Half of US social program recipients believe they "have not used a government social program" Cory Doctorow at 10:48 AM Friday, Jul 8, 2011 "Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the Obama Era," a paper by Cornell’s Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions Suzanne Mettler features this remarkable chart showing that about half of American social program beneficiaries believe that they "have not used a government social program."

There’s been quite a few problems that have risen about Dropbox in recent months that is making some people feel uncomfortable about using it and are seeking refuge by means of an alternative. There are plenty of other online storage services, such as Box.net, but it seems that there is no alternative that can compete with the benefits that Dropbox provides, namely file synchronization.

Farmers who spray insecticides against aphids as a preventative measure only achieve a short-term effect with this method. In the long term, their fields will end up with even more aphids than untreated fields. This has been reported by researchers at the Biocenter of the University of Wuerzburg in the scientific journal PLoS ONE.

A major new review of scientific knowledge on kava — a plant used to make dietary supplements and a trendy drink with calming effects — has left unsolved the mystery of why Pacific Island people can consume it safely, while people in the United States, Europe and other Western cultures sometimes experience toxic effects.

Conventional wisdom suggests that because we’re approaching the theoretical limit on individual wind turbine efficiency, wind energy is now a mature technology. But California Institute of Technology researchers revisited some of the fundamental assumptions that guided the wind industry for the past 30 years, and now believe that a new approach to wind farm design — one that places wind turbines close together instead of far apart — may provide significant efficiency gains.

Who knew that sociologists regard economists in roughly the same way the Redskins view the Dallas Cowboys? In this memoir of his scholarly career, Peter L. Berger writes that, with a few exceptions, economists are "as impervious as fundamentalist mullahs to any language other than the one allegedly revealed to them, and to them alone."

We recently reported on the the government’s failed effort to persuade Americans to use dollar coins. But the coins have found at least one group of fans: Travel enthusiasts who buy thousands of dollar coins with credit cards that award frequent-flier miles for purchases.Once in possession of the coins – shipped to them by the government for free – they can deposit them into their bank accounts and pay off the credit card bills.

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Thanks to sea-level rise, a beloved public place already busy with uses becomes even more complex Ocean Beach, the three-and-a-half-mile stretch of sand and dunes along San Francisco’s rugged Pacific coast, faces serious challenges. Part wild landscape, part urban beachfront, it draws a remarkably diverse three million visitors per year to stroll, bike, surf, walk dogs and enjoy the stunning natural setting.

Kaid Benfield – Kaid Benfield is the director of the Sustainable Communities and Smart Growth program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, co-founder of the LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system, and co-founder of Smart Growth America. More I find that I am almost always thinking about the quality of places.

A quest to reproduce a mammoth’s voice led a student on an incredible data-collecting journey to piece together bits of information from all corners of science. Scientists employ all sorts of techniques to introduce us to extinct animals in the context of a museum, but for the most part, those techniques are largely visual.

A recent study provides one more argument against government officials who tout "industry clusters" as the Holy Grail of regional growth and innovation. The formula for creating these clusters is always the same: Pick a hot industry, build a technology park next to a research university, provide incentives for businesses to relocate, add some venture capital and then watch the magic happen.

I was recently asked to write the foreword for Social Media Geek-to-Geek by Rick & Kathy Schmidt Jamison. I was delighted to help and as always, I requested to publish the foreword here when the book was released.

Vivek Kundra’s resignation last week from his post as the nation’s Chief Information Officer is an ominous event. Kundra’s goal was to set government data free via an expansive Internet effort called Data.gov, and encourage innovation with government-collected data through the Open Government Initiative.

Companies and organizations can donate an unlimited amount of money to honor officials, sponsor their conferences, and donate to their pet charities, so long as these donations are reported to the Senate. The Sunlight Foundation analyzed these filings from 2009 and 2010 and found about $50 million in honorary gifts and meeting costs.

Whether it’s a washing machine that monitors the power grid, or a fridge that you can "look" in with your smartphone, more and more devices that aren’t computers can now perform actions or be controlled via the internet. The phenomenon is known as The Internet of Things, and as technology advances, so will the number of "things" involved.

