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Corante (Free subscription) | yesterday
Markus Prior , assistant professor of politics and public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Politics at Princeton University JD Lasica , writer and consultant, co-founder and editorial director of Ourmedia.com, president of the social media group. Ed Tenner , historian and author Again, this is a rush transcript. I will correct as time allows. Markus Prior will...
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Real People (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here's a quick video I did today with Prof. Edward Felten of Princeton University (famed for his opposition to black box voting) about the Future of News conference I'm attending (speaking tomorrow). He also mentions his new Center for Information...
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Corante (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
I'm at the Future of News workshop at Princeton University. I'll be speaking about data visualisation tomorrow, but Princeton's Paul Starr kicked things off. This is a bit of a 'rush transcript' as broadcast would say. I'll go back and refine it over the day. We are on treachourous ground. Many who have tried to anticipate the future of news, including leaders in the industry...
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Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Steven Teles (right) is an Associate Professor for the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and has served as visiting lecturer at Yale Law School, Brandeis, Harvard, Princeton, University of London, and others. In addition to his new book, The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law (Princeton University Press),...
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YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Pointed wings together with carrying less weight per wing area and avoidance of high winds and atmospheric turbulence save a bird loads of energy during migration. This has been shown for the first time in free-flying wild birds by researchers at Princeton University, the University of Montana, and the German Max Planck Institute for Ornithology. They state in PLoS ONE's May 14th...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
In a new study published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE,researchers from Princeton University, the University of Montana,and the German Max Planck Institute for Ornithology shed somelight on the energy-saving abilities of migratory birds and how climatechange may affect their energy usage.
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Social Media (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
I'll be flying to Princeton University early tomorrow for a two-day workshop on the Future of News , put on by the Center for Information Technology Policy. The workshop will be broadcast live and can be accessed at www.princeton.edu/webmedia on Wednesday and Thursday. Panels are The People Formerly Known as the Audience; Economics of News; Data Mining, Interactivity and Visualization...
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tahrcountry (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
It is a known fact that microbes can come up with simple responses to changes in their environment, such as acidity fluctuations, by altering their internal workings. But sophisticated reasoning? Systems biologist Saeed Tavazoie of Princeton University wanted to know if microbes were capable of more sophisticated reasoning. He along with his colleagues created an environment inhabited...
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Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age By Larry M. Bartels Princeton University Press Princeton, NJ: 2008 328 pages $29.95 ... American beliefs about inequality are profoundly political in their origins and implications. Well-informed conservatives and liberals differ markedly, not only in their normative assessments of increasing inequality, as one might...
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Impact Lab (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Unusually large classes of graduating Seniors is changing the admission dynamics at most colleges In what may be a happy surprise for thousands of high school seniors, Harvard plans to offer admission to 150 to 175 students on its waiting list, and Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania each expect to take 90, creating ripples that [...]
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Spark It Up!!! (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Michelle Obama was born 17 January 1964 into a middle-income family on the South Side of Chicago. She grew up with a mother and father in her home, and an older brother. After excelling in high school, Michelle majored in sociology and minored in African-American studies at Princeton University. At Princeton, she authored a senior thesis entitled “Princeton-Educated Blacks...
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CBS 3 (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The number of confirmed cases of salmonella at Princeton University continues to grow.
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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
London, May 9 (ANI): Scientists have shown that bacteria possess the ability to learn to anticipate change of conditions in the stomach. Saeed Tavazoie of Princeton University in New Jersey says that the new finding is based on a study on colonies of Escherichia coli, which showed that such bacterial colonies could evolve the ability [...]
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Positive Technology Journal (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Via KurzweilAI.net Three music professors have developed a method called "geometrical music theory" that translates the language of musical theory into that of contemporary geometry. (Dmitri Tymoczko, Princeton University) They categorize sequences of notes, like chords, rhythms and scales into "families" that can be represented by points in complex geometrical spaces.
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CBS 3 (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Authorities have confirmed 17 cases of salmonella at Princeton University.
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venetian cat | 03/13/2008
If you ask my friends, you will find out I have a strange quirk: people tell me to go places, and I just go, without really knowing where I am going. They say, Cat, take the train/plane, etc. and get off here. I've ended up in the most wonderful places (because I have wonderful friends:), like Sardinia, Panarea, Merano, etc. So, when one of my friends, Savina Confaloni, who is a telejournalist on...
