How to Fall Asleep by Not Trying

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Melissa Dahl for Science of Us on a study on how to fall asleep when you can't, something I struggle with frequently: 

Late at night, when you've been trying and failing for hours to fall asleep, perhaps the thing to do is to try not trying. According to a 2003 study recently highlighted by University of Hertfortshire psychologist Richard Wiseman in his "59 Seconds" video series, when insomniacs tried to force themselves to stay awake, they were able to fall asleep. 
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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

The Week's Links: March 20, 2015

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ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Music Makes You a Better Reader, Says Neuroscience owl.li/KaABz
  • 10 Women of Title Design owl.li/K9LGQ
  • The Man Who Made Obama Viral owl.li/Kax2B
  • 10 things I learned while writing my last book owl.li/KaEX1
  • Hacking your brain is just the beginning owl.li/K9R74
  • Want to know what the future holds for Apple Watch, it's already happening at Disney World owl.li/K9LrD
  • The Science Behind a Crazy 6-Way Kidney Exchange owl.li/K9GpS
  • ◉ J'adore Paris owl.li/KlcRW
  • What's the difference between a hack and an exploit? owl.li/K9k2q
  • This Eerie Virtual Flood Will Scare You Into Giving A Damn About Climate Change owl.li/K9Faf
  • 12 Buildings To See In New York Before You Die owl.li/K7gbe
  • How Designers Built an Icelandic Cave at MoMA for Björk owl.li/K9wtd
  • ◉ Why Think When You Can Google Instead? -  smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/3/15…
  • When and how to watch Friday's total solar eclipse owl.li/KxOoU
  • The Lotus Building, A Massive Sculptural Building in China That Evokes 3 Stages of a Blooming Lotus Flower owl.li/K7g51
  • Circadian Surprise: How Our Body Clocks Help Shape Our Waistlines owl.li/K9wj5
  • The Century of the Self owl.li/K9LAm
  • Explorers Discover Ancient Lost City In Honduran Jungle owl.li/K9weq
  • An Explanation of Why People Get Bags and Dark Circles Under Their Eyes owl.li/K7dLM
  • Tavi Gevinson Is a Publisher, Actress and Style Icon — And a Teenager owl.li/K7dJ1
  • ◉ What Makes A Family Of Artists owl.li/KlcQd
  • Clayton Cameron: What Are The Mathematics of Jazz? owl.li/K76aR
  • What All This Bad News Is Doing to Us owl.li/K7dB7
  • ◉ Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative By Austin Kleon - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • The Secret Life of the Aluminum Can, a Feat of Engineering owl.li/K6X1M
  • The Prado Museum Creates the First Art Exhibition for the Visually Impaired, Using 3D Printing owl.li/K7dqK
  • ◉ Tokyo Reverse - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/3/15…
  • History's Most Iconic Photos, Recreated in Miniature owl.li/K6WM4
  • Lindsey Graham Isn’t Alone: 9 Percent Of Americans Have Never Sent An Email owl.li/K79OX
  • Research shows the appeal of untestable beliefs, and how it leads to a polarized society owl.li/K7g0X
  • The Pocket Watch Was the World’s First Wearable Tech Game Changer owl.li/K76tA
  • Explore the World’s Languages with this Cool Interactive Map owl.li/K6Wn2
  • People Ignore a Giant Lump Growing on a Street in This Clever Cancer PSA Stunt owl.li/K6WgP
  • ◉ How To Be Polite owl.li/KlcO2
  • Are humans getting cleverer? owl.li/K5IyE
  • Boston Globe launches interactive timeline and podcast for bombing trial owl.li/K6V71
  • Paul Taylor, at 84, Has a New Mission With American Modern Dance owl.li/K5ItD
  • What You Do at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Is Who You Are owl.li/K6Pbp
  • ◉ The Good, The Bad & The Hangry - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/3/15…
  • With Misattributed Constable Masterpiece, a Rare Look Into the Imprecise World of Art Identification owl.li/K5I0W
  • Holi 2015: Stunning Photos of Holi, the Festival of Colors owl.li/K6P3K
  • To digitize a brain, first slice 2,000 times with a very sharp blade owl.li/K6M50
  • Moving Photos Show Climate Change Destroying The Nomadic Way Of Life In Mongolia owl.li/K4X0f
  • Did a Human or a Computer Write This? owl.li/K4Mo5
  • Empire State Building daredevil photos will give you vertigo owl.li/K4LUX
  • ◉ Restoration Hardware’s Mail-Order Extravagance owl.li/KlcJ7
  • This is what happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar owl.li/K4nBc
  • Swiss pilots to attempt first around-the-world solar flight owl.li/K4LSG
  • ◉ Recommended: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Playing Monopoly With the Woman Who Wrote the Book on It owl.li/K4nh3
  • Think reddit is a Productivity Killer? Here are 9 subreddits That Will Help Your Career owl.li/K4nMe
  • 50 Amazing Color Photographs of New York City in the 1970s owl.li/K4nfq
  • ◉ Photoshop Experts Using Photoshop 1.0 - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/3/14…
  • 7 films by Albert Maysles everyone should watch owl.li/K4nDA
  • How Arts Education Fuels the Creative Economy owl.li/K4VXO
  • The Very First Issues of 19 Famous Magazines owl.li/K4ndC
  • Is It Time to Kill Daylight Saving? owl.li/K4n7C
  • Archaeologists discover 'extraordinary' tomb of ancient Celtic prince owl.li/K4n44
  • Graphic need: it's time to bring design into the spotlight owl.li/K3Kub
  • Inside The Post-Minecraft Life Of Billionaire Gamer God Markus Persson owl.li/K4lSa
  • The Chemistry of Why van Gogh Reds Are Going White owl.li/K3Ksx
  • HTML5 UP! Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 Site Templates owl.li/K3M5Z
  • How Silicon Valley Shapes Our Future owl.li/K3Kim
  • MoMA Recognizes Susan Kare, The Designer Of The Macintosh's Original Icons owl.li/K3LIo
  • 10 of the world’s best concert halls owl.li/K3Lad
  • The secret life of a public library security guard owl.li/K4lQq
  • Take First-Class Philosophy Courses Anywhere with Free Oxford Podcasts owl.li/K3K2p
  • The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 in Advertising/Marketing owl.li/K3K0W
  • Philosophers Drinking Coffee: The Excessive Habits of Kant, Voltaire & Kierkegaard owl.li/K3HnI
  • The First Customer Service Complaint in Recorded History (1750 B.C.) owl.li/K3JHq
  • Pink Floyd's David Gilmour Sings Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 owl.li/K3HfJ
  • An artist's field guide to nature's overlooked wonders owl.li/K3HBj
  • The History of the World in 46 Lectures From Columbia University owl.li/K3H4X
  • Bald Eagle in Pennsylvania Is Covered in Snow up to Its Head While Protecting Its Eggs owl.li/K3HzC
  • William Gibson on fashion owl.li/K3K73
  • PBS Food: Where Is the Best Pizza in America? owl.li/K3HyF
  • A Brief History of Robots and Their Place in Human Society owl.li/K3GU2
  • Your Creative Calendar: 71 Things To Do, See, and Hear This March owl.li/K29u2
  • ◉ The Adobe Illustrator Story owl.li/K3KGi
  • Guide to critical thinking, research, data and theory: Overview for journalists  owl.li/K1U11
  • The Eiffel Tower Now Has Two Beautiful Wind Turbines owl.li/K27k9
  • Did dark matter kill the dinosaurs? owl.li/K1Ca7
  • MySpace – what went wrong: ‘The site was a massive spaghetti-ball mess’ owl.li/K1WUt
  • The Financial Times interviews Jony Ive: The man behind the Apple Watch owl.li/K1wGw
  • Coke Experiments With New Universal Branding owl.li/K1Uda
  • The Intersection of Art and Math . Activities for Kids: Adventures In Learning owl.li/K3H4d
  • Is 10 p.m. Really the Perfect Bedtime? owl.li/K1U68
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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

