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Clipmarks for Firefox 3.5

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:46:49 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Anyone who is having problems using Clipmarks in Firefox 3.5, please uninstall the version you currently have and then go to the source of this clip and reinstall it - after doing that it will work properly.

I'm very sorry to anyone who is inconvenienced by this. Please POP so others will be made aware.

Thank you!

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What is a fair price for free knowledge?

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:59:02 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: "When it comes to knowledge, you can never have too much of a good thing."

Clip Source: www.newscientist.com

Finding a fair price for free knowledge

TEN years ago, a piece of software called Napster taught us that scarcity is no longer a law of nature. The physics of our universe would allow everyone with access to a networked computer to enjoy, for free, every song, every film, every book, every piece of research, every computer program, every last thing that could be made out of digital ones and zeros. The question became not, will nature allow it, but will our legal and economic system ever allow it?

The irony of the battle between advocates of abundance and advocates of scarcity is that both sides are right. It makes no sense to limit and control access now we have technologies to give information to everyone. But it is also foolish to pretend we do not need incentives to help produce and publish that information.

build institutions that promote knowledge-sharing

while at the same time ensuring that there are incentives for creative and technical minds to contribute

Tags: internet, knowledge, open source

People tend to avoid information that contradicts what they already think or believe

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:20:33 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: "We swim in a sea of information, but filter out most of what we see and hear. A new analysis of data from dozens of studies sheds new light on how we choose what we do and do not hear"

Clip Source: www.physorg.com

People sometimes seek the truth, but most prefer like-minded views

We swim in a sea of information, but filter out most of what we see and hear. A new analysis of data from dozens of studies sheds new light on how we choose what we do and do not hear. The study found that while people tend to avoid information that contradicts what they already think or believe, certain factors can cause them to seek out, or at least consider, other points of view.

We wanted to see exactly across the board to what extent people are willing to seek out the truth versus just stay comfortable with what they know,

The studies they reviewed generally asked participants about their views on a given topic and then allowed them to choose whether they wanted to view or read information supporting their own or an opposing point of view.

The researchers also found, not surprisingly, that people are more resistant to new points of view when their own ideas are associated with political, religious or ethical values

Congratulations Masbury

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:25:28 GMT

clipped by: chestnut501
clipper's remarks: Clipmarks New #1 Clipper

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Rank

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Poverty Hurts

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:51:15 GMT

clipped by: dmegivern
clipper's remarks: Been waiting for science to confirm what I always knew & felt growing up in poverty. It's not just about the money, it's the pain that makes it traumatic. This article was life-validating.

Clip Source: www.newsweek.com

Poverty Hurts

Clip Source: www.newsweek.com

The findings were unambiguous. As reported in the June issue of the journal Psychological Science, thinking about expenses and spending—lack of money in general—increased feelings of distress, especially for those who were excluded by their social group. It also led to diminished pain tolerance in the hot-water test. Put another way, people who were focused on financial need suffered more pain of every kind than people who felt financially empowered.

When the researchers looked at this the other way around, they found that inflicting pain or social rejection also increased volunteers' desire for money. There's the risk of a vicious spiral here: the very real pain of being poor and marginalized could actually exaggerate and distort the desire the desire for money, so that further rejection and hardship is even more painful, and so on. The result could be a kind of psychological inflation.

Tags: poverty, pain, suffering, social rejection, money

World's Most Beautiful Transparent Animals

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:35:16 GMT

clipped by: reimers

Clip Source: somethinbeautiful.blogspot.com

Here are the most Beautiful transparent animals, Nature sure butterflies is very interesting photos!

Transparent Frog

Transparent Head Fish

Transparent Butterfly

Transparent Squid

Transparent Zebrafish created by scientists

Transparent Icefish

Transparent Amphipod

Transparent Larval Shrimp

Transparent Salp

Transparent Jellyfish

As Seen On Earth: The Infinite Photograph - Amazing

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:39:00 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: "There’s no question National Geographic is a photographic force to be reckoned with. And now they’re on a mission to inspire people to care about the planet through a gigantic collaborative photo-mosaic of the Earth.

Clip Source: www.brainpickings.org

As Seen On Earth: The Infinite Photograph

Clip Source: www.brainpickings.org

There’s no question National Geographic is a photographic force to be reckoned with. And now they’re on a mission to inspire people to care about the planet through a gigantic collaborative photo-mosaic of the Earth.

