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The Tevatron will end operations in 2011 as originally scheduled23 January 2011
22 January 2011
Why You Learn More Effectively by Writing Than Typing
The act of writing helps you clarify your thoughts, remember things better, and reach your goals more surely. Here's a look at the science and psychology behind writing, and why the pen may be mightier than the keyboard.
By Melanie Pinola Jan 21, 2011 01:00 PM
17 January 2011
Virtual job-hunting: Technology fills situations vacant
Looking for a job - or trying to find a new employee? Then prepare for a technological revolution.
New tools, many of them related to the explosion in use of social media, are transforming the recruitment world.
Ready for your close-up? Graeme Anthony's video CV got him the job he was looking for.
Read rest of article by Rory Cellan-Jones Technology correspondent, BBC News :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12194581
15 January 2011
Social tech reshaping communication in Malaysia
Malaysia is among the most connected countries in the Asia Pacific with social technologies reshaping the nature of communication.
http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?col=atyourservice&file=/2011/1/15/columnists/atyourservice/7806878&sec=At%20Your%20Service
http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?col=atyourservice&file=/2011/1/15/columnists/atyourservice/7806878&sec=At%20Your%20Service
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Social media mobilised cyber community help for Queensland floods
WHERE the 1974 floods left many Queenslanders isolated, after Brisbane's 2011 flood event, social networking has mobilised a "cyber community".
Thousands of people on Facebook and Twitter posted requests for help and even more offered their assistance.
14 January 2011
Unfollowed: Pentagon Deletes Social Media Office
At a time when Facebook has 500 million users and Twitter is closing in on 200 million, the Pentagon no longer has a single person guiding its communications shop on how to use social media to get the military’s message out.
By Spencer Ackerman 
January 13, 2011
Jimmy Wales says Wikipedia "too tough" for many
Wikipedia's founder tells the BBC that the online encyclopaedia must become easier to edit, to bring in a new generation of contributors.
By Jonathan Fildes
Wikipedia is too complicated for many people to modify despite billing itself as "the free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit", its founder has said.
Jimmy Wales told BBC News the site wants a new generation of contributors, including more women.
The online encyclopaedia, which is 10 years old on 15 January, is the world's fifth most popular site.
He said a lot of people were "afraid" to contribute to the site by the sometimes complicated code - known as Wiki mark-up - needed to format entries.
Go to BBC to read the original article.Researchers can predict your video game aptitude by imaging your brain
January 13, 2011
Researchers report that they can predict "with unprecedented accuracy" how well you will do on a complex task such as a strategic video game simply by analyzing activity in a specific region of your brain.
The findings, published in the online journal PLoS ONE, offer detailed insights into the brain structures that facilitate learning, and may lead to the development of training strategies tailored to individual strengths and weaknesses.
Why is a definition of life so important yet so elusive?
What is life?
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 03:21 - NLN
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13 January 2011
Barack Obama artwork case settled
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An artist behind an iconic image of Barack Obama and the Associated Press news agency have agreed to settle copyright infringement claims.
As part of the deal, New York artist Shepard Fairey has agreed not to use another AP photo in his work without first obtaining a licence.
The two sides have also reached a financial settlement, the terms of which have not been disclosed.
The case relates to a picture of the US president taken in 2006.
Street artist Fairey used the photo, taken by Mannie Garcia, when he created his Hope artwork during Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.
Fairey sued AP in 2009, seeking a declaration he did not violate its copyright with his iconic image.
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11 January 2011
A-ha! Neural Evidence for Sudden Insight
ScienceDaily (May 12, 2010) — A recent study provides intriguing information about the neural dynamics underlying behavioral changes associated with the development of new problem solving strategies. The research, published by the Cell Press in the May 13 issue of the journal Neuron, supports the idea of "a-ha" moments in the brain that are associated with sudden insight.
New research supports the idea of "a-ha" moments in the brain that are associated with sudden insight. (Credit: iStockphoto/Kutay Tanir)
Competition - Which is the smallest planet - um...Eris or Pluto? What's a few feet in space? A guess at best.
From The New York Times: The War of the Worlds, Round 2 Now, researchers say that the rival to Pluto that was discovered six years ago is actually smaller than Pluto. http://nyti.ms/ibPcwp
Drug-induced kindness - Oxytocin turns out to be the hormone of the clan not universal
From The New York Times: Depth of the Kindness Hormone Appears to Know Some Bounds The love and trust that oxytocin promotes are not toward the world in general, just toward a person’s in-group. http://nyti.ms/dMMBd4
USA particle lab #Tevatron closing due to budget cuts - EU will now seek elusive Higgs boson particle #physics
Hunt for elusive Higgs boson particle - crucial to current theories of physics - will now fall to Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The Tevatron will end operations in 2011 as originally scheduled
The LHC is the only other rival in the race to detect the HiggsThe Higgs boson is of huge importance to the widely accepted theory of physics, known as the Standard Model.
