SEARCH
INTERNET
The Internet makes you stupid, but this app might make you smarter: http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/the_internet_makes_you_stupid_but_this_app_might_make_you_smarter
Shrunken Servers Aim to Make the Internet Greener Intel teams up with a startup to create a server twice as efficient as those that power websites and apps today: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39607/?nlid=nlcomp&nld=2012-02-01
'Your Password Is Invalid': Improving Website Password Practices: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120131135757.htm
SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.
Big changes coming at Wolfram Alpha: http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2012/02/01/a-big-change-is-coming-wolframalpha-to-see-dramatic-functionality-enhancements/
YouTube reports 4 billion video views -- a day:
Get the original URL’s from tiny ones: http://untiny.me/
Bob Rankin- where to download free fonts:
BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES
10 ways to improve social networking:
The (Online) Rules of Friendship: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42235
Is Facebook Really Worth $Infinity?: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42240
The evolution of a social superpower:
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2012/02/02/technology/100000001331546/the-evolution-of-a-social-superpower.html
Zuckerberg Remains the Undisputed Boss at Facebook: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/technology/from-earliest-days-zuckerberg-focused-on-controlling-facebook.html
Facebook Is Not Such a Good Thing for Those With Low Self-Esteem, Study Finds: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120201181459.htm
Why most Facebook users get more than they give?:
Harnessing the Predictive Power of Virtual Communities: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120130093921.htm
Tweeting is Believing?
Understanding Microblog Credibility Perceptions: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/155374/tweet_credibility_cscw2012.pdf
Twitter – A Wiser Way
Why the Twitter ‘Who Gives a Tweet’ Researchers are Wrong: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2143656/Why-the-Twitter-Who-Gives-a-Tweet-Researchers-are-Wrong
Twitter is harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, study finds
GOOGLE
How to Harmonize Google+ With Your Other Social Platforms: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2142107/How-to-Harmonize-Google-With-Your-Other-Social-Platforms
Google+ Growing Your Social Network: Quantity vs. Quality: http://searchengineland.com/google-growing-your-social-network-quantity-vs-quality-109210
Google- good to know: http://www.google.com/goodtoknow/
Google’s New Privacy Policy: http://google.about.com/od/blogs/qt/Googles-New-Privacy-Policy.htm?nl=1
No, You Don’t Need To Fear The Google Privacy Changes: A Reality Check: http://marketingland.com/no-you-dont-need-to-fear-the-google-privacy-changes-a-reality-check-5194
How to Get Your Family and Friends on Google+ Facebook has everybody, but Google+ is the superior social network, opines a tech pundit: http://www.datamation.com/networks/how-to-get-your-family-and-friends-on-google-1.html
WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES
Jonathan Franzen: E-readers are 'damaging to society'; http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2012/0130/Jonathan-Franzen-E-readers-are-damaging-to-society
What the Nook Means A new Nook's on its way. Can it save books?: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/helloworld/27540/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-02-02
SCIENCE
To Your Brain, the World Is 2D: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42205
Short-Term Memory Is Based On Synchronized Brain Oscillations Scientists have now discovered how different brain regions cooperate during short-term memory: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120131121421.htm
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What’s a man? Studies of brain genetics are starting to reveal what makes humans human: http://www.economist.com/node/21545972?fsrc=nlw|hig|2-2-2012|editors_highlights
Scientists decode brain waves to eavesdrop on what we hear: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/01/31/scientists-decode-brain-waves-to-eavesdrop-on-what-we-hear/
TECHNOLOGY
Making Nature's Best Better to Produce Biofuels: http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=122930&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1
Building a Better Light Bulb: Energy Efficient Organic LEDs: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120201181455.htm
Graphene reveals yet another extraordinary property: http://www.gizmag.com/graphene-superpermeable-to-water/21240/
Graphene Competitor Used to Make Circuits Molybdenite could have a crucial advantage over graphene for making smaller, faster electronics: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39561/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-01-30
Smallest-Ever Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon A nine-nanometer device shows that nanotubes could be a viable alternative to silicon as electronics get even tinier: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39532/?nlid=nlmat&nld=2012-02-02
Making better electronic memory: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120127135441.htm
Smart Paint Could Revolutionize Structural Safety of Bridges, Mines and More: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120130131505.htm
EVirtual Reality Contact Lenses Are One Step Closer to Reality: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42256
Smart Clothing: The Unexpected Tech Revolution: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42267
Spider Web's Strength Lies in More Than Its Silk: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120201140004.htm How Spider Webs Inspire New Technology: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42266
EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART
Are You Learning as Fast as the World Is Changing?: http://blogs.hbr.org/taylor/2012/01/are_you_learning_as_fast_as_th.html
Europeana- think culture: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
Moving a Cemetery: How to Drag Higher Education into the 21 Century: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42161
Help Your Brain Learn Better: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42209
How to Recognize Your Best Ideas: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42204
Groupthink- the brainstorming myth:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_lehrer
Are We Bad at Forecasting Our Emotions? It Depends On How You Measure Accuracy: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120127162751.htm
“Abundance” a book recommended by Ray Kurzweil:
Love quotes: http://lovequotes4u.com/
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist: http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6599/
A Point of View: The endless obsession with what might be: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16245250
Here Is What Real Commitment to Your Marriage Means:
Going to the Extreme with Strengths and Happiness: http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/sherri-fisher/2012020320666
How millennial are you?- a test: http://pewresearch.org/millennials/quiz/index.php
Nice, wise miniature: Television news is...:
BUSINESS
Econ Stats: The Economic Statistics and Indicators Database: http://www.economywatch.com/economic-statistics/
What does e-commerce really mean: http://websearch.about.com/od/e/g/Ecommerce.htm?nl=1
Quality: Setting Right Goals: http://qaspire.com/2012/01/22/quality-setting-right-goals/
TOP BUSINESS TRENDS OF 2012: WHARTON EXPERTS WEIGH IN: http://executiveeducation.wharton.upenn.edu/wharton-at-work/1201/top-trends-2012-1201.cfm
Innovation without Age Limits Young stars dominate the technology headlines. But outside the Internet, research shows, innovators are actually getting older as complexity rises: http://www.technologyreview.com/business/39591/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-02-02
A Few Ideas for Beleaguered Innovators: http://blogs.hbr.org/anthony/2011/11/a_few_ideas_for_beleaguered_in.html
Brain gain. Why America
Three snapshots of Chinese innovation: http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Strategy/Innovation/Three_snapshots_of_Chinese_innovation_2918
Why Spending Won't Solve the Crisis: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42229
Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch: http://www.fastcompany.com/1810674/culture-eats-strategy-for-lunch (with tanks to Miki Saxon)
AN UNPOPULAR CORPORATE CULTURE
Do not destroy your best strategy: http://www.imd.org/research/challenges/TC055-08.cfm?bhcp=1
Three Skills Every 21st-Century Manager Needs: http://hbr.org/2012/01/three-skills-every-21st-century-manager-needs/ar/1
HEALTH & MEDICINE
The Science of Antiaging:
Aging Is a Disease. Let's Cure it: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42291
Why the Brain Is More Reluctant to Function as We Age: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120201105124.htm
Electronic Tattoo Monitors Brain, Heart and Muscles: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/skinmountedelectronics.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51
How Viruses Evolve, and in Some Cases, Become Deadly: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120126224526.htm
Path Is Found for the Spread of Alzheimer’s: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/health/research/alzheimers-spreads-like-a-virus-in-the-brain-studies-find.html?_r=1
Silkworms may help repair damaged hearts: http://www.gizmag.com/silkworm-silk-heart-patches/21269/
Alcohol and Your Heart: Friend or Foe?: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120130131157.htm
Is ultrasound the future of male contraception?: http://www.gizmag.com/ultrasound-male-contraception/21265/
How doctors die:
Surprise! Internet Comments Can Be Good for Your Health: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/surprise-internet-comments-can-be-good-for-your-health/252248/
Primed for addiction: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/primed-for-addiction.html?ref=em
Schizophrenia: When Hallucinatory Voices Suppress Real Ones, New Electronic Application May Help: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120203092031.htm
FOOD & COOKING
Fast recipes: http://www.fastrecipes.com/
About.com Launches Free Cooking App with Thousands of Recipes, Expert Tutorials and Kitchen Tools: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120201006333/en/About.com-Launches-Free-Cooking-App-Thousands-Recipes
No Meat, No Dairy, No Problem: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/mark-bittman-going-semi-vegan.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Cooking bread- many recipes: http://www.cookingbread.com/
MISCELLANEA
The World Clock at a new level: http://www.qlock.com/
No Joke: Alain de Botton Wants To Build Temples
Bill Maher: "Atheism Is a Religion Like Abstinence Is a Sex Position": http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/775357/bill_maher%3A_%22atheism_is_a_religion_like_abstinence_is_a_sex_position%22/
SELECTED NEWS
SPAM & SPYWARE
VIRUSES & e-CROOKS
How to scam-proof your brain:
Secure Your Email and Protect Your PC From Phishing and Spam: http://netsecurity.about.com/od/secureyouremail/Secure_Your_Email_and_Protect_Your_PC_From_Phishing_and_Spam.htm
How to Shop Safely on the Web: http://websearch.about.com/od/onlineshoppingsearch/a/How-To-Shop-Safely-On-The-Web.htm?nl=1
A lot of hoaxes: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/issue-124.shtml
Bob Rankin- Beware the Fedex Shipment Notification Scam
Passwords: Creating and Maintaining a Strong Password System
WiFi
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