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The paper was owned by Marshall Field V and his brother Ted Field. Ted wanted to cash in. Marshall couldn’t or didn’t choose to buy him out. Murdoch was known to be a bidder. Royko was involved in negotiations with a group of local investors assembled by Jim Hoge to buy the paper.

Section I: Overused Plots and Storylines Section II: Overused Settings and Characterizations Section III: Overused story events and plot devices Section V: Rejected suggestions that I get a whole lot An Internet correspondent by the name of Shveta Thakrar has kindly asked that I replace the swastika with another symbol.

Making good use of geocentric models of the universe, or how to brush up on 18th-century British slang. Thanks to the tireless curators behind brilliant sites such as 50 Watts, BibliOdyssey, Paleofuture, and How to Be a Retronaut, to name just a few of the Internet’s treasure troves, we now have collections of archival material that would have been unthinkable even a decade ago.

Remember our story last week, discussing the copyright issues of monkeys taking photographs of themselves using a photographer’s camera that he had left alone?

Imagine you can insert a memory card in your brain and go all Keanu Wow, I know Jiu-Jitsu! Reeves. It’s actually not that far away: Scientists have created a chip that allows rats to instantly know things.

Curious about changes in the highest income demographics? Cap Gemini has all of the details. Most of America may be treading water, but the High Net Worth Individuals are kickin’ it old school!

Modified carbon nanotubes can store solar energy indefinitely, then be recharged by exposure to the sun. David L. Chandler, MIT News Office

Continuing to explore the ways in which technological and social change affect our relation to money… In my last post I discussed some of the reasons people will gravitate towards collaborative non-market based production as a substitute for monetary purchases. In this post I want to explore further how the notion of "wealth" shifts as this change proceeds.

I was unfamiliar with how mycorrhizal networks connect the roots of trees, facilitating the sharing of resources. Dr. Suzanne Simard writes: Graduate student Kevin Beiler has uncovered the extent and architecture of this network through the use of new molecular tools that can distinguish the DNA of one fungal individual from another, or of one tree’s roots from another.

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This Pacific Domes BioEnergy Dome is located in one of the most isolated areas of the U.S. where the only flourishing oasis is in this dome. It is always springtime where vegetables and fish flourish in this protype BioEnergy Dome on the Navajo Indian Reservation near Naatani, Arizona.

Nearly a fifth of the contiguous United States has been faced with the worst drought in recent years.

Researchers in the US are testing biofilter systems as a viable alternative to releasing methane from passive landfill vents into the atmosphere. The technology could reduce the overall impact of old landfills on global warming. Details are reported in the current issue of the International Journal of Environmental Engineering.

TORONTO, ON – University of Toronto researchers have derived inspiration from the photosynthetic apparatus in plants to engineer a new generation of nanomaterials that control and direct the energy absorbed from light. Their findings are reported in a forthcoming issue of Nature Nanotechnology, which will be released on July 10, 2011.

Columbia Engineering researchers have built optical nanostructures that enable them to slow photons down and fully control light dispersion. They have shown that it is possible for light to propagate from point A to point B without accumulating any phase, spreading through the artificial medium as if the medium is completely missing in space.

If you love maps as much as we do, the 13th book by author Rebecca Solnit” (of Wanderlust fame) will make you swoon. Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, out today, is a collection of 22 magnificent maps brimming with full-color whimsy that reveal the city in an entirely new light.

From the home of Braveheart comes video of Tarantulaheart. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) allowed scientists at Edinburgh University in Scotland to take detailed images of tarantula tickers beating while the arachnid was still kicking.

See more of Vivian Maier’s street photography. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO TAKE measure of Vivian Maier’s photos without taking stock of her story. She was by all accounts remarkably private, someone who didn’t always enjoy the company of other adults.

As things stand today, the US is hurtling toward a budget showdown in less than a month. Either President Obama will once again capitulate to extreme Republican budget-slashing demands, making Democrats seem as much of a threat to Medicare as Republicans, and virtually ensuring a GOP electoral sweep in 2012, or the US will default on its debt for the first time in its history, most likely plunging the world economy back into another five-continent recession, also costing Democrats the 2012 e…

The BitTrust API is a common platform for developers of applications (for online destinations and user interfaces of Bit Coin trading systems) to build their user interfaces around. Acting as an intelligence hub it removes the necessity to build out many specific features for every application and instead share one data center via our central API.

