An article in Treehugger takes issues with a NYT story which claims that green consumption is down due to the recession. The writer argues that the NYT writer takes a very narrow view in what constitute green consumption. She says the mentioned products affected by...
Remember Aldus Huxley's 'decanting bottles'? Or Gattaca? Well, that future is already here - kind of. Two methods of splicing human eggs during in vitro fertilization can rule out diseases linked to mutations in the Mitochondria, or the cellular structures that produce energy for the cell. Mitochondria mutations...
Generational experts Strauss and Howe argue that the kids from the Silent generation (born 1924 -1942) were the most gender-polarized in the 20th century until they became radicalized in the early 1960s. From Shirley Temple's sausage curls to eerie robotic wives in their squeaky clean Stepford homes, girls and women fit neatly into the gender stereotypes until they rebelled against them as grown women.
So how did the princess business become so successful half a century later? After an era when de-genderization of toys was the ruling meme among early childhood advocates, feminists and savvy parents, the toy distributors got busier than ever dividing up their stores into pink isles and blue isles.
The file sharing police is doomed to lose against a generation of smug pirates. This is what Swedish research group Cybernorms concludes with after measuring social norms in the file sharing community. The researchers found that 75 percent of 15 - 25 year olds feel...
Faster feedback cycles, clear goals and rules of play, a compelling narrative, and tasks that are challenging - these are some of the reasons forecasters in the gaming industry believe half of all innovation organizations will use gaming processes by 2015. IT consultant company Gartner believe a gamified...
