SEARCH
INTERNET
Staying in Shape: How the Internet Architecture Got Its Hourglass Shape and What That Means for Future Internet Architectures:
SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.
How to use search on a global scale: http://www.bizreport.com/2011/08/how-to-use-search-on-a-global-scale.html
Wendy Boswell:: Search engine hubs - all of their services, sites, and tools in one convenient place:
Gerry McGovern- what can we learn from Yahoo: http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2011/nt-2011-08-15-What-yahoo.htm
Use Bing to track your search history in detail
One of my long-time favorite publications::
I advise you to subscribe
BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES
10 Things You Should Know About Social Media:
10 ways to increase your Twitter followers:
http://www.mlmtraining.co/internet-marketing/ten-ways-to-increase-your-twitter-followers/
Helping Social Networkers Connect Even More
New apps let social media users connect through many different channels.: http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/38365/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-19&a=f
How to find blogs you like:
http://websearch.about.com/b/2011/08/08/how-to-find-blogs-you-like.htm?nl=1
10+ The Most Useful Tools And Applications For Bloggers | SaveDelete
Digital Storytelling: 30+ Social Tools to Create Sharable, Memorable Stories: http://prtini.com/digital-storytelling-30-social-tools-to-create-sharable-memorable-stories/
GOOGLE
A 17 Item Roundup of News From and About Google and Google+: http://infodocket.com/2011/08/14/a-16-item-roundup-of-news-by-and-about-google-and-google/
Building a healthier, greener Google:
Why Google+ is great news even if you don’t use it:
http://sphinn.com/story/221182?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=email
How Google+ is like Twitter — but not in a good way:
Google's 16 biggest purchases, and how they worked out:
Google Extends Search Into the Page
A new Chrome extension helps users find related content—and more Google products:
New From Google Photo Sharing and MusicDiscovery Sites:
Introducing “Learn with Google”:: http://adwords.blogspot.com/2011/08/introducing-learn-with-google.html?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=email
WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES
Non-traditional book publishing:
THE BOOK IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE BOOK!:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/39689
SCIENCE
Speaking and Understanding Speech Share the Same Parts of the Brain: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110816162313.htm
Biodiversity Key to Earth's Life-Support Functions in a Changing World: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110811084513.htm
Hidden Soil Fungus, Now Revealed, Is in a Class All Its Own:
Scientists Have New Help Finding Their Way Around Brain's Nooks and Crannies:
The Brain on Trial:
Why do humans reason? Arguments for an argumentative theory:
Everyday 'Clairvoyance:' How Your Brain Makes Near-Future Predictions: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110817175925.htm
Earth's Rapid Recycling:
Why Pierre de Fermat is the patron saint of unfinished business:
The best astronomy websites:
The Ocean is swimmimg in viruses:
Altruistic wasps? More like plain self-interest:
How Butterflies Copy Their Neighbors to Fool Birds:
Most Primitive Living Eel Discovered: Creating a New Species, Genus and Family of Animal: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110817120233.htm
TECHNOLOGY
Energy Storage for Solar Power
Startup BrightSource announces a new system that could allow future solar plants to run at night. http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/38257/?nlid=nlenrg&nld=2011-08-15
Gold nanoparticles boost organic solar cell efficiency:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/gold-nanoparticles-boost-organic-solar-cell-efficiency
IBM makes brainy breakthrough in computing; http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73104.html
Energy-Harvesting Displays
Adding solar cells to screens could prolong the battery life of many electronic gadgets.:
Carbon Recycling: Mining the Air for Fuel: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2011/08/110811-turning-carbon-emissions-into-fuel/
Lessons Learned from the Two Worst Oils Spills in US
A New Look Below the Surface of Nanomaterials: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110816152248.htm
Nanostructured Glass for Imaging and Recording:
Engineered Bacteria Mop Up Mercury Spills:
Disorder is key to nanotube mystery: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110812091605.htm
5 software tools to back-up your data safely;
Bob Rankin- why is my Internet connection slow?
EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathemartics Network:
http://stemnet.org.uk/
How Meditation Makes You More Rational
A new study suggests that people who regularly practice Buddhist meditation make decisions in a more rational way:. http://www.alternet.org/story/152011/how_meditation_makes_you_more_rational?akid=7403.112117.p0MwpN&rd=1&t=24
The Empathy Ceiling: The Rich Are Different — And Not In a
Good Way, Studies Suggest
The 'Haves' show less empathy than 'Have-nots:
Kids with “number sense” excel in math:
Wendy Boswell teaching websearch to the students (4 links)
Back to School Web Guide for Students
The Most Useful Resources on the Web for Students of All Ages:
http://websearch.about.com/od/referencesearch/tp/backtoschool.htm?nl=1
Back to School Web Toolbox
All you need for back to school on the Web:
http://websearch.about.com/od/referencesearch/tp/back_to_school_toolbox.htm?nl=1
Reference sites on the Web:
http://websearch.about.com/od/internetresearch/a/newsreference.htm?nl=1
How to Find Free Textbooks Online
Find free college textbooks on the Web!:
http://websearch.about.com/od/booksandprintedmaterials/tp/Free-Textbooks-Online.htm?nl=1
How to practice positive thinking: http://add.about.com/od/livingwithadhd/a/Positive-Think.htm?nl=1
You Are What You Think- What Are Cognitive Distortions?:
A remarkable essay about Bureaucracy:
Become more of an optimist: http://stress.about.com/od/optimismspirituality/ht/optimisthowto.htm?nl=1
All the Laws of Murphy in one place:
How To Be Happy Program Overview-Four Weeks to More Happines:
http://longevity.about.com/od/mentalfitness/a/be_happy.htm?nl=1
10 pleasures and pains of being beautiful:
How your childhood is written in your face
The story of your life really is written on your face, according to new research by scientists.:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8699599/How-your-childhood-is-written-in-your-face.html
The armored child
Babies in helmets. Toddlers tracked by GPS. Has modern parenting gone haywire, or is it just … parenting?:
http://articles.boston.com/2011-08-14/bostonglobe/29887001_1_modern-parenting-babies-helmets:
Are beautiful people 'selfish by nature'?
People with symmetrical faces are more self-sufficient and less likely to co-operate, new research suggests: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/aug/14/beautiful-people-selfish-nature/
New riot-control technology The sound and the fury
Quelling unrest is a lucrative trade:
http://www.economist.com/node/21525838
Digital history;
The World of Forensic Meteorology:
BUSINESS
How to Prevent Self-Inflicted Disasters: http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00086?gko=0c012&cid=20110816COMMENTS#comments
Can Stock Markets Regulate Themselves? History of Markets Offers Insight Into Effects of Regulation On Success of Initial Public Offerings:
The Case for Intelligent Industrial Policy;
Trend hunting on the periphery:
Brand-Conscious Consumers Take Bad News to Heart:
There is an “I” in Conflict:
HEALTH & MEDICINE
INFOGRAPHIC: The Five Biggest Medical Discoveries In History: http://www.businessinsider.com/infographic-the-five-biggest-medical-discoveries-in-history-2011-8
One Word Can Save Your Life: No!:
Possible Therapeutic Target for Depression and Addiction Identified: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110810132857.htm
Banning circumcision Against the cut
The “intactivist” movement takes on the oldest surgery known to man: http://www.economist.com/node/18712852?fsrc=nlw|pub|08-17-2011|publishers
Smelly socks could help curb malaria:
How Microbes Travel Around Earth: Models Show Bacteria Sized Microbes Carried Between Mexico Australia
Look into my eyes
Biotechnology: Smart contact lenses exploit the unusual characteristics of the eye to diagnose disease, deliver drugs and more besides:
Nightcaps do not aid sleep, scientists find
Bedtime whisky drinkers who insist their nightcap helps them drop off for a healthy sleep might have to find another excuse because scientists have found it has the opposite effect:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8703376/Nightcaps-do-not-aid-sleep-scientists-find.html
FOOD & COOKING
Urban Farming: Crops Grown Right Downtown?
The cause of riots and the price of food: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27083/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-15
Science of cooking:
The Periodic Table of Meat: http://pleatedjeans.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/periodic-table-of-meat.png
Vegerrific: http://www.vegerrific.com/
How Tofurky and Fake Bacon Actually Glorify Meat-Eating:
Scientists Highlight Link Between Stress and Appetite:
4 dirty secrets hiding in your tuna can:
Assessing Global Status of Tuna and Billfish Stocks:
Anti-inflammatory foods: http://nutrition.about.com/od/dietsformedicaldisorders/a/antiinflamfood.htm?nl=1
Six Once-Forbidden Foods that Aren’t so Bad for Us:
http://gimundo.com/news/article/six-once-forbidden-foods-that-arent-so-bad-for-us/
Dark Beer Has More Iron Than Pale Beer or Non-Alcoholic Beer:
Heavy Drinkers Have Poor Dietary Habits:
MISCELLANEA
Mind Reading: Everything You Wanted to Know About Poisoning:
http://healthland.time.com/2011/08/12/mind-reading-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-poisoning/
When galaxies collide: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/08/11/bang/
Conflict Levels Don't Change Much Over Course of Marriage:
SELECTED NEWS
SPAM & SPYWARE
Report: Spam is at a two-year high:
Massive rise in malicious spam:
VIRUSES & e-CROOKS
How I got hacked and why you must have a backup:
Fighting the Good Global Cybercrime Fight: Q&A With Security Guru Mikko Hypponen, Part 1:
Top ten online scams:
Fraudulent links scam:
What are social engineering attacks?:
Generic Trojan / Adware Removal Procedures:
Bob Rankinn-are you prepared for a data disaster?:
WiFi
Why Google bought Motorola:
Besides an impressive patent portfolio, Motorola will give Google greater control over the future of the mobile Web:. http://www.technologyreview.com/web/38320/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-16 See also: http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_18684398?nclick_check=1
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