Sunday, January 30, 2011

INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY No 440

My weekly selection of serious information:




SEARCH

1. INTERNET

 

Number of Internet users worldwide reaches two billion:

 

The Web Is Now the Last Place You Should Read Anything: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/26284/?nlid=4036

 

Why the Entire Internet Is about to Become 'Slower and Flakier'


To avert Internet crisis, the IPv6 scramble begins
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20029721-264.html?tag=nl.e703
 
Egypt leaves the Internet!:

2. SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.  

In my opinion, a must read, must subscribe- very useful for searcher: http://www.batesinfo.com/tips This time about search for small companies.

 

Wendy Boswell:  People who have influenced the Web as we use it today:

http://websearch.about.com/b/2011/01/18/a-decade-of-the-webs-most-influential-people.htm?nl=1

Tim Berners-Lee:  
http://websearch.about.com/od/searchingtheweb/p/Tim-Berners-Lee.htm?nl=1                                     

Top Twenty Web Celebs


A tale of two search engines:


Real-time search is thriving:

Ongo: A New Web Resource That Aggregates/Curates Material From Mutiple News Outlets: http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/63534


3. BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES

 

31 New Social Media Resources You May Have Missed:


30 ways to use social media for business people:

The state of Wikipedia:

4. GOOGLE

 

A Creator Prepares to Take the Reins at Google

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/technology/22google.html?_r=1

Larry Page’s Google 3.0: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_06/b4214050441614.htm

Larry Page and the reinvention of “The Google”: http://searchengineland.com/larry-page-and-the-reinvention-of-the-google-62605

Eric Schmidt sees next decade as age of “augmented humanity”:

 

Video: BBC Airs One-on-One Interview With Google's Eric Schmidt

http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/63627

 

Google's Greatest Innovation May Be Its Management Practice:

 

A Periodic Table Guide to Google's APIs [Infographic]:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/01/a-periodic-table-guide-to-goog.php

10 Must-Have Google Chrome Extensions:


WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES

What’s the longest word in the English language?:

Getting Started With eBooks: A Beginner's Guide http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/63455

E-Books: Amazon.com Now Sells More Kindle E-Books Than Paperbacks:

Is Kindle killing print books?


SCIENCE

 

A physicist explains why parallel universes may exist:

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/24/132932268/a-physicist-explains-why-parallel-universes-may-exist

 

Science 360 – Chemistry: http://science360.gov/topic/Chemistry/

Light Touch Transforms Material Into a Superconductor

 

Scientists show how to erase information without using energy:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-scientists-erase-energy.html

 

On the hunt for universal intelligence: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110127131122.htm

 

Problem solving- God is in the definition:

http://blog.threestarleadership.com/2011/01/28/problem-solving-god-is-in-the-definition.aspx

 

Physicist Discovers How To Make Quantum Foam In A Test Tube:

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26311/?nlid=4055

 

Ancient Body Clock Discovered That Helps Keep All Living Things on Time: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110126131540.htm

 

Light Controls a Worm's Behavior: Scientists Commandeer Organism's Nervous System Without Wires or Electrodes: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110118143222.htm

 

Brain 'GPS' Illuminated in Migratory Monarch Butterflies:



Nanoscale Transistors Used to Study Single-Molecule Interactions:

 

Salty Evolution: Previously Unknown Central Metabolic Pathway in Microorganisms Discovered: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110121103537.htm

 

Stage set early for success, or failure:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/69090/title/Stage_set_early_for_success,_or_failure

 


Orangutans’ genome full of surprises:

 

People Aren't Born Afraid of Spiders and Snakes: Fear Is Quickly Learned During Infancy: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110124111144.htm

 

Video – a self-planting seed:

An interestiug book- “The calculus of selfishness”: http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/honor-among-thieves

TECHNOLOGY


Technology is good when it is ethical: http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/IEETblog

Debate- natural gas versus renewables: http://www.economist.com/debate/debates/overview/193&fsrc=nwl

 

The world can be powered by alternative energy, using today’s technology, in 20-40 years:


 

Less is more for more efficient wind farms:

http://www.gizmag.com/less-is-more-for-more-cost-efficient-wind-farms/17659/

 

Could cows make biofuels better? http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/32233/?nlid=4056

 

Agave Fuels Excitement as a Bioenergy Crop

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110126121102.htm

 

New Device May Revolutionize Computer Memory




EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART

 

Creating Simplicity: How Music Fools the Ear



Pandia looks at three great music recommendation engines:

New research reveals the root of musical pleasure

http://www.gizmag.com/mcgill-research-shows-dopamine-responsible-for-music-pleasure/17663/


Problem solving- teaching the art of critical thought:

Falsehoods- the Human Universals:

Freedom of speech, religion, press around the world:

 

Brain Scans Show How Teens Are More 'Me-First' Than Adults

http://www.livescience.com/culture/teen-brain-changes-reciprocity-110126.html

 

Peaked performance- The case that human athletes have reached their limits: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/01/23/peaked_performance/?page=full


BUSINESS

 

Stop operating with a guild mindset: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/12/stop_operating_with_a_guild_mi.html


 

The Value of Ritual in Your Workday: http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2010/12/the-value-of-ritual-in-your-wo.html


Provocative: expand your mind- dumb-stupid and dimwitted (by Miki Saxon)


HEALTH & MEDICINE

How Bacteria Keep Ahead of Vaccines and Antibiotics


Discovery of a Biochemical Basis for Broccoli's Cancer-Fighting Ability: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110126131906.htm

 

Cracking a Tooth: 3-D Map of Atoms Sheds Light on Nanoscale Interfaces in Teeth, May Aid Materials Design: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110112132126.htm

 

Obesity Linked to Economic Insecurity

 

Fighting the Fight for Healthy Teeth

 

Alien Hand Syndrome sees woman attacked by her own hand:



FOOD & COOKING

Report advocates GM crops in food supply measures

 

Lack of Sex Among Grapes Tangles a Family Vine http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/science/25wine.html?_r=1&ref=science



Why it is hard to lose weight?:

Make Chinese food at home:

 

Top 12 Easy Chinese Recipes:

 

How to Lower the Fat in Chinese Cooking

 

Top 12 Quick and Easy Recipes to Celebrate Chinese New Year


MISCELLANEA

 

Journal of Universal Rejection:

http://www.math.pacificu.edu/~emmons/JofUR/


Horror scoped:

SELECTED NEWS

SPAM & SPYWARE   

Matt Cutts on search and spam:
http://managinggreatness.com/2011/01/22/matt-cutts-on-search-and-spam/                                                        

 

Google Launches Algorithm To Fight Content Spam: http://searchengineland.com/google-launches-algorithm-to-fight-content-spam-62736


VIRUSES & e-CROOKS

A brief history of malware: the first 25 years:


WiFi


Apps Could Turn Your Smart Phone Into a Wallet: http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/27125/?nlid=4036&a=f


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