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The Curse of QWERTY | Technology | DISCOVER Magazine
"QWERTY’s saga illustrates a much broader phenomenon: how commitment shapes the history of technology and culture, often selecting which innovations become entrenched and which are rejected. In the nineteenth-century United States, for example, those who profited from canals, barges, stagecoaches, and the pony express resisted the construction of railroads; in England, electric street lighting spread slowly, partly because of opposition from local governments with heavy investments in gas lighting. Even today, commitment influences railroad gauges and television technology, and whether we mark our rulers with centimeters or inches and drive on the right or the left."
qwerty  dvorak  jared_diamond  article  technology  adoption  lockin 
january 2012 by earth2marsh
The decline effect and the scientific method : The New Yorker
"But now all sorts of well-established, multiply confirmed findings have started to look increasingly uncertain. It’s as if our facts were losing their truth: claims that have been enshrined in textbooks are suddenly unprovable. This phenomenon doesn’t yet have an official name, but it’s occurring across a wide range of fields, from psychology to ecology. In the field of medicine, the phenomenon seems extremely widespread, affecting not only antipsychotics but also therapies ranging from cardiac stents to Vitamin E and antidepressants: Davis has a forthcoming analysis demonstrating that the efficacy of antidepressants has gone down as much as threefold in recent decades.<br />
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science  reproducability  method  scientific  new_yorker  article  studies  medicine  from delicious
june 2011 by earth2marsh
Men’s Journal » The Blind Man Who Taught Himself To See » Print
RT : “Running into a pole is a drag, but never being allowed to run into a pole is a disaster.” Maybe my f ...
technology  science  article  audio  echolocation  blindness  inspiration  from twitter
may 2011 by earth2marsh
Information Architects – Can Experience be Designed?
"Do experience designers shape how users feel or do they shape with respect to how users feel? A small but important nuance. Did you catch it? No? Then let me ask you this way: Do architects design houses or do they design “inhabitant experiences?” The bullshit answer is “They design inhabitant experiences.” The pragmatic answer is: “They design houses.” The cautious answer is: Architects design houses that lead to a spectrum of experiences, some foreseen, some not. But they do not design all possible "
article  design  userexperience  ux  experience  user  inspiration 
september 2010 by earth2marsh
Can the Right Kinds of Play Teach Self-Control?
on developing executive function in children. short version: dramatic play is deeply powerful.
nytimes  executive  function  parenting  article  children  pedagogy  learning  development  child 
september 2009 by earth2marsh
Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch - NYTimes.com
"Cutler and his colleagues also surveyed cooking patterns across several cultures and found that obesity rates are inversely correlated with the amount of time spent on food preparation. The more time a nation devotes to food preparation at home, the lower its rate of obesity. In fact, the amount of time spent cooking predicts obesity rates more reliably than female participation in the labor force or income. Other research supports the idea that cooking is a better predictor of a healthful diet than social class: a 1992 study in The Journal of the American Dietetic Association found that poor women who routinely cooked were more likely to eat a more healthful diet than well-to-do women who did not."
food  cooking  trends  television  michael_pollan  culture  article  history 
august 2009 by earth2marsh
How the Mighty Fall: A Primer on the Warning Signs - BusinessWeek
"When you are at the top of the world, the most powerful nation on Earth, the most successful company in your industry, the best player in your game, your very power and success might cover up the fact that you're already on the path of decline." That question—how would you know?—captured my imagination and became part of the inspiration for this book"
article  business  usa  decline  failure  signs  strategy 
may 2009 by earth2marsh
Returning Mother's Day to its original meaning. - By Ruth Rosen - Slate Magazine
"The women who originally celebrated Mother's Day conceived of it as an occasion to use their status as mothers to protest injustice and war. In 1858, Anna Reeves Jarvis organized Mother's Work Days in West Appalachian communities to protest the lack of sanitation that caused disease-bearing insects and polluted water to sicken or even kill poor workers. In 1870, after witnessing the bloody Civil War, Julia Ward Howe—a Boston pacifist, poet, and suffragist who wrote the "Battle Hymn of the Republic"—proclaimed a special day for mothers to oppose war. Committed to ending all armed conflict, Howe wrote, "Our husbands shall not come to us reeking with carnage. … Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience." "
history  mothersday  slate  article  mothers  movement 
may 2009 by earth2marsh
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem
clay_shirky  copyright  change  innovation  future  information  trends  article  history  media  culture  newspapers  drm  revolution 
march 2009 by earth2marsh
Google’s Gatekeepers - NYTimes.com
excellent piece on censorship issues and "do no evil"
google  censorship  free  speech  article 
december 2008 by earth2marsh
A Manifesto for the Next Industrial Revolution - Umair Haque
"[Google has] figured out one of the deepest secrets hidden at the heart of 21st century economics: markets, networks, and communities can organize economic activities radically more efficiently than firms."
