Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index

Statistician Nic Marks asks why we measure a nation's success by its productivity -- instead of by the happiness and well-being of its people. He introduces the Happy Planet Index, which tracks national well-being against resource use (because a happy life doesn't have to cost the earth). Which countries rank highest in the HPI? You might be surprised.

Post to Monitor 08/30/2010 (p.m.)

• Research experiment disrupts Internet, for some - Computerworld

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Post to Monitor 08/30/2010 (a.m.)

• David Gilmour: The Orb

• 3D60™ : three-dimensional sound production

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Post to Monitor 08/24/2010 (a.m.)

• ! WOMEN ART REVOLUTION

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Post to Monitor 08/22/2010 (a.m.)

• World Heritage Sites Go 3-D, Online

• Domesday Book Goes Online

• Comics and the City: An Interview with Jorn Ahrens

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Post to Monitor 08/21/2010 (a.m.)

• Virtual reality you can touch

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Post to Monitor 08/20/2010 (a.m.)

• Study Shows People Are Clueless About Energy Savings – Here’s What Actually Works.

• Cult of less: Living out of a hard drive

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Post to Monitor 08/19/2010 (a.m.)

• BioShock Infinite’s Vision of a Nazified America | GameLife | Wired.com

• Technology Review: A New Kind of Microchip

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Post to Monitor 08/18/2010 (p.m.)

• Information Filtering: the adaptive capacity of the human mind

• Technology Review: An Implantable Antenna

• Tech Weekly podcast: In the BBC archive

• Spark of Genius Series: TalesofThings QR Codes and Life Logging

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Post to Monitor 08/18/2010 (a.m.)

• Lack of Boredom Breeds Absence of Civility?

• The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet

  • this is a fantastic and succinct quote to keep hold of... - post by Sean Nash

• Technology Review: Blogs: Mims's Bits: The Future of Interfaces is Mobile, Screen-less and Invisible

• Montreal World Film Festival International premiere screening of The Singularity is Near: A True Story About the Future

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Post to Monitor 08/17/2010 (a.m.)

• Dead Tweets : Dogear Nation » Podcast (3d net section)

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Post to Monitor 08/12/2010 (a.m.)

• Social Media Pet Peeves (and What to Do About Them)

• Panorama of London in 1845

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Dangerous Minds | Speed-Speed-Speedfreak: Mick Farren

Legendary rock journalist, performer, novelist and countercultural gadfly since the 60s, Mick Farren discusses his newest book, Speed-Speed-Speedfreak (Feral House). Elvis Presley, The Hell’s Angels, Hunter S. Thompson, Truman Capote, the Beatles, Hank Williams, the Manson Family, Jack Keroauc, Johnny Cash, JFK, Adolph Hitler: all of the above were, at one time or another, to put it bluntly, speedfreaks.

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Post to Monitor 08/11/2010 (a.m.)

• Open Geospatial Standards Advance

• Three Books To Take You On That Long, Strange Trip : NPR

• Brain is organized like the Internet: USC neuroscientists

• Alan Moore Gets Psychogeographical With Unearthing

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Post to Monitor 08/10/2010 (a.m.)

• Molecular mechanism found that controls marijuana-like substance in body | KurzweilAI

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Post to Monitor 08/09/2010 (a.m.)

• Hypercomics: The Shapes Of Comics To Come

• Weekly tech agenda: QuakeCon, DigiFestival, Second Life Community Convention - Gadgets & Tech, Life & Style - The Independent

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Post to Monitor 08/08/2010 (a.m.)

• tomorrow TRAVEL: Unusual and close to home

• Military ordered to stay off WikiLeaks - Washington Times

• BBC News - US to charge £9 for Esta compulsory travel entry form. (So let's charge the Yanks $100 a head to enter the UK!)

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Post to Monitor 08/07/2010 (a.m.)

• “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.” Thinking about Inception

• Vision Based Augmented Reality (AR) in Smart Phones – Qualcomm’s AR SDK: Interview with Jay Wright | UgoTrade

• Two New Paths to the Dream - Regeneration - NYTimes.com

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Post to Monitor 08/06/2010 (a.m.)

• Eric Schmidt: Every 2 Days We Create As Much Information As We Did Up To 2003

• New solar energy conversion process could reduce the costs of solar energy production enough for it to compete with oil | KurzweilAI

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Post to Monitor 08/05/2010 (a.m.)

• Google Halts Wave Development, Shutting It Down By End of Year

• Digital evolution and the meaning of life - 04 August 2010 - New Scientist

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Post to Monitor 08/04/2010 (p.m.)

• Online Communities are Real Communities of Real People | Marketing Conversation™

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Post to Monitor 08/04/2010 (a.m.)

• What the Grateful Dead Can Teach Us About Marketing

• Beyond the touchscreen: Projecting the future - New Scientist

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Post to Monitor 08/03/2010 (a.m.)

• CultureLab: Are you ready for life in world 3?

• The Blue Screen of Exploding Oil Rigs

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