Saturday, September 10, 2011

As anticipation builds for what could be the first real iPad competitor, a stream of news trickles out--including the first hands-on with the device. Only, it seems the Kindle tablet aims for a very different experience than the iPad: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/helloworld/27141/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-09-08

Human Brain Evolution, New Insight Through X-Rays: Experiment Reveals Brain Shape of an Early Human Ancestor:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110908104157.htm

Peer pressure? It's hardwired into our brains:

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-peer-pressure-hardwired-brains.html

See-Through Mouse Brains Created; May Aid Medical Scans

Transparent organs, embryos have real "wow factor," expert says:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/110902-transparent-mouse-mice-embryos-brains-fluorescent-science/

Scientists Probe Connection Between Sight and Touch in the Brain:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110908141443.htm

After a magnetic pulse to the brain, the subjects cannot tell a lie:

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-09/after-magnetic-pulse-brain-study-subjects-cannot-tell-lie

Why Is Average IQ Higher in Some Places?

A surprising theory about global variations in intelligence:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-is-average-iq-higher-in-some-places&WT.mc_id=SA_syn_LiveScience

Publish-or-perish: Peer review and the corruption of science

Pressure on scientists to publish has led to a situation where any paper, however bad, can now be printed in a journal that claims to be peer-reviewed:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/05/publish-perish-peer-review-science

An "Ebay For Science" Promises To Transform The Business Of Research

Instead of being held captive by massive startup and infrastructure costs, Science Exchange allows anyone to have an experiment performed for them--for a fee:

http://www.fastcompany.com/1776830/ebay-for-science-promises-to-transforms-how-research-is-done

My Beautiful Genome (book): http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/1b3c1398-d3f1-11e0-b7eb-00144feab49a.html#axzz1X1y9VRAL

My Genome Via E-mail

Trying to understand the six billion nucleotides—all of my DNA—that just arrived in my in-box: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/experimentalman/27131/?nlid=nlbio&nld=2011-09-06

'Game-changer' in evolution from S. African bones

http://www.chron.com/news/article/Game-changer-in-evolution-from-S-African-bones-2160637.php

Earthquake Prediction Still Stymies Scientists:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=14447015

NASA gives public new Internet tool to explore the solar system:

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/sep/HQ_11-288_System_Eyes.html

Neutrinos: Ghostly Particles With Unstable Egos:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/2607444/neutrinos-ghostly-particles-with-unstable-egos/index.html

Communication Via Electron Spin: Scientists Propose New Kind of Information Technology:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110829114732.htm

New book about beloved physicist Richard Feynman:

http://earthsky.org/space/comics-for-grown-ups-the-life-of-nobel-physicist-richard-feynman

Pictures: "Walking" Fish a Model of Evolution in Action: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/pictures/110901-walking-fish-pacific-leaping-blenny-evolution-animals

TECHNOLOGY

Why the Next Steve Jobs Will Be in Energy, Not Computers

Looking around, what problem, what opportunity in any way resembles the earliest era of the PC? There's only one: energy: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27121/?nlid=nlenrg&nld=2011-09-05.

World’s Largest Fusion Experiment Back in Operation:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110905074327.htm

Japanese breakthrough will make wind power cheaper than nuclear: http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/japanese-breakthrough-will-make-wind-power-cheaper-than-nuclea

Photovoltaics Among Fastest Growing Industries in the World:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110905085957.htm

New Type of Solar Cell Retains High Efficiency for Long Periods:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110907104657.htm

Innovative Organic Solar Cell Architecture Sets New Performance Level, Belgian Researchers Demonstrate:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110905074316.htm

Microbes Generate Electricity While Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110906144558.htm

Room Temperature Superconductivity Claimed for Cuprates

But there's a catch: the room temperature effect appears only inside superconductors that work at lower temperatures, say physicists:

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27135/?nlid=nlmat&nld=2011-09-08.

