INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY No 468

SEARCH

INTERNET

Search and Email still the most popular online activities: http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/64830

World of Ends  What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It
for Something Else.: http://www.worldofends.com/

Bob Rankin –are you drowning in your inbox?:

http://askbobrankin.com/are_you_drowning_in_your_inbox.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=K1P0zlh9d8P6SL

SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.  

Wendy Boswell – how to search for people on Tumblr

http://websearch.about.com/b/2011/08/03/how-to-search-for-people-on-tumblr.htm?nl=1

How to Use the Inurl Syntax to Search Within a URL:

http://websearch.about.com/od/dailywebsearchtips/qt/dnt0506.htm?nl=1

 

101 Free Online Alternatives to Popular Desktop Software:

http://websearch.about.com/od/web20officealternatives/tp/101-Free-Online-Alternatives-To-Popular-Desktop-Software.htm?nl=1

 

The Top Thirty Sites for Free Videos Online

Where to find movie clips, music videos, funny videos, and much more!:  http://websearch.about.com/od/imagesearch/tp/thirty-ways-to-find-videos.htm?nl=1

 

Free TV Shows on the Web

Nine Sites Where You Can Watch Free TV Shows:

http://websearch.about.com/od/freetvonline/ig/Free-TV-Shows/?nl=1

 

Yahoo gives image search a new look:

http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-image-search-new-look-89064

 

 7 Best Websites To Convert Your Text to Speech Free of Cost:

http://savedelete.com/7-best-websites-to-convert-your-text-to-speech-free-of-cost.html

 

Bing Beats Google On Search Effectiveness

Microsoft's "decision engine" more likely to lead users to a Web page than searches through rival Google, study finds:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/microsoft_news/231400134                                   

BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES

 

Infographic- social network wars- how the five major platforms stack-up:

http://infodocket.com/2011/08/11/infographic-social-network-wars-how-the-five-major-platforms-stack-up/

 

Social Networking's Good and Bad Impacts On Kids:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110806203538.htm

 

Status Update: What's Facebook's Effect on Kids?

http://www.technologyreview.com/web/38258/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-09

 

When Knowledge Isn’t Written, Does It Still Count? (it is about changes at Wikipedia): http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/business/media/a-push-to-redefine-knowledge-at-wikipedia.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26

 

What Do Facebook and Rembrandt Have in Common? Everything:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110805135758.htm

 

Twitter Vs Facebook: Which Is More Valuable For Brands? [Infographic]:

http://socialtimes.com/twitter-vs-facebook-infographic_b73972

What the heck are we  (the Company)  doing on Twittter?

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/06/what_the_heck_are_we_doing_on.html

10 handy iPhone apps for better blogging:

http://savedelete.com/10-handy-iphone-apps-for-better-blogging.html

 

When Social Media Mining Gets It Wrong

Big problems could be ahead if we rely on conclusions drawn from individuals' social-networking data:.   http://www.technologyreview.com/web/38256/?nlid=nlweb&nld=2011-08-10

For the Plugged-In, Too Many Choices: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/fashion/digitally-fatigued-networkers-try-new-sites-but-strategize-to-avoid-burnout.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26

GOOGLE

 

Google+ Poised To Become Number Two Network In 12 Months According To Survey:

http://searchengineland.com/google-poised-to-become-number-two-network-in-12-monthscording-to-survey-88761

 

The Growing Portrait Of Google As A Big, Scary, Expanding Everywhere Copy Monster:                http://searchengineland.com/portrait-of-google-as-a-big-scary-expanding-everywhere-copy-monster-88652

 

Google+: The New Kid on the Block, but is it Too Little, Too Late?:

http://www.techipedia.com/2011/google-plus-late/

 

Top 10 Desktop Apps Which Can Make You a Gmail Pro: http://savedelete.com/top-10-desktop-apps-which-can-make-you-a-gmail-pro.html

 

WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES

A dictionary of definitions: http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/index.html

Pronunciation book: http://www.youtube.com/user/pronunciationbook

 

The Top 24 Sites for Free Books on the Web:

http://websearch.about.com/od/booksandprintedmaterials/tp/read-books-online.htm?nl=1

E-books cause publishing industry growth:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2011/0809/E-books-cause-publishing-industry-growth

Amazon Launches Social Networking Site for Kindle

http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/64821

Amazon Sees a Good Read in the Cloud

Users can now access all of their Amazon Kindle content on anything with a browser. http://www.technologyreview.com/web/38298/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-12

