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  • Vikings have more fun: UN reports Danes are happiest people

    Vikings have the most fun: U.N. says Danes are the happiest people on the planet Greg Hanscom, grist.org ShutterstockThey don’t always look happy, but really they are.Their days of seafaring plunder are over, but Danes are still the happiest people in the world, says the U.N. How do they do it? With sustainable development, a…

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  • Shopify: finally ECommerce you can do from your couch

    Shopify Simplifies E-Commerce to Boost Crowdfunding Graduates Tim Maly, wired.com Say you finished your Kickstarter campaign for some product or other, and after the inevitable growing pains, you’ve gotten all the rewards out to your backers who are gleefully emailing you to say what a great thing it is that … Shopify Simplifies E-Commerce to…

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  • Nanotechnology heater and cooling body wear

    How Winter Woes Inspired A Nanotech Fix For Everything From Cold Necks To Knee Pain By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com Kranthi Kiran Vistakula developed technology that can keep your body comfortable in outside temperatures that range from -50 to 50 degrees Celsius. With the excep­tion of Russ­ian nov­el­ists, not many peo­ple can say their big break…

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  • Kumbh Mela festival is proof that crowds can be good for you

    Kumbh Mela festival is proof that crowds can be good for you Posted by Stephen Reicher, guardian.co.uk It’s overcrowded, noisy and insanitary, but a study suggests the Kumbh Mela improves devotees’ mental and physical wellbeing Once a year, at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in northern India, something truly remarkable happens.… RT…

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  • Ravi Shankar, champion of ethnomusicology

    Remembering Ravi Shankar, the ‘Godfather of World Music’ Arun Rath, theworld.org Remembering Ravi Shankar, the ‘Godfather of World Music’The World You’ve been hear­ing uni­ver­sal praise Wednes­day for Ravi Shankar, and it is deeply deserved: His music was so good, he man­aged to open a door and raise the bar at the same… RT @pritheworld: For…

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  • Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley

                Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net More than 100 bio­med­ical and life sci­ence com­pa­nies are clus­tered in Genome Val­ley, a research park in Hyder­abad, India. (Via Joanne Man­aster) Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley Related articles The Other Silicon Valley That The Tech Industry Is Leaving Behind [Video] (techcrunch.com) Silicon Valley to boost…

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  • Lornalab, sanctuary for electronic artists

    LornaLab offers a home for electronic artists in Reykjavik By Duncan Geere, wired.co.uk Technology An open-door medi­al­ab in Reyk­javik called Lor­nal­ab is widen­ing the oppor­tu­ni­ties for local indus­tri­al design­ers, art the­o­rists, com­put­er sci­en­tists, AI researchers, music the­o­rists and new media artists. Rather t… http://flpbd.it/pHllo Related articles Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park (georgetgeorge.wordpress.com)

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  • Flotspotting: Biomimetic Personal Equipment

    Flotspotting: Biomimetic Personal Equipment by Jean-Marc Sheitoyan core77.com Indus­tri­al design­er Jean-Marc Sheitoy­an is cur­rent­ly a Project Man­ag­er at Que­bec’s Mawashi Pro­tec­tive Cloth­ing, Inc., where he’s designed sev­er­al ‘per­son­al equip­ment’ prod­ucts since he start­ed work­ing there over five years ago.… http://flpbd.it/SLdiU Related articles Flotspotting: Joe Warren’s Quad Micro Bar (core77.com) Flotspotting: Lawrence Chu’s Tuck Storage Box…

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  • Intelligence agencies, mired in inefficiencies, begin to adopt social science and crowd sourcing methods

    As with other fields such as medicine, after years of massive costs and sometimes ineffective methods, resulting in catastrophic failures such as 9/11, new leadership at our intelligence agencies such as Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper are adopting digital and social science methods such as crowd sourcing, data science, knowledge management.  Social scientists have…

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  • Cybercafes.com. Internet cyber cafes guide all over the world.

    Cybercafes.com. Internet cyber cafes guide all over the world.. Related articles AG’s office: Internet cafe gambling operations to return $750,000 to the state (boston.com) Merimee : Cameroon (kiva.org) From PHCN With Love – By @Naijatechassist (jstsaying.com) Surf the Web in the Solara at Wellington Cyber Cafe (livesolara.com) Gambling in Cyber Cafes (wilmingtonnewsweekly.typepad.com) Gambling in Cyber…

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