading List on Fostering Strong Company Culture

Nearly two years ago, I wrote a blog post that signaled the start of an important track in the evolution of Identropy. Back then, we had stumbled on this concept of company culture and were starting to grapple with its meaning, looking to build a strong ... [Published Security Bloggers Network - May 23 2013]

Entities: Rich Dad, Tenzin Gyatso, Lou Aronica, Eliyahu M. Goldratt

First reported Apr 11 2013 - Updated Apr 11 2013 - 1 reports

Columbia University

Three TED speakers named as Guggenheim Fellows

Today, the Guggenheim Foundation revealed its new class of Fellows. Three thousand applied and, in the end, 175 scholars, artists, scientists, writers and thinkers were selected — not just based on their accomplishments to date, but for their potential ... [Published TED Blog - Apr 11 2013]

Entities: Joshua Foer, Microbiologist, Columbia University

First reported Apr 10 2013 - Updated Apr 10 2013 - 1 reports

Why do trains stay on the track as they go around a curve?

div class="video-container"> The other night, Joshua Foer posed this question was posed to a table full of science journalists. Most of us started talking about friction, and/or possibly something to do with the little flanges on either side of a ... [Published Boing Boing - Apr 10 2013]

Entities: Joshua Foer, Richard Feynman, Friction

First reported Mar 29 2013 - Updated Mar 29 2013 - 1 reports

Last week to subscribe to Mark's 3rd Quarterly.co making

Quarterly.co is a subscription service for wonderful things. People can subscribe to a curator (such as Joel Johnson, Veronica Belmont, Tim Ferriss, Joshua Foer, Gretchen Rubin and others) and pay $25 per quarter to receive a box of surprise items ... [Published Boing Boing - Mar 29 2013]

Entities: Veronica Belmont, Joshua Foer, Gretchen Rubin, Joel Johnson

First reported Mar 22 2013 - Updated Mar 22 2013 - 1 reports

TED Weekends wonders: What’s the key to memory?

Joshua Foer thought he might have set out on a fool’s errand when he started training to compete in the U.S. Memory Championship. Only, he ended up winning it in 2006. Joshua Foer: Feats of memory anyone can do In his talk from TED2012, Foer shares ... [Published TED Blog - Mar 22 2013]

Entities: Memory, Joshua Foer, Creativity, Quantum Physics, United States

First reported Mar 20 2013 - Updated Mar 20 2013 - 1 reports

Gweek 086: Utopian for Beginners

This was a fun episode! I spoke with John Glassie, author of A Man of Misconceptions , a non-fiction book about the unusual 17th-century polymath, Athanasius Kircher, and Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein , which recounts Joshua’s yearlong ... [Published Boing Boing - Mar 20 2013]

Entities: Joshua Foer, Lawrence Weschler, Athanasius Kircher, Gary Wolf

First reported Feb 26 2013 - Updated Feb 26 2013 - 1 reports

Mark's mailing from Quarterly.co: EL wire, tiny microscope, and a black light flashlight

div class="video-container"> Quarterly.co is a subscription service for wonderful things. People can subscribe to a curator (such as Joel Johnson, Veronica Belmont, Tim Ferriss, Joshua Foer, Gretchen Rubin and others) and pay $25 per quarter ... [Published Boing Boing - Feb 26 2013]

Entities: Veronica Belmont, Joshua Foer, Gretchen Rubin, Joel Johnson

First reported Jan 21 2013 - Updated Jan 21 2013 - 1 reports

The Reminiscence Bump

That's the term for our tendency to "remember more events from late adolescence and early adulthood than from any other stage of our lives." Katy Waldman describes it further: Autobiographical memories are not distributed equally across the lifespan. ... [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Jan 21 2013]

Entities: Joshua Foer, Mutant Ninja Turtles, Memory, Memory Loss

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Longest Running Laboratory Experiment Keeps on ... [Published Slate Magazine - 3 hours ago]
How Your Brain Perceives Time (And How To Use I... [Published The Australian Society of Entrepreneurs - Jun 14 2013]
How Your Brain Perceives Time (And How to Use i... [Published Lifehacker - Jun 13 2013]
The Perilous Shoals of Memory: Back to that Dic... [Published Atlantic Monthly - Jun 12 2013]
My latest Quarterly.co mailing - a precious fra... [Published Boing Boing - Jun 05 2013]
Your mega summer reading list: 200 books recomm... [Published TED Blog - May 31 2013]
Can Anyone Learn To Be A Master Memorizer? [Published WNYC - May 24 2013]
Tim Ferriss Goes Offline [Published Fast Company - May 23 2013]
A Reading List on Fostering Strong Company Culture [Published Security Bloggers Network - May 23 2013]
Three TED speakers named as Guggenheim Fellows [Published TED Blog - Apr 11 2013]
Why do trains stay on the track as they go arou... [Published Boing Boing - Apr 10 2013]
Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for... [Published TED Blog - Mar 29 2013]
Last week to subscribe to Mark's 3rd Quarterly.... [Published Boing Boing - Mar 29 2013]
TED Weekends wonders: What’s the key to memory? [Published TED Blog - Mar 22 2013]
Gweek 086: Utopian for Beginners [Published Boing Boing - Mar 20 2013]
Mark's mailing from Quarterly.co: EL wire, tiny... [Published Boing Boing - Feb 26 2013]
The Reminiscence Bump [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Jan 21 2013]
Wonkblog's guide to New Year's resolutions [Published Ezra Klein - Dec 27 2012]
Building The Perfect Language [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Dec 26 2012]
Political risk must-reads [Published Ian Bremmer - Reuters.com - Dec 21 2012]

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My latest Quarterly.co mailing - a precious fra... [Published Boing Boing - Jun 05 2013] Quarterly.co is a subscription service for wonderful things. People can subscribe to a curator (such as me, Joel Johnson, Veronica Belmont, Tim Ferriss, Joshua Foer, Gretchen Rubin, and others) to receive a box of items selected by the curator. ...
Your mega summer reading list: 200 books recomm... [Published TED Blog - May 31 2013] A look at the famous TED Bookstore at TED2013. Photo: Michael Brands Books can entertain, sucking you like a tornado into incredible new worlds. Books can teach, giving you a richer understanding of time periods, people and ideas you’ve never been ...
A Reading List on Fostering Strong Company Culture [Published Security Bloggers Network - May 23 2013] Nearly two years ago, I wrote a blog post that signaled the start of an important track in the evolution of Identropy. Back then, we had stumbled on this concept of company culture and were starting to grapple with its meaning, looking to build a strong ...
Three TED speakers named as Guggenheim Fellows [Published TED Blog - Apr 11 2013] Today, the Guggenheim Foundation revealed its new class of Fellows. Three thousand applied and, in the end, 175 scholars, artists, scientists, writers and thinkers were selected — not just based on their accomplishments to date, but for their potential ...
Why do trains stay on the track as they go arou... [Published Boing Boing - Apr 10 2013] div class="video-container"> The other night, Joshua Foer posed this question was posed to a table full of science journalists. Most of us started talking about friction, and/or possibly something to do with the little flanges on either side of a ...