Artificial trachea built from scratch shows the promise of regenerative medicine. Surgeons in Sweden have successfully transplanted a fully synthetic, tissue-engineered organ-a trachea-into a man with late-stage tracheal cancer. The synthetic trachea was created entirely in the lab, using a scaffold built out of a porous polymer, and tissue grown from the patient’s own stem cells inside a bioreactor designed to protect the organ and promote cell growth.

The first thing you’ll need to do is determine your gnome’s alter ego. Spend time with the gnome. Sleep with it if you have to. Look into its eyes…its soul. Look around your yard too. What type of issues are the yard inhabitants facing? Are there other-worldly invaders? Common street thugs?

To combat cyberattacks, the U.S. may need more than new cyberdefenses. It might need a whole new piece of Internet infrastructure. So says former CIA director Michael Hayden, who served under President G.W. Bush, and he’s not the only one. Several lawmakers and the current Cyber Command chief Gen.

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Esther Inglis-Arkell – Scientists have found a gene that can ‘lock’ and ‘unlock’ certain sections of your genetic code, allowing other genes to be expressed in your body. If you are under enough stress, this gene springs into action. So you think you have access to all your DNA just by being born?

Frequently Asked Questions About Stem Cell 100TM 1. What is the preferred dose of Stem Cell 100TM and when should it be taken? If you are 125 pounds or less or in your 20s, then it may be best to only take one capsule of Stem Cell 100 per day preferably after lunch.

The business environment for newspapers continues to be grim. Pew recently reported that advertising revenue rebounded in 2010 for all forms of media, except newspapers.* This might just be a matter of transitioning from print to digital revenues but for the fact that the market values a print reader far more highly than a digital one.

From Bangladesh to Brazil, or what photojournalism can reveal about food and cultural context. In case you ever wondered, the most popular Brain Pickings post to date is our review of photographers Peter Menzel and Faith D’Alusio’s Hungry Planet – a grounding portrait of what the world eats, from the $376.45 an Australian family spends on food per week to the $1.23 weekly budget of a same-sized family in Chad’s poorest refugee camp.

Illustration by Harry Campbell for TIME Bob Lutz, the former Vice Chairman of General Motors, is the most famous also-ran in the auto business. In the course of his 47-year rampage through the industry, he’s been within swiping range of the brass ring at Ford, BMW, Chrysler and, most recently, GM, but he’s never landed the top gig.

The AR patent gives Apple a way to populate live photos and video feeds from iPads and iPhones with digital information, allowing users to easily identify unknown objects and places. For example, with this AR patent, Apple may conceivably create an iPad screen that displays a live picture of a city on the top half and then maps out that skyline digitally in the bottom half.

Below is an excerpt of my conversation with Anton Kusters, talking about the birth of his first book. We are sitting on my front porch during a beautiful sunrise. Somehow appropriate. Even more appropriate is that today is Anton’s birthday.

AN IMAGE processing system that obscures the position from which photographs are taken could help protestors in repressive regimes escape arrest – and give journalists "plausible deniability" over the provenance of leaked photos. The technology was conceived in September 2007, when the Burmese junta began arresting people who had taken photos of the violence meted out by police against pro-democracy protestors, many of whom were monks.

Immediately after the judge read the not guilty verdict in the high profile Casey Anthony criminal case, total internet traffic to major news outlets doubled, and most importantly, outsiders took to social media outlets to display their emotions and opinions.

A powerful set of online tools for eDiscovery and text analytic research. Gain insightful knowledge from your data by filtering through documents and feeds.

What can you do in CAT? Efficiently code raw text data sets Annotate coding with shared memos Manage team coding permissions via the Web Create unlimited collaborator sub-accounts Assign multiple coders to specific tasks Easily measure inter-rater reliability Adjudicate valid & invalid coder decisions Report validity by dataset, code or coder Export coding in RTF, CSV or XML format Archive or share completed projects What file types can CAT import?

A study by Columbia Business School’s marketing professors Ran Kivetz, Philip H. Geier, Jr. Professor of Marketing, and Oded Netzer, Philip H. Geier Jr. Associate Professor, Marketing, alongside Rom Schrift, Assistant Professor of Marketing, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (he received his Ph.D.

