Creative Social Blog » simple interactivity. AntiVJ is a visual Label - blog. Smart Economy. Prions can be notoriously destructive, spurring proteins to misfold and interfere with cellular function as they spread without control. New research, publishingin the open access journal PLOS Biology on February 11 2014, from scientists at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research reveals that certain prion-like proteins, however, can be precisely controlled so that they are generated only in a specific time and place. These prion-like proteins are not involved in disease processes; rather, they are essential for creating and maintaining long-term memories. "This protein is not toxic; it's important for memory to persist," says Stowers researcher Kausik Si, who led the study.
To ensure that long-lasting memories are created only in the appropriate neural circuits, Si explains, the protein must be tightly regulated so that it adopts its prion-like form only in response to specific stimuli. He and his colleagues report on the biochemical changes that make that precision possible. O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emer. Future Blogger. November 19 2009 / by VenessaMiemisCategory: Information Year: 2009 Rating: 2 cross-posted from www.emergentbydesign.com I've seen a bunch of posts bubble up over the past few days that are really sparking my curiousity about what is really going on with Twitter, so I need to do a little brain dump. Bear with me.
Insight #1 An article by Rosabeth Moss Kanter was just published today on the Harvard Business Review website, titled On Twitter and in the Workplace, It's Power to the Connectors. In it, she highlights the fact that there is an organizational trend moving away from the hierarchical networks of the 20th century, and towards complex, distributed, non-hierarchical structures of business organization and leadership. She also points out that success today is based on a person's ability to leverage power and influence within their social networks, to act as "connectors" between people and information, and in turn build social capital.
Continue Reading Continue Reading By Jason M. [cough] Earth2Tech. Blog. February 7th, 2014 Swedish and Norwegian ignorance results In November and December of 2013 Novus Group International AB and Gapminder did a study in which we asked ten basic questions about the world. Here are the results for the Swedish and Norwegian answers in PDF format: SWE-NO Ignorance results 2013 You can read more about our Ignorance Project here: www.gapminder.org/ignorance/ December 26th, 2013 Swedish Ignorance 2013 In November 2013 Gapminder conducted an Ignorance Survey in Sweden.
December 10th, 2013 Ignorance Survey in the USA 2013 In November 2013 Gapminder conducted an Ignorance Survey in the US for the first time. November 21st, 2013 DON’T PANIC — Watch it online Don’t Panic — is a one-hour long documentary broadcasted on BBC TWO in November 2013, in which Hans Rosling shows that the world might not be as bad as you might believe! November 19th, 2013 Updating Gapminder World Offline Data November 7th, 2013 Sources for data shown in DON´T PANIC November 3rd, 2013 October 31st, 2013. Metacool. Kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products. Core77 / industrial design magazine + resource / home. A design and usability blog: Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) Mixcloud blog. Launches New Features, Becomes Must-Have for Social Media Market.
Verbophobia. When I started using computers as a little kid, it was all-inclusive; if you were interested, you were in the club. Eventually, communities were built around things like Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) that were places for getting email, downloading files, chatting with other people, and playing games. The BBS operators wrote code and spent time designing a culture for their systems or communities. In the Northern California Foothills, we had what we called an MUPT meeting once a month. At our Modem User Pizza Thingy, we shared ideas, talked about communication, and generally were stupid, geeky nerds; and we loved it! I was too young to drive to the meeting so I had to be dropped off. Yet, that did not seem to matter to anyone. The BBS culture carried into the Internet and, wow, that’s where things got interesting.
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