INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY No 480

Dear Readers,

This newsletter is a great opportunity for me- I get and study some good quality information and I also can donate it to you. “Good quality” is a problem of definition- and all I can hope is that more and more people

will use definitions similar to my own definitions.

Otherwise the World’s interestingness is increasing, however it seems we

will survive.

Very truly yours,

Peter

SEARCH

INTERNET

 

The history of the Internet in a nutshell:

http://sixrevisions.com/resources/the-history-of-the-internet-in-a-nutshell/

 

IBM open-sources ‘Internet of Things’ protocol: http://www.kurzweilai.net/ibm-open-sources-internet-of-things-protocol

SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.  

 

Infographic: The Top Three US Search Engines: http://searchengineland.com/infographic-the-top-three-us-search-engines-99036

Question and Answer Search Engines:

http://websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/tp/answer-search-engines.htm?nl=1

 

Deep Web is hidden from search engines: http://www2.turnto10.com/news/2011/nov/04/deep-web-hidden-search-engines-ar-815661/

 

Check what time it is anywhere in the world on the Web

http://websearch.about.com/b/2011/10/05/what-time-is-it.htm?nl=1

Anonymous e-mail in seconds: http://mailnesia.com/

Website reputation: http://www.webutation.net/

                               

BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES

Social media, four trends to watch in 2012:

http://twitterrocks.com/social-media-4-trends-to-watch-in-2012/

Twitterology, a new science?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/sunday/twitterology-a-new-science.html

Introducing Twitter stories: http://blog.twitter.com/2011/11/introducing-twitter-stories.html?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=email

No, Twitter isn’t ruining the English language: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/10/31/no-twitter-isnt-ruining-the-english-language/?partner=technology_newsletter

 

10 Great Twitter Tools To Transform Your Tweeting Experience:

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/transform-your-tweeting-experience/?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=email

Infographic of the day- the many languages of Twitter:

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665366/infographic-of-the-day-the-many-languages-of-twitter

GOOGLE

 

Is Google too big to fail?

http://www.seobook.com/too-big-to-fail?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=email

Improve your Google-fu with these 13 vital search commands:

http://websearch.about.com/b/2011/10/07/become-a-google-master-with-these-13-google-search-commands.htm?nl=1

 

Google Changes Search Algorithm, Trying to Make Results More Timely:                           http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/google-changes-search-algorithm-trying-to-make-results-more-timely/

Gmail’s new look:            http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/gmails-new-look.html

Confesions of  a Googleholic- getting ahead in the game:

http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/googleholic.html

Don’t blame Google –get known for doing something great:

http://www.hotseonews.com/don%E2%80%99t-blame-google-%E2%80%93-get-known-for-doing-something-great.php

 Giving you fresher, more recent search results:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/giving-you-fresher-more-recent-search.html

Google TV

Reboots -Google TV is revamping its software, but doesn't plan to put out new hardware until next year: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/helloworld/

Google+ is not a social network, but it’s not a graveyard, either:

http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/03/google-plus-is-not-a-social-network/?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=email

WORDS, BOOKS,  LIBRARIES

Real trends in word and sentence length: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3534

Amazon, now a book lender:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204621904577014273003626952.html

SCIENCE

 

Decoding the brain’s cacophony:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/science/telling-the-story-of-the-brains-cacophony-of-competing-voices.html?_r=1

 

Brain Cells Responsible for Keeping Us Awake Identified:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111103143434.htm

Consciousness: The Black Hole of Neuroscience: http://bigthink.com/ideas/40965

 

Deep Intellect Inside the mind of the octopus:

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6474

 

Rethinking Equilibrium: In Nature, Large Energy Fluctuations May Rile Even 'Relaxed' Systems: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111031120253.htm

 

Evolution During Human Colonizations: Selective Advantage of Being There First: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111103143237.htm

 

Researchers Complete Mollusk Evolutionary Tree:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111026143715.htm

TECHNOLOGY

Third industrial revolution-review:

http://www.jarche.com/2011/10/third-industrial-revolution-review/

 

Company Aims to Make Better Biofuel Crops Agradis wants to use genomics to develop plants that could yield more material for biofuels.:

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/39044/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-11-02

 

