Media Bias, Unclutter Your Life, Mind Controlled Headsets

Media Bias, Unclutter Your Life, Mind Controlled Headsets

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 4, Episode 67

  • Apr 8, 2015 1:00 pm
  • 2:14:11 mins

Tim Groseclose on Media Bias (11:40) Dr. Tim Groseclose a professor of economics at George Mason University. His research has focused on Congress, the media, and mathematical models of politics. He has recently published two books, Cheating: An Insider’s Report on the Use of Race in Admissions at UCLA and Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind. Today Dr. Groseclose helps us understand the bias in media and how to avoid being manipulated but stay informed. Unclutter Your Life in One Week (1:08:13) Erin Rooney Doland is a professional organizer. She is the editor-in-chief of unclutterer.com. She is also the author of “Unclutter Your Life in One Week”. She contributes twice weekly to “Real Simple” online and has been featured on The Washington Post, The New York Times, Slate, House Beautiful, lifehacker.com and BBC and HGTV. Today she shares tip on how to unclutter your life and by doing so reduce stress.  Mind Controlled headsets (1:43:03) Kim Du is the Vice President of Corporate Development at EMOTIV which is a bioinformatics company that offers a unique platform for crowd-sourced brain research. She talks about one of their newest technologies, a headset that allows you to control things with your mind. This product someday could allow a user to potentially lift objects, move images on a screen, even drive a car with your mind.

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