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In the news this week...
- Massive changes in the teenage brain.
- Storing 300 movies on a CD.
- Social network entrepreneurs.
- The art of politics and social networks.
- Controlling US imports.
- The accelerating pace of climate change.
- Airports of the future.
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Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World... A book by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu on the future of the Internet. Is it erasing national borders? Will its future be set by Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net?
Future Tense... A weblog on changes in the workplace.
Technology, Health Care and Money... Kojo Nnamdi talks to Andy Kessler, author of the book The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (and Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor.
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SCIENCE
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Story: Seeing the Teenager in the Brain - [BBC] Adolescents do not put the part of the brain that considers others' feelings to full use, scientists have found. The adolescent brain undergoes massive changes and does not reach maturity until 20 or 30 years old.
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Story: How to Burn a Three Terabyte CD - [Technology Review]
As gigabytes of movies, pictures, audio, and text fill up more and more CDs and DVDs, there's clearly a need for better ways to save more data. A research team at Harvard University has developed a technique that could help to significantly boost the capacity of conventional optical discs.
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Story: How a College Student Made $65,428 By Embracing New Media - [PR Web] MySpace, Facebook, and other popular online student hangouts have increasingly been home to a new kind of fad: smart students leveraging the value of their social networks to bring in real dollars from an increasing number of companies.
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SOCIETY
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Story: Social Networking Sites: The Next Big Thing in Politics - [InfoWorld] All of the creators of social-network sites speaking at a conference on "person-to-person-to-person" networking and its effect on campaigns seemed to agree that politicians need to pay attention to "consumer-created media," a term that some participants objected to.
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Story: Import Certificates Proposed to Narrow U.S. Trade Gap - [People's Daily] Any company that wants to import goods into the United States would have to get a government certificate, under a plan to eliminate the nation's trade deficit proposed by two Democratic senators, The New York Times reported.
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Story: Arctic Sea Ice Disappearing - [New Zealand Herald] The melting of the sea ice in the Arctic, the clearest sign so far of global warming, has taken a sudden and enormous leap forward, in one of the most ominous developments yet in the onset of climate change. Two separate studies by NASA, using different satellite monitoring technologies, both show a great surge in the disappearance of Arctic ice cover in the last two years.
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Story: Will Airport of the Future Fly? - [C|NET] The airport of tomorrow might have virtual intelligence agents that check your bags, "smart dust" sensor networks that vet passengers heading through security and commuter pilots who fly the plane from a home office.
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Future Frequencies
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Audio Clip: Technology, Health Care and Money - [The Kojo Nnamdi Show] What can Silicon Valley teach the health care industry about how to run a business? Author Andy Kessler argues that new technologies could help save money and effectively bring about "the end of medicine" as we know it. |
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