THE METAPHOR STORY OF LENR.

THE METAPHOR STORY OF LENR.

A high, seemingly inaccessible mountain. Two men, who were not professional mountain climbers, have claimed that the Flame of Life burns on the very peak of the mountain. This peak has to be conquered!
The statement was believed only by a few, however for long-long years, brave men tried to find a way to the peak; they followed the most diverse, fantastic. smart, heroic ways but unfortunately they do not realized that there are at least three insurmountable obstacles on all the ways they have gone,  and even now they keep and keep trying, cannot believe that ascension on their ways is impossible.
In meantime a solitary wise man (whom the others have not followed and have marginalized) has discovered step by step, very methodically a much better way. When he has almost arrived to the top, surprisingly, a rather strange, but very hard working, lucky, inspired, weird individual has discovered a shortcut!
He had a partner for this ascension but quite unexpectedly has abandoned him. The discoverer is not able to use well the shortcut. The abandoned partner is a very fast learner; he understood the advanced ascension methods of both the wise old man and the weird man and of many others, was able to improve them creatively and has solved the problem. The former partner used engineering to build a real, good shortcut-way, and has brought the Flame of Life to the people.
Happy end i.e. a good and great start.
……….
Personal comments: I well know that, like definitions, metaphors carry the curse of simplifications, they also can modify or kill some essential details of truth. However I consider that at my age, you have to tell what you think and you accept the risks to not please quite everybody. Some can consider this story too anticipative, many could deny me the right to tell what will not work. I am aware that I am not infallible and perhaps my judgment is not very sophisticated. I apologize for all my weaknesses and I ask you, my dear colleagues- write a better metaphor story of LENR. Let’s future and facts to decide!

QUI CITO No. 2

March, 29, 2012

The Mathematics of Happiness
http://bigthink.com/think-tank/emotional-equations-counting-what-counts-in-life-and-business

Stephen O’Donnell’s : http://www.thehotaisle.com/ EXCELLENT!

Algorithm Spells the End for Professional Musical Instrument Tuners. The best human tuners have always been able to outperform electronic devices that do the same job. Until now:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27673/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-28

Some of the Better Google Tools and New Features:
http://savedelete.com/google-tools-new-features.html

How does the brain secrete morality:
http://reason.com/archives/2012/03/21/how-does-the-brain-secrete-morality
A great however incomplete Project:
http://metaphors.lib.virginia.edu/metaphors

QUI CITO No. 1

I like words and I like this site:
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/media/spelling-bee-2011/

One of my favorite words is INSIGHT and therefore I recommend you:
http://materialsinsight.com/

Perhaps this site is based on a good idea:
http://www.factual.com/

Peter

INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY No. 500 (FINAL)

EDITORIAL
This is the last issue of the INFORMAVORE’s SUNDAY newsletter, the end of a long series formed of 437 INFO KAPPAs
(in Romanian) plus 63 issues of the English INFORMAVORE.
A last Mohican of this kind of information rich and link-dense
publications_Magua has killed Uncas, low speed is fatal for such publications. I have watched many of these- disappearing- the
most impressive being the Internet Resources Newsletter  (British).
But times are changing, specifically accelerating and this category
of publications are ‘passe”. You cannot make a reader happy giving her/him a bunch of over 100 links of variable interestingness at once; even with a good taxonomy the reader has to search and discover her/his favorite subjects and themes.
To say the truth, my newsletter was relatively unpopular
I will not get a farthing or a cent for all these ISs, I will not win any contest, surely I will make blunders and typos will happen- therefore the main driving force of composing such a newsletter is generosity i.e. the hope that you will get the empathy of the people. (but do not ignore the more selfish idea to be permanently well informed). The author is informed on an continuous basis and the reader only once per week. This is not fair, slow generosity is an auto-destructive oxymoron.
I respect the saying “Bis dat, qui cito dat” if you give , you have to do this very fast. Information has to be transferred instantly.
Ergo, I am stopping the Informavores and starting “Qui Cito” I
will select the really remarkable publications, let you know about them ASAP, will tell you my opinion about them, will be very interested in your comments and ideas. It is about something more personal, more dialogue like.
Do not mourn Informavore’s Sunday, it has tried very hard to make its duty- and that’s the maximum we (newsletters and humans) can achieve during our lifetimes.
Peter

INTERNET
The Future of Apps and Web: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Future-of-Apps-and-Web/Overview.aspx
Is the Internet the end of the University?:
http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/is-the-internet-the-end-of-the-university
SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.  
 
