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To study how personal tastes, habits and values affect the formation of social relationships (and how social relationships affect tastes, habits and values), a team of researchers from Harvard and the University of California, Los Angeles, are monitoring the Facebook profiles of an entire class of students at one college. -
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To show how information builds up and flows among scientific disciplines, Columbia University computer scientist W. Bradford Paley, along with colleagues Kevin Boyack and Dick Klavans, categorized about 800,000 scholarly papers into 776 areas of scientific study (shown as colored circular nodes) based on how often the papers were cited together by other papers. Paley then grouped those nodes by color under 23 broader areas of scientific inquiry, from mental health to fluid mechanics. -
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This is a companion website for book by the same name. The FIELD GUIDE book offers a portrait of 2 fictional families in 63 alphabetized, cross-referenced entries: Adolescence, Boredom, Chemistry... Fullcolor plates, with ilustrated "tags" on facing pages. The author solicites artists to contribute images to the site that relate to the Field Guide's 63 tags. Pass this link to others! -
5voteA wide variety of scientists, educators, celebrities, and luminaries present talks on a variety of subjects from past TED conferences on this site: Jeff Han, NicholasNegroponte, Dan Gilbert, Anna Deveare-Smith, Ray Kurzweil, Peter Gabrielle, Robert Neuwirth, Al Gore, Bono, Steven Levitt, Eve Ensler, ZeFrank, Jimmy Whales, Richard Baraniuk...and more.
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1voteNetworks have become a powerful metaphor to explain the social realities of our times. Everywhere we look there are attempts to explain all kinds of social formations in terms of networks: citizen networks, corporate networks, gamer networks, terrorist networks, learning networks... and so on. Information and communication technologies—in particular the internet—and the structures they enable have greatly influenced how we imagine the social.
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1voteHID Required: Examines the impact of computer-supported social networks in virtual communities, cooperative and telework. Growth of computer networking; Variety of text-based interaction system; Impact of group communication mediated by computer systems; Provisions of specialized and multiplex relationships as social resources; Description of virtual community work groups.
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Mr. Florida has created a "Creativity Index" and ranked various American cities. Links diversity, creative and high tech work, and innovation with economic growth. Boston is #3! -
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