Yet another boatload of links for you all. If you don’t read anything else, think about whether deep reading suffers during the advance of technology. Of course, there are lots of good things buried in the links, but … well, you might be suffering from a lack of reading skills, due to technology.
Education
- The Humanities Go Google 04 June 2010, 12:17 pm
- Two brain circuits involved with habitual learning 10 June 2010, 5:00 am
- Studying Engineering Before They Can Spell It 14 June 2010, 2:17 pm
- Why Do Women Leave Science And Engineering? 14 June 2010, 2:37 pm
- Program Makes Math Easy as 1, 2, 3 14 June 2010, 2:45 pm
- Data Show Increase in First-Time Science and Engineering Graduate Students 14 June 2010, 2:45 pm
- Babies grasp number, space and time concepts 15 June 2010, 5:00 pm
- Where Are All the Science Majors? 16 June 2010, 11:49 am
Miscellany
- Symphonic Sewage: Waste-Treatment Plant Plays Mozart to Microbes 01 June 2010, 7:23 am
- Shanghaied: The Flip Side of China’s Economic Miracle 02 June 2010, 1:23 am
- Consultant urges bee model for business success 02 June 2010, 12:07 am
- GET TO WORK / Tech firms offer training to unemployed, military 02 June 2010, 12:07 am
- Massacre in Czechoslovakia: Newly Discovered Film Shows Post-War Executions 02 June 2010, 7:28 am
- Drug induces a memory of safety in rat brains 05 June 2010, 2:00 am
- Gestational age at delivery has relationship with the risk of special educational needs, study finds 09 June 2010, 2:00 pm
- Computational model sheds light on how the brain recognizes objects 09 June 2010, 5:00 am
- Solar Flight Pioneer Bertrand Piccard: ‘We Have the Technology to End Our Dependence on Fossil Fuels’ 10 June 2010, 3:58 am
- Sleep colors your view of the world: Study suggests sleep may restore color perception 10 June 2010, 5:00 am
- Aftermath of the Israel Flotilla Raid: German Activists File War Crimes Complaints 11 June 2010, 3:14 am
- FTC readies probe of Apple’s mobile-ad tactics 12 June 2010, 12:07 am
- Tiny insect brains capable of huge feats 12 June 2010, 5:00 am
- FDA to review personal gene-testing kits 12 June 2010, 7:21 am
- Sense of smell holds the key to diagnosis and treatment in early stage Parkinson’s disease 13 June 2010, 5:00 am
- New System Developed for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease 14 June 2010, 2:36 pm
- University of Massachusetts Amherst Researchers Launch iPhone App to Rescue Oiled Gulf Coast Wildlife 16 June 2010, 11:50 am
- Broken Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives 16 June 2010, 12:07 pm
- Obama’s Half-Hearted Battle: President of Change Unwilling to Tackle US Oil Addiction 16 June 2010, 3:48 am
- Learning difficulties may be centred in the eye, not the brain 16 June 2010, 5:00 am
- Brain comes hard-wired with working navigational neurons, rat study suggests 17 June 2010, 5:00 pm
- Photos from the Italian Front: How the Nazis Used War Rubble as Propaganda 18 June 2010, 6:08 am
- Diplopedia — Wikipedia-style diplomacy — a success at US Department of State 19 May 2010, 9:00 pm
Privacy / Law
- Surveillance Software Knows What a Camera Sees 02 June 2010, 12:39 pm
- Defence Lab Reveals Ultimate CCTV 02 June 2010, 12:40 pm
- EFF Fights for Your Right to Resell CDs in Monday Hearing 02 June 2010, 9:05 am
- Yahoo faces privacy test with new e-mail features 02 June 2010, 9:14 am
- Group cites study in push for Google antitrust case 06 June 2010, 12:07 am
- Google denies use of private data for mapping 07 June 2010, 3:41 pm
- Invention provides quicker, more efficient use of surveillance videos 07 June 2010, 9:00 pm
- No place to hide: New 360-degree video surveillance system uses image stitching technology that is perfectly detailed edge to edge 08 June 2010, 11:00 am
- Privacy worries inspire a new wave of startups 1 June 2010, 12:07 am
- European Privacy Officials: Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Are Still Breaking European Privacy Law 10 June 2010, 11:14 am
- EFF Launches Subpoena Defense List to Help Targets of Movie-Downloading Lawsuits 11 June 2010, 10:05 am
- Protecting Privacy: Make the Data ‘Fade Away’ 14 June 2010, 2:36 pm
- Virtual Privacy 14 June 2010, 2:42 pm
- EU Search Engine Snooping Mandate Sneaked Into Child Protection Declaration 15 June 2010, 4:14 pm
- Twitter adds location to messages 15 June 2010, 7:14 am
- German state files complaint about Street View 15 June 2010, 8:02 am
- Open Letter to Facebook: More Privacy Improvements Needed 16 June 2010, 10:07 am
- Hopeful Signs in Supreme Court’s New Text Messaging Privacy Decision, City of Ontario v. Quon 17 June 2010, 11:47 am
- French probe Google over privacy 18 June 2010, 12:07 am
- In Debate, Audience Finds that the Cyberwar Threat Is Not Exaggerated 20 June 2010, 7:37 am
- Firm returns with business social networking 30 May 2010, 12:07 am
- Required Reading: Adrian Johns, Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates 30 May 2010, 3:39 pm
