Eliot and I joined members of the Perez Art Museum Miami on a group trip to the new Whitney museum. Here are the photos I took with the IPhone 6 Plus.
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Visiting The New Whitney
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Art On The Hudson
The Perez Museum in Miami gave Eliot and I VIP tickets to the art exhibition, Art Miami New York, at Pier 94. It took us 40 minutes to get across town. The traffic has been impossible.
Sometimes the people are more interesting than the art. 
Banksy, the artist, must know me.
I love when I watch people study art and talk about it together. 
She’s not alive. 
The famous gallerist Nancy Hoffman of Chelsea.
A new painting by Hung Lui.
No idea what this statue is supposed to be. 
Other interesting paintings.
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Public TV Gets A Sound
I don’t know if what I am about to tell you will make any difference in your life, but I wanted you to know this anyway. A new app called Tunity is going to allow you to hear the audio in muted TVs in airports, nail salons and restaurants/sports bars.
Tunity gets its audio signals from the cloud and matches them to users who want to scan a nearby TV screen with a smartphone. The parent company is AudioStreamTV.
This is not only good news for the public, but for TV networks as well. They may now be able to count additional people outside the home as part of their overall viewership.
A New York Moment 
We will never see each other again but for 10 minutes on Mother’s Day last Sunday the gentleman in the picture with me was my BFF. Eliot and I were walking West on Central Park South when we passed a family (this guy, his wife and a teenage son and daughter) just hanging out. For some reason I locked eyeballs with the dad. He looked so familiar.
He saw me staring at him and asked Eliot and I if we were lost. We explained that we lived in NYC all our lives and knew exactly where we were going. We then asked them who they were. It turned out that they were visiting NYC for the day from some town we never heard of between Boston and Cape Cod.
I kept thinking I knew this man from somewhere but I just couldn’t remember. The next thing I know, he hugs me and his wife offers to take a picture of us. I asked Eliot to hold my purse to avoid a trick robbery. I may have been smitten for a second, but the New Yorker in me trusts no one.
Waiting For Apple Watch To Get Ripe
Image: Quin Paek for Re/code—Walt Mossberg checking his Apple Watch
Many friends and family members keep asking me if I am going to get the Apple Watch. If someone gave it to me as a gift, I would certainly not refuse it. But if I have to go out and purchase it on my own, I’m pretty sure the answer would be “not yet.”
There are some amazing features in the Watch that I love, like using it as the key for your hotel guest room, but it’s just not enough to make me want to spend several hundred dollars for the least expensive unit. I’m sure that a half a year down the road, third party app developers will create something that will make me swoon.
In the meantime, read the ultimate review on the Apple Watch from one of the most astute tech writers in the business, Walt Mossberg, of Re/code.
Click here for Walt’s comments. The video in the review is very helpful in explaining all the pros and cons.
Don’t Be Fooled By Sponsored Editorial
Don’t let the digital world fool you. Not everything you read online is editorial (articles) even though it looks like it. More and more, websites are publishing paid posts from companies. Look for words like “Presented By,” “Sponsored Content,” and “Paid For,” to know the difference.
This is a new advertising source for digital publications. Companies pay a flat fee to post an article on a topic of their choosing. The company will then use its name and products as an example of what is being written about in the article. To most people, these sponsored articles look exactly like the unbiased write-ups a site usually publishes. Only by looking closer and seeing the designation of “Presented By,” “Sponsored Content,” and “Paid For,” would you know the difference. It’s the way of the world now. Online publications need income and you should know what you are reading.
Check out the examples I provided below: “Presented By Delta,” “Presented by NewBalance/DSW,” and “Sponsored Content.” If you read the stories you will even be confused further. Most of the stories include several company names or sources to disguise the advertiser. Read them carefully. See if you can find the featured guest.
Business Insider 
Huffington Post 
Dealerscope 
Interesting Tweets
I just wanted to remind everyone that Twitter is a news feed, a one-stop site to get all of your news and to express your opinions. No more fishing for news. It’s all there.
The best thing about Twitter is that much of the news is created by people like you and me. They see something, they post it. Twitter gets the news first. Every newspaper, magazine, radio and TV station all distribute their news on Twitter as well.
Don’t forget the search box. You use to zero in on any topic, person, or company. It’s really amazing.
