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Need A Career Role Model? Indiana Jones Is Your Guy By Tom Teodorczuk, fastcompany.com What does an archaeologist-slash-action hero out to save the world from maniacal Nazis have to do with battling boring corporate bureaucracy? Everything. Wall Street. Glengarry Glen Ross. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.… http://flpbd.it/9rGZB Related articles Charlie Ergen on Dish’s…
Making Visible the Invisible: Meaning, Not Content, Matters in Social Data Eric Openshaw and Alexander Pentland, Vice Chairman, Deloitte and Founder/Director, MIT Connection Science and Engineering Center, allthingsd.com There is no question that in today’s connected world — where few activities go untracked and undigitized — social data is everywhere, being generated by the terabyte.…
People and Their Stuff: Huang Qingjun’s “Family Stuff” and Sannah Kvist’s “All I Own” core77.com The Chinese phrase si da jian literally translates as “four big things,” and in 1950s China, it referred to four objects every family wanted to own: A sewing machine, a bicycle, a wristwatch and a radio. Over the decades the…
Could ePatient Networks Become the Superdoctors of the Future? BY ANITA HAMILTON, fastcoexist.com As technology allows patients to pool their knowledge, can the collective experience of the sick create better care? There’s something seriously wrong with a health care system that makes patients wait a month or more just to get a doctor’s… http://flpbd.it/5v6PX Related…
How To Be A Happy And Successful Creative Freelancer (Or Work With One) fastcocreate.com Freelancers share their best practices for being their own boss, and why you should so totally just do it. When talking to creative freelancers, there’s one phrase that’s often repeated: “I don’t mean to sound cheesy or cliché but…” What… http://flpbd.it/doJLS…
Measuring An Employee’s Worth? Consider Influence By E.B. Boyd, fastcompany.com The performance review of the future will include services like Salesforce.com’s Chatter and its Influencers feature, which measures how much weight you carry among your peers. Today, your performance review is based on things like sales numb… http://flpbd.it/xZePm Related articles Salesforce.com Announces Timing of its…
Would You Recognize Yourself With A Completely Symmetrical Face? By Jordan Kushins, fastcodesign.com Julian Wolkenstein explores a scientific concept of beauty with a unique portrait series. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Right? Even though everyone’s charmed by wildly different kinds of physical characteristics (thank… http://flpbd.it/v6WiS Related articles Non Turing-Recognizable from symmetric difference…
Can We Shop Our Way To Change? BY ERIC SMILLIE, fastcoexist.com Through new partnerships with major companies, the formerly tiny Carrotmob is now aiming to use consumers’ buying power to shape global supply chains. When Carrotmob organized its first buy-in at a liquor store in San Francisco’s Mission… http://flpbd.it/CoIY5 Related articles SaveOnBrew Adds Hundreds of…
It’s Time For Your Drive-By Energy Audit BY MICHAEL J. COREN, fastcoexist.com An ambitious company is attempting to use thermal cameras attached to cars to capture images of how every building in America is wasting energy. It’s the Google Maps for home efficiency. At the rate of two to three million buildings per mont… http://flpbd.it/LDbMq…
Infographic: Humans Are Just A Twig On The Tree Of Life By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com 3.5 billion years of evolution, in one beautiful infographic. Life started with bacteria. By some cosmic chance, amino acids became DNA and proteins, which together became life. It took roughly 2 billion more years for things to get more… http://flpbd.it/Xrm83…
Energy Datapalooza: Open Data Power Meets Energy Future U.S. Department of Energy, earthtechling.com Editor’s Note: EarthTechling is proud to repost this article courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy. Imagine it is a scorching hot summer day, and your smart phone beeps, asking if you’d like it to raise your home thermost… http://flpbd.it/5ps28 Related articles…
Slime moulds achieve global domination By Adam Mann, wired.co.uk Science By traveling from city to city on a map, microscopic protists known as slime moulds have figured out how to take over the world. Starting in Beijing, the slime mould Physarum polycephalum developed a well-organised… http://flpbd.it/WtfT9 Related articles Why the Future May Belong to Slime…
The cities of the future will be grown, not built By Ian Steadman, wired.co.uk Technology The cities of the future will have waste-to-energy plants, not shopping malls or churches, at their centre, according to urban designer Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE. Speaking at DLD Cities in London, he said “cities hav… http://flpbd.it/39qUZ Related articles How…
Brian Eno on music that thinks for itself (Wired UK) By Ian Steadman, wired.co.uk Culture When you think about it, recorded music is something of a historical oddity. Imagine telling a visitor from 1650 that we like to listen to the exact same performances, over and over again, without any variation — they mi… http://flpbd.it/QzmsI…
Don’t Buy A DSLR By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com Just getting into photography? Great! When you’re looking for a camera, keep on walking past those DSLRs—as of now, their moment is over. You want to get more into photography. You’ve got somewhere between a few and several hundred doll… http://flpbd.it/lDNTs Related articles A question about DSLRs…
Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? Stephen Marche, theatlantic.com Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she died. According to the Los… http://flpbd.it/kxQ26 Related articles STUDY: Can…
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