Fast Facts: The Need for Speedy Information Online: http://websearch.about.com/od/researchtipsandtools/ss/Fast-Facts-The-Need-For-Speedy-Information-Online.htm?nl=1
Three small Web search shortcuts that can save you a lot of time:
http://websearch.about.com/b/2012/03/14/three-little-known-web-search-tricks-you-might-not-know-about.htm?nl=1
Bob Rankin- send a fax from your computer: http://askbobrankin.com/send_a_fax_from_your_computer.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=J9bW.arS58P6SL
BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES
How Real Is Social Media Fatigue?: http://marketingland.com/how-real-is-social-media-fatigue-7665?utm_source=sel&tm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=email
Facebook's Dark Side: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120319194046.htm
Facebook Promotes Socially Aggressive Narcissism: http://bigthink.com/ideas/facebook-promotes-socially-aggressive-narcissism
Twitter’s 6th Birthday: 140 Million Active Users, 340 Million Tweets A Day:
http://marketingland.com/twitter-six-years-old-8374
GOOGLE
Google is now just an ad company': Departing exec's Goldman Sachs-style rant about how search giant is now obsessed with harvesting people's private information
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2115393/Google-ad-company-Departing-exec-James-Whittakers-Goldman-Sachs-style-rant.html#ixzz1pVDICC7D
Google won't be top dog forever says father of the Internet
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/45018/vint-cerf-google-will-end
Bing, Not Google, Favors Wikipedia More Often in Search Results [Study]: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2161910/Bing-Not-Google-Favors-Wikipedia-More-Often-in-Search-Results-Study
The legal history of Google: http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/9403-the-legal-history-of-google
WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES
Anglo-EU Translation Guide:
http://www.scribd.com/zeb/d/55551980-Anglo-EU-Translation-Guide
Non-errors in English: http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/nonerrors.html

Study reveals words' Darwinian struggle for survival
Scientific analysis of language usage in literature over the last 200 years suggests that words are competing – and now losing – in a battle to survive: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/21/why-words-are-dying?CMP=twt_gu

Brain's Involvement in Processing Depends On Language's Graphic Symbols: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120321105338.htm

E-readers grow; libraries can't get many titles: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/17/BUCP1NLI18.DTL
Write your own academic sentence:                                      http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/toys/randomsentence/write-sentence.htm
Pinterest : Revolutionizing The Way Libraries Are Used: http://savedelete.com/pinterest-revolutionizing-the-way-libraries-are-used.html
SCIENCE
Researchers may have discovered how memories are encoded in the brain:                                       http://www.gizmag.com/memory-storage-theory/21900/
Smell Is a Symphony: New Model for How the Brain Is Organized to Process Odor Information: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120319094356.htm
Sandfish Lizard Slithers Into Science Spotlight Desert reptile inspires new robot for rescue and other mission: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/sandfishrobot.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51
New Light Shed On Wandering Continents: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120322161938.htm
New full-length video: Questions no one knows the answers to:
http://blog.ted.com/2012/03/17/new-full-length-video-questions-no-one-knows-the-answers-to/
TECHNOLOGY
How can we compare or add up our energy consumption?         What everybody needs to know about energy: http://www.eia.gov/energy_in_brief/comparing_energy_consumption.cfm
Nuclear Fusion: Limitless Energy From Seawater: http://bigthink.com/ideas/nuclear-fusion-limitless-energy-from-seawater
Sandwich structure enables cheaper, more efficient hydrogen fuel cells: http://www.gizmag.com/sandwich-hydorgen-fuel-cell-ucf/21877/
A Basic -- And Slightly Acidic -- Solution for Hydrogen Storage: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120320115731.htm

First Complete Full Genetic Map of Promising Energy Crop: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120319095013.htm
Turning Human Waste into Power.  Bill Gates's potty obsession, revisited: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/helloworld/27665/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-23
Discovering the End of the World. The recent death of Sherwood Rowland, whose work helped us avoid one of the world's great environmental disasters, should be a reminder that we can't afford to ignore the lessons of chemistry: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/27650/?nlid=nlmat&nld=2012-03-22
TVs and Tablets to Get the "Retina Display" Treatment
Gadget manufacturers are adopting a manufacturing technique that will significantly increase resolution in coming months:
http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/39952/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-23
In Crosswords, It’s Man Over Machine, for Now:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/in-crosswords-man-over-machine-for-now/
Top 10 Life-Changing Inventions: http://www.innovationnewsdaily.com/92-ten-life-changing-inventions-.html

EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART
Noam Chomsky on the Purpose of Education: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/03/13/noam-chomsky-on-the-purpose-of-education/
When Does Learning Begin?:
http://bigthink.com/think-tank/learning-starts-at-home
Develop Thinking Skills:
http://www.999ideas.com/thinking-skills.html
Sharing Patents With Competitors May Encourage Innovation as Probability for Market Success Increases, Study Suggests: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120316145702.htm
Six Tips on Writing from John Steinbeck: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/03/12/john-steinbeck-six-tips-on-writing/
How You Think About Intelligence Could Make You Smarter:
http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/how-you-think-about-intelligence-could-make-you-smarter
How Religion's Demand for Obedience Keeps Us in the Dark Ages.: http://www.alternet.org/belief/154604/how_religion's_demand_for_obedience_keeps_us_in_the_dark_ages/
Are Rich People More Psychopathic?: http://bigthink.com/ideas/are-rich-people-more-psychopathic
How Society Works: 8 Revealing Psychological Insights Into Our Social Behaviour:
http://www.spring.org.uk/2012/03/how-society-works-8-revealing-psychological-insights-into-our-social-behaviour.php
The Science of Habits, Good and Bad: http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/the-science-of-habits-good-and-bad
New Report: State of the News Media 2012: http://infodocket.com/2012/03/19/new-report-state-of-the-news-media-2012/
The Power of Habit (Book Review): http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/lisa-sansom/2012031921596
500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs
Tree-mendous! Seven of the World’s Most Extraordinary Trees: http://gimundo.com/news/article/tree-mendous-seven-of-the-worlds-most-extraordinary-trees/
Askers vs. Guessers:
http://m.theatlanticwire.com/national/2010/05/askers-vs-guessers/19730/
Preparing for the Unimaginabile:
http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2012/03/20/preparing-for-the-unimaginable/
How Buddhism Differs From Judeo-Christian Religions:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/kadam-morten-temp-2
BUSINESS:
How Can Capitalism Achieve Sustainability?: http://bigthink.com/ideas/how-can-capitalism-achieve-sustainability
How America's Obsession With Money Deadens Us: http://www.alternet.org/economy/154469/how_america's_obsession_with_money_deadens_us Moneytheism is not only good!
Will Sweden Be the First Cashless Society?: http://www.bigthink.com/ideafeed/will-sweden-be-the-first-cashless-society
Who is Not Afraid of Radical Change?: http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2012/03/who-is-not-afraid-of-radical-change.html
Courageous Leadership Skills: Embrace Catastrophe: http://www.boxofcrayons.biz/2012/03/courageous-leadership-skills-embrace-catastrophe/
5 Kinds of Innovators: Which One Are You?: http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/5-kinds-of-innovators-which-one-are-you
Great Story: Improvement and Tending the Garden:
http://qaspire.com/2012/03/20/great-story-improvement-and-tending-the-garden/
The Science of Making Mistakes: http://www.psychotactics.com/blog/science-making-mistakes/
Are creative people more dishonest?:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-12/are-creative-people-more-dishonest  A dangerous idea, and, sometimes, reality!

HEALTH & MEDICINE
Nano Rescues Skin: Shrimp Shell Nanotech for Wound Healing and Anti-Aging Face Cream: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120316094454.htm
The end of microbial resistance:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-end-of-microbial-resistance
Showing the Power of Molecular Self-Tracking
An unprecedented study shows how personalized medicine could help head off disease: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/39924/?nlid=nlbio&nld=2012-03-20
How Bacteria Resist a 'Trojan Horse' Antibiotic: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120319134208.htm
Novel Therapy Discovered for Crohn's Disease: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120319194215.htm
Fixing the brain with computers:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/fixing-the-brain-with-computers
FOOD & COOKING
Yummly, the “best” site for recipes: http://www.yummly.com/
About permaculture: http://leavingbabylon.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/permadesign/
How the Smell of Food Affects How Much You Eat: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120321094137.htm
Wine consumption:
http://culturaloffering.com/2012/03/22/time-for-get-focused.aspx

