EDITORIAL FOR INFORMAVORE’s SUNDAY No. 490
Dear Readers,
I have planned to stop the publication of this newsletter after No. 500 due to its chronic lack of popularity but I have changed my mind and I will continue it till I am relatively functional. It is very interesting to compose it and it keeps me informed about the World – the real one and the world of ideas.
Take this rich issue- I found very inspiring the new paper about Steven Pinker’s idea- Mankind’s violence is at a minimum now. My opinion is that, contrary to the direct rigid logic, there are many things that are both deeply true and strikingly untrue in the same time, depleted violence is one of these. I fear that this is only a first step and Pinker will come with a an other book saying that human greed is lower than ever and altruism has attained epidemical proportions, the 1% and the 99% have developed mutual understanding and love. The third book will necessarily demonstrate that the third cause of our great troubles – human stupidity (see http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2011/01/stop-koalemos.html) is also melting away- fast. It is so good to believe these things- the world will be better!
By the way, the very first link in this issue is also optimistic- the Internet is great and can help us to be smarter. The author, Gerry McGovern is one of my favorites- a very wise man. I have translated more than 40 of his papers for my Romanian language
newsletter.
I hve enjoyed the two papers about the interview questions at Google, based on intelligence and creativity, plus the Google gospel for speed and the latest achievements of this company.
Many good papers about things I like- as brain, search engines, e-readers, the CES, innovation, leadership, new species discovered, medicine, capitalism, health good food etc. etc.
Perhaps INFORMAVORE’s SUNDAY will remain an intellectual, unpopular publication for ever (why you are not informing your cousins, bosses, enemies and rivals, aunts and friends, collaborators and dentists, former colleagues and confessors, teachers and dieteticians, car instructors and members of your church or community, all the journalists you are friends with, all the people in your contact lists etc about it???).
However I will read it with attention as long I can.
Best wishes,
Peter
SEARCH
INTERNET
The greatest period in human history
The Internet is helping us move towards a more educated, prosperous, healthy and wealthy world
The man who wants to translate the Web: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/08/opinion/von-ahn-translate-web/
15 big ways the Internet is changing our brain: http://www.kurzweilai.net/1com5-big-ways-the-internet-is-changing-our-brain
SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.
How search engines work:
Free Movies: A Comprehensive Guide to the Best Websites
http://websearch.about.com/od/searchtipoftheday/qt/freemovie.htm?nl=1
Free Full Length Movies - The Top Ten Websites:
The Top Ten Sites For Free Public, Vital, or Historical Record Searches:
60+ examples of beautiful colorful websites:
50+ Best Movies Related Websites : Know All About Movies: http://savedelete.com/50-best-movies-related-websites-know-all-about-movies.html
Bob Rankin – seven search alternatives to Google:
BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES
Remember These 3 Things To Make Your Site Social Media Friendly:
http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/site-social-media-friendly.html?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=email
Social networks, surveillance, and terrorism: http://www.kurzweilai.net/social-networks-surveillance-and-terrorism
Traditional Social Networks Fueled Twitter's Spread:
2012 Social Marketing & New Media Predictions: http://info.awarenessnetworks.com/rs/awarenessnetworks/images/2012_Predictions.pdf
Understanding personal learning networks: Their structure, content and the networking skills needed to optimally use them: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3559/3131
Social Search Pits Google Against Twittee: http://bigthink.com/ideas/41922
GOOGLE
Ten Awesome Chrome Browser Addons: http://askbobrankin.com/ten_awesome_chrome_browser_addons.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=Ii4YCYuZi8P6SL
Google tries to make search more social: http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_19711208
Google Hopes to Make Friends with a More Social Search
New features add personalized results to its searches, and could lure users to Google: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39444/?nlid=nlweb&nld=2012-01-11
Google And The Monopoly Paradox: http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/12/more-more-more/
The Google Gospel of Speed: http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/quarterly/speed/the-google-gospel-of-speed-urs-hoelzle.html
Google Makes Search Really, Really Personal: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74148.html
The Secret to Getting a Job at Google Revealed:
Want to work for Google? Here are their weirdest interview questions: http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1114501--want-to-work-for-google-here-are-their-weirdest-interview-questions?bn=1
Can Schools Take a Google Approach?: http://bigthink.com/ideas/41875