capitalism  revolution  manifesto  economics  article  activism  change  sustainability  markets 
july 2008 by earth2marsh
What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart? - WSJ.com
by one international measure, Finnish teenagers are among the smartest in the world. They earned some of the top scores by 15-year-old students who were tested in 57 countries. American teens finished among the world's C students even as U.S. educators pi
article  education  learning  finland  usa  comparison  pisa  pedagogy  culture 
july 2008 by earth2marsh
Their men in Washington: Undercover with D.C.'s lobbyists for hire, By Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine)
just another day of doing business in D.C., except for one thing: "Kenneth Case" was a fiction, and his "Maldon Group" a ruse cooked up by Harper's magazine editor Ken Silverstein to demonstrate what D.C. lobbying was really like.
article  politics  lobbying  expose  !to_read 
june 2008 by earth2marsh
China's All-Seeing Eye : Rolling Stone
With the help of U.S. defense contractors, China is building the prototype for a high-tech police state. It is ready for export.
china  surveillance  privacy  security  politics  technology  lsi  democracy  Culture  cameras  state  article 
june 2008 by earth2marsh
From The Magazine : Radar Online : Is the government compiling a secret list of citizens to detain under martial law?
"There exists a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated.
government  usa  privacy  security  tyranny  fascism  freedom  politics  surveillance  state  article  bush 
may 2008 by earth2marsh
Boston.com / A&E / The generation lap
Professionals who grew up playing video games actually make better business people. They're more serious about achievement; more attached to the company they work for and the people they work with; more flexible, persistent problem-solvers; more willing t
gaming  psychology  business  article  videogames  skills 
may 2008 by earth2marsh
Shankar Vedantam - Why Everyone You Know Thinks the Same as You - washingtonpost.com
two other powerful but subtle factors at work: one is demography, and the other is shared experiences.
article  homophily  similarity  groupthink  diversity  friends  behavior  Culture  shared  psychology  sociology  politics 
may 2008 by earth2marsh
…My heart’s in Accra » Homophily, serendipity, xenophilia
living in the 21st century requires understanding what people think, feel and want in different parts of the world, given that both the challenges and opportunities of next several decades are global, not local ones.
media  homophily  culture  internet  empathy  journalism  perspective  education  lsi  article  blog 
may 2008 by earth2marsh
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired
brain  Learning  software  memory  recall  storage  cognition  article  wired  supermemo 
april 2008 by earth2marsh
Game theory explains dinner-party dates. - By Mark Gimein - Slate Magazine
game theory predicts, and empirical studies of auctions bear out, that auctions will often be won by "weak" bidders, who know that they can be outbid and so bid more aggressively, while the "strong" bidders will hold out for a really great deal.
aging  article  relationships  psychology  men  women  economics  evolution  game_theory  sociology  marriage  dating 
april 2008 by earth2marsh
Long Views » Blog Archive » Forbes on Time
A list of articles about time. But not Time magazine, just Forbes.
