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January 9, 2012
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WECREATE Daily: 1.9.12

The WECREATE Daily highlights stories around the world that are making an impact in the world of innovation. Here are today’s recommended reads:

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”

-Albert von Szent-Gyorgy

Striving for, and defending, originality(newscientist.com)

“The process of generating new scientific ideas can be difficult. Persuading other people that the ideas are novel and valuable is even harder. Where do we start?”

The Rise of the Megacity(bigthink.com)

“The enormity of Mumbai’s GDP is important not only in and of itself but also in relation to India’s overall GDP,” said Khanna. “You need the latter to understand the significance of the former and vice-versa. In places where a national economy is driven by the activities of one city – such as Moscow in Russia – this principle applies as well.”

CES 2012: A New Era of Simpler Gadgets(technologyreview.com)

“CES sets the tone for the year of consumer tech ahead and yesterday DuBravac opened the show’s first press event with a reassuring prediction: gadgets are going to get easier to use.”

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January 5, 2012
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WECREATE Daily: 1.5.12

The WECREATE Daily highlights stories around the world that are making an impact in the world of innovation. Here are today’s recommended reads:

Global Finance’s Supply-Chain Revolution(project-syndicate.org)

“The catastrophic earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that hit Japan halted production of key components on which many global supply chains depend. The sudden disruption of these essential materials from the production process forced a reassessment of how these supply chains function”

Majority of Americans say research and development are key to building US economy(researchamerica.org)

“The new edition of America Speaks, a compilation of public opinion polls commissioned by Research!America, demonstrates increasing public support for research and innovation to improve health, create jobs and boost the economy.”

The Singularity and Its Discontents(Big Think)

“In February, 2011, a powerful IBM computer called Watson became the Jeopardy world champion. Immediately, the media went crazy with headlines about machines obliterating mankind.”

Don’t Worry, Be Happy – Understanding Mindfulness Meditation(psychologicalscience.org)

In times of stress, we’re often encouraged to pause for a moment and simply be in the ‘now.’

 

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January 4, 2012
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WECREATE Daily: 1.4.12

The WECREATE Daily highlights stories around the world that are making an impact in the world of innovation. Here are today’s recommended reads:

Digital Humanities Spotlight: 7 Important Digitization Projects (BrainPickings.org)

“Despite our remarkable technological progress in the past century and the growth of digital culture in the past decade, a large portion of humanity’s richest cultural heritage remains buried in analog archives.”

The Rise of Consumption Equality(WSJ)

“Getting rich requires serving a mass market, which means the rest of us can buy what the rich buy.”

Performing a balancing act on the innovation tightrope (basqueresearch.com)

“The formula for success in innovation is about finding the middle ground. Although some studies assert that the more flexibility a company enjoys when it comes to recruiting or firing workers, the less capacity it has for innovation, there are in fact subtle differences.”

People Don’t Just Think with Their Guts; Logic Plays a Role Too (psychologicalscience.org)

“For decades, science has suggested that when people make decisions, they tend to ignore logic and go with the gut. But Wim De Neys, a psychological scientist at the University of Toulouse in France, has a new suggestion: Maybe thinking about logic is also intuitive.”

Paris vs New York, a tally of two cities. (parisvsnyc.blogspot.com)

“A friendly visual match between two cities told by a lover of Paris wandering through NewYork. Details, clichés, contradictions”

 

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