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As 2012 begins, what will the year bring about? #leap year
--04.23.2012--Scientists published their work in journals that only scientists read, classicists in volumes that only classicists read, and engineers in blue books that no one read. So the reference book was born---the compendium of facts, the chrestomathy of passages, and the anthology of extracts---by which the rest of us could learn and use the information that print technology was producing, filling bookshelves that could be measured by the mile. #wikipedia
--04.23.2012--You could imagine a similar anxiety over how the telephone would undermine fiction. Perhaps it is just a matter of acceleration. #reader nostalgia
--04.23.2012--Of the many and conflicting stories about how Huffington Post came to be---how it boasts 68 sections, three international editions (with more to come), 1.2 billion monthly page views and 54 million comments in the past year alone, how it came to surpass the traffic of virtually all the nation's established news organizations and amass content so voluminous that a visit to the website feels like a trip to a mall where the exits are impossible to locate---the earliest and arguably most telling begins with a lunch in March 2003 at which the idea of an online newspaper filled with celebrity bloggers and virally disseminated aggregated content did not come up. #online newspaper?
--04.22.2012--The number of websites that would now break if Amazon were to go down, and the growing pervasiveness of Amazon behind the scenes, is really quite impressive. The company stored 762 billion objects in its S3 storage cloud last year, three times the number of objects stored 2010. #Amazon
--04.22.2012--People often confuse my last point and the mantra of 'lean startup' and agile development and launch things that are flaky. That's never okay. If you want to launch faster, make your product do less, but make that functionality the best in the field. #agile
--04.21.2012--Successful sports figures and musicians have long understood the value of time and practice in perfecting their skills. So why do entrepreneurs think that building a business is intuitively obvious, and should happen overnight? #practice
--04.21.2012--There is more than one way to make money in the tech field. AOL's attempts to shift from a dialup Internet service provider to content king has had mixed success. But it has a trove of valuable patents - and just sold more than $1 billion worth to Microsoft. #aol
--04.21.2012--Indeed, the emergence of this empathetic consciousness has implications for the future that will likely be as profound and far-reaching as when Enlightenment philosophers upended faith-based consciousness with the canon of reason. #the empathatic civilization
--04.21.2012--Women overall were more optimistic than men about their businesses and more likely to feel successful. Ninety-one percent of women describe their businesses as successful, compared to 80 percent of men. #optimism
--04.21.2012--Though many of the crunchy, oily, nutritious botanical bits & bites are not "true nuts" in the scientific sense. This selection of 10 unusual nuts highlights the often sweet yet occasionally distasteful relationship humans have had with these swell shelled feed seeds. #food
--01.29.2012--Born to Learn is an animation in a fascinating series aimed to provide easy-access to the exciting new discoveries constantly being made about how humans learn #borntolearn
--01.29.2012--The culture of consumption makes it easy to buy now and pay later. I've often bought belongings in the moment because "I had to have it." That type of process doesn't offer a whole lot of time for reflection or planning. #consumption
--01.28.2012--Pinterest allows you to organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. You can browse pinboards created by other people to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests. #pinterest
--01.28.2012--Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have found an apparent correlation between religious practices and changes in the brains of older adults. They measured changes in the volume of the hippocampus, an area of the brain involved in learning and memory. #brain
--01.28.2012--To be happier, you have to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth. #happiness project
--12.16.2011--A battery demonstration shows that they can run on shredded paper and produce no harmless byproduct. #eco
--12.16.2011--A new piece of electronics called the audeo, can shift someone's sent neckband current into sound. #wearable
--11.21.2011--iPads are turning up at the job- they can handle light loads, but what happened to the laptop? #App-essories
--11.18.2011--What's the reason people work at what they love, and what is the scope of what they do? Is it limited and does the process keep going? #industryknowledge
--11.18.2011--Science illiteracy across the US is at a dangerous high. With issues like global warming and frac mining, do we really need science in the classroom? #sciencematters?
--11.17.2011--Heuristic bias often mistakes those in lessons. Hudgens remarks that the hyper reality of immediate disappointment can be forgotten soon. #learningefforts
--11.17.2011--Roth, "Entrepreneurship really is about being comfortable with being uncomfortable." Somewhere, new hardware is being built, but will it be a hit? #sinkorswim
--11.16.2011--"There's not a better time than now," said Steve Stoute, the founder and chief executive of Translation Consultation and Brand Imaging. Stoute works closely with entertainers and athletes, including Jay-Z and LeBron James, to help Fortune 500 corporations extend the companies' marketing reach. He has written a book, "The Tanning of America: How Hip-Hop Created a Culture That Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy." He thinks that players --- like many star actors --- should have been negotiating for equity stakes a long time ago.#equitybaseddeal
--11.07.2011--'Ecological and carbon footprints are in widespread use, but the present study suggests that they may fail to promote or even reduce sustainable behaviour for some people,' Brook wrote. 'Understanding how to modify footprint feedback to more effectively motivate sustainable behaviour is urgently needed.' #earth
--11.07.2011--Im not saying caffeine screw up my life but it had some effect. I think the new energy drinks are good thing. Why? Because they raise awareness off people that caffeine isn't something that kids should drink. Im not saying caffeine is bad thing or that it should be banned, but giving it age limit is something that should be done. #coffee
--11.06.2011--Only 4 percent of college graduates major in English. Just 2 percent major in history. In fact, the proportion of undergraduate degrees awarded annually in the liberal arts and sciences has been declining for a hundred years, apart from a brief rise between 1955 and 1970, which was a period of rapidly increasing enrollments and national economic growth. #college
--11.06.2011--I'm talking about the increasing number of employment ads that make it clear that all applicants must currently have a job. If you are unemployed, don't even bother applying. People might have many different reactions to this, based on whether it is unfair to the applicant. #dumb
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