Solar Power’s Good News:

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/11/solar-powers-good-news

 

Solar Power Could Get Boost from New Light Absorption Design:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111102125555.htm

 

Lighting Sheets Made of Tiny LEDs Nth Degree Technologies plans to replace bulbs with lights that can be printed on large, flexible surfaces:

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/39010/?nlid=nlenrg&nld=2011-10-31

 

Use of Supercritical Water Could Cut Costs for Ethanol A startup says it can make sugar for biofuel from wood chips at a fraction of the normal cost: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/39043/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-11-02

 

World's Most Efficient Flexible Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Created On Plastic: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111031121229.htm

 

A Versatile Touch Sensor A new system adapted from a technology used for underwater cables could lead to touch sensors in clothes and coffee tables:  http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39036/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-11-01

 

Finest Silk Made of the Purest Nanometer-Thin Gold Woven Into Ties and Handkerchiefs: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111101130156.htm

Levitating lamp meets the future halfway: http://www.gizmag.com/silhouette-floating-lamp/20360/

EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART

7 Billion and Counting: Welcome to a Planet With Population Overload and Resources in Crisis [With Photos From National Geographic] The definition of overpopulation has less to do with raw numbers of people than their relationship with the planet's sustainable resources.:

http://www.alternet.org/story/152902/7_billion_and_counting%3A_welcome_to_a_planet_with_population_overload_and_resources_in_crisis_%5Bwith_photos_from_national_geographic%5D?akid=7791.112117.pAdUBu&rd=1&t=5

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/10/world-population?fsrc=nlw%7Cnewe%7C10-31-2011%7Cnew_on_the_economist

Demographics Are Not Destiny

Even as the world’s population reaches 7 billion, the rate of growth is slowing and workforces are aging. Companies and countries can prosper by preparing for the changes to come:

http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00091?gko=36862&cid=20111101enews

 

Schools must teach problem solving to break from outdated learning concepts, claims report:                                 http://www.sfs-group.co.uk/Schoolsmustteachproblemsolvingtobreakfromoutdatedlearningconceptsclaimsreport/3517/?parent=11

Science, Technology And The Future: The Promises And Pitfalls Of Elevated Thinking

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Science-Technology-And-Th-by-Timothy-McGettigan-111103-911.html

What does it mean to be human?:

http://humanorigins.si.edu/resources/intro-human-evolution

Social Singularity:  Why Things Are Getting Progressively Better:

http://www.michaelshermer.com/2011/10/social-singularity/

Serendip- for those who ask questions without boundaries: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/

Stop Subjecting Your Baby To Mozart! (Give Her Drama Lessons Instead): http://bigthink.com/ideas/40866

 

Don't Worry, Be Happy: Understanding Mindfulness Meditation:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111031154134.htm

 

Impulsive Versus Controlled Men: Disinhibited Brains and Disinhibited Behavior: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111103120220.htm

 

Belief in God Cuts Two Ways, Study Finds: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111027125245.htm

 

Finding Relief in Ritual: A Healthy Dose of Repetitive Behavior Reduces Anxiety, Says Researcher:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110922093324.htm

Beyond the Self: http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/amanda-horne/2011110319718

What Happens When the Average Lifespan Hits 100?  http://bigthink.com/ideas/40864

 

Ratio of Criticisms to Compliments is woefully imbalanced…:

http://davidkanigan.com/2011/10/31/ratio-of-criticisms-to-compliments-is-woefully-imbalanced-feedback-grow-performance/

Color, vision and art:

http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/index.html

What are some great optical illusions:

http://www.quora.com/Optical-Illusions/What-are-some-great-optical-illusions

Top 5 streaming music sites: http://mp3.about.com/od/streamingaudio/tp/Best_Streaming_Music_Sites.htm?nl=1

BUSINESS

 

Are we really running out of everything?:

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1678715/are-we-really-running-out-of-resources

 

7 best coaching books for managers and leaders: http://www.boxofcrayons.biz/2011/11/7-best-coaching-books-for-managers-and-leaders/

Stop Wasting Your Time Solving Problems: http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/stop-wasting-your-time-solving-problems/

 

