November 29, 2011

For the Love of Funny, Clever Words :-)

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The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to supply alternate meanings for common words. Here are the hilario...
November 23, 2011

The 99% Movement: Discover what Occupy Wall Street is all about

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As a resident of New York City, I'm frequently asked about the Occupy Wall Street movement. In short, I think it's fabulous that peo...
November 9, 2011

15 Startups With $100 Million+ Valuations That Hardly Existed Last Year

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As reported by Alyson Shontell in Business Insider , many of the world's most valuable startups haven't been around for very long. ...
November 1, 2011

Cleaning Up the Space Junk

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The Earth is surrounded by an ever-growing cloud of space junk . Is it too late to take out the extraterrestrial trash? How much space junk ...
October 24, 2011

Twitter Reveals Humanity’s Mood Swings

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People everywhere tend to feel chipper at breakfast, get grumpier over the course of the day, and brighten again before going to bed. That ...
October 17, 2011

10 Words That Describe How the Internet Empowers Us

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The existence of the Internet has had an immeasurable effect upon how we, as a society, view and access the world. No other device, service...
October 7, 2011

Why Reading is Better in Print

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Print, it seems, better enables editors to perform an “agenda-setting function,” said Jack Shafer at Slate.com . "I canceled my subscri...
September 30, 2011

I'd wear a computer on my wrist would you?

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We may soon be wearing our electronic gadgets —from heart monitors to cell phones—as a second skin. Researchers have discovered a way to ...
September 23, 2011

Evidence Suggests that the Internet Changes How We Remember

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MIT’s Technology Review’s Kenrick Vezina writes on a recent study that says we augment our memory with the Internet. The flood of informa...
September 16, 2011

Pentagon Wants a Social Media Propaganda Machine

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You don’t need to have 5,000 friends of Facebook to know that social media can have a notorious mix of rumor, gossip and just plain disinf...
September 9, 2011

Army Seeks Social Media Gurus to Save Afghan War

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Know how to tweet? Or how to put words into the mouths of foreign security functionaries? If so, the U.S. Army wants you to help un-quagmi...
September 2, 2011

Google: Changing how people think?

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A new Columbia University study found that the use of Internet search engines alters the way the brain stores information. Is Google making ...
August 26, 2011

Tech Book Review - The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You

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The former director of MoveOn.org, Eli Pariser, shows how Google, Facebook, and other sites track your mouse clicks so they can filter res...
August 19, 2011

Tasty Tidbits of News from the Tech Front

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A Social Network for Seniors Proust.com encourages older users to share memories and life stories by prompting them with questions. Barr...
August 12, 2011

Handwriting: No longer necessary?

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Officials in Indiana have stopped requiring schools to teach third graders the art of cursive handwriting. In a few decades, no one who gr...
August 5, 2011

How to Avoid Scams on Craigslist

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When on Craig'slist be sure to deal locally, insist on cash, do some research, and pay cautiously. 1. Deal locally. Follow the same c...
July 29, 2011

Teamwork Can Outdo Brilliance

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America’s companies should reconsider the value of “a well-assembled team that may not dazzle with individual brilliance but overwhelms wit...
July 22, 2011

Planning on an MBA? Your tweet could be worth $37,000 - Apply by July 28

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The University of Iowa’s Henry B. Tippie School of Management is offering a full scholarship worth $37,240 to the MBA program applicant wi...
July 15, 2011

Is it the end of an era for .com? The Internet faces a domain name revolution!

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The world of website names is about to be completely revolutionized. At the moment, a Web address can only end with one of 22 suffixes — .c...
July 8, 2011

Still texting while driving? Don't do it!

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In May, 2011, Indiana joined 31 other states when it passed stiff new laws prohibiting texting behind the wheel. Under the new law, effect...