I got the last of my presents today… via gift card purchase at a “Boxing Day” sale. The first major collaboration by Bert Holldobler and E.O. Wilson since their Pulitzer Prize winner “The Ants”

According to the authors, “Superorganisms – colonies of individuals tightly knit by altrusitic cooperation, complex communication, and division of labor – find their highest expression in the insect world.”

Tags: Ants, Books, E.O. Wilson, Superorganism

December 19, 2008

You Are Here Books

Imagine if cafe-shaped conversations translated into smaller businesses. Educational marketing expert Rachel Reuben talked about her interpretation of implementing a cafe-shaped experience for her college admissions community. I had another experience of that today, and wanted to share it.

But first, I have to tell you a bit of backstory about Carolyn Jordan.

via Cafe-Shaped Business | chrisbrogan.com.

Tags: Books, conversations

These are my Delicious.com links for December 8th through 00:41:

• IT Conversations | Jon Udell’s Interviews with Innovators | Howard Bloom (Free Podcast) – Many of us feel that the Web is ushering in a new era of global consciousness. But Howard Bloom thinks life has been a collective mind from the very beginning. He made the case in his book “Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From the Big Bang To the 21st Century.” Host Jon Udell speaks with Bloom who reviews the themes of that book — group selectionism, complex adaptive systems, collective learning — and considers what has, and hasn’t, changed since the book was published in 2000.

Tags: Books, Breadcrumbs, consciousness, goals, learning

These are my links for November 16th from 01:05 to 01:05:

• Malcolm Gladwell asks is there such a thing as pure genius? | Books | The Guardian – We look at outrageously talented and successful people – the Beatles, Mozart, Rockefeller, Bill Gates – and assume there is such a thing as pure genius. Not necessarily, argues Malcolm Gladwell..

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• WSJ Book Review – Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers

Tags: Books

These are my links for November 12th from 22:34 to 22:38:

• POSIWID: Purpose of Reading 3 – If you search for the “Purpose of Books” you will find dozens of websites repeating (with small variations) a quotation from Christopher Morley stating that the real purpose of books is to trap (or perhaps to inspire) the mind into doing its own thinking.
• POSIWID: The Purpose of Reading 2 – But I still want to quibble with the way this “Bad-Dads-Don’t-Read” agenda is being presented, because it is confusing about the true purpose of bedtime reading. If the purpose of (bedtime) reading is defined solely in terms of the educational benefit to children, this is not sufficient reason why it has to be the father who does the reading.

Tags: Books, change, education, POSIWID, presentations, systems, thinking

• JOHO – March 3, 2005
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• How to Change the World – David Bornstein
  (tags: entrepreneur social world books @ change)
• Epilogue Books – We buy, sell & trade books.
  (tags: books)
• Powells Books – Used, New, and Out of Print
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Tags: Books, taxonomies

• Financial Scoreboard – Financial Dashboard™
  (tags: Kyzen finance accounting @)
• Tree of Life Web Project Home
  (tags: classification evolution life species @)
• Linguana’s progress on dance in the rain more often on 43 Things
  (tags: rain dance)
• Adventures for the mind–a cyberportal to science, art, and history based on Howard Bloom’s books The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain. An odyssey through the evolution of culture.
  (tags: globalbrain history howardbloom philosophy @)

Tags: Books, culture, finance, philosophy

• BookCrossing – Bookmarks, Labels, and Stamps – FREE YOUR BOOKS!
  (tags: books free fun @ bookcrossing)
• index
  yet another website trial
  (tags: dhcsoul dsoul davidsoul blog @)
• About Literacy – First Book
  (tags: literacy books @)

Tags: Books

• W. H. Calvin’s THE CEREBRAL SYMPHONY (Bantam 1989)
  (tags: online books cognition @)

Tags: Books, cognition