Is School Lowering your Child’s IQ?
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/lloyd20120511
Why the Self is Really an Illusion:
http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/why-the-self-is-really-an-illusion
The 10 Biggest Social Media Lies:
http://www.datamation.com/networks/the-10-biggest-social-media-lies-1.html
Who is Afraid of the Neuroscience of Politics?
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/kuszewski20120514
Nine meditations on complexity:
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20120527
In Pictures: The World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Plant
Brightsource’s 370-megawatt facility near Las Vegas is taking shape, but the future of solar thermal is much more fuzzy:
http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/40460/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-05-28
Ultra-Efficient Solar
Under the right circumstances, solar cells from Semprius could produce power more cheaply than fossil fuels:
http://www.technologyreview.com/article/40242/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-05-28
SpokenLayer Makes an Audio Book of the Web
What if you could have actual humans read websites to you?:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/helloworld/27875/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-05-28
Science Journal Produces a Different Kind of Viral Video
The world's first peer-reviewed video journal gives scientists a better way to show others how to replicate experiments:
http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/40444/?nlid=nlcomm&nld=2012-05-28
Unusual Quantum Effect Discovered in Earliest Stages of Photosynthesis:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120524092932.htm
Ten handy verbs:
http://culturaloffering.com/2012/05/28/ten-handy-verbs.aspx
Networks thrive in complexity:
http://www.jarche.com/2012/05/networks-thrive-in-complexity/
Research and Citation Resources:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2
The Secret to Good Tomato Chemistry:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120524123015.htm
10 Startups Changing the World And What We Can Learn From Them:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ilyapozin/2012/05/09/10-startups-changing-the-world-and-what-we-can-learn-from-them/
Brain Scan for Alzheimer's:
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/40445/?nlid=nlbio&nld=2012-05-29
Why We Lie
We like to believe that a few bad apples spoil the virtuous bunch. But research shows that everyone cheats a little—right up to the point where they lose their sense of integrity:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304840904577422090013997320.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read
Hoax Slayer, newest issue:
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/issue-132.shtml
It's in the Genes: Research Pinpoints How Plants Know When to Flower:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120526191222.htm
Where speech recognition is going:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/where-speech-recognition-is-going
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