EDITORIAL.
It is my pleasure to share with you again my weekly discoveries and proofs of progress in the real world.
Here I confess you that in addition to my great intellectual loves, rather harmonious and happy: : http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2011/08/taxonomy-mon-amour.html
there exists a third one, as passionate as the others, but not harmonious at all, mixed with silent and not so silent desperation- the love of Progress. It can survive only by associations with the other two stories of love. Outside technology, it is quite impossible to find signs of progress...Morally, socially, politically, financially the World is broken and in regress. I will tell you more about this in the near future.
Peter
SEARCH
INTERNET
Seeing the future of the office Internet:
7 Years Later – Top Internet Properties 2004 – 2011:
SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.
Searcher Demographics – We Are What We Search: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2103242/Searcher-Demographics-We-Are-What-We-Search
A comparison engine for large data sets: http://www.findthedata.org/
Wendy Boswell: What are people searching for on the Web? http://websearch.about.com/b/2011/08/19/what-are-people-searching-for-on-the-web.htm?nl=1
How to Find the Most Popular Searches on the Web:
The Top 25 Web Searches of the Decade: http://websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/tp/top-web-searches-of-the-decade.htm?nl=1
The Top Twenty YouTube Videos of All Time
Six Ways You Can Use the Real-Time Web:
BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES
Helping Social Networkers Connect Even More
New apps let social media users connect through many different channels: http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/38365/?nlid=nlcomm&nld=2011-08-22&a=f
Facebook, Twitter boom despite Google+ challenge
Report shows strong growth for social nets, especially Tumblr and LinkedIn: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219463/Facebook_Twitter_boom_despite_Google_challenge?source=CTWNLE_nlt_pm_2011-08-24
International Bloggers and Internet Control http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/sites/cyber.law.harvard.edu/files/International_Bloggers_and_Internet_Control_0.pdf: .
GOOGLE
Google Wants Search to Know What You Know
A revamped search engine might return different results depending on whether you've researched a subject before:
The 1000 most-visited sites on the web, according to Google: http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/index.html
Video: How Google Improves Their Search Algorithms:
Wendy Boswell: change the Google home page background image:
Hypertext Visionary Jorge Luis Borges Celebrated with Google Logo: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2103895/Hypertext-Visionary-Jorge-Luis-Borges-Celebrated-with-Google-Logo
Google Bombs Explained: http://google.about.com/od/socialtoolsfromgoogle/a/googlebombatcl.htm?nl=1
WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES
The Secret Language Code- the secret meaning of pronouns: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-language-code&offset=2
Print vs. Online
The ways in which old-fashioned newspapers still trump online newspapers: http://www.slate.com/id/2302014/
Amazing libraries:
SCIENCE
Fundamental Discovery About Neurons May Radically Alter Current View of Neurotransmission: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110823154038.htm
Young Brains Lack the Wisdom of Their Elders, Clinical Study Shows: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110825102253.htm
How Many Species On Earth? About 8.7 Million, New Estimate Says: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110823180459.htm
Oldest fossils on Earth discovered:
Discovery of a 160-Million-Year-Old Fossil Represents a New Milestone in Early Mammal Evolution: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110824131535.htm
UC Davis Entomologist Lynn Kimsey Discovers New Species of Wasp: Gigantic Wasp With Long, Powerful Jaws
Why Spiders Don't Drop Off of Their Threads: Source of Spider Silk's Extreme Strength Unveiled: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110817120223.htm
Parasite Uses the Power of Attraction to Trick Rats Into Becoming Cat Food: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110819141519.htm
Riot control: How can we stop newspapers distorting science?:L
TECHNOLOGY
New energy storage device could recharge electric vehicles in minutes: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-energy-storage-device-recharge-electric.html Thanks to Rich Murray!