By Michael Carlowicz Design by Robert Simmon July 8, 2011 It wasn’t built for Earth science, but the contributions were inevitable. When the Space Shuttle Columbia first rocketed into space on a pillar of fire in April 1981, it was the maiden voyage of the world’s first re-useable spacecraft.

Window 1i am plumbed with a yellow Bezier connector to Window 2. Window 2i am plumbed with a yellow Bezier connector to Window 1, and a Bezier connector with square endpoints to Window 3 Window 3i am plumbed with a Bezier connector and square endpoints to Window 2, and a Bezier connector with custom style to Window 4.

Slightly changes the interface of Google to maximizes space & provide the most appropriate usability. Ensure you read the comments as there are a few issues to be aware of. I have personally had no issues with it. Add +1 to your pages to help your site stand out.

Almost 216 million people, or 3.15% of the world population, live outside their countries. Click on a country box to know more about migration flow to/from that country. Refugees and asylum seekers made up 16.3 million, or 8%, of international migrants in 2010.

In this natural-color image from August 31, 2010, the ocean’s canvas swirls with turquoise, teal, navy, and green, the abstract art of the natural world. The colors were painted by a massive phytoplankton bloom made up of millions of tiny, light-reflecting organisms growing in the sunlit surface waters of the Barents Sea.

A decade ago, I set out to investigate luck. I wanted to examine the impact on people’s lives of chance opportunities, lucky breaks and being in the right place at the right time. After many experiments, I believe that I now understand why some people are luckier than others and that it is possible to become luckier.

In 1997, the city had a plan. That plan was to update an old computer system from the 1970s while also consolidating all the criminal justice data in the city. Information gathered by the Police Department, District Attorney and Public Defender’s office would all be combined into a single hub for easy and secure access by all the departments involved.

Even though we don’t know a lot about Google+, the fledgling social media initiative that launched Tuesday, one thing is certain: If only half of the promised features are widely adopted by Internet users, it could change customer service forever – and for the better. I know, I know.

Something impressive is developing on the green building front in the Netherlands. And it has nothing to do with LEED or some grandiose skyscraper. It’s a home that does much more than house people. It will enable more people to own their own homes, while increasing their self reliance, and reducing the impact they and their home have on the planet.

"That’s not what we want to see in a front yard," said Oak Park City Planner Kevin Rulkowski. Why? The city is pointing to a code that says a front yard has to have suitable, live, plant material. The big question is what’s "suitable?"

MAKE is loaded with exciting DIY projects and how-tos that help you make the most of the technology in your life. This is a magazine, website, and community that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will

Cultural sociologists have extensively studied professional artistic communities and the steps that aspiring artists take to join them (Bielby and Bielby, 1996, 1999; Giuffre 1999; Menger 1999). However, we know less about semi-professional artistic communities, where artistic activity is more sustained and serious than a hobby, but less financially stable than a job.

This month, NASA announced that after 30 years of spaceflight and over 130 missions, its Space Shuttle Program fleet will be retiring to an earthly resting place. To commemorate the fleet’s remarkable legacy, NASA produced this fantastic short documentary, narrated by none other than William Shatner: An idea born in unsettled times becomes a feat of engineering excellence.

Chinese and the Vietnamese hackers have started a cyber war over the territorial dispute on the ownership of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. According to Global Times, a website under the operation of the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry was hacked in June.

Alexis Madrigal – Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor at The Atlantic. He’s the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. More Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor at The Atlantic. He’s the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.

Sign up for Slate’s daily newsletter. Since the onset of the 2008 financial crisis the Federal Reserve has twice attempted to stimulate economic growth through a somewhat unorthodox maneuver called quantitative easing, wherein the Fed buys back Treasury bonds from big banks.

With all there is to choose from in the museum, we’re not quite sure where to start. To give you some background, the attractions aren’t just made from recycled objects, the building itself is also repurposed (it used to be a shoe factory).

I hope this is a good summertime discussion question…. I had an inquiry from an incoming student on what she should read before she begins her master’s program in the fall. My second was to find a mystery set in a particular city. (Margaret Truman’s Washington DC mysteries came to mind.)

