Saturday, February 25, 2012

INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY No 496

My Dear Readers from everywhere,

We still have to wait a bit for Defkalion’s official test results.
We still have to wait till we really understand where, how, why
industrial LENR works- and why it does not work -when doing so.
Veteran cold fusionists like me are great experts even maestros in waiting. But it is both pathological and counterproductive to like waiting. I don’t like it at all.

My new Project, based on the fundamental idea that old researchers have to routinely execute infinite and impossible tasks- I am speaking about the translations of my Problem Solving Rules, is going VERY slowly see please: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2012/02/list-of-languages-for-translation-of-my.html

I cannot understand and it hurts me that my friends speaking Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Japanese or some 20 European languages are NOT helping me.
But I am a lover of positive thinking- many other friends have helped me with generosity and I am grateful to them.
The next week will be much better.
Peter


SEARCH

INTERNET

 

The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204792404577229074023195322.html

 

Reddit Writes A Law: First Draft Of The Free Internet Act Emerges: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120224/11362717869/reddit-writes-law-first-draft-free-internet-act-emerges.shtml


SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.  
  

First Impressions Form Quickly On the Web, Eye-Tracking Study Shows: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120216094726.htm  

 

Use Jinni to get your next movie recommendation: http://websearch.about.com/b/2012/02/21/use-jinni-to-find-your-next-favorite-movie.htm?nl=1

 

How to find what you might be interested in on Tumblr: http://websearch.about.com/b/2012/02/16/how-to-search-for-people-on-tumblr.htm?nl=1

Metaphorical search engine finds creative new meanings: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328536.500-metaphorical-search-engine-finds-creative-new-meanings.html

 

5 ways to view Flickr photos on the Web: http://websearch.about.com/b/2012/02/14/5-interesting-ways-to-view-flickr-photos.htm?nl=1


Free Online Spell Checker:
http://www.spellcheckonline.com/                                

 

Why the Popularity of Some Web Pages Doesn't Fall Over Time. Unlike many Web pages, the traffic to some sites doesn't fall over time. A new model of Web traffic shows why:

 

10 Best Sites to Find and Download Free Fonts For Windows and Mac:                                                      http://savedelete.com/10-best-sites-to-find-and-download-free-fonts-for-windows-and-mac.html

 

The Most Addictive Sites on the Web, 2012: http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/weirdwebculture/tp/The-Most-Addictive-Websites-of-2012.htm?nl=1


BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES

Facebook Makes Us Happier & More Creative: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42544

 

The Empower Network: My Personal Reasons for Joining: http://davestrayer.com/article-marketing/the-empower-network-my-personal-reasons-for-joining/


Who Gives A Tweet? Evaluating Microblog Content Value: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pandre/pubs/whogivesatweet-cscw2012.pdf

 

LinkedIn Growing Faster than Twitter or Facebook:

 

Everything You Need to Know About the Facebook Subscribe Button:                   http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/2012/02/facebook-subscribe-button/

 

 

Workforce collaboration in the network era: http://www.jarche.com/2012/02/workforce-collaboration-in-the-network-era/


GOOGLE

A Google Event- Solve for X: http://www.wesolveforx.com/

 

Google's PageRank algorithm used to model hydrogen bonds in water:                                                       http://www.gizmag.com/google-pagerank-hydrogen-bonds/21532/

 

“Scroogle.org Is Gone Forever” Says Site Owner: http://searchengineland.com/scroogle-org-is-gone-forever-says-site-owner-112245

 

Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/google-to-sell-terminator-style-glasses-by-years-end/


WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES

 

You can't do the math without the words: http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-math-words.html

 

Easily Pronounced Names May Make People More Likable: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/name-pronunciation-success/

 

Podcast: Saving Endangered Languages: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/podcast-saving-endangered-langua.html?ref=em


 

New $199 Nook Tablet to compete with Fire: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33198_7-57381627-286/new-$199-nook-tablet-to-compete-with-fire/
The New, New Nook B&N refreshes its barely-months-old tablet http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/helloworld/27595/?nlid=nlbus&nld=2012-02-24


 
SCIENCE

 

New Brain Connections Form in Clusters During Learning (for animals): http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120219143214.htm

 

Is There a General Motivation Center in the Depths of the Brain?:

 

Neuroscientists Identify How the Brain Works to Select What We (Want To) See: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120221212618.htm


Studying the Evolution of Life's Building Blocks: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120220090844.htm

How the Universe Came from Nothing: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42598


The scale of the Universe 2: http://htwins.net/scale2/

 

Origin of Photosynthesis Revealed: Genome Analysis of 'Living Fossil' Sheds Light On the Evolution of Plants: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120221125409.htm


Newly discovered legless amphibians are horrifying:

Primitive and eyeless, world’s deepest land animal discovered:

TECHNOLOGY

 

Alta Devices: Finding a Solar Solution. Looking to enter a highly ­competitive solar market, Alta Devices hopes to use a combination of technological advances and manufacturing savvy to succeed where many others have crashed and burned: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/39649/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-02-22

 

A Leap Forward for Plastic Solar Cells. An inexpensive, polymer-based device breaks a record, reaching 10.6 percent efficiency: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/39763/?nlid=nlmat&nld=2012-02-23


Making Solar Power Competitive with Coal. A study identifies early-stage technologies that could be combined to cut the cost of solar panels in half: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/39771/?nlid=nlmat&nld=2012-02-23

Duckweed: The Next Bio Fuel Revolution?: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42573

 

Plant Toughness: Key to Cracking Biofuels?: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120221125203.htm

 

Civilisation faces 'perfect storm of ecological and social problems: http://www.peopleandplanet.net/?lid=30231&section=33&topic=23


In honor of engineering:

 

Making Droplets Drop Faster: New Nanopatterned Surfaces Could Improve the Efficiency of Powerplants and Desalination Systems: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120223104110.htm

 

'Miracle Material' Graphene Is Thinnest Known Anti-Corrosion Coating: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120222133125.htm

 

Single-Atom Transistor Is End of Moore's Law; May Be Beginning of Quantum Computing: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120219191244.htm




EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART

 

The diplomacy of knowledge: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/the-diplomacy-of-knowledge/article2341017/

 

Why School Won't Prepare You to Be an Entrepreneur: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42637

 

Life's Messy. Train Your Brain to Adapt: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42522 .

