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A Formula for Happiness - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...a-formula-for-happiness.html happiness social sciences
shared by LeopoldS on 15 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 15 Dec 13
     
    beati pauperes spiritu :-) "Political junkies might be interested to learn that conservative women are particularly blissful: about 40 percent say they are very happy. That makes them slightly happier than conservative men and significantly happier than liberal women. The unhappiest of all are liberal men; only about a fifth consider themselves very happy." I think that there are many factors missing there that are just not asked possibly such as altruism as a source for happiness ...
  • johannessimon81 on 16 Dec 13
     
    According to The Beatles "Happiness is a warm gun"... To each his own, I guess. :-)
  • Paul N on 16 Dec 13
     
    It really depends on one's values really. If your values don't follow the standard vanilla flavor then it all breaks down.
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Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups - 2 views

www.sciencemag.org/...686 intelligence team talking women
shared by Isabelle DB on 05 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Isabelle DB on 05 Nov 10
     
    What do you think of this one ?
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  • Luzi Bergamin on 05 Nov 10
     
    Great! Women perhaps are not more intelligent as individuals, but now at least they have more collective intelligence... Interesting research topic, though, but I doubt that any of these results can be generalized to real live situations.
  • Isabelle DB on 05 Nov 10
     
    Maybe by passing the message to ensure some men understand it would be their interest to have (more) women in their teams ? No problem at the ACT, this maybe why it works so well ? :-))
  • Luzi Bergamin on 05 Nov 10
     
    Well, that's perhaps the reason, why meetings were always so f... boring while I was at ACT :D
  • sreejanag on 08 Nov 10
     
    Lots more resources on collective intelligence: http://cci.mit.edu/
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Mapping the spider genome: Surprising similarities to humans -- ScienceDaily - 1 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...140507105031.htm spider humans fun
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  • Tom Gheysens on 08 May 14
     
    Looks like we are all spider men and women :)
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Men lose their minds speaking to pretty women - Telegraph - 0 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...-speaking-to-pretty-women.html science Health research Gender News Psychology
shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 10 Sep 09 - Cached
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 10 Sep 09
     
    a study from a dutch university
  • LeopoldS on 12 Sep 09
     
    I knew it --- we have to fire Fairouz, Nina and Friederike!!! your sheer presence is impacting the performance of the male researchers in the team!!!
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Lunecase - Bring the back of your iPhone to life! by Concepter - Kickstarter - 6 views

www.kickstarter.com/...he-back-of-your-iphone-to-life wireless power transfer WPT SPS
shared by LeopoldS on 30 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 30 Apr 14
     
    wireless power transmission made useful ? this application did certainly not come to my mind when Guy Pignolet showed me 12 years ago how his handy would lid up a small diode after our first SPS meeting in Paris ...
  • Thijs Versloot on 02 May 14
     
    Great idea to use either unused/wasted energy. Then again, the signal power (receiver floor) is steadily going down going from 3G to 5G, yet there might be more use of bandwidth to compensate this. It is funny though that you buy a device which could have the function build in it on the back from the start, yet you put a shell around it and then harness wireless power to give it that add-on functionality.
  • Isabelle Dicaire on 02 May 14
     
    Recently I came across this article in a Japanese newspaper about wireless power transmission applications in the women beauty business. It's probably not as useful as an iPhone cover but apparently there is a market for such things! http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/18/business/led-nails-light-up-when-calling/#.U2OcWV7v2X8
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Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen - 10 views

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  • After month of research and discovery, we’ve learned the following:1. Bitcoin is a technologically sound project.2. Bitcoin is unstoppable without end-user prosecution.3. Bitcoin is the most dangerous open-source project ever created.4. Bitcoin may be the most dangerous technological project since the internet itself.5. Bitcoin is a political statement by technotarians (technological libertarians).*6. Bitcoins will change the world unless governments ban them with harsh penalties.
  • The benefits of a currency like this:a) Your coins can’t be frozen (like a Paypal account can be)b) Your coins can’t be trackedc) Your coins can’t be taxedd) Transaction costs are extremely low (sorry credit card companies)
  • An individual with the name -- or perhaps handle -- of Satoshi Nakamoto first wrote about bitcoins in a paper called Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.
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  • * We made this term up to describe the “good people” of the internet who believe in the fundamental rights of individuals to be free, have free speech, fight hypocrisy and stand behind logic, technology and science over religion, political structure and tradition. These are the people who build and support things like Wikileaks, Anonymous, Linux and Wikipedia. They think that people can, and should, govern themselves. They are against external forms of control such as DRM, laws that are bought and sold by lobbyists, and religions like Scientology. They include splinter groups that enforce these ideals in the form of hacktivism, such as the takedown of the Sony Playstation Network after Sony tried to prosecute a hacker for unlocking its console.
  • Ma Ru on 17 May 11
     
