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FRONTLINE: editors\' notes: frontline / world: your digital trash? | PBS
"A team of graduate journalism students at the University of British Columbia sleuthed this story, tracking for months America's electronic waste and where it's ending up."...
Management by Matrices: Life Settlements - The next sub-prime crisis
"Undeterred by the mess that it created with securitization of mortgages (the Subprime crisis), Wall Street is now working on a new kind of securitization, that of life insurance policies. The bankers plan to buy “life settlements,” life insu...
The War is Lost - Jeffrey Tucker - Mises Economics Blog
"A wonderful piece of reporting in the New York Times today, one which pretty well establishes what everybody -- except the average American -- seems to know: the war is over and the U.S. has lost; moreover, the enemy that the U.S. supposedly vanquis...
Life in the Universe by Prof. Stephen Hawking | Rational Vedanta
"In this talk, I would like to speculate a little, on the development of life in the universe, and in particular, the development of intelligent life. I shall take this to include the human race, even though much of its behaviour through out history,...
OfNewswise — Body and Mind, and Deep Meditation
"Chinese researchers have unlocked the mechanism of an emerging mind-body technique that produces measurable changes in attention and stress reduction in just five days of practice.The practice -- integrative body-mind training (IBMT) -- was adapted ...
Half an Hour: Things You Really Need to Learn
"Guy Kawasaki last week wrote an item describing 'ten things you should learn this school year' in which readers were advised to learn how to write five sentence emails, create powerpoint slides, and survive boring meetings. It was, to my view, advic...
Obama Beats Jesus In Top 10 Heroes Poll | PunkLuckBlog
"The Hinudstan Times reported that Barack Obama beat Jesus Christ to be American’s number one hero. This report was written in response to a new Harris Poll on the top heroes for American’s."...
Can Your Brain Fight Fatigue? - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
"The mental choreography of fatigue is intricate, involving messages sent not only from the brain to the straining muscles but also to various areas within the mind as well. Data from some recent brainwave studies of athletes showed that during long,...
Laila O Laila
Carol, wherever you are, this one's for you, Chucky-egg...And a tune to make a baby by......
World Of Sport - The Unmasking Of Kendo Nagasaki
Awakening from a Cultural Trance: An Ecopsychological Case Study by Molly Young Brown
This is a story of awakening -- to the cultural trance and mythology of a home town, and to the psychological and spiritual effects on someone growing up in that culture. It is an ecopsychology story because of its implications about an individual's ...
10 Ways to Stay Marketable When You’re Out of Work | Business Pundit
Out of work? That doesn’t mean you’re also out of opportunities. Any single one of the ten methods below will help you stay marketable. If you try all ten suggestions, you’ll dramatically increase your odds of landing a new job, client, or key ...
Gawker - How to Pry Money Out of Google - Newspapers
"The New York Times and Washington Post are in informal talks about the online news business. The obvious subtext: The newspapers want Google to pay for their headlines. They're going about it all wrong.The morosely moribund newspaper industry is loo...
Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies - WSJ.com
"Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according to current and former national-security officials.The spies came from China, Russia and other countries, these ...
Surrealist Women
"'Knock hard. Life is deaf.' — Mimi Parent"...
How Much Time Do You Waste Searching for Information? | Profy | Internet news and commentary
"I have just completed quite a lengthy presentation for a local event next week and have realized that even though the vast majority of the text I wrote for it was taken from the top of my head because my head already accumulates more information on ...
Lying: The Ultimate Manipulation Tactic > By Dr George Simon, PhD
I’ve been posting a series of articles on certain relatively automatic behaviors that disturbed characters commonly engage in to manipulate others and resist accountability. Some of the tactics I’ve posted on include rationalization, minimization...
Stack ‘em High and Sell ‘em Cheap…Job Postings That Is | Amitai Givertz's Recruitomatic Blog
"To the cynics who might postulate the alliance between SHRM and JobTarget has more to do with monopolistic price fixing than affinity programming, I say this: Phooey!"...
Prison Radio | Index of Mumia Abu-Jamal's Recorded Essays
"Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist who chronicles the human condition. He has been a resident of Pennsylvania’s death row for twenty-five years. Writing from his solitary confinement cell his essays have reached a worldwide audience. H...
Lottery Tickets and Credit Cards: The Dangers of an Irrational Brain: Scientific American
"George Loewenstein is a neuroeconomist at Carnegie Mellon University who has studied everything from the brain activity triggered by retail shopping to the psychology of lottery tickets. Mind Matters editor Jonah Lehrer chats with Loewenstein about ...
Six Degrees of Separation Is Now Three
"Is it time to revise the old saw that everyone in the world is connected by just six degrees of separation? A study from French mobile carrier O2 has found that strangers are more connected to each other than they ever have been.According to the stu...
iafrica.com | Calls for robot rulebook
"In an article published on Thursday in the US journal Science, Noel Sharkey, a professor of artificial intelligence and robotics at the University of Sheffield, argues that the steady increase in the use of robots in day-to-day life poses unanticipa...
Passion-Based Learning » 7 Easy, Powerful Steps to Create a Personal Learning Environment
"Self-education is the ultimate form of personal-development because at its essence, personal development is about the intake of information that has the power to positively alter your behavior and way of thinking.The best part about self-education i...
Change your Mind Change your Brain: The Inner Conditions...
Even if You Can’t Buy It, Happiness Is Big Business - NYTimes.com
"In this dopamine-laden city, where the pursuit of well-being is something of a high art, a motley array of scientists, philosophers, doctors, psychologists, navel-gazing Googlers and Tibetan Buddhists addressed the latest findings on the science of ...
About.com - Why "Blink" Matters: The Power of First Impressions
"Professional speakers and trainers have long asserted that people make up their minds about people they meet for the first time within two minutes. Others assert that these first impressions about people take only thirty seconds to make. As it turns...
The Mind-Body Problem
"An Exercise in Integration: An interdisciplinary discussion of the Mind-Body Problem with special application to issues surrounding Artificial Intelligence.AbstractThere has been wide ranging debate on the topic of the mind and its connection with t...
BuzzWhack's Buzzword Compliant Dictionary
"matrixed environment: A supposedly efficient organizational structure where workers answer to a functional department head, but most of their work is assigned and managed by a project manager from a different area. Judging from the number of help wa...
