INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY No 465

You will see that the World is still functional. In the same time it is decaying
but it seems that the forces of progress are stronger. Please judge for yourself

SEARCH

INTERNET

SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.  

Reports – how search remains relevant: http://www.bizreport.com/2011/07/reports-how-search-remains-relevant.html

Finding good information on the Internet:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=finding-good-information-on-the-int-2011-07-16

Wendy Boswell:three ways to find breaking news on any topic:

http://websearch.about.com/b/2011/07/13/three-ways-to-find-breaking-news-on-any-topic.htm?nl=1

101 free online alternatives to popular desktop software:

http://websearch.about.com/b/2011/07/11/101-free-online-alternatives-to-popular-desktop-software.htm?nl=1

Wendy Boswell- sites to keep your kids busy

http://websearch.about.com/b/2011/07/21/tenish-sites-to-keep-your-kids-busy.htm

                                    

BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES

Social Media Websites Struggle with Customer Satisfaction: http://www.theacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=258:acsi-commentary-july-2011&catid=14&Itemid=336

Swarms of Locusts Use Social Networking to Communicate:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110714191435.htm

 

Twitter Popularity Higher Than Ever in 2011, Check Out These Stats & Cool Uses:

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2095216/Twitter-Popularity-Higher-Than-Ever-in-2011-Check-Out-These-Stats-Cool-Uses

 

Should You Cancel Facebook and Move to Google+?:

http://google.about.com/od/personalizegoogle/ss/Should-You-Cancel-Facebook-And-Move-To-Google.htm?nl=1

 

Think You're A Social-Media Guru? Take This Quiz:

http://www.fastcompany.com/1768256/mark-zuckerberg-twitter-tom-anderson-google-quiz

GOOGLE

Google’s Innovation and Everyone’s:

http://blogs.forbes.com/quentinhardy/2011/07/16/googles-innovation-and-everyones/?partner=daily_newsletter

Google looks for the Next Google:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/technology/google-spending-millions-to-find-the-next-google.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha25

Google: Everything's Coming Up Pluses:

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72885.html

Wendy Boswell: The basics of Google+:

http://websearch.about.com/b/2011/07/15/the-basics-of-google.htm

 

Google+ reportedly hitting 18 million users: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20080985-93/google-reportedly-hitting-18-million-users/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&tag=nl.e703

 

Google’s New Official Google Only Short URL: g.co:

http://searchengineland.com/googles-new-official-google-only-short-url-g-co-86098?utm_source=sel?utm_medium=scap?utm_campaign=email

CHART OF THE DAY: Google's Headcount Continues To Soar
http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-googles-headcount-2011-7?op=1?utm_source=sel?utm_medium=scap?utm_campaign=email#ixzz1SX4f9jus

A new look for Google Translate:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-look-for-google-translate.html?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=web

Bob Rankin- backup and restore for Gmail: http://askbobrankin.com/how_do_i_backup_my_gmail.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=JGX7R6ao68P6SL

WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES

English vocabulary test: http://testyourvocab.com/

Online Spell Check & Grammar Check:

http://www.gingersoftware.com/spellcheck/

Literally the most misused word:

http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-19/lifestyle/29791304_1_literal-meaning-linguists-character

 

What the word ‘compromise’ really means:

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/19/138468870/what-the-word-compromise-really-means

E-Book Revolution Upends a Publishing Course: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/nyregion/e-book-revolution-upends-columbia-publishing-course.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26

Looking for Some Inexpensive Books? Alibris Offers Option to Limit to Books Costing 99 Cents:              http://infodocket.com/2011/07/16/looking-for-some-inexpensive-books-alibris-offers-option-to-limit-to-books-costing-99-cents/

SCIENCE

Source of empathy in the brain?: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110715135351.htm

 

Fast-Evolving Brains Helped Humans out of the Stone Age: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=evolutionary-psychology-brain-changes

 

How the Early Human Embryo Acquires Its Shape Through 'Organizer' Cells:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110719082816.htm

Fossil Forensics Reveals How Wasps Populated Rotting Dinosaur Eggs: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110715135200.htm

Separated for 20 Million Years: Blind Beetle from Bulgarian Caves Clarifies Questions: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110713092157.htm

Parasitism: Wasp Uses Ladybug as 'Zombie Bodyguard:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110718085229.htm

 

Decoding Slowness: How Sloths Perfected Energy Saving:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110719072721.htm

Scientists discover new types of water wavesa;

http://earthsky.org/water/scientists-discover-new-types-of-water-waves

 

Earth Still Retains Much of Its Original Heat:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/07/earth-still-retains-much-of-its-.html?etoc&elq=6db589663eae481493dbe57bbd6a094a

