Important as well-being is, it can seem elusive. While it’s relatively easy to measure aspects of physical health, the other components of well-being have traditionally been harder to define and pinpoint, which may explain why, until recently, few companies have pursued this kind of research. Read more »
A short history of file sharing by Sean McManus
Posted by rosemary on March 2nd, 2010
This history of file sharing was written by Sean McManus while conducting research for the Rock & Pop Timeline book by Johnny Black, which presents a year by year history of the music industry, its stars and fashions. The article doesn’t appear in the book in its original form, so I thought I’d share it with you here.
In 1999, Shawn Fanning launched a new program that was to change how many people used the internet: Napster. The software enabled music fans to swap songs stored on their computers with each other and to find each other through a central directory. Napster users could trade in bootlegs, rare tracks and current releases by major artists. Read more »
A short history of the internet by Sean McManus
Posted by rosemary on March 2nd, 2010
We’ve come a long way, baby. Here’s a timeline of some of the significant milestones in the internet’s history.
1969 – The first node is connected to the internet’s military ancestor, ARPANET. With no HQ and the ability to bounce messages between surviving nodes until they reach their destination, ARPANET was intended to be America’s bomb-proof communications network at the height of the Cold War. Read more »
The Legend by T Doty
Posted by mikey on March 2nd, 2010
For several years a legend has sauntered around the rugged country of the Greensprings in southern Oregon . Like all good legends, it grows as it sloshes through creeks and rivers, traipses into canyons and wanders deep into the shadows of old growth forests. Eventually the legend clambers up a steep ridge to the towering height of a mountain peak. If the legend survives the climb, it finds a mythic place in the landscape and in the hearts of people who call the Greensprings their home. Read more »
Retreating Glaciers Spur Alaskan Earthquakes by Gretchen Cook-Anderson and Krishna Ramanujan
Posted by king on March 1st, 2010
In a new study, NASA and United States Geological Survey (USGS) scientists found that retreating glaciers in southern Alaska may be opening the way for future earthquakes. The study examined the likelihood of increased earthquake activity in southern Alaska as a result of rapidly melting glaciers. As glaciers melt they lighten the load on the Earth’s crust. Tectonic plates, that are mobile pieces of the Earth’s crust, can then move more freely. The study appears in the July issue of the Journal of Global and Planetary Change. Read more »