Evolution and the Meaning of Life: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42559

 

22RoutesToExtraEnergy (personal energy): http://blog.strategicedge.co.uk/2012/02/22routestoextraenergy.html

 

The law of life is this: All things both good and evil are constructed from an image held in mind: http://davidkanigan.com/2012/02/20/the-law-of-life-is-this-all-things-both-good-and-evil-are-constructed-from-an-image-held-in-mind/

Why Americans Don't Elect Scientists: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42557




The Virtual Museum of Japanese Art:                             http://web-japan.org/museum/menu.html

 

Creativity* Duh, where do ideas come from?:http://www.delicious.com/stacks/view/DPDgrZ

 

10 Writing Tips for Sounding Smart:              http://savedelete.com/10-writing-tips-for-sounding-smart.html

 

What Can Animals' Survival Instincts Tell Us About Understanding Human Emotion?: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120222132116.htm

 

Lies: Why They Are So Hard to Detect: http://www.spring.org.uk/2012/02/lies-why-they-are-so-hard-to-detect.php

Remarkable- the Respect Research Group: http://www.respectresearchgroup.org/cgi-bin/rrg.pl

Adultolescence: It's the Beginning of a New Age: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42586


BUSINESS

How to advance your web career: http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2012/nt-2012-02-20-How-advance.htm


Questions to Teach Leadership and Management: http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2012/02/questions-to-teach-leadership-and.html

 

Which Way Are You Dysfunctional?: http://davidkanigan.com/2012/02/23/which-of-the-12-dysfunctional-personal-productivity-personalities-do-you/#more-4248

 

Your Online Presence Is Your Résumé: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42644


HEALTH & MEDICINE

 

The Patient of the Future

Internet pioneer Larry Smarr's quest to quantify everything about his health led him to a startling discovery, an unusual partnership with his doctor, and more control over his life: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/39636/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-02-21

Foundation Medicine: Personalizing Cancer Drugs

Foundation Medicine is offering a test that helps oncologists choose drugs targeted to the genetic profile of a patient's tumor cells. Has personalized cancer treatment finally arrived?:

 

New method for regrowing blood vessels developed: http://www.gizmag.com/blood-vessel-regrowth-u-texas/21520/

 

New vaccine is effective against all major strains of hepatitis C: http://www.gizmag.com/hepatitis-c-vaccine-developed/21553/

 

Depression Is Linked to Hyperconnectivity of Brain Regions, a New Study Shows: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/21/depression-is-linked-to-hyper-connectivity-of-brain-regions-a-new-study-shows0.html

 

The myth of the eight-hour sleep: http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/the_myth_of_the_eight_hour_sleep

 

10 Questions You Need to Ask About Colonoscopy: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/health/esn-colonoscopy-expert.html (no problem with the questions, the answers wouldn’t make you merry)

 

Rainforest Plant Combats Multi-Resistant Bacterial Strains: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120220090614.htm

 


 

New Strategies for Treatment of Infectious Diseases:  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120224110555.htm


Checking and treating for head lice: http://www.pulseuniform.com/treating-head-lice.asp

The Future of Medicine? Your Smartphone: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42647


FOOD & COOKING


All-Natural'? How to Guard Against 3 Misleading Food Labels: http://www.good.is/post/all-natural-how-to-guard-against-3-misleading-food-labels/

 


Fried Food Risks: Toxic Aldehydes Detected in Reheated Oil: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120222093508.htm

 

7 of the Healthiest Foods You Should Be Eating But Aren't: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eatingwell/healthy-food_b_1189431.html?ncid=dynaldushpmg00000056


MISCELLANEA

 

Misfortune Teller.  A statistics professor says he can predict crime before it occurs:


SELECTED NEWS

SPAM & SPYWARE   

Bob Rankin: do Hackers and Spammers Get Away With It?

http://askbobrankin.com/do_hackers_and_spammers_get_away_with_it.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=JXJuijY9n8P6SL


Use a disposable email address to avoid junk mail: http://websearch.about.com/b/2012/02/15/four-sites-for-disposable-email-addresses.htm?nl=1


VIRUSES & e-CROOKS

Bob Rankin- how did my e-mail account hijacked?:

 

Chain letters, free money, and scare tactics on the Web: how to avoid falling for common hoaxes: http://websearch.about.com/b/2012/02/17/web-hoaxes-how-to-make-sure-you-dont-fall-for-em.htm?nl=1

 

Banks in the Crosshairs: 8 Ways Cybercriminals Outfox Strong Security Controls: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74461.html


WiFi

How much does it cost to manufacture an iPhone?: http://www.asymco.com/2012/02/22/the-iphone-manufacturing-cost-structure/

 

Brain Makes Call On Which Ear Is Used for Cell Phone: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120221124713.htm

 

The Smartphone Revolution Is Over (For Now): http://www.fastcompany.com/1819197/is-the-smartphone-at-an-evolutionary-dead-end-yup


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