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BPS Research Digest: Made it! How an uncanny proportion of psychology findings just manage to reach statistical significance
Like a tired boxer at the Olympic Games, the reputation of psychological science has just taken another punch to the gut. After a series of fraud scandals in social psychology and a US survey that revealed the widespread use of questionable research practices , a paper published this month finds…
March 15, 2013
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What do Christian fundamentalists have against set theory? – Boing Boing
/ Maggie Koerth-Baker / 12:53 pm Tue Aug 7, 2012 From the Boing Boing Shop Popular Posts Follow Us I’ve mentioned here before that I went to fundamentalist Christian schools from grade 8 through grade 11. I learned high school biology from a Bob Jones University textbook, watched videos of Ken Ham…
March 14, 2013
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10 Timeframes | Contents Magazine
I recently gave the closing keynote at the 2012 MFA Interaction Design Festival , a full-day event held on Saturday, May 12, 2012, to celebrate the work of the 2012 graduating class of the Interaction Design MFA program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. I teach a course in Content…
March 13, 2013
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Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: The Rise of Vendor Relationship Management
Our world is being turned upside down by the Big Shift . Customer Relationship Management (CRM) emerged in part to cope with the growing power of customers, but Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) flips this equation and anticipates that customers will increasingly take the lead in managing their…
March 12, 2013
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Justin Timberlake – Culture – Hollywood – Idea Lab – New York Times
As anyone who follows the business of culture is aware, the profits of cultural industries depend disproportionately on the occasional outsize success — a blockbuster movie, a best-selling book or a superstar artist — to offset the many investments that fail dismally. What may be less clear to…
March 11, 2013
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Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas – Max Marmer – Harvard Business Review
Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. They’ve turned to blaming angel investors for encouraging “ an entire generation of entrepreneurs [to build] dipshit…
March 10, 2013
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Breaking Bad’s Camera Work Perfects the Visual Recipe, Yo | Raw File | Wired.com
This scene from season 3 demonstrates Slovis’ use of wide-angle shots and saturated color palettes. A scene from the desert in New Mexico that highlights Slovis’ use of brown and yellow hues. This overhead shot from season 4 demonstrates the contrast-y light Slovis occasionally uses inside. One of…
March 9, 2013
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Book Review: Schulz on Jim Holt’s Why Does the World Exist? — Vulture
Photo: NASA Let’s take stock of the universe, shall we? From my immediate perspective, there is — well, me, of course. Also: laptop, ear buds, Arcade Fire, coffee. As it happens, I’m on an airplane, so: wing, lift, engine, window, clouds. Below that … where to start? Tides, deserts, Damascus,…
March 8, 2013
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Greg Ousley Is Sorry for Killing His Parents. Is That Enough? – NYTimes.com
Greg Ousley, who is serving a 60-year sentence for murdering his parents at age 14. Ethan Levitas for The New York Times For 19 years, Greg Ousley has sought to make sense of the event that has haunted and dictated his life, but the answer, if such a simple thing exists, has remained forever beyond…
March 7, 2013
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How Microsoft Will Profit Off Webmail Without Reading Your Inbox | Wired Business | Wired.com
How Microsoft Will Profit Off Webmail Without Reading Your Inbox http://t.co/ZdR24jmP
March 6, 2013
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Bokardo – Interface Design & UX by Joshua Porter
A few obvious points about the obvious. It could be that your users are always attentive, always aware of what’s going on with you and your product or service. They are always up-to-date with what you offer, where they are in their progress with you, what account they’re logged in with, what payment…
March 5, 2013
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A Guide to Lean Product Management — giffconstable.com
In my previous post , I said that teams need to stop shipping features and focus on creating value. I promised a tactical view of how an existing organization (i.e. not a ground-floor startup) could bring about that change. I will start with a little tl:dr summary: 10 Characteristics of a Lean*…
March 4, 2013
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Bombshell: Koch-Funded Study Finds ‘Global Warming Is Real’, ‘On The High End’ And ‘Essentially All’ Due To Carbon Pollution | ThinkProgress
Climate change denialists fund study by climate skeptics. Result? Global warming is real, severe, and due to human CO2. http://t.co/Q1duQpvq
March 3, 2013
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The Millions : Chuck Berry, Neoclassicist