Plastic Bottle' Solution for Arsenic-Contaminated Water Threatening 100 Million People: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110831205923.htm

Bob Rankin- how to clean up your hard drive: http://askbobrankin.com/how_to_clean_up_your_hard_drive.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=JwPEmLymF8P6SL

Flash Memory That'll Keep On Shrinking

Using atom-thick carbon instead of silicon could pack ever more data into portable electronics: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38471/?nlid=nlcomp&nld=2011-09-07

Novel Magnetic, Superconducting Material Opens New Possibilities in Electronics:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110906121955.htm

EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART

Nicholas Bate- Be bold 101:

http://blog.strategicedge.co.uk/2011/09/bold101.html

Myth-Making: Say It Often, People Will Believe:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/myth-making-people-doubt-global-climate-change-evolution/story?id=14414910

People Think the 'Typical' Member of a Group Looks Like Them:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110902133102.htm

Culturomics research uses quarter-century of media coverage to forecast human behavior:

http://www.gizmag.com/culturomics-using-media-coverage/19749/picture/141804/

The power of positive thinking: http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=724107&publicationSubCategoryId=80

Sex Hormones Impact Career Choices, Psychologists Find in New Study: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110901101435.htm

Why We Crave Creativity but Reject Creative Ideas:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110903142411.htm

The Power of Mistakes: http://thehammockpapers.blogspot.com/2011/09/mistakes.html http://www.edutopia.org/blog/benefits-mistakes-classroom-alina-tugend

Social Security and Retirement Around the World: Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms: Disability in Belgium: There is More than Meets the Eye: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1922451

Project for Excellence in Journalism: Ethics Codes

http://www.journalism.org/resources/ethics_codes

Trust the evidence not your instinct:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/jobs/04pre.html

Special! A deathbed story I would never tell:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/09/01/140122604/a-deathbed-story-i-would-never-tell

Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: Confidence Is Good; Overconfidence, Not So Much:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/09/06/lessons-from-sherlock-holmes-confidence-is-good-overconfidence-not-so-much/

Philographics
Explaining philosophy through basic shapes:

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Philographics/1964649

A bright miniature about very smart people: http://culturaloffering.com/2011/09/08/very-smart-people--.aspx

BUSINESS

7 golden rules of starting a new business:

http://savedelete.com/7-golden-rules-of-starting-a-new-business.html

The September 2011 Leadership Development Carnival- Back to School Sale::

http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2011/09/september-2011-leadership-development.html

Welcome to inequality.com

http://www.stanford.edu/group/scspi/index.html

Entrepreneurs, Chance, and the Deterministic Concentration of Wealth:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3140971/

Executive Excess 2011: The Massive CEO Rewards for Tax Dodging CEOs rake it in while their corporations dodge taxes:.

http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/executive_excess_2011_the_massive_ceo_rewards_for_tax_dodging/

For things I would like you to remember me by- (about ethics):

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

Four ways managers can impact learning:

http://www.allthingsworkplace.com/2011/09/four-ways-managers-can-impact-learning.html

You Can't Dictate Culture — but You Can Influence It:

http://blogs.hbr.org/ashkenas/2011/06/you-cant-dictate-culture-but-y.html

Three steps to handling the unexpected:

http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2011/07/three-steps-to-handling-the-un.html

Diplo-speak:

http://www.execupundit.com/2011/09/diplo-speak.html#links

HEALTH & MEDICINE

E-Medicine's Perfect Storm A look, in numbers, at the forces shaping electronic medicine.: http://www.technologyreview.com/business/38476/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-09-07

Human Intestinal Stem Cell Breakthrough for Regenerative Medicine: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110904140417.htm

Gene Defect Predisposes People to Leukemia:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110904140450.htm

Gel Lets Doctors Fix Ruptured Blood Vessels without Sutures

The new technique could make some delicate surgical procedures quicker and safer. http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38530/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-09-08

Smart Phones Help Manage Chronic Illness

Apps that connect to medical monitors have been shown to improve the health of people with diabetes and hypertension—and could ease the burden on the health-care system: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38524/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-09-07

FOOD & COOKING

Closed Source Crops A handful of giant corporations are laying claim to the germ plasm of the world’s major food crops. And when yield is the grail of profit, biodiversity isn’t a priority. http://www.conservationmagazine.org/2011/06/closed-source-crops/

Food Ark:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/07/food-ark/siebert-text

Manipulating plants' internal clock offers possibility of all-season crops: http://www.gizmag.com/circadian-rhythm-plants/19737/

The Coffee Illusion: What the Magic Brew Really Does to Your Brain

Coffee does not make you "superhuman." The truth is that you become addicted to caffeine quickly, and soon you are drinking coffee to cure withdrawal more than for stimulation:

http://www.alternet.org/story/152303/the_coffee_illusion%3A_what_the_magic_brew_really_does_to_your_brain?akid=7528.112117.fOr-rr&rd=1&t=18

Growing Meat in the Lab: Scientists Initiate Action Plan to Advance Cultured Meat:\