TECHNOLOGY

Short-Term Energy Outtlook:

http://www.eia.gov/emeu/steo/pub/

 

Energy- five good questions:

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/07/energy_five_good_questions.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScienceblogsChannelEnvironment+%28ScienceBlogs+Channel+%3A+Environment%29

 

T. BOONE PICKENS: WAKE UP, AMERICA! WE'RE FOOLS WITHOUT AN ENERGY PLAN.:

http://bigthink.com/ideas/39377?utm_source=Big+Think+Weekly+Newsletter+Subscribers&utm_campaign=83270ad4d3-Friday_Newsletter_T_Boone_Pickens_July_22_2011&utm_medium=email

 

Nuclear Fission Confirmed as Source of More than Half of Earth's Heat: http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=nuclear-fission-confirmed-as-source-2011-07-18

 

Bold New Approach to Wind 'Farm' Design May Provide Efficiency Gains:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110713131644.htm

 

Ship-based system designed to harness energy from waves: http://www.gizmag.com/wave-power-system-on-ships/19251/

Graphene coating harvests energy from flowing water

http://www.gizmag.com/energy-harvesting-graphene-coating/19268/

 

Pure Nanotubes by the Kilo

An improved production process could make electrical transmission lines far more efficient: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/38102/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-07-21

The breathing Earth- simulation: http://www.breathingearth.net/

 

Making Stuff with Molecular Precision

Companies are learning how nanotechnology can yield new products and manufacturing techniques. http://www.technologyreview.com/business/37948/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-07-21

10 technologies that will change the world in the next 10 years

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/telecommunications/10-technologies-that-will-change-the-world-in-the-next-10-years

 

New Discovery Paves the Way for Using Super Strong Nanostructured Metals in Cars: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110721101456.htm

 

A free resource for fluid dynamics and flow engineering:

http://www.efluids.com/

 

Is the Desktop Having an Identity Crisis?:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38047/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-07-18&a=f

It's Coming: A True Replacement for Paper:

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27018/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-07-22

EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART

Technology Is One Tool To Improve Education Levels Worldwide:

http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/edconf_2011.html

Game theory and the humanities: Bridging two worlds

Beating delay with quiet action:

http://www.execupundit.com/2011/07/beating-delay-with-quiet-action.html#links

Revewsa of Michael Shermer’s book “The believing brain”:

http://www.michaelshermer.com/the-believing-brain/reviews/#Nature

Love in world of scarcity – an essay of Dave Pollard about monogamy:

http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2011/07/16/love-in-a-world-of-scarcity/

And an other essay by Dave Pollard- about the collaps of civilization:

http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2011/07/19/liberation-from-civilization/

An essay of good writing:

http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Heavy-sentences-7053

 

Spotify: Good for music lovers, bad for musicians?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/0720/Spotify-Good-for-music-lovers-bad-for-musicians?cmpid=ema:nws:BizTech%2007202011&cmpid=ema:nws:NzQ4MDUwNzM2OAS2

 

His Holiness and the Art and Science of Interfaith Cooperation:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eboo-patel/dalai-lama-interfaith-cooperation_b_901392.html

More about search-engines and memory:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/search-engine-memory/

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/4525/search-engines-affect-our-memories

Social Science Research Network Library: http://www.ssrn.com/

Kathryn-Reese Taylor on the Mayans and 2012:

http://earthsky.org/human-world/kathryn-reese-taylor-on-the-mayans-and-2012

The Good Men Project: http://goodmenproject.com/

Executing Facial Control During Deception Situations:

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/pdf/July11/FrankHurleyLyingStudy.pdf

What about passion?:

http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/kathryn-britton/2011072218629

Decisions, decisions, decisions:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110718164207.htm

Unusual architecture: http://unusual-architecture.com/

BUSINESS

Research Reveals Dynamics Behind ’Magical Thinking’ and Charismatic Leadership: http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/news/item/7221932/Research+Reveals+Dynamics+Behind+%26%238217%3BMagical+Thinking%26%238217%3B+and+Charismatic+Leadership

 

How To Make Two Key Contradictions of Leadership Work For You:

http://www.terrystarbucker.com/2011/07/17/how-to-make-two-key-contradictions-of-leadership-work-for-you/

The right to management competence:

http://blogs.hbr.org/hill-lineback/2011/04/the-right-to-management-compet.html

10 Psychological Keys to Job Satisfaction: http://www.spring.org.uk/2011/07/10-psychological-keys-to-job-satisfaction.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PsychologyBlog+%28PsyBlog%29

12 Keys to be more creative at work: http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/2011/07/19/12-ways-to-be-more-creative-at-work

A list of business virtues:

http://culturaloffering.com/2008/07/18/virtues.aspx

Be an optimist without being a fool:

