Vikings have the most fun: U.N. says Danes are the happiest people on the planet Greg Hanscom, grist.org ShutterstockThey don’t always look happy, but really they are.Their days of seafaring plunder are over, but Danes are still the happiest people in the world, says the U.N. How do they do it? With sustainable development, a … Continue reading Vikings have more fun: UN reports Danes are happiest people
Shopify Simplifies E-Commerce to Boost Crowdfunding Graduates Tim Maly, wired.com Say you finished your Kickstarter campaign for some product or other, and after the inevitable growing pains, you’ve gotten all the rewards out to your backers who are gleefully emailing you to say what a great thing it is that … Shopify Simplifies E-Commerce to … Continue reading Shopify: finally ECommerce you can do from your couch
How Winter Woes Inspired A Nanotech Fix For Everything From Cold Necks To Knee Pain By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com Kranthi Kiran Vistakula developed technology that can keep your body comfortable in outside temperatures that range from -50 to 50 degrees Celsius. With the exception of Russian novelists, not many people can say their big break … Continue reading Nanotechnology heater and cooling body wear
Kumbh Mela festival is proof that crowds can be good for you Posted by Stephen Reicher, guardian.co.uk It’s overcrowded, noisy and insanitary, but a study suggests the Kumbh Mela improves devotees’ mental and physical wellbeing Once a year, at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in northern India, something truly remarkable happens.… RT … Continue reading Kumbh Mela festival is proof that crowds can be good for you
Remembering Ravi Shankar, the ‘Godfather of World Music’ Arun Rath, theworld.org Remembering Ravi Shankar, the ‘Godfather of World Music’The World You’ve been hearing universal praise Wednesday for Ravi Shankar, and it is deeply deserved: His music was so good, he managed to open a door and raise the bar at the same… RT @pritheworld: For … Continue reading Ravi Shankar, champion of ethnomusicology
Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net More than 100 biomedical and life science companies are clustered in Genome Valley, a research park in Hyderabad, India. (Via Joanne Manaster) Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley Related articles The Other Silicon Valley That The Tech Industry Is Leaving Behind [Video] (techcrunch.com) Silicon Valley to boost … Continue reading Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley
LornaLab offers a home for electronic artists in Reykjavik By Duncan Geere, wired.co.uk Technology An open-door medialab in Reykjavik called Lornalab is widening the opportunities for local industrial designers, art theorists, computer scientists, AI researchers, music theorists and new media artists. Rather t… http://flpbd.it/pHllo Related articles Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park (georgetgeorge.wordpress.com)
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As with other fields such as medicine, after years of massive costs and sometimes ineffective methods, resulting in catastrophic failures such as 9/11, new leadership at our intelligence agencies such as Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper are adopting digital and social science methods such as crowd sourcing, data science, knowledge management. Social scientists have … Continue reading Intelligence agencies, mired in inefficiencies, begin to adopt social science and crowd sourcing methods
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