Saturday, March 10, 2012

INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY No 498

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INTERNET

 

A Cheap and Fully Optical Solution for Ultra-Fast Internet: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120309104133.htm

 

Has the Internet Killed the Concept of Privacy?: http://www.bigthink.com/ideafeed/has-the-internet-killed-the-concept-of-privacy


SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.  

 

Search Engine use 2012: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Search-Engine-Use-2012/Summary-of-findings.aspx

 

How to Find Your Search History: http://websearch.about.com/od/webbrowsers/qt/search-history.htm?nl=1


 

The 10 Best Search Engines for Kids:              http://savedelete.com/the-10-best-search-engines-for-kids.html


A “no tracking” search engine: http://usestealth.com/

 

Four Seriously Cool Information Resources: http://searchengineland.com/four-seriously-cool-information-resources-114128


                                  
BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES

 

Report: Twitter Still Sees Booming Growth While Facebook Slows:                                                http://marketingland.com/report-twitter-still-sees-booming-growth-while-facebook-slows-7292

 

The tone of life on social networking sites: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Social-networking-climate.aspx

Privacy Management on Social Media Sites: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/2201/social-media-social-networking-sites-unfriending-privacy-settings-untagging-photographs

 

The Internet: It’s Like Real Life, Only With Buttons: http://searchengineland.com/the-internet-its-like-real-life-only-with-buttons-113764

 


Boost Your Career with Social Media: Tips for the Uninitiated: http://blogs.hbr.org/hmu/2011/12/boost-your-career-with-social.html


GOOGLE

 

How to Update Your Google Privacy Settings: http://websearch.about.com/od/focusongoogle/a/How-To-Update-Your-Google-Privacy-Settings.htm?nl=1

 

"How do I clear previous Google searches? : http://websearch.about.com/od/focusongoogle/f/clear-google-searches.htm?nl=1

 

Is There Making Sense To The Google Algorithm?: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-algorithm-14844.html

 

Google Play : Will It Change The Way You Use Media?: http://savedelete.com/google-play-will-it-change-the-way-you-use-media.html


WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES

 

Replace Meaningless Words with Meaningful Ones: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/12/replace_meaningless_words_with.html

 

Color E-Readers Finally Available to Consumers. Tablets stole the show, but they're not true analogs for paper: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27622/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-05

 

No Surprise, eReader Use Continues to Grow: http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/447/mid/1508/articleId/979/ctl/ReadCustom%20Default/Default.aspx

The E-book (R)evolution: Two Reports from Financial Times’ Digital Media Conference:                        http://infodocket.com/2012/03/08/the-e-book-revolution-two-reports-from-financial-times-digital-media-conference/

 

Are Tablets Any Good for Serious Reading?: http://bigthink.com/ideas/are-tablets-any-good-for-serious-reading


SCIENCE

 

When One Side Does Not Know About the Other One: Specialization and Cooperation of the Brain Hemispheres: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120302101541.htm

How to Use More of Your Brain:                 http://bigthink.com/ideas/how-to-use-more-of-your-brain

 

]How Well Does Your Brain Know You?: http://bigthink.com/ideas/how-well-does-your-brain-know-you

 

Scientists Claim Brain Memory Code Cracked: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120309103701.htm



How to Plant Ideas in Someone’s Mind: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/6BafXU/lifehacker.com/5715912/how-to-plant-ideas-in-someones-mind?tag=manipulation

 

Creative right brain’ myth debunked: http://www.kurzweilai.net/creative-right-brain-myth-debunked

 

Biologists Locate Brain's Processing Point for Acoustic Signals Essential to Human Communication: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120308132829.htm

 

Partnerships in the Brain: Mathematical Model Describes the Collaboration of Individual Neurons: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120308174805.htm

 

Expanding our intelligence without limit: http://www.kurzweilai.net/expanding-our-intelligence-without-limit

 