Managing Yourself: How to Cultivate Engaged Employees:

http://hbr.org/2011/09/how-to-cultivate-engaged-employees/ar/1

The Art of Asking Questions:

http://blogs.hbr.org/ashkenas/2011/08/the-art-of-asking-questions.html

 

10,000 hours of concerted practice to become an expert. How much time are you investing in your own development?:

http://davidkanigan.com/2011/11/04/809-grow-effectiveness-practice/

Dots:  http://www.execupundit.com/2011/11/dots.html#links

A definition of insanity:            http://blog.threestarleadership.com/2011/11/01/a-definition-of-insanity.aspx

Weekend imagination igniters:

http://blog.threestarleadership.com/2011/11/04/11411-weekend-imagination-igniters.aspx

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Test Could Show Which Cancers Will Respond to Chemotherapy Tumors closer to committing "cellular suicide" are more sensitive to conventional anticancer drugs.: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/39015/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-10-31

 

Light Can Detect Pre-Cancerous Colon Cells: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111011112927.htm

 

Tactic to Delay Age-Related Disorders:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111102161056.htm

Why could I not read this in 1981?

 

Forever young?  A way to counteract part of the process of growing old: http://www.economist.com/node/21536539?fsrc=nlw|hig|11-3-2011|editors_highlights

 

Some Asthma Drugs Kill More People Than Asthma: Why Is Big Pharma Allowed to Hawk Deadly Pills? http://www.alternet.org/story/152962/some_asthma_drugs_kill_more_people_than_asthma%3A_why_is_big_pharma_allowed_to_hawk_deadly_pills?akid=7807.112117._dDygi&rd=1&t=8

 

New Findings Contradict Dominant Theory in Alzheimer's Disease:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111028103219.htm

 

Doctors Can Learn Empathy Through a Computer-Based Tutorial:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111031220247.htm

 

Could Social Media Be Used to Detect Disease Outbreaks?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111101125812.htm

 

The Virtual Nurse Will See You Now In the hectic world of a hospital, a computer-simulated nurse can be surprisingly comfortin:g : http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/39035/?nlid=nlbio&nld=2011-11-01 .

Hope of a breakthrough cure for high blood pressure that could save millions of lives every year http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2055969/Cure-high-blood-pressure-save-millions-lives-year.html#ixzz1cUOPogl3

 

New material claimed to filter flu virus out of air: http://www.gizmag.com/filter-flu-virus-prevention/20377/

Headache tree is a pain in the brain

Bay laurel swells cranial blood vessels:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/335845/title/Headache_tree_is_a_pain_in_the_brain

 

FOOD & COOKING

 

Vaccine for Cattle Offers Hope to Poorest Farmers:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111027173533.htm

 

Are Global Honey Bee Declines Caused by Diesel Pollution?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111007073153.htm

 

Corporate Crimes In the Cereal Aisle: How Companies Are Fooling You Into Thinking Their Products Are Healthy: http://www.alternet.org/story/152878/corporate_crimes_in_the_cereal_aisle%3A_how_companies_are_fooling_you_into_thinking_their_products_are_healthy?akid=7810.112117.N4o0rg&rd=1&t=5

MISCELLANEA

 

In Jehovah’s village God is alive and well and living in rural Kenya:                                              http://newhumanist.org.uk/2638/in-jehovahs-village-by-daniel-sitole-web-exclusive-august-2011

Arms and Armors—Common Miscocptions and Frequently Asked Questions:

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/aams/hd_aams.htm

 

11/11/11: Maya Scholar Debunks Doomsday Myths;

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111103143255.htm

 

SELECTED NEWS

SPAM & SPYWARE   

VIRUSES & e-CROOKS

 

Internet Privacy Tools Are Confusing, Ineffective for Most People:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111031120249.htm

 

4 Security Tips the Pros Use:

http://antivirus.about.com/b/2011/10/25/4-security-tips-the-pros-use.htm?nl=1

 

Password Safety: Tips for Keeping Passwords Safe:

http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/a/passwordsafety.htm?nl=1

Safeguard Your Privacy in Facebook: http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/ht/facebook.htm?nl=1

WiFi

Nokia Rolls the Dice with Windows Devices With modest hardware, Nokia's new phones may struggle to stand out:

http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/38992/?nlid=nlcomm&nld=2011-10-31