Monthly Archives: August 2005

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/genderswap.html From the page: “The beauty, and sometimes misfortune, of the internet is that it offers the opportunity for people to experiment with their identity. One way to do that is to switch one’s gender to … Continue reading →

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.socio.demon.co.uk/magazine/magazine.html From the page: “Cybersociology is a non-profit multi-disciplinary webzine dedicated to the critical discussion of the internet, cyberspace, cyberculture and life online”

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7107 The rich are getting richer while the poor remain poor. If you doubt it, ponder these numbers from the US, a country widely considered meritocratic, where talent and hard work are thought to be enough … Continue reading →

Stumbleupon Review of : http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0503078 Complex networks have been studied extensively due to their relevance to many real systems as diverse as the World-Wide-Web (WWW), the Internet, energy landscapes, biological and social networks \cite{ab-review,mendes,vespignani,newman,amaral}. A large number of real networks … Continue reading →

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18524901.500 From the page: “Space-time fizzes with bubbles popping in and out of existence all across the cosmos – they could destroy the universe and everything in it THROUGHOUT the universe, space-time is fizzing. Bubbles pop … Continue reading →