Earth.

Infinite Photograph is a global project building a portrait of Earth seen through the eyes of ordinary people, a promotional effort for NG’s MyShot initiative

Currently, the mosaic is composed of over 300,000 photos of the natural world, pulled from archived images by MyShot users. But the project is also an ongoing invitation for new submissions — the more images are indexed, the richer the the color sampling will be and the closer to infinity the mosaic can get.

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The team at National Geographic envisions various future extensions of the project as the image catalog grows, breaking it down into mosaic representations of sub-categories like water, trees, and animals.

r Infinite Photograph are absolutely stunning

go ahead and

Why you aren’t nearly as unique as you think?

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:37:49 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: "Since 1994, photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have been trekking the globe together, recording Exactitudes — “exact attitudes” captu(red) in people’s peculiar dress code as an attempt to differentiate themselves from others or identify with a group."

Clip Source: www.brainpickings.org

Why you aren’t nearly as unique as you think, or what 12 Japanese school children have to do with 12 homeless people in Rotterdam.

Each “exactitude” consists of twelve distinct portraits structured in a grid. Think of it as street fashion meets cultural anthropology meets data visualization — a visceral exploration of subcultures, group identity and individualism.

The series is also an ethnographic and temporal portrait of our collectively individual identity across time and space — the big bags of 2008, New York’s yupster girls, the tracksuits of Japanese schoolkids, the soccer jersey fetish of European teenage boys, even “street style” at its rawest in the face of the homeless.

We see the Rotterdam-based duo’s work as a collage of contradictions — between individuality and uniformity, between street style and studio setting, between self and group — that make you question our cultural givens and our self-conception as unique personas.

Fallen Princesses

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:48:55 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus

Clip Source: www.jpgmag.com

Fallen Princesses

These works place Fairy Tale characters in modern day scenarios. In all of the images the Princess is placed in an environment that articulates her conflict. The '...happily ever after' is replaced with a realistic outcome and addresses current issues.

The Disney versions almost always have sad beginning, with an overbearing female villain, and the end is predictably a happy one. The Prince usually saves the day and makes the victimized young beauty into a Princess

the original brothers Grimm's stories and found that they have very dark and sometimes gruesome aspects, many of which were changed by Disney.

imagine Disney's perfect Princesses juxtaposed with real issues

Clip Source: www.jpgmag.com

Clipmarks 4.0 Now Available - supports Firefox 3.5

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:32:35 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Our upgraded version of Clipmarks is now available. If you click the source link of this clip you'll be able to get it. Anyone having problems, please comment below and we'll try to work them out.

If you wouldn't mind, please pop this clip so others are made aware.

Clip Source: addons.mozilla.org

Clipmarks 4.0.0

Tags: clipmarks, firefox

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. —Harry Truman

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:02:40 GMT

clipped by: swampfoxz

Clip Source: phunkyou.com

60 Selected Best Famous Quotes

Best Famous Quotes

Wisdom and Inspirational Quotes
1. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
—Albert Einstein
2. Eighty percent of success is showing up.
—Woody Allen
3. I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
—Wilson Mizner
4. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.
—Daniel J. Boorstin

40. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
—Franklin P. Jones
Otherwise Interesting Quotes
41. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
—Albert Einstein
42. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
—Susan Erz
43. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
—Pablo Picasso

Tags: famous quotes

"Africa alone could feed the world"

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:01:33 GMT

clipped by: cakebelly

Clip Source: www.newscientist.com

DOOM-MONGERS have got it wrong - there is enough space in the world to produce the extra food needed to feed a growing population. And contrary to expectation, most of it can be grown in Africa, say two international reports published this week.

The first, projecting 10 years into the future from last year's food crisis, which saw the price of food soar, says that there is plenty of unused, fertile land available to grow more crops.

"Some 1.6 billion hectares could be added to the current 1.4 billion hectares of crop land [in the world], and over half of the additionally available land is found in Africa and Latin America," concludes the report, compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

If further evidence were needed, it comes in a second report, launched jointly by the FAO and the World Bank. It concludes that 400 million hectares, straddling 25 African countries, are suitable for farming.

