Britain's royal baby billionaire even before birth

As Britain counts the hours before Prince William and Kate Middleton announce the birth of their first child, a global intelligence firm on ultra high net worth (UHNW) individuals has estimated that the royal baby could inherit as much as 1 billion pounds in royal legacy.
Wealth-X found that the unborn child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge is already a billionaire, given the fortunes of the immediate members of the British royal family, including great grandmother Queen Elizabeth II, great grandfather Princes Philip, grandfather Charles and father William.
Queen Elizabeth II, who celebrated her diamond jubilee as Britain's monarch last year, tops the wealth stakes with a personal net worth of USD 660 million with her income in 2014 is expected to rise by 15 per cent from USD 54 million to nearly USD 58 million, after the Crown Estate reported an increase in profits in June.
However, the net worth figures do not include the possible inheritance of the crown jewels and the Royal Collection.
Prince Charles is worth around USD 370 million and William around USD 20 million, making the combined net worth of the immediate members of the royal family over USD 1 billion.
The royal baby, who will be third in line to the throne and the future King or Queen of England, is expected any time now.
Buckingham Palace has not confirmed an exact date for Kate to give birth, but speculation has centered on this weekend.
She has opted for a natural birth at the private Lingo wing of St Mary's hospital in Paddington, central London, where a police presence has increased in recent days.
Media from the world over have camped out at the hospital, which was also where Princess Diana gave birth to both princes William and Harry.
William, who took leave from official duties as an air-sea rescue helicopter captain with the Royal Air Force (RAF) based at Anglesey in North Wales, is whiling away the wait by playing polo.
The father-to-be played at a fundraising match in Hampshire for a charity run by the Duchess of Cornwall's brother and was to play again today at a club in Wiltshire, despite predictions that Sunday is the most likely day for his wife to give birth.
Buckingham Palace said the prince would play unless he had to be at his wife's side.
William's cousin, Zara Phillips, was also playing polo at a separate event on Saturday, the week after she announced that she and her husband Mike Tindal, the former England rugby captain, are expecting their first child in the New Year.
source : The Indian Express

Chinese institute develops 100-megapixel IOE3-Kanban camera

Reporters on the 9th learned from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Optoelectronic Technology researchers hospital lasted two years, successfully developed up to 100 million pixel camera IOE3-Kanban. The camera uses international professional company area array CCD chip, integrated developed a camera that can actually work the whole, is currently the highest in China monolithic CCD pixel digital CCD camera.

New developed the 100 million pixel camera IOE3-Kanban small size, light weight, body only 19.3 cm at its widest point, the imaging frame reaches 10240 × 10240 pixels, at -20 ℃ to 55 ℃ temperature range can achieve high-resolution imaging, and has a high sensitivity, high dynamic range, and can be used in aerial mapping, urban planning, disaster monitoring, intelligent transportation systems require more than ten kinds of high-definition imaging field.

According to reports, the Chinese Academy of optoelectronic camera configuration developed by a large field, high-precision, low distortion optics and advanced camera control system and large capacity data recording system that integrates a "national aviation remote sensing system" on the basis of remote sensor of the "big matrix CCD mapping camera system, "recently completed research also carried out after the flight test, successfully obtained high-quality digital images.

Back in the "fifth" period, the Chinese Academy of Opto-Electronics has successfully developed a 81 million pixel area array CCD camera system, reached the international advanced level. Experts said the completion of 100 million pixel camera developed, marking the Chinese Academy of Sciences Photonics Large Area Development of high-resolution CCD digital camera technology is more mature.

A Chinese institute claimed to have successfully developed a 100-megapixel camera which could produce high-resolution imaging in the fields of aerial mapping, disaster monitoring and intelligent transportation systems.

The IOE3-Kanban camera was developed by the Institute of Optics and Electronics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences making it China's highest pixel camera, CAS said in a statement.

The camera is capable of producing images with 10,240 x 10,240 pixels, the statement said. Moreover, it is small and light, with its widest part measuring only 19.3 cm, state-run Xinhua quoted the statement as saying, adding that it can be used at temperatures ranging from minus 20 degrees centigrade to 55 degrees centigrade.

Its high sensitivity and high dynamic range (HDR) features mean it will be useful in high-resolution imaging in the fields of aerial mapping, city planning, disaster monitoring and intelligent transportation systems, the statement said.

Intelligent transportation system is aimed to provide innovative services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management, enabling various users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated, and 'smarter' use of transport networks.