You may have wondered, while watching a Streetfilm or reading a post on Streetsblog, where we got the term "livable streets." The answer can be found in the work of Donald Appleyard, a scholar who studied the neighborhood environment and the ways planning and design can make life better for city residents.

Home Depot will begin selling small wind turbines in select stores, a decision that reflects the growing popularity of the devices, which can provide homeowners in windy parts of the country with a steady supply of renewable.

For a recent project, I had to print this awesome crocodile skull from the University of Texas Digimorph project. At first it looked daunting, but it turned out to be surprisingly easy to print. I really like this print because it is a complex organic shape, and it is really impressive that it came from a Makerbot.

William Rees is one of the pioneers of ecological economics and is the originator and co-developer of “ecological footprint analysis’. This video contains some basic facts about current consumption levels in advanced economies that are attention-grabbing. I’d normally say "Enjoy" but this is not that sort of video.

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time. How-to Homestead is a multi-faceted arts organization that has at its center the creation, curation, and distribution of short films dedicated to 21st century homesteading. We make our own videos, we scour the web looking for videos, and we actively encourage folks to make videos about homesteading.

When faced with threat, people who grew up poor are more likely to make risky financial choices in search of a quick windfall, according to new research from the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management.

Research from North Carolina State University shows that organized sports can be a powerful tool for helping to rebuild communities in the wake of disasters. The research focused specifically on the role of professional football in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. "Sports, and by extension sports media, can be a powerful force for good.

The eagerly awaited OpenPCR kit is now shipping! UPS picked up the first batch of kits and OpenPCRs are on their way to users in 5 continents and 13 countries around the world. For $512, every OpenPCR kit includes all the parts, tools, and beautiful printed instructions – you ONLY need a set of screwdrivers.

Heavy rain, snow, flooding, and tornadoes have damaged or destroyed towns and cities across the United States this year. But how can communities devastated by severe weather turn tragedy into an opportunity to sustainably rebuild? When that town is Greensburg, Kansas, it returns to its pioneer roots and creates a self-sufficent community.

Imagine for a second that anything you know about the motivations behind criminal activity. For most of us, myself included, our assessment of burglars, murderers, and other deviants is that they have made a choice to act this way (to break the law).

In the wake of the recession, cities and suburbs are being knit into giant city-states, with millions of people and billions — even trillions — of dollars of business A year ago, I published a book that argued that, for all the privations and dislocations of the economic crisis, it also provides us with the opportunity to make fundamental changes in our economy and society.

Lutetium, one of the four metals identified in a gigantic new haul of rare earth metals. JAPANESE MARINE RESEARCHERS have identified a gigantic stash of rare earth materials – a 100-billion-ton find that dwarfs all previous discoveries of the metals.

The use of kelp as a biofuel could provide an important alternative to terrestrial grown biofuels; however the suitability of its chemical composition varies on a seasonal basis. Harvesting the kelp in July when carbohydrate levels are at their highest would ensure optimal sugar release for biofuel production.

Contrary to all the recent hype about a bubble, you’ve said that tech companies are actually undervalued. So in true 1999 fashion, should I take my life savings out of mutual funds and toss it into tech stocks? I’m certainly not an investment adviser, but on a 30-year basis, these things are cheap.

Talkwheel creates a visual roundtable collaboration platform to allow groups in enterprises, e-learning and social networks to interact more effectively than anywhere else online. -Enterprises use it to improve communication internally, as well as externally to engage their customers around different interactive focus groups.

If you are one of a group of friends who are talking about building a new place to live a better life, this website can show you ways of working that are inspiring and related to the things which matter in your lives.

We often think of communities as organic creatures, which come into existence and grow on their own. However, the truth is they are fragile blossoms. Although many communities surely germinate and bloom on their own, purposefully creating communities can take a tremendous amount of hard work, and one factor their success ultimately depends upon is their numbers.

I´ve spent the last week playing with the new Google+, and I´m here to tell you the service is pretty damn awesome. Dozens of Silicon Valley startups, especially social behemoths Facebook and Twitter, must have had some pretty fun meetings over the last several days.

Today Facebook announced the new feature of being able to video chat with friends, as well as jump into a group chat with several friends. See their blog post about it here. In a move that is an obvious attempt to steal some thunder from Google+, the question is… does anyone care?

