Paul's Update 8/6

Why Aren't There More Women Futurists?

				Why Aren't There More Women Futurists? A gender imbalance among prognosticators means the road ahead looks a whole lot like Tomorrowland—and not in a good way.
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The Web We Have to Save — Matter

				The Web We Have to Save — Matter The rich, diverse, free web that I loved — and spent years in an Iranian jail for — is dying. Why is nobody stopping it?
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A bionic hand in five days: how tech innovation is changing lives

				A bionic hand in five days: how tech innovation is chang... Assistive technology is giving disabled people more control over their lives, but businesses and charities have a long way to go on accessibility and affordability
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Walk up style housing coming to Michigan in a big way

				Walk up style housing coming to Michigan in a big way Walkable urban places are not just a phenomenon of coastal U.S. metropolitan areas. This report demonstrates that the market desires them in Michigan—and they a...
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How to Set Up a Just-Smart-Enough Smart Home

				How to Set Up a Just-Smart-Enough Smart Home Forget Wi-Fi light bulbs and cloud-enabled Crock-Pots. To create a Jetsons-esque dream house, opt for cutting-edge simplicity
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Using predictive analytics to spark a revolution in healthcare

				Using predictive analytics to spark a revolution in heal... Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health System is using some Microsoft tools to use predictive analytics that focus on prevention, better care and cutting costs.
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People are so obsessed with this household de-cluttering method, they're using it to transform their offices, too

				People are so obsessed with this household de-cluttering... [Business Insider] Inspired by the book, "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up," here's how to finally declutter your workspace.
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Hacking is a Mindset, Not a Skillset: Why civic hacking is key for contemporary creativity.

				Hacking is a Mindset, Not a Skillset: Why civic hacking ... From MIT's famed pranks to Silicon Valley's approach to design, core values drive the clever, ethical, enjoyable, excellence-seeking behaviour of a civic-oriented h...
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August Free eBook

Where to take your holiday? Sit down and travel. Your destination is our free e-book for August, Traveling in Place: A History of Armchair Travel by Bernd Stiegler (and translated by Peter Filkins). Stiegler guides us on quirky journeys around the room: a writer under house arrest, the travel trailer of a poet, glimpses from a window, lyrics of George Harrison, cinematic voyages, and many stops in between. Freewheeling explorations in this month’s free e-book, Traveling in Place. “With unmatched uniqueness and stunning insightfulness, Stiegler gives readers of a philosophical bent noteworthy food for thought.”—Booklist Get the e-book edition of Traveling in Place free in August!    Last chance for new general interest books at 20% off. Our books are perfect for any armchair (or beach chair). The latest books from the University of Chicago Press and the fine publishers we distribute are in our Reading catalog. Hundreds of books in fiction, history, mystery, art, literature, science, and much more. Use promo code AD1314 for 20% offeverything in the catalog.   Lose yourself in free scholarship from our Journals Division: Read “Thing Theory” by Bill Brown, published in Critical Inquiry, vol. 28, no. 1 (Autumn 2001).    About Chicago's e-books: The University of Chicago Press has over 3000 titles in its Chicago Digital Editions e-book program. Some of Chicago's e-books are DRM-free, while others require Adobe Digital Editions software, which is freely downloadable. Chicago Digital Editions are powered by BiblioVault.

This is the August 2015 free e-book notification.