Further Reading

The following items are the latest articles that I am sharing on my Google Reader Shared Items feed. This list changes frequently.

• Douglas Rushkoff on Building a Peer-to-Peer Economy
  Published: October 9, 2011
  Source: Integral Options Cafe
  Excellent - from Shareable via the P2P Foundation Blog.Douglas Rushkoff on Building a Peer-to-Peer Economy [VIDEO]By Paul M. Davis10.07.11Since the publication of his post "The Next Net earlier this year, Do...
• If You Want to Be Happier, Set Ambitious Goals [Goals]
  Published: September 20, 2011
  Source: Lifehacker
  Reaching for ambitious goals gives people more satisfaction and happiness, compared to setting more easily achievable expectations, studies say. Business magazine Inc. reports that experiments have shown that...
• 'Magic mushrooms' create positive mental and physical health benefits that can last a year
  Published: July 9, 2011
  Source: naturalnews.com
  (NaturalNews) Taking just the right amount of a substance found in "magic mushrooms" can help to positively improve attitude, mood, behavior, and happiness levels, according to new study published in the peer-r...
• Claim: TSA employees now developing cancer clusters from standing near body scanner machines
  Published: June 28, 2011
  Source: naturalnews.com
  (NaturalNews) In a new twist to the TSA saga to which we can only say, "We told ya so," the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that...
• UN report says 3 Strikes copyright termination is illegal
  Published: June 3, 2011
  Source: Boing Boing
  Michael Geist "The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression has released an important new report that examines freedom of expression on...
• You're Seeking Failure When You Cling to a Single Idea [Quotables]
  Published: May 26, 2011
  Source: Lifehacker
  "The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it." ~ Francis CrickFrancis Crick was a molecular biologist and this quote was a piece of advice he passed to David Eagl...
• Use Compassion to Combat Difficult Coworkers [Career]
  Published: May 29, 2011
  Source: Lifehacker
  The adage "Kill 'em with kindness" holds more water than you might think, especially when it comes to dealing with tough personalities in the workplace. Some people are just difficult to work with, and sometim...
• Former NSA Genius Apologizes for His Super Spying Software [Blockquote]
  Published: May 17, 2011
  Source: Gizmodo
  Long before 9/11, brilliant NSA crypto-mathematician Bill Binney had developed an algorithm to make sense of the unbelievably massive amounts of data American...
• The Case For Making Online Textbooks Open Source [INFOGRAPHIC]
  Published: May 17, 2011
  Source: Mashable!
  As companies compete to digitize the textbook market, there is one approach that shakes the traditional publishing business model: open source textbooks, whose proponents believe online educational tomes should...
• Cassandra Vieten - Understanding Why We Change
  Published: May 16, 2011
  Source: Integral Options Cafe
  Here is a good article from Cassandra Vieten of the Institute for Noetic Sciences. I was fortunate to see her speak a year or so ago at the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference. This article seems relat...
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