Category: Knowledge Management

  • This man knows when you’re lying about honey

    This man knows when you’re lying about honey sarahpetersmiller1969, grist.org Don’t even try to lie to me about honey, son. (Photo by Jay B. Sauceda.) Did you know that peo­ple sell fake honey? They take super­mar­ket honey and try to pass it off as fancy stuff you get for $30 at a farmer’s mar­ket. Is…

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  • Just how hot is it in the US right now?

    Just how hot is it in the US right now? – Boing Boing. Related articles As Climate Changes, Urban Planners Help Cities Adapt (wbur.org) BBC Burnt Over Climate Change Claim UK Will Be As Hot As Madeira (chimalaya.org) Plan Panel Seeks to Rewrite India’s Climate Change Stance (chimalaya.org) Climate change is real, Canadians say, but…

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  • ReD Associates: Anthropological perspectives on business problems

      ReD Associates | Ideas that transform marketplaces. Related articles Increasing Companies’ Profitability with Managed Print (icnmsolutions.wordpress.com) Calling All Anthropologists: We Need a Photo of You! (aaanet.org) Outside In: Breaking Some Anthropology Rules for Design [guest contributor] (ethnographymatters.net) Creating knowledge in social sciences (thehindu.com) Morbid Road Trip: Medical Oddities Around the World (mentalfloss.com) Instagram Ethnographer…

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  • Netflix’s Unlimited Employee Vacation Policy; Why It Works

    Netflix’s Unlimited Employee Vacation Policy; Why It Works. Related articles The Vacation Paradox: Why Some Companies Are Paying Workers To Go Away (loszachreport.wordpress.com) To Recruit Techies, Companies Offer Unlimited Vacation (businessweek.com) Flexible & Unlimited Vacation Policies? (thehrstrategiesblog.wordpress.com) Know Your Apps: Netflix (samsung.com) Netflix to raise subscription cost – will you stay our leave? (epicagear.com) Netflix…

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  • AN UNTRASHY TRAILER

    AN UNTRASHY TRAILER | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building. Future-forward design for the world you inhabit – your daily source for innovations in sustainable architecture and green design for the home. Related articles Parallax Landscape Re-Imagines a Low-Carbon Future for a Coal-Dominated Australian City (inhabitat.com) Inhabitat’s Top 6 Architecture Stories of…

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  • Coursera partners with universities to create new science, humanities and engineering programs

      Coursera Plans to Announce University Partners for Online Classes – NYTimes.com.   Two more Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller have broken off to create a new online learning startup called Coursera with financial backing from two of Silicon Valley’s premier venture capital firms, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and New Enterprise Associates. The startup will…

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  • The Buckminster Fuller Challenge

    Welcome | The Buckminster Fuller Challenge. Related articles Leo Villareal’s ‘BUCKYBALL’ Brings Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Dome To Madison Square Park (PHOTO) (huffingtonpost.com) Bucky’s Desperate Call for a Design Science Revolution (buckyworld.me) Futuristic housing never built in 1960s Harlem (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com) Innovative Firm Aims to Spark Revolution in Design, Sustainability (prweb.com)

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