{"id":652188,"date":"2013-04-12T17:06:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T21:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=74686"},"modified":"2013-04-12T17:32:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T21:32:58","slug":"your-weekend-reading-simple-secure-passwords-an-invisible-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652188","title":{"rendered":"Your weekend reading: Simple secure passwords, an invisible brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/playlists\/10\/who_are_the_hackers.html\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some staff picks of smart, funny, bizarre and cool stuff on the interwebs this week:<\/p>\n<p>Super-duper useful mandatory homework: Get a secure password now. As <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/936\/\" >xkcd explains<\/a>, most people&#8217;s approach to secure passwords (a word bastardized with &#8220;random&#8221; capital letters and punctuation that&#8217;s difficult to remember) is wrong. Now go <a href=\"http:\/\/simplestrongpasswordgenerator.com\/\" >get yourself a good password<\/a>. If you need to ask why this is important, watch an informative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/playlists\/10\/who_are_the_hackers.html\" >playlist on hackers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists reveal a new technique called CLARITY that can render a brain nearly invisible &#8212; that is, rid the brain of light-scattering lipids that make it hard to look at in detail. [<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/scientists-can-now-turn-brains-invisible-472151410\" >io9<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>A must-watch <em>Frontline<\/em> documentary on the conflict in Syria, but not like you&#8217;ve seen before. A powerful human-interest piece. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/syria-behind-the-lines\/\" >PBS<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/markham_nolan_how_to_separate_fact_and_fiction_online.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/c11cd7bef22fe47795e530dc871cea3a87221311_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction online\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction online<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read an eye-opening piece by Gina Kolata on the world of sham academic journals. It&#8217;s disturbing that even reputable academics get scammed. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/08\/health\/for-scientists-an-exploding-world-of-pseudo-academia.html?_r=0\" >NYTimes<\/a>] It&#8217;s becoming increasingly difficult to parse what&#8217;s legitimate on the interwebs, as we learn from Markham Nolan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/markham_nolan_how_to_separate_fact_and_fiction_online.html\" >talk on false Internet stories<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarlyoa.com\/individual-journals\/\" >Here&#8217;s a useful guide<\/a> to some predatory open-access journals.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re a little late on this one, but <em>The Invisible War<\/em> is a harrowing, Academy Award-nominated documentary about rape in the U.S. military. (Did you know, for example, that 25 percent of U.S. servicewomen don&#8217;t report their rape because the person to report to is their rapist?) <a href=\"http:\/\/invisiblewarmovie.com\/index.php\" >Watch the documentary \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Become a better thinker by applying Bayesian reasoning. [<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/how-bayes-rule-can-make-you-a-better-thinker-471233405\" >io9<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>A riveting data visualization animation of all the drone attacks in Pakistan since 2004. [<a href=\"http:\/\/drones.pitchinteractive.com\/\" >Pitch Interactive<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/sunni_brown.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/a0b77f4fd1f59dfe81cdcb82cfc581648238cf59_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Sunni Brown: Doodlers, unite!\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Sunni Brown: Doodlers, unite!<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download a neat illustrated guide to TED2013 drawn by TED alum and Ford Futurist Sheryl Connelly. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolhunting.com\/culture\/sheryl-connelly-ted-notes-2013.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ch+%28Cool+Hunting%29\" >Read about her notes<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/captainlucas.wetransfer.com\/downloads\/7468d342af8d4029c02b091abdfc2e0020130404124919\/c58510\" >download them from WeTransfer<\/a>. Sunni Brown, doodle advocate, would approve. Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/sunni_brown.html\" >her talk on doodling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A slightly odd story about Rami Abdul Rahman, basically the one-man team behind the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which produces the main casualty reports coming out of the Syrian conflict. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/10\/world\/middleeast\/the-man-behind-the-casualty-figures-in-syria.html?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=edit_th_20130410&amp;_r=0\" >NYTimes<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Completely useless and untimely: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theuselessweb.com\/\" >The Useless Website generator \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74686\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74686\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=74686&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/exPkxKrV1VU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some staff picks of smart, funny, bizarre and cool stuff on the interwebs this week: Super-duper useful mandatory homework: Get a secure password now. As xkcd explains, most people&#8217;s approach to secure passwords (a word bastardized with &#8220;random&#8221; capital letters and punctuation that&#8217;s difficult to remember) is wrong. Now go get yourself a good password. 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