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THE DAILY BEAST POLITICS | FEBRUARY 12, 2013
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I am the CEO of TiVo, one of the original participants in the Fix the Debt Campaign, and I voted for President Obama for reelection. But it’s clear t… Read more

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This story begins with a group of people who are expert at looking: the professional searchers known as radiologists.

“If you watch radiologists do what they do, [you’re] absolutely convinced that they are like superhuman,” says Trafton Drew, an attention researcher at Harvard Medical School.

About three years ago, Drew started visiting the dark, cavelike “reading rooms” where radiologists do their work. For hours he would stand watching them, in awe that they could so easily see in the images before them things that to Drew were simply invisible.

“These tiny little nodules that I can’t even see when people point to them — they’re just in a different world when it comes to finding this very, very hard-to-find thing,” Drew says.

In the Invisible Gorilla study, subjects have to count how many times the people in white shirts pass the basketball. By focusing their attention on the ball, they tend to not notice when a guy in a gorilla suit shows up.

In the Invisible Gorilla study, subjects have to count how many times the people in white shirts pass the basketball. By focusing their attention on the ball, they tend to not notice when a guy in a gorilla suit shows up.

But radiologists still sometimes fail to see important things, and Drew wanted to understand more. Because of his line of work, he was naturally familiar with one of the most famous studies in the field of attention research, the Invisible Gorilla study.

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Is Change In A Cup The Best Way To Help The Homeless? | Here & Now.

So you come across a homeless person, hand outstretched, asking for money. What do you do?

Do you give money? Do you avert your eyes? Or do you march over to a re-purposed parking meter and put money there for the homeless, as you can do in about 20 cities now?

According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, homelessness has been on the rise over the past two decades. But it’s not because of deinstitutionalization, or even addiction.

One-third of homeless people these days are part of families with kids; that’s a nine percent increase since the recession hit.

• Homelessness fact sheets (via National Coalition for the Homeless)

Neil Donovan, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, says that, like most people, he’s conflicted about whether to give money on the street.

But he thinks re-purposed parking meters aren’t the solution, and he says that cities that have banned panhandling are depriving givers and people in need of the opportunity to see and become more familiar with each other.

More often than not, Donovan says, a homeless person often just wants a simple “hello, how are you?” and a little human interaction.

Jack is a fifteen year old freshman in high school. He developed a paper sensor that could detect pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer in five minutes for as little as 3 cents. He conducted his research at John Hopkins University. This research could change the face of cancer and promote early detection. He has been selected as the Intel 2012 ISEF winner and has won awards at multiple national and international math competitions. Jack is on the national junior whitewater kayaking team and enjoys playing with his dog and folding origami.

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Guest Post: Show This To Anyone That Believes That “Things Are Getting Better” In America | Zero Hedge.

Recently I was asked to give a presentation on the current state of the global economy to a local group of concerned citizens here in Northwest Montana. I was happy to oblige but when composing my bullet points I realized that, in truth, there were no legitimate economic numbers to examine anymore. You see, financial analysts have traditionally used multiple indicators of employment, profit, savings, credit, supply, and demand in their efforts to divine the often obscured facts of our financial system. The problem is, nearly every index we used in the past, every measure of capital flow and industry, is absolutely useless today.

We now live in an entirely fabricated fiscal environment. Every aspect of it is filtered, muddled, molded, and manipulated before our eyes ever get to study the stats. The metaphor may be overused, but our economic system has become an absolute “matrix”. All that we see and hear has been homogenized and all truth has been sterilized away. There is nothing to investigate anymore. It is like awaking in the middle of a vast and hallucinatory live action theater production, complete with performers, props, and sound effects, all designed to confuse us and do us harm. In the end, trying to make sense of the illusion is a waste of time. All we can do is look for the exits…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-09/guest-post-us-economy-now-dangerously-detached-reality

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