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/05/be_an_optimist_without_being_a.html

Asking the crowd how to make something:

http://www.technologyreview.com/business/38066/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-07-20

 

Chance Favors the Concentration of Wealth, Study Shows; New Model Isolates the Effects of Chance in an Investment-Based Economy: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110721172334.htm

HEALTH & MEDICINE

8 ways to search Web MD for medical information:

http://websearch.about.com/b/2011/07/12/8-ways-to-search-web-md-for-medical-information.htm?nl=1

Aging: To Treat, or Not to Treat? The possibility of treating aging is not just an idle fantasy:

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2011/4/aging-to-treat-or-not-to-treat

Open hearted (about heart surgery):

http://newhumanist.org.uk/2574/open-hearted

 

VACCINES. TIME FOR SOCIETY TO SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH:

http://bigthink.com/ideas/39328?utm_source=Big+Think+Weekly+Newsletter+Subscribers&utm_campaign=b37fd3c4f8-Wednesday_Newsletter_David_Ropeik_July_20_2011&utm_medium=email

Back pain health center:

http://www.webmd.com/back-pain/default.htm

Replacing lost abilities with a robot:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38083/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-07-19

 

Reinventing the Toilet for Safe and Affordable Sanitation:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110719094025.htm

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20080711-10391704.html

 

Evolution Provides Clue to Blood Clotting:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110720151545.htm

A semiconductor DNA sequencer: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38106/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-07-22

FOOD & COOKING

 

The World at 7 Billion People: How Much More Growth Can the Planet Support?:

http://www.alternet.org/story/151692/the_world_at_7_billion_people%3A_how_much_more_growth_can_the_planet_support?akid=7294.112117.6Sk2lC&rd=1&t=15

 

New study highlights the environmental benefits of lab-grown meat:                                          http://www.gizmag.com/environmentally-friendly-cultured-meat/19256/

 

How the Soaring Price of Bread Will Shake the Foundations of the Global Economy: http://www.alternet.org/story/151701/how_the_soaring_price_of_bread_will_shake_the_foundations_of_the_global_economy?akid=7294.112117.6Sk2lC&rd=1&t=2

Dry Onion Skin Has a Use: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110714073348.htm

A REVEALED PREFERENCE APPROACH TO MEASURING

HUNGER AND UNDERNUTRITION:

http://publicaffairs.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/download-pdfs/JensenMillerRevealedPreferenceNutrition.pdf

http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/a-new-way-to-measure-hunger/ )popular variant).

A really great cookbook:

http://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Cuisine-Art-Science-Cooking/dp/0982761007/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311190254&sr=8-1 (thanks to Cultural Offering)

 

7 Time-Saving Kitchen Tips From an Insider: http://www.wisebread.com/7-time-saving-kitchen-tips-from-an-insider

Zucchini cooking tips:

http://homecooking.about.com/od/howtocookvegetables/a/zukecooktips.htm?nl=1

MISCELLANEA

 

Dog people vs. Cat people- infographic:

http://dailyinfographic.com/woof-vs-meow

 

In Defence of Dogs by John Bradshaw – review:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/08/defence-dogs-john-bradshaw-review

SELECTED NEWS

SPAM & SPYWARE   

Twitter spam and motivation to report it:

http://www.marco.org/2011/07/18/twitter-spam?utm_source=sel?utm_medium=scap?utm_campaign=email

VIRUSES & e-CROOKS

 

Six Easy Ways to Tell if a Virus Really is a Virus:

http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/tp/virusalerts.htm?nl=1

Google + Scurity, Privacy and Safety

http://netsecurity.about.com/od/security101/a/Google-Plus-Security-Privacy-And-Safety.htm?nl=1

 

Google: Your Computer Appears to be Infected:

http://antivirus.about.com/b/2011/07/20/google-your-computer-appears-to-be-infected.htm?nl=1

Bob Rankin- Anonymous Web Browsinga; http://askbobrankin.com/i_always_feel_like_somebodys_watching_me.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=J_uPcGeTM8P6SL

Bob Rankin- which browser is the most secure?:

http://askbobrankin.com/which_browser_is_the_most_secure.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=Izgopfsq28P6SL

Bob Rankin- Do I REALLY need anti-virus software: http://askbobrankin.com/do_i_really_need_antivirus_software.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=J7yp1q0H28P6SL

Forget Passwords and Let the Browser Remember

An experimental tool removes the need to hand your credentials over to lots of different websites. http://www.technologyreview.com/web/38092/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-07-21&a=f

WiFi

Google+ By Google For iPhone:

http://savedelete.com/google-by-google-for-iphone.html

7 most unusual mobile phones in the world:

http://savedelete.com/7-most-unusual-mobile-phones-in-the-world.html