Category: Knowledge Management

  • Hurricane Sandy: another climate wake up call

    Sandy Raises Questions About Climate And The Future Fresh Air from WHYY, npr.org Sandy Raises Questions About Climate And The Future Fresh Air from WHYY If you ask cli­mate sci­en­tist Radley Hor­ton, it’s dif­fi­cult to say that Hur­ri­cane Sandy was direct­ly caused by cli­mate change, but he sees strong con­nec­tions betw… http://flpbd.it/L0BSs Related articles Connecting…

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  • The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100

    Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net I real­ly enjoyed read­ing a recent story in The New York Times Mag­a­zine about attempts to under­stand extreme longevi­ty — the weird ten­den­cy for cer­tain pop­u­la­tions to have larger-than-average num­bers of peo­ple who live well into their… http://flpbd.it/cEMb5 The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100 Related articles…

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  • See what the world will look like without power

    New York City in post-storm darkness: photos by Randy Scott Slavin Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net NYC UNPLUGGED, a series by pho­tog­ra­ph­er Randy Scott Slavin doc­u­ment­ing the dark­ness in New York City after Hur­ri­cane Sandy caused wide­spread power out­ages: New York City is always bright. Street lights, business marquees, ligh… http://flpbd.it/4inHF Related articles A Study of Shadows…

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  • Upright sleeper: How to sleep on a plane

    $40 device keeps your head from falling off your shoulders when you sleep on a plane Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net I can’t sleep for more than 30 min­utes or so on a plane. After that, I’m awake for the dura­tion of the flight, no mat­ter how long it is. I won­der if this neck-propper-upper would help?…

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  • Learning a second language

    What’s the secret to learning a second language? By Bonnie Tsui, Pacific Standard, salon.com Studies reveal it’s more than just a matter of memory. A look at what the science of recall can teach us A FEW YEARS AGO, Cap­tain Emmanuel Joseph decid­ed to learn Ara­bic before his deploy­ment to Iraq. “At first it was…

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  • Why seeing death helps you to value life

    America’s next top mortician: “It really improves your life to be around corpses” By J. B. Staniforth, salon.com “Ask a Mortician,” Caitlin Doughty’s popular, droll web series, has an agenda: to get us to embrace our mortality When we think of mor­ti­cians, we cer­tain­ly don’t imag­ine a bub­bly, self-effacing 28-year-old woman like Caitlin Doughty. But……

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  • Scott Bernstein: move to the city and start walking

    Stop climate change: Move to the city, start walking By Jeff Speck, salon.com Climate change is helped along by suburban driving culture. We need to embrace cities — and walking In 2001, Scott Bern­stein, at the Cen­ter for Neigh­bor­hood Tech­nol­o­gy in inner-city Chica­go, pro­duced a set of maps that are still chang­… http://flpbd.it/KtKdq Related articles…

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  • How to Install Software from Unsigned Developers on a Macwikihow.com Whether it’s pro­tect­ing users from mali­cious soft­ware or sim­ply try­ing to push pur­chasers to the Mac App Store, the new Gate­keep­er fea­ture in Mac OS X Moun­tain Lion can get in the way when it comes to installing soft­ware. By default, a… http://flpbd.it/04twt

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  • How to Install Software from Unsigned Developers on a Macwikihow.com Whether it’s pro­tect­ing users from mali­cious soft­ware or sim­ply try­ing to push pur­chasers to the Mac App Store, the new Gate­keep­er fea­ture in Mac OS X Moun­tain Lion can get in the way when it comes to installing soft­ware. By default, a… http://flpbd.it/04twt

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  • How to Install Software from Unsigned Developers on a Macwikihow.com Whether it’s pro­tect­ing users from mali­cious soft­ware or sim­ply try­ing to push pur­chasers to the Mac App Store, the new Gate­keep­er fea­ture in Mac OS X Moun­tain Lion can get in the way when it comes to installing soft­ware. By default, a… http://flpbd.it/04twt

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  • How to Install Software from Unsigned Developers on a Macwikihow.com Whether it’s pro­tect­ing users from mali­cious soft­ware or sim­ply try­ing to push pur­chasers to the Mac App Store, the new Gate­keep­er fea­ture in Mac OS X Moun­tain Lion can get in the way when it comes to installing soft­ware. By default, a… http://flpbd.it/04twt

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