The camera is equipped with advanced optical systems, camera control systems and high-capacity data recording systems, and it has proven successful in a recent trial use as a part of a national aerial remote-sensing system, it said.

The institute also developed an 81-megapixel camera during the 10th Five Year Plan period (2001-2005), and the latest achievement took the researchers two years to develop.

A megapixel is one million pixels, and is a term used not only for the number of pixels in an image, but also to express the number of image sensor elements of digital cameras or the number of display elements of digital displays.

source : the Indian express

Twitter can't beat news agencies: study

News agencies continue to have an edge over Twitter in being the first to provide people with the news, UK scientists have found.

Research into reporting of news events by Twitter and newswire services has found that while Twitter can sometimes break news before news-wires, for major events there is little evidence that it can replace traditional news outlets.

Scientists at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow developed a software algorithm to track Twitter activity.

They used it to study 51 million tweets over 11 weeks in summer of 2011 and compared these with output from news outlets for the same period.

Media houses tracked for the study included the BBC, CNN and the New York Times, which seek to set the news agenda and break news stories ahead of one another.

Scientists were able to examine Twitter messages relating to major news items. They also identified a large amount of minor news items that had featured on Twitter but had been ignored by the mainstream media, researchers said.

However, neither Twitter nor news-wires was regularly faster than the other in breaking high-profile news, researchers said.

When Twitter outperformed news-wires for speed, it was for mainly for sport and disaster-related events, their findings show.

Twitter's main benefits for news are bringing additional coverage of events, and for sharing news items of interest to niche audiences or with a short lifespan, such as local sports results, the study found.

source : the Indian express

Bugs may be last surviving life on Earth

Thermophilic or heat-loving bacteria may be amongst the last life on Earth: study

Bugs may be among the last survivors of the end of the world, researchers say. Thermophilic or heat-loving bacteria may be amongst the last life on Earth, perhaps surviving 2.8 billion years into the future, according to a new study.

In two billion years' time, life on Earth will be confined to pockets of liquid water deep underground, according to Astros biologist Jack O'Malley James of the University of St Andrews.

The new research also suggests that though the hardiest forms of life may have a foothold on similar worlds in orbit around other stars, evidence for it may be very subtle. Ultimately, a combination of slow and rapid environmental changes will result in the extinction of all species on Earth, with the last inhabitants disappearing within 2.8 billion years from now.

The main driver for these changes will be the Sun. As it ages over the next few billion years, the Sun will remain stable but become steadily more luminous, increasing the intensity of its heat felt on Earth and warming the planet to such an extent that the oceans evaporate.

O'Malley James has created a computer model to simulate these extremely long-range temperature forecasts and has used the results to predict the time-line of future extinctions. Within the next billion years, increased evaporation rates and chemical reactions with rainwater will draw more and more carbon dioxide from the Earth's atmosphere. The falling levels of CO2 will lead to the disappearance of plants and animals and our home planet will become a world of microbes.

At the same time the Earth will be depleted of oxygen and will be drying out as the rising temperatures lead to the evaporation of the oceans. A billion years after that the oceans will have gone completely.

"The far-future Earth will be very hostile to life by this point. All living things require liquid water, so any remaining life will be restricted to pockets of liquid water, perhaps at cooler, higher altitudes or in caves or underground," said O'Malley-James. This life will need to cope with many extremes like high temperatures and intense ultraviolet radiation and only a few microbial species known on Earth today could cope with this. The new model not only tells us a lot about our own planet's future, but it can also help us to recognize other inhabited planets that may be approaching the end of their habitable lifetimes.

"We have now simulated a dying biosphere composed of populations of the species that are most likely to survive to determine what types of gases they would release to the atmosphere. By the point at which all life disappears from the planet, we're left with a nitrogen:carbon-dioxide atmosphere with methane being the only sign of active life," said O'Malley-James.

source : the Indian express 

Brain's 'switch' for long-term memory identified

Scientists have identified calcium in the cell nucleus to be a cellular "switch" responsible for the formation of long-term memory.

Neurobiologists at Heidelberg University in Germany used the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model to investigate how the brain learns.

The team led by Professor Dr Christophe Schuster and Professor Dr Hilmar Bading wanted to know which signals in the brain were responsible for building long-term memory and for forming the special proteins involved.

The team from the Interdisciplinary Center for Neurosciences (IZN) measured nuclear calcium levels with a fluorescent protein in the association and learning centres of the insect's brain to investigate any changes that might occur during the learning process.