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110906085145.htm

Human Gelatin Could Be Used As Ingredient In Future Treats:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/2607453/human-gelatin-could-be-used-as-ingredient-in-future-treats/index.html

New Shark Species Found in Food Market:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/110901-shark-new-species-eaten-science-ocean-squalus-formosus-dogfish/

Your Gut Bacteria Are What You Eat:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/09/your-gut-bacteria-are-what-you-e.html?ref=hp

Learning a new word: misophonia- When a Chomp or a Slurp Is a Trigger for Outrage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/health/06annoy.html?_r=1

MISCELLANEA

What Does Original Sin Mean in the Light of Modern Science?:

http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2011/09/what_does_original_sin_mean_in.php

Why the trip home seems to go by faster?:

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/05/140159009/why-the-trip-home-seems-to-go-by-faster

SELECTED NEWS

SPAM & SPYWARE

The Next Wave of Botnets Could Descend from the Skies

Researchers are developing hacking drones that could build a wireless botnet or track someone via cell phone. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38512/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-09-07

VIRUSES & e-CROOKS

How to avoid Internet job search scams

http://netsecurity.about.com/od/frequentlyaskedquestions/a/How-To-Avoid-Internet-Job-Search-Scams.htm?nl=1

What is scareware?:

http://antivirus.about.com/od/roguescanners/a/roguescanner.htm?nl=1

Ammyy.com Scam:

http://antivirus.about.com/b/2010/12/08/ammy-com-scam.htm?nl=1

How to secure your laptop from theft:

http://savedelete.com/how-to-secure-your-laptop-from-theft.html

WiFi

DIY iPhone-controlled Home Security Camera for less than $100:

http://netsecurity.about.com/od/newsandeditorial1/a/Diy-Iphone-Controlled-Home-Security-Camera-For-Less-Than-100.htm?nl=1

Smartphones as Helpers During Disasters: Software for Autonomous Smartphone Network Developed:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110907075753.htm

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Love

Last week one of my nieces and her boyfriend came to visit me and we had some nice conversations, of which one extended to general things about life and love. And I remembered I had an old writing that was not published, as at that time the 'involved parties' could very well recognize themselves and it was kind-of-private thinking. Now, after some years, we are all older and wiser, so I shared this on my Romanian blog. And, as it was not so long, I decided to do a first trial on translating one of the Romanian writings for English readers. I do not guarantee the similitude with original writing (nor the coherence of this one), but… here it goes!

If you like it, maybe I start translating others also.

Some thoughts about LOVE – (initially designed on September 15th, 2003)

I dedicate this one to my oldest admirer – may he have a happy life, wherever it takes him!

Motto: infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

I believe we can never really get inside somebody else’s shoes. We can only imagine ourselves in their place and believe that we feel the same way as they do. But in reality we would just feel the same way as WE feel, under similar situations to the ones in which they find themselves.

I did not understand for a long time (and did not even attempt to) how a man who is deeply in love with me feels, knowing that I do not love him back and will never do. Not until the day I felt the same myself - about another man, who could not respond to my feelings. Starting with the day when I recognized this feeling, I could just sense the pain of my admirer, as it was mixed with his love, every time I was sitting near to him. And then I started to feel a growing tenderness towards him; or perhaps toward me, just as I was seeing myself through his eyes, comfortably settled deep inside his soul. Then after a while, I started to believe that this feeling of tenderness and comfort could make place to something deeper and more mature – a feeling of peace, relaxation and security, a firm believe that next to him I could be just as comfortable as I was with my own self. That we could melt together into one being, so dear to me as it was selfish – essentially WE could become… ME!

It did not happen, most probably because it would have been a big mistake. And a lot of people miss similar opportunities, with the excuse that ‘it is not love’ – right?

But then I wonder – who am I to decide which one of the multitude of feelings that find shelter inside my heart is LOVE? I would rather say inside my body, because I have no idea when and why was the heart designated as the only one responsible for our feelings. The heart is the one that hurts when something goes wrong and breaks down when we take too much upon ourselves. But we feel with our entire bodies. Purely from physical point of view, the heart is a meeting point – through the blood stream it looks like it collects everything that is sent by each and every part of our body, while sensations are actually processed inside the brain. But the feeling receptors are distributed all over our body, even if the sensations have variable intensity. However, in this world of chaotic sensations, some wise people a long time ago decided it is better to attribute responsibilities, then over-simplified something that nobody could understand or explain. Perhaps because of its central role in the blood-management (essential for life – however just as essential as breathing and eating) or maybe because of a simple and conventional voting process, the heart got designated as responsible for our feelings.

