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- StumbleUpon. Maps of Citations Uncover New Fields of Scholarship - Research. By Jennifer Howard Imagine a Google Maps of scholarship, a set of tools sophisticated enough to help researchers locate hot research, spot hidden connections to other fields, and even identify new disciplines as they emerge in the sprawling terrain of scholarly communication. Creating new ways to identify and analyze patterns in millions of journal citations, a team led by two biologists, Carl T. Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world. SLAVES TO THE ALGORITHM. Introduction to Algorithms - Download free content from MIT. Singularity: Should We Fear the Likes of Watson? Suicide_note. Keynote: Alec Ross, US State Dept + Team Obama Talks Digital Vision on the New Livestream.

Three Things That Change Everything. Bio Elizabeth Stephenson Elizabeth Stephenson is a Principal in McKinsey & Company's Strategy Practice, where she serves clients on long-term strategy and strategic growth topics. She co-founded and now helps lead McKinsey's Global Forces service-line, McKinsey's center focused on emerging future trends and scenarios. In this role, she has worked with a wide range of corporate and institutional clients, helping evaluate how the shifting global economic, social, and technological landscape is likely to affect both the opportunities and risks those clients are likely to face in the future. To download this program become a Front Row member. ZOOM IN: Learn more with related books and additional materials. What we learned from 5 million books. Satellite Photos - Japan Before and After Tsunami. Interactive 3D model of Solar System Planets and Night Sky.

What Should I Read Next? Book recommendations from readers like you. The trial - Kafka. The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Trial, by Franz Kafka This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.

the trial - Kafka

You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** Title: The Trial Author: Franz Kafka Translator: David Wyllie Posting Date: August 13, 2012 [EBook #7849] Release Date: April, 2005 First Posted: May 16, 2003 Language: English The Trial.

What are /r/philosophy's favorite existentialist novels or literature? : philosophy. Fantastic Free Kindle Books (Classics) Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate. What Youll Wish Youd Known. January 2005.

What Youll Wish Youd Known

Philosophy Bro. The 48 Laws of Power. By Robert Greene and Joost Elffers Law 1.

The 48 Laws of Power

'Christopher Hitchens' on Q TV. Hey, cmon. bZzOA. Derren Brown's Forer Experiment Text. Derren Brown’s Forer Experiment Text.

Derren Brown's Forer Experiment Text

5 Reasons You Don't Miss Your 20s When They're Over. The Effects Of Too Much Porn: "He's Just Not That Into Anyone" Gotta have pics.

The Effects Of Too Much Porn: "He's Just Not That Into Anyone"

You can't show porn only because the advertisers don't like it. So how about some "photographs of men watching online pornography, taken January 25"? Sweet. Finding Existential Solace In A Pink Tied Psycho. Forbes: "Stock Traders Are Psychopaths"-- ... a University of St.

Finding Existential Solace In A Pink Tied Psycho

Gallen study that shows stock market traders display similarities to certified psychopaths. The study... compares decisions made by 27 equity, derivative and forex traders in a computer simulation against an existing study of 24 psychopaths in high-security hospitals in Germany. The Terrible, Awful Truth About Supplemental Security Income. (posted at askmetafilter in response to a mostly unrelated question) I.

The Terrible, Awful Truth About Supplemental Security Income

I need to write this and get it posted before the Fingermen come and black bag me. So you want to file a psychiatric disability claim against your former employer? Too bad. Say you're poor and have never worked. Nor does it matter if he medicates you, or even believes you, so long as he signs the form and writes "depression. Shame. Shame is a movie that if you haven't seen by now, you won't, but for damn sure don't attempt to watch it on a flight to Chicago.

Shame

What you've probably heard is that it is a bleak but honest movie about sex addiction and maybe about incest, full of nudity and uncircumcised penis dangling deliciously between some toned Irish Catholic's legs as he urinates. Sound like something you want to see? Hold that thought. The Decline Effect Is Stupid. Is there something wrong with the scientific method?

The Decline Effect Is Stupid

Asks Jonah Lehrer in The New Yorker. The premise of the article is a well known phenomenon called the Decline Effect. As described in the story, that's when exciting new results, initially robust, seem not to pan out over time. Today a series of studies shows X, next year studies shows less than X, and in ten years it's no better than nothing. This Is Why The American Dream Is Out Of Reach. Scott, a 24 year old dean's list college grad, is smart but unemployed.

According to the New York Times, in five months, only one job has given him an offer: $40k as an insurance claims adjuster. Scott said no, because Rather than waste early years in dead-end work, he reasoned, he would hold out for a corporate position that would draw on his college training and put him, as he sees it, on the bottom rungs of a career ladder.

You must escape your context. Alan Watts discusses Nothing. Thought of You - by Ryan Woodward. SatelliteEmbedPlayer.swf?videoRef=08740_00 from nationalgeographic.com.