QUI CITO No. 8.

The happiness factor:                  http://clicks.robertgenn.com/happiness.php                                      

Success can’t just be measured in dollars and cents, report says: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/03/world-happiness-report-canada/                                                                                               

To Measure a Nation, GDP Is Out, Happiness Index Is In: http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/to-measure-a-nation-gdp-is-out-happiness-index-is-in                                                                   To

Find Happiness, Forget About Passion: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/01/to_find_happiness_forget_about.html
Consumerism and Its Antisocial Effects Can Be Turned On -- Or Off:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120409175915.htm

Nutrition for everyone: http://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/everyone/
How deep is the ocean? How about the lake?: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/lakes_and_oceans_large.png

How to cool electronic devices more efficiently: http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-cool-electronic-devices-more-efficiently

Nanotechnology Used to Hunt for Hidden Pathogens: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120409175913.htm

Famous authors name de plumes:       http://flavorwire.com/277632/10-odd-stories-behind-famous-authors-nom-de-plumes?all=1

Brain-Injury Data Used to Map Intelligence in the Brain: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120410130855.htm

Yet more evidence that "natural" doesn't necessarily mean "safer": http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/04/yet_more_evidence_that_natural_doesnt_ne.php

Drinking Alcohol May Significantly Enhance Problem Solving Skills. Scientists found that men who drank two pints of beer or two glasses of wine before solving brain teasers were quicker in delivering correct answers: http://medicaldaily.com/news/20120411/9496/alcohol-solving-skills-analytical-thinking-creativity-study.htm

QUI CITO 7

From built-to-last to built-to-change:
http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2012/nt-2012-04-09-Built-to-last.htm

Connected but alone:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html

The Food Timeline: http://www.foodtimeline.org/index.html

With Google's New Glasses, Your Head Is Your Smartphone:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1829741/your-head-is-your-smart-phone

What 23 Years of E-Mail May Say About You:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/business/mining-our-personal-data-for-our-own-good.html

Use of Common Pesticide, Imidacloprid, Linked to Bee Colony Collapse: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120405224653.htm

How Do You Best Prepare For The Creative Age?:
http://gapingvoid.com/2012/04/07/creative-age/

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Atheist or Agnostic?
http://bigthink.com/think-tank/neil-degrasse-tyson-atheist-or-agnostic

An Athei-Easter Message From Alain de Botton:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/athei-easter-with-alain-de-botton

A Thousand Years of Math History in a New App: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/27706/?nlid=nlenrg&nld=2012-04-09

New Challenger Pinterest Becomes Third Most Popular Social Network: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/27712/?nlid=nlcomm&nld=2012-04-09

Google's Search for Clean Energy. The Internet giant thought it could help invent cheap renewable power. That wasn't so easy: http://www.technologyreview.com/business/40015/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-04-09
A Creation Myth for the Computer Age: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/27708/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-04-09
Clayton Christensen And The Innovators' Smackdown: http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2012/04/05/clayton-christensen-and-the-innovators-smackdown/?feed=rss_home
How Too Much Happiness Makes You Unhappy: http://bigthink.com/ideas/how-too-much-happiness-makes-you-unhappy
How to Achieve Immortality? Contribute Something: http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/how-to-achieve-immortality-contribute-something
Spam Invades a Last Refuge, the Cellphone: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/technology/text-message-spam-difficult-to-stop-is-a-growing-menace.html
How to Attend a Conference as Yourself: http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2012/03/how-to-attend-a-conference-as.html
How To Google Your Way To Better Search Results: http://websearch.about.com/od/Google-Advanced-Search/ss/How-To-Google-Your-Way-To-Better-Search-Results.htm?nl

QUI CITO 6

Defying Conventional Wisdom, Water Can Float On Oil
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120404125226.htm

Strategic Learning Today: http://strategiclearner.tumblr.com/
Thanks to Kurt Harden, Cultural Offering!

How much paper does a person use on average in a year?:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/04/daily-chart-0?fsrc=scn/tw/te/dc/imalumberjack

Inventing the Cleanweb
The energy problem is humanity's greatest challenge. Here's how information technology can provide some answers. http://www.technologyreview.com/business/40013/?nlid=nlbus&nld=2012-04-06

Apple and Facebook Should Be Terrified Of Google-Tinted Glasses:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/apple-facebook-project-glass/
Ten ways to improve ypur credibility:
http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2012/04/10-ways-to-improve-your-credibility.html

White Bread Kills. A history of a national paranoia: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/04/a_review_of_white_bread_a_new_book_about_our_nation_s_fear_of_flour_.html
With thanks to Dave Pell – NEXT DRAFT!

Why Thinking About Averages Can Be Disastrous: http://timkastelle.org/blog/2012/04/why-thinking-about-averages-can-be-disastrous/
With thanks to Harold Jarche!

Plasma Flashlight Zaps Bacteria: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/04/plasma-flashlight-zaps-bacteria.html?ref=em

QUI CITO 5

New Light Shone On Photosynthesis:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120403085225.htm

20 signs that you can’t trusted as a leader:
http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2012/04/20-signs-that-you-cant-trusted-as.html

Do we live in an purposeless Universe?
http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/do-we-live-in-a-purposeless-universe

Is the Internet becoming the Bot-Net?:
http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/is-the-internet-becoming-the-bot-net

Google vs. Facebook: The New Media Showdown
Google co-founder Larry Page is paranoid—and justifiably so, as his company's losing ground in the social media sphere to Facebook despite its best attempts:
http://www.alternet.org/media/154844/google_vs._facebook%3A_the_new_media_showdown

Happiness

Motto:
The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1!
Author Unknown (source: The Quote Garden)



How can happiness be described? Most probably differently by each living soul that has ever experienced it. It should be such a simple and inexhaustible resource, as we can find happiness in all the little things which we experience every day (as Robert Brault says it so nice). We can find happiness even when and where we do not expect it at all, but only if we open our hearts to recognizing it.

