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  • Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends

    Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends Dan Rowinski, readwriteweb.com You know who you are. You are the employ­ee who ignores man­dates from the IT depart­ment. You use your own devices and apps to get the job done, com­pa­ny poli­cies be hanged. The IT man­ag­er might call you a prob­lem employ­ee, but actu­al­ly y… http://flpbd.it/Y1i7Q Related…

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  • Yes, Ayn, There Is a Social Instinct

    Yes, Ayn, There Is a Social Instinct | The Crux discovermagazine.com Eric Michael John­son has a mas­ter’s degree in evo­lu­tion­ary anthro­pol­o­gy focus­ing on great ape behav­ioral ecol­o­gy. He is cur­rent­ly a doc­tor­al stu­dent in the his­to­ry of sci­ence at Uni­ver­si­ty of British Colum­bia look­ing at… http://flpbd.it/GVRyf Related articles Ayn Rand is Fiction (evergreeninstitute.wordpress.com) Lawmaker Wants…

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  • World’s Coolest Offices

    World’s Coolest Offices | 2012 inc.com http://flpbd.it/FJO5o Related articles Lights & Glamour: The Coolest Moving Trucks Ever! (auto-candy.com) Aston Martin no longer coolest make – Confused.com (confused.com) Ask HN: What is the coolest JS library out there? (news.ycombinator.com) The myth of the world’s coolest phone (bestbuymobile.com)

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  • Best-Paying and Worst-Paying Master’s Degrees

    Best-Paying and Worst-Paying Master’s Degrees | Monster. Related articles Are Master’s Degrees Still Worth It (keptup.typepad.com) Purdue Cal offers new online tech master’s degree (nwitimes.com) Embrace Your Midlife Crisis [Infographic] (thetechscoop.net)

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  • How the internet is changing the fine art marketplace

    How the internet is changing the fine art marketplace By Nathan Hurst, wired.co.uk Technology Five years ago, Jen Bek­man found­ed 20×200 on the belief that every­one should be able to col­lect art, and that the inter­net could help them do so. While nei­ther the old­est nor the biggest place to buy prints online (art.com has……

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  • Do-It-Yourself Civilization in Hackerspace

      Do-It-Yourself Civilization in Hackerspace.gr     By John Baichtal, makezine.com   Sounds way cool!   Coming Sunday, September the 2nd, we are going to take a look at the basics of life through the eye of the hexayurt project‘s creator Vinay Gupta that will visit hackerspace.gr. Hexayurt is an open hardware house built in…

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  • Sleep (or how to hack your brain) + Dustin Curtis

    Sleep (or how to hack your brain) + Dustin Curtis. Related articles What if.. You Sleep 2 Hours a Day (jaggedgracecreations.wordpress.com) New study shows sleep is a hotbed of information (storagebedsdirect.co.uk) How Certain Sounds Help Us Sleep (news.health.com) Ask Dr. K: Sleep vital for reasons unclear (goerie.com) What Happens While You Sleep and How It…

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  • Employers put offices in social media pockets

    By Cory Brown, washingtontimes.com It is a man­ag­er’s prob­lem that Henry Ford and even a young Bill Gates never had to deal with – how to main­tain pro­duc­tiv­i­ty when work­ers are using valu­able com­pa­ny time to update their Face­book sta­tus or check their Twit­ter feeds. http://flpbd.it/vKpIL Employers put offices in social media pockets Related articles…

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  • Growth Hacking — Livestream

    eventbrite.com http://flpbd.it/2d4ks Growth Hacking — Livestream Related articles Growth Hacking is Simply Advanced Product Management (johnpeltier.com)

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  • Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology

      Amber Case’s Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology Jon Mitchell, readwriteweb.com If you want to thrive in the future, it might help to read the man­u­al. Soft­ware design­er, CEO and 21st cen­tu­ry renais­sance woman Amber Case has pub­lished An Illus­trat­ed Dic­tio­nary of Cyborg Anthro­pol­o­gy. It’s a light-hearted guide t… http://flpbd.it/MBMUt   Related articles   The…

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  • Grinders: the cult of the man machine

    Grinders: the cult of the man machine Posted by Leo Benedictus, guardian.co.uk The people who are making cyborgs a thing of the present Many of us are already cyborgs. If you have a contraceptive coil fitted, or a pacemaker – arguably even if you wear contact lenses or have pierced ears – then you are…

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  • Synthetic Anthropology: building the human computer

    Computing is evolving from silicon to biology and now to social sciences. Introducing the human computer – Boston.com. Related articles Imagining Tomorrow’s Computers Today (news.sciencemag.org) Announcement: UC Irvine to lead social computing research center (universityofcalifornia.edu) New Anthropology and Archaeology Resource Network (aaanet.org) Beyond Biosocialities in Medical Anthropology (CFP, Symposium, Amsterdam, 17-19 January 2013) (medicalhumanities.wordpress.com) A…

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