Alessandro Acquisti: Why privacy matters
The line between public and private has blurred in the past decade, both online and in real life, and Alessandro Acquisti is here to explain what this means and why it matters. In this...
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Those Millions on Facebook? Some May Not Actually Visit
On the first page of Facebook’s prospectus for its sale of stock to the public, it pegs the number of its “monthly active users” at a whopping 845 million people. The social networking site arrives at...
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Pinterest, here to stay?
Pinterest, here to stay? Think of Pinterest in the same way you would look at viral video (i.e. YouTube channels). Pinterest is like YouTube in the sense that you favourite and share information. The...
View ArticleThe Internet in society: Empowering or censoring citizens?
Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? In this new RSA Animate adapted from a talk given in 2009, Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on ‘cyber-utopianism’ – the...
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Science Journal Produces a Different Kind of Viral Video
The world’s first peer-reviewed video journal gives scientists a better way to show others how to replicate experiments. If a photo is worth a thousand words, imagine the understanding that can be...
View ArticleForget big change, start with a tiny habit.
What if someone told you to floss only one tooth everyday? Or start the new year, not with grand resolutions, but with a simple challenge.. like ONE pushup a day? BJ Fogg shows us that the key to...
View ArticleInnovation of Loneliness
What is the connection between Social Networks and Being Lonely? “Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. We...
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Bodily maps of emotions
Finnish researchers have attempted to pinpoint the ways in which our emotions affect our bodies. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, asked 773 participants...
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