As is our custom, we announce the new issue of NPQ (New Perspectives Quarterly), a compendium of commentary by thought leaders and politicians around the world on topics of current global interest. Crash is the word for the latest issue cover, with opinion and observations about the ongoing financial meltdown, the Obama victory, and other matters. Contributors include the usual constellation of stellar personalities: financier George Soros, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, former World Bank President James Wolfensohn, novelist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Peking University Dean of International Relations Wang Jisi, chess champ Garry Kasparov, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, celebrated writer Carlos Fuentes, European intellectual Bernard Henri-Levy, and more. It's all at your fingertips -- on our Current Periodicals rack in Jackson Library.
No, this isn't a Monty Python routine. This month’s JacksonLine is asking your opinion on furniture for the new Business School Library at the campus on Serra Street. JacksonLine also shows you an easier way to access our databases from off-campus (no more WebApps!) In the current issue you’ll also find Drs Drucker and Deming sharing space with (gasp) Barbie and Ken. Check it out.
Sierra Nevada Brewery in Chico, California is installing a system developed by EFuel that can turn sugar, water, and yeast into a high grade biofuel. BusinessWire reports that this system, called the EFuel100 MicroFueler, will take millions of gallons of discarded yeast from the brewery and use it, in combination with sugar, to produce an inexpensive biofuel (Stanford users can read this article online). The best part of the EFuel100 MicroFueler is that it can take unsold beer from the brewery and convert it to an energy source. If you can’t drink it, drive it. And next time you get pulled over just say, "Officer, it's not me -- it's the car!"
In an article entitled Lithium Batteries Charge Ahead, the magazine Nature reports that researchers at MIT have found a way to recharge batteries in a fraction of the time it takes currently. The implications of this new discovery are huge for everything from cell phones to electric cars, who wouldn’t like to be able to charge a device within seconds as opposed to hours.
It's being heralded as the next big rivalry of Silicon Valley according to the SF Chronicle. The two companies offer different services but they do overlap in social networking.
Facebook last week unveiled changed to their site which makes it a "destination for real-time posts, turf the Twitter is famous for."
So the question is will you twitter or Facebook?
If the title of this post sounds weird to you, here is a translation: New Language. Though both expressions are written in plain English, they signify different contemporary cultural trends. The Nu Speak is the language of IMs and short text messages and it’s expressed primarily in abbreviations. And, according to the author of the Changing Language of Search article, the new lingo cannot be ignored. With over two billion mobile devices users, the conventions of Nu Speak seep into communication with a broad audience including librarians or even college professors. For some people all these abbreviations are easy to decipher, but others are puzzled at their meaning. The good news is that you can now find online dictionaries which translate the Nu Speak shortcuts into traditional English language. If you are interested in reading the article, ask for a copy of January issue or Seacher magazine at the Info Desk at Jackson Library. Stanford users can read the article online.
Crooked Timber takes its name from a quote of Immanuel Kant -- "Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made". How true, on this day of Bernie Madoff's trial. But I digress. The site, which we have mentioned before on this blog, is a compendium of reflections, speculations, polemics and whatnot from academics, intellectuals and social thinkers on a gamut of topics. A quick check yielded quite a smattering, ranging from dissections of the current economic crisis to political ruminations about GOP leader Michael Steele to book reviews to advice for prospective grad students to a post on kissing to a site of resources on Rousseau to the recent Chinese 'mud horse' phenomenon. Perhaps the (frequently) whimsical nature of the beast can be captured by this self-description of one of the regulars : "A man of excellent naturall Parts; but very Sarcastick and the greatest Buffoon in the Nation."
I came across an article at Seeking Alpha and the first sentence is, "When it comes to the U.S. financial crisis, it’s tough to know just what to think or who to believe these days." The author goes on to compare the different opinions and scenarios to "Goldilocks and the 3 bears" and the movie "The Good Bad and the Ugly".
I suppose you could view the current financial crisis as a dream (or nightmare) or a fairy tale and one day you will wake up and it will all be over.
In Learning To Live With Radical Islam, Fareed Zakaria believes we should take a step back from heated rhetoric and try to understand the phenomenon of Islamic radicalism. Not all radicals are terrorists, and Zakaria proposes we pick our battles. He makes a powerful argument for recognizing the reality of radical Islam, though this is entirely different from accepting any extremist ideas. We must defend our own values and views and pursue policies that will make others accept the shared aim of reducing cruelty and corruption. If we walk the walk, others will follow.
Guy Kawasaki has posted a continuation of his interview with Emanuel Rosen, author of The Anatomy of Buzz Revisited. In this post, Rosen explains when to use Facebook and MySpace, and offers advice about generating buzz for a sample online property. Check this out (as well as the first part of the interview) if you’re interested in whipping up buzz for your own company.
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