January 2012
28 posts
“All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and...”
– Rumi (via human-voices)
“Someday, probably sooner than we think, much of our lives will be recorded by...”
– So What Do We Do With All This Data? | Innovations
“Technology is a neutral tool that you should use when you have a plan, when you...”
– Noam Chomsky explains why we need to decide what education is (Wired UK)
“Even an extreme disruption of international connectivity would not seriously...”
– Could the Internet Ever Be Destroyed? | Is the Internet Invincible? | How to Kill the Internet | LifesLittleMysteries.com
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Nature....”
– The Technium: Undetectable Technology
“Many prominent linguists, including MIT’s Noam Chomsky, have argued that...”
– Cognitive scientists develop new take on old problem: why human language has so many words with multiple meanings
“Although we’re more likely to share information from our close friends, we still...”
– Online echo chambers: A study of 250 million Facebook users reveals the Web isn’t as polarized as we thought. - Slate Magazine
“A Buddhist scholar named Nogaguna, who lived about A.D. 200, invented a whole...”
– Crashingly Beautiful: where is the universe?
“The sum of our memory is an almost infinitely complex and chaotic web of...”
– How to improve long-term memory | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
“Eye movements are so closely tied to the way we think and act that they can even...”
– Annie Murphy Paul: What Your Eyes Say About How You Think And Learn | TIME Ideas | TIME.com
“Your perceptions of others – even ones that are made up – says a lot about what...”
– Imagine that: How you envision others says a lot about you in real life
“Knowmads…
1. Are not restricted to a specific age.
2. Build their personal...”
– Nine key characteristics of knowmads in Society 3.0 | Education Futures
“Thoughts are bigger than the things that deliver them. Our contraptions may...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
“The digital world is new, and the real gains and losses of the Internet era are...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
“cognition is not a little processing program that takes place inside your head,...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
“All three kinds appear among the new books about the Internet: call them the...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
“The smartest person in the room is no longer a person but the room...”
– What the Internet Means for How We Think About the World - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic
“We are in a new age of “networked knowledge,” meaning that knowledge...”
– What the Internet Means for How We Think About the World - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic
“technology is an enabler of rights, not a right itself. There is a high bar for...”
– Internet Access Is Not a Human Right - NYTimes.com
“Facts are so last century. In the Internet-dominated world, networked facts have...”
– Networked facts are the new black : RSA blogs
“Why are some languages quite regular and others not? The historical linguist...”
– Why are some languages more regular than others?
“Psychologists from Washington University used brain scans to see what happens...”
– Humans have the need to read | Gail Rebuck | Comment is free | The Guardian
“We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less...”
– The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via wildcat2030)
December 2011
20 posts
“Natural selection is a way of sorting among a range of genetic alternatives, and...”
– Infinite Stupidity | Conversation | Edge
“The concept has been around for years, sometimes called the Internet of Things...”
– The Internet Gets Physical - NYTimes.com
“In a way, new technologies have made us all like Baudelaire. We are intoxicated...”
– The Smart Set: Privacy Policy - October 13, 2011 (via wildcat2030)
“Our consciousness is so subjective that our own experience of sentience is all...”
– Untangling the web: attention | Technology | The Observer
“If Americans and the British are two peoples divided by a common language, then...”
– Power of Babel: Why one language isn’t enough - life - 14 December 2011 - New Scientist
“The mind and body are usually thought of as separate entities but they are, in...”
– Leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower seem smaller | Science | guardian.co.uk
“Scientia means “knowledge:” science, it seems to me, is not about...”
– The science of poetry, the poetry of science | Books | The Guardian
“Translation is a deep problem, but it is often ignored in psychology....”
– Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists: How Universal Is The Mind?
“Computational logic builds and improves on traditional logic, and can be used...”
– Do thoughts have a language of their own? - New Scientist
“When your friend stifles a yawn as you chat, don’t be offended. Instead, take it...”
– Why yawning is no insult… it’s a sign that someone really cares | Mail Online
“The universe may be timeless, but if you imagine breaking it into pieces, some...”
– Craig Callender
“For every gain in cognitive functions, for example better memory, increased...”
– Human brains unlikely to evolve into a ‘supermind’ | Machines Like Us
“You live in the past. About 80 milliseconds in the past, to be precise. Use one...”
– Ten things everyone should know about time
“Recent research supports the idea that consciousness is a conversation rather...”
– Signal for Consciousness in Brain Marked by Neural Dialogue: Scientific American
“Being told a painting is fake instantly reduces our sense of...”
– Brain scan test,¿ using ‘fake’ Rembrandt painting, shows great art is all in the mind | Mail Online
“Ever since the early days of modern computing in the 1940s, the biological...”
– Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing - NYTimes.com
“Besides bank defaults and credit downgrades, 2011 will be remembered for the...”
– Why 2011 Will Be Defined by Social Media Democracy
““If we think of the perceptual system as a democracy where each sense is...”
– Even unconsciously, sound helps us see | Machines Like Us
“Information overload is the wrong term because it blames the information. That...”
– Don’t blame the information for your bad habits - O’Reilly Radar
November 2011
31 posts
“Too Big to Know is about what happens to knowledge when it becomes a network....”
– What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?: Scientific American (via wildcat2030)