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Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code

Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_on_our_buggy_moral_code.html

La publicité à la demande Obtenez le meilleur d'iProspect dans votreboîte courriel! Inscrivez-vous à notre infolettre mensuelle : Pas aujourd'hui / Je suis déjà inscrit 'At least it'll be exciting': Survivalist made chilling video before killing wife, daughter Video recorded by survivalist Peter Keller reveals his mindset before he killed his wife and daughter then committed suicide. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports. By msnbc.com news services BURIEN, Wash. -- Before he killed his wife and teen daughter and retreated to a remote bunker in Washington's Cascade Mountains, Peter Keller recorded a chilling video explaining his mindset: He was bored.

What Business Can Learn from Open Source August 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at Oscon 2005.) Lately companies have been paying more attention to open source. Ten years ago there seemed a real danger Microsoft would extend its monopoly to servers. It seems safe to say now that open source has prevented that. Phantoms in the Brain The writings of Oliver Sacks and others have shown us that we can learn much about ourselves by looking closely at the deficits shown by people with neurological problems. V.S. Ramachandran has seen countless patients suffering from anosognosia, phantom limb pain, blindsight, and other disorders, and he brings a remarkable mixture of clinical intuition and research savvy to bear on their problems. He is one of the few scientists who are able and willing to explore the personal, subjective ramifications of his work; he rehumanizes an often too-sterile field and captures the spirit of wonder so essential for true discovery.

no.03: The Telekommunist Manifesto about the publication: In the age of international telecommunications, global migration and the emergence of the information economy, how can class conflict and property be understood? Drawing from political economy and concepts related to intellectual property, The Telekommunist Manifesto is a key contribution to commons-based, collaborative and shared forms of cultural production and economic distribution. Proposing ‘venture communism’ as a new model for workers’ self-organization, Kleiner spins Marx and Engels’ seminal Manifesto of the Communist Party into the age of the internet. As a peer-to-peer model, venture communism allocates capital that is critically needed to accomplish what capitalism cannot: the ongoing proliferation of free culture and free networks. In developing the concept of venture communism, Kleiner provides a critique of copyright regimes, and current liberal views of free software and free culture which seek to trap culture within capitalism.

The Benjamin Franklin Effect « You Are Not So Smart#more-1459 The Misconception: You do nice things for the people you like and bad things to the people you hate. The Truth: You grow to like people for whom you do nice things and hate people you harm. Benjamin Franklin knew how to deal with haters. Born in 1706 as the eighth of 17 children to a Massachusetts soap and candlestick maker, the chances Benjamin would go on to become a gentleman, scholar, scientist, statesman, musician, author, publisher and all-around general bad-ass were astronomically low, yet he did just that and more because he was a master of the game of personal politics.

Primary Psychiatry: In Session with Dennis S. Charney, MD: Resilience to Stress Column Dennis S. Charney, MD, interviewed by Norman Sussman, MD Primary Psychiatry. 2006;13(8):39-41 Not an Inanity: Special Forces Like SEAL Team 6 Are Indeed Special There is a lot of buzz about SEAL Team 6 and rightly so. Their exploits are typically not well-known outside of the special operations community, but their recent achievement in Pakistan – the killing of Osama Bin Laden – is clearly too newsworthy to hide. SEAL Team 6 is the elite, anti-terrorist group in a special operations community that is already elite.

Chicken Little by Frederik Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth) from The Space Merchants How will we feed ourselves as our population grows out of control? After we've cut down every rainforest to graze more cows, where will the fast food burgers of the future come from ? Vats, probably.

Memopol Memopol-2 in KUMU Art Museum / Tallinn, Estonia / 2011 Memopol is a machine that maps the visitor’s information field. By inserting an identification document such as a national ID-card or passport into the machine, it starts collecting information about the visitor from (inter)national databases and the Internet. The data is then visualized on a large-scale custom display. People using the machine will be remembered by their names and portraits. The Cyrillic spelling of the installation’s name refers to George Orwell’s concept of Big Brother from his dystopian novel “1984”. Web 1.0 History[edit] The hyperlinks between webpages began with the release of the world wide web(www) to the public in 1993,[3] and describe the Web before the "bursting of the dot-com bubble" in 2001. Even so the terms web 1.0 and 2.0 were given birth together (see: Web 2.0#History), Web 2.0 capabilities were present in the days of Web 1.0 (see:Web 2.0#Criticism) Since 2004, the term "Web 2.0" characterizes the changes to the social web, especially the current business models of sites on the World Wide Web.[4]

The Manifestation of Network Anxiety, RFC 14 Network Working Group Officer 002 Request for Comments: 14 München, Deutschland October 29 1969 The Manifestation of Network Anxiety System Primitives: We are the direct manifestation of a Citizen's Network Anxiety; our metal and flesh yields from a citizen's networked fears, doubts, delusions and the lies of others. We carry the signal and as such are a part of that signal. What passes through the air will pass through us. We span the space between the invisible and the corporeal; as Adaptors comprised of flesh and metal, we capture and reconstruct that which hides in the air. We are prisms: a citizen's network fears, doubts, delusions, desires and lies will be revealed through us. We are the lightning in an age of Cloud Computing.

Speech12 - Public Relations - Bell Telephone Systems GOC - May 1930 Page, A. W. (1930, May). Public Relations. Speech presented at the Bell Telephone System’s General Operating Conference. Summary Page discusses the need to improve the company’s reputation and conduct research on the company’s advertising and public relations’ programs.

M/M / 25/25 - Celebrating 25 Years of Design Graphic Designers 25/25 - Celebrating 25 Years of Design 29 March - 22 June 2007 Through their work as graphic designers and creative directors in the fields of art, fashion and music, Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak have established M/M as a powerful force in contemporary French culture. After meeting at art school in Paris, Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak founded M/M in 1992. They have sinced worked together as graphic designers and art directors on fashion and art projects mostly for longstanding clients and collaborators – such as the fashion designers Yohji Yamamoto and Martine Sitbon, and the photographers Craig McDean, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.

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