I come back now to the question, to which I am not sure I will ever want to find an ultimate answer: who am I to decide, from the multitude of feelings with which I go to sleep at night and gracefully wake up the next morning, which one of that is actually LOVE?

I use to call love that strange cumulative sensation that comes from something that resembles a punch in the stomach, doubled by a weight on my chest and some air inside my brain; sometimes strange whistling sounds inside my ears add up, as well as a wide range of other physiological symptoms. All are a nuisance whenever they come individually, but result in such a nice sensation when they join forces in the first days of falling in love. I would add to this a basic delay in thinking and reacting to other external factors than the ones connected with and/or coming from the subject of your affection – you get my drift, those symptoms that usually signal either retard or temporary insanity in mature subjects.

I especially love these two phrases from Mignon McLaughlin (The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960):
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
and
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

Still, I do not expect the same perception about love all around the world. The description above is the one praised in movies and romance books, however in normal life a lot of people live more or less happily, more or less ever after, while based on different understanding of love. One of the possible explanations for contemporary large rate of divorce and number of marriages throughout one’s life also lies in the misunderstanding about the very purpose of marriage, family and commitment. It is strange to believe that love would last forever as described above (for God’s sake, we would die of heart attacks at the age of 32 if we lived every day like that with our spouses!), but it should grow through a more mature understanding and move from heart to head and backwards every second year or so.

And so it is possible that someone calls love that sensation of comfort and happiness that they get living next to a person that complements their personality, admires and accepts them for who they are, and wishes to live with them forever without interfering with their own self – feeling which I called ‘tenderness’ before. Perhaps another one calls love the feeling of possession, power and control over the subject (more likely ‘object’) of his / her affections; while the partner calls love the feeling of security and belonging that they get next to this powerful person. And there are so many other feelings that mean different things to different people in different context, that may be regarded as (or grow into) LOVE. I can open a long list, on which anybody can add: chemistry / phisical attraction, admiration, respect, worship, suitability, belonging, gratitude, need, commitment, parenthood, honor, and so on. Perhaps love starts with one of them and then gradually passes through others, at different stages during a common life. I do believe that mature love reunites a lot of those feelings and adds on the initial base every year.

And so … I stop here, as I can only imagine one way out of this thinking spiral. I do not believe it makes any sense to wait for various feelings to pass through my heart (alternatively, successively or concomitantly), weight them against each other and then decide which one is (or was) LOVE. I would rather just live with them, and experience the joy or sadness associated with each of them, while being happy that the place is not empty. And to be thankful for their existence in my own way, and make a promise: that the most important of those feelings will stay with me forever and will enjoy a perfectly neutral name: MY LIFE.

Enjoy yours to the fullest!

Hugs,
Georgina

INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY No 471

SEARCH

INTERNET

The power of collective intelligence:

http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2011/nt-2011-08-29-Power-collective.htm

SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.

6 Myths Chinese Search Engine Baidu Would Rather Like to correct:

http://searchengineland.com/6-myths-chinese-search-engine-baidu-would-rather-like-to-correct-91068

Why Bing Cannot Loosen Google’s Grip on Search:

http://www.seo-theory.com/2011/08/30/why-bing-cannot-loosen-googles-grip-on-search/

Top 10 Best File Hosting Service Providers:

http://savedelete.com/top-10-best-file-hosting-service-providers.html

BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES

Can we ever digitally organize our friends?:

http://kevnull.com/2011/07/can-we-ever-digitally-organize-our-friends.html

65% of online adults use social networking sites:

http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Social-Networking-Sites.aspx

Where Is the Facebook for Old People?

Social networking is for the young, says a new survey:

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27115/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-29

Social Networking Meets Problem Solving

The website Jig wants to solve your needs—with a little help from your friend:. http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/38462/?nlid=nlweb&nld=2011-08-31&a=f

Social learning the freedom to act and cooperate with others:

http://www.jarche.com/2011/08/social-learning-the-freedom-to-act-and-cooperate-with-others/

The Middle Ground between Technology and Revolutions

Social media didn't cause the revolutions in

Egypt

and

Tunisia

, but it did achieve unique visibility: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/27110/?nlid=nlweb&nld=2011-08-31