MISCELLANEA
10 Awesome Games for Your Google Chrome Browser: http://savedelete.com/10-awesome-games-for-your-google-chrome-browser.html
Usually this newsletter ignored the games, however this being the last issue…I am not sooo serious about this now.
The Arrow of Time: http://www.zonezero.com/zz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1292%3Athe-arrow-of-time&catid=8%3Aessays&lang=en
SELECTED NEWS
SPAM & SPYWARE   
Science or Spam?
http://bigthink.com/ideas/science-or-spam
Learn why a message ended up in your spam folder: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/learn-why-message-ended-up-in-your-spam.html
VIRUSES & e-CROOKS
Bypassing the password:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/business/seeking-ways-to-make-computer-passwords-unnecessary.html
Twitter Being Used by Malware Developers: Symantec: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Twitter-Being-Used-by-Malware-Developers-Symantec-770305/
The newest issue of Hoax-Slayer:
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/issue-127.shtml
Duqu trojan built by 'old school' programmers, Kaspersky says: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/security/3345563/duqu-trojan-built-by-old-school-programmers-kaspersky-says/

WiFi
New Report from Pew Internet: Teens, Smartphones & Texting: http://infodocket.com/2012/03/19/new-report-from-pew-internet-teens-smartphones-texting/
How Smartphones Can Deliver Democracy & Health:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/technology-improving-the-world-by-reducing-friction

INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY No.499 (repaired)

My dear Readers,
You can find here many proofs that the world is progressing,
at least technologically and scientifically. However, even people
that are future-oriented and progressive and left-hemisphere thinkers like me, sometimes have a self-contradictory relationship with Change. I have to confess that what happens with the Encyclopedia Britannica has shocked me. OK, Wikipedia is  a miracle of the e-Era, however…please give me the freedom to
remain undecided if this is good or bad or both or none, simply inevitable.
Peter
SEARCH
INTERNET
Al Gore Invented the Internet? What Did Al Gore Really Say?: http://websearch.about.com/od/internet101/f/al-gore.htm?nl=1
SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.  
 
Web Browser Cookies: Just The Facts:  http://websearch.about.com/od/webbrowsers/p/Web-Browser-Cookies-Just-The-Facts.htm?nl=1
New Video: Web Browsers Explained by Common Craft: http://www.commoncraft.com/new-video-web-browsers-explained-common-craft
Microsoft Builds a Browser for Your Past
Prototype software called Lifebrowser uses artificial intelligence to help you revisit important events, photos, and e-mails from your own life: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39917/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-16

Yahoo! Search Scientists Break New Ground on Search Results: http://www.ysearchblog.com/2012/03/16/yahoo-search-scientists-break-new-ground-on-search-results/

A remarkable source of information:  http://blog.findmyhost.com/                                    
Best Websites Of Non Profit Organisations On The Web: http://savedelete.com/best-websites-of-non-profit-organisations-on-the-web.html
Free Backup Software: http://askbobrankin.com/free_backup_software.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=JTfGm_NrP8P6SL

BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES
Blogging Remains Popular, Impressive Growth Continues [Report]: 
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2158913/Blogging-Remains-Popular-Impressive-Growth-Continues-Report

Facebook, Friend or Foe? Investors have realized that companies no longer compete with Facebook, they compete on it: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970203358704577235213738850008-lMyQjAxMTAyMDEwMTExNDEyWj.html
What Your Tweets Tell Us About You: Identity, Ownership and
Privacy of Twitter Data
http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/214/283

GOOGLE
Google+ and the Long Game: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74610.html
Has Google lost its magic?:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-33617_3-57396938-276/has-google-lost-its-magic/
The Brain at Google:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-rock/google-culture-work-life_b_1289362.html
Pew Study: All Search Engines Being Equally Intrusive, Google's the Best:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74608.html
Google plans major revamp for search engine: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57397782-93/google-plans-major-revamp-for-search-engine/
Google's New Search: One Step Closer to AI:
http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/googles-new-search-one-step-closer-to-ai

An Unprecedented Video Glimpse Into How Google Crafts Its Search Results:
http://searchengineland.com/an-unprecedented-video-glimpse-into-how-google-crafts-its-search-results-114682
Survey Paradox: People Like Google But Not What It’s Doing: http://searchengineland.com/survey-paradox-people-like-google-but-not-what-its-doing-114796

WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES
I like words:
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/i-like-words.html
Software Translates Your Voice into Another Language Research software from Microsoft synthesizes speech in a foreign language, but in a voice that sounds like yours: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39885/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-12
Book Burning, 213 BC–2011 AD: http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/burnedbooks/
Things Change: “Encyclopedia Britannica to Stop Printing Books”:
http://infodocket.com/2012/03/13/things-change-encyclopedia-britannica-to-stop-printing-books/
25 Awesome Library Apps For Your iPad: http://savedelete.com/25-awesome-library-apps-for-your-ipad.html