Quantum Biology and the Puzzle of Coherence. Quantum processes shouldn't survive in hot, wet biological systems and yet a growing body of evidence suggests they do. Now physicists think they know how: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27628/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-07

 

How Often Are Your Memories Incorrect?: http://bigthink.com/ideas/how-often-are-your-memories-incorrect

 

Running Hot and Cold in the Deep Sea: Scientists Explore Rare Environment: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120306195700.htm

 

To Boldly Go Where No Bee Has Gone: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/03/to-boldly-go-where-no-bee-has-gone.html?ref=em


TECHNOLOGY

 

Renewables: The once and future energy source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57389443-76/renewables-the-once-and-future-energy-source/

 

Advancing Understanding of Energy Storage Mechanisms: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120305150704.htm

 

Cellulosic Ethanol Gets a $100 Million Boost. Virdia plans to make cheap sugars from wood chips, tackling the industry's greatest challenge: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/39858/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-07

 

A breakthrough in making biofuel from seaweed: http://earthsky.org/energy/a-breakthrough-in-making-biofuel-from-seaweed

 

 

The predictability of and variation in wind energy:

http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/03/the_predictability_of_and_vari.php

 

New Nanoglue Is Thin and Supersticky: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120305150656.htm

 

What We Learned About Nuclear Safety from Fukushima. Reactors must be able to handle the worst if we hope to prevent a repeat of last year's meltdowns: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/39867/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-08

 

Graphene Battery Turns Ambient Heat Into Electric Current Physicists have built a graphene battery that harvests energy from the thermal movement of ions in solution: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27625/?nlid=nlmat&nld=2012-03-08

 

Spider Silk Conducts Heat as Well as Metals: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120305132613.htm


Reusable Sticky Tape Could Hold Up Your TV Large patches of an extremely strong new adhesive, inspired by geckos, can be used over and over again. http://www.technologyreview.com/article/39865/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-09


Windows 8: Microsoft Gambles on a Tablet-centric Future Does it make sense to merge a conventional desktop interface with one optimized for touch?: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39844/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-06

Fast Facts: Top 5 Manufacturers of Tablet Computers in 2011: http://infodocket.com/2012/03/09/fast-facts-top-5-manufacturers-of-tablet-computers-in-2011/

Why are the keys arranged the way they are on a QWERTY keyboard?: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question458.htm#mkcpgn=kaw1



Tomorrow's Amazing Skyscrapers!: http://bigthink.com/ideas/tomorrows-amazing-skyscrapers

 

Environmentally Friendly Cleaning and Washing: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120309104841.htm

 


EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART

 

There is nothing rigid in the human life. You are always moving forward; when you’re not, you’re not even standing still – you’re really going backward: http://davidkanigan.com/2012/03/04/there-is-nothing-rigid-in-the-human-life-you-are-always-moving-forward-when-youre-not-youre-not-even-standing-still-youre-really-going-backward/

 

Is Emotion Smarter than Rationality? http://bigthink.com/ideas/emotion-is-smarter-than-rationality


Miracles:                 http://davidkanigan.com/2012/03/04/miracles-3/#more-4605

Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future: http://prezi.com/g4_rsqna6kvl/abundance-the-future-is-better-than-you-think/


Opting out of overoptimism:

 

Stumped by a problem? The ‘generic parts technique’ technique unsticks you:                           http://www.kurzweilai.net/stumped-by-a-problem-the-generic-parts-technique-technique-unsticks-you

 

The Upside of Anger: 6 Psychological Benefits of Getting Mad: http://www.spring.org.uk/2012/03/the-upside-of-anger-6-psychological-benefits-of-getting-mad.php

 

How the Information Revolution Will Change the Novel: http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/how-the-information-revolution-will-change-the-novel

 

When Prejudices Become a Disadvantage: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120308115748.htm


Perfecting Man’s moral shortcomings:

 

Upper Class People More Likely to Behave Unethically: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120307145432.htm