5 clever ways to get a job using social media:

http://mashable.com/2011/06/19/get-job-using-social-media/

Bloggre’s fresh new look:

http://buzz.blogger.com/2011/08/bloggers-fresh-new-look.html

GOOGLE

For Google CEO Larry Page, a Difficult Premiere Role:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903352704576536521984562128.html

Google’s Biggest Gamble:

http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2011/08/googles-biggest-gamble-infographic.html

Google’s Eric Schmidt says if you don’t want to use your real name, don’t use Google +:

http://infodocket.com/2011/08/29/googles-eric-schmidt-says-if-you-don%E2%80%99t-want-to-use-your-real-name-don%E2%80%99t-use-google/

How Google plans to change the way you watch TV:

http://gigaom.com/video/google-schmidt-tv/?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=email

Google +1 Button’ Chrome Extension Lets You +1 Any Page On The Web:

http://www.scribbal.com/2011/08/google-1-button-chrome-extension-lets-you-1-any-page-on-the-web/

Happy third birthday, Chrome!

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/happy-third-birthday-chrome.html?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=email

WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES

100 most beautiful words in the English language:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1msJhz/deshoda.com/words/100-most-beautiful-words-in-the-english-language/

New words: Retweet, cyberbullying, and sexting officially enter the OED

A raft of new words were added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary this month.: http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/0825/New-words-Retweet-cyberbullying-and-sexting-officially-enter-the-OED

Book Lovers, Technophiles, Pragmatists, and Printers: The social and demographic structure of user attitudes toward e-books:

http://crl.acrl.org/content/early/2011/08/26/crl-288.full.pdf

Amazon’s Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. I’ve Seen It, Played With It: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/02/amazon-kindle-tablet/

Top 5 online resources for free Kindle books:

http://savedelete.com/top-5-online-resources-for-free-kindle-books.html

Nook may be Barnes and Noble’s Salvation:

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/73176.html

Reading Revolution 14 marvelous modern libraries

http://weburbanist.com/2011/08/26/reading-revolution-14-marvelous-modern-libraries/

Battle of the Book

Is it “greener” to read an e-book or an old-fashioned paper book? http://www.conservationmagazine.org/2011/06/battle-of-the-book/

SCIENCE

How the Brain Stores Information for Short Periods of Time:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110824093926.htm

Animals on the brain:

Your brain is hardwired to notice animals, according to a new study.

http://earthsky.org/human-world/animals-on-the-brain

Who am I? Your brain. http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/WhoAmI/FindOutMore/Yourbrain.aspx

The most frequently quoted brain facts (that are total bullshit):

http://www.cracked.com/article_19370_the-6-most-frequently-quoted-brain-facts-that-are-total-bs.html

Two Brain Halves, One Perception: How Communication Between Brain Hemispheres Determines Individual's Subjective Experience:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110901101430.htm

They ignore bisinisencephalians as usual.

20 things you didn’t know about lab accidents: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1z8g8H/discovermagazine.com/2006/nov/20-things-lab-accidents?searchterm=20%20things

Possible Biological Control Discovered for Pathogen Devastating Amphibians: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110826111303.htm

New Method Reveals Parts of Bacterial Genome Essential to Life:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110830092356.htm

Insect Gut Microbe With a Molecular Iron Reservoir: Researchers Analyze the Structure of an Iron Storage Protein:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110901105413.htm

Up from the Depths: How Bacteria Capture Carbon in the 'Twilight Zone : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110901142054.htm

How stable is the stuff we’re made of?

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/09/how_stable_is_the_stuff_were_m.php

Intensity of Hurricanes Still Bedevils Scientists: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/science/30forecast.html?_r=1&ref=science

Low mass, low metal: SDSS J102915+172927 is the star that should not exist: http://www.sciencecodex.com/the_star_that_should_not_exist Thanks to MoB at Vortex!

Extreme galaxies, some 3000 times brighter than the Milky Way;

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/08/extreme-galaxies-some-3000-times-brighter-than-milky-way.html

TECHNOLOGY

A Moore’s Law for Renewable Energy Increasing capacity per dollar in computer technology has driven exponential growth for 50 years. With a similar organizing principle, the same could happen in the energy industry.

http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00087?gko=2ac86&cid=20110830enews

Carbon nanotube reinforced polyurethane could make for better and bigger wind turbines:

http://www.gizmag.com/carbon-nanotube-reinforced-polyurethane-blades/19685/

Cracking Cellulose: A Step Into the Biofuels Future:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110831081610.htm