SCIENCE

 

Neuroscientists Identify How the Brain Remembers What Happens and When:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110804141701.htm

 

Think Fast: The Neural Circuitry of Reaction Time:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110810132839.htm

 

Research Reveals Genetic Link to Human Intelligence:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110811215420.htm

What can science tell us about morality:

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/good_bad_brain/

 

Researchers Uncover New Catalysis Site:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110804170034.htm

 

Drive to Impress Females Pushes Males Toward Early Graves:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/why-males-die-young/

 

Rewriting E. coli’s Genetic Code

Researchers use directed evolution to create a bacterial strain that substitutes a synthetic base for thymine:

.http://the-scientist.com/2011/08/05/rewriting-e-coli%E2%80%99s-genetic-code/

TECHNOLOGY

 

An excellent source for engineering:

http://why.knovel.com/

Solar Energy: Smart Energy Management Systems Help Store Power for Later Use: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110802085823.htm

 

Venture Capitalists Back Away from Clean Energy

Their shift toward low-risk projects could strand innovative renewable-energy technology in the lab.: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/38295/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-11

 

Making biofuels 10 times faster:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/making-biofuels-10-times-faster

 

Nanoscale Pillars Could Have a Big Role in Future Batteries

A new fabrication technique lets batteries use tin electrodes, and store more energy: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/38205/?nlid=nlenrg&nld=2011-08-08

 

Nanoscale Secret to Stronger Alloys: Scientists Find Nanoparticle Size Is Readily Controlled to Make Stronger Aluminum Alloys

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110807143841.htm

 

New microscope reveals nanoscale details:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-microscope-reveals-nanoscale-details

 

Human Influence On the 21st Century Climate: One Possible Future for the Atmosphere:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110805135343.htm

 

IPad one of the most successful products ever:

http://blogs.forbes.com/timworstall/2011/07/02/ipad-one-of-the-most-successful-products-ever/

iPad: One of the Most Successful Products Ever

iPad: One of the Most Successful Products Ever

iPad: One of the Most Successful Products Ever

Police use facial recognition technology to nab rioters:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44110353/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART

Denial of complexity:

http://ming.tv/flemming2.php/__show_article/_a000010-001853.htm

The History and Geography of Inventions: http://www.krysstal.com/inventions.html#search

 

10 award winning scientific simulation videos:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/science-simulation-videos/

 

World Survey Links Religion and Happiness -- For Some:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110808170052.htm

The psychology of Creativity

http://www.spring.org.uk/2011/08/the-psychology-of-creativity.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PsychologyBlog+%28PsyBlog%29

 

The top 10 Psychology Studies from 2010:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1A7Ojq/www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-success/201012/the-top-10-psychology-studies-2010

 

Does the world need positive psychology: http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/bridget-grenville-cleave/2011081018747

The Science of the London Riots:

http://www.livescience.com/15505-science-london-riots.html

Education Affects Americans' Religiosity -- But Not How You Might Think:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110808124245.htm

 

False confessions Silence is golden

People have a strange and worrying tendency to admit to things they have not, in fact, done:

http://www.economist.com/node/21525840

 

Toward a Post-Growth Society

It’s business as usual that’s the utopian fantasy, while creating something very new and different is the pragmatic way forward:

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/07-13

The Backfire Effect (again)

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/

Venn diagram for authors:

http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/author-venn/

In communication, substance comes first:

http://qaspire.com/2011/08/02/in-communication-substance-comes-first/

Migrants in the world: http://peoplemov.in/#!

49 fairy tales: http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/index.html

 

"Sea Monster" Fetus Found—Proof Plesiosaurs Had Live Young?:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/08/110811-plesiosaurs-live-birth-fossils-young-science-chiappe-dinosaurs-fetus/

BUSINESS

 

The Link between Peak Oil and Peak Debt:

(I): http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8126

(i) http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8135

Sure Cure for the Debt Problem: Economic Growth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/business/economy/sure-cure-for-debt-problems-is-economic-growth.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha24

Why Isn't America Innovating Like It Used To?