 

In Recognizing Faces, the Whole Is Not Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120309140154.htm


The by-weekly letters of the Canadian painter Robert Genn are all good- this one is especially so: http://clicks.robertgenn.com/scapegoat.php

BUSINESS

Despite Recession, Global Poverty Is Declining: http://bigthink.com/ideas/despite-recession-global-poverty-in-decline

How the Web impacts strategy: http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2012/nt-2012-03-05-Web-impact.htm

 

Strategy: An Executive’s Definition:                    http://www.strategy-business.com/article/cs00002?gko=d59c2&cid=20120306enews

 

The March 2012 Leadership Development Carnival Going Green Edition: http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2012/03/march-2012-leadership-development.html

 

10 sure-fire ways to find your greatness:

http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/10-sure-fire-ways-to-find-your-greatness/

 

The Difference Between Management And Leadership:

 

Innovation Is Everyone's Job: http://blogs.hbr.org/ashkenas/2011/12/innovation-is-everyones-job.html


Invention and Innovation: Barriers, Struggles, and Motivations: http://spark.qualcomm.com/salon/invention-and-innovation-barriers-struggles-and-motivations


Why the Workplace Needs Positive Psychology: http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/orin-davis/2012030621367

 

There are days when: http://www.execupundit.com/2012/03/there-are-days-when.html#links


HEALTH & MEDICINE

 

Study Shows Brain Flexibility, Gives Hope for Natural-Feeling Neuroprosthetics: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120304141848.htm


Exploding Carbon Nanotubes Could Act as Drug Grenades. Heating water inside carbon nanotubes until they explode could deliver drugs precisely, say chemists: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27567/?nlid=nlbio&nld=2012-03-06

 

Long-Lost Medicine. Broccoli, spider webs, and other health remedies from ancient times: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2012/03/alain_touwaide_searches_for_medicinal_knowledge_in_ancient_manuscripts_.html

 

Responding to the Radiation Threat: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120306181212.htm

 

Ticks, Lyme Disease and Public Health: http://scitechdaily.com/ticks-lyme-disease-and-public-health/

 

The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06murdock-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

 

The 8-Hour Sleep Myth: How I Learned That Everything I Knew About Sleep Was Wrong. We've been told over and over that the 8-hour sleep is ideal, but our bodies have been telling us something else: http://www.alternet.org/health/154424/the_8hour_sleep_myth_how_i_learned_that_everything_i_knew_about_sleep_was_wrong

 

Eating Berries Benefits the Brain: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120307145825.htm


FOOD & COOKING

 

The Future of Plant Science: A Technology Perspective: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120302201831.htm

 

When Our Eyes Serve Our Stomach: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120302193930.htm

 

The 10 Best Foods for Your Looks: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1zp5b9/www.good.is/post/the-ten-best-foods-for-your-looks/

 

Vegetarian Cutlet: New Method to Prepare a Meat Substitute: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120306131849.htm

 

The Most Common Cooking Mistakes: http://www.cookinglight.com/cooking-101/techniques/cooking-questions-tips-00400000064986/print-index.html

 

What You Should Know About the Company Pushing Genetically Engineered Salmon on Consumers: http://www.alternet.org/story/154454/what_you_should_know_about_the_company_pushing_genetically_engineered_salmon_on_consumers

 

Eating Wild: Foraging Safely in a Modern World: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120308153539.htm


Why moralism spoils the appetite:                                  http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_article/12154/

Do not forget Table Manners!


MISCELLANEA

Why Computers Are Actually Rather Stupid: http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/why-computers-are-actually-rather-stupid

 

We help people to find out why their relationship ended: http://wotwentwrong.com/

 


SELECTED NEWS

SPAM & SPYWARE   

VIRUSES & e-CROOKS

 

Bing Malware Warnings Adds Salt To Wound: http://www.seroundtable.com/bing-malware-warnings-time-14856.html


WiFi

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