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This Week I Learned #2 – 14 July 2013

Posted on July 14, 2013 by Peter Sahui

Articles:

  1. This is AWESOME: Seattle’s “Books on Bikes” program will see 11 librarians cycle around, each pulling a trailer of books.
  2. Air travel a la Somalia.
  3. Youtube’s “studio” in LA, and what it says about Google’s ambitions.
  4. Fascinating and a little scary: what metadata can reveal about you.
  5. Social networking a la Cicero.
  6. We now have high-resolution, 3D scans of the human brain. (Hat tip to Christoph Nahr)
  7. “Our peers’ income does indeed reduce our own life-satisfaction. But only among the over-45s. Among younger people, higher peers’ income is associated with greater happiness.”

Video:

  1. Algae, pharmaceutical supplements, and biofuel in Western Australia.
  2. Senior-citizen bloggers in Germany.
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