Torch Ballads & Jukebox Music Chuck Berry, Neoclassicist By posted at 6:00 am on July 24, 2012 Compare: I want to run, I want to hide I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside I want to reach out and touch the flame Where the streets have no name. ( U2 , âWhere the Streets Have No Nameâ)…
March 2, 2013
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Scripting News: An open Twitter-like ecosystem
An open Twitter-like ecosystem I should probably call this something other than a Twitter-like ecosystem, but that’s what it is — and that’s the only thing to call it. There’s been a lot of discussion lately about whether a for-pay or ad-supported model works better. What’s been overlooked is that…
March 1, 2013
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How science is rewriting basketball wisdom – Technology & science – Science – NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48270436/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UAud5k4c0Zc
February 28, 2013
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OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell « hueniverse
Update: three years later I wrote something new… introducing Oz. They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Well, that’s OAuth 2.0 . Last month I reached the painful conclusion that I can no longer be associated with the OAuth 2.0 standard. I resigned my role as lead author and editor,…
February 27, 2013
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OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review | Ars Technica
Two fathers The Mac is a platform in transition. In Lion, OS X began shedding the well-worn trappings of traditional desktop computing at an accelerated rate. This trend continues in Mountain Lion. Where Lion stumbled , Mountain Lion regroups and tries again —while still forging bravely ahead in…
February 26, 2013
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Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go? | Inc.com
Last summer, Turntable.fm set techie hearts pounding: Billy Chasen and Seth Goldstein, co-founders of a struggling start-up called Stickybits, had pulled an audacious pivot, scrapping their service and betting everything on online music, the most treacherous business on the Internet—and it worked.…
February 24, 2013
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Cloud Pricing: An *aaS Backwards Ecosystem
In the last few months, various cloud providers have cut their prices to stay competitive. Amazon reduced prices for the 19th time, Google dropped its prices for Storage and so did Microsoft, for Windows Azure . When you talk to developers, startups and enterprises to get feedback about cloud…
February 23, 2013
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Evolution and Our Inner Conflict – NYTimes.com
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. Are human beings intrinsically good but corruptible by the forces of evil, or the reverse, innately sinful yet redeemable by the forces of good? Are we built to pledge our lives to a group, even…
February 22, 2013
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The Role of Corporate Sponsorship and Language in Dystopian Fiction : The New Yorker
In his novel “Infinite Jest,” published in 1996, David Foster Wallace imagined a near future in which the Organization of North American Nations—a single nation-state comprised of the former Mexico, United States, and Canada—had for various reasons adopted a policy known as “Revenue-Enhancing…
February 21, 2013
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A Toast to The Future of Work
Asana held a small private party on April 19th for some friends and colleagues to celebrate the great things that Asana customers are accomplishing and the future to come. This is a transcript of Justin’s toast. We are privileged that our jobs are fundamentally creative. That is, they consist in…
February 20, 2013
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The Personality Layer | Smashing UX Design
Everything I’ve learned about why some websites/products delight people in one @smashingmag post http://t.co/etoR7weV… enjoy!
February 19, 2013
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Addict Pride? | The Fix
Home Features Should There Be Such a Thing as Addict Pride? Should There Be Such a Thing as Addict Pride? Will My Insurance Pay for Rehab? Sponsored ⓘ Legal Stuff – This free insurance benefits check is a service performed by advertising sponsor Service Industries, Inc., part of a network of…
February 18, 2013
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Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math | Politics News | Rolling Stone
If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven’t convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. That followed the warmest May on record for the…
February 17, 2013
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Why Youth Has an Advantage in Innovation & Why You Want To Be a Learn-It-All « abovethecrowd.com
March 26, 2012: [Follow Me on Twitter] A few relevant scenes from the recent blockbuster Moneyball: Peter Brand: Billy, Pena is an All Star. Okay? And if you dump him and this Hatteberg thing doesn’t work out the way that we want it to, you know, this is…this is the kind of decision that gets you…