Reads tagged with “social web”

Beyond the Dunbar Number: Picking Dunbar’s Brain

Kinship vs. friendship, the cognitive demands of monogamy, or why 400 Facebook friends may be a health hazard.

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Pencils of Promise: Grassroots School-Building

How to give and own at the same time, or why Facebook is the new Peace Core.

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Gift Guide Part One: Books

How to be a cool and cultured polyglot of a friend and friend of the polyglot.

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We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion

Four years and 12 million feelings later, a book that lives up to its grand expectations.

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Last Day to Vote for Google’s Project 10^100

What tsunamis have to do with online banking, public transit and better street cred for geeks.

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The School of Continuing Education

Five outposts for ongoing learning, or how to master French cuisine, rock music, and sailing at your leisure.

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The Transformative Power of Personal Projects

Time-stretching, self-funding, and why you should never underestimate grassroots creativity.

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Top 10 Contemporary Cross-Disciplinary Conferences

Ideas in real life, or how to increase the statistical probability of finding a clown, Malcolm Gladwell, and a rocket scientist in the same room.

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Jonathan Harris: World Building in a Crazy World

Simplicity vs. complexity, mental junk food, and how to be your own person.

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Crowdsourcing 2010: Behind the3six5 Project

An experiment in the collaborative authorship of history and our collective reality.

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Reads tagged with “social web”

Kinship vs. friendship, the cognitive demands of monogamy, or why 400 Facebook friends may be a health hazard.

How to give and own at the same time, or why Facebook is the new Peace Core.

How to be a cool and cultured polyglot of a friend and friend of the polyglot.

Four years and 12 million feelings later, a book that lives up to its grand expectations.

What tsunamis have to do with online banking, public transit and better street cred for geeks.

Five outposts for ongoing learning, or how to master French cuisine, rock music, and sailing at your leisure.

Time-stretching, self-funding, and why you should never underestimate grassroots creativity.

Ideas in real life, or how to increase the statistical probability of finding a clown, Malcolm Gladwell, and a rocket scientist in the same room.

Simplicity vs. complexity, mental junk food, and how to be your own person.

An experiment in the collaborative authorship of history and our collective reality.

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