NYTimes: Mobile Phones Offer Indian Women a Better Life
In India, researchers are beginning to study the effects that the explosive growth in the mobile phone market has had on women’s lives, in some cases, breaking the pattern of marital isolation.
NYTimes: Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S.
Non-Hispanic white births are no longer a majority in the United States, a tipping point that has implications for politics, the economy and a nation’s identity.
Why We Can't See What's Right in Front of Us
The most famous cognitive obstacle to innovation is functional fixedness — an idea first articulated in the 1930s by Karl Duncker — in which people tend to fixate on the common use of an object. For example, the people on the Titanic overlooked the possibility that the iceberg could have been their lifeboat. Newspapers from the time estimated the size of the iceberg to be between 50-100 feet high and 200-400 feet long. Titanic was navigable for awhile and could have pulled aside the iceberg. Many people could have climbed aboard it to find flat places to stay out of the water for the four hours before help arrived. Fixated on the fact that icebergs sink ships, people overlooked the size and shape of the iceberg (plus the fact that it would not sink)…
Autodesk launches 123D Catch for iPad, lets you turn pics into 3D models
UNIQLO Alarm App Creates A Unique Song Each Time You Start Your Day
UNIQLO Alarm App Creates A Unique Song Each Time You Start Your Day
Spotify Plays Can Increase iTunes Sales | TechCrunch
Despite fears that streaming access cannibalizes sales, classical music record label X5 tells me when it launched an app within Spotify and saw streams of one album increase 412% in a month, that album’s iTunes sales shot up 50%. The Swedish label’s “The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music” soon reached #1 on the iTunes Classical charts, and broke into the iTunes Top 200 album charts for the first time, hitting #152.
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