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POPSGroundhog Nightmare Early onset Alzheimer's disease seems to be on the rise. HBO produced a documentary about this issue. So sorry for anyone who remembers that they once knew something after they have to deal with it each day! The Nightmare version of Groundhog Day!
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POPSSolar Weather Light Show Find more ways to see and collect amazing real images of Earth's magnetic field protecting us from Sun Storms. Learn more about Earth and get fabulous images from NASA and their partners. I love the interviews of the Inuit elders and the older scientists who first began the science station in the Arctic. Very cool stories.
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POPSTree of Life Redo This is a summary of an research article from Nature. Science teachers and interested hobbyists will be intrigued to learn how the data base was created and new implications about various changes in relationships since it takes new research into account.
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POPSShopaholics: More to Come As the economy lags for those normally able to buy some "extras", the impulse to shop may be a natural response...even if it is self-defeating.
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POPSDiscovering Cool Pics & Podcasts This is part of the National Science Foundation website where you can listen to podcasts. There are also thousands of really fantastic images sent in from researchers all around Earth. You can get an rss feed.
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POPSTwitterquette An interesting viewpoint of Twitter; based on surveys of twitter participants
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POPSManipulating Data Surprisingly, the semantic web is still not up and running. Personally, I think we have the technology to group data in varieties of ways and instances. Evidently, I have a greater confidence in scientists and programmers than is warranted. There are some cool examples of ways to constructively show data. For instance, GapMinder, a fantastic way to display important information gathered over many years, so people can see real relationships...not be wowed by propaganda or stuck in accepted, unverified ideas.
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POPSTag, Your It! Where is the X-Prize for the ethicists who are able to inform the public what will be the social, moral, biological, and political possiblities of this DNA tagging?
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POPSSteps to Save Stolen Data These are some excellent productivity habits, and I intend to include them in my new data archiving regimen. Minimalism is in style now, and it prevents disasters.
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POPSStories, Pictures Lost Forever This is a very real problem that will only escalate, as we use more and more web applications. For instance, I don't know how to save my data from ClipMarks. If an account is canceled, do all my links and Clips to blogs die. These are important issues to discuss.
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POPSChoosiness & Cooperativeness Historically Linked This is an scientific abstract from a research group who is studying the effect of choosing to be associated with people who cooperate and the ways that this cooperation can encourage others to choose them. It's too bad that Nature magazine couldn't have been more COOPERATIVE and released this research a free article, then more of us would have access to it and could CHOOSE to learn more about Nature and its parent organization. Hmm! Maybe that is the point the staff at Nature is choosing not to cooperate with the "great unwashed", so we will not choose to cooperate or even try to learn more about them. Maybe they fear the loss of their exclusivity?
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