article  list  time  perception 
april 2008 by earth2marsh
Every Click You Make
the new monitoring, known as "deep-packet inspection," enables a far wider view -- every Web page visited, every e-mail sent and every search entered
data  economy  privacy  tech  article  tracking  advertising  behavior 
april 2008 by earth2marsh
The Trouble With Web 2.0
Covers the problems with Web 2.0-style tools in the enterprise.
web2.0  article  business  enterprise  enterprise2.0  technology  collaboration  incentives  motivation 
february 2008 by earth2marsh
The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry
cracked open the carrier-centric structure of the wireless industry and unlocked a host of benefits for consumers, developers, manufacturers — and potentially the carriers themselves
iphone  Apple  history  wired  mobile  network  att  change  cellphone  business  article 
january 2008 by earth2marsh
Scientific American: Sex, Math and Scientific Achievement
males are much more variable in their mathematical ability, meaning that females of any age are more clustered toward the center of the distribution of skills and males are spread out toward the ends
research  science  gender  women  math  men  study  article 
january 2008 by earth2marsh
Party Tricks - By Steven E. Landsburg - Slate Magazine
an auction game as a crude but instructive metaphor for political campaign spending.
politics  economics  money  auction  tricks  article  finance 
january 2008 by earth2marsh
Twilight of the Books: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker
It can be amusing to read a magazine whose principles you despise, but it is almost unbearable to watch such a television show. And so, in a culture of secondary orality, we may be less likely to spend time with ideas we disagree with.
Books  Culture  psychology  literacy  reading  article  newyorker 
january 2008 by earth2marsh
Twilight of the Books: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker
To read is “to receive a communication with another way of thinking, all the while remaining alone, that is, while continuing to enjoy the intellectual power that one has in solitude and that conversation dissipates immediately.”
reading  newyorker  article  quote 
january 2008 by earth2marsh
Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike - New York Times
This so-called curse of knowledge, a phrase used in a 1989 paper in The Journal of Political Economy, means that once you’ve become an expert in a particular subject, it’s hard to imagine not knowing what you do.
innovation  creativity  psychology  business  patterns  nyt  article  management 
january 2008 by earth2marsh
THE GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH || The Institute For Figuring // Gallery
Global warming is not the only threat that marine organisms face. In the North-East Pacific a vortex of plastic rubbish is taking over the ocean, swamping marine ecosystems and ultimately posing a danger to human life.
garbage  gyre  patch  pacific  environment  lsi  article 
december 2007 by earth2marsh
apophenia: valuing inefficiencies and unreliability
While we want perfect reliability for our own needs, we also want there to be failures in the system so that we can blame technology when we don't want to admit to our own weaknesses.
social  socialsoftware  culture  design  psychology  Community  etiquette  communication  article  attention 
december 2007 by earth2marsh
The etiquette of telecommunications | Getting the message, at last | Economist.com
"On a May evening in 1864, several British politicians were disturbed by a knock at the door and the delivery of a telegram—a most unusual occurrence at such a late hour."
spam  Culture  etiquette  history  technology  norms  telegram  anecdote  story  article 
december 2007 by earth2marsh
Michael Pollan - Argiculture - Disease Resistant Staph - Concentrated Animal Feed Operations - Sustainability - New York Times
to maximize production and keep food as cheap as possible, it pushes natural systems and organisms to their limit, asking them to function as efficiently as machines.
food  agriculture  sustainability  lsi  article  michaelpollan  farming 
december 2007 by earth2marsh
American Scientist Online - Accidental Algorithms
A strange new family of algorithms probes the boundary between easy and hard problems (does P = NP?)
math  mathematics  np  problems  article  computing  computerscience 
december 2007 by earth2marsh
Schneier on Security: Law Review Article on the Problems with Copyright
By the end of the day, John has infringed the copyrights of twenty emails, three legal articles, an architectural rendering, a poem, five photographs, an animated character, a musical composition, a painting, and fifty notes and drawings. All told, he has
copyright  law  legal  review  article  analysis  politics 
november 2007 by earth2marsh
From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm - New York Times
"these optimal ants also spontaneously formed highways. If the ants going in one direction happened to become dense, their chemical trails attracted more ants headed the same way. This feedback caused the ants to form a single packed column."
