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The power of collective intelligence:
SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.
6 Myths Chinese Search Engine Baidu Would Rather Like to correct:
http://searchengineland.com/6-myths-chinese-search-engine-baidu-would-rather-like-to-correct-91068
Why Bing Cannot Loosen Google’s Grip on Search:
Top 10 Best File Hosting Service Providers:
BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES
Can we ever digitally organize our friends?:
65% of online adults use social networking sites:
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Social-Networking-Sites.aspx
Where Is the Facebook for Old People?
Social networking is for the young, says a new survey:
Social Networking Meets Problem Solving
The website Jig wants to solve your needs—with a little help from your friend:. http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/38462/?nlid=nlweb&nld=2011-08-31&a=f
Social learning the freedom to act and cooperate with others:
The Middle Ground between Technology and Revolutions
Social media didn't cause the revolutions in Egypt Tunisia
5 clever ways to get a job using social media:
Bloggre’s fresh new look:
GOOGLE
For Google CEO Larry Page, a Difficult Premiere Role:
Google’s Biggest Gamble:
Google’s Eric Schmidt says if you don’t want to use your real name, don’t use Google +:
How Google plans to change the way you watch TV:
Google +1 Button’ Chrome Extension Lets You +1 Any Page On The Web:
Happy third birthday, Chrome!
WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES
100 most beautiful words in the English language:
New words: Retweet, cyberbullying, and sexting officially enter the OED
A raft of new words were added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary this month.: http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/0825/New-words-Retweet-cyberbullying-and-sexting-officially-enter-the-OED
Book Lovers, Technophiles, Pragmatists, and Printers: The social and demographic structure of user attitudes toward e-books:
Amazon’s Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. I’ve Seen It, Played With It: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/02/amazon-kindle-tablet/
Top 5 online resources for free Kindle books:
Nook may be Barnes and Noble’s Salvation:
Reading Revolution 14 marvelous modern libraries
Battle of the Book
Is it “greener” to read an e-book or an old-fashioned paper book? http://www.conservationmagazine.org/2011/06/battle-of-the-book/
SCIENCE
How the Brain Stores Information for Short Periods of Time:
Animals on the brain:
Your brain is hardwired to notice animals, according to a new study.
http://earthsky.org/human-world/animals-on-the-brain
Who am I? Your brain. http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/WhoAmI/FindOutMore/Yourbrain.aspx
The most frequently quoted brain facts (that are total bullshit):
http://www.cracked.com/article_19370_the-6-most-frequently-quoted-brain-facts-that-are-total-bs.html
Two Brain Halves, One Perception: How Communication Between Brain Hemispheres Determines Individual's Subjective Experience:
They ignore bisinisencephalians as usual.
20 things you didn’t know about lab accidents: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1z8g8H/discovermagazine.com/2006/nov/20-things-lab-accidents?searchterm=20%20things
Possible Biological Control Discovered for Pathogen Devastating Amphibians: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110826111303.htm
New Method Reveals Parts of Bacterial Genome Essential to Life:
Insect Gut Microbe With a Molecular Iron Reservoir: Researchers Analyze the Structure of an Iron Storage Protein:
Up from the Depths: How Bacteria Capture Carbon in the 'Twilight Zone : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110901142054.htm
How stable is the stuff we’re made of?
Intensity of Hurricanes Still Bedevils Scientists: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/science/30forecast.html?_r=1&ref=science
Low mass, low metal: SDSS J102915+172927 is the star that should not exist: http://www.sciencecodex.com/the_star_that_should_not_exist Thanks to MoB at Vortex!
