February 2009
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“But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them...”
– jesus, luke 19:27
Probing Question: What predicts a happy marriage? →
Couples in happy, long-term marriages manage disagreements without letting them get out of hand.
Did Deep Fritz use Shakespeare to heckle the World... →
It is an interesting theory: the Fritz team installed the latest chatter files during the Man vs Machine event in Bahrain, causing the machine to talk to the world champion in authentic Shakespearean verse during the game. The historical chatter drove Kramnik to distraction and prompted his ill-fated Morphy-esque knight sacrifice. That, in any case, ist how Schakespearean scholar and chess...
WatchTED Blog: How mindboggling science will outlast the crisis: Juan Enriquez on TED.com
The opening talk from TED2009: Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don’t look for it on your ballot — or in the stock exchange. It’ll come from science labs, and it promises keener bodies and minds. Our kids are going to be … different.
WatchIn the latest release from TED2009, psychologist Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for “practical wisdom” as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday wisdom will help rebuild our world.
“In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave...”
'One hundred billion trillion' planets where... →
Life on Earth used to be thought of as a freak accident that only happened once. But scientists are now coming to the conclusion that the universe is teeming with living organisms.
The change in thinking has come about because of the new belief there are an abundant number of habitable planets like Earth. Alan Boss, of the Carnegie Institution in Washington DC, said there could be as many...
“…without being consciously aware, we change our judgment of a...”
– University of Sussex
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“The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to...”
– marshall mcluhan
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“Coincidence is the word we use when we can’t see the levers and pulleys.”
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The science of romance: Brains have a love circuit →
In humans, there are four tiny areas of the brain that some researchers say form a circuit of love. Acevedo, who works at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, is part of a team that has isolated those regions with the unromantic names of ventral tegmental area (VTA), the nucleus accumbens, the ventral pallidum and raphe nucleus.
The hot spot is the teardrop-shaped VTA. When...
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“But overall the data is fascinating. It pushes the envelope in that we are...”
– dr rob jenkins, university of hertfordshire
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“This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those...”
– goethe
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“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us...”
– dostoevsky
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“…it’s not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool...”
– douglas coupland, generation x
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Watcha different way to think about creative genius :: elizabeth gilbert @ TED
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25 Things
The funny thing about the buzz around these lists on Facebook is that all the cool kids were doing it on myspace *years ago*. They were called bulletins. Still are.
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1) In the past 10 years, I have lived in 16 different residences in 5 states, 2 countries, and 1 province where i’ve had 10 jobs, 2 daughters, and 1 dog. 2) The audience of my professional work rivals that of...
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“There is one thing that shouldn’t be in doubt — Kluster and great...”
– freddie laker, director of digital strategy at sapient
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Creative Evolution: Making the Process More... →
I’ve mentioned over the last year that I’m a fan of Kluster. Kluster is a group decision-making tool with its roots firmly set in social networking. It allows you to set up private or public groups focused around generating ideas in a democratic and collaborative environment enabled through technology.
We started using it about six months ago as an internal experiment between the...
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