It's easy to imagine that our whiz-bang gadgets have made us more productive than ever. But what if that's simply not the case?: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27063/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-08

Getting others ro embrace risks:

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/05/getting_others_to_embrace_risk.html

How to make a High Stakes Decision?

http://blogs.hbr.org/hmu/2011/05/how-to-make-a-high-stakes-deci.html

How to be Truly Global Company?:

http://www.strategy-business.com/article/11308?gko=aaf83&cid=20110809COMMENTS#comments

A valuable leadership blog: http://jasonseiden.com/

 

Narcissists Look Like Good Leaders, but They Aren't

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110809184157.htm

We’re all marketers now:

http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Were_all_marketers_now_2834

CEOs say innovation is the most important factor of growth:

http://www.voxy.co.nz/business/ceos-say-innovation-most-important-factor-growth/1861/91475

HEALTH & MEDICINE

 

Connecting the Dots: Dental Medicine Team Describes How Enamel Forms: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110808152223.htm

To live longer, have a beer!

http://news.menshealth.com/to-live-longer-drink-a-beer/2011/07/15/?cm_mmc=DailyDoseNL-_-659558-_-08092011-_-body

 

Can Blaming Others Make People Sick?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110809104259.htm

FOOD & COOKING

 

Nina Fedoroff on science for global agricultural challenges:

http://earthsky.org/food/nina-fedoroff-on-science-for-global-agricultural-challenges

 

Genetically Engineered Crops—What, How and Why:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/08/11/genetically-engineered-crops/

The permaculture movement grows from the underground:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/garden/permaculture-emerges-from-the-underground.html?_r=3&sq=permaculture&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=all

Mindless Eating: Losing Weight Without Thinking”

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110805163541.htm

Who’s to blame for anorexic children:

http://news.discovery.com/human/-thin-models-not-to-blame-for-anorexia.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1

The art of the menu: http://www.underconsideration.com/artofthemenu/

10 easy and Delicious Zucchini recipes:

http://localfoods.about.com/od/zucchinisummersquash/tp/10-Zucchini-Recipes.htm?nl=1

Cool Chinese Recipes: http://chinesefood.about.com/od/westernhol/a/summerrecipes.htm?nl=1

Best Thai Grilling: http://thaifood.about.com/od/authenticallythai/tp/barbecuerecipes.htm?nl=1

MISCELLANEA

Ten horrible reasons to get rich:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenberglas/2011/08/05/ten-horrible-reasons-to-get-rich/?partner=forbeslife_newsletter

Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2024284/UK-riots-2011-Liberal-dogma-spawned-generation-brutalised-youths.html#ixzz1UihLleV8 Tragic situation!

A list of funny questions:

http://leo.notenboom.org/who-do-they-think-i-am/

SELECTED NEWS

SPAM & SPYWARE   

How to avoid the SPAM label:

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/social-medias-many-definitions-of-the-word-%E2%80%9Cspam%E2%80%9D/31815/

Bob Rankin – Gmail Spam Filter Settings:

http://askbobrankin.com/gmail_spam_filter_settings.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=JDZoB0djp8P6SL

VIRUSES & e-CROOKS

 

Worldwide Cyber Espionage Revealed

The attacks are evidence of a growing political motivation among hackers.:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38238/?nlid=nlcomp&nld=2011-08-10

Social menaces: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73053.html

Bob Rankin- which browser is the most secure?:

http://askbobrankin.com/which_browser_is_the_most_secure.html?tbart

WiFi

New Septoe- inspired by London riots

The London riots are more important than they seem. They inspired me
 a new Septoe:

"Intolerance kills people, tolerance destroys the Society." 

Obviously, true in some limits. However- a proof that social problems
have no more solutions- at least in the existing "frames", both dictatures
and democracies of the present..

INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY No 467

EDITORIAL - AN APPEAL TO MY READER FRIENDS

It is no secret that this newsletter is still far from the epidemic phase of success. Sill worse, it is not yet read in the natural mode -newest issue first, than in inverse chronological order. I want to change this and, inter alia, I am writing advertisments on Twitter:

Recently I wrote this:

“Exploring the Web, you can make discoveries, but using INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY, your chances to make discoveries increases 1521 times”

That’s actually true, but  “1521” ia as realistic and exact,as, say “213” for the output/input performance of the Rossi - Focardi generator.

These figures can be well understood if you read the fine booklet

“How to Lie with Statistics” by Darell Huff- a very useful source.

One of the many NOT taught in schools.

In my opinion, to educate somebody means to make her/him to cope (rationally, creatively, pragmatically and fast) with any life situation encountered. I know well that the great problem of  Education is Counter-education, however there are lots of ideas. principles, methods, truths that are NOT taught in schools making the young generations vulnerable and victims of myriads of lies and bad memes.