Their work on the fruit fly revealed brief surges in calcium levels in the cell nuclei of certain neurons during learning. It was this calcium signal that researchers identified as the trigger of a genetic programmed that controls the production of "memory proteins." If this nuclear calcium switch is blocked, the flies are unable to form long-term memory.

Schuster explained that insects and mammals separated evolutionary paths approximately 600 million years ago. In spite of this sizable gap, certain vitally important processes such as memory formation use similar cellular mechanisms in humans, mice and flies, as the researchers' experiments were able to prove.

"These commonalities indicate that the formation of long-term memory is an ancient phenomenon already present in the shared ancestors of insects and vertebrates. Both species probably use similar cellular mechanisms for forming long-term memory, including the nuclear calcium switch," Schuster said.

The researchers assume that similar switches based on nuclear calcium signals may have applications in other areas presumably whenever organisms need to adapt to new conditions over the long term. "Pain memory, for example, or certain protective and survival functions of neurons use this nuclear calcium switch, too," said Bading.

"This cellular switch may no longer work as well in the elderly, which Bading believes may explain the decline in memory typically observed in old age. "Thus, the discoveries by the Heidelberg neurobiologists open up new perspectives for the treatment of age- and illness-related changes in brain functions," Bading said. The study was published in the journal Science Signaling.

SOURC : THE INDIAN EXPRESS

10 Lessons From Benjamin Franklin’s Life To Help You Succeed

Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor.These are 10 golden sentences of their success.

 

 

 

1. Personal Set of Virtues

The joy of success is rendered hollow if the road to it is paved by vicious acts. In the long run, it always helps to have a personal code of conduct and live by them in the strictest way possible. Franklin had his own list of 13 virtues that he tried to emulate in his daily actions and used to keep track of how well he had been doing so. Not only does it make you a better man, but your work or business is also thrown into a good light.

2. Well-maintained Daily Routine

We all know how Benjamin Franklin was skilled in different arts, professions and fields. His achievements in each of them do not arise from a disorderly life. Every hour of his day was carefully planned so as to make the optimum use of time without leaving time for unproductive frivolity. And this is a lesson that every person can do with.

3. Honing People Skills

Franklin was a man with a charming tongue and great diplomatic skills – and these are what make for smooth conversations and transactions. If you read his autobiography, you will come across various occasions when this skill helped him out. In fact, it can even help you turn your enemies around and make them your friends instead – according to Franklin.

4. Say Less, Do More

One of Benjamin Franklin’s oft-quoted mantra is “Well done is better than well said”. And that applies to every trade, not just politics. There has been many spins on this motto – like “A little less conversation, a little more action please”. All goes down to say that even though you need a silver tongue, it is better to invest your energy in working than flapping your gums about working.

5. Never Procrastinate

Another highly quoted Ben Franklin quote is “Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today”. Undoubtedly, one of the best mottos to apply to your work-life is this.Work has a way of piling up and overwhelming you – and if he had given in to procrastination, he would probably not have achieved all that he did.

6. Pros and Cons List

If you have never made a pros and cons list to make an important decision, you should start. Whether it is expanding your business, promoting a certain employee or even taking a mortgage – making such a list helps you arrive at a solution faster. And who should be the one to have first brought this into effect but Franklin himself?

7. Importance of Perseverance

Entrepreneurial success is more than just luck – it is pure hard work, tenacity and never giving up in face of obstacles. And when Benjamin Franklin said, “Diligence is the mother of good luck”, this is what he meant. An unwavering decision to stick by his work and values led him to become one of the founding fathers of USA – and it can work wonders for everyone.

8. Seizing Opportunities

Benjamin Franklin became a pioneer in demographic studies at a time when it was still new. He was anyway making his personal notes on the population growth in the 1740s – and he took the opportunity of a study in the matter. Centuries later, we still remember him for his discoveries. Being an opportunist and making the most of your chances will help you grow professionally by leaps and bounds.

9. Learning From Mistakes

Another huge lesson that can be learnt from the American scientist’s life is not to get disheartened about failure before even trying and to make mistakes without apprehension. Only by trying something new with the risk of failure can you also find the path to success. Franklin did that with a number of his scientific discoveries – and this applies to every entrepreneur as well.

10. Welcoming Change

The last but not the least relevant lesson to learn from Franklin’s life is acceptance of change. Franklin brought about a colonial unity at a time when individual colonies functioned independently – and this was an important move that went to establish the geopolitical superpower that is USA now. To stick to the old is to regress – adapt yourself to the changing times to steer yourself towards success.

