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What is Bitcoin? - We Use Coins. Open science: a future shaped by shared experience | Education | The Observer. On the surface, it looked as if there was nothing in mathematics that Timothy Gowers couldn't achieve. He held a prestigious professorship at Cambridge. He had been a recipient of the Fields Medal, the highest honour in mathematics. He had even acted as a scientific consultant on Hollywood movies. Yet there were a few complex mathematical problems that he had struggled to solve. "In most cases, I just ran out of steam," he explains. So one day he took one of these – finding a mathematical proof about the properties of multidimensional objects – and put his thoughts on his blog. He called it the Polymath Project and it rapidly took on a life of its own.

"If you set out to solve a problem, there's no guarantee you will succeed," says Gowers. This ability to collaborate quickly and transparently online is just one facet of a growing movement in research known as open science. There are many interpretations of what open science means, with different motivations across different disciplines. Has Remote Work Killed Collaborative Creativity?: Online Collaboration « Gone are the days when creative work was always done by teams operating from the same location at the same time.

Yet there’s a great deal of creative collaboration that still relies on our being able to “workshop” concepts together, using whatever means possible, in real time. What does remote work mean for creative collaboration? The Old Model While technology may have made many aspects of business easier and simpler, the traditional model of creative collaboration has a lot going for it. Two minds (or three, or more) are better than one. The creative process is a particularly human endeavor. If a creative collaboration endeavor will continue for some time, keeping those creatives in the same physical space can also be helpful. The physical space speaks loudly to each team member about what they’re doing, what they’re part of, and where it’s at. New Challenges In a distributed creative effort, team members may be more likely to work on the creative task independently.

Open Source Ecology. Creative Barcode - Home. Loans that change lives. Sustainable Economies Law Center. International Commons Conference: Constructing a Commons-Based Policy Platform - Economy - Heinrich Böll Stiftung. Sharing by design. Coworking - a global community of people dedicated to the values of Collaboration, Openness, Community, Accessibility, and Sustainability in their workplaces. San Francisco to Allow Electric Vehicle Owners to Juice Up for Free. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee just announced that electric vehicle charging will be made available free of charge in city-owned parking garages and at San Francisco International Airport until the end of 2013.

San Francisco city officials are hoping that free charging will nudge vehicle-owners into the electric market — if you know you can charge up for free when you’re not at home, life is a little easier. Each charge is estimated to cost the city about $3 and with 2,750 new chargers going in — 30 of which will be “fast charge” stations — this program could end up being quite the investment in the city’s clean transportation future. Hopefully, San Francisco will be able to garner some information about electric vehicle ownership from the new charging stations. “We can call it experimental,” Bob Hayden told The Examiner, the clean transportation adviser at the San Francisco Department of the Environment.

Via Gizmodo.