Breakthrough in Hydrogen Fuel Cells: Chemists Develop Way to Safely Store, Extract Hydrogen:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110830151234.htm

Graphene's Shining Light Could Lead to Super-Fast Internet:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110830144505.htm

Building Crowds of Humans Into Software

By using crowdsourcing for difficult tasks such as understanding speech or images, the software could enable smarter apps.:

http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/38447/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-29&a=f

Solar Forest Keeps Cars Cool And Juiced:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2Av6u0/www.treehugger.com/files/2009/08/solar-forest-charging-station-keeps-cars-cool-and-juiced.php

Flash Memory That'll Keep On Shrinking

Using atom-thick carbon instead of silicon could pack ever more data into portable electronics. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38471/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-09-02

Fabricating fabric

How to generate more realistic images of clothes:

http://www.economist.com/node/21525841

The death of the smartphone: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73173.html

EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART

Dear Readers- I hope you all watch these videos- meetings with exceptional people: http://www.ted.com/

Cultural Offering is 4 years old! Happy Birthday! http://culturaloffering.com/2011/08/31/quick-late-celebration---4-years-old.aspx

The Digital Revolution and Higher Education: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/College-presidents/Summary.aspx

Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting large-scale human behavior using global news media tone in time and space: http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3663/3040

Information as art- 20 stunning examples of visualized data” http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/information_art_20_stunning_examples_visualized_data

Singularity University graduates a class of tech world changers:

http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/28/singularity-university-graduates-a-class-of-tech-world-changers/

The history of the world in 100 objects from the British Museum:: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/about/british-museum-objects/

Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages

http://www.bartleby.com/89/

Very useful, unfortunately –defense against the psychopats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgGyvxqYSbE&feature=player_embedded Thanks to Vlad Plesa,

Canada

Bullying: How Do Victims Respond to Bullies and Why?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110830082052.htm

Top 5 Streaming Music Sites Listen to music while you surf the net.: http://mp3.about.com/od/streamingaudio/tp/Best_Streaming_Music_Sites.htm?nl=1

All the fun of the scare We can't get enough of frightening films, video games and theatre 'experiences'. But why do we find fear so thrilling? It's all down to our biology, discovers Luke Blackall:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/all-the-fun-of-the-scare-2345815.html

Atomic Bomb Museum:

http://atomicbombmuseum.org/

From Hitler to Gaddafi, Dictators and their Bunkers:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/27/best-of-the-bunkers-gaddafi-hitler-saddam

Women in Greek Myths: http://www.paleothea.com/

We need to think about saving ourselves:

http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/saving-ourselves

iThenticate Examines "The Ethics of Self-Plagiarism" in New White Paper:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ithenticate-examines-the-ethics-of-self-plagiarism-in-new-white-paper-128586423.html To download

What does your body language say about you:?

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1DccUH/www.jinxiboo.com/blog/2009/12/15/what-does-your-body-language-say-about-you-how-to-read-signs.html

Second chance for a last impression:

http://iii.bobulate.com/2007/11/second-chance-for-a-last-impression/ how to end e-mails

Wendy Boswell how to cite an article from a website: http://websearch.about.com/od/howtoevaluateawebsite/a/citing.htm?nl=1

BUSINESS

How to prepare yourself for future opportunities:

http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2011/08/26/how-to-prepare-yourself-for-future-opportunities/

Think like a creative fool:

http://blog.creativethink.com/2011/08/think-like-a-wise-fool.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CreativeThink+%28Creative+Think%29

Turning stress into an asset:

http://blogs.hbr.org/hmu/2011/06/turning-stress-into-an-asset.html

Wealth creation and macroeconomics The parasite problem:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2011/08/wealth-creation-and-macroeconomics

Not the Way We Treat People: 21 Items: http://www.execupundit.com/2011/09/not-way-we-treat-people-21-items.html#links

How to Prepare for a Black Swan

Disrupter analysis can help assess the risks of future catastrophic events:. http://www.strategy-business.com/article/11303

Reputation Management – Tactics that still work:

http://www.distilled.net/blog/reputation-monitor/reputation-management-tactics-that-still-work/

Leaders- change is hard- don’t make it harder by being stupid:

http://people-equation.com/leaders-change-is-hard-don%E2%80%99t-make-it-harder-by-being-stupid/

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Living to 100 and Beyond

Scientists are on the brink of radically expanding the span of a healthy life. Author Sonia Arrison on the latest advances—and what they mean for human existence. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904875404576528841080315246.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_2

The Rise of Electronic Medicine

Medicine today is a sea of paper and fax machines, privacy barriers, and unconnected data. The public is ready for a better system: http://www.technologyreview.com/business/38473/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-09-01.