SCIENCE
Is Brain Science Just Hype?:                          http://bigthink.com/devils-advocate/is-neuroscience-overrated
Neanderthal and Human Brain Development Created a Divergent Evolutionary Path: http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/neanderthal_and_human_brain_development_created_a_divergent_evolutionary_path
Virtue Now Permits Sin Later, Says Your Brain: http://bigthink.com/ideas/virtue-now-permits-sin-later-says-your-brain
The 4 Biggest Myths About the Human Brain: http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/the_4_biggest_myths_about_the_human_brain
Marine worm rewrites theory of brain evolution: http://www.kurzweilai.net/marine-worm-rewrites-theory-of-brain-evolution
Exercise Changes How Genes Work:
http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/exercise-changes-how-genes-work

First Consumption of Abundant Life Form, Archaea, Discovered: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120312140316.htm
Tigons, ligers, leguars, and jagupards, oh my!: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/tigons-ligers-leguars-and-jagupard-oh-my/

Could a Nuke Stop an Asteroid After All? http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2401600,00.asp

The Fat Lady Sings for OPERA:
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2012/03/the_fat_lady_sings_for_opera.php
A new sign of not-so-faster-than-light neutrinos:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57398740-264/a-new-sign-of-not-so-faster-than-light-neutrinos/
I won a bet on this. Thank you, Uncle Albert!

TECHNOLOGY
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=nlenrg&nld=2012-03-12
Despite Fukushima, Nuclear Keeps Powering Ahead
A few countries have scaled back in response to the disaster, but many others are building or planning new nuclear reactors: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/39893/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-13
The End of Nuclear Power?:                    http://bigthink.com/ideas/the-end-of-nuclear-power
Cheap Solar Power at Night. Improved materials could make solar-thermal power cheaper, and energy storage easier: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/33MU0O/www.technologyreview.com/computing/39856
Startup Aims to Cut the Cost of Solar Cells in Half. A new process uses a high-energy ion accelerator to make thin silicon solar cells: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/39887/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-13
Solar Comes of Age:                                                    http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00105?gko=b64ae&cid=TL20120315
Hydrogen Power in Real Life: Clean and Energy Efficient
IBM unveils one trillion bit-per-second optical chip: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120313121537.htm
Fragrant New Biofuel: Researchers Develop a New Candidate for a Cleaner, Greener and Renewable Diesel Fuel: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120314101245.htm
Nanotechnology to Make Hydrogen Fuel: http://bigthink.com/ideas/nanotechnology-makes-hydrogen-fuel
Straintronics: Engineers Create Piezoelectric Graphene: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120316094535.htm

Graphene Supercapacitor Holds Promise for Portable Electronics: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120315152524.htm

Catalysts for Less: Slashing Costs of Metal Alloys Needed to Jump-Start Crucial Chemical Processes: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120308143157.htm
Process Makes Polymers Truly Plastic, Changing Textures On Demand: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120315161437.htm

The Lytro: Photography May Never be the Same After months of gearing up, the Lytro has landed: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/helloworld/27640/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-12
Metamaterials boost wireless power transfer;
http://www.kurzweilai.net/metamaterials-boost-wireless-power-transfer
Scientists Tap the Cognitive Genius of Tots to Make Computers Smarter: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120313121727.htm
Laser Erasers Gently Remove Ink from Paper
The trick could reduce the carbon emissions and energy usage associated with recycling paper: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/39903/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-14

EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART
Rethinking school: http://hbr.org/2012/03/rethinking-school/ar/1
Creative Problem Solving
http://www.wright.edu/~scott.williams/LeaderLetter/cps.htm
Bias in Decision-Making Leads to Poor Choices and Possibly Depression: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120308174811.htm
Need to Learn Something? See Salman Khan: http://www.execupundit.com/2012/03/need-to-learn-something-see-salman-khan.html#links
A Wandering Mind Reveals Mental Processes and Priorities: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120315161326.htm
A History of Violence:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/a-history-of-violence
Narcissism impairs ethical judgment even among the highly religious, study finds:                 http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-narcissism-impairs-ethical-judgment-highly.html
BUSINESS
The Slow Death of Cash. In a new book, author David Wolman argues that cash costs society far more than we think it does: http://www.technologyreview.com/business/39827/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-13
The Future of Money:                           http://www.idgconnect.com/blog-abstract/484/kasey-cassells-global-the-future-money
New Economy Resources: http://www.llrx.com/features/neweconomyresources.htm
Beware the globalization fetish:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/beware-the-globalization-fetish
Training: The Change Agent: http://qaspire.com/2012/03/12/training-the-change-agent/
Innovation is about making connections:
http://www.jarche.com/2012/03/innovation-is-about-making-connections/
Courageous Leadership Skills: What Wouldn’t You Do?: http://www.boxofcrayons.biz/2012/03/courageous-leadership-skills-what-wouldnt-you-do/
Make time for time:
http://blogs.hbr.org/tjan/2011/12/make-time-for-time.html

