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The Internet of Things is the New Media - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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A tip of the hat to @artbourbon for pointing out the article “Principles for Open Innovation and Open Leadingship" by Peter Vander Auwera, which led to a TED Talk by Joi Ito with his "Nine Principles of the Media Lab”. Something in this presentation struck me: Media is plural for Medium, Medium is something in which you can express yourself. The Medium was hardware, screens, robots, etc. Now the medium is society, ecosystem, journalism,… Our work looks more like social science. Great changes in society often go hand in hand with advances in communications, which in turn are tied to improvements in scale or portability of media. Think the printing press, television or even the development of paint in tubes which allowed impressionist painters to get out of the studios to paint water lilies and wheat fields. We are seeing a similar advance in the next generation of the Internet. Traditionally, humans interact with computer systems and networks through visual media, like screens of... - Technodad - -

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GWU researcher produces fertilizer stock from water, air and solar power - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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GWU researcher produces fertilizer stock from water, air and solar power: A George Washington University researcher has demonstrated a lab-scale method of producing ammonia for fertilizer using only water, air, and electricity, eliminating the need for natural gas. Even better, it can use solar power: Licht’s method claims to use only two-thirds of the energy of the Haber-Bosch process. Along with the elimination of the need to produce hydrogen from natural gas, the overall carbon emissions are reduced quite significantly. The whole process also takes place at milder conditions (Haber-Bosch needs 450°C and 200-times atmospheric pressure). These are not all that make Licht’s method attractive. Some of the energy involved can be supplied by another technology Licht has developed called solar thermal electrochemical production, or STEP. STEP is able to use most of the spectrum of incoming solar energy, making it relatively efficient. (via Ars Technica) - Technodad - -

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IBM’s unveils processor that mimics human brain synapses - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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IBM’s unveils processor that mimics human brain synapses: IBM’s new processor, which has a non-Von Neumann architecture, consumes significantly less power, and is vastly better suited to processing images, sound, and other sensory data.” IBM is clearly following a longer vision for its machine learning work - this chip would form an obvious next step from using Watson for imagery analysis in evidende-based medicine. (via MIT Technology Review) - Technodad - -

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Global agriculture and carbon trade-offs - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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Global agriculture and carbon trade-offs: PNAS paper proposes a method for managing land use to increase crop production while minimizing carbon impact. The paper focuses on agriculture for food production, but the method could equally apply to biofuel crops. Feeding a growing and increasingly affluent world will require expanded agricultural production, which may require converting grasslands and forests into cropland. Such conversions can reduce carbon storage, habitat provision, and other ecosystem services, presenting difficult societal trade-offs. In this paper, we use spatially explicit data on agricultural productivity and carbon storage in a global analysis to find where agricultural extensification should occur to meet growing demand while minimizing carbon emissions from land use change. Selective extensification saves ∼6 billion metric tons of carbon compared with a business-as-usual approach, with a value of approximately $1 trillion (2012 US dollars) using recent... - Technodad - -

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SmartThings purchased by Samsung - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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The home automation hub that I mentioned in my post “Explorations in IoT, SmartThings, has been purchased by Samsung for $200 million USD. Samsung has needed an IoT play to help keep them competitive with Apple’s recent announcements on HomeKit and HealthKit, and Google’s IoT strategy as shown in their purchases of Nest and Dropcam. I’m glad that SmartThings will get some much-needed investment so they can pick up the pace on integrating IoT devices. I’m also glad that they won’t vanish into the maw of Google. Hopefully they will be able to retain their independence within Samsung s their announcement claims and especially to continue to serve as an open development platform for IoT: We believe that there is an enormous opportunity to leverage Samsung’s global scale to help us realize our long-term vision. While we will remain operationally independent, joining forces with Samsung will enable us to support all of the leading smartphone vendors, devices, and applications; expand our... - Technodad - -

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Gravity Visualized - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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Helsinki's ambitious plan to make car ownership pointless in 10 years - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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Helsinki's ambitious plan to make car ownership pointless in 10 years: Helsinki aims to transcend conventional public transport by allowing people to purchase mobility in real time, straight from their smartphones. The hope is to furnish riders with an array of options so cheap, flexible and well-coordinated that it becomes competitive with private car ownership not merely on cost, but on convenience and ease of use. (via The Guardian) - Technodad - -

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Healthcare provider networks investigating Apple HealthKit - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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Healthcare provider networks investigating Apple HealthKit : Several healthcare provider networks are looking at Apple’s HealthKit as a component for integrating healthcare data and making it available to the patient: Mayo is said to be testing a service that will flag patients when apps and devices send abnormal data, and provide follow-up information and treatment suggestions. Epic is reportedly planning to allow HealthKit integration into its MyChart system. Sources say that another firm, major HMO Kaiser Permanente, is piloting several mobile apps that exploit HealthKit, and that it will probably talk to Apple about a formal deal. While most of the parties involved have declined to confirm or deny plans, Cleveland Clinic’s associate CIO, William Morris, acknowledges that his firm is experimenting with HealthKit and offering feedback to Apple. He argues that by standardizing app and accessory support, hospitals may be able to save time and resources, since there won’t be a need to... - Technodad - -

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Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1) - http://www.goodreads.com/review...

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Startup Demonstrates Ultra-efficient Stacked Solar Cells - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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Startup Demonstrates Ultra-efficient Stacked Solar Cells: A startup company is stacking solar cells to achieve and efficiency in converting solar to electricity as high as 50%, making it competitive with carbon-based fuels: At a scale of 80 to 100 megawatts a year of manufacturing capacity, a cell with 50 percent efficiency would make it possible to reach costs of less than five cents per kilowatt-hour, Burroughs says. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that new natural-gas power plants will produce electricity at 6.4 cents per kilowatt-hour. (via MIT Technology Review) - Technodad - -

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Godspeed, Robin Williams. A truly original thinker and world's funniest Episcopalian.

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Redshirts - http://www.goodreads.com/review...

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The Sheep Look Up - http://www.goodreads.com/review...

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Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8) - http://www.goodreads.com/review...

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The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins - http://www.goodreads.com/review...

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The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World - http://www.goodreads.com/review...

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Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory - http://www.goodreads.com/review...

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The Character of Physical Law - http://www.goodreads.com/review...

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Fwd: They're going to harpoon a comet (via NPR) http://www.npr.org/blogs... - if I were the person in charge of pressing that button, I would totally yell "From hell's heart, I stab at thee!" as I pushed it. (via http://friendfeed.com/aswang...)

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The Emperor’s New Password Manager - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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The Emperor’s New Password Manager: A study by UC Berkeley finds significant vulnerabilities in web-based password managers, but concludes they are still better than no password manager at all. Unsurprisingly, the password managers with the fewest features fared better due to having a smaller attack surface. Note this does not apply to local password managers, including my favorite, 1Password. - Technodad - -

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