The Doctor and the iPad:

http://www.technologyreview.com/video/?vid=745&nlid=nlbus&nld=2011-09-02

New Treatments for Baldness? Scientists Find Stem Cells That Tell Hair It's Time to Grow:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110901134641.htm

I have waited patiently 55 years for this!

Uncovering the spread of deadly cancer:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/uncovering-the-spread-of-deadly-cancer

Engineered Viruses Selectively Kill Cancer Cells

The experimental therapy could ultimately serve as a seek-and-destroy treatment for metastatic cancer: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38465/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-09-01

Blood Biomarker Is Linked with Death

Those with higher levels of a particular molecule were found to be more likely to die of heart disease or cancer in the next dozen years: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38457/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-30

Antibiotic resistance found in ancient bacteria:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/08/31/science-antibiotic-resistance-bacteria-permafrost.html

Mind-Altering Microbes: Probiotic Bacteria May Lessen Anxiety and Depression:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110829164601.htm

Black Death Bacterium Identified: Genetic Analysis of Medieval Plague Skeletons Shows Presence of Yersinia Pestis Bacteria

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110829173751.htm

Coral could hold key to sunscreen pill: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14717834

FOOD & COOKING

The Paleo Diet: Should You Eat Like a "Caveman?"

An entire subculture is looking at the very, very distant past for a http://www.alternet.org/story/152206/the_paleo_diet%3A_should_you_eat_like_a_%22caveman%22?akid=7490.112117.DnxNf-&rd=1&t=12

Ownership of Beer Brands and Varieties 2010: https://www.msu.edu/~howardp/beer.html

What's Really in That Luscious Chocolate Aroma?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110829142510.htm

MISCELLANEA

.Wendy Boswell- the fantasy sports websites the top 5:

http://websearch.about.com/b/2011/08/24/fantasy-sports-websites-the-top-five.htm?nl=1

SELECTED NEWS

SPAM & SPYWARE

Google+ wins when spammers win:

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2105043/Google-Wins-When-Spammers-Win

VIRUSES & e-CROOKS

Morto worm spreading fast via RDP: http://blogs.computerworld.com/18870/morto_worm_spreading_fast_via_rdp?source=CTWNLE_nlt_blogs_2011-08-29

Passwords: Creating and Maintaining a Strong Password System:

http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/a/passwords.htm?nl=1

Bob Rankin- traditional anti-virus may no longer protect you:

http://askbobrankin.com/traditional_antivirus_may_no_longer_protect_you.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=JrUkLX6_J8P6SL

Bob Rankin- mobile malware, are you exposed?:

http://askbobrankin.com/mobile_malware_are_you_exposed.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=JtzBS6jRl8P6SL

How to Guard Against Phishing & Social Engineering Attacks:

http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/a/How-To-Guard-Against-Phishing-And-Social-Engineering-Attacks.htm?nl=1

Bob Rankin – how to defeat a keylogger: http://askbobrankin.com/how_to_defeat_a_keylogger.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=JeYfvOxSF8P6SL

WIFI

Beyond Smart Phones: Sensor Network to Make 'Smart Cities' Envisioned:”

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110516080130.htm

Mobile phone data help track population during disasters:

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/08/30/mobile.phone.data.help.track.populations.during.disasters

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Naming Names on the Internet: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/technology/naming-names-on-the-internet.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26

Wendy Boswell: The Top Twenty Essential US Government Web Sites: http://websearch.about.com/od/referencesearch/tp/governmentsites.htm?nl=1

The Top Ten Sites For Free Public, Vital, or Historical Record Searches:

Canv.as Paints a New Approach to Social Networking

Happy Birthday Google: Making Sense of the Web for 13 Years:

A Simpler Approach to Online Identity

Google Details, and Defends, Its Use of Electricity:

Google Reveals Energy Consumption to Tout Green Efforts:

6 Features to Pay Attention to Before Buying an E-book Reader…!!!:

The Kindle Tablet Drum Roll

Top Ebook Readers for Android Tablets:

Human Brain Evolution, New Insight Through X-Rays: Experiment Reveals Brain Shape of an Early Human Ancestor:

Peer pressure? It's hardwired into our brains:

See-Through Mouse Brains Created; May Aid Medical Scans

Transparent organs, embryos have real "wow factor," expert says:

Scientists Probe Connection Between Sight and Touch in the Brain:

Why Is Average IQ Higher in Some Places?