It explains why other particles have mass, but, despite decades trying, no-one has yet detected it.
The LHC, which is based underground on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, is the only other competitor in the race to find the Higgs.
In 2010, physicists at Fermilab said they were closing in on the elusive particle.
The Tevatron and the LHC alone are powerful enough to probe energy ranges where the Higgs may reside.
Some physicists have previously said the European machine may not be in a position to detect the Higgs for two to three years.
Extending the Tevatron's lifetime beyond 2011 would have been a game-changer, giving the US lab a potential advantage in the race to make a discovery.
Cern, the organisation which runs the LHC, has for some time been planning to shut down the machine in late 2011 for up to one year.
But recently, officials had been considering whether to delay this scheduled closure - for maintenance work - until the end of 2012, giving the LHC more time to hunt for the elusive particle.
Fermilab would have needed an extra $35m per year to operate the Tevatron into 2014.
Engineering team invents lab-on-a-chip for fast, inexpensive blood tests
While most blood tests require shipping a vial of blood to a laboratory for analysis and waiting several days for the results, a new device invented by a team of engineers and students at the University of Rhode Island uses just a pinprick of blood in a portable device that provides results in less than 30 minutes.
published: Monday, January 10, 2011 - 03:23 in Health; Medicine
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/01/10/engineering.team.invents.lab.a.chip.fast.inexpensive.blood.tests
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published: Monday, January 10, 2011 - 03:23 in Health; Medicine
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/01/10/engineering.team.invents.lab.a.chip.fast.inexpensive.blood.tests
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No left turn lane: 'Superstreet' traffic design reduces travel time 20% & collisions 46%
No left turn: 'Superstreet' traffic design improves travel time, safety
Published: Monday, January 10, 2011 - 11:37
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Dr. Joe Hummer, North Carolina State University
Dr. Joe Hummer, North Carolina State University
"The study shows a 20 percent overall reduction in travel time compared to similar intersections that use conventional traffic designs," says Dr. Joe Hummer, professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering at NC State and one of the researchers who conducted the study. "We also found that superstreet intersections experience an average of 46 percent fewer reported automobile collisions – and 63 percent fewer collisions that result in personal injury."
The so-called "superstreet" traffic design results in significantly faster travel times, and leads to a drastic reduction in automobile collisions and injuries, according to North Carolina State University researchers who have conducted the largest-ever study of superstreets and their impacts. Superstreets are surface roads, not freeways. It is defined as a thoroughfare where the left-hand turns from side streets are re-routed, as is traffic from side streets that needs to cross the thoroughfare. In both instances, drivers are first required to make a right turn and then make a U-turn around a broad median. While this may seem time-consuming, the study shows that it actually results in a significant time savings since drivers are not stuck waiting to make left-hand turns or for traffic from cross-streets to go across the thoroughfare.
Men with macho faces attractive to fertile women - intelligence not accounted for
Men with macho faces attractive to fertile women
Tue, 01/11/2011 - 02:26 - NLN
When their romantic partners are not quintessentially masculine, women in their fertile phase are more likely to fantasize about masculine-looking men than are women paired with George Clooney types.
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2 January 2011
Europe’s Young Grow Agitated Over Future Prospects - & they are not the only ones - 50-plussers also at risk
From The New York Times: Europe’s Young Grow Agitated Over Future Prospects Experts warn of volatility in state finances and the broader society as the most highly educated generation in the history of the Mediterranean hits one of its worst job markets. http://nyti.ms/fBiNgy Note: Those 50-plussers here in Europe also have no future prospects. Pensions have disappeared in a financial debacle. Opportunities to generate new work are extremely limited. And, the government wants to raise retirement age to 67. If you do not receive unemployment benefits, you are not even counted in statistics for the "unemployed". Amidst all this, 50-plussers are also looking beyond European borders for opportunities to support themselves. The social contract is strangling them - and they are no longer even beneficiaries of it. Why does the system not work? What kind of new system can evolve from the existing one to include all efforts and not just a select or "loud" group?
Finding a Use for Tumblr
From The New York Times:BITS: Finding a Use for TumblrTrying to find a reason to use the highly popular social service Tumblr.