HEALTH & MEDICINE
Killer Silk: Making Silk Fibers That Kill Anthrax and Other Microbes in Minutes: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120314143155.htm
Nanopills Release Drugs Directly from the Inside of Cells: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120316145755.htm

FOOD & COOKING
World Breakthrough On Salt-Tolerant Wheat: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120311150717.htm
Eggs Really ARE Incredible! Egg Nutrition and Cooking: http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/nutrition/a/eggs.htm?nl=1
Eatocracy: http://eatocracy.cnn.com/
New Study: All Red Meat Will Kill You: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/852619/new_study%3A_all_red_meat_will_kill_you/#paragraph4
Artificial meat.Hamburger junction
Muscle grown in factories could soon be appearing in a supermarket near you: http://www.economist.com/node/21548147
8 Great Sites for Healthy Meal Plans: http://gimundo.com/news/article/8-great-sites-for-healthy-meal-plans/
Featured Recipe Videos at Gourmandia: http://www.delicious.com/stacks/view/Deo2pc

Experts: 30 to 50 percent of world’s food thrown away:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46743203/ns/world_news-world_environment/#.T2HgPl2Kx7E

MISCELLANEA
'
8 Kindes of Drunkennes': Behold, the 16th-Century Listicle: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/8-kindes-of-drunkennes-behold-the-16th-century-listicle/254084/

SELECTED NEWS
SPAM & SPYWARE   
How to Create a Gmail Spam Filter for Foreign Language Spam : http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/how-to-create-a-gmail-spam-filter-for-foreign-language-spam/ 
Spam Primer: http://www.spamprimer.com/

VIRUSES & e-CROOKS
Why Hacking Is Barbaric and Essential: http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/why-hacking-is-barbaric-and-essential
Multi-word pass-phrases not so secure after all?: 
http://www.gizmag.com/passphrase-security-questioned/21823/

WiFi
Researchers Send 'Wireless' Message Using a Beam of Neutrinos: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120314143146.htm

http://defkalion-energy.com/

INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY No 499a

EXCUSE ME FOLKS I DON'T KNOW WHY TH HYPERLINKS ARE
INACTIVATED! I HAVE TO GO IN THE TOWN: WHEN COMING
BACK I'LL TRY TO REPAIR THIS!

My dear Readers,

You can find here many proofs that the world is progressing,
at least technologically and scientifically. However, even people
that are future-oriented and progressive and left-hemisphere thinkers like me, sometimes have a self-contradictory relationship with Change. I have to confess that what happens with the Encyclopedia Britannica has shocked me. OK, Wikipedia is  a miracle of the e-Era, however…please give me the freedom to
remain undecided if this is good or bad or both or none, simply inevitable.
Peter

SEARCH

INTERNET

Al Gore Invented the Internet? What Did Al Gore Really Say?: http://websearch.about.com/od/internet101/f/al-gore.htm?nl=1

SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.

Web Browser Cookies: Just The Facts:  http://websearch.about.com/od/webbrowsers/p/Web-Browser-Cookies-Just-The-Facts.htm?nl=1

New Video: Web Browsers Explained by Common Craft: http://www.commoncraft.com/new-video-web-browsers-explained-common-craft

Microsoft Builds a Browser for Your Past
Prototype software called Lifebrowser uses artificial intelligence to help you revisit important events, photos, and e-mails from your own life: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39917/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-16


Yahoo! Search Scientists Break New Ground on Search Results: http://www.ysearchblog.com/2012/03/16/yahoo-search-scientists-break-new-ground-on-search-results/


A remarkable source of information:  http://blog.findmyhost.com/                                  

Best Websites Of Non Profit Organisations On The Web: http://savedelete.com/best-websites-of-non-profit-organisations-on-the-web.html

