February 2012
OneSwarm: Privacy Preserving Peer-to-Peer Data... →
OneSwarm is a new peer-to-peer tool that provides users with explicit control over their privacy by letting them determine how data is shared. Instead of sharing data indiscriminately, data shared with OneSwarm can be made public, it can be shared with friends, shared with some friends but not others, and so forth. We call this friend-to-friend (F2F) data sharing.
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different...”
– William James (via libraryland)
Digitization project for rare books from the C.G....
puttheneedleon:
I’ve long wanted to know what Carl Jung’s alchemical library consisted of, and fortunately it’s being digitized. It’s funny that Jung’s Collected Works aren’t yet available in digital edition, yet 15th century alchemical works are here forever. Make sure you brush up on your Latin.
In Fuel Oil Country, Cold That Cuts to the Heart →
“I prefer zeroes on the loose
to those lined up behind a cipher.
I prefer the...”
– Wislawa Szymborska, from “Possibilities,” trans. S. Baranczak and C. Cavanagh (via proustitute)
What's Happening in Russia Explained →
“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
– Rumi
(via human-voices)
Malaria deaths hugely underestimated - Lancet... →
The research, published in the British medical journal the Lancet, suggests 1.24 million people died from the mosquito-borne disease in 2010.
This compares to a World Health Organisation (WHO) estimate for 2010 of 655,000 deaths.
Researcher confirms that axis shifts help to... →
As described in a paper recently published in the journal Nature, Harvard Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Peter Huybers confirmed that slow changes in both the tilt and orientation of Earth’s spin axis combined to help determine when the major deglaciations of the past million years occurred.
“These periods of deglaciation saw massive climate changes,” Huybers said. “Sea level...
“Since everything is but an apparition, perfect in being what it is, having...”
– Long Chen Pa
(via elige)
How To Win At Skyrim Without Ever Killing Anything →
Felix is a pacifist monk who uses illusion spells and a fear-inducing mace to keep from seriously harming any foes. He’s played by YouTube user WestSideLuigi, and so far he’s made it nine levels deep into Skyrim without killing anything. Not a single animal, person, dragon, or even undead.
“We’re all cyborgs now,” the anthropologist Amber Case said in a TED talk in...”
– The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg - NYTimes.com (via wildcat2030)
Manuka honey stopped a skin strep in its tracks. →
After surgery or a skin injury, many otherwise harmless bacteria that live on the skin can infect the wound site. One type of strep is particularly common and can lead to stubborn wounds that refuse to heal. But researchers found that honey—in particular that made from bees foraging on manuka flowers—stopped this strep in its tracks.