Google Fails To Trounce Bing (Again): The Fallacy Of The Superior Search Engine Revisited: http://searchengineland.com/google-fails-to-trounce-bing-again-the-fallacy-of-the-superior-search-engine-revisited-107238
Could Bing seriously challenge Google?: http://scripting.com/stories/2012/01/12/couldBingSeriouslyChalleng.html
Google Just Made Bing the Best Search Engine: http://gizmodo.com/5875571/google-just-made-bing-the-best-search-engine
Google evangelists release bible of good Android design: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57358475-264/google-evangelists-release-bible-of-good-android-design/
Google Translate's No Babel
Google Takes Annual Science Fair Global With Support For Submissions In 13 Languages: http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/11/google-takes-annual-science-fair-global-with-support-for-submissions-in-13-languages/
WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES
A way to discover the meaning of words: http://www.wordnik.com/about
The dreaded comma splice: http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2012/01/punctuation?fsrc=nlw%7Cnewe%7C1-11-2012%7Cnew_on_the_economist
Amazon’s Kindle Lending Library Now Boasts 75,000 Books, Borrowed 295,000 Times Last Month: http://infodocket.com/2012/01/12/amazons-kindle-lending-library-now-boasts-75000-books-borrowed-295000-times-last-month/
SolarKindle promises three months of unplugged reading time: http://www.gizmag.com/solarkindle/21032/
New e-book system promises a more paper-like reading experience: http://www.gizmag.com/smart-e-book-system/21097/
SCIENCE
Defining Experience A better definition of consciousness will help with tough ethical choices: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/39322/?nlid=nlbio&nld=2012-01-10
How the Brain Routes Traffic for Maximum Alertness: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120112142259.htm
Men & Women Are Different Species, Psychologically Speaking: http://bigthink.com/ideas/41853
Relay Race With Single Atoms: New Ways of Manipulating Matter: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120104111725.htm
The Puzzle of an Eternally-Existing, Self-Reproducing, and Inflationary Universe:
Can Bacteria Solve the Mysteries of the Universe?: http://bigthink.com/ideas/41923?page=all
Meat-Eating Plant Traps Victims Underground: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/01/meat-eating-plant-traps-victims-.html?ref=em&elq=78b6ba7bec3a4c71a930bdee98da10b4
TECHNOLOGY
Solar Energy: New Sunflower-Inspired Pattern Increases Concentrated Solar Efficiency
Renewable Fuel: Clearing a Potential Road
Mystery of Car Battery 's Current Solved:
New Storage Device Is Very Small, at 12 Atoms: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/science/smaller-magnetic-materials-push-boundaries-of-nanotechnology.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26
Quick-Cooking Nanomaterials in Microwave to Make Tomorrow's Air Conditioners: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120110140431.htm
Ford Bets on the Digital Car The 108-year-old automotive company is embracing the technologies, business tactics, and spirit of Silicon Valley :
The Great Tablet War of 2012: http://www.fastcompany.com/1805812/the-great-tablet-war-of-2012
CES 2012: A New Era of Simpler Gadgets Better technology and improved design will make tomorrow's gadgets less confusing:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/27474/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-01-10.
The Art of 3-D Printing MIT professor Neri Oxman is developing new design techniques that take advantage of "additive manufacturing.": http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39437/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-01-11
CES 2012: The Shape of TV to Come. Samsung's new television integrates a number of technologies that have been gathering steam in recent years: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/
The CES No Shows: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2012/01/09/technology/100000001274472/the-ces-no-shows.html?nl=multimedia&emc=focusema2
Big Tech Show Will Feature Small Advances: http://bigthink.com/ideas/41881
2012 CES trends to watch: http://www.wfs.org/Upload/PDFs/2012_ces_trends_to_watch_dubravac.pdf
Scenes from CES 2012- slideshow:
Scientists Create World's Tiniest Ear: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/01/scientists-create-worlds-tiniest.html?ref=em&elq=78b6ba7bec3a4c71a930bdee98da10b4
EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART
Buff your brain: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/01/buff-your-brain.html?obref=obinsite
Tools, Gear + Resources to Help You Study Smarter:
5 Insights on Creativity from Osho:
http://qaspire.com/2012/01/08/5-insights-on-creativity-from-osho/
Humble People Are More Likely to Lend a Helping Hand:
Coercion and Incentive Are Not Interchangeable Terms: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/43791
Shocker: Is Our World Becoming Less Violent? Many believe the 20th century represents the pinnacle of human violence, but psychologist Steven Pinker argues that the opposite is true: http://www.alternet.org/story/153762/shocker%3A_is_our_world_becoming_less_violent?page=1
Why Are Older People Happier?: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120106135950.htm
