“In 1659 he decided not to accept anything simply written in a book, instead resolving to do research himself,” says Wikipedia about the now-late Bishop Steno, and goes on to give other bits of his history: Steno’s landmark theory t...

Image via Wikipedia We are not going to talk about the consumer here, but with the modern state of lock in on the Sony, Barnes and Noble reader, Kindle, and the IPAD, ebooks are going to rock for publishers and artists. The reaso...

[SXSW] We published about Lunch.com when it launched in April 09 at Web 2.0. Lunch.com connects people with similar interests via the proprietary “Similarity Engine” and provides them a platform to publish and share opinions and re...

Next week is St. Patrick’s Day, a holiday rich in history and tradition.  If you think this celebration is all about green bagels and beer, I’d suggest checking out the Wikipedia page for more info. Mr. B and I typically like to fin...

Embedded here, a little teaser video for The Story of Bottled Water, created by the same people behind "The Story of Stuff" (Wikipedia). Looks neat. I'm a big fan of tap water. I spend a fair amount of time in very poor communities ...

Like Wikipedia except all entries are ten words long. Or: Ten Word Wiki is an Encyclopedia for the ADD generation. (via @ettagirl) Tags: Wikipedia   wikis...

World consumption of most common commodity triglyceride vegetable oils. Image credit:Wikipedia Plant oils, some of which, especially palm oil, have produced unsustainably, are commodity raw materials, sourced from many nations (s...

photo: Wikipedia This is one you definitely don't hear about too often: Over at Green Biz Marc Gunther is highlighting the efforts of Contour Global to extract methane from Lake Kivu, on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Rep...

ESPOO, Finland – Esa is a common name in Finland. According to Wikipedia, in July 2009, there were nearly 27,000 males in Finland with Esa as either their first or second name. I’ve no idea how many Esas we have here in Nokia (I eve...

Google has Google Trends, Twitter has trending topics, and now so does Wikipedia. Pete Skomoroch at Data Wrangling built a trending topics page for Wikipedia. The homepage ranks the top-25 Wikipedia articles with the most pagevi...

Wikipedia defines a headshot as: “A head shot is a photographic technique where the focus of the photograph is a person’s face”. It would seem to be a simple project for a photographer. After all, you are only worrying about a pers...

Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia relies almost entirely on free contributions from its users to create a mammoth Web encyclopedia. What if an enterprising/lazy blogger used the same technique to interview Wales?

Image via Wikipedia Once in a while you come across a study article that is so elegant and lucid that you have to blog about it. A not-son recent, but new to me  article in PLOS computational biology by Stephens et al is just suc...

If Ridley Scott is doing one thing with his upcoming period action film Robin Hood, it is historical accuracy. Because in those days -- I say "those days" because I don't have time to Wikipedia the particular time period that Robin ...

Two small—but noteworthy—acquisitions for Thing Labs, the company behind Facebook and Twitter web client Brizzly: Thing Labs has purchased Wikirank, a tool that let users visualize and compare the most popular topics on Wikipedia, a...

Image from Wikipedia. Andy Warhol was misquoted! Turns out, what he meant was that in the future, everyone would be the Red Sox shortstop for 15 minutes. Or maybe he just meant Nomar Garciaparra, who will reportedly come to Fo...

I recently watched The Marriage Ref which premiered earlier this month. According to Wikipedia.com, the premise of the show involves real life couples who have been having an on-going fight for a long time. A video clip is shown to ...

I was surprised to see that Wikipedia has started collecting job-interview questions that have been asked by Microsoft's interviewers during followup (second round) interviews. The questions posted so far include the following:Desig...

  In 1762 Jean-Jacque Rousseau wrote a little book called The Social Contract.  As stated on the Wikipedia page for the book, Rousseau theorized about the best way in which to set up a political......

Carol Channing is one-quarter African-American. From her Wikipedia entry: According to Channing's memoirs, when she left home to attend Bennington College in Vermont, her mother informed her that her father, a journalist who Carol ...