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YiGG cooperates with politik.de

It is a very good match: YiGG will coöper­ate with politik.de, the biggest polit­i­cal plat­form in Ger­many. Users of both sites will expe­ri­ence numer­ous ben­e­fits surf­ing either the user gen­er­at­ed news site YiGG.de con­sum­ing daily long-tail news

Cool Science: Walkalong Glider

This Wal­ka­long glid­er is con­trolled by the air your body moves — but at first it looks just like magic! It was invent­ed by Tyler Mac­Cready, who was 10 years old at the time.

Animated Business Card

Chung Dha Lam, a stu­dent at Grafisch Lyceum Rot­ter­dam in the Nether­lands, got the idea of his ani­mat­ed busi­ness card after receiv­ing a spe­cial book called ‘Magic Mov­ing Images’. By using a print­ed over­lay ani­ma­tion to vamp up his

Gas Station Robot

So — who needs to fuel by him­self or even a gas sta­tion atten­dant any­more? Comes the gas sta­tion robot Tankpit­stop! This hum­ble ser­vant fuels your car with con­sid­er­a­tion — he is not the fastest one —

New geotargeting feature mapNews on YiGG

Today we launched the new geo­tar­get­ing fea­ture map­News on YiGG. Every news can be enriched with its loca­tion code, a city or even a com­bi­na­tion of a city and a street­name, like ‘München, Lind­wurm­strasse’. On the detail view of every

Microsoft and Yahoo — that makes sense indeed

Today Microsoft announced a $44 bil­lion bid for Yahoo — either in a friend­ly or unfriend­ly takover trans­ac­tion. With­in min­utes twit­ter and blogs have been full of com­ments on that announce­ment — nowa­days it can be assumed

Is Web Design a Matter of Taste?

Today we decid­ed on the new web­de­sign. Did not expect that to hap­pen dur­ing my life­time so I am pret­ty relaxed now. Is design a mat­ter of taste? Most peo­ple would say yes I assume. Or is there a good

Keep looking

glum­bert — THX for the Eyes This loris is look­ing at YOU!

People fail sometimes

Again a nice piece: the fail­blog — a col­lec­tion of pic­tures of peo­ple who fail — like we all do some­times. And — some Schaden­freude permitted.

Web 2.0 at its finest: User Generated Diploma Thesis on YiGG

YiGG user @kartmann uses YiGG to cre­ate a User Gen­er­at­ed Diplo­ma The­sis. He asks the com­mu­ni­ty to vote on six dif­fer­ent pro­pos­als or to sug­gest anoth­er one. Cool.

Pregnancy Tips

Haha .… being myself a father of two those preg­nan­cy tips made my day.

What happens to a Blog Post?

Wired has this fan­tas­tic visu­al­iza­tion of the cycle of a blog post.

GOOD READS

The Mind­ful Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

Die Acht­same Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

What‘s our prob­lem?, Tim Urban

Rebel Ideas — The Power of Diverse Think­ing, Matthew Syed

Die Macht unser­er Gene, Daniel Wallerstorfer

Jel­ly­fish Age Back­wards, Nick­las Brendborg

The Expec­ta­tion Effect, David Robson

Breathe, James Nestor

The Idea of the Brain, Matthew Cobb

The Great Men­tal Mod­els I, Shane Parrish

Sim­ple Rules, Don­ald Sull, Kath­leen M. Eisenhardt

Mit Igno­ran­ten sprechen, Peter Modler

The Secret Lan­guage of Cells, Jon Lieff

Evo­lu­tion of Desire: A Life of René Girard, Cyn­thia L. Haven

Grasp: The Sci­ence Trans­form­ing How We Learn, San­jay Sara

Rewire Your Brain , John B. Arden

The Wim Hof Method, Wim Hof

The Way of the Ice­man, Koen de Jong

Soft Wired — How The New Sci­ence of Brain Plas­tic­i­ty Can Change Your Life, Michael Merzenich

The Brain That Changes Itself, Nor­man Doidge

Lifes­pan, David Sinclair

Out­live — The Sci­ence and Art of Longevi­ty, Peter Attia

Younger You — Reduce Your Bioage And Live Longer, Kara N. Fitzgerald

What Does­n’t Kill Us, Scott Carney

Suc­cess­ful Aging, Daniel Levithin

Der Ernährungskom­pass, Bas Kast

The Way We Eat Now, Bee Wilson

Dein Gehirn weiss mehr als Du denkst, Niels Birbaumer

Denken: Wie das Gehirn Bewusst­sein schafft, Stanis­las Dehaene

Mind­ful­ness, Ellen J. Langer

100 Plus: How The Com­ing Age of Longevi­ty Will Change Every­thing, Sonia Arrison

Think­ing Like A Plant, Craig Holdredge

Das Geheime Wis­sen unser­er Zellen, Son­dra Barret

The Code of the Extra­or­di­nary Mind, Vishen Lakhiani

Altered Traits, Daniel Cole­man, Richard Davidson

The Brain’s Way Of Heal­ing, Nor­man Doidge

The Last Best Cure, Donna Jack­son Nakazawa

The Inner Game of Ten­nis, W. Tim­o­thy Gallway

Run­ning Lean, Ash Maurya

Sleep — Schlafen wie die Profis, Nick Littlehales

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