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1. Chicken

Chicken is the most common type of poultry in the world and is prepared as food in a wide variety of ways, varying by region and culture.

2. Pizza

Pizza is an oven-baked, flat, round bread typically topped with a tomato sauce, cheese and various toppings. Pizza was originally invented in Naples, Italy, and the dish has since become popular in many parts of the world

3. Rice

Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa or Oryza glaberrima. As a cereal grain, it is the most widely consumed staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in Asia and the West Indies

4. Bread

Bread is a staple food prepared by baking a dough of flour and water. It is popular around the world and is one of the world's oldest foods

5. Pasta

Pasta is a type of noodle and is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine, with the first reference dating to 1154 in Sicily. It is also commonly used to refer to the variety of pasta dishes

6. Meat

Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food. Humans are omnivorous, Today's world, most people consume meat. And meat has become his favorite food.

7. Fish and Sea Food

Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans. Seafood prominently includes fish and shellfish. Shellfish include various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms. Historically, sea mammals such as whales and dolphins have been consumed as food, though that happens to a lesser extent these days. Edible sea plants, such as some seaweeds and microalgae, are widely eaten as seafood around the world, especially in Asia (see the category of sea vegetables). In North America, although not generally in the United Kingdom, the term "seafood" is extended to fresh water organisms eaten by humans, so all edible aquatic life may be referred to as seafood. For the sake of completeness, this article includes all edible aquatic life

8. Vegetable

In culinary terms, a vegetable is an edible plant or its part, intended for cooking or eating raw. In biological terms, "vegetable" designates members of the plant kingdom

9. Italian Food

Italian cuisine has developed through centuries of social and political changes, with roots as far back as the 4th century BCE. Italian cuisine in itself takes heavy influences, including Etruscan, ancient Greek, ancient Roman, Byzantine, and Jewish. Significant changes occurred with the discovery of the New World with the introduction of items such as potatoes, tomatoes, bell peppers and maize, now central to the cuisine but not introduced in quantity until the 18th century. Italian cuisine is noted for its regional diversity, abundance of difference in taste, and is known to be one of the most popular in the world, with influences abroad.

10. Chinese Food

Chinese noodles come dry or fresh in a variety of sizes, shapes and textures and are often served in soups or fried as toppings. Some varieties, such as Shou Mian  literally noodles of longevity), are symbolic of long life and good health according to Chinese tradition. Noodles can be served hot or cold with different toppings, with broth, and occasionally dry Noodles are commonly made with rice flour or wheat flour, but other flours such as soybean are also used.

India launches first ever dedicated navigation satellite, joins elite club

In a landmark late night journey into a new era of space application, India today successfully launched its first dedicated navigation satellite using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle which blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here.
Precisely at 11.41 pm, India's workhorse PSLV C22 lifted off in a perfect text book launch, carrying IRNSS-1A satellite, painting a dense golden flame in the dark canvas of the sky.
About 20 minutes after its launch, the rocket placed into the IRNSS-1A into its orbit.
An elated ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan said the IRNSS-1A satellite was precisely injected into its intended orbit.
"This only proves that PSLV is an extremely reliable vehicle and with this flight, we are also entering into a new era of space application in the country that is the beginning of satellite navigation programme."
The data from the satellite would help the country in a range of fields including disaster management, vehicle tracking, fleet management and marine navigation.
Developed by India, the IRNSS-1A, the first of the 7 satellites constituting the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) space segment, has a mission life of 10 years.
It is designed to provide accurate position information service to users in the country as well as the region extending up to 1,500 km from its boundary,which is its
primary service area. IRNSS will be on lines with Russia's Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), United States' Global Positioning System (GPS), European Union's Galileo (GNSS), China's BeiDou satellite navigation system and the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System.
"I am extremely happy to announce that we had another excellent flight of our PSLV vehicle. This is the 23rd successive successful flight of PSLV and the fourth successful flight of extended version of PSLV," Radhakrishnan said.
The navigational system would provide two types of services --Standard Positioning Service, which is provided to all the users and Restricted Service, which is an encrypted service provided only to the authorised users.

ISRO looking for more participation of private players in Joint Ventures

With its workhorse PSLV creating a niche for itself in the space industry across the globe, ISRO is looking for the more participation of private players in joint ventures, a top official said today. "
Over 400 industrial firms are already working with us. PSLV has created a niche for itself in the industry, which can carry over 1.5 tonnes. We have 12 missions in a year. We are looking for partnership from more private players," ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan told reporters here.
After India's first dedicated navigation satellite, IRNSS-1A-- was successfully launched on board the PSLV-C22 today, Radhakrishnan said, "This only proves that PSLV is an extremely reliable vehicle and with this flight, we are also entering into a new era of space application in the country that is the beginning of satellite navigation programme."
"I am extremely happy to announce that we had another excellent flight of our PSLV vehicle. This is the 23rd successive successful flight of PSLV and the fourth successful flight of extended version of PSLV," he said.
sours : the inidan express Updated: Tue, 2 Jul 2013

Facebook should allow a 'break up' feature: experts

Social networking sites like Facebook should offer a feature which makes it easier to delete a couple's joint content following a break up, researchers say.

Experts believe this could enable people to deal with the break up more effectively.

Social networking sites should enable couples who split up to erase the evidence of their relationship more easily, researchers say.

They suggest automatic software to gather all the digital evidence of the relationship following a break up.

Dr Corina Sas from Lancaster University and Professor Steve Whittaker of the University of California at Santa Cruz interviewed 24 young people about how they handled the evidence of their broken relationship in the on-line world.

These "digital possessions" include everything from texts, emails, music, video, social media and photos whether kept on mobile devices, a laptop or digital picture frame.

"It's particularly hard to remove the traces of a past relationship left on social networking systems and it can be painful to revisit this accidentally," Sas said.

"The greatest problems involved content on Facebook where couples could easily be reminded of their ex unless they deliberately unfriended them. Even then, there could be content about your ex on your friends' pages which you can't delete," Sas said.

Researchers said it can be very time consuming when digital content is spread across different devices like laptops or tablets and this would make the task much simpler.

It could also enable people to deal with the break up more effectively, they said.

The research "Design for forgetting; disposing of digital possessions after a breakup" found that people adopted three strategies for dealing with digital content, either deleting or saving everything, or selectively deleting after a while.

"The best approach is not to act on impulse but instead try to wait. Then you can select which memories you want to keep and which you are confident you will not regret deleting," said Sas.

source : The Indian EXPRESS Updated: Mon, 1 Jul 2013

Most Interesting Websites of 2013

COOL

1. Climbur – Get big ideas delivered to your inbox every Monday!
2. Visual News - The cure for eyeball boredom.
3. moddea – Visual catalog of everyday modern objects.
4. Very Short List – Cultural gems from a different curator every day.
5. SoulPancake - Art, culture, science, philosophy, spirituality and humor.

VIRAL

1. BuzzFeed - High quality original reporting, insight and viral content.
2. UPROXX – The culture of what’s buzzing.
3. PocketHits - The most popular stories, videos, images, recipes and more from Pocket.
4. What’s Trending - See it first.
5. Viral Viral Videos - Videos going viral right now.

CULTURE

1. www.OpenCulture.com – The best free cultural and educational media on the web.
2. Trendland - Your daily dose of fashion, trends, art, design and photography.
3. Slacktory - A comedic blog about the pop culture of the internet.
4. Flavorwire - Culture curation. Highbrow, lowbrow and everything in between.
5. Internet for Beginners – About.com’s guide to participating in online culture.

NEWS

1. Quartz - Digitally native news outlet. Bracingly creative journalism.
2. The Daily Beast - Read this skip that.
3. Matter - Commissions, crafts and publishes unmissable journalism about science, tech and ideas.
4. PostDesk - Indepth news, analysis, discussion and debate.
5. WhoWhatWhy – Groundbreaking investigating journalism.

DESIGN

1. NOTCOT – A visual filtration of ideas + aesthetics + amusements.
2. The Exaltation - A collective of creatives sharing inspirational projects.
3. The Khooll - A digital design and lifestyle magazine.
4. dsgnWrld - Propagate design.
5. designboom - A large independent publication dedicated to design and architecture.

HUMOR

1. Twaggies – Funny tweets illustrated.
2. Team COCO – Conan O’Brien presents…
3. White Whine – A collection of first-world problems.
4. Improv Everywhere – They cause scenes (funny videos).
5. PassiveAggressiveNotes.com - Pictures of funny passive aggressive notes people have left.

MEN

1. Valet - Men’s style, grooming, living, shopping and how-to guides.
2. Por Homme - Men’s lifestyle, fashion, footwear and culture.
3. Bless This Stuff - Web magazine for guys. Categories include: wear, living, culture, sports, vehicles and more.
4. The Art of Manliness - Men’s interests and lifestyle.
5. Dappered - Affordable men’s style.

WOMEN

1. Goop – Limited edition collaborations, recipes, travel notes, shopping ideas curated by Gwyneth Paltrow.
2. The Hairpin - Ladies first.
3. HelloGiggles - Entertainment for creative women.
4. The Everygirl – The lifemap for everygirls everywhere.
5. Pick the Brain - Motivation and self-improvement.

PHOTO

1. In Focus – News photography from The Atlantic.
2. Amazing Things In The World - Photos of, you guessed it, amazing things in the world (Facebook).
3. NPR Picture Show – Photo stories from NPR.
4. Feature Shoot – Travel, fashion, documentary, editorial and portrait photography.
5. White House Photos – Photos from the White House.

VIDEO

1. Freddie Wong – Action shorts from Freddie Wong.
2. Vsauce – Amazing facts and the best of the Internet.
3. All Time 10s – The funniest, most relevant and informative top 10 list videos you’ll ever watch.
4. Household Hacker – Mods, life hacks, science, cheats, pranks and gaming.
5. WatchMojo – Profiles, videos, top 10s.

AUDIO

1. SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds.
2. Studio 360 – What’s happening in pop culture and the arts.
3. Blank on Blank – They find lost interviews, you listen.
4. Fresh Air – Contemporary arts and issues (from NPR).
5. Radiolab – A show about curiosity.

READ

1. Longform - Recommends new and classic nonfiction from around the web.
2. Byliner Spotlights - Read more from your favorite authors.
3. Longreads - The best long-form stories on the web.
4. The Feature - A hand-picked selection of the finest articles and essays saved with Instapaper.
5. The Paris Review – Introducing you to the important writers of the day.

TECH

1. Skillcrush - Learn about technology and how to put it to work for you.
2. Singularity Hub – The future is here today.
3. Gizmag - New and emerging technology news (lots of cool hardware).
4. Internet Today - The best internet and tech news from LinkedIn.
5. ExtremeTech - The only tech site I’ve ever seen with a category labeled “Extreme.”

SMART

1. TED - Ideas worth spreading.
2. Co.Exist - World-changing ideas and innovation.
3. Talks at Google - Speakers of all stripes giving talks at Google.
4. Conference Bites - Big ideas for short attention spans. The best quotes from the latest events.
5. Aspen Ideas - Multimedia from around the Aspen Ideas Institute.

GEEK

1. Geekosystem – Your guide to tech and internet culture.
2. Geek & Sundry – Eccentricities for your entertainment.
3. So Geek Chic – All things geek and/or chic.
4. Geekologie - Gadgets, gizmos and awesome.
5. DudeIWantThat.com - A gift guide of gadgets, gear and novelties.

GOOD

1. GOOD – A global community of people who care.
2. Stanford Social Innovation Review – Informing and inspiring leaders of social change.
3. Charity Navigator – America’s largest charity evaluator.
4. Dutiee – Stories that matter.
5. Socialbrite – Social solutions for nonprofits (blog).

ENVIRONMENT

1. TreeHugger – Dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream.
2. Grist – Environmental news, commentary and advice.
3. GoodGuide – Green, healthy and safe product information and reviews.
4. Environmental Graffiti – An eclectic mix of bizarre, funny and interesting environmental news.
5. Food & Water Watch – Works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe and accessible.

POLITICS

1. POLITICO – Driving the conversation.
2. BagNews – Reading the pictures; visual politics and the analysis of news images.
3. Think Progress – Hard-hitting political news.
4. GovTrack.us – Easily track the activities of the United States Congress.
5. OpenSecrets.org – See who’s getting and who’s giving.

CAN’T MISS

1. Mental Floss - Random, interesting amazing facts plus fun quizzes and trivia.
2. Hypebeast - Fashion, arts, design, culture.
3. Brain Pickings - Human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.
4. DROOL’D - Stuff to drool over from gadgets to places.
5. Bored Panda – The only magazine for pandas.
6. ThreadBanger – For people who make their own style.
7. Unhistorical – Day by day reflections on history and culture.
8. Daily Grommet – Discover unique products with innovative design that make unique gifts.
9. I’m Remembering - Pop culture and nostalgery from the 80s and early 90s.
10. Richard Wiseman - Quirky mind stuff including videos, illusions, trivia and more.

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