Free Backup Software: http://askbobrankin.com/free_backup_software.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=JTfGm_NrP8P6SL


BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES

Blogging Remains Popular, Impressive Growth Continues [Report]:
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2158913/Blogging-Remains-Popular-Impressive-Growth-Continues-Report


Facebook, Friend or Foe? Investors have realized that companies no longer compete with Facebook, they compete on it: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970203358704577235213738850008-lMyQjAxMTAyMDEwMTExNDEyWj.html

What Your Tweets Tell Us About You: Identity, Ownership and
Privacy of Twitter Data
http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/214/283



GOOGLE
Google+ and the Long Game: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74610.html

Has Google lost its magic?:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-33617_3-57396938-276/has-google-lost-its-magic/

The Brain at Google:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-rock/google-culture-work-life_b_1289362.html

Pew Study: All Search Engines Being Equally Intrusive, Google's the Best:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74608.html

Google plans major revamp for search engine: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57397782-93/google-plans-major-revamp-for-search-engine/

Google's New Search: One Step Closer to AI:
http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/googles-new-search-one-step-closer-to-ai


An Unprecedented Video Glimpse Into How Google Crafts Its Search Results:
http://searchengineland.com/an-unprecedented-video-glimpse-into-how-google-crafts-its-search-results-114682

Survey Paradox: People Like Google But Not What It’s Doing: http://searchengineland.com/survey-paradox-people-like-google-but-not-what-its-doing-114796


WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES

I like words:
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/i-like-words.html

Software Translates Your Voice into Another Language Research software from Microsoft synthesizes speech in a foreign language, but in a voice that sounds like yours: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39885/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-12
Book Burning, 213 BC–2011 AD: http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/burnedbooks/

Things Change: “Encyclopedia Britannica to Stop Printing Books”:
http://infodocket.com/2012/03/13/things-change-encyclopedia-britannica-to-stop-printing-books/

25 Awesome Library Apps For Your iPad: http://savedelete.com/25-awesome-library-apps-for-your-ipad.html


SCIENCE

Is Brain Science Just Hype?:                          http://bigthink.com/devils-advocate/is-neuroscience-overrated

Neanderthal and Human Brain Development Created a Divergent Evolutionary Path: http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/neanderthal_and_human_brain_development_created_a_divergent_evolutionary_path

Virtue Now Permits Sin Later, Says Your Brain: http://bigthink.com/ideas/virtue-now-permits-sin-later-says-your-brain

The 4 Biggest Myths About the Human Brain: http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/the_4_biggest_myths_about_the_human_brain

Marine worm rewrites theory of brain evolution: http://www.kurzweilai.net/marine-worm-rewrites-theory-of-brain-evolution

Exercise Changes How Genes Work:
http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/exercise-changes-how-genes-work


First Consumption of Abundant Life Form, Archaea, Discovered: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120312140316.htm

Tigons, ligers, leguars, and jagupards, oh my!: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/tigons-ligers-leguars-and-jagupard-oh-my/


Could a Nuke Stop an Asteroid After All? http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2401600,00.asp

The Fat Lady Sings for OPERA:
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2012/03/the_fat_lady_sings_for_opera.php
A new sign of not-so-faster-than-light neutrinos:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57398740-264/a-new-sign-of-not-so-faster-than-light-neutrinos/
I won a bet on this. Thank you, Uncle Albert!


TECHNOLOGY

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=nlenrg&nld=2012-03-12

Despite Fukushima, Nuclear Keeps Powering Ahead
A few countries have scaled back in response to the disaster, but many others are building or planning new nuclear reactors: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/39893/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-13

The End of Nuclear Power?:                    http://bigthink.com/ideas/the-end-of-nuclear-power

Cheap Solar Power at Night. Improved materials could make solar-thermal power cheaper, and energy storage easier: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/33MU0O/www.technologyreview.com/computing/39856

Startup Aims to Cut the Cost of Solar Cells in Half. A new process uses a high-energy ion accelerator to make thin silicon solar cells: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/39887/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-13

Solar Comes of Age:                                                    http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00105?gko=b64ae&cid=TL20120315

Hydrogen Power in Real Life: Clean and Energy Efficient
IBM unveils one trillion bit-per-second optical chip: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120313121537.htm

Fragrant New Biofuel: Researchers Develop a New Candidate for a Cleaner, Greener and Renewable Diesel Fuel: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120314101245.htm

Nanotechnology to Make Hydrogen Fuel: http://bigthink.com/ideas/nanotechnology-makes-hydrogen-fuel