I want to write a list of these absolutely necessary teachings – with a good taxonomy for them.

CAN YOU HELP ME- PLEASE SEND ME YOUR CANDIDATES FOR THIS LIST.

Some of my favorites: CIpollas’ Laws (compulsory), Critical Thinking, Edward de Bono’s 6 Hats,, Wicked Problems, the ornithology of bad surprises (Black Swan), 10,000 hours as seen

By Malcolm Gladwell, terrifying experiences as Zimbardo’s,

Memetics, Flow of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Galileo’s Rules for those scientifically oriented.

Being inherently generous and incurably modest, I agree that my Problem Solving Rules and 4 Modes of  Thinking should join

this extended curriculum.

Please help me to make this list really good. Thank you.

The next list will be what to unlearn- as astrology, numerology, vsmpires and paranormal, ancient unwisdom, celebrity cults and other killer cults, wisdom of the crowds, dogmas, miracles, baseless optimism (as shown by Barbara Ehrenreich), etc

Who has told this: “All great crises are crises of thinking”?

It seems our present thinking generates a chain of Crises. Or a rope

Perhaps used by our Hopes to commit suicide by hanging. Take care!

Peter

SEARCH

INTERNET

101 guidelines for the digital world:

http://eetiquette.com/

20 years ago today (Aug ) the World Wide Web opened to the public:

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/08/06/20-years-ago-today-the-world-wide-web-opened-to-the-public/

Is Your Internet Connection as Fast as You Think It Is?

An FCC report says ISPs don't always deliver the speeds they promise, but are getting better at it.: http://www.technologyreview.com/web/38228/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-03

 

Microstructure Abnormalities in Adolescents with Internet Addiction Disorder:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0020708

SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.  

Wendy Boswell- the best web-sites: http://websearch.about.com/od/webdirector1/Web_Directory_About_Web_Search_Web_Directory.htm

Search needs a shake-up:

http://infodocket.com/2011/08/03/search-needs-a-shake-up-according-to-university-of-washington-computer-scientist/

Can Microsoft make you “Bing” ?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/technology/with-the-bing-search-engine-microsoft-plays-the-underdog.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26   

 A Search Engine Match-Up: How Different Are Google and Bing?: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/30/technology/bing-versus-google.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26

7 reasons why Bing is here to stay

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2098521/7-Reasons-Why-Bing-Is-Here-to-Stay

Does Internet Explorer Lower your IQ?:

http://askbobrankin.com/does_internet_explorer_lower_your_iq.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=JQqvpmgHx8P6SL

But this report cited above was faked!!!:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218841/_Dumb_IE_users_report_faked_admits_scam_s_architect?taxonomyId=17

Wendy Boswell: Use the Web to do a free background check on yourself (or anyone else): http://websearch.about.com/b/2011/07/27/use-the-web-to-do-a-free-background-check-on-yourself.htm?nl=1

                            

How to find your search history: http://websearch.about.com/od/webbrowsers/qt/search-history.htm?nl=1

BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES

Web 3.0: The 'Social Wave' and How It Disrupts the Internet: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2808

Milestones: “Flickr hits 6 billion total photos, but Facebook does that every 2 months”:                     http://infodocket.com/2011/08/05/milestones-flickr-hits-6-billion-total-photos-but-facebook-does-that-every-2-months/

GOOGLE

Mike Elgan- ten things I hate about Google +:\

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218755/Elgan_10_things_I_hate_about_Google_

Google's Vision for TV Proves a Turnoff

One manufacturer reports that stores and distributors are returning Google more TV devices than they have sold: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38198/?nlid=nlcomp&nld=2011-08-03.

 

Behind the numbers of Google+’s monumental rise to 25 million unique visitors

http://searchengineland.com/behind-the-numbers-of-googles-monumental-rise-to-25-million-unique-visitor-88076?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=email

Developers believe Google+ can beat Facebook:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20087283-93/developers-believe-google-can-beat-facebook/

Google Realtime Research returning with Google+:

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2099637/Google-Realtime-Search-Returning-With-Google

 

Google patches 30 Chrome bugs, adds Instant Pages:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218814/Google_patches_30_Chrome_bugs_adds_Instant_Pages

WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES

Study Sheds Light on Auditory Role in Dyslexia: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/health/research/02dyslexia.html?_r=1&ref=science

