The Church of Oprah Exposed
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07 Apr 2008
Oprah's new online class covering Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth is exposed. They conducted the first mass trance. Over 2 Million participated in this new age ...
Online Crooks Face Tough Competition
Fierce competition among identity thieves has driven the prices for stolen data down to bargain-basement levels, which has forced crooks to adopt mainstream business tactics to lure customers, according to a new report on Internet security threats. ... Credit card...HP Unveils Small Laptop for Schoolkids
One more of the world's biggest technology companies is clamoring to enter the growing market for pint-sized computers targeted mainly for pint-sized customers. ... Hewlett-Packard Co., the No. 1 seller of personal computers worldwide, said Tuesday it's throwing its...Social Contagion: Spiral Up or Spiral Down?
Positive Psychology News Daily - By Kathryn Britton - Apr. 8 (Review) - Social contagion is a term for moods spreading from person to person. We are physically constructed to make this possible. Daniel Goleman in Social Intelligence (2007) writes about mirror neurons that fire in response to observing behavior or emotions in others. "For instance, when volunteers lay in an fMRI watching a video showing someone smile or scowl, most brain areas that activated in the observers were the same as those active in the person displaying the emotion, though not as...NewsTrust Rating: 3.0 average - Reviews - Review It
In the Grand Canyon, after the flood
MSNBC - Apr. 8 (News Report) - (Video) A man-made flood was forced through the Grand Canyon in an attempt to restore its ecosystem. The question now is, did it work? NBC's John Larson reportsNewsTrust Rating: 3.4 from source rating - Review It
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep
ScienceBlogs.com - By Bora Zivkovic - Apr. 8 (Blog Post) - Until not long ago, just about until electricity became ubiquitous, humans used to have a sleep pattern quite different from what we consider "normal" today. At dusk you go to sleep, at some point in the middle of the night you wake up for an hour or two, then fall asleep again until dawn. Thus there are two events of falling asleep and two events of waking up every night (plus, perhaps, a short nap in the afternoon)...NewsTrust Rating: 3.2 from source rating - Review It
Darwin Was Right: Natural Selection Speeds Up Speciation
ScienceDaily - Apr. 8 (News Report) - In the first experiment of its kind conducted in nature, a University of British Columbia evolutionary biologist has come up with strong evidence for one of Charles Darwin's cornerstone ideas -- adaptation to the environment accelerates the creation of new species. "A single adaptive trait such as color could move a population towards the process of forming a new species, but adaptation in many traits may be required to actually complete the formation of an entirely new species,"...NewsTrust Rating: 3.3 from source rating - Review It
Lawyers seek jurors short on bias
Orlando Sentinel - By Debbie Salamone - Apr. 8 (News Report) - Will you make the cut as a perfect juror? It depends on the case. But the search for a jury is an exercise in psychology. Lawyers want to know what makes you tick, and they typically have only a few hours to figure it out. Think of it as speed dating for justice. "I like anyone who thinks logically," says Bob Mansbach, a lawyer with Zimmerman, Kiser & Sutcliffe, P.A., who specializes in premises and products liability, legal and medical malpractice...NewsTrust Rating: 3.3 from source rating - Review It
Monty Hall Meets Cognitive Dissonance
New York Times - By John Tierney - Apr. 8 (Review) - My Findings column, about a potential fallacy in some of the most famous experiments in psychology, deals with a couple of topics that could each take up an entire column: the Monty Hall Problem and cognitive dissonance. Fortunately, we have all the room we want here to explore both of them, and get a fuller explanation of the connection between the two from M. Keith Chen, the Yale economist who has boldly challenged a mainstay of the social-psychology literature.NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 from source rating - Review It
Our Racist, Sexist Selves
New York Times - By Nicholas D. Kristof - Apr. 8 (Opinion) - To my horror, I turn out to be a racist. The University of Chicago offers an on-line psychological test in which you encounter a series of 100 black or white men, holding either guns or cellphones. You're supposed to shoot the gunmen and holster your gun for the others.NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 from source rating - Review It
Brain Images Make Inaccurate Science News Trustworthy
Scientific American - Apr. 8 (Podcast) - Functional magnetic resonance imaging (or fMRI)--the tool that creates a Technicolor map of our brains showing areas that are "lit up" where we experience anger, empathy or even morality--is either thought of as one of the greatest scientific advancements or nothing more than a high-tech phrenology--the theory that personality can be revealed by the positions of bumps in the skull...NewsTrust Rating: 3.9 from source rating - Review It
Monkeys Hear Voices
Scientific American - By Pascal Belin - Apr. 8 (Blog Post) - The use of vocalizations, such as grunts, songs or barks, is extremely common throughout the animal kingdom. Nevertheless, humans are the only species in which these vocalizations have attained the sophistication and communicative effectiveness of speech. How did our ancestors become the only speaking animals, some tens of thousand years ago? Did this change happen abruptly, involving the sudden appearance of a new cerebral region or pattern of cerebral connections? Or did it happen through a...NewsTrust Rating: 3.9 from source rating - Review It
App Engine: Host Your Apps with Google (Brady Forrest/O’Reilly Radar)
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
App Engine: Host Your Apps with Google — Tonight at their second CampFireOne Google Code is announcing App Engine, a hosted platform for web developers. The actual service will launch later tonight in a closed Beta. 10,000 developers will be granted access on a first come, first serve basis.
How to build the mesh - #2: Persistent, Ubiquitous Content
April 7, 2008
Marc's Voice / Marc Canter
OK now that we’ve established that the #1 most important thing in building the mesh is the Human - and their ID, personas, social graph and groups they’re members of, what’s the seco ...
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FCC Handcuffs U.S. Mobile [GigaOM]
April 7, 2008
GigaOM Network / Guest Column
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said recently he was dismissing a petition from Skype that would force operators to connect any lawful device to the telephone network provided it doesn’t do harm to the ne ...
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Open Source Decade: 10 years after the Free Software Summit
April 7, 2008
Ars Technica / nobody@dev.null (federico biancuzzi)
On the tenth anniversary of the Free Software Summit, the event where the term "open source" was introduced to the general public, Ars reflects on the history of the movement and its future. We interv ...
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