    Sounds good!
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  • pacome delva on 18 May 11
     
    wow it's frigthening! it's the dream of every anarchist, every drug, arm, human dealer! the world made as a global fiscal paradise... the idea is clever however it will not replace real money because 1 - no one will build a fortune on bitcoin if a technological breakthrough can ruin them 2 - government never allowed parallel money to flourish on their territory, so it will be almost impossible to change bitcoin against euros or dollars
  • Nicholas Lan on 18 May 11
     
    interesting stuff anyone read cryptonomicon by neal stephenson? similar theme.
  • Luís F. Simões on 18 May 11
     
    :) yes. One of the comments on reddit was precisely drawing the parallels with Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash / Diamond Age / Cryptonomicon. Interesting stuff indeed. It has a lot of potential for misuse, but also opens up new possibilities. We've discussed recently how emerging technologies will drive social change. Whether it's the likes of NSA / CIA who will benefit the most from the Twitters, Facebooks and so on, by gaining greater power for control, or whether individuals are being empowered to at least an identical degree. We saw last year VISA / PayPal censoring WikiLeaks... Well, here's a way for any individual to support such an organization, in a fully anonymous and uncontrollable way...
  • tvinko on 18 May 11
     
    One of my colleagues has made a nice, short write-up about BitCoin: http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/~victor/bitcoin.html
  • LeopoldS on 18 May 11
     
    very nice analysis indeed - thanks Tamas for sharing it!
  • pacome delva on 20 May 11
     
    mmm I'm not an expert but it seemed to me that, even if these criticisms are true, there is one fundamental difference between the money you exchange on internet via your bank, and bitcoins. The first one is virtual money and the second one aims at being real, physical, money, even if digital, in the same way as banknotes, coins, or gold.
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 20 May 11
     
    An algorithm wanna-be central bank issuing untraceable tax free money between internet users? not more likely than the end of the world supposed to take place tomorrow, in my opinion. Algorithms don't usually assault women though !:P
  • LeopoldS on 21 May 11
     
    well, most money is anyway just virtual and only based on expectations and trust ... (see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply) and thus if people trust that this "money" has some value in the sense that they can get something of value to them in exchange, then not much more is needed it seems to me ...
  • pacome delva on 23 May 11
     
    @Leopold: ok let's use the rigth words then. Bitcoin aim at being a currency ("physical objects generally accepted as a medium of exchange" from wikipedia), different than the "demand deposit". In the article proposed by Tamas he compares what cannot be compared (currencies, demand deposits and their mean of exchange). The interesting question is wether one can create a digital currency which is too difficult to counterfeit. As far as I know, there is no existing digital currency except this bitcoins (and maybe the currencies from games as second life and others, but which are of limited use in real world).
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 23 May 11
     
    well of course money is trust, and even more loans and credit and even more stock and bond markets. It all represents trust and expectations. However since the first banks 500 years ago and the first loans etc. etc., and as well the fact that bonds and currencies bring down whole countries (Greece lately), and are mainly controlled by large financial centres and (central) banks, banks have always been on the winning side no matter what and that isn't going to change easily. So if you are talking about these new currencies it would be a new era, not just a new currency. So should Greece convert its debt to bitcoins ;P ?
  • pacome delva on 23 May 11
     
    well, from 1936 to 1993 the central bank of france was owned by the state and was supposed to serve the general interest...
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Grandma Plays Favorites -- Balter 2009 (1028): 1 -- ScienceNOW - 1 views

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  • A new study finds support for the "grandmother hypothesis," the idea that older women spread their genes most effectively by helping their daughters take care of their children.
  • Thus paternal grandmothers were most beneficial to the survival of their granddaughters and least beneficial to the survival of their grandsons, while maternal grandmothers showed an intermediate effectiveness. Experts are thrilled by the findings. "Wow, very interesting," says Hawkes. "The consistent results across seven populations ... seem to clarify previously inconsistent results." Lorena Madrigal, an anthropologist at the University of South Florida in Tampa, calls the study "an important contribution to a topic of great interest to evolutionary biologists."
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Women would endure most pain for a best friend - 0 views

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shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - No Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    females are just more social, really??
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Can women detect cues to ovulation in other women's faces? | Biology Letters - 0 views

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  • LeopoldS on 30 Jan 16
     
    Good old Darwin...
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Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? | Sci... - 2 views

www.theguardian.com/...fic-publishing-bad-for-science science
shared by gpetit on 28 Jun 17 - No Cached
  • gpetit on 28 Jun 17
     
    "Publishing industry exerts too much influence over what scientists choose to study, which is ultimately bad for science itself"
  • jcunha on 04 Jul 17
     
    On a related topic - a nice read written in 1939 from Abraham Flexner the founder of Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, home of some great minds on the "Usefulness of Useless Knowledge". Enjoy https://library.ias.edu/files/UsefulnessHarpers.pdf
  • LeopoldS on 22 Jul 17
     
    This article is fantastic - starts already well with : "r IT not a curious fact that in a world steeped in irrational hatreds which threaten civilization itself, men and women-old and young-detach them-selves wholly or partly from the angry current of daily life to devote themselves to the cultivation ofbeauty, to the exten-sion ofknowledge, to the cure ofdisease, to the amelioration of suffering, just as though fanatics were not simultaneously engaged in spreading pain, ugliness, and suffering?" Could almost be written now
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