Big problems could be ahead if we rely on conclusions drawn from individuals' social-networking data:. http://www.technologyreview.com/web/38256/?nlid=nlweb&nld=2011-08-10

For the Plugged-In, Too Many Choices: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/fashion/digitally-fatigued-networkers-try-new-sites-but-strategize-to-avoid-burnout.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26

GOOGLE

Google+ Poised To Become Number Two Network In 12 Months According To Survey:

http://searchengineland.com/google-poised-to-become-number-two-network-in-12-monthscording-to-survey-88761

The Growing Portrait Of Google As A Big, Scary, Expanding Everywhere Copy Monster: http://searchengineland.com/portrait-of-google-as-a-big-scary-expanding-everywhere-copy-monster-88652

Google+: The New Kid on the Block, but is it Too Little, Too Late?:

http://www.techipedia.com/2011/google-plus-late/

Top 10 Desktop Apps Which Can Make You a Gmail Pro: http://savedelete.com/top-10-desktop-apps-which-can-make-you-a-gmail-pro.html

WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES

A dictionary of definitions: http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/index.html

Pronunciation book: http://www.youtube.com/user/pronunciationbook

The Top 24 Sites for Free Books on the Web:

http://websearch.about.com/od/booksandprintedmaterials/tp/read-books-online.htm?nl=1

E-books cause publishing industry growth:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2011/0809/E-books-cause-publishing-industry-growth

Amazon Launches Social Networking Site for Kindle

http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/64821

Amazon Sees a Good Read in the Cloud

Users can now access all of their Amazon Kindle content on anything with a browser. http://www.technologyreview.com/web/38298/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-12

SCIENCE

Neuroscientists Identify How the Brain Remembers What Happens and When:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110804141701.htm

Think Fast: The Neural Circuitry of Reaction Time:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110810132839.htm

Research Reveals Genetic Link to Human Intelligence:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110811215420.htm

What can science tell us about morality:

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/good_bad_brain/

Researchers Uncover New Catalysis Site:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110804170034.htm

Drive to Impress Females Pushes Males Toward Early Graves:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/why-males-die-young/

Rewriting E. coli’s Genetic Code

Researchers use directed evolution to create a bacterial strain that substitutes a synthetic base for thymine:

.http://the-scientist.com/2011/08/05/rewriting-e-coli%E2%80%99s-genetic-code/

TECHNOLOGY

An excellent source for engineering:

http://why.knovel.com/

Solar Energy: Smart Energy Management Systems Help Store Power for Later Use: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110802085823.htm

Venture Capitalists Back Away from Clean Energy

Their shift toward low-risk projects could strand innovative renewable-energy technology in the lab.: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/38295/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-11

Making biofuels 10 times faster:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/making-biofuels-10-times-faster

Nanoscale Pillars Could Have a Big Role in Future Batteries

A new fabrication technique lets batteries use tin electrodes, and store more energy: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/38205/?nlid=nlenrg&nld=2011-08-08

Nanoscale Secret to Stronger Alloys: Scientists Find Nanoparticle Size Is Readily Controlled to Make Stronger Aluminum Alloys

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110807143841.htm

New microscope reveals nanoscale details:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-microscope-reveals-nanoscale-details

Human Influence On the 21st Century Climate: One Possible Future for the Atmosphere:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110805135343.htm

IPad one of the most successful products ever:

http://blogs.forbes.com/timworstall/2011/07/02/ipad-one-of-the-most-successful-products-ever/

Police use facial recognition technology to nab rioters:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44110353/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART

Denial of complexity:

http://ming.tv/flemming2.php/__show_article/_a000010-001853.htm

The History and Geography of Inventions: http://www.krysstal.com/inventions.html#search

10 award winning scientific simulation videos:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/science-simulation-videos/

World Survey Links Religion and Happiness -- For Some:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110808170052.htm

The psychology of Creativity

http://www.spring.org.uk/2011/08/the-psychology-of-creativity.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PsychologyBlog+%28PsyBlog%29

The top 10 Psychology Studies from 2010:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1A7Ojq/www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-success/201012/the-top-10-psychology-studies-2010

Does the world need positive psychology: http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/bridget-grenville-cleave/2011081018747

The Science of the London Riots:

http://www.livescience.com/15505-science-london-riots.html

Education Affects Americans' Religiosity -- But Not How You Might Think:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110808124245.htm

False confessions Silence is golden

People have a strange and worrying tendency to admit to things they have not, in fact, done:

http://www.economist.com/node/21525840

Toward a Post-Growth Society

It’s business as usual that’s the utopian fantasy, while creating something very new and different is the pragmatic way forward:

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/07-13

The Backfire Effect (again)

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/

Venn diagram for authors:

http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/author-venn/

In communication, substance comes first:

http://qaspire.com/2011/08/02/in-communication-substance-comes-first/

Migrants in the world: http://peoplemov.in/#!

49 fairy tales: http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/index.html

"Sea Monster" Fetus Found—Proof Plesiosaurs Had Live Young?:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/08/110811-plesiosaurs-live-birth-fossils-young-science-chiappe-dinosaurs-fetus/

BUSINESS

The Link between Peak Oil and Peak Debt:

(I): http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8126

(i) http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8135

Sure Cure for the Debt Problem: Economic Growth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/business/economy/sure-cure-for-debt-problems-is-economic-growth.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha24

Why Isn't America Innovating Like It Used To?

It's easy to imagine that our whiz-bang gadgets have made us more productive than ever. But what if that's simply not the case?: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27063/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-08

Getting others ro embrace risks:

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

How to make a High Stakes Decision?

http://blogs.hbr.org/hmu/2011/05/how-to-make-a-high-stakes-deci.html

How to be Truly Global Company?:

http://www.strategy-business.com/article/11308?gko=aaf83&cid=20110809COMMENTS#comments

A valuable leadership blog: http://jasonseiden.com/