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50 practical tips to save you half a lifetime | Matthew Parris - Times Online
not sure about all of these, but what I did read was fun.

New Google Redesign - Rocks!! - Online Marketing Blog
Google is a master of innovation in the search space and while they seem to subscribe to Guy Kawasaki’s “release early and release often” new product philosophy, the attention to changing the Google search page is near-holy. Minuscule design...

Main Articles: 'Why Are Users So Useful?: User Engagement and the Experience of the JISC Digitisation Programme', Ariadne Issue 61
Do we know enough about what our users' needs are when creating online digitised scholarly resources? What are the benefits of engaging users? In what way can they be useful to the process? This article draws on the experience of the JISC...

Remapping Geography
"Progressive thought is a form of thought, and every university should be able to exhibit a few true believers. But the same can be said of other forms of thought, other beliefs. Shouldn’t every university, every field in the human and social...

Farmers warned to get ready as climate change threatens crops - The Heat Is Online
Even if global temperatures rise slowly, climate change could slash the yields of some of the world's most important crops almost in half, according to a new study co-authored by an N.C. State University scientist.The study, recently published...

Act now on global warming or suffer later, experts say | recordonline.com
For farmers, the news is not all bad. A warmer climate means a longer growing season. For the vineyards in our region, this is good news because there will be less damage to grapevines. But, for apple farmers, it's bad news because the trees...

Changing climate effect on agriculture
"Today's energy and emissions choices lead to starkly different pictures of what the future holds for our farms, gardens and natural landscapes in terms of climate change impacts," said Wolfe, Cornell professor of horticulture and lead...

New microsyntax for Twitter: three pointers and the slasher | FactoryCity
Some thoughts on microsyntax (for e.g. twitter) to encapsulate metadata using a slash delimiter (”/”), e.g. for via, cc, by etc

CHMKT - Planejamento | Propaganda | Marketing | Comportamento | Tendências: Entendendo nosso jeito ‘brasileiro’ de ser*: Parte 4
“No Brasil, a rua é negativa em relação à casa. O mundo da competição, do salve-se-quem-puder, é o lugar onde você pode ser assaltado. Então, você já sai de casa prevendo que alguma coisa ruim vai acontecer. O motorista fica agressivo. E, no...

David Wolfe on climate change
The goal of our research and education outreach program at Cornell is to provide decision makers, from policy-makers to farmers and gardeners, with information to take advantage of opportunities (e.g., new crops for longer growing seasons) and minimize...

Cornell Chronicle: Debate over rising CO2
Part of the problem are delayed effects that have already committed the planet to warming on the order of 2.4 degrees Celsius (4.3 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, regardless of reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from today's...

Cornell Chronicle: Professors brief Congress on carbon offsets
The agriculture and forestry industries are unique, Bento and Wolfe said, because land managers can do more than reduce their own emissions of such key greenhouse gases as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. Bento and Wolfe said that they can...

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Fewer Americans believe in global warming, poll shows - washingtonpost.com
The increase in climate skepticism is driven largely by a shift within the GOP. Since its peak 3 1/2 years ago, belief that climate change is happening is down sharply among Republicans -- 76 to 54 percent -- and independents -- 86 to 71 percent. It...