Posted by David Felix Sutcliffe "I always tell them that the exchange is this: You get a ride out in the boat and I get to tell the story." Your way of operating in this circumstance will need to be both pragmatic and generous, and may also depend on the current place in the career of both of you.

Whatever you need; if it takes one or twenty people. Collaborate with members, just with your friends, or mix it up. Use your Pints superfluid to bring in the people you need but don’t have, and you can start right now.

Sees an Internet without borders THE US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) wants to take down web sites that use the .com and .net top level domains (TLD) regardless of whether their servers are based in the US.

BY ZACH ROSENBERG, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, ILLUSTRATION BY BRYAN CHRISTIE DESIGN June 2011 The Minneapolis bridge carrying I-35W over the Mississippi River, which opened to traffic in 1967, was almost 2000 feet long and designed to handle 66,000 cars a day. Over the years, it had been modified, increasing the total weight, or "dead load."

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At the end of this week on July 8, the final mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle program launches from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The program’s thirty year history is familiar to space-watchers, but less is known of the program’s pre-history. Before there was a Space Shuttle program, there was an initial twenty-five period filled with sci fi-like proto-spacecraft.

Rest easy: What is in front of you is almost certainly not just a hologram projection. Alright, I’ll back up a little bit: As a result of a gravitational wave experiment called the GEO600, Craig Hogan, a particle astrophysicist at Fermilab in Ill., thought the universe might be a projection.

As I’ve repeatedly noted, the Japanese government, other governments and nuclear companies have covered up the extent of the Fukushima crisis. Japan’s leading business journal Toyo Keizai has published an article by Hokkaido Cancer Center director Nishio Masamichi, a radiation treatment specialist. Nishio originally called for "calm" in the days after the accident.

Posted on03 July 2011. Tags: green tea benefits, green tea diet, green tea extract, green tea fat burner, green tea side effects, green tea weight loss, japanese green tea concerns, japanese green tea online, japanese green tea radiation The Japanese green tea industry and hundreds of green tea growers around Japan are facing a crisis.

The internet is turning us into sociopaths. For those not familiar with the reference, I do not mean "sociopath" as used in the common vernacular. I mean sociopath as popularized by Venkat Rao in his series of blog posts on The Gervais Principle.

Add your account to the top 100 too. Just enter your Google+ profile number into this form and we will start tracking it: My profile URL is "https://plus.google.com/110272002170841143606".The highlighted part is my Profile Number. That is the part we need from you.

Google+, the Internet giant’s new social networking project, is still in

In July of 2010, I wrote a brief answer stating that then-Googler Paul Adams’ internal presentation about social (see: http://venturebeat.com/2010/07/01/google-researcher-says-friend-groups-may-give-it-a-window-to-best-facebook/) indicated that the state-of-the-art in thinking about social inside Google was much further behind than previously thought (see: Yishan Wong’s answer to Should Facebook be worried about Google Me?).

Alex is 10 years old. He has had a Gmail account since September 2009 – almost two years. He uses email to keep in touch with his grandparents, who live in California and Scotland. He is signed up to get newsletters and updates from his favourite online hangouts, like Roblox and Hyves.

With all the press coverage devoted to new high tech company founders, you’d think that young entrepreneurs are the only successful entrepreneurs. But the latest research suggests otherwise. According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, people over the age of 35 made up 80 percent of the total entrepreneurship activity in 2009.

Congo’s Violent Rape Epidemic Needs a Cure Save the Poor by Selling Them Stuff – Cheap Slugging – The People’s Transit Why Victims Face the Criminals Who Hurt Them A Day in the Life of a Sleepy Student Ocean Carbon Sequestration: The World’s Best Bad Idea Christine MacDonald is a freelance reporter based in Washington D.C.

A huge deposit of "rare earth" minerals has been discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, Reuters reports. Japanese scientists announced their analysis of the deposits Monday, claiming the area around Hawaii is especially rich in minerals that help build iPads, LCD TVs and other electronic devices.

Buy the People and Force the People or By the People and for the People? Here we are at the end of another year. For me, 2010 passed by like a closed rest step on the side of the highway when you really need a place to pull over and stretch your legs and contemplate the next part of your journey.

