Sunday, November 13, 2011

INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY No 481

My dear Readers,

It was a good week for this newsletter, the Web has generously answered to many of the questions that are interesting for me. I hope you will find answers to your questions too. Many of these answers are of the type
described here: http://webpages.charter.net/sn9/literature/mu.html I am convinced that “mu” is a pillar of good and rich thinking and it is very bad that it is not taught at the school. It appears when the Answer is greater than the Question. I wonder if an opposite
case can exist – the Answer being much smaller than the Question; is the E-cat such a case?

I have defined our species as Homo discontentus- and I am very human- awfully sad that INFORMAVORE’s SUNDAY cannot achieve popularity. However, yesterday at the CORA mall I met a friend whom I have not seen for some 6 years and he has told me that he is reading  my newsletter regularly- a very pleasant surprise.

SEARCH

INTERNET

 

The $8 Trillion Internet: McKinsey's Bold Attempt to Measure the E-conomy: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/the-8-trillion-internet-mckinseys-bold-attempt-to-measure-the-e-conomy/247963/


Exploring the Digital Nation - Computer and Internet Use at Home:


SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.  

 

Infographic: How, When & Where People Share Content:


Public Domain Images

Free Web Resources for Public Domain Images:

http://websearch.about.com/od/freevideos/tp/public-domain-images.htm?nl=1

 

Public Domain Books

16 Sources for Free, Public Domain Books: http://websearch.about.com/od/booksandprintedmaterials/tp/Public-Domain-Books.htm?nl=1

 

Public Domain Music on the Web

12 Resources for Public Domain Music:

http://websearch.about.com/od/publicdomain/tp/Public-Domain-Music.htm?nl=1

 


How to Find People On The Web: Ten Free Tools:

 

The Best Free Online Storage Sites on the Web:


The search engine basics for dentists:  
                                
BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES

 

A Social Network that Pays You Chime.in lets users create pages about their own interests—and plans to give them a cut of the resulting ad revenue.


Teens, Kindness and Cruelty on Social Network Sites:

Visualizations: The World of Wikipedia’s Languages Mapped: http://infodocket.com/2011/11/11/visualizations-the-world-of-wikipedias-languages-mapped/

GOOGLE


Google’s Chief Works to trim a bloated Ship:

Google lawyer: Why the patent system is broken:

 

Google starts rollout of Google+ for businesses:

 

The Alphabet of Google+ Direct Connect:

 

Google Acquires Instant Search Startup Apture for Chrome:

 

Google+ Is Dead The search behemoth might not realize it yet, but its chance to compete with Facebook has come and gone:

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/11/google_had_a_chance_to_compete_with_facebook_not_anymore_.html?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=email

 



Changing information density in Gmail’s new look:


Improving themes in Gmail’s new look:


WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES

Top words of 2011:                                       http://www.languagemonitor.com/global-english/top-words-of-2011/

 

Nook Tablet vs. Kindle Fire: Which will win?:

 

Enter the Nook Tablet How does Barnes & Noble's offering measure up to its competitors, the Kindle Fire and Apple iPad?:

Highlights from New “Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading” Survey:                    http://infodocket.com/2011/11/08/highlights-from-new-consumer-attitudes-toward-e-book-reading-survey/


SCIENCE

 

It Takes Two: Brains Come Wired for Cooperation, Neuroscientists Discover:

 

Physicists Chip Away at Mystery of Antimatter Imbalance:

 

How to tame lightning:

Weird World of Water Gets a Little Weirder::


 

The Amazing Phenomenon of Volcanic Lightning!:

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/11/the_amazing_phenomenon_of_volc.php?utm_source=networkbanner&utm_medium=link

 

What ate dinosaurs? Old crocs

Even in their heyday, dinosaurs were not quite as dominant as popular myth makes them out to be:

 

How Scientific Fraud Is Like Ponzi Finance:


Boundaries of research disciplines are paper constructs: Digital Web-based information as a challenge to disciplinary research

TECHNOLOGY

 

European Biofuels Are as Carbon Intensive as Petrol, New Study Suggests: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111103212157.htm

 

Here comes  the Solar Energy:

Solar Energy: Solar Concentrator Increases Collection With Less Loss: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111102125549.htm

 

A Super-Absorbent Solar Material A new material, patterned at the nanoscale, absorbs a broad spectrum of light and could make thin-film solar cells more efficient:

 

Operating a 30-megawatt solar farm from one PC:  http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-57320569-54/operating-a-30-megawatt-solar-farm-from-one-pc/

 

Printable Solar-Cell Material Reaches a Milestone A performance boost for "small-molecule" solar cells could make the materials more practical:

 

Engineers Solve Energy Puzzle: How Energy Levels Align in a Critical Group of Advanced Materials:

 

Incredible Shrinking Material: Engineers Reveal How Scandium Trifluoride Contracts With Heat: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111107161955.htm

 

Plant With 'Eggbeater' Texture Inspires Waterproof Coating:


Biologically inspired adhesive tape can be reused thousands of times:                                         http://www.gizmag.com/bioinspired-adhesive-tape-kiel/20406/

 

Gestural Interfaces Go Mainstream  Taking control of computers with our hands and bodies is set to become commonplace.: http://www.technologyreview.com/business/39008/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-11-08

 

Kodak's Fight for Survival The prospect of the photographic company's possible demise is so melancholy that even a debt-rating firm is waxing poetic:


Cold, Hard Economics Why changing your old lightbulbs and toting your eco-friendly canvas shopping bag around won't save the planet:


EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART

 

Ten economic protests that changed history:


Infographic of the day, is the 1% inevitable given how networks work?

