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We Are What We Share, Says Tumblr's Lead Designer

We Are What We Share, Says Tumblr's Lead Designer | Science News | Scoop.it

Despite past philosophies of immutable souls, today's concept of identity relies more than ever on what we share online, even though our memes seem increasingly transitory and ephemeral. "But are we the things we share? That's a big question.

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[VIDEO] The Sharing Experiment

We wanted to know if sharing is natural. On October 7, 2011 Action Against Hunger conducted an experiment in Madrid, Spain to study human behavior when faced...

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Study finds savanna chimps exhibit sharing behavior like humans

Study finds savanna chimps exhibit sharing behavior like humans | Science News | Scoop.it
Sharing food has widely been considered by scholars as a defining characteristic of human behavior.
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The great sharing economy | Co-operatives UK

The great sharing economy | Co-operatives UK | Science News | Scoop.it

The gap between rich and poor in the UK is at the highest since records began. Inequality is rife with 50% of the nation’s population owning just 1% of its wealth.1 We are bracing ourselves to face consequences of huge public spending cuts, becoming concerned about levels of ‘happiness’ across the nation, and all the while desperately seeking solutions for serious longterm issues such as global warming and global poverty.
How would this change if we shared more?
Why are there 38 million empty car seats on the road every day when the majority of us would prefer to travel with others? The fact that we share less means an increase of around 2% in the number of commuter cars on the road every day.
Sharing makes 8 in 10 of us feel happier, so why aren’t we doing more?

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The Business of Sharing - Sharing as a Business

The Business of Sharing - Sharing as a Business | Science News | Scoop.it

Share My Lesson already features more than 200.000 lessons in a variety of topics and for different grades. These lessons can come from publishers and other companies in education as well as individual educators. Teachers can follow interesting publishers, rate the lessons and communicate with each other. Sounds familiar to you? Better Lesson obviously thought the same and published a post on their company blog.

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Dawn of social networks: Ancestors may have formed ties with both kin and non-kin based on shared attributes

Dawn of social networks: Ancestors may have formed ties with both kin and non-kin based on shared attributes | Science News | Scoop.it
Ancient humans may not have had the luxury of updating their Facebook status, but social networks were nevertheless an essential component of their lives, a new study suggests.
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Science of Sharing: The 7 Types of Sharers | Social Media Today

Science of Sharing: The 7 Types of Sharers | Social Media Today | Science News | Scoop.it
We just wrapped up our Science of Sharing event in London this past week. This event was the culmination of research by Beyond, Lexis and M Booth, all Next Fifteen Communications companies.
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