December 2011
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Amazon’s Lending Library Now Holds Over 66,000... →
infoneer-pulse:
When Amazon launched its lending library on November 3, the collection had only 5000 titles. But the collection has grown exponentially since then, as the Public Libraries blog points out, with 66,037 titles available the morning of December 28.
Some of this growth is undoubtedly because Amazon decided on December 8 to expand the collection beyond titles from established...
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Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012 (and beyond)... →
courtenaybird:
“I like to say that the first generation of e-tailers was really good for nerds. Amazon for me is—I love it—it’s like the biggest warehouse superstore of all time. It’s just awesome, and I love wandering up and down the aisles and it’s like, ‘wow, look at that.’ If I do enough searches I can discover anything.
The new generation of e-tailers are much more appealing to normal...
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“Mediocrity isn’t a quest to be pursued — but a derelict deathtrap to be...”
– Mastering the Art of Living Meaningfully Well (via courtenaybird)
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Stanford Free Classes – A review from a Stanford... →
Paul Higgins: I think that this is a very interesting assessment. These sorts of educational experiments are in their infancy and will develop quite quickly. I think that the points about social isolation are important. A lot of the educational and developmental outcomes at Uni are about the people and the interactions. For people who cannot attend access is obviously very important but the...
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“Scientists have designed a car seat which can recognise the ‘bottom-print’ or...”
– New car seat can recognise driver`s bottom-print | Zeenews.com (via smarterplanet)
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Infinite Stupidity - Mark Pagel via Edge →
stoweboyd:
Mark Pagel is Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of Evolutionary Biology; Head of the Evolution Laboratory at the University of Reading; Author Oxford Encyclopaedia of Evolution; co-author of The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology. His forthcoming book is Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind.
I want this book.
Mark Pagel via Edge
One of the first...
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“Of the 10 fastest-growing jobs projected by the U.S. Department of Labor, 9...”
– Forbes Woman Of The Year: Women In Tech (via courtenaybird)
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RWW -- Top 10 Startups of 2011 →
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“There’s no such thing as a poor urbanized country; there’s no such thing as a...”
– Edward Glaeser, cited by Robert Kunzig in The City Solution via National Geographic Magazine (via stoweboyd)
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“According to the Center for an Urban Future, “freelance businesses has been a...”
– Anthony Townsend, Art as Personal Business in the City: Brooklyn’s Creative Freelance Economy via IFTF’s Future Now (via stoweboyd)
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Double Take of the Day: Congress ends corn ethanol... →
climateadaptation:
How on earth did I miss this one??
The United States has ended a 30-year tax subsidy for corn-based ethanol that cost taxpayers $6 billion annually, and ended a tariff on imported Brazilian ethanol.
Congress adjourned for the year on Friday, failing to extend the tax break that’s drawn a wide variety of critics on Capitol Hill, including Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and...
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Can Extreme Microbes Solve the Clean Fuel... →
smarterplanet:
“Biology is the best chemist out there,” said Harvard scientist Pamela Silver. The U.S. Department of Energy funds Silver’s research exploring the use of deep-ocean extremophiles to create new biofuels. She described the bacteria she works with as being “like little batteries” that “move electrons around.” Silver’s goal is to genetically program these ocean bacteria to recover...
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The Lifecycle of a Keurig Coffee K Cup →
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The Lifecycle of a Keurig Coffee K Cup →
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“In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the...”
– Amazon Kindle: A Highlight and Note from a Personal Document (via futuramb)
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“We will have wrecked the planet, but our great-grandchildren won’t care much,...”
– The Economist, eviscerating the U.S. and others for not acting in the Durban COP17 climate talks. (via climateadaptation)
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“Of all online infographics, 89% contain statistics of dubious veracity.”
– Quit it With All the Infographics Already (via courtenaybird)
Paul Higgins: and 72.58% of statistics are made up
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A must read piece by The Economist on Climate... →
climateadaptation:
“I find myself thinking about these things in particular with respect to climate change. Not long ago, Karl Smith at Modeled Behavior wrote a post arguing that global warming would likely have a number of nasty consequences, but that humanity’s best policy response is to plow forward in pursuit of economic growth, including through the aggressive development of fossil fuel...
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We have just passed 50,000 followers
We have just ticked up past 50,000 followers
Thanks to all of you that have supported us and have a safe and happy Christmas and New Year
Paul Higgins
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Harvard researchers underwhelmed by peer influence... →
stoweboyd:
Harvard researchers Kevin Lewis, Marco Gonzalez and Jason Kaufman published a paper called Social selection and peer influence in an online social network, and it seems to suggest that peers have a smaller influence on what we like than people may think:
Bob Brown via NetworkWorld
Using the Facebook data from a group of more than a thousand college students at one college, the...
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