Publish-or-perish: Peer review and the corruption of science

My Genome Via E-mail

'Game-changer' in evolution from S. African bones

Earthquake Prediction Still Stymies Scientists:

Neutrinos: Ghostly Particles With Unstable Egos:

Communication Via Electron Spin: Scientists Propose New Kind of Information Technology:

Pictures: "Walking" Fish a Model of Evolution in Action: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/pictures/110901-walking-fish-pacific-leaping-blenny-evolution-animals

Why the Next Steve Jobs Will Be in Energy, Not Computers

World’s Largest Fusion Experiment Back in Operation:

Japanese breakthrough will make wind power cheaper than nuclear: http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/japanese-breakthrough-will-make-wind-power-cheaper-than-nuclea

Photovoltaics Among Fastest Growing Industries in the World:

New Type of Solar Cell Retains High Efficiency for Long Periods:

Innovative Organic Solar Cell Architecture Sets New Performance Level, Belgian Researchers Demonstrate:

Microbes Generate Electricity While Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste:

Room Temperature Superconductivity Claimed for Cuprates

Plastic Bottle' Solution for Arsenic-Contaminated Water Threatening 100 Million People: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110831205923.htm

Flash Memory That'll Keep On Shrinking

Novel Magnetic, Superconducting Material Opens New Possibilities in Electronics:

Myth-Making: Say It Often, People Will Believe:

People Think the 'Typical' Member of a Group Looks Like Them:

Culturomics research uses quarter-century of media coverage to forecast human behavior:

Sex Hormones Impact Career Choices, Psychologists Find in New Study: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110901101435.htm

Why We Crave Creativity but Reject Creative Ideas:

The Power of Mistakes: http://thehammockpapers.blogspot.com/2011/09/mistakes.html http://www.edutopia.org/blog/benefits-mistakes-classroom-alina-tugend

Social Security and Retirement Around the World: Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms: Disability in Belgium: There is More than Meets the Eye: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1922451

Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: Confidence Is Good; Overconfidence, Not So Much:

7 golden rules of starting a new business:

Welcome to inequality.com

Entrepreneurs, Chance, and the Deterministic Concentration of Wealth:

Executive Excess 2011: The Massive CEO Rewards for Tax Dodging CEOs rake it in while their corporations dodge taxes:.

You Can't Dictate Culture — but You Can Influence It:

E-Medicine's Perfect Storm A look, in numbers, at the forces shaping electronic medicine.: http://www.technologyreview.com/business/38476/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-09-07

Human Intestinal Stem Cell Breakthrough for Regenerative Medicine: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110904140417.htm

Gene Defect Predisposes People to Leukemia:

Gel Lets Doctors Fix Ruptured Blood Vessels without Sutures

Smart Phones Help Manage Chronic Illness

Closed Source Crops A handful of giant corporations are laying claim to the germ plasm of the world’s major food crops. And when yield is the grail of profit, biodiversity isn’t a priority. http://www.conservationmagazine.org/2011/06/closed-source-crops/

Food Ark:

Manipulating plants' internal clock offers possibility of all-season crops: http://www.gizmag.com/circadian-rhythm-plants/19737/

The Coffee Illusion: What the Magic Brew Really Does to Your Brain

Growing Meat in the Lab: Scientists Initiate Action Plan to Advance Cultured Meat:\

Human Gelatin Could Be Used As Ingredient In Future Treats:

New Shark Species Found in Food Market:

Your Gut Bacteria Are What You Eat:

Learning a new word: misophonia- When a Chomp or a Slurp Is a Trigger for Outrage:

What Does Original Sin Mean in the Light of Modern Science?:

The Next Wave of Botnets Could Descend from the Skies

Ammyy.com Scam:

DIY iPhone-controlled Home Security Camera for less than $100:

Smartphones as Helpers During Disasters: Software for Autonomous Smartphone Network Developed:

Sunday, September 4, 2011

6 Myths Chinese Search Engine Baidu Would Rather Like to correct:

Why Bing Cannot Loosen Google’s Grip on Search:

Top 10 Best File Hosting Service Providers:

65% of online adults use social networking sites:

Where Is the Facebook for Old People?

Social Networking Meets Problem Solving

The Middle Ground between Technology and Revolutions

For Google CEO Larry Page, a Difficult Premiere Role:

How Google plans to change the way you watch TV: