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Massive visualization uses Google’s Ngram Viewer – a remarkable big-data tool for tracking changes in culture though word usage in more than 4 billion books – to depict political, scientific, cultural, and philosophical themes.
One of the most prominent patterns is the fall of “God” over the course of the 20th century, as well as the rise of utopias – a concept that has always enchanted us – in the aftermath of WWII.
African Mobile Subscription user numbers. Data from 2013.
Patrick Ngowi and his solar crusade to light up the continent | The Prepaid Economy
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10 Female Tech Founders To Watch In Africa | The Prepaid Economy
What do fire standardized fire hose couplings have in common with electronic health records? Public safety.
At issue is the Obama administration’s plan to develop standards to measure how effective and easy digital patient records are to use — applying a research discipline known as human-computer interaction or human factors. (The International Organization for Standardization, which is based in Geneva, defines the usability of a product by three attributes: “effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction.”)
(via Steve Lohr, Assessing the Effect of Standards in Digital Health Records on Innovation - NYTimes.com)
Last year John Green tried a bunch of life hacks we read about on the Internet. Today he puts 30 more to the test.
Publishers have long bemoaned Africa’s lack of a “book culture” but some hope that the advent of smartphones and the internet could help change this, writes journalist Chris Matthews. The 566% increase in worldwide internet usage since the start of the millennium might appear staggering but not when compared with Africa, where online activity has grown by an astonishing 3,606%. Continue reading the main story “ Start Quote For us in Africa ‘bookless’ societies are indeed pre-book societies” Henry Chakava in 1997 More than 160 million people are now connected throughout the continent, mostly on mobile phones. With internet access surging and connectivity increasing, the doors are being thrown open to digital publishing.
BBC News - Will e-publishing help Africa discover the joy of reading? (via infoneer-pulse)
"The 566% increase in worldwide internet usage since the start of the millennium might appear staggering but not when compared with Africa, where online activity has grown by an astonishing 3,606%. "
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music." | Betrand Russell "Beauty of Mathematics" by Yann Pineill & Nicolas Lefaucheux
The first stage of sincerity is that your private and public state are the same.
Imam Al Ghazali (via quotestuff)
If there’s no constructive conflict, if people don’t feel comfortable publicly disagreeing, you’re never going to get great ideas.
Adam Bryant interviews Dolf van den Brink of Heineken USA, on Transparency (via stoweboyd)
