CSS specificity and Star Wars (no, really), formation of memory observed, thirsty crops ask for water via RFID, LiveInk as prose-to-poetry converter, the history of the prefrontal lobotomy …

• 1 – CSS Specificity: Things You Should Know

  “CSS Specificity isn’t simple. However, there are methods to explain it in a simple and intuitive way.” This method involves Star Wars. SRSLY.

  (tags: rules reference specificity guide webdev code CSS)

• 2 – GTD for Freelancers

  “Working without a boss, freelance workers need to find ways to motivate themselves, keep themselves organized and productive, and actually get things done on their own.” Yup.

  (tags: advive tips gtd productivity business freelance)

• 3 – Scientists see new memory forming in the brain

  “High-resolution images captured by the team show how connections between neighbouring brain cells changed when a memory was laid down.” Whoa – one step nearer the Singularity.

  (tags: science observation formation memory mind brain psychology neuroscience)

• 4 – Invention May Allow Thirsty Crops To Signal Farmers

  “The technology includes a tiny sensor that can be clipped to plant leaves charting their moisture content, a key measure of water deficiency and accompanying stress …”

  (tags: feedback irrigation horticulture farming technology arphid RFID)

• 5 – Sister, I’m a Poet: LiveInk turns prose into a “series of cascading phrases”

  “Of course, since LiveInk is in essence distilling a writer’s words into a new form, erasing in the process the original construction, this will probably rub many authors and critics the wrong way.” Very interesting.

  (tags: interpretation technology formats literature writing software prose poetry LiveInk)

• 6 – Neurophilosophy : The rise & fall of the prefrontal lobotomy

  A fascinating history of an appalling procedure. Go read.

  (tags: history lobotomy prefrontal surgery operations treatments madness psychiatry neurosciene)