Why Think When You Can Google Instead?

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And so the question a team of psychologists at the University of Waterloo recently asked will likely be of interest: What does it say about our thinking skills when we habitually outsource problem-solving to our phones? 
Their results, published online this week in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, suggest that people who admit to relying more heavily on their smartphones for information — for instance, Googling something they could’ve figured out by with a few minutes of thinking about it — are also less likely to be analytical thinkers, judging from their answers to problems designed to assess cognitive style and ability. The smartphone-dependent were likelier to be intuitive thinkers, which means that they relied on their gut instincts rather than careful analysis. 
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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

Tokyo Reverse

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Mesmerizing excerpt from an 9 hour, slow tv program for French TV.

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

The Good, The Bad & The Hangry

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Hunger seems like a simple phenomenon: the stomach rumbles until it’s fed, then it’s quiet until it rumbles again. Why, then, does it shape so much behavior that, at least on the surface, has so little to do with food? Part of the answer can be gathered from observations of other animals. For some of them, a little starvation seems to confer a survival advantage. In rodents, hunger appears to heighten sensory perception and speed up mental processing. Last year, researchers in Bordeaux, France, showed that the brains of food-deprived lab mice released endocannabinoids, which act on the same receptors as the psychoactive chemical in marijuana, stimulating the animals’ olfactory cortexes and sharpening their sense of smell. Yale University mice showed similarly enhanced environmental awareness: when injected with ghrelin, the so-called hunger hormone, the mice navigated mazes more quickly than their satiated peers. (The hungry rats of Harvard University, meanwhile, ran further on their in-cage treadmills.) At the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, ghrelin was found to reduce depression and anxiety in mice, inuring them to tests for both “social defeat” (bullying by larger mice) and “behavioral despair” (swimming in an inescapable acrylic cylinder).
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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.