FoxNews.com’s Twitter feed for political news, FoxNewspolitics, was hacked early Monday morning. Hackers sent out several malicious and false tweets claiming that President Obama had been assassinated. Those reports are incorrect, of course, and the president is spending the July 4 holiday with his family.

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Abhi Nemani of Civic Commons, Contributor: For the past three months, developers from across the country have been working with community partners to create mobile apps that will help low-income Americans improve their lives. Hosted by One Economy, the Applications for Good competition challenged developers to think about how technology can improve education, employment, health and finances.

Have you heard that divorce is contagious? A lot of people have. Last summer a study claiming to show that break-ups can propagate from friend to friend to friend like a marriage-eating bacillus spread across the news agar from CNN to CBS to ABC with predictable speed.

Reno’s economy relies on gaming and tourism, two industries which have been hit extremely hard by the recession. December 2007 is when the Great Recession officially began and it officially ended in July 2009. But that doesn’t mean the economy has returned to where it was before the steepest downturn since the Great Depression and may not for years.

I’m off to the Lift conference next week to speak on contemplative computing and the virtues of slowness. While updating my profile and figuring out who else is going to be at the conference, I came across this post on the Lift blog about attention and online communication: For a…

One of the reasons people praise Google+ for are the alleged better tools to protect your privacy. But think about the following: What does usually happen when you try to access a stranger’s Facebook profile? In most cases, you don’t see anything else than the profile photo, some basic information (if shared with the public) and the list of friends.

By Tony Bradley, PCWorld Jul 2, 2011 6:11 AM Joining any social network introduces a balancing act of sharing vs. privacy. But, when I joined Facebook, or Twitter, or LinkedIn, they were just Facebook, or Twitter, or LinkedIn. They didn’t take over my computer. Google+ is everywhere.

My recent brief experience with Google+ (or plus.google, as the URL says in reverse polish) has led me to some observations about how we might be shifting our personal and collective use of tools, and thereby our sense of self in the increasingly media-augmented world we inhabit.

So, one of the memes I’m seeing floating around in response to Google+ is how you don’t need to reciprocate when people add you to their circles. Some are saying this is a great thing. Really, social media experts?

The blogosphere is already full with comments and reviews on Google Plus. I won’t try to duplicate what other people have said. I have one very quick reaction, though: I was an early Plus user, just as I was an early Wave user. And there’s one big difference.

I have seen this playing out already, so this is less mad than it might initially seem: I have this feeling that people are going to become more and more wary of direct face-to-face attention because it will seem like its wasted on them if it’s not mediated, not captured somehow in social networks where it has measurable value.

Compare Question and Answers sites: Quora vs StackOverflow vs TED conversations vs Yahoo Answers

As the head of a PR firm that represents tech startups, I’m well aware of the pressure that entrepreneurs face to get attention for their young companies. There’s no question the goal of hundreds, if not thousands, of startups is a profile in TechCrunch.

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French artist Armelle Caron takes maps of cities and reorganizes the individual blocks into ordered rows. The process transforms a chaotic city into a unrecognizable, but systematic assemblage of shapes. I’ll be honest, the sizes of the images below don’t do the designs justice.

StatPlanet is a browser-based interactive data visualization and mapping application. Use it to easily and rapidly create visualizations from simple Flash maps to advanced infographics. StatPlanet can be freely and easily hosted on your own website. It is lightweight, lightning fast, and makes exploring large data sets easy, fun and highly interactive.

Matthew Brown, Associated Press LAUREL, Mont. — An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River in Montana ruptured Saturday and leaked hundreds of barrels of oil into the waterway, causing a 25-mile plume that fouled the riverbank and forced municipalities and irrigation districts downstream to close intakes.

Terry Gross: If the U.S. does not raise its debt ceiling, if we end up defaulting on debts, what impact do you think that would have on the U.S. and the global economy? Mr. ZAKARIA: I tend to think it would be catastrophic.

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At our 25th college reunion in 2003, Grover Norquist – the brain and able spokesman for the radical right – and I, along with other classmates who had been in public or political life, participated in a lively panel discussion about politics.

HelpX is an online listing of host organic farms, non-organic farms, farmstays, homestays, ranches, lodges, B&Bs, backpackers hostels and even sailing boats who invite volunteer helpers to stay with them short-term in exchange for food and accommodation.