January 2012
31 posts
DARPA Has a Simple Solution to Authentication:... →
infoneer-pulse:
Having contributed in large part to the Internet’s very existence, DARPA is now setting out to make its secure networks more secure. But rather than relying upon the conventional notion of a password—a complex string of letters and numerals that an individual must remember—the agency is looking to create a “cognitive fingerprint” for individuals that constantly authenticates...
“The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity: Even those...”
– How Do We Identify Good Ideas? | Wired Science | Wired.com (via infoneer-pulse)
Keats (in a letter to his brothers) might have called it an example of
Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and...
“MKIDs rely on resonating circuits made of superconducting materials, in which...”
– Superconducting Detectors Offer High-Speed Astronomy: Scientific American
yum!~
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“time is
as time ever was
mutable, seething, elastic, still
the glue which...”
– a conversation
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“Step back and think about this picture. Universities that created this academic...”
– Locked in the Ivory Tower: Why JSTOR Imprisons Academic Research - Laura McKenna - Business - The Atlantic (via infoneer-pulse)
“To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd...”
– Metrodorus of Chios (Fourth Century B.C.) via An Abundance of Exoplanets Changes our Universe | Life, Unbounded, Scientific American Blog Network
University Presses Disagree With Publishers Group... →
infoneer-pulse:
The battle over public access to federally funded research is heating up again, and university presses have been drawn into it. In the past week, several scholarly publishers, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s press, have parted company with a major publishing association over a bill in Congress that would curb public-access mandates.
U.S. Reps. Darrell E....
USA.gov: 20 Ways You Can Help Fight Human... →
usagov:
From the U.S. Department of State:
After first learning about human trafficking, many people want to help in some way but do not know how. Here are just a few ideas for your consideration.
Learn human trafficking red flags and ask follow up questions so that you can detect a…
'Occupy Wall Street' Could Be Broke in a Month →
thenewrepublic:
Will Occupy Wall Street have enough money to regroup this Spring?
usnews:
The group’s bank balance has dwindled to just $170,000 according to the Journal, down from the nearly $700,000 it raised last fall. Very few donations are coming in, volunteers said, a harsh reality following the money that poured in from around the nation during the group’s highly publicized two-month...
“GalaxyZoo, a citizen-science site, has classified millions of objects in space,...”
– ‘Open Science’ Challenges Journal Tradition With Web Collaboration - NYTimes.com (via interestingsnippets)
Which is awesome but there is currently a bill on the House floor that would restrict the policy which allows taxpayers open access to taxpayer-funded research. In essence, they want us to...
“The result of all this free and far-below-minimum-wage professional work is...”
– Academic publishers have become the enemies of science | Dr Mike Taylor | Science | guardian.co.uk (via slantback)
WatchMitt Romney, serial killer
I was pleased to see the measured tone of the White House response to the citizen petition about #SOPA and #PIPA
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#/!/response/combating-online-piracy-while-protecting-open-and-innovative-internet
and yet I found myself profoundly disturbed by something that seems to me to go to the root of the problem in Washington: the failure to correctly diagnose the...
A .data Top-Level Internet Domain? →
infoneer-pulse:
There are product catalogs, store information, event calendars, regulatory filings, inventory data, historical reference material, contact information—lots of things that can be very usefully computed from. But even if these things are somewhere on an organization’s website, there’s no standard way to find them, let alone standard structured formats for them.
My concept for the...
Here we go again: Congress considers blocking... →
infoneer-pulse:
The federal government, and thus US taxpayers, provide more money for scientific research than any other single entity. In order to provide access to these paper to scientists and the public alike, the National Institutes of Health adopted a policy in which research it funded would be made open access one year after its publication in journals, even those that are normally...
“Clearly the question of what has really happened to Japan is of first-order...”
– The Myth of Japan’s Failure - NYTimes.com
“But it gets even more intriguing. Paul Davies of the Beyond Center at Arizona...”
– BBC News - Alien hunters: Searching for life
“Only in one respect is Romney right. America has created a whopping entitlement...”
– Robert Reich: The Decline of the Public Good
Robert Reich: The Decline of the Public Good →
robertreich:
Meryl Streep’s eery reincarnation of Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady” brings to mind Thatcher’s most famous quip, “there is no such thing as ‘society.’” None of the dwindling herd of Republican candidates has quoted her yet but they might as well considering their unremitting bashing of…
December 2011
9 posts
“Once digitized, a page of words loses its fixity. It can change every time it’s...”
– Nicholas Carr on E-Books - WSJ.com (via infoneer-pulse)
Is this how people are rationalizing the ridiculous price of e-books? Waving the flag of innovation to cover hand over fist greed?
The Ethical Guide to Dining Out
utnereader:
Anyone who has waited tables or cooked in a restaurant kitchen knows the backbreaking work, the questionable conditions, and the meager rewards. Now, it’s easy to find the restaurants that treat their employees right with the 2012 National Diners’ Guide, presented by the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC). The guide outlines the pay and benefits of 186 of the country’s most...
Robert Reich: Why the Republican Crackup is Bad... →
robertreich:
Two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, the Republican crackup threatens the future of the Grand Old Party more profoundly than at any time since the GOP’s eclipse in 1932. That’s bad for America.
The crackup isn’t just Romney the smooth versus Gingrich the bomb-thrower.
Not just House Republicans…
“Truth and love must prevail over lies and hate.”
– Václav Havel, 1936 – 2011
via Ned Resnikoff
When Václav Havel was still a playwright and dissident in Communist Czechoslovakia — before the Velvet Revolution and his ascendance to the presidency of the post-Communist Czech Republic — he would urge his fellow anti-Communist revolutionaries to...
“The US government has regularly claimed that it supports a free and open...”
– An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress | Electronic Frontier Foundation (via emmawelles)
October 2011
17 posts
“Instead of asking questions, be bolder and question the answers. What answers? …...”
– Colman McCarthy, co-founder of the D.C.-based Center for Teaching Peace, on how to teach students how to :examine their choices regarding violent reaction versus nonviolent response.”
Keep reading … (via utnereader)
“So with all due respect to Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, and President Obama: Science,...”
– Why Education Without Creativity Isn’t Enough | Fast Company (via infoneer-pulse)
“The act of one person giving another person a newspaper is important,” said Arun...”
– David Carr in the New York Times, discussing The Occupy Wall Street Journal. (via kickstarter)
Something so wonderfully heartwarming about this… Tangible reads aren’t dead yet.
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Watchvimeo:
Robot Heart Stories is the first in a trilogy of experiential learning projects from award winning storytelling visionary and experience designer Lance Weiler and creative producer Janine Saunders. Each project will inspire young and old alike to co-create and share. The goal is to reboot how we think about learning in an effort to unleash a collaborative journey into the future of...
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In the Digital Age, Is Teaching Cursive Relevant? →
infoneer-pulse:
Reading and writing are fundamental to learning. But as more kids read and write via some sort of computing device — laptop, tablet, cell phone — how we teach those skills is changing, and one significant change is the decision to teach cursive. When it comes to equipping students with “21st century skills,” typing is in, cursive is out.
» via MediaShift
So kids in the future...
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i didn’t expect to feel so sad… kinda expected him to be around forever. i’m pretending he’s just gone off grid & will be back with something incredible.
A New Corporation
Would you be more inclined to purchase goods/services from a company/corp if you could vote on the allocation of a percentage of its profits? e.g. x% of the money they made via you goes toward environmental sustainability initiatives.
Perhaps the communities / neighborhoods of said corp could vote as well - money for schools, parks to replace area paved over for parking lots…
Employees...
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