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Germany definitely has the right idea: convert ugly old buildings to biofuel factories and kick start the green economy. But we’re still in the mode of “drill baby drill.” An energy model for Boston – Boston.com. Related articles Renewable distributed electricity generation to triple by 2017 (eco-business.com) Germany: Full speed ahead on renewables (summitcountyvoice.com) Germany’s…
Knode and other local startups are the focus of new vc approaches that involve less time shuffling papers at a desk, and more time doing ethnographic research on what people actually do. Some venture firms find both ideas and the money – Boston.com. Related articles Fred Wilson says venture capital funds have gotten too big…
Anant Agarwal believes an online education from MIT and Harvard should be available to all – Magazine – The Boston Globe. Related articles Why Comparing edX to MIT is Like Comparing a Toyota to a Ferrari (bostinno.com) UC Berkeley latest to join edX program (zdnet.com) Q & A with Anant Agarwal: Anant Agarwal Discusses Free…
Consortium of Colleges Takes Online Education to New Level – NYTimes.com. Related articles Consortium of Colleges Takes Online Education to New Level – NYTimes.com (policyabcs.wordpress.com) The Way of the Future: Coursera (jaypgreene.com) Are online courses more susceptible to cheating problems? (blogs.ajc.com) Progress Making Higher Education More Affordable (healthymemory.wordpress.com) Why Are Students Cheating on…
Is neuroscience the new ‘Freakonomics’? – Ideas@Innovations – The Washington Post. Related articles Freakonomics Quiz: Twice Is Enough (freakonomics.com) NBC Buys ‘Freakonomics’-Inspired Drama Procedural Produced By Kelsey Grammer | Deadline (shortformblog.com) FREAK-est Links (freakonomics.com) NBC Buys ‘Freakonomics’-Inspired Drama Procedural Produced By Kelsey Grammer (deadline.com) With SOPA gone, setting Internet advocacy’s next stop @WashingtonPost covers Internet…
By Cory Brown, washingtontimes.com It is a manager’s problem that Henry Ford and even a young Bill Gates never had to deal with – how to maintain productivity when workers are using valuable company time to update their Facebook status or check their Twitter feeds. http://flpbd.it/vKpIL Employers put offices in social media pockets Related articles…
The World Happiness Report Explains What Makes People Happy BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com What are the secrets from the happiest people on Earth? Some make sense: Be wealthy, married, and have a job. From there, though, it gets more complicated. Editor’s Note The idea of measuring and fostering happiness is a growing idea. I… http://flpbd.it/nQ4zp…
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Why Don’t Young Americans Buy Cars? Jordan Weissmann, theatlantic.com Auto makers are worried about the Millennials. They just don’t seem to care about owning a car. Is this a generational shift, or just a lousy economy at work? Kids these days. They don’t get married. They don’t buy homes. And,… http://flpbd.it/zeQMx Related articles Young drivers…
Re:Re:Fw:Re: Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email Jordan Weissmann, theatlantic.com Unless you happen to get some sort of obsessive compulsive satisfaction from keeping your inbox in shipshape — and hey, if you do, more power to ya — dealing with email has got to be one of the…
How Sanofi Is Writing The Social Media Rules For Big Pharma Without Running Afoul Of The FDA By Ben Paynter, fastcompany.com The biggest challenge to treating patients with diabetes isn’t doling out medications, it’s making sure that people control their habits. Poor diet and lack of exercise generally create complications with the disease. To combat…
Status People Fake Follower Check — Social Media Management Platform for Business statuspeople.com http://flpbd.it/9tryc Related articles I Bought 10,000 Fake Twitter Followers. Why Didn’t Klout, Kred (or Others) Notice? (ignitesocialmedia.com) Twitter followers available on the open market (cbc.ca) How Do Those Fake Tweeple Hurt (insideview.ie) Want that Twitter verification badge?…
http://flpbd.it/6C2q0 The Underground Economy of Buying Twitter Followers: Dealers, Abusers & Fake Accounts Related articles The ‘Twitter Underground Economy’: Buying (fake) Twitter followers (nextlevelofnews.com) 10 Career Experts You Need to Follow on Twitter | CareerBliss (careerbliss.com) We Tried To Fly A Drone But Failed Miserably (businessinsider.com) The Drones Are Here! (And You Can Buy…
Amber Case’s Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology Jon Mitchell, readwriteweb.com If you want to thrive in the future, it might help to read the manual. Software designer, CEO and 21st century renaissance woman Amber Case has published An Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology. It’s a light-hearted guide t… http://flpbd.it/MBMUt Related articles The…
ScienceNow, wired.com Researchers have stored an entire genetics textbook in less than a picogram of DNA, or one trillionth of a gram . It’s an advance that could revolutionize our ability to save data. http://flpbd.it/BN1W3 DNA: The Ultimate Hard Drive Related articles DNA: The Ultimate Hard Drive (news.dice.com) Every Shakespeare sonnet now right where you…
Report says 15 percent of Mitt Romney Twitter followers are paid fakes Dan Goodin, arstechnica.com More than 15 percent of Mitt Romney’s Twitter followers may be generated by paid services that use fake accounts to artificially inflate the number of people subscribed to the presumptive Republican nominee for US President,… http://flpbd.it/BNd2F Related articles Mitt in…
Apple’s case that Samsung copied the iPhone and iPad—in pictures Jon Brodkin, arstechnica.com With the Apple v. Samsung patent trial underway, Apple is making its case that Samsung’s phones and tablets are ripoffs of the iPhone and iPad. We’ve had extensive coverage of the testimony from our reporter in the courthouse, a… http://flpbd.it/tLwVj Related articles…
Personal genetics company seeks regulatory approval Monya Baker, nature.com Personal genetics company 23andMe announced Monday that it was seeking FDA approval for an initial batch of seven health-related tests with scores more to follow. 23andMe, based in Mountain View, California, markets genetics test… http://flpbd.it/usMr0 Related articles 23andMe’s Tools Help Solve Ancestry Mystery (23andme.com) One Million…
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