- Online privacy at risk, warn educators 30 May 2010, 9:00 pm
- “YouTube Is UsTube”: Creators Step in to Defend YouTube 31 May 2010, 12:19 pm
Robotics
- Follow the (Robotic) Leader 04 June 2010, 12:18 pm
- Spiders at the nanoscale: Molecules that behave like robots 12 May 2010, 11:00 am
- Flying Bots That Self-Assemble Midair 14 June 2010, 2:36 pm
- All Eyes and Ears on March of the Cyborgs 14 June 2010, 2:45 pm
Security
- Software developers tackle child grooming on the net 01 June 2010, 11:00 pm
- Detecting a Crime Before It Happens 02 June 2010, 12:41 pm
- Researchers: Poor Password Practices Hurt Security for All 14 June 2010, 2:41 pm
- Open Source Could Mean an Open Door for Hackers 14 June 2010, 2:45 pm
- Encrypt the Web with the HTTPS Everywhere Firefox Extension 17 June 2010, 5:06 pm
Social Networking
- Facebook Privacy Changes Inspire Praise, Optimism, and Skepticism 01 June 2010, 1:58 pm
- Facebook admits censoring content in Pakistan 01 June 2010, 11:09 am
- UPDATED: Opt-Out Required to Prevent Your Yahoo! Mail Contacts From Being Used for Social Network 04 June 2010, 4:41 pm
- Yahoo’s site mirrors Facebook in latest facelift 07 June 2010, 4:49 am
- Group lists top five social media risks for businesses 08 June 2010, 8:21 am
- Social networks give rise to personal yearbooks 10 June 2010, 1:19 pm
- LinkedIn communications at center of unprecedented lawsuit 16 June 2010, 9:13 am
- Big jump in visitors to social sites, blogs 20 June 2010, 12:07 am
- Are Friends Electric? 20 June 2010, 8:14 am
- on the internet, nobody knows that you're a dog 20 June 2010, 8:21 am
- More people LinkedIn than tweeting 29 May 2010, 5:08 am
- It’s tough to keep your online rep intact 30 May 2010, 12:07 am
Technology
- Copper nanowires enable bendable displays and solar cells; Pin-like copper structures self-assemble in solution 02 June 2010, 11:00 am
- The World: A Global Village Called Babel 02 June 2010, 12:39 pm
- Classic Grammar Model Can Be Used for Computerised Parsing 02 June 2010, 12:40 pm
- A Novel ‘Cuckoo Search Algorithm’ Beat Particle Swarm Optimization in Engineering Design 02 June 2010, 12:41 pm
- Unique computer model used to predict active 2010 hurricane season 02 June 2010, 5:00 am
- Visual system interprets sign languages 02 June 2010, 8:00 pm
- 520 Days in a Tube: Moscow Team Begins Simulated Flight to Mars 03 June 2010, 2:00 am
- Sensitive Hearing: Noisy Offshore Wind Park Scares Off Porpoises 03 June 2010, 3:49 am
- Hiring Expected to Be Robust in Second Half of 2010 04 June 2010, 12:13 pm
- DNA Logic Gates Herald Injectable Computers 04 June 2010, 12:13 pm
- Visual System Interprets Sign Languages 04 June 2010, 12:15 pm
- Using Neural Networks to Classify Music 04 June 2010, 12:16 pm
- Innovative Research Reawakens Human Memories Through Intelligent Textiles 04 June 2010, 12:17 pm
- Students Develop Device to Help Blind Maneuver 04 June 2010, 12:17 pm
- Students develop device to help blind maneuver 04 June 2010, 2:00 am
- When eyes aren’t enough: Computer analysis can help doctors diagnose severe heart disease 06 June 2010, 9:00 pm
- Simple eye test measures damage from multiple sclerosis, researchers find 08 June 2010, 2:00 am
- Using the Internet to Save the Rainforest: How an Amazonian Tribe Is Mastering the Modern World 08 June 2010, 2:11 am
- U.S. government’s move to cloud computing 08 June 2010, 9:00 pm
- GPS Not Just for Driving But Can Be Tool for Crowd Management and Medical Follow-Up 14 June 2010, 2:17 pm
- 3-D Without the Glasses 14 June 2010, 2:18 pm
- Valencian Researchers Create an Intelligent System of Traffic Management 14 June 2010, 2:19 pm
- AI That Picks Stocks Better Than the Pros 14 June 2010, 2:36 pm
- New Software to Measure Emotional Reactions to Web 14 June 2010, 2:37 pm
- Examining Ancient Manuscripts in a Digital Age 14 June 2010, 2:41 pm
- Archive Project Will Digitize WWII Enigma Messages 14 June 2010, 2:42 pm
- Immortal Avatars: Back Up Your Brain, Never Die 14 June 2010, 2:42 pm
- Part-Human, Part-Machine Transistor Devised 14 June 2010, 2:46 pm
- How the Brain Recognizes Objects 14 June 2010, 2:46 pm
- Giant 3D Printer Uses Sand to “Print” Buildings 15 June 2010, 2:28 pm
- Pioneer in the movement to mobile 15 June 2010, 6:37 am
- Google sees seamless access to information 15 June 2010, 6:38 am
- How Kinect may change home entertainment 15 June 2010, 8:06 am
- Nanospheres Stretch Limits of Hard Disk Storage 16 June 2010, 11:51 am
- New system using bacterial communities to solve complex problems 16 June 2010, 2:00 pm
- Computer intelligence predicts human visual attention for first time 17 June 2010, 2:00 am
- White House Seeks Input on IT, Science 19 June 2010, 3:29 pm
- 18th-Century Painters Give Photography New Perspective 20 June 2010, 7:37 am
- Creators Must Move Beyond Suing the Audience 28 May 2010, 3:46 pm
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