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Tuesday August 24, 2010 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Eating berries may activate the brain's natural housekeeper for healthy aging Synaptic Behaviour Captured By New Memristor Circuit Design Mining Mood Swings on the Real-Time Web Ready for 2020? Advice for every career stage Frog cells give artificial nose the power of super smell Replacing a Pile of Textbooks With an iPad Latest News Eating berries may activate the brain's natural housekeeper for healthy aging August 24, 2010   Scientists on Monday reported the first evidence that eating blueberries, strawberries, acai berries, and possibly walnuts may help the aging brain stay healthy in a crucial but previously unrecognized way. Their study concluded that berries activate the brain's natural "housekeeper" mechanism, which cleans up and recycles toxic proteins linked to age-related memory loss and other mental … more… Synaptic Behaviour Captured By New Memristor Circuit Design August 24, 2010   Source Link: the physics ArXiv blog   Farnood Merrikh-Bayat and Saeed Bagheri at the University of Tehran have connected memristors (memory resistors) together in a way that mimics the wiring of human brains, reproducing Hebbian-type synapse strengthening. Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1008.3450: Bottleneck Of Using Single Memristor As A Synapse And Its Solution Mining Mood Swings on the Real-Time Web August 24, 2010   Source Link: Technology Review   Social-media analytics startup Viralheat is now offering free, real-time access to the data it is collecting on attitudes toward particular topics or products. One of the first customers for this new service — called Social Trends — is ESPN, which plans to use Social Trends to show live popularity rankings for different NFL teams.` Viralheat uses natural-language … more… Ready for 2020? Advice for every career stage August 24, 2010   Source Link: Computerworld As the effects of accelerating technology ripple across the corporate world and combine with the forces of the Web, mobile computing, consumerization and virtualization, "traditional IT organizations won't look [the way] they do now," says Thomas Druby, an IT executive. To address the gap between college and real-world experience, the ACM has introduced new curriculum guidelines … more… Frog cells give artificial nose the power of super smell August 24, 2010   Source Link: New Scientist Tech Bioengineers at the University of Tokyo have created a more sensitive e-nose by genetically modifying frog eggs to express proteins known to act as smell receptors. They placed the modified cells between electrodes and measured the telltale currents generated when different molecules bound to the receptors. They found this method can distinguish between many nearly identical … more… Replacing a Pile of Textbooks With an iPad August 24, 2010   Source Link: New York Times   A new company called Inkling hopes to break the standard textbook model and help textbooks enter the interactive age by letting students share and comment on the texts and interact with fellow students, using an iPad. Other features include interactive graphics within a book and the ability to search text, change the size of the type, purchase … more… New EVENTS Second SENS Foundation L.A. Chapter Meeting Dates: Aug 27 – 27, 2010 Location: Los Angeles, CA more... 17th International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology Dates: May 26 – 29, 2011 Location: Denton, TX more... Latest Kurzweil Corner posts CNET: Ray Kurzweil on the Future of reading Microsoft's Steve Ballmer presents Blio: the Consumer Electronics Show Blio eReader iPhone demo Virtual Tour of the Blio eReader Presenting virtually in holographic 3D using the Teleportec "Teleporter" Public Speaking Highlights Charlie Rose BookTV on C-SPAN2 The Glenn Beck Show, April 2008 The Glenn Beck Show, May 2008 The Daily Show w. John Stewart The Computer History Museum