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This land was made for you and me | Nature.com
What is the typical landscape of the United States?
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Free Culture Conference | Students for Free Culture
Students for Free Culture was founded by two Swarthmore students after they sued voting-machine manufacturer Diebold for abusing copyright law in 2003.
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Google Earth under the Ocean | Guardian
Web users will be able to "virtually" visit the world's protected underwater landscapes with a new Google Earth tool being launched today.
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Net Neutrality Advocates In Charge Of Obama Team Review of FCC | Wired
The choice of the duo strongly signals an entirely different approach to the incumbent-friendly telecom policymaking that's characterized most of the past eight-years at the FCC.
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Citizen Science and Social Learning
How important is the role of “dialog among diverse participants” in creating social change?
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Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration
This is the first time that the Mellon Award has been given for an application in ecosystem-based management or conservation.
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"Science Commons" Video
Scientists are the ultimate remixers. They are taking information from multiple different sources and trying analyze it and say, well how does this all work together.
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Yochai Benkler: Complexity and Humanity | Free Souls
To deal with the new complexity of contemporary life we need to re-introduce the human into the design of systems.
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Robert Darnton: Google and the Future of Books | NYRB
This is a tipping point in the development of what we call the information society.
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Albert-Laszlo Barabasi + James Fowler | Seed Salon
There has been a realization that maybe we ought to be putting our best and brightest minds at work on this question of how we all get along.
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Computational Social Science | Science
Computational social science could become an exclusive domain or could serve the public interest.
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Noam Cohen: Wikipedia - Exploring Fact City | NYT
The marvel of Wikipedia — and cities — is that all the intercourse and spiritual stimulus don’t make living there impossible. Rather, they are exactly what makes living there possible.
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Nicholas Kristof: Freegate in Iran | NYT
Freegate takes a surfer to an overseas server that changes I.P. addresses every second or so, too quickly for a government to block it, and then from there to a banned site.
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Brian Arthur: Technology and Human Purpose
As human beings, we should realize that technology is there to serve us. We’re not here to serve technology.
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Data Basin - Shared, Social Conservation Data
Data Basin is an innovative web tool that connects users with conservation datasets, tool, and expertise. Individuals and organization can explore and download a vast library of conservation datasets, upload their own data, and produce customized maps and charts (coming soon) that can be easily shared.
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Data Management, Ontology and Ecoinformatics
The use of ontologies has proliferated in recent years in the molecular biology and biomedical communities, providing benefits to those disciplines by facilitating closer collaboration and better synthetic analyses owing to precise and unified descriptions of their fields’ data contents. Ecology stands to benefit in similar ways by developing ontologies to control and clarify terms, and thereby enhance data-sharing capabilities.
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The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery | Microsoft
Knowledge developed primarily for the purpose of scientific understanding is being complemented by knowledge created to target practical decisions and action. This new knowledge endeavor can be referred to as the science of environmental applications. Climate change provides the most prominent example of the importance of this shift. Until now, the climate science community has focused on critical questions involving basic knowledge, from measuring the amount of change to determining the causes. With the basic understanding now well established, the demand for climate applications knowledge is emerging. How do we quantify and monitor total forest biomass so that carbon markets can characterize supply?
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Eco-Patents and Global Innovation Commons
What Martin -- and those who work with him at M-CAM -- say they found is that one in three patents registered today on energy-saving technology duplicate gadgets that were first dreamed up in the wake of the 1970s oil crisis and are now freely available.
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Who Owns Our Low Carbon Future? | Chatham House
Inventions in the energy sector have taken two to three decades to reach the mass market. This is mirrored by the time it takes a specific patent to become widely used in subsequent inventions – an average of 24 years across the six sectors.
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The Low-Carbon Technology Challenge | Nature
Stabilizing the climate is a huge technological challenge and the solution of ready-to-deploy, scalable low-carbon technologies is far from being a reality.
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