[NetBehaviour] Links

[Rob Myers]

Problems emerge with study used to justify austerity -

http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/researchers-finally-replicated-reinhart-rogoff-and-there-are-serious-problems


"The Dangers of Thinking Like an Economist" -

http://unlearningeconomics.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/the-dangers-of-thinking-like-an-economist/


"My worries mostly concentrate on the cultural impact of the big data 
vogue." -

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/opinion/brooks-what-youll-do-next.html


"visualization becomes its own entertainment; rather than uniting 
against the bankers, we look at graphs about them..." -

http://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/post/48186018438/data-visualization-gives-people-sometimes-a-strong


"the Alternative Economies Subgroup of OWS Arts and Labor" -

http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/project-of-the-day-the-alternative-economies-subgroup-of-ows-arts-and-labor/2013/04/17


"Detect your pulse with your webcam" -

http://boingboing.net/2013/04/16/detect-your-pulse-with-your-we.html


"COMING SOON TO A BODY NEAR YOU? WORLD’S SMALLEST CHIP TO BE 
SWALLOWABLE" -

http://singularityhub.com/2013/04/16/coming-soon-to-a-body-near-you-worlds-smallest-chip-to-be-swallowable/


A discussion of cyborg anti-discrimination laws that begs the question 
about the economic privilege of being a cyborg -

http://futureculturalist.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/cyborgs-in-the-workplace-why-we-will-need-new-labor-laws/


"when interventions eliminate people’s freedom to value diversity on 
their own terms, they may actually be creating hostility toward the 
targets of prejudice" -

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/ironic-effects-of-anti-prejudice-messages.html


"Applicants wanted for a one-way ticket to Mars" -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22146456