Book-a-minute. Don’t have time to read it all?

http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/

SCIENCE

Your brain isn’t programmed for the 21^st Century. Here is why:

http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/03/7234209-your-brain-isnt-programmed-for-the-21st-century-heres-why

 

How the brain organizes itself during development: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20110803/Insight-into-how-brain-organizes-during-development.aspx

How Music and Language Mimicked Nature to Evolve Us:

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/08/03/mark-changizi-harnessed/

The Humpty-Dumpty Problem  Even when we understand their parts, living things are hard to put back together:

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2011/4/the-humpty-dumpty-problem

Archaeopteryx Knocked From Roost as Original Bird:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/archaeopteryx-no-bird/

Rainforest Plant Developed 'Sonar Dish' to Attract Pollinating Bats:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110728144717.htm

The sloth’s slowness decoded:

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/4568/the-decoding-slowness-how-sloths-perfectioned-energy-saving

 

African Rodent Uses 'Poison Arrow' Toxin to Deter Predators: First Known Mammal to Use Plant Poison in Defense: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110802201836.htm

Classic: the history of Universe in 200 words or less:

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3fs8i/hist/hist.html

TECHNOLOGY

 

Industrial energy use and the human life history: http://www.nature.com/srep/2011/110805/srep00056/full/srep00056.html?WT.mc_id=FBK_SciReports Thanks to Harry Veeder!

Top fusion experiments:

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/38167/?nlid=nlenrg&nld=2011-08-01

 

Solar Cells Get a Boost from Bouncing Light:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110729175554.htm

The dark side of solar and wind power projects

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-green-safety-20110803,0,4075985,full.story

New solid-state compound beats old school lithium-ion batteries: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2Aoj72/arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/08/new-solid-state-compound-beats-old-school-lithium-ion-batteries.ars

Averting Bridge Disasters: New Technology Could Save Hundreds of Lives: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110729175338.htm

Bob Rankin- hard drives are not forever: http://askbobrankin.com/hard_drives_are_not_forever.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=I_f5qHRyh8P6SL

Computers, the Art of Technological Writing:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110801105642.htm

EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART

2011- State of the Future:  http://www.kurzweilai.net/2011-state-of-the-future

Humanity winning on global challenges yet world is unstable:

http://earthsky.org/human-world/humanity-winning-on-global-challenges-yet-world-is-unstable

Center for teaching: http://centeach.uiowa.edu/

 

Exploring life’s origins:

http://exploringorigins.org/

Outstandingly interesting:

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/11-08-03/

Fair Play -- A Question of Self-Image? Researchers Explain Conditions Under Which People Are Prepared to Behave Fairly

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110727121403.htm

Are smart people really getting smarter?:

http://blogs.forbes.com/alexknapp/2011/08/03/are-smart-people-really-getting-smarter/?partner=technology_newsletter

New Science Reference Guide From the Library of Congress: “Environmentalism: Resources for Kids, Young Adults, Educators and Parents”:  http://infodocket.com/2011/08/06/new-science-reference-guide-from-the-library-of-congress-environmentalism-resources-for-kids-young-adults-educators-and-parents/

A billion wicked thoughts: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/books/review/a-billion-wicked-thoughts-by-ogi-ogas-and-sai-gaddam-book-review.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26

A toss of the dice reveals the truth: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1BuZKQ/www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-toss-dice-reveals-truth.html

Wired for empathy: http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/amanda-horne/2011080318730

It is hard to make predictions, especially about the future:

http://reason.com/archives/2011/07/01/its-hard-to-make-predictions-e

Painting by numbers

Digital analysis is invading the world of the connoisseur:\

http://www.economist.com/node/21524699

Hunters and collectors in a vicious cycle: http://www.sciencealert.com/features/20110208-22460-2.html

Some people are toxic- avoid them:

http://www.eclectipundit.com/2011/08/some-people-are-toxic-avoid-them.html

BUSINESS

 

Business innovation, why it is so rare, so prized and so feared: http://blogs.forbes.com/sap/2011/07/25/business-innovation-why-it-is-so-rare-so-prized-and-so-feared/Business Innovation: Why it is so rare, so prized, and so feared

 

The Rise of the Virtual Office

As the definition of the workplace changes, dramatic increases in productivity could be ahead: http://www.technologyreview.com/business/38169/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-01.

