Monthly Archives: April, 2010
[WHEN IS FUNGUS SMARTER THAN GRAD STUDENTS?]
When that fungus behaves like a network. A new branch of research has emerged—or more accurately, several wildly disparate branches have blended together—to study the incredible power of networks. Several of these approaches are summarized in a fascinating article in this month’s Harvard Magazine.
How powerful is that collective intelligence? Well, here’s a video of a [...]
[THE MOST VALUABLE INFORMATION IN THE WORLD.]
Facebook’s explosive growth continues unabated. They provide over 400,000,000 people with an incredibly powerful, flexible web tool. For free. And all they get in return is the most valuable information in the world.
Known as the ’social graph’, it’s the map they’ve made of your real-world relationships: friends, colleagues, bitter enemies, people you once made eye [...]