February 2008
80 posts
Jan Chipchase - Future PerfectShared Mobile Phone... →
all of it is useful
January 2008
70 posts
Future Farmer →
History records that previous commodity booms were not followed by mass starvation, resource wars and the end of civilization. John Atkin is out to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Engineering Societies in Silicon Valley →
Bioentrepreneur - Advice for partnering with... →
Partnerships between big pharma and biotech are growing and moving to earlier stages in the product lifecycle, as the R&D pipelines at the giants dry up.
Baby 2.0 →
As an expectant father (my wife is due on Super Bowl Sunday), I’ve naturally been scrambling at the last minute to get everything in order. Just when I thought I was safe, I realize that I haven’t come up with…
Cisco to Sell Faster Switch for Flood of Remote... →
A Futurist Panel At The World Economic Forum... →
“A World Economic Forum (WEF) panel featuring such futurists as Paul Saffo of Stanford and Peter Schwartz, chairman of Global Business Network, suggested Thursday that print newspapers will disappear by 2014.”
Shanghai's Middle Class Launches Quiet, Meticulous... →
“”We learned from Xiamen,” said Gu Qidong, 36, a Shanghai protester and freelance sales consultant in the health-care industry. “We have no other way besides this. We once asked if we could apply for a march permit, and the police said they would never ap
UnderwaterTimes | New Radar Satellite Technique... →
AURP: Understanding Research, 2008 Science &... →
O'Reilly Money:Tech Conference 2008: Home —... →
John Mayer Erases His Blog: "Done & Dusted &... →
turn away from blogging and being public in that particular way
IEEE Spectrum: Sensitive Synthetic Skin in the... →
Carbon nanotubes key to making synthetic skin that lets artificial limbs sense heat and touch
Arts and Crafts Find New Life Online →
Web sites are building communitiesâand businessesâon the growing do-it-yourself craze
China's Spiritual Awakening →
Ocean floor sensors will warn of failing Gulf... →
Argentina: ministro de CyT revela sus prioridades →
Argentina’s science minister announces R&D priorities: software, nanotech, biotech
Shay David - Homepage →
“[M]y research project aims to understand ‘open’ systems in a cultural context using insights from social constructivism, as part of an attempt to develop a new theory of ICT innovation.”
Google’s Palimpsest project: promiscuous... →
Googleâs Palimpsest project, once realized (in the near future) has the potential to change the way science is done by accepting gigantic (raw?) data sets from all disciplines and making them open and free (including dark data?).
Building the Knowledge Archipelago: Scientific... →
Building a Future On Science: Scientific American →
Analysis: Universities Overproduce Ph.Ds →
A new software tool helps citizens visualize their... →
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this is a test
Water-short California's search to satisfy its... →
password-protected beyond paragraph 3.
The CIO Weblog →
Chicago Fed Letter: China up close: Understanding... →
Connecting the Many Scales of Marine... →
Scientists develop computer that can 'translate' a... →
S&E Indicators 2008 →
Science and Engineering Indicators, published by the National Science Board, provides a broad base of quantitative information on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise.
Intrade Newsletter: The Presidential Political... →
Japanese - 33 million pixel TV Standard coming in... →
Greenhouse Ocean May Downsize Fish, Risking One Of... →
During this century, the [Bering] sea’s rich food web—stretching from Alaska to Russia—could fray as algae adapt to greenhouse conditions.
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MapReduce: simplified data processing on large... →
MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large datasets that is amenable to a broad variety of real-world tasks. Users specify the computation in terms of a map and a reduce function, and the underlyi
China's Spiritual Awakening →
The faith’s growing popularity reflects a yearning for meaning among China’s yuppies, who increasingly are attracted to Buddhism’s rejection of materialism and emphasis on the transitory nature of life.
New Chilean strategy to expand role of ICTs -... →
Mexico City S&T centre gets massive funding boost... →
One year after its creation, the Science and Technology Institute of Mexico City (ICyTDF), has received a 500 per cent increase in its budget.
Rathenau Institute // →
The Rathenau Institute focuses on the influence of science and technology on our daily lives and maps its dynamics. Research in technology assessment and science systems assessment. Based in the Netherlands.
Rathenau Institute // Publications →
Publications from the Rathenau Institute in 2007.
Workshop I | NSF Workshops on Knowledge Management... →
“The two-day workshops will bring together about 20 leading experts in database research and digital libraries, cyberinfrastructure/e-Science design, social science of CI, as well as application holders from science of science studies and biology.”
Carbon Offset Warning From International Team Of... →
Reality Mobile...software that lets you stand in... →
Play the video from the link
Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk?:... →
“[An] experiment in “networked journalism”… my feature story on “Science 2.0,” which describes how researchers are beginning to harness wikis, blogs and other Web 2.0 technologies as a potentially transformative way of doing science.”
A Blog Around The Clock : Science 2.0 article in... →
M. Mitchell Waldrop’s draft of a forthcoming article. “The idea is that the draft will be improved by commentary by readers - and sure enough, there are already 19 comments there - before it goes to print in a future issue of the magazine.”
A Blog Around The Clock : Open Lab 2007 - the... →
Winners of the Open Laboratory 2007 prizes for best science blogging.
Tata Nano: The Worlds Cheapest Car →
$2500 car for Indian middle class
Digital Tools Help Users Save Energy, Study Finds... →
“Giving people the means to closely monitor and adjust their electricity use lowers their monthly bills and could significantly reduce the need to build new power plants, according to a yearlong government study.”