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Earlier this year, Amazon found itself in a showdown over e-book pricing with publisher Macmillan, which wanted the ability to set pricing for its works. Amazon initially pulled all of Macmillan’s titles off its virtual shelves but, a few days later, conceded there was little it could do—Macmillan’s works went back on sale, and Amazon apparently gave up on trying to force its prices on the company
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Amazon threatens more publishers with freeze-out over prices
Please take the time to look at this wonderful “ Tree Hugger ” Blog Post at Blackbirds & Bumble Bees Blog! Where my Leafy Trees of Life Pendant was featured today.
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Featured on Blackbirds & Bumble Bees Blog!
Human behaviors are often explained as hard-wired evolutionary leftovers of life on the savannah or during the Stone Age. But a study of one very modern behavior, fairness toward total strangers one will never meet again, suggests it evolved recently, and is rooted in culture rather than biology.
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Evolution of Fairness Driven by Culture, Not Genes
Given the intense interest and heated debate surrounding an old Sciencebase post about novel periodic tables, I thought I’d have a bit of fun with one of my own…click on an orange element to visit one of my links. If you’ve got a chemistry/science blog and your initials or its initials fit one of the elements that I haven’t used for my own stuff, let me know and I’ll add you to my PT. Related Posts:Periodic PostPeriodic Table NamesRejected ElementsNo Periodic Tables at CERNRebuilding the P…
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The Periodic Table of David Bradley
About Family Crafts Celebrate spring with Sherri and these fun craft projects! Cathie Filian Check out Cathie’s silk screen projects for Better Homes and Gardens. She has something for everyone. Craftside-A behind-the-scenes peek at a crafty world This week at Craftside there is a fun Steampunk style socket set bracelet, how to repurpose a canvas tote with applique and make faux patches, a peek into some cool art from the book Digital Illustration, a hot water bottle gets Re-Bound and a how to and tips on vampire drawing
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crafty Links from crafty friends
Several months ago a friend and colleague with a popular freelance writing blog sent me a letter saying how upset she was that I left a nasty anonymous comment under one of her blog posts. The next day, it happened again. To say I was confused is an understatement especially since I was away during one of those times.
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On Reputation, Influence, Trust and Credibility in the Blogosphere
In a stunning display of academic arrogance, MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber , who promoted and defended the administration’s health care policies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance as well as the Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee, while collecting $400,000 from HHS for his services, literally blew off a letter of inquiry from Senators Grassley and Enzi regarding possible conflicts of interest. (See this Google search on the terms ” jonathan gruber conflict of interest HHS “.) The professor has been a source of support for what many consider improbable arguments of the impact of current health care reform efforts, while being on the HHS dole.
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Gruber at MIT to Senators: "I Promise To Be Good … Next Time"
You’ve heard it a thousand times: the money’s in the list. If you’re serious about getting results online, you need to build a list of people who are paying attention to you, typically an email list
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The Betty Crocker Secret to Email Marketing that Works
Disjointed thought #1: Marketplace Reviews Update Lately, I haven’t had any marketplace reviews for you, so I thought I’d at least let you know what’s going on with my research.
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Three Disjointed Thoughts of One Freelance Writer–Residuals, Content Mills & Fun
BBC, Science News, and others promote an interesting paper by A.D. O’Connell and 12 co-authors (including Prof Andrew Cleland) from UC Santa Barbara that was just published in Nature, Quantum ground state and single-phonon control of a mechanical resonator (abstract)The largest objects that have been put into quantum linear superpositions so far would have at most 60 atoms. The team above has increased the number to trillions.
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A huge quantum resonator
In my TOC reports I mentioned that one of the best presentations I hear was the one given my Michael Mace. You can find Karen Holt’s report on his presentation here. Now Mace has adapted his presentation and published it on his website and it’s a must read
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Michael Mace on the future of publishing – a “must read”
I updated the Smashwords Book Marketing Guide this morning. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a free ebook that offers over 27 easy-to-implement marketing ideas for authors. Even if you’re naturally introverted, as most of us authors are, you’ll benefit from this ebook.
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Smashwords Book Marketing Guide Update – 5 sites promote your ebook
One of the important aspects of online collaboration is easy peer reviewing of one’s work. Zoho Docs as an online collaboration tool now provides a couple of reviewing features
Pictured here is an European Synchrotron Radiation Facility double mirror system handy for focusing X-ray beams down to the nanometer range. ESRF has used these fine beams to examine recently discovered interstellar dust collected in the Stardust spacecraft. Photographer Peter Ginter describes his process with this image: “I wanted to photograph this detection device, hidden and growing in an eggshell of thoughts, going through many phases of an evolutionary process before it actually sees …
Daniel Dennett and Linda LaScola have published an abnormally interesting paper, “Preachers who are not Believers.” Their sample is very small and self-selecting and therefore by their own admission far from sufficient to draw reliable generalizations. Perhaps the most interesting question that comes from their small group is the question of what it means for someone to be an nonbeliever. The ambiguity about who is a believer and who a nonbeliever follows inexorably from the pluralism that…
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Unbelievers In The Pulpit
A mediated public as food court is similar to these inadvertent public blogs online, where bloggers don’t expect strangers to paying attention to….However, since the blog is open in public, there might be some unexpected readers that read the posts regularly without leaving comments to the author….Usually for these blogs, there are no huge audience who read the blogs regularly….
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Online and Office Public Spaces
If perhaps you have a blogging site then you will wish to interact with the readers just as much as you can….This can be dependent, obviously, on the issues why you possess and run a blog in the first instance. Nonetheless you will discover a wide….
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Personal Blogs – Great Ways to Improve Feedback
The New York Times recently covered a paper by Grey and Tickle-Degnen, published in the journal Neuropsychology, finding that people with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) are unable to recognize facial and vocal emotions very well.
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Parkinsonism emotion recognition impairment better accounted for by sleep deprivation
Spreadsheet users know the importance of pivot tables and the role they play in easy summarizing and visualization of data. With Zoho Reports, you can make pivots by drag-and-drop. There are many summary functions available – Sum, Maximum, Minimum, Average and Count – when constructing pivots
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Zoho Reports: Advanced Summarizing Options in Pivot Tables
CommGAP’s latest book, Public Sentinel , outlines the role of the news media in governance reform, which is of course all about the roles of journalists in society and political systems. The book identifies three main roles – agenda setters, watchdogs, and gatekeepers – that journalists should, ideally, fulfill in order to strengthen good governance
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Good Luck, and Be Careful When You Cross the Street