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The Digital Transformation Of The Way Books Are Published And Sold Has Only Just Begun
Via Business Insider:Books are not just "tree flakes encased in dead cow", as a scholar once wryly put it. They are a technology in their own right, one developed and used for the refinement and advancement of thought. And this technology is a powerful, long-lived and...
The Digital Transformation Of The Way Books Are Published And Sold Has Only Just Begun
Via Business Insider:Books are not just "tree flakes encased in dead cow", as a scholar once wryly put it. They are a technology in their own right, one developed and used for the refinement and advancement of thought. And this technology is a powerful, long-lived and...
Rebooting Manufacturing – Technology Review
Via Technology Review: Rebooting Manufacturing - Technology Review Optimists will say this will create careers that didn’t exist before. Pessimists will say more people will end up out of work.
Laughter as a Form of Exercise
Via the New York Times: …pain thresholds, [are] an indirect but generally accepted marker of endorphin production. If someone’s pain threshold rises, he or she is presumed to be awash in the natural analgesics. And in Dr. Dunbar’s experiments, pain thresholds did go...
Laughter as a Form of Exercise
Via the New York Times: …pain thresholds, [are] an indirect but generally accepted marker of endorphin production. If someone’s pain threshold rises, he or she is presumed to be awash in the natural analgesics. And in Dr. Dunbar’s experiments, pain thresholds did go...
Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades, Everything Breaks Eventually
Via Wired: Product failure is deceptively difficult to understand. It depends not just on how customers use a product but on the intrinsic properties of each part—what it’s made of and how those materials respond to wildly varying conditions. Estimating a product’s...
Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades, Everything Breaks Eventually
Via Wired: Product failure is deceptively difficult to understand. It depends not just on how customers use a product but on the intrinsic properties of each part—what it’s made of and how those materials respond to wildly varying conditions. Estimating a product’s...
10 Science YouTube Channels You Can’t Miss
Via MakeUseOf: The Web offers ample opportunity to disperse that knowledge to greater numbers of people, and YouTube has many great science channels. 10 Science YouTube Channels You Can’t Miss