 

The neurological signature of a leader:

http://knowledge.wpcarey.asu.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2019

17 Digital Marketing Experts Share Their Top Tips, Tricks, and Tools:

http://www.techipedia.com/2011/digital-marketing-tips-tools/

Jim Stroup- looking for leadership: http://managingleadership.com/blog/2011/07/31/looking-for-leadership/

Three integrity questions for leaders:

http://www.businessweek.com/management/three-integrity-questions-for-leaders-08022011.html

5 ways to maintain the status-quo during times of change:

http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2011/08/5-ways-to-maintain-status-quo-during.html

A management improvement blog: http://management.curiouscatblog.net/

Management Innovation eXchange: http://www.managementexchange.com/

Building tolerance for ambiguity:

http://www.jarche.com/2011/08/building-tolerance-for-ambiguity/

The value of knowing exactly who you are:

http://www.aspire-cs.com/the-value-of-knowing-exactly-who-you-are

Dealing with your incompetent boss: http://blogs.hbr.org/hmu/2011/06/dealing-with-your-incompetent.html

The global debt clock

Our interactive overview of government debt across the planet:

http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock

HEALTH & MEDICINE

 

We are living longer and longer- but is this always a good thing?

http://www.alternet.org/story/151861/we%27re_living_longer_and_longer_--_but_is_that_always_a_good_thing_?akid=7350.112117.lhiGkc&rd=1&t=18

 

Lifestyles of the Old and Healthy Defy Expectations:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110803083639.htm

Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics: The More They Resist, the More They Divide:  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110728220431.htm

 

Discovery Throws Light On Blood Pressure Regulation:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110711164531.htm

 

Nanofiber Regenerates Blood Vessels

A synthetic material may help to repair tissue after a heart attack, and aid transplants” http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38206/?nlid=nlbio&nld=2011-08-02

 

Bioengineered spinal discs to comnbat back pain:

http://www.gizmag.com/bioengineered-spinal-disc-implants/19399/

 

Colon Cleansing Has No Benefit but Many Side Effects Including Vomiting and Death, Doctors Say: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110801122948.htm

 

Minority Microbes in the Colon Mapped:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110802133327.htm

 

Cooked Green Vegetables, Dried Fruit, Legumes, and Brown Rice Associated With Fewer Colon Polyps:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110802091026.htm

Restoring Happiness in People With Depression: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110729175803.htm

About Dr. Charcot and hysteria: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8611010/Medical-Muses-by-Asti-Hustvedt-review.html

Feeling Anxious? 5 Scientifically Proven Relaxation Techniques: http://www.spring.org.uk/2011/08/feeling-anxious-5-scientifically-proven-relaxation-techniques.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PsychologyBlog+%28PsyBlog%29

Brain Chemical May Explain Why Heavy Smokers Feel Sad After Quitting:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110802113318.htm

 

The illusions of psychiatry;

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jul/14/illusions-of-psychiatry/?pagination=false

Who Falls to Addiction, and Who Is Unscathed?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/health/02abuse.html?_r=1&ref=science

FOOD & COOKING

Manage your recipes, the easy way:

http://www.recipefy.com/

Rate your recipes: http://punchfork.com

Dieting forces brain to eat itself, scientists claim

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8677200/Dieting-forces-brain-to-eat-itself-scientists-claim.html

 

Mindful Eating: Researchers Are Making Every Bite Count:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110802113738.htm

New Science Reference Guide from the Library of Congress: Veganism: Eating Consciously and Compassionately: http://infodocket.com/2011/08/06/new-science-reference-guide-from-library-of-congress-veganism-eating-consciously-and-compassionately/

New Freeze-Dry Method Good for Processing Fish:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110801120345.htm

 

Sugar Doesn't Melt -- It Decomposes, Scientists Demonstrate”

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110725123549.htm

Quick and easy tomato recipes:

http://britishfood.about.com/od/introtobritishfood/tp/5waystomatoes.htm?nl=1

15 tips to use leftovers:

http://moneyning.com/frugality/15-tips-to-use-up-leftovers/

Gazpacho Ingredients Lose Vitamin C During Preparation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110805082957.htm (I regret thius I like Gazpacho very much.