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POLITICO (@politico) |
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Natalie Portman will play Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a forthcoming drama politi.co/1ANrzwK
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New York Post (@nypost) |
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Egypt’s deposed leader Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to 3 years in prison for corruption charges nyp.st/1F5AFdr pic.twitter.com/xHhHdjYe6Ta
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The New York Times (@nytimes) |
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While customers get pretty nails, manicurists suffer miscarriages and asthma nyti.ms/1Imue8r pic.twitter.com/ecD9KpKPZL
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BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) |
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#TheGoldenGirls ended 23 years ago today pic.twitter.com/BnhImiHc6S
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Fast Company (@FastCompany) |
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How computers can anticipate users’ needs (without driving them crazy) f-st.co/gvGrFkl by @ptwils
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Yahoo News (@YahooNews) |
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Castro’s daughter sponsors blessing of Cuban gay couples yhoo.it/1F62mCR
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The Associated Press (@AP) |
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Ozzy Osbourne donates $10,000 to children’s percussion group after watching video of students perform “Crazy Train”: apne.ws/1IswMQI
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USA TODAY (@USATODAY) |
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The chicken may not look ferocious, but it has a very tough cousin. usat.ly/1FWgjEe #GlobalBigDay pic.twitter.com/0Y4OYXUPAP
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Synthetic Cadavers
We are living in the world of wonderment. Let me introduce you to the first ever synthetic cadaver. It debuted on Shark Tank Friday night. It’s a surgical simulator that bleeds, breathes and even has pupils that dilate when they are exposed to light. It’s the closest thing to a human cadaver, which is always in limited supply.
Shark Tank investor Robert Herjavec gave the inventor, Dr. Christopher Sakezles, $3 million to produce synthetic cadavers for the continuatuon of medical research. Dr. Sakezles’s company is SynDaver Labs in Tampa, FL.
The SynDaver synthetic cadaver is made from a proprietary library of more than 100 synthetic human tissues. The other anatomical models on the market are made from plastic or rubber.
A company press release said,”The model includes skin with fat and fascia planes, all bones, muscles, tendon and ligaments, fully articulating joints, a functioning respiratory system with trachea, lungs and diaphragm, complete digestive tract from esophagus to rectum, urinary tract with kidneys, gall bladder, pancreas, spleen and reproductive organs. A functioning circulatory system with heart, coronaries, aorta, vena cava and vasculature to the extremities is also included.”
Watch the video for some miraculous demonstations.
New Tech Words
I always look forward to the new tech words dictionary.com introduces each year. This year is no different. Here are some wackadoodle new words and their meanings.
astroturfing: the deceptive tactic of simulating grassroots support for a product or cause undertaken by people or organizations with an interest in shaping public opinion.
basic: characterized by predictable or unoriginal style, interests, or behavior.
bigender: relating to a person who has two gender identities or some combination of both.
blackhat: a hacker who violates the security of a system for personal profit or for the gratification of causing damage.
brogrammer: a male computer programmer who is characterized as a bro.
cybercrime: criminal activity or a crime that involves the Internet, a computer system, or computer technology.
dark web: the portion of the Internet that is intentionally hidden from search engines, uses masked IP addresses, and is accessible only with a special web browser.
dox: to publish the private personal information of (another person) without the consent of that individual.
gender-fluid: relating to a person whose gender identity or gender expression is not fixed and shifts over time or depending on the situation.
gesture: a particular movement of the fingers or hand over a screen, used to control or interact with a digital device
hyperlocal: focused on a very small geographical community, such as a neighborhood.
revenge porn: sexually suggestive images of someone, typically a former romantic partner, that are posted online without the person’s consent.
USA Today has a longer list.
Oral Fixation
Image: Getskinnybehappy.com
Do you live to eat, or do you eat to live? When I first heard that question decades ago, I constantly thought about it. Now that I just learned about a study completed by Brigham Young University about late night snacking, I can’t stop thinking about that question again.
Maybe if we truly understand what propels us to constantly nosh, we can teach ourselves not to give in?
Brigham Young University claims we crave food at midnight because our brains are less stimulated by food and that means we are never satisfied. In other words, we compensate.
Researchers at the University in Utah found that “brain activity is lower in response to images of food later in the day, and the drive we have to snack at night may be our attempt to increase those diminishing ‘food high’
brain spikes.”
The results of the study were published in the medical journal Brain Imaging and Behavior in March, but the university officially released information on the research Tuesday.
To get more insight into the study, check out a story in CNET. Click here. It’s 12:48am. I’m
getting the urge to eat again. Steady Lois. Read the study again.
Facebook Friends Hear From Sheryl Sandberg
I was stunned tonight when I saw a post from Sheryl Sandberg on my Facebook feed. I can only assume that everyone got it. Over hundred thousand people instantly commented on her post wishing her nothing but the best.
The post is so sad to read even though it is a beautiful tribute to her husband, Dave Goldberg. The world has changed. Sheryl decided to share her emotions publicly on social media. Years ago, we all privately mourned. Maybe it’s better just to belt it out.
In any case, it is heartbreaking.
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