ants  article  swarm  intelligence 
november 2007 by earth2marsh
Through the Looking Glass - The Post-9/11 Era Has Caught Up With William Gibson's Vision - washingtonpost.com
Interview w/ William Gibson (supposedly excellent according to BoingBoing. Bruce Sterling suggested questions)
!to_read  article  interview  WilliamGibson  scifi  culture  trends 
november 2007 by earth2marsh
Marshall McLuhan Is Back From the Dustbin of History; With the Internet, His Ideas Again Seem Ahead of Their Time - New York Times
''Everyone thought that McLuhan was talking about TV, but what he was really talking about was the Internet -- two decades before it appeared,''
internet  media  information  article  mcluhan  marshallmcluhan 
november 2007 by earth2marsh
Becoming Citizens of the World // Vivien Stewart
The future is here. It's multiethnic, multicultural, and multilingual. But are students ready for it?
global  citizenship  student  education  international  article  lsi 
october 2007 by earth2marsh
Operations is a competitive advantage... (Secret Sauce for Startups!)
installing and configuring an automated infrastructure management system (puppet), version control system (subversion), continuous build and test (frequently cruisecontrol.rb), software deployment (capistrano), monitoring (currently evaluating Hyperic, Ze
operations  infrastructure  startup  management  deployment  scalability  development  article  howto  installation 
october 2007 by earth2marsh
Core77 - Riding the Flux: Design is changing in myriad ways. Are you?
"familiarity with functions across the organization and the ability to translate and make connections between them is a much-underrated talent" hear, hear!
design  future  business  trends  article  inspiration  industrial  marketing  Skills  synthesis 
october 2007 by earth2marsh
The Organization Kid
The young men and women of America's future elite work their laptops to the bone, rarely question authority, and happily accept their positions at the top of the heap as part of the natural order of life
education  article  school  academia  america  university  character  privilege  elite  generations 
october 2007 by earth2marsh
Sam Ruby: OpenID for non-SuperUsers
Howto for running your own OpenID server using phpMyID
openid  identity  howto  tutorial  article  authentication  php 
september 2007 by earth2marsh
Gary Voth Photography: The Forgotten Lens
Stellar advice - I love my 50mm! If you're serious about photography, pick up a 50mm bargain.
photography  camera  50mm  howto  Prime  article  lens 
september 2007 by earth2marsh
Cory Doctorow: DRM vendors are pushing the impossible | Technology | Guardian Unlimited
ultimately, DRM only affects people who buy media honestly, rather those who nick, borrow or cheat their way to it.
drm  copyright  article  corydoctorow  encryption  media  Movies  riaa  mpaa  music  tech 
september 2007 by earth2marsh
As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes
just as the speed and scale of China’s rise as an economic power have no clear parallel in history, so its pollution problem has shattered all precedents
nytimes  article  china  pollution  environment  lsi 
august 2007 by earth2marsh
World's Worst Mistake - Jarod Diamond
suggest that the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered. With agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality, the disease and despotism, t
collapse  agriculture  sociology  article 
august 2007 by earth2marsh
Theory P: The Philosophy of Managing Programmers
To outsiders, programmers are viewed as a sort of inner-circle of magicians who speak a rather cryptic language aimed at impressing others, as well as themselves.
Management  programming  business  development  productivity  ProjectManagement  article 
july 2007 by earth2marsh
Being, Knowing, and Being Known on the Facebook
and hanging out with my friends, and we actually ended up sleeping together that night... And then the next day, she came over again, and ended up meeting the girl who she ended up becoming long-term girlfriends with.
facebook  research  privacy  identity  socialnetworking  article 
june 2007 by earth2marsh
Cognitive Edge: Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you
"We are the means by which we create meaning, our choices (or lack of choice) are a part of the unfolding pattern of the world in which we live and we need to take responsibility for them, that way lies freedom."
