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Vikings have the most fun: U.N. says Danes are the happiest people on the planet
Greg Hanscom, grist.orgShutterstockThey 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 sane workweek, and umbre…
Shopify Simplifies E-Commerce to Boost Crowdfunding Graduates
Tim Maly, wired.comSay 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 …
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How Winter Woes Inspired A Nanotech Fix For Everything From Cold Necks To Knee Pain
By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.comKranthi 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 was inspire…
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Kumbh Mela festival is proof that crowds can be good for you
Posted by Stephen Reicher, guardian.co.ukIt’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.…
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Remembering Ravi Shankar, the ‘Godfather of World Music’
Arun Rath, theworld.orgRemembering 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…
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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
LornaLab offers a home for electronic artists in Reykjavik
By Duncan Geere, wired.co.ukTechnology
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…
Flotspotting: Biomimetic Personal Equipment by Jean-Marc Sheitoyan
core77.comIndustrial 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.…
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 found that combining many people’s predictions — even if they are not experts — usually yields better results than any single person’s judgment. With 200,000 people in its direct employ, and nearly 1 million outsiders holding security clearances, the US intelligence network would seem to be a perfect place to take advantage of the wisdom of the herd — except that so many of these people work in compartmentalized and secretive units. To solve this problem, IARPA is awarding grants to teams of social scientists to craft the best approaches to pooling multiple sources of intelligence analysis, generating more accurate predictions than individual departments might manage on their own.
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