Ever wonder why we get different results when we search for the same thing? I don’t think it is a glass half empty/half full thing. It seems evident that the internet is serving as both the library and news journal for many of us, and that our machine personalized search results from Google, Yahoo, Bing and the rest are skewed in different ways. This has been apparent on Facebook as well, perhaps in a more obvious way when some of our friends’ disappeared from our news feeds.
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Scientists create “artificial life” – synthetic DNA that can self-replicate
Hooray for Ventner
Burroughs has gone insane…
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Dear Lucien & Cessa — Writing to you by candlelight from the mysterious Casbah — have a magnificent room overlooking the beach & the bay & the sea & can see Gibraltar — patio to sun on, room maid, $20 a month — feel great but Burroughs has gone insane as, — he keeps saying he’s going to erupt into some unspeakable atrocity such as waving his dingdong at an Embassy party & such or slaughtering an Arab boy to see what his beautiful insides look like …
Grand Challenges – Engineering Challenges
Grand Challenges – Engineering Challenges. The century ahead poses challenges as formidable as any from millennia past. NAE Recognizes 2013 Grand Challenges Scholars Watch Recorded Video of the Summit US Global Grand Challenges Summit Video Contest Winners Announced Here are the Grand Challenges for engineering as determined by a committee of the National Academy of … Read more
InSTEDD
InSTEDD: One of the most useful collaborative tools to help evade pandemic disease and to respond to disaster. Find out more here.
A How to Guide for Bootstrapping the Innovation – Doug Engelbart Institute
A How to Guide for Bootstrapping the Innovation – Doug Engelbart Institute. I’ve been a fan of Douglas Englebart’s work for many years now. The concept of boosting the “Collective IQ” as he put it of an organization seems pertinent and timely