Power-Scavenging Batteries
Inexpensive chips harvest mechanical energy to charge batteries for wireless sensors. http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/38434/?nlid=nlmat&nld=2011-08-25
The Next Generation of Technology- 35 Innovators under 35:
Visual tour: the future of tablets;:
Tablet computers
Difference Engine: Reality dawns:
Quick and Cheap Data Storage? New Multiferroic Material Is Both Electrically Charged and Magnetic: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110822101946.htm
Unexpected Adhesion Properties of Graphene May Lead to New Nanotechnology Devices: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110823141907.htm
Engineers Discover Nanoscale Balancing Act That Mirrors Forces at Work in Living Systems:
Exploring the Possibilities for Zeolites: Team Creates Database of 2.6 Million Varieties of Molecular Sieves: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110405113020.htm
EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART
Dave Pollard- a new essay from the series: “How the World
The Shrinkage Solution
A pair of civil engineers proposed that we genetically engineer shorter people to conserve resources:
Free computer science courses, new teaching technology reinvent online education
Stanford Engineering professors are setting out to add a new level of interactivity to online education by offering three of the university's most popular computer science classes for free. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/august/online-computer-science-081611.html
Genomics in Education: http://www.nslc.wustl.edu/elgin/genomics/
Famous last words, our 20 favorite final line in literature:
And something similar to the site from above, Bulwer Lytton Contest 2011: http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2011.htm
The meaning of life in under 300 words:
http://www.spring.org.uk/2011/08/the-meaning-of-life-in-under-300-words.php
Egotist Rex: Are a Dictator's Defiant Statements Indicative of Self-Delusion?: For months Col. Muammar Qadhafi has resisted the popular rebellion in Libya
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=libya-qadhafi-psychology
People are biased against creative ideas, studies find:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-people-biased-creative-ideas.html
Bob Rankin- ASCII art- an Internet treasure:
BUSINESS
Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/08/24/steve-jobss-best-quotes/
Global Capitalism at Risk: What Are You Doing About It?” http://hbr.org/2011/09/global-capitalism-at-risk-what-are-you-doing-about-it/ar/1
Getting to Eureka
What Is Culture and Why Is It Important?:
Evolution of a good employee:
The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters By Diane Coyle Princeton University
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?:
10 Psychological Techniques to Help You Get a New Job: http://www.spring.org.uk/2011/08/10-psychological-techniques-to-help-you-get-a-new-job.php
Perceptions:
Economic Inequality Is Linked to Biased Self-Perception:
Very controversial- 5 reasons Capitalism has Failed: http://www.alternet.org/story/152118/5_reasons_capitalism_has_failed?akid=7442.112117.BQmcHs&rd=1&t=2
Why capitalism has not failed:
Making sense of our world (it is about Personal Knowledge Management): http://www.jarche.com/2011/08/making-sense-of-our-world/
Cryptocurrency -by James Surowiecki author of “Wisdom of Crowds” The bitcoin, a virtual medium of exchange, could be a real alternative to government-issued money—but only if it survives hoarding by speculators: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38392/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-24
Exposing that which lies below the surface:
Diagnose and Eliminate Workplace Bullying:
Getting Leaders to Change:
HOW TO STAND UP TO YOUR BOSS (WITHOUT BEING A PAIN IN THE ASS (by Guy Kawasaki
http://bigthink.com/ideas/39796?utm_source=Big+Think+Weekly+Newsletter+Subscribers&utm_campaign=5c715ed5c0-Wednesday_Newsletter_August_24_2011&utm_medium=email
Entrepreneur- Murphy’s Law:
http://mappingcompanysuccess.com/2011/08/entrepreneur-murphys-law/
To catch a liar:
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/06/to_catch_a_liar.html
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Puzzle of Brain Function (important for psychiatry): http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110819092421.htm
Hologram Method Used to Study Neurons
The approach could ultimately be used to rapidly screen new drugs designed to protect brain cells: .
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38438/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-26
Designing drugs based on what parasites eat:
Could New Drug Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection? Technology Shows Promise Against Common Cold, Influenza and Other Ailments, Researchers Say:
Drug Interactions, What you Should Know: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/ucm163354.htm
Infected Insects Fight Dengue Fever:
Doing away with the dentist’s drill by helping teeth regenerate themselves: http://www.gizmag.com/regenerating-teeth/19608/
Does Religion Influence Epidemics?:
How to relieve back pain: http://backandneck.about.com/od/exerciseandsport/tp/backexerciseprogram.htm?nl=1
http://yoga.about.com/od/yogaandbackpain/a/backpainhub.htm?nl=1 Due to my working system at the PC 17/7/365 I know welll this problem
Health Risks With Nanotechnology? Nanoparticles Can Hinder Intracellular Transport: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110824091143.htm
The Petri Dish Gets a Makeover
A nanopore membrane creates faster, surer cultures for everything from hospital diagnostics to water-quality checks:. http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38404/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-23
FOOD & COOKING
Cooking games visited teach children how to cook:
Cooking may be 1.9m years old, say scientists
Researchers say cooking was commonplace among Homo erectus and probably originated early in their era or earlier:
Lager's mystery ingredient found
Missing ancestor of yeast used in cold-brewed beer is identified:
MISCELLANEA
How to burglar-proof your stash of cash:
http://columnfivemedia.com/work-items/mint-infographic-how-to-burglar-proof-your-stash-of-cash/
SELECTED NEWS
SPAM & SPYWARE
VIRUSES & e-CROOKS
7 Ways To Save Your Online Information From Computer Hackers:
Web hoaxes: how to make sure you don't fall for 'em:
Researchers see improved Zeus malware:
The latest issue of “Hoax Slaye”r:
WiFi
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