February 2012
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Winning makes people more aggressive toward the...
Via Scoop.it - Brain Health In this world, there are winners and losers – and, for your own safety, it is best to fear the winners. Via medicalxpress.com
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WatchFloat is a fully-hosted solution for allocating your team’s time to your client’s projects. Built from the ground up for agencies, studios and firms. http://j.mp/yNfYlb February 28, 2012 at 01:44PM
“THE frequent death of children before their fifth birthday is both a disaster...”
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Daily chart: Where not to be a toddler | The Economist
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French Film Industry Celebrates Its Cultural... →
After France mopped up at the Oscars on Sunday night, members of the French cultural establishment thanked the Academy - and their own country’s lavish support of the arts.
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Shelter by Xx First time I heard “The...
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Mandarin overtakes English as Hong Kong's second...
Via Scoop.it - Speak to the future Telegraph.co.ukMandarin overtakes English as Hong Kong’s second languageTelegraph.co.ukFifteen years after Hong Kong was handed back to China, Mandarin has finally overtaken English as the island’s second most widely spoken language. Via telegraph.co.uk
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WatchA short film by Smore http://j.mp/A14iEK http://j.mp/y1FaL8 February 25, 2012 at 09:59AM
Simple Song by The Shins Heard this “Simple...
Feeling Good by Nina Simone …and I’m...
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WatchSnackr is a mobile app that is Pandora for news. Every news story in 30 seconds and a full personalized update in 5 minutes. That’s the Snackr way! http://j.mp/wOvCx0 February 24, 2012 at 03:18PM
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WatchOff the upcoming record “Port of Morrow”. Available March 20th. Preorder: http://j.mp/yUrquA www.danieldaniel.us Starring: The Band: James Mercer, Richard Swift, Jessica Dobson, Joe Plummer, Yuuki Matthews The Kids: Niko Jacobson, Natalie Shershaw, Anthony Chow, Lea Claire Zawada, Emma Smith Mother: Tonetta Weaver Jessica’s Husband: Nich Ealy-Elder Girl Next Door: Emily Matthews...
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German ministers agree to speed up solar cuts
Via Scoop.it - The Great Transition BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government has agreed to accelerate the next round of cuts in state-mandated photovoltaic incentives by three months to April 1 after a record-breaking expansion of solar… Via reuters.com
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WatchA teaser for my upcoming short documentary looking at the homeless in Manchester. In November 2010, Manchester City council published that only seven people were sleeping rough in the city. To get to this number only people who were lying horizontal on a highway were counted. If you were in a bus shelter, that counted as a roof and therefore not added to the seven. In this short documentary I take...
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In Germany, minister calls for ‘Facebook lessons’...
Via Scoop.it - Be e-Safe BERLIN — A German politician suggests social networking education has a place in classrooms as well as in homes. “Similar to traffic safety education in primary schools, Facebook and its peers have a place in schools as early as 5th grade,” the country’s Family Minister Kristina Schroeder told Germany’s Bild newspaper in connection with Europe’s Safer Internet...
What Is Visualization?
By Nathan Yau - http://bit.ly/A4kJGE @flowingdata
This seems like a straightforward question, but it’s proven to be a difficult one to answer.
Even visualization researchers – people who think about the subject all day and every day – don’t have a clear definition of what visualization is.
Is it synonymous with information graphics?
Does visualization have to be computer generated?
Does data have...
A Turning Point for Personal Digital Learning:...
February 21, 2012 - by Tom Vander ArkFritjof Capra is a physicist who plowed the systems thinking ground for Peter Senge and the new science ground for Meg Wheatly. He opened his seminal piece The Turning Point by noting that man always assumes he is at a turning point. As a pattern spotter, I’m particularly susceptible to seeing turning points, but from the standpoint of global learning...
The Last Goodbye by The Kills Interlude I heard on...
Envisioning a Post-Campus America
Via Scoop.it - :: The 4th Era :: By Megan McArdle Disruption never looks inevitable until it suddenly is—if you’d told someone in 1955 that GM was going to have its lunch eaten by some Japanese upstart, they would have laughed until the tears came. So it’s interesting and maybe even useful to contemplate what the college system would look like if this sort of distance learning...
Nerdy Day Trips Help You Get Your Geek Fix When...
Via Scoop.it - novadour When travel agencies put together tours for you, they don’t consider the geek factor of a certain landmark or place. They just consider the appeal it has to the rest of the population - and sometimes, that’s just not what you were looking for. It’s times like these when you have to be thankful for sites like Nerdy Day Trips. It’s a site where geeky travelers...
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Watchhttp://j.mp/xBBPw7 February 20, 2012 at 02:35PM
Metal, code, flesh: Why we need a 'Rights of the...
Via Scoop.it - Networking - p2p - a new society “The internet, as a living being which is part human, should have rights of its own.”… From understanding the internet as a life form that is in part human, it follows that the internet itself has rights. These rights must be created from scratch, thinking simultaneously in terms of the rights of metal, code, and flesh. With this...
IP, Patents, Copyright, You
By Bruce Arnold - http://bit.ly/ycuRQk @ConversationEDU
IDEAS AND OWNERSHIP: The concept of protecting ideas and innovation by legal means dates back to antiquity. But in the age of the internet and multinational business models, many of the existing laws are under strain, their suitability and ultimate purpose called into question.
Bruce Arnold - http://bit.ly/yS6Ji8 - kicks off a new series on...
Google Correlate finds search patterns which...
Via Scoop.it - Eclectic Technology Google Correlate finds search patterns which correspond with real-world trends. You may compare time series, US States and more. Check out the website or click on this link and see a comic book that discusses the use of the tool using flu as an example: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/comic Via google.com
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When visual storytelling wins, so do the readers
Via Scoop.it - Story and Narrative One of the reasons to follow the yearly judging event by the Society of News Design (SND) is to discover how the most creative minds in our business often take ordinary type of stories and translate them visually into extraordinary examples. Via garciamedia.com
Promise by Ben Howard continuing with serendipity ...
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Superbass/Love Sick Mashup by Laura Zocca result...
Video Games (Lana Del Rey Cover) by Laura Zocca...
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New Theory of Moral Behavior May Explain Recent...
Via Scoop.it - Peer2Politics ScienceDaily (Feb. 16, 2012) — Why do some people behave morally while others do not? Sociologists at the University of California, Riverside and California State University, Northridge have developed a theory of the moral self that may help explain the ethical lapses in the banking, investment and mortgage-lending industries that nearly ruined the U.S. economy. Via...