MISCELLANEA

 

Green burial project developing corpse-eating mushrooms:

http://www.gizmag.com/infinity-burial-project-developing-tissue-digesting-mushrooms/19385/

Slideshow: From Vaccines to Cats to Pigeons, the CIA’s Most Bizarre Operations:                 http://www.tnr.com/slideshow/91860/cia-osama-bin-laden-vaccination

SELECTED NEWS

SPAM & SPYWARE   

Worldwide Cyber Espionage Revealed:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38238/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-05

Bob Rankin- how do I report a spammaer?:

http://askbobrankin.com/how_do_i_report_a_spammer.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=JIT7tDePd8P6SL

Google’s spam report page- refreshed:

http://searchengineland.com/googles-spam-report-page-biggest-refresh-in-years-88349?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=email

VIRUSES & e-CROOKS

Technology guardians of Internet are targets:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/technology/guardians-of-internet-security-are-targets.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26

Bob Rankin- I think I have a rootkit http://askbobrankin.com/i_think_i_have_a_rootkit.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=JxgyJYS2R8P6SL

 

Bob Rankin : is your operating system secure?

http://askbobrankin.com/is_your_operating_system_secure.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=JHgc.MOjd8P6SL

 

Cracking Open Chrome OS

Researchers use the Web to steal passwords and other data from Google's Web-based operating system:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38227/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-04

Wendy Boswell – ten ways to protect your Web privacy:

http://websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/a/searchprivacy.htm?nl=1

Anonymous surfing with BugMeNot: http://websearch.about.com/od/dailywebsearchtips/qt/dnt0531.htm?nl=1

Kids Safety on the Web: http://websearch.about.com/od/safesearch/a/sftychecklist.htm?nl=1

WiFi

AN IMPOSSIBLE INTELLIGENCE TEST and GASEOUS HYDROPHOBIA.

My first, fast, reaction to Steve Krivit’s 3^rd Rossi Report

http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2011/37/NET370.shtml

was “If Steve does a job, he does it really well.” Being a perfectibilist and a lover of “instant” solutions, I can admire

perfectionism and maximalism, but both are kind of Everests for me- and I am much too old and tired for such ascensions.

However the Report also has inspired me a long train of thinking. Plus some decisions.

I recently told you about intellectual starvation as the favorite

dumbing down (immaturization) method of the communist regime.

In 1961 I was working in a plasticizer factory (“Solventul” Timisoara- R.I.P.!). We, the engineers had to solve the same problems as our capitalist colleagues with much less information.

By some miracle (an unknown donor) the factory’s library had

some English language books and journals that were not burned

being technical. Actually I have learned English by translating a few chapters of Perry’s “Chemical Engineer’s Handbook” 3^rd edition (1950).

Once I have found in the magazine Chemical Engineering a paper about steam distillation- a method used for removing the volatile

compounds (higher alcohols) from the plasticizers. This method see:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_distillation

is cheaper and faster than vacuum distillation in many cases. A fine paper- I borrowed the issue and took it home for study. This was then a fatal error- at a routine check at the exist from the factory the journal was found and the communist inquisition (Party, securitate, union and what is now “human resources” but then was a component of terror) have criticized me in a special meeting.

“Tovarish engineer Gluck is admiring harmful capitalist advertising.” This was a capital sin then and there, but I insisted that all I want is to solve some problems of the socialist industry and eventually I was even allowed to read what I wish. An unpleasant meeting with steam,

I had an other also bad meeting- when in a factory of synthetic fibers –spinning section- a corrugated pipe was broken- my feet were “well” burned with steam and I had used stinking fish oil

to treat my ugly, painful wounds for 5 days.

I have already related you about the failure to replace natural gas with hydrogen as fuel for a group of steam boilers- a great fiasco.

Three cases- of many that have diminished my attraction to steam- the stuff and the word “per se”.

However informational starving has increased our creativity and

problem solving ability and even efficiency. We have developed kind of philosophy to be used at the job- and later we were able to combine this with the ideas re. management and business (when the access to useful ideas became easier). The Party has tried to adapt, misinterpret and even mutilate the capitalist ideas- with limited success.

We have discovered the fundamentals of technologies and have established a set of universal truths- still valid today. I have learned to read Russian and – for example a fundamental idea came to us as belonging to the legendary Bulgarian philosopher, Kirill Duhanov:

“What is, is. What isn’t, isn’t!”

(actually it belongs to Parmenides- but we didn’t know- the ideal man in socialism has not much to do with culture) I have translated Duhanov’s 29-pages booklet “Прости отговори на сложни въпроси”- i.e. “Simple answers to complex questions” in Romanian and…it was really inspiring for our thinking.

