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Articles of Interest from Peter Squire

The second instance of interesting Web sites from our friend Peter Squire:

Top Articles for the week

• Happiness 101
• That was 2006 – a review of the year’s top stories and pictures http://www.nature.com/news/specials/2006/index.html
• Most Important Science Stories of 2006
• A Robot in Every Home http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=9312A198-E7F2-99DF-31DA639D6C4BA567

Fun stories of the week

• Becky award (people or organizations who have made outstanding contributions to linguistic misinformation)- Linguistic Nonsense http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6717017

Website/Radio Show/Book

• Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) http://www.ctaresource.com/
• Stand-In Moms' Warm Hearts, Fill Stomachs http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6682127
• The Buzz over Energy Drinks- How much Caffeine is to much? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6720000
• For a Healthy Brain in Old Age, Start Early http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6719135

Biology

• A Fast, Sensitive Virus Detector http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/18028/
• Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease: a 360° view – top papers on the subject gathered by Nature http://www.nature.com/360/index.htm
  
  

General

• Virginia Sets Example for Communication Readiness
  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6716152

Military

• Vibrating Vest Could Send Alerts to Soldiers

Robots

• Mars Rovers Are Taught New Tricks http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6224509.stm
  

Software

• Programmers to blame for Hard-to-Use Software
• Ada Enhances Embedded-Systems Development

Technology

• Citing Problems, U.S. Bars Lab From Testing Electronic Voting http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/washington/04voting.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
• Wikipedia Links Used to Build Smart Reading Lists
• Ensuring You Find What You Seek

Posted by ernie at January 11, 2007 09:35 PM