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July 16, 2013
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Mobile Apps: The Trouble With Using ‘Responsive Design’ – Forbes
Guest post written by Carin van Vuuren Cairn van Vuuren If you’ve recently chatted with your Web development team, you may have heard about responsive design. A growing trend for today’s businesses, publishers and developers, responsive design is an approach to Web development that many brands are…
July 15, 2013
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Kevin Kelly – Google+ – Anonymous is Not The major impact of the Petraeus affair…
Kevin Kelly Shared publicly – 2012-11-16 Anonymous is Not The major impact of the Petraeus affair has nothing to do with the military, sex, or celebrity — it is that there is no such thing as anonymous, and that the US government is able to access internet and credit card records without warrants,…
July 14, 2013
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Turkeys Away: An Oral History « The Classic TV History Blog
@NPsteve You see this? Oral history of that episode http://t.co/xu9PBCPE
July 13, 2013
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Scientists See Advances in Deep Learning, a Part of Artificial Intelligence – NYTimes.com
A voice recognition program translated a speech given by Richard F. Rashid, Microsoft’s top scientist, into Mandarin Chinese. Hao Zhang/The New York Times Using an artificial intelligence technique inspired by theories about how the brain recognizes patterns, technology companies are reporting…
July 12, 2013
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First Teleportation From One Macroscopic Object to Another | MIT Technology Review
One of the enabling technologies behind a quantum internet will be quantum routers capable of transmitting quantum information from one location to another without destroying it. That’s no easy task. Quantum bits or qubits are famously fragile—a single measurement destroys them. So it’s not all…
July 11, 2013
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Hubble May Have Spotted Most Distant Galaxy Ever | Wired Science | Wired.com
Scientists may have glimpsed the most distant galaxy ever seen http://t.co/pbiwFUz1
July 10, 2013
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Dan Ariely » Blog Archive How to Stop Illegal Downloads «
How to Stop Illegal Downloads http://t.co/4zPsKQWN
July 9, 2013
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Prop 37 Loses, Scientists Cheer | Science Sushi, Scientific American Blog Network
It comes as no surprise to anyone who reads my blog regularly, follows my Twitter or Facebook feeds, or has talked with me in person lately that I’m pleased to see that Proposition 37 has failed to pass in California. I firmly believe that passing this legislation—as it was proposed—would have been…
July 8, 2013
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What’s the Conservative Equivalent of ‘Moving to Canada’? – Brian Fung – The Atlantic
Defeated Republicans may be thinking about packing their bags. But where would they go? Eric Thayer/Reuters When Democrats lose elections, a small but audible ratio of them invariably announce their intention to move to Canada, that liberal paradise where healthcare magically costs nothing,…
July 7, 2013
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Why David Petraeus’s Gmail account is a national security issue
CIA Director David Petraeus speaks during a high-level meeting in the White House Situation Room. (Pete Souza/The White House via Getty Images) The beginning of the end came for CIA Director David Petraeus when Paula Broadwell, a younger married woman with whom he was having an affair , "or someone…
July 6, 2013
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Brian Eno: ‘It’s simply not my temperament to look back’ – Features – Music – The Independent
1/2 Eno says: ‘People dismiss ambient music as easy listening, as if it should be hard to listen to. That’s a very 20th-century, art-world idea, that art has to be somehow disruptive’ Immo Klink 2/2 Baroque and roll Eno’s ‘Lux’ will play in the corridor connecting two palaces in Turin, Italy Getty…
July 5, 2013
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David Simon | Inevitabilities. And Barack Obama.
