Saturday, December 17, 2011

INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY No 486

My Dear Readers,

This issue of my newsletter is published in tandem.
with our first Guest Editorial written by my new friend,
Cancer is one of the greatest enemies of mankind- a very cruel
one and when I started to think –it was the era of the antibiotics and the Salk vaccine, I was firmly convinced that cancer will
eradicated in my lifetime. This was an absolutely erroneous prediction- today approximately 13% of us have the chance to
die from a form or other of this dreadful illness. Ganglionar cancer
has killed my son at the age of 31.

David Haas is telling us that we have to fight against cancer and
shows how we can due it. A noble, human initiative. Thank you David!

As regarding the newsletter there are so many interesting things
that I will ask you to discover them yourselves. I have enjoyed
very much the “vocabulary quiz”- good and fast- you have to take
instant decisions, like in peak experiments, in Flow, or in moments of kairos. Or, when you are in dead trouble.

Peter



SEARCH

INTERNET

Can the Entire Internet be Summarized?: http://bigthink.com/ideas/41534

 

The Web in 2012: Five predictions, starting with IE10: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57342776-92/the-web-in-2012-five-predictions-starting-with-ie10/

 

Imagining 2076: Connect Your Brain to the Internet: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/science/imagining-2076-connect-your-brain-to-the-internet.html?_r=1

 

Researchers claim new data transfer rate world record: http://www.gizmag.com/data-transfer-record-186gbps/20859/


SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.  

Search Engines 101-Part 2:


Yahoo- 2011 year in review:  http://yearinreview.yahoo.com/

 

The Top 2011 Searches from Bing: A Year of Breakthroughs and Heartbreaks: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2011/11/28/2011trends.aspx

A source of news:  http://www.scoop.it/t/news-on-world-events                                  

Inside search engines' war on bad results: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228436.200-inside-search-engines-war-on-bad-results.html


 8 best free online PDF tools:

100 excellent hints and tricks for every computer user:


BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES

 

Microsoft Mixes Social Networking With Search Aimed at students, the new network shows that combining two of the Web's most popular activities has broader potential: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39353/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-12-16.

 

Top 10 Most Significant Search & Social Marketing Stories of 2011:                      http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2132875/Top-10-Most-Significant-Search-Social-Marketing-Stories-of-2011


Network Thinking:

GOOGLE

 

Google Advanced Search Techniques:


Is Google making us illiterate?:

Chrome 15 puts IE8 in rear-view mirror, takes No. 1 spot

First time in years that a non-Microsoft browser has been top dog: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222706/Chrome_15_puts_IE8_in_rear_view_mirror_takes_No._1_spot

 

Why Google TV will win:                  http://gigaom.com/video/why-google-tv-will-win/

 

Exclusive: Google CEO's inner circle: Meet the L Team: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/16/us-google-idUSTRE7BF1T420111216


WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES


 

Vocabulary quiz:                                                     http://www.merriam-webster.com/quiz/index.htm

E-Books, Shmee-Books: Readers Return to the Stores: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/books/steve-jobs-biography-and-other-hot-titles-bookstore-lures.html


Review

In depth: Using the Kindle Fire vs. the Kobo Vox vs. the Nook Tablet:


SCIENCE

 

Human Brain and the Potato: Similarities Within the Mitochondrial Ion Channels: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111201094255.htm

 

Tapping the Brain Orchestra:

 

Potential Explanation for Mechanisms of Associative Memory:

 

Biophysicists Discover Four New Rules of DNA 'Grammar' For 60 years, biologists have known of only two grammar-like rules that govern the language of DNA. Now they've found four more: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27402/?nlid=nlbio&nld=2011-12-13


Speed of light lingers in face of new camera:

World's Smallest Frogs Discovered in New Guinea: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111212123943.htm

 

Unlocking the Secrets of Snowflakes’ Shapes


Leon Lederman explains the mystery and beauty of the Higgs boson:                                                http://earthsky.org/space/leon-lederman-explains-the-mystery-and-beauty-of-the-higgs-particle



Meet the Agta, a tribe where a quarter of men have been attacked by giant snakes: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/12/12/meet-the-agta-a-tribe-where-a-quarter-of-men-have-been-attacked-by-giant-snakes/

No Acid Burn for Naked Mole Rats:

 

ScienceShot: Ant 'Gas Gun' Paralyzes Prey:


TECHNOLOGY

 

Solar Cells Capture Lost Energy:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/12/solar-cells-capture-lost-energy.html?ref=em&elq=00b320d2d6344e3fb0770ada40ad5bac

 

Discovery of a 'Dark State' Could Mean a Brighter Future for Solar Energy: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111215141617.htm

 

Ramping Up Wind Energy Research: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111214125857.htm


Tilting at Water Turbines A collection of weird and wonderful devices designed to harvest energy from the ocean:

A Greener Way to Make Solar Cells: http://bigthink.com/ideas/41530

 

Biofuel Research Boosted by Discovery of How Cyanobacteria Make Energy: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111215141613.htm

 

The Death of Range Fuels Shouldn't Doom All BiofuelsThe influential biofuels startup failed because its technology proved too expensive:


Highly resonant wood could be commercially produced for Stradivarius-quality "fungus violins”: http://www.gizmag.com/stradivarias-fungus-violins/20804/

 

Cryogenic treatments database: http://www.cryogenictreatmentdatabase.org/

5 Disruptive Technologies Happening Now From e-books to 3-D printing, TR spotlights the technologies that are destroying markets and creating new ones.


EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART

 

Brain's Cortex Plays an Essential Part in Emotional Learning:

 

Brain's Failure to Appreciate Others May Permit Human Atrocities: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111214162103.htm


The Museum of Mathematics: http://momath.org/
 
How music is good for your brain:

Famous castles in the world: http://www.everycastle.com/

Is Positive Psychology Prescriptive or Descriptive?: http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/kevin-simmons/2011121420096

 


Why Do People Defend Unjust, Inept, and Corrupt Systems?:

 

Less Knowledge, More Power: Uninformed Can Be Vital to Democracy, Study Finds: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111215141621.htm

 

Are We Happy Yet? The Unexpected Links Between Happiness and Choice:

 

Media megatrends 2012–2018:         http://www.kurzweilai.net/media-megatrends-2012-2018



BUSINESS

How to increase productivity in the digital workplace:


Find, Hire, Love and Promote the One Percenters:


Why the world still needs bosses:

http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2011/12/06/bosses-formal-authority-leadership/

The Thought Leader Interview: Meg Wheatley An expert on innovative leadership warns that too many companies are reverting to fear-driven management. Instead, executives should hold to their values and build healthy corporate communities:                                    http://www.strategy-business.com/article/11406?gko=15f1d&cid=TL20111215

 

When You Work For A Jerk: A 6-Point Plan For Dealing With A Bad Boss:                   http://www.fastcompany.com/1801420/when-you-work-for-a-jerk-a-6-point-plan-for-dealing-with-a-bad-boss?#



Study Debunks Myths About Gender and Math Performance:

Immortality as Selfishness, Death as an Engine of Innovation: http://bigthink.com/ideas/41527

 

Before the How and the What comes the Why: http://www.gautamblogs.com/2011/12/before-how-and-what-comes-why.html



HEALTH & MEDICINE

The Rise of the Digital Doctor:             http://mediacaffeine.com/the-rise-of-the-digital-doctor/

Why Tuberculosis Is So hard To Cure: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/12/why-tuberculosis-is-so-hard-to.html?ref=em&elq=00b320d2d6344e3fb0770ada40ad5bac

Blood Clot Education for Patients & Professionals

 

Inbreeding in Bed Bugs: One Key to Massive Increases in Infestations: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111206115049.htm

 

Device Tracks Blood Flow in the Brain A headset ultrasound monitor could make it easier to detect the dangerous aftereffects of brain injuries: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/39313/?nlid=nlbio&nld=2011-12-13

 

Beating Superbugs With a High-Tech Cleanser:

 

Device Tracks Blood Flow in the Brain A headset ultrasound monitor could make it easier to detect the dangerous aftereffects of brain injuries: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/39313/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-12-13


I am not a physician, but in my opinion “Melanie’s Marvellous Measles” is a criminal book:

 

How the Bioweapon Ricin Kills: Scientists Solve Mystery Through Revolutionary New Technology: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111201125025.htm

 

Magnetic Stimulation of Brain May Help Some Stroke Patients Recover:

 

Medicine Needs Frugal Innovation A low-cost pocket ultrasound device can see into the human heart. So why do so few doctors use it?; http://www.technologyreview.com/business/39216/?nlid=nlbus&nld=2011-12-16


Please explore this new newsletter:


FOOD & COOKING

State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet: http://www.worldwatch.org/sow11


Welcome to Peak Water: Scientists Say Time Is up to Prepare for Melting Glaciers: http://www.alternet.org/water/153372/welcome_to_peak_water:_scientists_say_time_is_up_to_prepare_for_melting_glaciers_

 

"Computerized penetrometer" measures the crispness of apples: http://www.gizmag.com/computerized-penetrometer-apple-crispness/20864/

 


MISCELLANEA

 


SELECTED NEWS

SPAM & SPYWARE   

VIRUSES & e-CROOKS

 

Seven Ways to Get Yourself Hacked As targeted scams become more common, it's vital to protect yourself: http://www.technologyreview.com/web/39354/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-12-15 .


Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or Microsoft Internet Explorer - Which Web Browser is Most Secured?:

Bob Rankin- Is your flash drive infected?:




WiFi

One Million Mobile Apps, and Counting at a Fast Pace:

New Statistics: The Rise of Smartphones, Apps and the Mobile Web: http://infodocket.com/2011/12/15/new-statistics-the-rise-of-smartphones-apps-and-the-mobile-web/



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