The Inegality Map:

A Library of Congress Science, Technology and Business Blog:





Communicating Science and Engineering Data in the Information Age: http://www.iq.harvard.edu/news/nrc_report_recommends_dvn

Flash Tutorials for Biological Sciences:

The History of Voiceover -150 Years in Mediums and Media:

 

Positive Psychology- Why happier people are healthier?  http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/marie-josee-salvas/2011111019787

What precisely was the knowledge that God didn't want Adam & Eve to have?:

http://www.quora.com/What-precisely-was-the-knowledge-that-God-didnt-want-Adam-Eve-to-have#ans794881


A blog of high interestingness: http://www.brainpickings.org/ (I have subscribed)

 

Extreme Antisocial Personality Predicts Gang Membership, Finds Study Based On Survey of Male Prisoners:

 


BUSINESS

 

The Instability of Inegality:                                            http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/roubini43/English

In the School of Innovation, Less Is Often More: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/business/simple-innovation-is-often-the-most-successful-prototype.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss


The vital importance of the first click:

Leadership Development Carnival Nov. 2011:

 

Learn How to Think Different(ly):

 

How Consistent Branding is Being Challenged in the Digital Age:

 

Increase Your Passion for Work Without Becoming Obsessed:




Engaging the trustworthy:

 

Multi-Tasking: Is It Worth It?:


9 Lives of Brainstorming

Nice- help checklist:

 



HEALTH & MEDICINE

Why Measles Spreads So Quickly: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111102161038.htm

 

Meningitis May Be Eradicated: New Vaccine Brings Hope:

 

New Method for Making Neurons Could Lead to Parkinson's Treatment When transplanted into rodents with brain damage similar to Parkinson's, the cells reversed the animals' motor issues:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39073/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-11-07.

 

Process Important to Brain Development Studied in Detail:

 

Light-Based Therapy Destroys Cancer Cells The new approach, which features a heat-sensitive fluorescent dye, could eventually replace standard chemotherapy:

 

Computers found more accurate than doctors in breast-cancer diagnosis:                                              http://www.kurzweilai.net/computers-found-more-accurate-than-doctors-in-breast-cancer-diagnosis

 

Breakthrough in Understanding the Genetics of High Blood Pressure: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111109104208.htm

 

Researchers develop insulin substitute for treating diabetes orally: http://www.gizmag.com/oral-insulin-substitute/20433/

 

New Technology to Monitor Brain Aneurysms:

 

How the brain plays role in regulating blood sugar:  http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-the-brain-plays-role-in-regulating-blood-sugar-in-humans

 

Cheap, simple composting toilet concept receives funding from Gates Foundation:                                        http://www.gizmag.com/gates-foundation-composting-toilet-duke-university/20422/

 

Researchers Develop eButton, an Easier Way to Monitor Food Intake, Exercise, and Lifestyle:

Regenerative Biology: Have We Discovered the Fountain of Youth?: http://bigthink.com/ideas/41015

 

'Tis Better to Give Than to Receive? Life Scientists Find That Giving Support Offers Health Benefits -- To the Giver: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111109152213.htm


The nocebo effect: Wellcome Trust science writing prize essay


FOOD & COOKING

A Worldwide Feast: 55 Great Global Food Blogs:



re cookbooks obsolete?


The ten healthiest foods on the Planet:

 

Philips's beehive concept - an urban home for the 21st Century bee:                                                http://www.gizmag.com/philips-beehive-concept/20412/


Roasting the Bird: Around About and Around the World

Selecting, Brining, Boning and Roasting..:. http://italianfood.about.com/od/holidaydishes/a/aa82406_2.htm?nl=1


Guinness secret revealed: Why do bubbles go down instead of up?:

 


SELECTED NEWS

SPAM & SPYWARE   

 

What Is Spamming 'Ratware'? How Does Ratware Work?: http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/r/f/ratware.htm?nl=1



VIRUSES & e-CROOKS

A short history of crimeware:                   http://www.csoonline.com/article/693171/a-short-history-of-crimeware

Biggest Cybercriminal Takedown in History http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/11/malware-click-fraud-kingpins-arrested-in-estonia/


Bob Rankin- Is BitDefender the best antivirus?

Bugs, Mice and Anti-virus SoftWare:

WiFi

Yahoo Gives the iPad the Power to Understand TV An app that knows what you're watching can serve up related Web articles or other information—as well as targeted ads: http://www.technologyreview.com/web/39047/?nlid=nlcomm&nld=2011-11-07

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