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  • Creativity and social science critical to reform government gridlock

    Innovating Policy with Creativity and Social Sciences core77.com Today’s glob­al finan­cial and social crises demand inno­va­tion not only in pub­lic ser­vices, but with­in the whole bureau­crat­ic, admin­is­tra­tive sys­tem of pub­lic gov­er­nance. In order to respond effec­tive­ly to a chang­ing con­text of… RT @core77: Innovating Policy with Creativity and Social Sciences – Paper by @Nesta_UK &…

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  • Twine: finally a device to begin the Internet of things

    On Sale At Last: Twine, Your Gateway To The Internet Of Things By John Pavlus, fastcodesign.com The hit Kickstarter product hopes to popularize “the Internet of things” with thoughtful product design. A year ago, two MIT Media Lab grad­u­ates raised half a mil­lion dol­lars on Kick­starter to cre­ate Twine, a cigarette-pack-sized chunk of… RT @core77:…

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  • Twitrcovers makes your Tweets a bit more tasty

    Beautify your Twitter Cover in One Click lifehack.org A few weeks ago, Twit­ter released new head­er image options for each user’s pro­file. As a result. users may now change their Twit­ter “cover” if they want. Twitr­Cov­ers has the best col­lec­tion of Twit­ter cov­ers avail­able that I’ve seen. … RT @lifehackorg: Beautify your Twitter Cover in…

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  • The reason societies become less productive with industrialization

    Seven Productivity Myths, Debunked by Science (and Common Sense) Alan Henry, lifehacker.com The end goal of “productivity” is to spend less time doing the things you have to do so you have more time for the things you want to do. Of course, if you follow every morsel of productivity advice out there, you probably…

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  • Soda stream disrupts beverage industry waste

    SodaStream’s Banned Ad Helps Home Carbonation Company Hit It Big Rachel Tepper, huffingtonpost.com An ad for SodaS­tream, a home car­bon­a­tion prod­uct, has been mak­ing the rounds world­wide. In it, bot­tles of soda seem to com­bust spon­ta­neous­ly every time some­one uses the SodaS­tream else­where in the world. The take­away: why pay for… http://flip.it/BgTFD Related articles 3…

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  • Cancer survivor uses social media to improve medical help

    Drew Olanoff, Cancer Survivor, gets Tattoo of Biggest Donor’s Twitter Handle Jay Scott, huffingtonpost.com The name Drew Olanoff may be one that you have heard before. If you are a twit­ter afi­ciona­do (like me!), you may have once uti­lized the hash­tag #blamedrewscancer. If you haven’t, well here are a few things you should know: after…

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  • Does 48 fps cause motion sickness?

    ‘Hobbit’ Motion Sickness, Nausea Critics Shot Down By Warner Bros. And Peter Jackson Cavan Sieczkowski, huffingtonpost.com Warn­er Bros. and Peter Jack­son are respond­ing to claims that “The Hob­bit: An Unex­pect­ed Jour­ney” is caus­ing motion sick­ness and nau­sea among view­ers. Peter Jack­son’s fan­ta­sy flick pre­miered in New Zealand on Nov. 28 and claims of… http://flip.it/WRhuh Related…

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  • Smartest cities in America Fast Company ranking

    Smartest Cities In America: Fast Company Ranks Brainiest Cities Aaron Sankin, huffingtonpost.com How brainy is your ‘hood? That’s the ques­tion posed by Dr. Boyd Cohen in a recent arti­cle pub­lished in Fast Com­pa­ny. Cohen looked at cities across North Amer­i­ca and rated them on a “smart city” scale based on char­ac­ter­is­tics rang­ing… http://flip.it/S4G4J Related articles…

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  • iPhone, Panasonic GH 2 match pro video cameras in shoot out

    (via The Best Video Camera Revealed in Shootout) Related articles Evacuate, North Korea urges foreigners in latest ‘thermo-nuclear war’ threat – Telegraph.co.uk (telegraph.co.uk) EOSHD competition – Win a place at Panasonic’s exclusive Lumix GH3 workshop (eoshd.com) MōVI set to revolutionise filmmaking – Vincent LaForet shows gyro stabiliser by Freefly Systems (with footage from GH3 and…

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  • IMHO: Is The Text Message Headed For Retirement?

    The Huffington Post, huffingtonpost.com Pity the poor text message — a mere 20 years young this week and already they are talking about its retirement party. Actually, nobody holds retirement parties anymore, do they? We don’t retire from our jobs, we get pink-slipped. Which is apparen… http://flpbd.it/Y10fU IMHO: Is The Text Message Headed For Retirement?…

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  • Economist ranks best countries to be born in

    The lottery of life economist.com International Where to be born in 2013 War­ren Buf­fett, prob­a­bly the world’s most suc­cess­ful investor, has said that any­thing good that hap­pened to him could be traced back to the fact that he was born in the right coun­try, the Unit­ed… RT @TheEconomist: Trending: Which country will provide the best…

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  • Language generation on the Internet:Reddit is the meme hatchery

    S.A.P. | LOS ANGELES, economist.com The Erkernermerst JOHN­SON reads Red­dit from time to time. Red­dit, as the web’s most promi­nent meme hatch­ery, is an incu­ba­tor of new trends in writ­ten lan­guage. The Inter­net has changed so much of our lives, but few things have changed … RT @TheEconomist: Reddit, as the web’s most prominent meme…

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