Goodbye Food Pyramid, Hello Dinner Plate! #nutrition #diet #icon

For my sister, Master Nutritionist and FoodNet researcher at CDC:

The new "balanced, basic food groups" symbol - a plate - is meant to give consumers a fast, simple reminder of the basics of a healthy diet. This new plate symbol will replace the old "4 basic food groups" pyramid. Launching new symbol this Thursday - keep your eyes open for that new dinner plate icon. http://nyti.ms/klWng6

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Ability to switch #magnets on or off could revolutionize #computing & #datastorage - theoretical #physics

Photo from article linked below

"What causes a magnet to be a magnet, and how can we control a magnet's behavior? 

These are the questions that University at Buffalo researcher Igor Zutic, a theoretical physicist, has been exploring over many years. 

He is one of many scientists who believe that magnets could revolutionize computing, forming the basis of high-capacity and low-energy memory, data storage and data transfer devices."

Read rest of article:

http://www.machineslikeus.com/news/ability-switch-magnets-or-could-revolutionize-computing 

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Does our #personality affect our level of #attractiveness? #dating #psychology

"Part of what determines how much success you will have in the dating world is whether you have a good sense of whether people find you attractive. 

A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that certain personality traits contribute to being a good judge of whether someone else thinks you're worth meeting again."

Photo from article linked below

Read rest of article:

http://www.machineslikeus.com/news/does-our-personality-affect-our-level-attractiveness

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Otto #Scharmer: "Awareness-based #global #leadership platform building cross-sector capacity for resilient societies" #citizenship

Academic paper from Otto Scharmer: "Awareness-based global leadership platform building cross-sector capacity for resilient societies" http://www.ottoscharmer.com/docs/articles/2011_uschool.pdf

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A New Gauge to See What’s Beyond #Happiness. #psychology #meaning

From the New York Times:

"Calculating people’s state of mind now includes asking about their positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning and accomplishment." Acronym is PERMA.

A New Gauge to See What’s Beyond Happiness http://nyti.ms/ljUVxe

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Sense of #justice built into the #brain

A new study from the Karolinska Institute and Stockholm School of Economics shows that the brain has built-in mechanisms that trigger an automatic reaction to someone who refuses to share. 

In the study publishing next week in the online open access journal PLoS Biology, the subjects' sense of justice was challenged in a two-player monetary fairness game, and their brain activity was simultaneously measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). 

3 hours ago in physorg.com

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-justice-built-brain.html

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#Robots learn to share, validating Hamilton's rule (w/ video) #behaviour

Using simple robots to simulate genetic evolution over hundreds of generations, Swiss scientists provide quantitative proof of kin selection and shed light on one of the most enduring puzzles in biology: 

Why do most social animals, including humans, go out of their way to help each other? 

3 hours ago in physorg.com

http://betasignal.com/m/#_home

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