Straintronics: Engineers Create Piezoelectric Graphene: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120316094535.htm

Graphene Supercapacitor Holds Promise for Portable Electronics: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120315152524.htm


Catalysts for Less: Slashing Costs of Metal Alloys Needed to Jump-Start Crucial Chemical Processes: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120308143157.htm

Process Makes Polymers Truly Plastic, Changing Textures On Demand: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120315161437.htm


The Lytro: Photography May Never be the Same After months of gearing up, the Lytro has landed: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/helloworld/27640/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-12

Metamaterials boost wireless power transfer;
http://www.kurzweilai.net/metamaterials-boost-wireless-power-transfer

Scientists Tap the Cognitive Genius of Tots to Make Computers Smarter: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120313121727.htm

Laser Erasers Gently Remove Ink from Paper
The trick could reduce the carbon emissions and energy usage associated with recycling paper: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/39903/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-14



EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART

Rethinking school: http://hbr.org/2012/03/rethinking-school/ar/1

Creative Problem Solving
http://www.wright.edu/~scott.williams/LeaderLetter/cps.htm

Bias in Decision-Making Leads to Poor Choices and Possibly Depression: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120308174811.htm

Need to Learn Something? See Salman Khan: http://www.execupundit.com/2012/03/need-to-learn-something-see-salman-khan.html#links

A Wandering Mind Reveals Mental Processes and Priorities: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120315161326.htm

A History of Violence:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/a-history-of-violence

Narcissism impairs ethical judgment even among the highly religious, study finds:                 http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-narcissism-impairs-ethical-judgment-highly.html

BUSINESS

The Slow Death of Cash. In a new book, author David Wolman argues that cash costs society far more than we think it does: http://www.technologyreview.com/business/39827/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-03-13

The Future of Money:                           http://www.idgconnect.com/blog-abstract/484/kasey-cassells-global-the-future-money

New Economy Resources: http://www.llrx.com/features/neweconomyresources.htm

Beware the globalization fetish:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/beware-the-globalization-fetish

Training: The Change Agent: http://qaspire.com/2012/03/12/training-the-change-agent/

Innovation is about making connections:
http://www.jarche.com/2012/03/innovation-is-about-making-connections/

Courageous Leadership Skills: What Wouldn’t You Do?: http://www.boxofcrayons.biz/2012/03/courageous-leadership-skills-what-wouldnt-you-do/

Make time for time:
http://blogs.hbr.org/tjan/2011/12/make-time-for-time.html


HEALTH & MEDICINE

Killer Silk: Making Silk Fibers That Kill Anthrax and Other Microbes in Minutes: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120314143155.htm

Nanopills Release Drugs Directly from the Inside of Cells: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120316145755.htm


FOOD & COOKING

World Breakthrough On Salt-Tolerant Wheat: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120311150717.htm

Eggs Really ARE Incredible! Egg Nutrition and Cooking: http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/nutrition/a/eggs.htm?nl=1

Eatocracy: http://eatocracy.cnn.com/

New Study: All Red Meat Will Kill You: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/852619/new_study%3A_all_red_meat_will_kill_you/#paragraph4

Artificial meat.Hamburger junction
Muscle grown in factories could soon be appearing in a supermarket near you: http://www.economist.com/node/21548147

8 Great Sites for Healthy Meal Plans: http://gimundo.com/news/article/8-great-sites-for-healthy-meal-plans/

Featured Recipe Videos at Gourmandia: http://www.delicious.com/stacks/view/Deo2pc


Experts: 30 to 50 percent of world’s food thrown away:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46743203/ns/world_news-world_environment/#.T2HgPl2Kx7E


MISCELLANEA
'
8 Kindes of Drunkennes': Behold, the 16th-Century Listicle: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/8-kindes-of-drunkennes-behold-the-16th-century-listicle/254084/


SELECTED NEWS

SPAM & SPYWARE  
How to Create a Gmail Spam Filter for Foreign Language Spam : http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/how-to-create-a-gmail-spam-filter-for-foreign-language-spam/

Spam Primer: http://www.spamprimer.com/


VIRUSES & e-CROOKS

Why Hacking Is Barbaric and Essential: http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/why-hacking-is-barbaric-and-essential

Multi-word pass-phrases not so secure after all?:
http://www.gizmag.com/passphrase-security-questioned/21823/


WiFi

Researchers Send 'Wireless' Message Using a Beam of Neutrinos: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120314143146.htm