Scientists Make Radio Waves Travel Faster Than Light

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:23:34 GMT

clipped by: chestnut501
clipper's remarks: A Los Alamos National Laboratory gadget, called a polarization synchrotron, combines radio waves and a rapidly spinning magnetic field, which forces radio waves to travel faster than the speed of light. The resulting phenomenon could lead to new technologies in health and communications.

Clip Source: www.santafenewmexican.com

Scientist John Singleton insists that Albert Einstein wouldn't be mad at him, even though at first blush Singleton appears to have twisted the famous physicist's theories about light into a pretzel.

Most people think Einstein said that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, but that's not really the case, Singleton said.

Einstein predicted that particles and information can't travel faster than the speed of light — but phenomenon like radio waves? That's a different story, said Singleton, a Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow.

Singleton has created a gadget that abuses radio waves so severely that they finally give in and travel faster than light.

Singleton's discovery could have wide-ranging technological impacts in areas such as medicine and communications, he said.

"Because nobody's really thought about things that travel faster than light before, this is a wide-open technological field," Singleton said.

Tags: physics, theory, energy, speed, einstein, astronomy, pulsars, discoveries, news, science

Why do we nod our heads for "yes" and shake them for "no"?

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:50:13 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Dear Cecil:

"With reference to your column on gestures, did you leave out or just not know that in Greece the five fingers spread out and thrust forward at someone means "[poo] in your face"? - Had to Tell You.

Cecil replies:

"Thank you for sharing that with us. Just shows you how the Greeks continue to enrich civilization. "

Clip Source: www.straightdope.com

No less a personage than Charles Darwin looked into it

Nodding and head-shaking turned out to be pretty common, but there were some striking exceptions. For example, certain Australian natives, when uttering a negative, "don't shake the head, but holding up the right hand, shake it by turning it half round and back again two or three times."

Abyssinians said "no" by jerking the head to the right shoulder and making a slight cluck, while "yes" was expressed by the head being thrown backwards and the eyebrows raised for an instant.

The Dyaks of Borneo supposedly raised their eyebrows for "yes" and slightly contracted them, "together with a peculiar look of the eyes," for "no." Eskimoes nodded for "yes" and winked for "no."

where they completely reverse the meaning of our nod and head-shake gestures is Bulgaria. There a nod means no and a shake means yes.

One shudders to think of the implications this has for cross-cultural dating in that country.

Is Anti-Aging Medicine Coming to the Mainstream?

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:18:39 GMT

clipped by: einbar

Clip Source: hplusmagazine.com

Is Anti-Aging Medicine Coming to the Mainstream?

More medical researchers are questioning the standard one-disease-at-a-time approach that has dominated the search for cures to aging-related illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s. On November 21st, Brandon Keim reported, on the Wired Science blog, that researchers frustrated with the limited success of the narrower conventional approach are opening up to the idea of using mitochondrial medicine. The aim is to ward off the diseases caused by aging by addressing their shared sources, repairing and preventing the damage caused by the free oxygen radicals released as the mitochondria degenerate and break down.

A number of new anti-aging drugs are in development and could be on the market within the next five years

Resveratrol, probably the best known of the mitochondrial drugs (it's that stuff in red wine), is currently in clinical human trials for diabetes

Clipmarks | This Week's Top Clips

Clipmarks for Firefox 3.5

What is a fair price for free knowledge?

Finding a fair price for free knowledge

People tend to avoid information that contradicts what they already think or believe

People sometimes seek the truth, but most prefer like-minded views

Congratulations Masbury

Poverty Hurts

World's Most Beautiful Transparent Animals

As Seen On Earth: The Infinite Photograph - Amazing

As Seen On Earth: The Infinite Photograph

Why you aren’t nearly as unique as you think?

Fallen Princesses

Fallen Princesses

Belle

Cinder 3

Snowy

Rapunzel II

Not so Little Riding Hood

Jasmine at war

Sleeping Beauty

Clipmarks 4.0 Now Available - supports Firefox 3.5

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. —Harry Truman

60 Selected Best Famous Quotes

"Africa alone could feed the world"

Scientists Make Radio Waves Travel Faster Than Light

Why do we nod our heads for "yes" and shake them for "no"?

Is Anti-Aging Medicine Coming to the Mainstream?

Is Anti-Aging Medicine Coming to the Mainstream?