I see happiness as the most purely rewarding experience that invades one or more of my senses, and then smoothly insinuates into my spirit. It touches both my nerves and soul, either at the same time or in a nice succession. It may come as a pleasant mix of taste and smell, consistency and softness, fire and ice, sweetness and spiciness. It may hide in a smile or in a look, in a kiss or in an embrace, in kind words or in shared silence. It may come as recognition of familiar and comfortable sensations, or as fear and anticipation of new adventures, or even as a combination of those two at the same time. It may hide in a mix of trust and suspicion, question and answer, experience and expectation. It may bring fulfillment in one second and emptiness in the next, may bless you with satisfaction and tease you with frustration, leaving you confused between a sense of belonging and one of possession, torn between dependence and freedom, submission and control.

It started to seem complicated now, after I tried to describe it. However for me is rather simple: happiness is with me wherever I go. Even in those moments which I call unhappy, I feel also ... surprisingly happy! Because my being unhappy means that I am at the same time very much alive, free and able to feel – mad, or sad, or just bad. It clearly means that I am not dead and therefore I will keep on experiencing - taste and smell, light and darkness, smile and tear, love and hate.

So, to all those people who like to wonder whether they were, are, or will ever be happy, I just send out one simple question: why not?

Georgina

QUI CITO No. 4

QUI CITO 4

The Five Personalities of Innovators: Which One Are You?:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brennasniderman/2012/03/21/the-five-personalities-of-innovators-which-one-are-you/

Shannon's Mathematical Theory of Communication Applied to DNA Sequencing.  Nobody knows which sequencing technology is fastest because there has never been a fair way to compare the rate at which they extract information from DNA.

Until now: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27689/?nlid=nlbio&nld=2012-04-03

A “must read” IMHO: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/issue-128.shtml

Lifelong Learning: Lesson From A Cab Driver
http://qaspire.com/2012/04/03/lifelong-learning-lesson-from-a-cab-driver/

Scientists produce first genetic brain atlas:
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20120330/Scientists-produce-first-genetic-brain-atlas.aspx

Vowels: http://vimeo.com/32830670

The art of diagramming sentences: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/a-picture-of-language/

The Secret Science of Memorable Quotes
Computer scientists have analysed thousands of memorable movie quotes to work out why we remember certain phrases and not others:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27691/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-04-04

QUI CITO No. 3

A great however incomplete Project:
http://metaphors.lib.virginia.edu/metaphors
This had convinced me that a metaphor story can be very powerful
and can be more expressive than a detailed chrono-history that will
hide the essence and is descriptive not explanatory and predictive
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Our brains are so complex, so interesting, so inventive structurally and so fawlty functionally and so marvelous globally! We have to accept that the brain is one of the most important organs and perhaps in a previsible future the hatred toward the people who try to use their brains intensely and meme-free- )intellectuals) will disappear.
This Is Your Brain--It's Organized Like a Woven Cloth and Not So Tangled As Once Thought:
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=123711&WT.mc_id=USNSF_61&WT.mc_ev=click
Brain wiring a no-brainer?: http://www.nih.gov/news/health/mar2012/nimh-29.htm
Scans reveal astonishingly simple 3D grid structure — NIH-funded study
Once Considered Mainly 'Brain Glue,' Astrocytes' Power Revealed:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120329170439.htm
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Words! "Rise to Vote, Sir." "Now I Won!" World Palindrome Champion Crowned: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/blogexcerpts/3194/
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Professional Help: 5 Strategies for Creative Problem Solving: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/professional-help-5-strategies-for-creative-problem-solving/254415/
I am a problem solver myself but I need and love good competition and I admire TRIZ
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Problems with honestans and swindlecants:
http://brainden.com/logic-problems.htm
It was a perfect apartheid in this country, however the great love
of Julia Honest and Romeo Swindly, has changed everything. They
had even children, Dan and Rose the “sira”s- the “mixed ones”. Nobody, indigenous people or strangers is able to communicate with Dan or Rose because they are unpredictable, you never know when they are telling the truth or when they are lying.
Is this so very different with the normal people?
I wonder if this story isn’t too subtle or too stupid, but we have trouble with a man who is a big problem- as Dana and Rose combined – and it very possible that this  man has made both a great Discovery and a terrible cognitive mess.
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Leaders of Faster-Than-Light Experiment Step Down: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/03/leaders-of-faster-than-light-exp.html?ref=em
I have written in my blog about negative discoveries- see e.g. http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2011/01/first-seed.html
However I dislike the idea to obtain success by demonstrating that some Great Authority has made an error. It is OK, I think, to demonstrate that you are smarter than Einstein but it is not fair to show that Einstein was more stupid than you. By the way, what is the bright theory that predicts that the neutrinos can move faster
than light? The real problem is that the light is too slow compared to the huge dimensions of our Universe.