Orion Jones
Editor, Ideafeed
Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? Mental and vocal monologues are essential in learning and performing better in life. Researchers have identified that talking to yourself is insanely great for the brain. The better you are at self-talk the better off ... Read More
Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? A recent Center for Disease Control (CDC) report reveals states across the U.S. are not investing enough to get a firm grasp on tobacco-related illnesses. The billions of dollars collected from taxes on cigarettes and ... Read More
Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? Researchers from the University of Edinburgh have found that people with a well-integrated wiring of myelinated nerve fibers (white matter) in the brain will be sharper well into old age—when mental decline could ... Read More
Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? The use of aspirin could help to reduce reoccurring blood clots in patients that suffer from venous thromboembolism (VTE), which are potentially life threatening blood clots in the veins. Doctors normally prescribe an ... Read More
Article written by guest writer Rin Mitchell What’s the Latest Development? Researchers at the Center for Reproductive Health at the University of Edinburgh are testing a gene, which has been linked to infertility in men, to see how it could work as a contraceptive. The gene called Katnal1 is ... Read More
What's the Latest Development? For individuals with no assets and no family, the possibility of being committed to a Federal prison may be more promising than landing in a government-funded nursing home. Prison, after all, is not without certain benefits: "Prison is cheap (if not free), provides ... Read More
What's the Latest Development? With the passing of celebrities like Adam Yauch, Maurice Sendak and Dona Summer, the public's grieving process has increasingly taken place in plain view, particularly on social media sites like Twitter. The 140-letter dirge, however, typically conveys a more ... Read More
What's the Latest Development? This week, more than 50,000 Orthodox Jews gathered at Mets' Citi Field Stadium in New York to discuss 'serious family-related problems' caused by the Internet. Organized by Eytan Kobre, US editor of the ultra-Orthodox magazine Mishpacha, the rally elicited speeches ... Read More
What's the Latest Development? Since 2010, an estimated 10 million bank accounts have been moved from multinational financial institutions to community credit unions and other kinds of cooperative, ethical banks. For the first time ever, credit union assets have risen over $1 trillion, reports ... Read More
What's the Latest Development? A little-known book on the virtues of laziness, written in 2006 by a medical doctor named Ray Bennett, is receiving some renewed attention for its serious discussion of purposeful mediocrity. In The Underachiever's Manifesto, Bennett demonstrates the power and ... Read More
What's the Latest Development? Physicists at the University of Innsbruck have taken an essential step toward creating quantum computers, which may prove vastly more powerful than today's chip-based technology. By creating a network that interfaces between a single ion and a single proton, in a ... Read More
What's the Latest Development? Microscopic superconducting particles known as quantum dots could one day be taken in pill form or injected by doctors to aid in medical procedures like electronic medical imaging, according to a new study which confirms the futuristic tool's relative safety. After ... Read More
What's the Latest Development? Science fiction writer Elizabeth Moon argues that implanting a computer chip beneath everyone's skin at birth would make the world better off. While participating in a discussion over whether future wars will have more or fewer victims, Moon put forward the idea ... Read More
What's the Latest Development? A new device developed at MIT can inject drugs into the body without using a needle, improving patient compliance and cutting down on the large number of accidental pricks doctors and nurses give themselves every year. The technology uses a jet-injection system ... Read More
What's the Latest Development? Already famous for San Francisco's cable cars, California is set to receive a new set of cable trucks, reducing carbon emission and fuel use along highway routes used to haul freight between the port of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Called eHighway, the system will ... Read More
What's the Latest Development? Having successfully launched the world's first private space vehicle, the company SpaceX has secured a $1.6 billion NASA contract and will one day carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Other space ventures are close on its heels. The company ... Read More
What's the Latest Development? As the world's first privately-built space capsule hurtles toward the International Space Station, Elon Musk, whose company SpaceX is responsible for the feat, is the talk of the nation. After its successful launch, the Dragon capsule is scheduled to dock with the ... Read More
What's the Latest Development? Some analysts close to Silicon Valley say the dream has run its course and that innovation is now a euphemism for the proliferation of social media websites with ever-smaller niches. Others, such as Todd Hoff, disagree. The High Scalability blogger believes the ... Read More
What's the Latest Development? How to feed humanity's growing population is an environmental concern larger than global warming, says Jon Foley, head of the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment. Global agriculture already puts more pressure on planetary resources than any other ... Read More
What's the Latest Development? Last month, a team of researchers found dark matter mysteriously absent in the region around our sun. Having mapped more than 400 stars, spanning a region roughly 26,000 light years in diameter, the European Southern Observatory identified a quantity of material ... Read More
About Orion Jones
Orion Jones writes and edits the Ideafeed at Big Think and has previously written for Global Post and Catalonia Today. He lives in Barcelona, Spain, where he reads for the Barcelona Review.