Extreme galaxies, some 3000 times brighter than the Milky Way;
TECHNOLOGY
A Moore
Carbon nanotube reinforced polyurethane could make for better and bigger wind turbines:
Cracking Cellulose: A Step Into the Biofuels Future:
Breakthrough in Hydrogen Fuel Cells: Chemists Develop Way to Safely Store, Extract Hydrogen:
Graphene's Shining Light Could Lead to Super-Fast Internet:
Building Crowds of Humans Into Software
By using crowdsourcing for difficult tasks such as understanding speech or images, the software could enable smarter apps.:
Solar Forest Keeps Cars Cool And Juiced:
Flash Memory That'll Keep On Shrinking
Using atom-thick carbon instead of silicon could pack ever more data into portable electronics. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38471/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-09-02
Fabricating fabric
How to generate more realistic images of clothes:
EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART
Dear Readers- I hope you all watch these videos- meetings with exceptional people: http://www.ted.com/
Cultural Offering is 4 years old! Happy Birthday! http://culturaloffering.com/2011/08/31/quick-late-celebration---4-years-old.aspx
The Digital Revolution and Higher Education: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/College-presidents/Summary.aspx
Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting large-scale human behavior using global news media tone in time and space: http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3663/3040
Information as art- 20 stunning examples of visualized data” http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/information_art_20_stunning_examples_visualized_data
Singularity University
The history of the world in 100 objects from the British Museum
Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages
Very useful, unfortunately –defense against the psychopats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgGyvxqYSbE&feature=player_embedded Thanks to Vlad Plesa , Canada
Bullying: How Do Victims Respond to Bullies and Why?:
Top 5 Streaming Music Sites Listen to music while you surf the net.: http://mp3.about.com/od/streamingaudio/tp/Best_Streaming_Music_Sites.htm?nl=1
All the fun of the scare We can't get enough of frightening films, video games and theatre 'experiences'. But why do we find fear so thrilling? It's all down to our biology, discovers Luke Blackall:
Atomic Bomb Museum
From Hitler to Gaddafi, Dictators and their Bunkers:
We need to think about saving ourselves:
iThenticate Examines "The Ethics of Self-Plagiarism" in New White Paper:
What does your body language say about you:?
Second chance for a last impression:
http://iii.bobulate.com/2007/11/second-chance-for-a-last-impression/ how to end e-mails
Wendy Boswell how to cite an article from a website: http://websearch.about.com/od/howtoevaluateawebsite/a/citing.htm?nl=1
BUSINESS
How to prepare yourself for future opportunities:
Think like a creative fool:
Turning stress into an asset:
Wealth creation and macroeconomics The parasite problem:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2011/08/wealth-creation-and-macroeconomics
Not the Way We Treat People: 21 Items: http://www.execupundit.com/2011/09/not-way-we-treat-people-21-items.html#links
How to Prepare for a Black Swan
Disrupter analysis can help assess the risks of future catastrophic events:. http://www.strategy-business.com/article/11303
Reputation Management – Tactics that still work:
Leaders- change is hard- don’t make it harder by being stupid:
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Living to 100 and Beyond
Scientists are on the brink of radically expanding the span of a healthy life. Author Sonia Arrison on the latest advances—and what they mean for human existence. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904875404576528841080315246.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_2
The Rise of Electronic Medicine
Medicine today is a sea of paper and fax machines, privacy barriers, and unconnected data. The public is ready for a better system: http://www.technologyreview.com/business/38473/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-09-01.
The Doctor and the iPad:
New Treatments for Baldness? Scientists Find Stem Cells That Tell Hair It's Time to Grow:
I have waited patiently 55 years for this!
Uncovering the spread of deadly cancer:
Engineered Viruses Selectively Kill Cancer Cells
The experimental therapy could ultimately serve as a seek-and-destroy treatment for metastatic cancer: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38465/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-09-01
Blood Biomarker Is Linked with Death
Those with higher levels of a particular molecule were found to be more likely to die of heart disease or cancer in the next dozen years: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38457/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-30
Antibiotic resistance found in ancient bacteria:
Mind-Altering Microbes: Probiotic Bacteria May Lessen Anxiety and Depression:
Black Death Bacterium Identified: Genetic Analysis of Medieval Plague Skeletons Shows Presence of Yersinia Pestis Bacteria
Coral could hold key to sunscreen pill: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14717834
FOOD & COOKING
The Paleo Diet: Should You Eat Like a "Caveman?"
An entire subculture is looking at the very, very distant past for a http://www.alternet.org/story/152206/the_paleo_diet%3A_should_you_eat_like_a_%22caveman%22?akid=7490.112117.DnxNf-&rd=1&t=12
What's Really in That Luscious Chocolate Aroma?:
MISCELLANEA
.Wendy Boswell- the fantasy sports websites the top 5:
http://websearch.about.com/b/2011/08/24/fantasy-sports-websites-the-top-five.htm?nl=1
SELECTED NEWS
SPAM & SPYWARE
Google+ wins when spammers win:
VIRUSES & e-CROOKS
Morto worm spreading fast via RDP: http://blogs.computerworld.com/18870/morto_worm_spreading_fast_via_rdp?source=CTWNLE_nlt_blogs_2011-08-29
Passwords: Creating and Maintaining a Strong Password System:
Bob Rankin- traditional anti-virus may no longer protect you:
Bob Rankin- mobile malware, are you exposed?:
How to Guard Against Phishing & Social Engineering Attacks:
Bob Rankin – how to defeat a keylogger: http://askbobrankin.com/how_to_defeat_a_keylogger.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=JeYfvOxSF8P6SL
WIFI
Beyond Smart Phones: Sensor Network to Make 'Smart Cities' Envisioned:”
Mobile phone data help track population during disasters:
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