There are some elementary best practices based on Duhanov’s wisdom as

“You do something, or you do it not.”

Strictly avoid intermediary or combined cases.

And

“Never do useless things- it is not only useless- it is a waste of time and can be very dangerous sometimes”

This was the Introduction. Now comes the Message. Inspired by Krivit;s Report No 3 but also by many facts and forum messages.

Andrea Rossi, the inventor of the E-cat seems to have ignored Duhanov/Parmenide’s wisdom. He has done some demonstrations

of his generators but in the same time these were done, were not convincing, perfect tests Simply he had to demonstrate that some heat enters his device and much more heat comes out. It is about the  5 to 7 demonstrations made  seemingly with no plan, no technological leit-motif. Actually, the heat coming out from, the device was never directly and reliably measured and a lot of useless complexities were measured instead. The word steam appears here again and endless discussions about it take place on forums- its quantity, quality, .liquid water content, color etc. however only and exclusively the total content of heat coming out the E-cats is of interest and relevant.- nothing else. And horribile dictu, Rossi seemingly does not want to perform a perfect test,. a real energy balance. He knows why.

Simultaneously doing tests and NOT doing tests has lead to an

Informational chaos in which trust in the performances of the E-cats cannot survive and the number of Rossi-fans is diminishing.\

His prestige management is pretty (auto) destructive –but he does not care much. Customers will decide not scientists and not forumists.

(Back to the tests- it also was a water heating test in February but I have serious doubts a normal tap delivering a flow of 1 liter per

second- no flowmeter used., why?)

And Rossi has done some useless things too. He has declared his Ni-H system has nothing to do with Piantelli’s Ni-H system. This remains to be demonstrated, to me who have asked on Steve’s blog in January and,- what’s more important- to the Patent Authorities who do not accept the existence of a mystic catalyst. It is well known that a catalyst is catalyzing something, some reaction but nobody knows what is doing Rossi’s catalyst. And it we are told that from all human beings, only Rossi ( and his 96 years old helper) know what this catalyst is.

Retired professor emeritus Sergio Focardi also claims ignorance re the nature of the catalyst- that means Rossi does not trust him- that’s again a combination of two opposites- comedy and tragedy in the same time.

Useless – in my opinion at least- Rossi answers a huge number of questions despite the fact that he obviously will not answer to important and relevant questions and these answers are evoluting and changing. What is his motivation for that? What drives Rossi?

Krivit’s reports have generated doubts and have enhanced and deepened pre-existing doubts re Rossi’s generators. But had not delivered certainties, nor negative, neither positive ones . it is not possible to state now Rossi has nothing, the E-cats do not deliver

any excess heat, are dead cats. First of all an other Ni-H system gives excess energy of tens of watts and can work in a self-sustaining regime. Why should Rossi’s Ni-H LENR be absolutely inactive? Perhaps the results of Rossi are not always the same. Perhaps his technology is not under control?  What about his collaborators; I had very constructive  discussions with the Defkalion people and have met there a really nice and smart partner for discussions.  On the Defkalion forum they have told me that there were already tested combinations of 6 E-cats for the kW types and 115 E-cats for the MW types. True? Rumors are circulating that there are still no E cats at this Greek company- and we have not seen any photos? What about Ampenergo? (nothing known). And what about Daniele Passerini who has inside info

and says that the E-cat skeptics and deniers will regret very, very much that they have not seen the Truth (good) about Rossi.

Too much truths, half-truths, untruths, anti-truth and counter-truths legends, rumors- all in a mixture miserabilis

I remember, somewhere Duhanov advices:

“ If you do not have sufficient data to take a decision. abstain to taking a decision.

If you have not sufficient information to answer a question, do NOT answer that XXXXXXX question!”

I think the same is valid for the case if you have too much fragmented information full of contradictions.

Do not try impossible IQ tests- sometimes they are not solvable.

And you will ruin your good opinion about yourself for no reason.

I am now patiently (but angrily) waiting till the end of October test in Greece. Because nothing can be done till then. It can be a birthday present for me.

The worst side-effect of this story is that I have acquired a phobia

not described in this great list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_phobias

It is the fear (invincible repulsion) from steam- not the stuff but the written word. It even does not have a decent Latin name  (vaporphobia is something else) so it has to be called fear of gaseous water or Gaseous Hydrophobia. (does not sound well)

I am very ashamed for this phobia because it is irrational

But I have seen this word too many times during the last weeks.….

Excuse me, please!