Dirty Minds: How the Brain Evolved to Glorify Monogamy Yet Make Screwing Around Irresistible With so many of these same cultures putting a premium on monogamy, why do huge numbers of people around the world still cheat?: http://www.alternet.org/story/153709/dirty_minds%3A_how_the_brain_evolved_to_glorify_monogamy_yet_make_screwing_around_irresistible_?akid=8105.112117.xRZrs_&rd=1&t=22
Capitalism: Reject or Retool?: http://bigthink.com/ideas/41870:
New Year’s Resolution Reading List: 9 Books on Reading and Writing
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/09/best-books-on-writing-reading/
Number A Day: http://maanumberaday.blogspot.com/
Exhibit Aims To Convey The Wonder And Beauty Of Math: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665727/a-beautiful-elsewhere-exhibit-visualizes-elegant-mathematics
BUSINESS
Ten Innovation Resolutions for 2012
Shake off your company's 2011 blues by following these suggestions: http://www.businessweek.com/management/ten-innovation-resolutions-for-2012-01062012.html
3 Skills Every 21st Century Manager Needs…Multi-Inspiring v. Multitasking: http://davidkanigan.com/2012/01/09/3-skills-every-21st-century-manager-needs-multi-inspiring-v-multitasking/#more-2840
Reorganizing? Think Again: http://blogs.hbr.org/ashkenas/2011/10/reorganizing-think-again.html
Pollinators: The New Breed Of Innovators: http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickhanlon/2012/01/09/pollinators-the-new-breed-of-innovators/
How Big Companies Innovate: http://bigthink.com/ideas/41929
Are you managing or just nagging?:
Success: A Breeding Ground for Complacency?: http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2012/01/success-breeding-ground-for-complacency.html
Who's Wealthy? Beyond Net Worth, Asset and Debt Levels Change Our Perceptions: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120110140429.htm
Infographic Of The Day: The Magic And Madness Of The Creative Process: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665802/infographic-of-the-day-the-creative-process-rendered-as-a-road-map
10 innovative business ideas:
http://savedelete.com/10-innovative-business-ideas.html
Don't Send That Email. Pick up the Phone. Why digital conflict resolution doesn't work, according to Harvard blogger Anthony K. Tjan:
All The World’s Gold: http://www.numbersleuth.org/worlds-gold/
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Technological Healing. A leading researcher says digital technologies are about to make health care more effective. But is so much data really beneficial?: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/39320/?nlid=nlbio&nld=2012-01-10
Breakthrough in Early Cancer Detection: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/earlycancerscreening.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51
Gut Microbe Networks Differ from Norm in Obese People, Systems Biology Approach Reveals:
Autistic Children Have Different Gastrointestinal Bacteria:
Cognitive Decline Starts at 45: http://bigthink.com/ideas/41847
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New Research May Lead to a Whole New Class of Vaccines: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111212124610.htm
Infographic of the Day: So What If You Don't Sleep Enough?: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663126/infographic-of-the-day-so-what-if-you-dont-sleep-enough
How Do you Want to Die?: http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/2012/01/how_do_you_want_to_die.php
FOOD & COOKING
The Connection Between Good Nutrition and Good Cognition: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/01/the-connection-between-good-nutrition-and-good-cognition/251227/
Innovation of the week: Using Ants and Termites to Increase Crop Yields: http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/innovation-of-the-week-using-ants-and-termites-to-increase-crop-yields/
Honeybee Deaths Linked to Seed Insecticide Exposure: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120112112722.htm
Would You Stop Eating out to Lose Weight?: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120110093557.htm
The Very Real Danger of Genetically Modified Foods: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/01/the-very-real-danger-of-genetically-modified-foods/251051/
The Counterfeit Cuisine of Japan
Soup's On: http://www.delicious.com/stacks/view/NRYQxw
MISCELLANEA
Mathematicians Solve Minimum Sudoku Problem Sudoku fanatics have long claimed that the smallest number of starting clues a puzzle can contain is 17. Now a year-long calculation proves there are no 16-clue puzzles: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27469/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-01-09
SELECTED NEWS
SPAM & SPYWARE
Bob Rankin- do I still need antispyware protection?
http://askbobrankin.com/do_i_still_need_antispyware_protection.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=JnNsn_at58P6SL
VIRUSES & e-CROOKS
Avira Internet Security 2012 Well-Rounded Protection: http://antivirus.about.com/od/windowsantivirus/fr/Avira-Internet-Security-2012.htm?nl=1
Bitdefender Internet Security Suite: http://antivirus.about.com/od/windowsantivirus/fr/Bitdefender-Internet-Security-Suite.htm?nl=1
Jotti’s Malware Scan: http://virusscan.jotti.org/en
Very useful in a world where scams abound:
WiFi
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