connectedness  trust  existentialism  cognition  freedom  philosophy  article  network  online  virtual  choice  life  meaning 
june 2007 by earth2marsh
Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
Some teens are flocking to MySpace. And some teens are flocking to Facebook. [...] it seems to primarily have to do with socio-economic class.
facebook  myspace  culture  sociology  society  class  article  academic  analysis  economics  demographics  socialnetworking 
june 2007 by earth2marsh
raganwald: Still failing, still learning
Project management is a social problem. It is 99.5% about getting everyone who knows something about the state of the project to share what they know with everyone else. Getting all the relevant information is 99.5% of the problem, analyzing the informati
management  project  projectmanagement  business  software  Development  programming  article 
june 2007 by earth2marsh
Brain uses both neural 'teacher' and 'tinkerer' in learning - MIT News Office
In experiments with monkeys, the researchers found that neural activities in the brain gradually change, even when nothing new is being learned.
Brain  Learning  NeuroScience  MIT  Cognition  intelligence  mind  article 
june 2007 by earth2marsh
LA Weekly - News - Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted - Amy E. Boyle Johnston - The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles
the culprit in Fahrenheit 451 is not the state — it is the people. Unlike Orwell’s 1984, in which the government uses television screens to indoctrinate citizens, Bradbury envisioned television as an opiate.
books  literature  censorship  scifi  tv  television  Bradbury  451  article 
june 2007 by earth2marsh
The Power Of Us
Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business
business  collaboration  online  crowdthink  article 
may 2007 by earth2marsh
BBC NEWS | Technology | Facing up to Facebook fears
Internet law professor Michael Geist says attempts to block social media sites such as Facebook are misguided.
facebook  bbc  network  social  block  blocking  socialnetworks  article 
may 2007 by earth2marsh
LiveScience.com: Americans and Japanese Read Faces Differently
The difference between Japanese and English emoticons: happy face (^_^) and the sad face (;_;)
psychology  culture  japan  science  Japanese  article  face  sociology 
may 2007 by earth2marsh
Putting an end to topical research - From Now On
We would have done better investing in professional development and program development - changing the types of assignments so that students would be required to make answers instead of finding answers. Fewer computers. More effective teaching. That's wha
research  teaching  education  technology  article  thinking  learning 
may 2007 by earth2marsh
Wiki’s and Open Source: Collaborative or Cooperative?
While I know there is a tremendous amount of online cooperation, this is not the same as collaboration.
collaboration  cooperation  wiki  socialsoftware  opensource  article  community 
may 2007 by earth2marsh
Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What? : The Knowledge Tree
"how the architecture that frames social life is changing and what it means for a generation growing up knowing that this shift is here to stay"
privacy  identity  socialnetworks  education  social  socialnetworking  article  academic  public  private 
may 2007 by earth2marsh
Creating Passionate Users: Why does engineering/math/science education in the US suck?
Hadamard's survey found a massive disconnect between how we teach math and science and how mathematicians and scientists actually work.
education  learning  Science  math  engineering  article  teaching  Books 
may 2007 by earth2marsh
NetScrap(TM): CREATURES FROM PRIMORDIAL SILICON
Let Darwinism loose in an electronics lab and just watch what it creates. A lean, mean machine that nobody understands. Clive Davidson reports
evolution  design  article  electronics  technology  programming  artificialintelligence  emergence  Science 
may 2007 by earth2marsh
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Metropolis strives to meet its thirst
The Australian of the year 2007, environmentalist Tim Flannery, once predicted that Perth in Western Australia could become the world's first ghost metropolis, its population forced to abandon the city due to lack of water.
article  lsi  resource  environment  water  sustainability 
may 2007 by earth2marsh
Digital SLR cameras: Canon Digital Rebel and Nikon D80
y priced ultra-wide prime (non-zoom) lenses. There isn't a very large market for a 14/2.8 lens and therefore they are built almost by hand. It therefore makes sense to buy a wide-angle zoom lens. A good place to start experimenting in the Canon small-sens
photography  slr  digital  tips  howto  camera  review  article  advice 
may 2007 by earth2marsh
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