Nic Rad, a Brooklyn-based artist, answered the question most succinctly in a recent poston his own Tumblr, noting that "Tumblr is designed for daydreamers."Read on.... http://nyti.ms/e0Ycfz
How much has your marriage helped you to personally develop and grow - take the quiz
From The New York Times: SUSTAINABLE LOVE: The Happy Marriage Is the ‘Me’ Marriage For a long, fulfilling partnership: give your partner a chance to e-x-p-a-n-d. Take the quiz. http://nyti.ms/fcOlqU
30 December 2010
Yummy! One sleeve in New York Times' Sam Sifton's accordion folder marked “2010 Delicious” - 15 best meals in NYC 2010
From The New York Times: CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK: Dishes That Earned Their Stars The 15 best things The New York Times’ restaurant critic ate in New York City in 2010. Read on for all the juicy details:
http://nyti.ms/hZ3QRX
http://nyti.ms/hZ3QRX
The future is fidgetal - Frustration with technology is driving our new scatology
The future is fidgetal
28 December 10 00:54 GMT
"Technology, and the hype that surrounds it, is changing the way we speak. But we don't have to turn into drones, all spouting the latest i-word. Chris Bowlby says it's time for the techno-bullied to fight back with their own subversive speak.
With the online Oxford English Dictionary recently re-launched and on the look-out for new language, maybe it's time for a counter-revolution.
Can we create a new vocabulary that expresses not marketing mania, but the downside, the frustration, the terrible things we sometimes suspect modern technology is doing to us?
When your cursor makes you a curser, do the necessary words come to mind?
Let's start to talk about the crazily fidgetal, the MisApps, mobile drones and Skypeochondria that afflict us all.
Dawn of the age of the robot - a different sort immigration
Dawn of the age of the robot
"Advancement in robotics will dominate next decade, says head of the Institute for the Future."
The future is robotic. Photograph: Blutgruppe/zefa/Corbis
Dominic Rushe in New York
The Guardian, Thu 30 Dec 2010 07.00 GMT
"The robots are coming. The second decade of the 21st century will see the rise of a mechanised army that will revolutionise private and public life just as radically as the internet and social media have shaken up the past 10 years. Or so says Marina Gorbis, futurologist and head of Californian thinktank The Institute for the Future."
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29 December 2010
Exploring Google Body with Google Chrome
28 December 2010
3 million UK children in households without either computers or internet
A disturbing new report from the e-Learning Foundation, an education charity, has revealed that approximately 3 million UK children live in households without either computers (1 million) or internet access (2 million).
21 December 2010
In Pursuit of the Perfect Brainstorm
From The New York Times: Corporate America wants help coming up with fresh ideas. Can a new breed of consultant teach companies how to think? http://nyti.ms/erRtXR
19 December 2010
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16 December 2010
In France, Civil Unions Gain Favor Over Marriage
From The New York Times: In France, Civil Unions Gain Favor Over Marriage Civil unions confer most of the benefits and protections of marriage, and French couples increasingly prefer them. Major benefit - you can end them simply with a registered letter. http://nyti.ms/gl7zzk
The rights and wrongs of digital books
The rising popularity of e-books highlights many modern dilemmas, says Bill Thompson
11 December 2010
Metaphors, sign language & networks of meaning #communication
The study, "Iconicity and metaphor: Constraints on metaphorical extension of iconic forms," to be published in the December 2010 issue of the scholarly journal Language, is authored by Irit Meir of the University of Haifa. A preprint version is available here.
Dr. Meir's research sheds new light on the interrelations between two notions that play an important role in language and communication, iconicity and metaphor. This study shows that the iconicity of a form may constrain the possible metaphorical extensions that the form might take. Put another way, certain metaphorical expressions in spoken language cannot be "translated directly" into sign language if their form is iconic.
Sign languages are natural languages, with rich and complex grammatical structures and lexicons. Sign languages have rich use
of metaphors. But quite often, when trying to translate metaphors from a spoken language to a sign language, we find that it is impossible to use the same words. For example, it is impossible to use the sign FLY (in Israeli Sign Language and American Sign Language) in the expression "time flies" or "the day just flew by." The metaphorical uses of a word such as FLY are impossible because of the form of this sign, in particular, its iconicity. The sign for FLY is produced by moving the arms as if flapping one's wings. But in the expression "time flies," we do not mean that time is flapping its wings. Rather, the metaphor is built on an implication of the action of flying, namely that it is a very fast way of motion. So there is a clash between what the form of the sign encodes (wing flapping) and the aspect of meaning on which the metaphor is built (fast movement).
8 December 2010
Google unveils Chrome OS notebook
Google shows off a notebook running its much anticipated Chrome operating system but says that it will not go on sale until 2011.
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