"Barack Obama and the Death of Normal", by David Simon http://t.co/l8oWeEJ7 highly recommended
July 4, 2013
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Why Math is Like the Honey Badger: Nate Silver Ascendant | Cocktail Party Physics, Scientific American Blog Network
Why Math is Like the Honey Badger: Nate Silver Ascendant | Cocktail Party Physics http://t.co/4ZelYX8f via @sciam
July 3, 2013
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A Capitalistâs Dilemma, Whoever Wins the Election – NYTimes.com
@jerrymichalski @changeist Consider empowering vs sustaining & efficiency innovations in @claychristensen piece http://t.co/Ns4RIFwo
July 2, 2013
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You’re nothing more than a mass of habits | Will Jennings
What made you brush your teeth this morning? Guess what? It wasn’t that you wanted them clean. Something I’ve been trying to master recently is habits. Both making new habits and changing existing ones. If you want to start doing something on a regular basis, you need to make it habitual. Charles…
July 1, 2013
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Shareable: The Commons as a Transformative Vision
A truly brilliant essay – The Commons as a Transformative Vision: http://t.co/UuniVk51 @timoreilly @mollysturner @nickgrossman @instigating
June 30, 2013
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What Comes After Facebook? The Future of Social Media (by @baekdal) #insights
There is no such thing as social media fatigue. We are not tired of social, we are tired of all the things that get in the way of being social. 17 PAGES PLUS ONLY FREE FOR SUBSCRIBERS Written by on August 7, 2012 Shared By Plus Subscriber Avinash Kaushik Follow @avinash READ ALL THE PLUS REPORTS…
June 29, 2013
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How to Spot the Future
Thirty years ago, when John Naisbitt was writing Megatrends , his prescient vision of America’s future, he used a simple yet powerful tool to spot new ideas that were bubbling in the zeitgeist: the newspaper. He didn’t just read it, though. He took out a ruler and measured it. The more column inches…
June 28, 2013
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The Mysterious Disappearance of Peter Winston | Observer
Peter Winston It should have been a cakewalk. On a Saturday afternoon in 1972 in a seedy hotel conference room in Midtown Manhattan, two men faced off across a chessboard. Well, one of them was a man—Walter Browne, a six-time United States champion regarded as perhaps the best American player not…
June 27, 2013
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“The Quantified Community” by Esther Dyson | Project Syndicate
NEW YORK – I have written previously about the Quantified Self movement – individuals equipped with the tools (monitoring devices and software) needed to measure their own health and behavior (and, by doing so, to improve them). This movement is not quite sweeping the world, but it is making a…
June 26, 2013
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Feds Charge Activist with 13 Felonies for Rogue Downloading of Academic Articles | Threat Level | Wired.com
Photo: selfagency /Flickr Federal prosectors added nine new felony counts against well-known coder and activist Aaron Swartz, who was charged last year for allegedly breaching hacking laws by downloading millions of academic articles from a subscription database via an open connection at MIT. Swartz…
June 25, 2013
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It’s My Birthday Too, Yeah – NYTimes.com
Me, Myself and Math , a six-part series by Steven Strogatz, looks at us through the lens of math. By an amazing coincidence my sister, Cathy, and my Aunt Vere have the same birthday: April 4. Actually, it’s not so amazing. In any extended family with enough siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins, you’d…
June 24, 2013
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How Nokia hobbled itself with an AT&T-exclusive Lumia 920
Nokia executive vice president of smart devices, Jo Harlow, holds up the Lumia 920. Sarah Tew/CNET Nokia just shut its coolest phone out of more than half the U.S. market. The Finnish handset manufacturer’s decision to strike an exclusivity agreement with AT&T for its flagship Lumia 920 means much…
June 23, 2013
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Triumph of the Wrong? – NYTimes.com
In these closing weeks of the campaign, each side wants you to believe that it has the right ideas to fix a still-ailing economy. So here’s what you need to know: If you look at the track record, the Obama administration has been wrong about some things, mainly because it was too optimistic about…
June 22, 2013
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Giant Impact Theory of Lunar Formation Gains More Credibility: Scientific American
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona The moon may be a chip off the old block after all. The most commonly invoked explanation for lunar formation holds that a giant protoplanet, sometimes called Theia, struck the newly formed Earth 4.5 billion years ago and created a cloud of debris that…
June 21, 2013
June 20, 2013
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If we can’t imagine the past, what hope the future?
Another piece I recorded for the BBC Up until we discovered a body in a glacier in the Italian Alps more than 20 years ago, we didn’t really have a clue about our ancestors. The body belonged to a man who died 5000 years ago,. While much of the interest has focused on how he died — it took…
June 19, 2013
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The Lemur That Was a Fish | Wired Science | Wired.com
Fossils are not always what they seem. Megarachne , once heralded as the largest spider of all time, was actually a sea scorpion. The squishy Cambrian critter Nectocaris has been transformed from one of our early chordate cousins to an enigmatic invertebrate of unknown affinity. Tracks thought to be…
June 18, 2013
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The Great New England Vampire Panic
Scraping away soil with flat-edged shovels, and then brushes and bamboo picks, the archaeologist and his team worked through several feet of earth before reaching the top of the crypt. When Bellantoni lifted the first of the large, flat rocks that formed the roof, he uncovered the remains of a…
June 17, 2013
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Sprint Nextel part of Softbank founder Masayoshi Son’ 300-year plan | FP Tech Desk | Financial Post
In 2010, Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder of Softbank Corp., laid out a plan for the next 300 years. For a start, he would invest in 5,000 companies by 2040, giving his unborn successors a base to build on. Son’s ambitions have made him Japan’s second-richest man, with a fortune estimated at…